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Seniority by Bishop Ordination

Most Senior


Ordained
Bishop
YearsNameCurrent Title
29 Jun 1944 Bishop Francis Hong Yong-hoBishop of P’yong-yang, Korea (South)
30 Apr 1950 Archbishop Karel OtcenášekBishop Emeritus of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
24 Aug 1951 Ján Chryzostom Cardinal Korec, S.J.Bishop Emeritus of Nitra, Slovakia
22 Apr 1953 Bishop Joseph Oliver Bowers, S.V.D.Bishop Emeritus of Saint John’s-Basseterre, Virgin Islands (British), Antilles
25 Mar 1954 Bishop Jan van Cauwelaert, C.I.C.M.Bishop Emeritus of Inongo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
5 May 1954 Bishop Wilhelmus Joannes (Guillaume Jean) Demarteau, M.S.F.Bishop Emeritus of Banjarmasin, Indonesia
15 Aug 1954 Eugênio Cardinal de Araújo SalesArchbishop Emeritus of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
25 Apr 1955 Bishop Antonio MistrorigoBishop Emeritus of Treviso, Italy
28 Aug 1955 Archbishop José de Jesús Pimiento RodriguezArchbishop Emeritus of Manizales, Colombia
9 Sep 1955 Bishop Dominik Kalata, S.J.Titular Bishop of Semta
13 Nov 1955 Bishop Joseph Albert Rosario, M.S.F.S.Bishop Emeritus of Amravati, India
6 Jan 1956 Bishop Luis Manresa Formosa, S.J.Bishop Emeritus of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán, Guatemala
29 Jun 1956 Archbishop George Hamilton Pearce, S.M.Archbishop Emeritus of Suva, Fiji, Pacific (Oceania)
8 Jul 1956 Bishop Dieudonné YougbaréBishop Emeritus of Koupéla, Burkina Faso
29 Jul 1956 Fiorenzo Cardinal AngeliniPresident Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers, Roman Curia
28 Aug 1956 Archbishop Philip Matthew HannanArchbishop Emeritus of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
29 Nov 1956 Bishop Pierre-Eugène Rouanet, S.M.A.Bishop Emeritus of Daloa, Côte d’Ivoire
20 Jan 1957 Archbishop Jaime Luiz CoelhoArchbishop Emeritus of Maringá, Parana, Brazil
9 Jun 1957 Archbishop Jorge MayerArchbishop Emeritus of Bahía Blanca, Argentina
16 Jun 1957 Bishop José dos Santos Garcia, S.M.P.Bishop Emeritus of Porto Amélia, Mozambique
21 Jul 1957 Bishop Raúl Marcelo Pacífico Scozzina, O.F.M.Bishop Emeritus of Formosa, Argentina
22 Sep 1957 Archbishop José Maria PiresArchbishop Emeritus of Paraíba, Paraiba, Brazil
29 Sep 1957 Bishop Felice LeonardoBishop Emeritus of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de’ Goti, Italy
6 Oct 1957 Archbishop André SanaArchbishop Emeritus of Kerkuk (Chaldean), Iraq
10 Nov 1957 Bishop José Eugênio CorrêaBishop Emeritus of Caratinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
13 Apr 1958 Bishop José de Aquino PereiraBishop Emeritus of São José do Rio Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
27 Apr 1958 Archbishop Bernardino Piñera CarvalloArchbishop Emeritus of La Serena, Chile
6 Jul 1958 Archbishop Alcides Mendoza CastroArchbishop Emeritus of Cuzco, Peru
10 Aug 1958 Bishop Caetano Antônio Lima dos Santos, O.F.M. Cap.Bishop Emeritus of Ilhéus, Baia, Brazil
7 Sep 1958 Bishop Pedro Reginaldo LiraBishop Emeritus of San Francisco, Argentina
14 Sep 1958 Bishop Antonio José Ramírez SalaverríaBishop Emeritus of Maturín, Venezuela
19 Mar 1959 Bishop John Jobst, S.A.C.Bishop Emeritus of Broome, Australia
7 May 1959 Serafim Cardinal Fernandes de AraújoArchbishop Emeritus of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
