The Year of Our Lord 1899

Bishop Events

March to April

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

1 Mar 63.3 Died Jaime Catalá y Albosa † Bishop of Barcelona, Spain

3 Mar 33.9 Appointed Francisco Alberti † Auxiliary Bishop of La Plata, Argentina Archbishop of La Plata, Argentina

33.9 Appointed Francisco Alberti † Titular Bishop of Siunia Archbishop of La Plata, Argentina

4 Mar 50.7 Appointed Alexander Christie † Archbishop of Oregon City, Oregon, USA

5 Mar Born Agostino D’Arco † Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia, Italy

22.9 Ordained Priest Augusto Álvaro da Silva † Priest of Olinda, Brazil Cardinal, Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil

6 Mar Born René-Joseph Piérard † Bishop Emeritus of Châlons, France

8 Mar Born Léo Deschâtelets, O.M.I. † Superior General Emeritus of Oblates of Mary Immaculate

57.5 Installed Maximiano Reynoso y del Corral † Bishop of Tulancingo, Hidalgo, México Bishop Emeritus

9 Mar Born Domenico Luca Capozi, O.F.M. † Archbishop Emeritus of Taiyuan [Taiyüan], China

62.5 Died Eugenio Clari † Bishop of Viterbo e Tuscania, Italy

Born Giuseppe Antonio Ferretto † Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary

76.1 Died Federico Maria Galdi † Bishop of Andria, Italy

10 Mar Born Marcel-Pierre-Armand Riopel † Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Rennes (-Dol-Saint-Malo), France

11 Mar Born José Castelltort Subeyre † Bishop of Astorga, Spain

Born Ignatius Mummadi † Bishop Emeritus of Guntur, India

12 Mar 61.3 Ordained Bishop Robert Brindle † Titular Bishop of Hermopolis Maior Bishop Emeritus of Nottingham, England, Great Britain

53.5 Ordained Bishop Marcolino (del Carmelo) Benavente, O.P. † Bishop of San Juan de Cuyo, Argentina

62.9 Appointed Tommaso Cirielli † Prelate of Altamura ed Acquaviva delle Fonti, Italy

13 Mar Born Giovanni Battista Parodi † Bishop Emeritus of Savona e Noli, Italy

16 Mar Born Josip Lach † Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb, Croatia

35.6 Ordained Priest John March † Priest Bishop of Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, Canada

18 Mar Born Alfred Joseph Gummer † Bishop of Geraldton, Australia

Born Martin Michael Johnson † Archbishop Emeritus of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

19 Mar 62.7 Installed Edouard-Adolphe Cantel † Bishop of Oran, Algeria

53.5 Installed Marcolino (del Carmelo) Benavente, O.P. † Bishop of San Juan de Cuyo, Argentina

57.1 Ordained Bishop St. Józef Sebastian Pelczar † Titular Bishop of Miletopolis Bishop of Przemyśl, Poland

20 Mar 62.3 Installed José Homobono Anaya y Gutiérrez † Bishop of Sinaloa, México Bishop of Chilapa, Guerrero, México

23 Mar 73.6 Died Jean-Émile Fonteneau † Archbishop of Albi, France

25 Mar 26.5 Ordained Priest Petras Pranciskus Bučys, M.I.C. † Priest of Mohilev, Belarus Superior General Emeritus of Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary

62.9 Installed Antônio Cândido Alvarenga † Bishop of São Paulo, Brazil

24.9 Ordained Priest Ignacy Maria Dubowski † Priest of Lutsk, Zhytomyr, and Kamyanets-Podilskyi (Łuck, Zytomierz, and Kamienec), Ukraine Bishop Emeritus of Luceoria o Łuck e Zytomir o Zytomierz, Ukraine

23.4 Ordained Priest Odilon Fages, O.S.F.S. † Priest of Oblates of St. Francis de Sales Vicar Apostolic of Orange River, South Africa

26 Mar Born Tomás Juan Carlos Solari † Archbishop of La Plata, Argentina

27 Mar 24.0 Ordained Priest Francesco Alessandro Cagliero, I.M.C. † Priest of Torino {Turin}, Italy Prefect of Iringa, Tanzania

Born Alberto Carinci † Archbishop Emeritus of Boiano-Campobasso, Italy

73.8 Died James Duggan † Bishop Emeritus of Chicago, Illinois, USA Bishop

Apr 53.4 Installed Peter Bourgade (Bougarde) † Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

46.4 Died Joannes Obcalocesien (Ohannessian, Chanessian) † Bishop of Ancira (Angora) (Armenian), Turkey

1 Apr Born Lorenzo Bianchi, P.I.M.E. † Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong [Xianggang], China

23.2 Ordained Priest Giuseppe Marazzi † Priest of Albano, Italy Auxiliary Bishop

24.9 Ordained Priest Joseph Schemmer, O.M.I. † Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate Prefect Emeritus of Cimbebasia Inferiore, Namibia

