The Year of Our Lord 1880

Bishop Events

January to April

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
unknown	24.1	Ordained Priest	Thomas Audo †	Priest	Archbishop of Urmyā {Rezayeh} (Chaldean), Iran
	44.7	Appointed	Edmond Martin Baur †	Prefect of Zanguebar, Kenya
	24.8	Ordained Priest	José Cadena y Eleta †	Priest	Archbishop of Burgos, Spain
	25.5	Ordained Priest	Michele Camilleri †	Priest	Bishop of Santorini {Thira}, Greece
	14.4	Professed	Clemente Coltelli, O.F.M. †	Member of Order of Friars Minor	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Northern Shensi {Scen-Si Settentrionale}, China
	77.7	Resigned	Carlo Gigli †	Bishop of Tivoli, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	21.3	Ordained Priest	Alessandro de Giorgi †	Priest	Auxiliary Bishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy
	30.2	Professed	Emile Joseph Legal, O.M.I. †	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate	Archbishop of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
	25.3	Professed	Jean-Marie Mérel, M.E.P. †	Priest of La Société des Missions Etrangères	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Canton [Guangzhou], China
	26.8	Appointed	Germanos (Ignace) Mouakkad (Mouaqqad) †	Patriarchal Vicar of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme} (Melkite Greek), Palestine	Bishop Emeritus of Baalbek (Melkite Greek), Lebanon
		Born	Wesceslau Nazareno Ponti, O.F.M. Cap. †	Spoleto	Bishop-Elect of Alto Solimões, Amazonas, Brazil
	21.7	Professed	Odorico Giuseppe Rizzi, O.F.M. †	Member of Order of Friars Minor	Vicar Apostolic of Northern Shensi {Scen-Si Settentrionale}, China
	72.4	Resigned	Ignazio Selitti †	Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	36.3	Ordained Priest	Charles Algernon Stanley †	Priest	Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain
	23.3	Ordained Priest	Gennaro Trama †	Priest	Bishop of Lecce, Italy
Jan	79.1	Retired	Marie-Julien Meirieu †	Bishop of Digne, France	Bishop Emeritus
4 Jan		Born	Antonin Eltschkner †	Policka	Auxiliary Bishop of Praha {Prague}, Czech Republic
4 Jan	44.6	Ordained Bishop	Michael Naughten †	Bishop of Roseau, Dominica, Antilles
6 Jan		Born	Thomas Edward Flynn †	Portsmouth	Bishop of Lancaster, England, Great Britain
7 Jan		Born	Santiago Luis Copello †	San Isidro	Cardinal, Chancellor of the Apostolic Chancery
8 Jan	65.8	Died	José Benedicto Torres Romero †	Bishop of Arequipa, Peru
10 Jan		Born	Paolo Giobbe †	Roma	Cardinal, Datary Emeritus of the Apostolic Datary
12 Jan		Born	Arkadiusz Lisiecki †	Poznan	Bishop of Katowice, Poland
13 Jan		Born	Patrick Collier †	Camross, Mountrath, Leix	Bishop of Ossory, Ireland
13 Jan	72.0	Died	Louis-Anne Dubreil †	Archbishop of Avignon (-Apt, Cavaillon, Carpentras, Orange, e Vaison), France
14 Jan		Born	Pierre-Marie Paul Gerlier †	Versailles	Cardinal, Archbishop of Lyon (-Vienne), France
15 Jan		Born	Giuseppe Rossino †	Robella di Trino, Italy	Secretary of the Congregation of Seminaries and Universities
15 Jan	55.2	Resigned	Pierre-Ferdinand Vitte, S.M. †	Vicar Apostolic of Nouvelle-Calédonie, New Caledonia, Pacific (Oceania)	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
16 Jan		Born	Timothy Joseph Crowley, C.S.C. †	Kilmallock, Ireland	Bishop of Dacca, Bangladesh
17 Jan	76.1	Died	Tobia Masacci †	Bishop of Sarsina, Italy
18 Jan		Born	Bl. Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, O.S.B. †	Roma	Cardinal, Archbishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy
18 Jan	24.8	Ordained Priest	José Marcos Semeria †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Melo, Uruguay
19 Jan		Born	Rafael Balanzá y Navarro †	Valencia	Bishop of Lugo, Spain
21 Jan	44.0	Appointed	François-Xavier Corbet (Corbey), C.S.Sp. †	Prefect of Pondicherry, India	Vicar Apostolic of Diégo-Suarez, Madagascar
