American Decades
Deaths
Rev. Herbert W. Armstrong, 93, religious evangelist, broadcaster, and founder of the Worldwide Church of God, 16 January 1986.
Eugene Carlson Blake, 78, religious leader and a dominant figure in mainline Protestantism expounding the ideas of ecumenicalism, 31 July 1985.
John Patrick Cardinal Cody, 74, head of the Roman Catholic Church's largest U.S. archdiocese, Chicago, for more than fifteen years, 25 April 1982.
Terrence Cardinal Cooke, 62, Roman Catholic Church cardinal of New York City, 6 October 1983.
Dorothy Day, 83, activist, pacifist, and founder of the Catholic Worker movement, 29 November 1980.
John Francis Cardinal Dearden, 80, Roman Catholic cardinal of the archdiocese of Detroit and head of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, 1 August 1988.
Father John J. Dougherty, 78, Catholic priest and host of The Catholic Hour on...
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1980's Religion
