NewsObituary

Obituary: Deacon William Klopchin

By

(Credit: Sylvain Brison/Unsplash)

Share this article:

SAN DIEGO — Deacon William Klopchin, a retired permanent deacon of the Diocese of San Diego, died Oct. 12. He was 88.

He was born on June 28, 1935, in Nyack, N.Y., to immigrant parents — a mother from Czechoslovakia and a father from Ukraine — and was the youngest of five boys.

Deacon Klopchin married his wife, Rose Marie, on July 1, 1961.

He earned a bachelor’s in Accounting and Business from Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey in 1964 and worked as an accountant for the University of California, San Diego.

He was ordained to the permanent diaconate on May 31, 1986, by Bishop Leo T. Maher. The ordination Mass was celebrated at Our Mother of Confidence Church, where he had been a parishioner since 1968 and where he would serve as a deacon from 1986 until retiring in 2010.

During the 1990s, Deacon Klopchin also served in HIV/AIDS ministry through the diocesan Office for Social Ministry. In 2000, he was made ex officio presider over Our Lady of Refuge Parish’s finance council.

Tags: , ,

Recent News

You May Also Like

Obituary: Father James P. Retzner, O.S.A.

Obituary: Msgr. Raymond Kirk

Obituary: Precious Blood Sister Mary Yarger

Msgr. Brockhaus was ‘role model of kindness and compassion’

Obituary: Father Dominic Kwaku Asare, SVD

Augustinian Father Keller had ‘immense impact’

Menu