22 Jan		Born	Juan Vicente Araña y Idígoras, O.C.D. †	Berriz, Spain	Bishop Emeritus of Vijayapuram, India
23 Jan	64.1	Succeeded	Luigi Carvelli †	Bishop of Potenza e Marsico Nuovo, Italy	Bishop of Mileto, Italy
	66.1	Installed	Francisco de Paula Verea y González †	Bishop of Tlaxcala, México
	76.0	Died	Antonio Maria Fanìa, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Potenza e Marsico Nuovo, Italy
	43.1	Appointed	Vincenzo Vannutelli †	Titular Archbishop of Sardes	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation of Ceremonies
	43.1	Appointed	Vincenzo Vannutelli †	Vicar Apostolic of Constantinople, Turkey	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation of Ceremonies
24 Jan	35.7	Ordained Bishop	André-Théophile Mélizan, O.M.I. †	Titular Bishop of Adana	Archbishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka
26 Jan		Born	Pedro Eggerath, O.S.B. †	Alemanha, Germany	Abbot Emeritus of Nossa Senhora do Monserrate do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
27 Jan	56.6	Appointed	Pietro Facciotti †	Bishop of Ferentino, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
29 Jan	81.3	Retired	Louis-Anne Nogret †	Bishop of Saint-Claude, France	Bishop Emeritus
29 Jan		Born	Joseph Casimir Plagens †	Czeszewo, Poland	Bishop of Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
30 Jan	45.8	Appointed	Paškal Buconjić, O.F.M. †	Vicar Apostolic of Herzegovina	Bishop of Mostar-Duvno (-Trebinje e Mrkan), Bosnia and Herzegovina
	45.8	Appointed	Paškal Buconjić, O.F.M. †	Titular Bishop of Magydus	Bishop of Mostar-Duvno (-Trebinje e Mrkan), Bosnia and Herzegovina
	60.9	Appointed	William Henry Elder †	Coadjutor Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA	Archbishop
	42.3	Appointed	Roberto Menini, O.F.M. Cap. †	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Sofia e Plovdiv, Bulgaria	Vicar Apostolic
	42.3	Appointed	Roberto Menini, O.F.M. Cap. †	Titular Bishop of Metellopolis	Vicar Apostolic of Sofia e Plovdiv, Bulgaria
31 Jan	69.0	Died	Enrico Gajo, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop of Bobbio, Italy
1 Feb	55.0	Installed	Vincenzo Manicardi †	Bishop of Borgo San Donnino, Italy	Bishop of Reggio Emilia, Italy
1 Feb	46.1	Ordained Bishop	Martin Marty, O.S.B. †	Titular Bishop of Tiberias	Bishop of Saint Cloud, Minnesota, USA
2 Feb	42.3	Ordained Bishop	Roberto Menini, O.F.M. Cap. †	Titular Bishop of Metellopolis	Vicar Apostolic of Sofia e Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2 Feb	43.2	Ordained Bishop	Vincenzo Vannutelli †	Titular Archbishop of Sardes	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation of Ceremonies
3 Feb		Born	Arnoldus Johannes Hubertus Aerts, M.S.C. †	Swolgen, Netherlands	Vicar Apostolic of Nuova Guinea Olandese, Indonesia
4 Feb		Born	César Angel Vigiani, O.F.M. †	Borgo San Lorenzo, Italy	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Chaco, Bolivia
7 Feb	57.8	Selected	Jean-Joseph Marchal †	Archbishop of Bourges, France
	52.2	Appointed	César-Joseph Marpot (Marport) †	Bishop of Saint-Claude, France
	52.1	Selected	Pierre-Jean-Joseph Soubiranne †	Bishop of Belley, France	Bishop Emeritus
	53.1	Selected	Louis-Joseph-Marie-Ange Vigne †	Bishop of Digne, France	Archbishop of Avignon (-Apt, Cavaillon, Carpentras, Orange, e Vaison), France
10 Feb		Born	Josip Antun Ujcic †	Pisinvecchio	Archbishop of Beograd (-Smederevo), Serbia
11 Feb		Born	Ioan Balan †	Teius	Bishop of Lugoj (Romanian), Romania
12 Feb	39.1	Selected	Pierre-Marie-Etienne-Gustave Ardin †	Bishop of Oran, Algeria	Archbishop of Sens (-Auxerre), France
	51.3	Selected	Emmanuel-Marie-Ange de Briey †	Coadjutor Bishop of Meaux, France	Bishop
