Jesuit Father Erik Breye, a seminary professor, retreat preacher and a confessor and counsellor for seminarians and nuns, died of cardiac arrest on September 18 in Ranchi, capital of Jharkhand State in eastern India. He was 79. Father Raymond Kerketta, socius (secretary) to the Ranchi Jesuit province, noted in a condolence message that Father Breye was a member of the Society of Jesus for 61 years and a priest for 48 years.