25 Jan 1960 Bishop Samuel Ruiz GarcíaBishop Emeritus of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México
27 Mar 1960 Bishop Epaminondas José de AraújoBishop Emeritus of Palmeira dos Índios, Alagoas, Brazil
24 Apr 1960 Archbishop Moisés Julio BlanchoudArchbishop Emeritus of Salta, Argentina
28 Apr 1960 Bishop Samuel-Louis-Marie-Antoine Gaumain, O.F.M. Cap.Bishop Emeritus of Moundou, Chad
19 Jun 1960 Archbishop Héctor Rueda HernándezArchbishop Emeritus of Medellín, Colombia
21 Jun 1960 Archbishop Arturo Antonio Szymanski RamírezArchbishop Emeritus of San Luis Potosí, San Luís Potosí, México
25 Jul 1960 Bishop Paul Ch'eng Shih-kuangBishop Emeritus of Tainan, Taiwan
25 Jul 1960 Bishop Clemente José Carlos de Gouvea Isnard, O.S.B.Bishop Emeritus of Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
25 Jul 1960 Bishop Eloy Tato Losada, I.E.M.E.Bishop Emeritus of Magangué, Colombia
28 Aug 1960 Archbishop Armando Círio, O.S.I.Archbishop Emeritus of Cascavel, Parana, Brazil
12 Oct 1960 Luis Cardinal Aponte MartínezArchbishop Emeritus of San Juan de Puerto Rico
18 Jan 1961 Bishop Paul-Émile CharbonneauBishop Emeritus of Hull, Québec, Canada
22 Jan 1961 Bishop Antoine Nguyên Van ThienBishop Emeritus of Vinh Long, Viêt Nam
16 Apr 1961 Bishop Mario Renato Cornejo RadaveroAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Lima, Peru
22 Apr 1961 Bishop Albert-Georges-Yves MalboisBishop Emeritus of Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes, France
14 May 1961 Archbishop Carlos Quintero ArceArchbishop Emeritus of Hermosillo, Sonora, México
21 May 1961 Bishop Angelo Cuniberti, I.M.C.Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Florencia, Colombia
21 May 1961 Bishop Placidus Gervasius Nkalanga, O.S.B.Bishop Emeritus of Bukoba, Tanzania
9 Jul 1961 Bishop Louis Nganga a NdzandoBishop Emeritus of Lisala, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
16 Jul 1961 Nasrallah Pierre Cardinal SfeirPatriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Maronite), Lebanon
25 Jul 1961 Bishop Pedro Bantigue y NatividadBishop Emeritus of San Pablo, Philippines
30 Jul 1961 Giovanni Cardinal CanestriArchbishop Emeritus of Genova {Genoa}, Italy
24 Aug 1961 Bishop William John McNaughton, M.M.Bishop Emeritus of Incheon {Inch’on}, Korea (South)
8 Sep 1961 Bishop José de Jesús Sahagún de la ParraBishop Emeritus of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, México
15 Oct 1961 Bishop Andrés Sapelak, S.D.B.Bishop Emeritus of Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires (Ukrainian), Argentina
29 Oct 1961 Archbishop Antônio Ribeiro de OliveiraArchbishop Emeritus of Goiânia, Goias, Brazil
26 Nov 1961 Archbishop Giovanni FerrofinoApostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Ecuador
27 Dec 1961 Bishop Johannes Willem Maria BluijssenBishop Emeritus of ’s Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), Netherlands
6 Jan 1962 Bishop José Mauro Ramalho de Alarcón SantiagoBishop Emeritus of Iguatú, Ceara, Brazil
11 Feb 1962 Bishop Gregorio Garavito Jiménez, S.M.M.Bishop Emeritus of Villavicencio, Colombia
18 Mar 1962 Bishop Adrian Kivumbi DdunguBishop Emeritus of Masaka, Uganda
19 Mar 1962 Bishop Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres GonzálezBishop Emeritus of Melo, Uruguay