	57.8	Selected	Désiré-Joseph Dennel †	Bishop of Beauvais (-Noyon-Senlis), France	Bishop of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer), France
		Born	Vincent Victor Dereere, O.C.D. †	Ostende, Belgium	Bishop Emeritus of Trivandrum, India
	54.8	Selected	François-Edouard Hasley †	Archbishop of Avignon (-Apt, Cavaillon, Carpentras, Orange, e Vaison), France	Archbishop of Cambrai, France
13 Feb	46.8	Selected	Prosper Auguste Dusserre †	Coadjutor Archbishop of Alger, Algeria	Archbishop
15 Feb	61.2	Ordained Bishop	Christophore Cosandey †	Bishop of Lausanne et Genève, Switzerland
18 Feb		Born	Salomão Barbosa Ferraz †	Jau, Brazil	Titular Bishop of Eleutherna
20 Feb	23.0	Ordained Priest	Adolphe-Yves-Marie Duparc †	Priest of Vannes, France	Bishop of Quimper [Cornouailles](-Léon), France
20 Feb	71.7	Resigned	Luigi Serafini †	Bishop of Viterbo e Tuscania, Italy	Cardinal, Official of the Roman Curia - Other
21 Feb	26.3	Ordained Priest	José Ramón Ibarra y González †	Priest of Tlaxcala, México	Archbishop of Puebla de los Ángeles, Puebla, México
21 Feb	23.3	Ordained Priest	Nicolás Pérez Gavilán y Echeverría †	Priest of Durango, México	Bishop of Chihuahua, México
22 Feb		Born	Philip George Scher †	Belleville, IL	Bishop of Monterey-Fresno, California, USA
23 Feb	76.3	Resigned	Bernardino Trionfetti, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Terracina, Priverno e Sezze, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
24 Feb		Appointed	Stanislao Marco Gross †	Vicar Apostolic of North Carolina, USA	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
24 Feb		Appointed	Stanislao Marco Gross †	Titular Bishop of Lyrbe	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of North Carolina, USA
27 Feb	39.2	Confirmed	Pierre-Marie-Etienne-Gustave Ardin †	Bishop of Oran, Algeria	Archbishop of Sens (-Auxerre), France
	51.3	Appointed	Emmanuel-Marie-Ange de Briey †	Titular Bishop of Rhosus	Bishop of Meaux, France
	51.3	Confirmed	Emmanuel-Marie-Ange de Briey †	Coadjutor Bishop of Meaux, France	Bishop
	38.3	Appointed	Giuseppe Callegari †	Bishop of Treviso, Italy	Cardinal, Bishop of Padova {Padua}, Italy
	56.9	Appointed	Enrico Carfagnini, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Gallipoli, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	57.1	Appointed	Giacomo Cattani †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Balbina	Cardinal, Archbishop of Ravenna, Italy
	65.3	Confirmed	Giovanni Giacomo della Bona †	Bishop of Trento, Italy
	57.8	Confirmed	Désiré-Joseph Dennel †	Bishop of Beauvais (-Noyon-Senlis), France	Bishop of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer), France
	54.1	Appointed	Isidore-Joseph du Rousseaux †	Titular Bishop of Eumenia	Bishop of Tournai {Doornik}, Belgium
	46.8	Appointed	Prosper Auguste Dusserre †	Titular Archbishop of Damascus	Archbishop of Alger, Algeria
	46.8	Appointed	Prosper Auguste Dusserre †	Apostolic Administrator of Constantine (-Hippone), Algeria	Archbishop of Alger, Algeria
	46.8	Confirmed	Prosper Auguste Dusserre †	Coadjutor Archbishop of Alger, Algeria	Archbishop
	53.8	Appointed	Mamerto Esquiú Medina, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Córdoba (Tucumán), Argentina
	41.3	Appointed	Juan Estévanes y Seminario, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Puno, Peru
	63.2	Confirmed	Franjo Anijan Ferrettić †	Bishop of Krk (Veglia), Croatia
	59.2	Appointed	Beniamino Feuli †	Archbishop of Manfredonia (e Vieste), Italy
	45.7	Appointed	Federico Pietro Foschi †	Bishop of Perugia, Italy	Archbishop of Perugia, Italy
	42.5	Appointed	Celestino del Frate †	Auxiliary Bishop of Velletri, Italy	Archbishop of Camerino, Italy
	42.5	Appointed	Celestino del Frate †	Titular Bishop of Hemeria	Archbishop of Camerino, Italy