23.4 Ordained Priest Frederico Benício de Souza e Costa, E.C.M.C. † Priest Bishop Emeritus of Amazonas, Brazil

25.7 Ordained Priest Laurentius Zeller, O.S.B. † Priest of Order of Saint Benedict Apostolic Administrator of Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil

2 Apr 23.0 Ordained Priest Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † Priest of Roma {Rome}, Italy Pope

3 Apr Born Pierre-Marie Gustave Lacointe † Bishop of Beauvais (-Noyon-Senlis), France

4 Apr 61.1 Installed José María de Jesús Portugal y Serratos, O.F.M. Obs. † Bishop of Saltillo, Coahuila, México Bishop of Aguascalientes, México

5 Apr Born Joseph Zhang Runbo (Ciamgioenpuo, Chang Yuin-po) † Bishop Emeritus of Xuanhua [Süanhwa], China

6 Apr 48.0 Resigned Francisco Javier Valdés y Noriega, O.E.S.A. † Bishop-Elect of Puerto Rico (Porto Rico) Bishop of Salamanca, Spain

9 Apr 34.0 Ordained Bishop Francisco Alberti † Titular Bishop of Siunia Archbishop of La Plata, Argentina

59.1 Ordained Bishop Gustave Augustin Rouxel † Titular Bishop of Curium Auxiliary Bishop of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

12 Apr Born Thomas M. Megan, S.V.D. † Prefect Emeritus of Xinxiang [Sinsiang], China

57.4 Selected Heinrich Hubert Aloysius Voß (Voss) † Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany

13 Apr 61.5 Succeeded Pierre-Marie-Alphonse Favier, C.M. † Vicar Apostolic of Northern Chi-Li {Ce-Li Settentrionale} o Pe-Kin, China

58.9 Died Jean-Baptiste-Hippolyte Sarthou, C.M. † Vicar Apostolic of Northern Chi-Li {Ce-Li Settentrionale} o Pe-Kin, China

15 Apr 78.1 Died Agostino Bausa, O.P. † Cardinal, Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}, Italy

33.8 Appointed José de Jesús Fernández y Barragán † Coadjutor Bishop of Zamora, Michoacán, México Bishop Emeritus

33.8 Appointed José de Jesús Fernández y Barragán † Titular Bishop of Tlos Bishop Emeritus of Zamora, Michoacán, México

16 Apr 58.3 Ordained Bishop Juan Antonio Ruano Martín † Titular Bishop of Claudiopolis in Isauria Bishop of Lérida, Spain

17 Apr 54.8 Died John Ambrose Watterson † Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, USA

18 Apr Born Johannes Pohlschneider † Bishop Emeritus of Aachen, Germany

51.2 Appointed Giovanni Vescia † Bishop of Policastro, Italy Bishop Emeritus

16.5 Entered Bruno Wolnik, S.J. † Member of Society of Jesus Prefect Emeritus of Lusaka, Zambia

19 Apr 23.0 Ordained Priest Luca Piergiovanni † Priest of Pesaro, Italy Bishop of Tarquinia e Civitavecchia, Italy

20 Apr 22.3 Ordained Priest Augustin Bostani † Priest Bishop of Saïdā (Sidone) (Maronite), Lebanon

22 Apr Born Vincent Hanly † Bishop of Elphin, Ireland

23 Apr 43.4 Selected Cyril IX Mogabgab † Bishop of Zahleh e Furzol (Melkite Greek), Lebanon Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Melkite Greek), Syria

60.6 Died Daniele Tempesta, O.F.M. Ref. † Bishop of Troia, Italy

26 Apr 71.8 Died Nicola (Francisco Saverio) Contieri, O.Bas. † Archbishop Emeritus of Gaeta, Italy

91.7 Died Ignazio Maria Selitti † Bishop Emeritus of Melfi e Rapolla, Italy

27 Apr 57.3 Resigned Francisco Sáenz de Urturi y Crespo, O.F.M. Obs. † Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba Archbishop Emeritus

28 Apr 60.3 Appointed Matthew Gaffney † Bishop of Meath, Ireland Bishop Emeritus

30 Apr 57.5 Installed José Guadalupe de Jesús Alva y Franco, O.F.M. † Bishop of Yucatán (Mérida), México Bishop of Zacatecas, México

Born Peregrin de la Fuente Néstar, O.P. † Prelate of Batanes and the Babuyan Islands, Philippines

