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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
Nov	40.1	Appointed	Adalbert Boros †	Titular Bishop of Ressiana	Titular Archbishop
4 Nov	75.7	Died	Filippo Perlo, I.M.C. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Kenya, Kenya
		Born	Jan Tyrawa	Kuznice Swidnickie	Bishop of Bydgoszcz, Poland
6 Nov		Born	Sergio Pagano, B.	Genova	Prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives
7 Nov	24.6	Ordained Priest	Jorge Mario Avila del Aguila, C.M. †	Priest of Congregation of the Mission	Bishop Emeritus of Jalapa, Guatemala
	24.7	Ordained Priest	Rafael Bellido Caro †	Priest of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain	Bishop Emeritus of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
		Born	Antônio Augusto Dias Duarte	Santo André	Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	43.3	Ordained Bishop	Leo Pietsch †	Titular Bishop of Narona	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Graz-Seckau, Austria
8 Nov	51.8	Appointed	Patrick Mary O'Donnell †	Coadjutor Archbishop of Brisbane, Australia	Archbishop Emeritus
	51.8	Appointed	Patrick Mary O'Donnell †	Titular Archbishop of Pelusium	Archbishop Emeritus of Brisbane, Australia
9 Nov	54.0	Appointed	Joseph Francis Flannelly †	Auxiliary Bishop of New York, New York, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	54.0	Appointed	Joseph Francis Flannelly †	Titular Bishop of Metelis	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of New York, New York, USA
	46.5	Ordained Bishop	Henri-Louis-Toussaint Vion †	Titular Bishop of Gerara	Bishop Emeritus of Poitiers, France
10 Nov	76.0	Appointed	Francis-Xavier Gsell, M.S.C. †	Titular Bishop of Paros	Bishop of Darwin, Australia
	76.0	Retired	Francis-Xavier Gsell, M.S.C. †	Bishop of Darwin, Australia
11 Nov	35.7	Appointed	Thomas Vincent Cahill †	Bishop of Cairns, Australia	Archbishop of Canberra (and Goulburn), Australia
	49.6	Installed	Tomás Juan Carlos Solari †	Archbishop of La Plata, Argentina
	57.1	Appointed	Antonio Ludovico Van der Veen Zeppenfeldt, O.P. †	Vicar Apostolic of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, Antilles	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
	57.1	Appointed	Antonio Ludovico Van der Veen Zeppenfeldt, O.P. †	Titular Bishop of Acholla	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, Antilles
12 Nov		Appointed	Sebastião Acosta Hurtado, O.P. †	Prefect of Canelos, Ecuador
		Appointed	Patrizio Tommaso Brennan, S.S.C.M.E. †	Prefect of Kwoszu, Korea (South)	Prefect of Kwangju, Korea (South)
	52.2	Appointed	Thomas Quinlan, S.S.C.M.E. †	Prefect of Chunchon, Korea (South)	Bishop Emeritus of Ch’unch’on, Korea (South)
	47.3	Appointed	Stefan Wyszynski †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland
	47.3	Appointed	Stefan Wyszynski †	Archbishop of Warszawa {Warsaw}, Poland	Cardinal, Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland
13 Nov		Born	Rodolfo Fontiveros Beltran	Gattaran-Cagayan	Vicar Apostolic of Bontoc-Lagawe, Philippines
		Born	Carlos Humberto Malfa	Mar del Plata	Bishop of Chascomús, Argentina
	41.7	Appointed	Manuel Tato †	Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina	Bishop of Santiago del Estero, Argentina
	41.7	Appointed	Manuel Tato †	Titular Bishop of Aulon	Bishop of Santiago del Estero, Argentina
	51.5	Appointed	Afonso Maria Ungarelli, M.S.C. †	Titular Bishop of Azura	Prelate Emeritus of Pinheiro, Maranho, Brazil
14 Nov		Born	Juan de Dios Hernández Ruiz, S.J.	Holguín	Auxiliary Bishop of San Cristobal de la Habana, Cuba
16 Nov	52.0	Appointed	Ioan Duma, O.F.M. Conv. †	Titular Bishop of Iuliopolis
17 Nov		Born	Eliseo Antonio Ariotti	Vailate	Apostolic Nuncio to Cameroun
18 Nov		Born	Joseph Luc André Bouchard	Cornwall	Bishop of Saint Paul in Alberta, Canada
		Born	Alain Émile Baptiste Planet	Privas	Bishop of Carcassonne et Narbonne, France