	40.8	Appointed	François-Charles-Marie Gillard †	Bishop of Constantine (-Hippone), Algeria	Bishop-Elect
	54.8	Confirmed	François-Edouard Hasley †	Archbishop of Avignon (-Apt, Cavaillon, Carpentras, Orange, e Vaison), France	Archbishop of Cambrai, France
	41.6	Appointed	Francesco Maria Imparati, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Venosa, Italy	Archbishop of Acerenza e Matera, Italy
	50.2	Appointed	Giuseppe Ingami †	Auxiliary Bishop of Albano, Italy	Bishop of Orvieto, Italy
	50.2	Appointed	Giuseppe Ingami †	Titular Bishop of Sidon	Bishop of Orvieto, Italy
	38.9	Appointed	Pietro Alfonso Jorio (Iorio) †	Bishop of Lacedonia, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus of Taranto, Italy
	58.7	Confirmed	Johannes von Leiß (Leiss) †	Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
	56.3	Appointed	Gesualdo Nicola Loschirico, O.F.M. Cap. †	Archbishop of Acerenza e Matera, Italy
	34.7	Appointed	José Macchi †	Auxiliary Bishop of Palestrina, Italy	Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal
	34.7	Appointed	José Macchi †	Titular Bishop of Gadara	Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal
	57.8	Confirmed	Jean-Joseph Marchal †	Archbishop of Bourges, France
	52.3	Confirmed	César-Joseph Marpot (Marport) †	Bishop of Saint-Claude, France
	38.1	Appointed	Dario Mattei-Gentili †	Bishop of Sarsina, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus of Perugia, Italy
	69.3	Appointed	Pier Francesco Meglia †	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti	Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio to France
	53.0	Appointed	Raffaele Monaco La Valletta †	Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the College of Cardinals	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation of Ceremonies
	59.7	Appointed	Giovanni Battista Nogáll †	Auxiliary Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad}, Romania
	59.7	Appointed	Giovanni Battista Nogáll †	Titular Bishop of Pergamum	Auxiliary Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad}, Romania
	43.2	Appointed	Lorenzo Carlo Pampirio, O.P. †	Bishop of Alba (Pompea), Italy	Archbishop of Vercelli, Italy
	46.3	Appointed	Giovanni Battista Paolucci †	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Viterbo e Tuscania, Italy	Bishop
	56.0	Appointed	Antonio Pistocchi †	Coadjutor Bishop of San Marco e Bisignano, Italy	Bishop of Cassano all’Jonio, Italy
	56.0	Appointed	Antonio Pistocchi †	Titular Bishop of Sinopoli	Bishop of Cassano all’Jonio, Italy
	43.9	Appointed	Agnello Renzullo †	Bishop of Isernia e Venafro, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Nola, Italy
	41.4	Appointed	Giuseppe Ignazio Eduardo Sánchez Camacho †	Bishop of Ciudad Victoria-Tamaulipas, Tamaulipas, México	Bishop Emeritus
	70.7	Appointed	Domenico Sanguigni †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana	Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Portugal
	51.1	Appointed	Americo Ferreira dos Santos Silva †	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati	Cardinal, Bishop of Porto, Portugal
	54.1	Appointed	Flaviano Simoneschi †	Bishop of Terracina, Priverno e Sezze, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	52.1	Confirmed	Pierre-Jean-Joseph Soubiranne †	Bishop of Belley, France	Bishop Emeritus
	75.9	Appointed	Vincenzo Taglialatela (Tagliatela) †	Titular Archbishop of Bostra	Archbishop Emeritus of Manfredonia (e Vieste), Italy
	29.9	Appointed	Bernardo Agusto Thiel Hoffman, C.M. †	Bishop of San José de Costa Rica
	76.4	Appointed	Bernardino Trionfetti, O.F.M. †	Titular Bishop of Capharnaum	Bishop Emeritus of Terracina, Priverno e Sezze, Italy
	66.4	Appointed	Friedrich Egon von Fürstenberg †	Cardinal-Priest of San Crisogono	Cardinal, Archbishop of Olomouc, Czech Republic