51.3 Ordained Bishop Giovanni Vescia † Bishop of Policastro, Italy Bishop Emeritus

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Mar	63.3	Died	Jaime Catalá y Albosa †	Bishop of Barcelona, Spain
3 Mar	33.9	Appointed	Francisco Alberti †	Auxiliary Bishop of La Plata, Argentina	Archbishop of La Plata, Argentina
33.9	Appointed	Francisco Alberti †	Titular Bishop of Siunia	Archbishop of La Plata, Argentina
4 Mar	50.7	Appointed	Alexander Christie †	Archbishop of Oregon City, Oregon, USA
5 Mar		Born	Agostino D’Arco †		Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia, Italy
22.9	Ordained Priest	Augusto Álvaro da Silva †	Priest of Olinda, Brazil	Cardinal, Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
6 Mar		Born	René-Joseph Piérard †		Bishop Emeritus of Châlons, France
8 Mar		Born	Léo Deschâtelets, O.M.I. †		Superior General Emeritus of Oblates of Mary Immaculate
57.5	Installed	Maximiano Reynoso y del Corral †	Bishop of Tulancingo, Hidalgo, México	Bishop Emeritus
9 Mar		Born	Domenico Luca Capozi, O.F.M. †		Archbishop Emeritus of Taiyuan [Taiyüan], China
62.5	Died	Eugenio Clari †	Bishop of Viterbo e Tuscania, Italy
	Born	Giuseppe Antonio Ferretto †		Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
76.1	Died	Federico Maria Galdi †	Bishop of Andria, Italy
10 Mar		Born	Marcel-Pierre-Armand Riopel †		Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Rennes (-Dol-Saint-Malo), France
11 Mar		Born	José Castelltort Subeyre †		Bishop of Astorga, Spain
	Born	Ignatius Mummadi †		Bishop Emeritus of Guntur, India
12 Mar	61.3	Ordained Bishop	Robert Brindle †	Titular Bishop of Hermopolis Maior	Bishop Emeritus of Nottingham, England, Great Britain
53.5	Ordained Bishop	Marcolino (del Carmelo) Benavente, O.P. †	Bishop of San Juan de Cuyo, Argentina
62.9	Appointed	Tommaso Cirielli †	Prelate of Altamura ed Acquaviva delle Fonti, Italy
13 Mar		Born	Giovanni Battista Parodi †		Bishop Emeritus of Savona e Noli, Italy
16 Mar		Born	Josip Lach †		Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb, Croatia
35.6	Ordained Priest	John March †	Priest	Bishop of Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, Canada
18 Mar		Born	Alfred Joseph Gummer †		Bishop of Geraldton, Australia
	Born	Martin Michael Johnson †		Archbishop Emeritus of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
19 Mar	62.7	Installed	Edouard-Adolphe Cantel †	Bishop of Oran, Algeria
53.5	Installed	Marcolino (del Carmelo) Benavente, O.P. †	Bishop of San Juan de Cuyo, Argentina
57.1	Ordained Bishop	St. Józef Sebastian Pelczar †	Titular Bishop of Miletopolis	Bishop of Przemyśl, Poland
20 Mar	62.3	Installed	José Homobono Anaya y Gutiérrez †	Bishop of Sinaloa, México	Bishop of Chilapa, Guerrero, México
23 Mar	73.6	Died	Jean-Émile Fonteneau †	Archbishop of Albi, France
25 Mar	26.5	Ordained Priest	Petras Pranciskus Bučys, M.I.C. †	Priest of Mohilev, Belarus	Superior General Emeritus of Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary
62.9	Installed	Antônio Cândido Alvarenga †	Bishop of São Paulo, Brazil
24.9	Ordained Priest	Ignacy Maria Dubowski †	Priest of Lutsk, Zhytomyr, and Kamyanets-Podilskyi (Łuck, Zytomierz, and Kamienec), Ukraine	Bishop Emeritus of Luceoria o Łuck e Zytomir o Zytomierz, Ukraine
23.4	Ordained Priest	Odilon Fages, O.S.F.S. †	Priest of Oblates of St. Francis de Sales	Vicar Apostolic of Orange River, South Africa
26 Mar		Born	Tomás Juan Carlos Solari †		Archbishop of La Plata, Argentina
27 Mar	24.0	Ordained Priest	Francesco Alessandro Cagliero, I.M.C. †	Priest of Torino {Turin}, Italy	Prefect of Iringa, Tanzania
	Born	Alberto Carinci †		Archbishop Emeritus of Boiano-Campobasso, Italy
73.8	Died	James Duggan †	Bishop Emeritus of Chicago, Illinois, USA	Bishop
Apr	53.4	Installed	Peter Bourgade (Bougarde) †	Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
46.4	Died	Joannes Obcalocesien (Ohannessian, Chanessian) †	Bishop of Ancira (Angora) (Armenian), Turkey
1 Apr		Born	Lorenzo Bianchi, P.I.M.E. †		Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong [Xianggang], China