19 Nov		Appointed	Jean François Waterschoot, O.F.M. †	Prefect of Lac Moero, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Prefect Emeritus
20 Nov	61.6	Appointed	Armand-Etienne M. Blanquet du Chayla, O.C.D. †	Apostolic Delegate to Iraq	Archbishop Emeritus of Baghdad, Iraq
21 Nov	36.1	Ordained Bishop	José Alves de Sà Trindade †	Bishop of Bonfim, Baia, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	46.6	Ordained Bishop	José Lázaro Neves, C.M. †	Titular Bishop of Abari	Bishop Emeritus of Assis, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	37.0	Appointed	Ioan Ploscaru †	Titular Bishop of Trapezopolis	Bishop Emeritus of Lugoj (Romanian), Romania
	32.8	Ordained Priest	Leo Tigga, S.J. †	Priest of Society of Jesus	Bishop of Raiganj, India
27 Nov	40.6	Appointed	Pedro Arnoldo Aparicio y Quintanilla, S.D.B. †	Bishop of San Vicente, El Salvador
	48.7	Appointed	Giovanni Urbani †	Titular Archbishop of Sardes	Cardinal, Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy
28 Nov	36.0	Ordained Bishop	Luis do Amaral Mousinho †	Bishop of Cajazeiras, Paraiba, Brazil	Archbishop of Ribeirão Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	24.9	Ordained Priest	René Fernández Apaza	Priest	Archbishop Emeritus of Cochabamba, Bolivia
	72.0	Died	Dominique Ho Ngoc Cân †	Vicar Apostolic of Bùi Chu, Viêt Nam
	24.3	Ordained Priest	Carlos Milcíades Villalba Aquino	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of San Juan Bautista de las Misiones, Paraguay
	28.8	Ordained Priest	Vicente Faustino Zazpe †	Priest of Buenos Aires, Argentina	Archbishop of Santa Fe, Argentina
30 Nov	42.9	Ordained Bishop	Stephen Anthony Appelhans, S.V.D. †	Titular Bishop of Catula	Vicar Apostolic of Eastern New Guinea
	36.8	Ordained Bishop	Leo Clement Andrew Arkfeld, S.V.D. †	Titular Bishop of Bucellus	Archbishop Emeritus of Madang, Papua New Guinea
	51.8	Ordained Bishop	Heinrich Gleumes †	Titular Bishop of Cissita	Auxiliary Bishop of Münster, Germany
	43.1	Ordained Bishop	Réginald-André-Paulin-Edmond Jacq, O.P. †	Titular Bishop of Cerasa	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Lang Són et Cao Bang, Viêt Nam
	45.2	Ordained Bishop	Carl Joseph Leiprecht †	Titular Bishop of Scyrus	Bishop Emeritus of Rottenburg, Germany
	37.1	Ordained Bishop	Ioan Ploscaru †	Titular Bishop of Trapezopolis	Bishop Emeritus of Lugoj (Romanian), Romania
1 Dec		Born	Gaetano Di Pierro, S.C.I.	Orta Nova	Bishop of Moramanga, Madagascar
2 Dec		Born	Gebhard Fürst	Bietigheim	Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany
3 Dec		Born	Sérgio Arthur Braschi	Curitiba	Bishop of Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brazil
4 Dec		Born	Robert Daniel Conlon	Cincinnati, OH	Bishop of Steubenville, Ohio, USA
5 Dec	24.2	Ordained Priest	Manuel Edmilson da Cruz	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Limoeiro do Norte, Ceara, Brazil
	23.6	Ordained Priest	José Mauro Ramalho de Alarcón Santiago	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Iguatú, Ceara, Brazil
	24.9	Ordained Priest	Paulino Reale Chirina	Priest of Mendoza, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus of Venado Tuerto, Argentina
8 Dec		Born	Sofronio Aguirre Bancud, S.S.S.	Atulayan	Bishop of Cabanatuan, Philippines
	23.7	Ordained Priest	Miguel Fenelon Câmara Filho	Priest of Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus of Teresina, Piaui, Brazil
	24.0	Ordained Priest	Gerardo de Andrade Ponte †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Patos, Paraiba, Brazil
	24.8	Ordained Priest	José de Lima	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	52.1	Ordained Bishop	Ioan Duma, O.F.M. Conv. †	Titular Bishop of Iuliopolis
	24.7	Ordained Priest	Gheorghe Gutiu	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Cluj-Gherla (Romanian), Romania
