Auxiliary Bishop Estabrook

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Auxiliary Bishop Joseph W. Estabrook of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services died Feb. 4 in Houston following a lengthy illness. He was 67 years old.

A priest of the Diocese of Albany, N.Y., where he was born, he was ordained an auxiliary for the military archdiocese in July 2004. He had been a chaplain in the Navy since 1977, earning the rank of captain in 1995. He retired from the Navy in September 2004.

“The Archdiocese for the Military Services has lost an energetic and sensitive successor of the apostles, whose pastoral zeal and love for the men and women in uniform and their families electrified everything he did,” said Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, who heads the military archdiocese, which is based in Washington. “His valiant struggle with cancer and his sense of hope have given us all a lesson in how to live and how to face death.”