31 May 1962 Archbishop Raymond-Maria Tchidimbo, C.S.Sp.Archbishop Emeritus of Conakry {Konakry}, Guinea
10 Jun 1962 Archbishop Robert-Casimir Tonyui Messan Dosseh-AnyronArchbishop Emeritus of Lomé, Togo
25 Jul 1962 Bishop Jacques LandriaultBishop Emeritus of Timmins, Ontario, Canada
5 Aug 1962 Archbishop Francis Mansour ZayekBishop Emeritus of Saint Maron of Brooklyn (Maronite), New York, USA
15 Aug 1962 Bishop Manuel Romero Arvizu, O.F.M.Prelate Emeritus of Jesús María (del Nayar), Nayarit, México
22 Aug 1962 Duraisamy Simon Cardinal LourdusamyPrefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, Roman Curia
22 Aug 1962 Bishop Anselmo Zarza BernalBishop Emeritus of León, Guanajuato, México
30 Aug 1962 Archbishop Raymond Gerhardt HunthausenArchbishop Emeritus of Seattle, Washington, USA
12 Sep 1962 Bishop Myles McKeonBishop Emeritus of Bunbury, Australia
16 Sep 1962 Bishop Acácio Rodrigues AlvesBishop Emeritus of Palmares, Pernambuco, Brazil
14 Dec 1962 Bishop Remi Joseph De RooBishop Emeritus of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
24 Feb 1963 Bishop Yves-Georges-René Ramousse, M.E.P.Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Phnom-Penh, Cambodia
19 Mar 1963 Bishop José Guadalupe Padilla LozanoBishop Emeritus of Veracruz, Veracruz, México
19 Apr 1963 Emmanuel III (Emmanuel-Karim) Cardinal DellyPatriarch of Babylon {Babilonia} (Chaldean), Iraq
21 Apr 1963 Bishop Salvatore NicolosiBishop Emeritus of Noto, Italy
9 May 1963 Bishop Géry-Jacques-Charles LeulietBishop Emeritus of Amiens, France
31 Jul 1963 Bishop René AudetBishop Emeritus of Joliette, Québec, Canada
2 Aug 1963 Bishop José de Jesús Garcia AyalaBishop Emeritus of Campeche, Campeche, México
29 Aug 1963 Bishop Laurent NoëlBishop Emeritus of Trois Rivières, Québec, Canada
4 Oct 1963 Bishop Luigi BettazziBishop Emeritus of Ivrea, Italy
20 Oct 1963 Archbishop Victorinus Youn Kong-hiArchbishop Emeritus of Kwangju, Korea (South)
12 Dec 1963 Bishop John James WardAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Los Angeles, California, USA
30 Jan 1964 Bishop Victor Garaygordóbil BerrizbeitiaPrelate Emeritus of Babahoyo, Ecuador
5 Feb 1964 Archbishop Alphonsus MathiasArchbishop Emeritus of Bangalore, India
13 Feb 1964 Archbishop Savino Bernardo Maria Cazzaro Bertollo, O.S.M.Archbishop Emeritus of Puerto Montt, Chile
25 Feb 1964 Bishop Andreas Peter Cornelius Sol, M.S.C.Bishop Emeritus of Amboina, Indonesia
3 Mar 1964 Bishop José Gabriel Diaz CuevaBishop Emeritus of Azogues, Ecuador
1 May 1964 Bishop Waldyr Calheiros Novaes (de Novais)Bishop Emeritus of Barra do Piraí-Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1 May 1964 Bishop Georges-Hilaire Dupont, O.M.I.Bishop Emeritus of Pala, Chad
14 Jun 1964 Archbishop Albert Joseph TsiahoanaArchbishop Emeritus of Antsiranana, Madagascar
27 Jul 1964 Bishop Douglas Joseph WarrenBishop Emeritus of Wilcannia-Forbes, Australia
26 Aug 1964 Archbishop Joseph-Aurèle PlourdeArchbishop Emeritus of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
6 Dec 1964 Archbishop Eurico Dias NogueiraArchbishop Emeritus of Braga, Portugal
13 Dec 1964 Bishop Jean-Félix-Albert-Marie VilnetBishop Emeritus of Lille, France
21 Dec 1964 Bishop Juan Fremiot Torres OliverBishop Emeritus of Ponce, Puerto Rico

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