	53.2	Confirmed	Louis-Joseph-Marie-Ange Vigne †	Bishop of Digne, France	Archbishop of Avignon (-Apt, Cavaillon, Carpentras, Orange, e Vaison), France
	55.5	Appointed	Girolamo Volpe †	Bishop of Alife, Italy
29 Feb	38.1	Ordained Bishop	Dario Mattei-Gentili †	Bishop of Sarsina, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus of Perugia, Italy
Mar	38.3	Ordained Bishop	Giuseppe Callegari †	Bishop of Treviso, Italy	Cardinal, Bishop of Padova {Padua}, Italy
3 Mar		Born	Emeterio Echeverria Barrena †	Arlegui	Prelate of Ciudad Real, Spain
4 Mar		Born	Pjetër Dema †	Gajtan, Albania	Titular Bishop of Apollonias
7 Mar	41.7	Ordained Bishop	Francesco Maria Imparati, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Venosa, Italy	Archbishop of Acerenza e Matera, Italy
7 Mar	38.9	Ordained Bishop	Pietro Alfonso Jorio (Iorio) †	Bishop of Lacedonia, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus of Taranto, Italy
9 Mar	52.9	Appointed	Buenaventura del Purísimo Corazón de María Portillo y Tejeda, O.F.M. †	Vicar Apostolic of California Inferiore, México	Bishop of Zacatecas, México
9 Mar	52.9	Appointed	Buenaventura del Purísimo Corazón de María Portillo y Tejeda, O.F.M. †	Titular Bishop of Tricale	Bishop of Zacatecas, México
13 Mar	22.9	Ordained Priest	Francesco di Costanzo †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Monopoli, Italy
13 Mar	22.7	Ordained Priest	Vittorio Amedeo Ranuzzi de’ Bianchi †	Priest of Bologna, Italy	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Recanati e Loreto, Italy
14 Mar		Born	Oddo Bernacchia †	Fano	Bishop Emeritus of Larino, Italy
	54.2	Ordained Bishop	Isidore-Joseph du Rousseaux †	Titular Bishop of Eumenia	Bishop of Tournai {Doornik}, Belgium
	45.7	Ordained Bishop	Federico Pietro Foschi †	Bishop of Perugia, Italy	Archbishop of Perugia, Italy
	42.5	Ordained Bishop	Celestino del Frate †	Titular Bishop of Hemeria	Archbishop of Camerino, Italy
	50.2	Ordained Bishop	Giuseppe Ingami †	Titular Bishop of Sidon	Bishop of Orvieto, Italy
	34.8	Ordained Bishop	José Macchi †	Titular Bishop of Gadara	Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal
	43.3	Ordained Bishop	Lorenzo Carlo Pampirio, O.P. †	Bishop of Alba (Pompea), Italy	Archbishop of Vercelli, Italy
15 Mar		Born	José da Costa Nuñes †	Candelaria, Portugal	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Goa e Damão, India
18 Mar	70.5	Died	Giuseppe Maria Alberti †	Bishop of Syros (e Milos), Greece
19 Mar	46.0	Ordained Bishop	Paškal Buconjić, O.F.M. †	Titular Bishop of Magydus	Bishop of Mostar-Duvno (-Trebinje e Mrkan), Bosnia and Herzegovina
	65.3	Installed	Giovanni Giacomo della Bona †	Bishop of Trento, Italy
	59.2	Ordained Bishop	Beniamino Feuli †	Archbishop of Manfredonia (e Vieste), Italy
	61.1	Installed	Francesco Ragusa †	Bishop of Trapani, Italy
23 Mar	49.4	Appointed	Henri-Joseph Bulté, S.J. †	Titular Bishop of Botrys	Vicar Apostolic of Southeastern Chi-Li {Ce-Li Meridio-Orientale}, China
	49.4	Appointed	Henri-Joseph Bulté, S.J. †	Vicar Apostolic of Southeastern Chi-Li {Ce-Li Meridio-Orientale}, China
	38.7	Appointed	Marie-Antoine-Louis Caspar, M.E.P. †	Vicar Apostolic of Northern Cochin {Cocincina Settentrionale}, Viet Nam	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
	38.7	Appointed	Marie-Antoine-Louis Caspar, M.E.P. †	Titular Bishop of Canatha	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Northern Cochin {Cocincina Settentrionale}, Viet Nam
		Born	Henri-Jean Houbaut †	Vitrey	Bishop of Bayonne (-Lescar e Oloron), France
	22.6	Ordained Priest	Pierre Kojunian (Koyounian) †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Iskanderiya {Alexandria} (Armenian), Egypt
	66.7	Resigned	Pedro José Tordoya Montoya †	Bishop of Cuzco, Peru	Bishop Emeritus