	46.4	Ordained Bishop	Georges-Louis Mercier, M. Afr. †	Titular Bishop of Celerina	Bishop Emeritus of Laghouat, Algeria
	32.5	Ordained Priest	Altivo Pacheco Ribeiro †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Araçuaí (Arassuaí), Minas Gerais, Brazil
	28.2	Ordained Priest	Benedito de Ulhôa Vieira	Priest	Archbishop Emeritus of Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil
9 Dec	51.0	Appointed	Hugh Boyle †	Vicar Apostolic of Port Elizabeth, South Africa	Bishop Emeritus of Johannesburg, South Africa
	51.0	Appointed	Hugh Boyle †	Titular Bishop of Bagai	Bishop Emeritus of Johannesburg, South Africa
	46.4	Appointed	John Baptist Choi Deok-hong (Choe, Tchoi) †	Vicar Apostolic of Taiku, Korea (South)	Vicar Apostolic of Taiku, Korea (South)
	46.4	Appointed	John Baptist Choi Deok-hong (Choe, Tchoi) †	Titular Bishop of Anthedon	Vicar Apostolic of Taiku, Korea (South)
	50.6	Resigned	James Colbert †	Vicar Apostolic of Port Elizabeth, South Africa	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
	54.0	Appointed	Alfredo Galindo Mendoza, M.Sp.S. †	Vicar Apostolic of California Inferiore, México	Bishop Emeritus of Tijuana, Baja California Norte, México
	54.0	Appointed	Alfredo Galindo Mendoza, M.Sp.S. †	Titular Bishop of Lipara	Bishop Emeritus of Tijuana, Baja California Norte, México
	41.8	Appointed	Bruno-Augustin Hippel, S.A.C. †	Vicar Apostolic of Oudtshoorn, South Africa	Bishop Emeritus of Oudtshoorn, South Africa
	41.8	Appointed	Bruno-Augustin Hippel, S.A.C. †	Titular Bishop of Abora	Bishop Emeritus of Oudtshoorn, South Africa
	71.3	Resigned	Léon Klerlein, C.S.Sp. †	Vicar Apostolic of Bethlehem, South Africa	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
	43.8	Appointed	Lucien Bernard Lacoste †	Bishop of Tali [Dali], China	Bishop Emeritus
	58.7	Appointed	Joseph Obert, P.I.M.E. †	Bishop of Dinajpur, Bangladesh	Bishop Emeritus
	47.0	Appointed	John Riegler, M.C.C.I. †	Titular Bishop of Bita	Bishop of Lydenburg, South Africa
	47.0	Appointed	John Riegler, M.C.C.I. †	Vicar Apostolic of Lydenburg, South Africa	Bishop of Lydenburg, South Africa
10 Dec		Born	Joseph Angelo Grech	Balzan, Malta	Bishop of Sandhurst, Australia
11 Dec	58.0	Appointed	Pietro Doimo Munzani †	Titular Archbishop of Tyana	Archbishop Emeritus of Zadar (Zara), Croatia
	58.0	Resigned	Pietro Doimo Munzani †	Archbishop of Zadar (Zara), Croatia	Archbishop Emeritus
	65.0	Appointed	Enrique Pérez Serantes †	Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba
	47.9	Appointed	Carlos Riu Anglés †	Bishop of Camagüey, Cuba	Bishop Emeritus
		Born	Florentinus Sului Hajang Hau, M.S.F.	Tering	Archbishop of Samarinda, Indonesia
12 Dec	44.5	Ordained Bishop	Antônio de Almeida Moraes Junior †	Bishop of Montes Claros, Brazil	Archbishop of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	24.2	Ordained Priest	Herberto Celso Angelo †	Priest	Auxiliary Bishop of Mercedes-Luján, Argentina
	40.2	Ordained Bishop	Adalbert Boros †	Titular Bishop of Ressiana	Titular Archbishop
	26.0	Ordained Priest	Miguel Esteban Hesayne	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Viedma, Argentina
	34.4	Ordained Bishop	Francisco Expedito Lopes †	Bishop of Oeiras, Brazil	Bishop of Garanhuns, Pernambuco, Brazil
14 Dec		Born	Michel Abrass, B.A.	Aleppo, Syria	Auxiliary Bishop of Antiochia {Antioch} (Melkite), Syria
15 Dec	50.8	Resigned	Joachim (Alois) Ammann, O.S.B. †	Abbot of Ndanda, Tanzania	Abbot Emeritus
		Born	Antonino Eugénio Fernandes Dias	Longos Vales	Bishop of Portalegre-Castelo Branco, Portugal
		Born	Ambroise Ouédraogo	Kossodo	Bishop of Maradi, Niger
16 Dec	54.2	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Francis Flannelly †	Titular Bishop of Metelis	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of New York, New York, USA
		Born	César Augusto Franco Martínez	Piñuécar	Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid, Spain
	79.0	Died	Carlo Pensa †	Bishop of Penne-Atri, Italy
17 Dec	46.3	Appointed	William Edward Cousins †	Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, Illinois, USA	Archbishop Emeritus of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
	46.3	Appointed	William Edward Cousins †	Titular Bishop of Forma	Archbishop Emeritus of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
	41.9	Appointed	Paternus Nicholas Joannes Cornelius Geise, O.F.M. †	Prefect of Sukabumi, Indonesia	Bishop Emeritus of Bogor, Indonesia
	52.6	Appointed	Martin Dewey McNamara †	Bishop of Joliet in Illinois, USA
	45.0	Appointed	William Aloysius O’Connor †	Bishop of Springfield in Illinois, USA	Bishop Emeritus
18 Dec	24.1	Ordained Priest	Román Arrieta Villalobos †	Priest of San José de Costa Rica	Archbishop Emeritus
	26.0	Ordained Priest	Heraldo Camilo A. Barotto †	Priest	Auxiliary Bishop of Rosario, Argentina
	25.0	Ordained Priest	Angelo Cella, M.S.C. †	Priest of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus	Bishop Emeritus of Frosinone-Veroli-Ferentino, Italy
	25.1	Ordained Priest	Louis Pierre Joseph Cornet †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Meaux, France
	24.9	Ordained Priest	Eugene James Cuskelly, M.S.C. †	Priest of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Brisbane, Australia
	31.7	Ordained Priest	Ricardo Durand Flórez, S.J. †	Priest of Society of Jesus	Bishop Emeritus of Callao, Peru
	30.4	Ordained Priest	Karl Heinz Jacoby †	Priest of Trier, Germany	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	25.1	Ordained Priest	Carlos Talavera Ramírez †	Priest of México, Federal District	Bishop Emeritus of Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, México
	23.5	Ordained Priest	Thomas Joseph Winning †	Priest of Motherwell, Scotland, Great Britain	Cardinal, Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland, Great Britain
19 Dec		Born	Enemésio Ângelo Lazzaris, F.D.P.	Siderópolis	Bishop of Balsas, Maranho, Brazil
	26.3	Ordained Priest	Ramón Malla Call	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Lleida, Spain
20 Dec	78.5	Died	Jacques-Victor-Marius Rouchouse, M.E.P. †	Bishop of Chengtu [Chengdu], China
21 Dec		Born	Carlos Enrique Herrera Gutiérrez, O.F.M.	Managua	Bishop of Jinotega, Nicaragua
22 Dec	73.0	Died	Karol Kmetko †	Bishop of Nitra, Slovakia
		Born	Johannes Liku Ada'	Salu Allo	Archbishop of Makassar, Indonesia
24 Dec		Born	Menghesteab Tesfamariam, M.C.C.I.	Berakit	Bishop of Asmara (Ethiopian), Eritrea
26 Dec	44.9	Succeeded	Manuel Martín del Campo Padilla †	Bishop of León, Guanajuato, México	Archbishop of Morelia, Michoacán, México
	25.3	Ordained Priest	Gabino Peral de la Torre, O.S.A. †	Priest of Order of St. Augustine	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Iquitos, Peru
27 Dec	52.8	Succeeded	Francisco Aldegunde Dorrego, O.F.M. †	Vicar Apostolic of Marocco o Marruecos, Morocco	Archbishop Emeritus of Tanger, Morocco
	85.3	Died	José María Betanzos y Hormaechevarría, O.F.M. †	Vicar Apostolic of Marocco o Marruecos, Morocco
	54.1	Died	Ferdinand Dirichs †	Bishop of Limburg, Germany
	67.3	Appointed	Carlo Stoppa †	Bishop of Alba (Pompea), Italy
28 Dec	78.9	Died	Ernesto Coppo, S.D.B. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Kimberley in Western Australia
		Born	George Vance Murry, S.J.	Camden, NJ	Bishop of Youngstown, Ohio, USA
	84.8	Died	Emeterio Valverde y Télles †	Bishop of León, Guanajuato, México
29 Dec	46.7	Appointed	Charles-Marie Himmer †	Bishop of Tournai {Doornik}, Belgium	Bishop Emeritus
30 Dec	57.2	Ordained Bishop	Antonio Ludovico Van der Veen Zeppenfeldt, O.P. †	Titular Bishop of Acholla	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, Antilles
31 Dec	82.1	Died	Marie-Eugène-Auguste-Charles Foulquier, M.E.P. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Northern Burma {Birmania Settentrionale}, Myanmar

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