23.2	Ordained Priest	Giuseppe Marazzi †	Priest of Albano, Italy	Auxiliary Bishop
24.9	Ordained Priest	Joseph Schemmer, O.M.I. †	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate	Prefect Emeritus of Cimbebasia Inferiore, Namibia
23.4	Ordained Priest	Frederico Benício de Souza e Costa, E.C.M.C. †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Amazonas, Brazil
25.7	Ordained Priest	Laurentius Zeller, O.S.B. †	Priest of Order of Saint Benedict	Apostolic Administrator of Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil
2 Apr	23.0	Ordained Priest	Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli †	Priest of Roma {Rome}, Italy	Pope
3 Apr		Born	Pierre-Marie Gustave Lacointe †		Bishop of Beauvais (-Noyon-Senlis), France
4 Apr	61.1	Installed	José María de Jesús Portugal y Serratos, O.F.M. Obs. †	Bishop of Saltillo, Coahuila, México	Bishop of Aguascalientes, México
5 Apr		Born	Joseph Zhang Runbo (Ciamgioenpuo, Chang Yuin-po) †		Bishop Emeritus of Xuanhua [Süanhwa], China
6 Apr	48.0	Resigned	Francisco Javier Valdés y Noriega, O.E.S.A. †	Bishop-Elect of Puerto Rico (Porto Rico)	Bishop of Salamanca, Spain
9 Apr	34.0	Ordained Bishop	Francisco Alberti †	Titular Bishop of Siunia	Archbishop of La Plata, Argentina
59.1	Ordained Bishop	Gustave Augustin Rouxel †	Titular Bishop of Curium	Auxiliary Bishop of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
12 Apr		Born	Thomas M. Megan, S.V.D. †		Prefect Emeritus of Xinxiang [Sinsiang], China
57.4	Selected	Heinrich Hubert Aloysius Voß (Voss) †	Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany
13 Apr	61.5	Succeeded	Pierre-Marie-Alphonse Favier, C.M. †	Vicar Apostolic of Northern Chi-Li {Ce-Li Settentrionale} o Pe-Kin, China
58.9	Died	Jean-Baptiste-Hippolyte Sarthou, C.M. †	Vicar Apostolic of Northern Chi-Li {Ce-Li Settentrionale} o Pe-Kin, China
15 Apr	78.1	Died	Agostino Bausa, O.P. †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}, Italy
33.8	Appointed	José de Jesús Fernández y Barragán †	Coadjutor Bishop of Zamora, Michoacán, México	Bishop Emeritus
33.8	Appointed	José de Jesús Fernández y Barragán †	Titular Bishop of Tlos	Bishop Emeritus of Zamora, Michoacán, México
16 Apr	58.3	Ordained Bishop	Juan Antonio Ruano Martín †	Titular Bishop of Claudiopolis in Isauria	Bishop of Lérida, Spain
17 Apr	54.8	Died	John Ambrose Watterson †	Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, USA
18 Apr		Born	Johannes Pohlschneider †		Bishop Emeritus of Aachen, Germany
51.2	Appointed	Giovanni Vescia †	Bishop of Policastro, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
16.5	Entered	Bruno Wolnik, S.J. †	Member of Society of Jesus	Prefect Emeritus of Lusaka, Zambia
19 Apr	23.0	Ordained Priest	Luca Piergiovanni †	Priest of Pesaro, Italy	Bishop of Tarquinia e Civitavecchia, Italy
20 Apr	22.3	Ordained Priest	Augustin Bostani †	Priest	Bishop of Saïdā (Sidone) (Maronite), Lebanon
22 Apr		Born	Vincent Hanly †		Bishop of Elphin, Ireland
23 Apr	43.4	Selected	Cyril IX Mogabgab †	Bishop of Zahleh e Furzol (Melkite Greek), Lebanon	Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Melkite Greek), Syria
60.6	Died	Daniele Tempesta, O.F.M. Ref. †	Bishop of Troia, Italy
26 Apr	71.8	Died	Nicola (Francisco Saverio) Contieri, O.Bas. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Gaeta, Italy
91.7	Died	Ignazio Maria Selitti †	Bishop Emeritus of Melfi e Rapolla, Italy
27 Apr	57.3	Resigned	Francisco Sáenz de Urturi y Crespo, O.F.M. Obs. †	Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba	Archbishop Emeritus
28 Apr	60.3	Appointed	Matthew Gaffney †	Bishop of Meath, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
30 Apr	57.5	Installed	José Guadalupe de Jesús Alva y Franco, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Yucatán (Mérida), México	Bishop of Zacatecas, México
	Born	Peregrin de la Fuente Néstar, O.P. †		Prelate of Batanes and the Babuyan Islands, Philippines
51.3	Ordained Bishop	Giovanni Vescia †	Bishop of Policastro, Italy	Bishop Emeritus

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