25 Mar	66.0	Died	Joseph-Auguste Chevalier, M.E.P. †	Vicar Apostolic of Mysore, India
27 Mar	23.3	Ordained Priest	Luigi Ermini †	Priest	Bishop of Fabriano e Matelica, Italy
29 Mar		Born	Jules Lecouvet †	Hollain	Auxiliary Bishop of Tournai {Doornik}, Belgium
30 Mar	23.0	Ordained Priest	Peter Joseph Hurth, C.S.C. †	Priest of Congregation of Holy Cross	Bishop Emeritus of Nueva Segovia, Philippines
4 Apr	58.8	Ordained Bishop	Johannes von Leiß (Leiss) †	Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
5 Apr	14.9	Ordained Priest	Isidoro Badía y Sarradell †	Priest of Urgell, Spain	Bishop of Tarazona (-Tudela), Spain
6 Apr		Born	Wilhelm Burger †	Stühlingen	Auxiliary Bishop of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
	37.8	Appointed	Alphonse-Hilarion Fraysse, S.M. †	Vicar Apostolic of Nouvelle-Calédonie, New Caledonia, Pacific (Oceania)
	37.8	Appointed	Alphonse-Hilarion Fraysse, S.M. †	Titular Bishop of Abila Lysaniae	Vicar Apostolic of Nouvelle-Calédonie, New Caledonia, Pacific (Oceania)
	35.9	Appointed	John Ambrose Watterson †	Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, USA
9 Apr	62.0	Appointed	Michael Heiss †	Coadjutor Archbishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA	Archbishop
9 Apr	62.0	Appointed	Michael Heiss †	Titular Archbishop of Hadrianopolis in Haemimonto	Archbishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
12 Apr	83.9	Died	Thomas Joseph Brown, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Newport and Menevia, Wales, Great Britain
13 Apr		Born	Ernest Louis Joye, O.F.M. Cap. †	Montagny-le-Ville, Switzerland	Bishop Emeritus of Port Victoria o Seychelles
14 Apr	55.4	Died	Anthony Dominic Ambrose Pellicer †	Bishop of San Antonio, Texas, USA
16 Apr		Born	Teodoro Kubina †	Świętochłowice	Bishop of Częstochowa, Poland
18 Apr	52.4	Ordained Bishop	César-Joseph Marpot (Marport) †	Bishop of Saint-Claude, France
18 Apr	39.2	Ordained Bishop	José Sebastião d’Almeida Neto, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Angola e Congo, Angola	Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus of Lisboa {Lisbon}, Portugal
20 Apr	52.3	Installed	Pierre-Jean-Joseph Soubiranne †	Bishop of Belley, France	Bishop Emeritus
21 Apr	28.6	Ordained Priest	Célestin-Henri Joussard, O.M.I. †	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Grouard, Alberta, Canada
22 Apr		Born	Candido Domenico Moro, O.F.M. †	Isolabona, Italy	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Benghazi, Libya
24 Apr		Born	Fidel García Martínez †	Soto y Amío	Bishop Emeritus of Calahorra y La Calzada, Spain
24 Apr		Born	Wilhelm Heinrich Heufers †	Lippborg	Former Bishop-Elect of Münster, Germany
25 Apr		Born	Marco Glaser †	Landau	Titular Bishop of Caesaropolis
	55.0	Installed	François-Edouard Hasley †	Archbishop of Avignon (-Apt, Cavaillon, Carpentras, Orange, e Vaison), France	Archbishop of Cambrai, France
	54.2	Ordained Bishop	Flaviano Simoneschi †	Bishop of Terracina, Priverno e Sezze, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
		Born	Charles Alphonse Armand Vanuytven, O. Praem. †	Gheel	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Buta, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
27 Apr		Born	Joseph James Byrne, C.S.Sp. †	Clonmel, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus of Moshi, Tanzania
	58.0	Installed	Jean-Joseph Marchal †	Archbishop of Bourges, France
	43.6	Appointed	Arthur Grange Riddell †	Bishop of Northampton, England, Great Britain
28 Apr		Born	José Carlos de Aguirre †	Itaqueri da Serra	Bishop of Sorocaba, Brazil
30 Apr	57.5	Appointed	James Laird Patterson †	Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain
30 Apr	57.5	Appointed	James Laird Patterson †	Titular Bishop of Emmaüs	Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain