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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
2 Mar	51.5	Appointed	Mariano Gaviola y Garcés †	Bishop of Philippines, Military	Archbishop Emeritus of Lipa, Philippines
	70.4	Died	John Michael O'Neill †	Bishop Emeritus of Grand Falls, Newfoundland, Canada
3 Mar	63.5	Ordained Bishop	Marian Jozef Rechowicz †	Titular Bishop of Pupiana	Apostolic Administrator of Lviv, Ukraine
5 Mar	39.2	Installed	Noël Delaquis, O.C.S.O.	Bishop of Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
6 Mar	44.9	Ordained Bishop	Paschalis Soedita Hardjasoemarta, M.S.C. †	Bishop of Purwokerto, Indonesia
	50.9	Resigned	Ramón Torrella Cascante †	Vice President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity	Archbishop Emeritus of Tarragona, Spain
7 Mar	61.3	Appointed	José María Mestres †	Auxiliary Bishop of Paraná, Argentina	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	61.3	Appointed	José María Mestres †	Titular Bishop of Dardanus	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Paraná, Argentina
	48.5	Appointed	Lucas Moreira Neves, O.P. †	Vice President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
8 Mar	40.6	Appointed	Ricardo Pido Tancinco	Bishop of Calbayog, Philippines	Bishop Emeritus
9 Mar	51.4	Ordained Bishop	Francisco Medina Ramirez, O.C.D. †	Titular Bishop of Sesta	Prelate of El Salto, Durango, México
	68.3	Died	Giuseppe Olivotti †	Auxiliary Bishop of Venezia {Venice}, Italy
10 Mar	70.2	Died	Bolesław Kominek †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Wrocław {Breslavia}, Poland
	62.1	Ordained Bishop	Odorico Leovigildo Sáiz Pérez, O.F.M.	Titular Bishop of Simingi	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Requena, Peru
11 Mar	49.3	Appointed	Robert Lebel	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Québec, Québec, Canada	Bishop Emeritus of Valleyfield, Québec, Canada
	49.3	Appointed	Robert Lebel	Titular Bishop of Alinda	Bishop Emeritus of Valleyfield, Québec, Canada
12 Mar	40.1	Appointed	Felipe Aguirre Franco	Auxiliary Bishop of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México	Archbishop of Acapulco, Guerrero, México
	40.1	Appointed	Felipe Aguirre Franco	Titular Bishop of Otriculum	Archbishop of Acapulco, Guerrero, México
	59.0	Appointed	Luigi Dardani †	Bishop of Imola, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	45.2	Ordained Bishop	Adam Joseph Exner, O.M.I.	Bishop of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
	45.9	Ordained Bishop	Balashoury Thanugundla †	Bishop of Guntur, India
14 Mar	39.1	Appointed	Onesimo Cadiz Gordoncillo	Auxiliary Bishop of Dumaguete, Philippines	Archbishop of Capiz, Philippines
	39.1	Appointed	Onesimo Cadiz Gordoncillo	Titular Bishop of Gunugus	Archbishop of Capiz, Philippines
15 Mar	48.1	Appointed	Johannes Joachim Degenhardt †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Paderborn, Germany
	87.6	Died	Vince Kovács †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Vác, Hungary
	57.2	Appointed	Robert-Joseph Mathen †	Coadjutor Bishop of Namur {Namen}, Belgium	Bishop Emeritus
	57.2	Appointed	Robert-Joseph Mathen †	Titular Bishop of Tituli in Numidia	Bishop Emeritus of Namur {Namen}, Belgium
16 Mar	29.8	Ordained Priest	Konrad Zdarsa	Priest of Meissen (Meißen), Germany	Bishop of Görlitz, Germany
17 Mar	40.3	Ordained Bishop	Boniface Nyema Dalieh	Titular Bishop of Talaptula	Bishop Emeritus of Cape Palmas, Liberia
	54.2	Ordained Bishop	Jean Louis Joseph Dardel †	Bishop of Clermont, France	Bishop Emeritus of Clermont, France
	41.7	Ordained Bishop	Jan Stefan Gałecki	Titular Bishop of Maiuca	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Szczecin-Kamień, Poland
	54.3	Ordained Bishop	Ciril Kos †	Bishop of Djakovo o Bosna i Srijem, Croatia	Bishop Emeritus
18 Mar	49.4	Appointed	Francisco Antunes Santana †	Bishop of Funchal, Portugal
	59.7	Appointed	Guglielmo Giaquinta †	Bishop of Tivoli, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	53.8	Appointed	Aurélio Granada Escudeiro	Coadjutor Bishop of Angra, Portugal	Bishop Emeritus
	53.8	Appointed	Aurélio Granada Escudeiro	Titular Bishop of Drusiliana	Bishop Emeritus of Angra, Portugal
	47.9	Ordained Bishop	Angelo Rizzo	Bishop of Ragusa, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
19 Mar	45.4	Ordained Bishop	Pudhota Chinniah Balaswamy	Bishop of Nellore, India	Bishop Emeritus
	45.1	Ordained Bishop	Jorge Bernal Vargas, L.C.	Titular Bishop of Velefi	Prelate Emeritus of Cancún-Chetumal, Quintana Roo, México
	77.5	Died	Paolo Botto †	Archbishop Emeritus of Cagliari, Italy
	39.5	Appointed	Bernard Rooney, O.S.B.	Abbot of New Norcia, Australia	Abbot Emeritus
	45.6	Installed	Jaime Lachica Sin †	Archbishop of Manila, Philippines	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
21 Mar	48.1	Appointed	Massimo Giustetti	Bishop of Pinerolo, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Biella, Italy
	71.7	Appointed	Emilio Pizzoni †	Titular Bishop of Iulium Carnicum	Bishop Emeritus of Terracina, Priverno e Sezze, Italy
	64.5	Resigned	Robert Emmet Tracy †	Bishop of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA	Bishop Emeritus
22 Mar	42.6	Appointed	Tadeusz Werno	Auxiliary Bishop of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	42.6	Appointed	Tadeusz Werno	Titular Bishop of Zattara	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg, Poland
23 Mar	42.9	Ordained Bishop	Miguel Rodriguez Rodriguez, C.SS.R. †	Bishop of Arecibo, Puerto Rico	Bishop Emeritus
24 Mar	50.0	Ordained Bishop	Urbano José Allgayer	Titular Bishop of Tunnuna	Bishop Emeritus of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
	23.3	Ordained Priest	Alessandro D'Errico	Priest	Apostolic Nuncio to Bosnia-Herzegovina
	24.9	Ordained Priest	Pierre Nguyên Van Tot	Priest of Phú Cuong, Viêt Nam	Apostolic Nuncio to Costa Rica
	27.8	Ordained Priest	Simon Ntamwana	Priest	Archbishop of Gitega, Burundi
	27.0	Ordained Priest	Zelimir Puljic	Priest	Bishop of Dubrovnik (Ragusa), Croatia
25 Mar	48.0	Ordained Bishop	Rafael Bello Ruiz †	Titular Bishop of Segia	Archbishop Emeritus of Acapulco, Guerrero, México
	60.5	Appointed	William Donald Borders	Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
	47.2	Appointed	Carlos Oviedo Cavada, O. de M. †	Archbishop of Antofagasta, Chile	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Santiago de Chile
	74.5	Retired	Johann Rüth, SS.CC. †	Vicar Apostolic of Central Norway {Norvegia Centrale}	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
	56.5	Appointed	Francisco de Borja Valenzuela Ríos †	Archbishop (Personal Title) of San Felipe, Chile	Bishop Emeritus of Valparaíso, Chile
28 Mar	45.3	Installed	Adam Joseph Exner, O.M.I.	Bishop of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
	38.9	Appointed	Tomás Osvaldo González Morales, S.D.B.	Bishop of Punta Arenas, Chile	Bishop Emeritus
30 Mar	46.3	Installed	Adolphe E. Proulx †	Bishop of Hull, Québec, Canada	Bishop of Gatineau-Hull, Québec, Canada
31 Mar	40.3	Ordained Bishop	Edward Kevin Daly	Bishop of Derry, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
	79.6	Died	Charles Leo Nelligan †	Bishop Emeritus of Pembroke, Ontario, Canada
	39.5	Confirmed	Bernard Rooney, O.S.B.	Abbot of New Norcia, Australia	Abbot Emeritus
Apr	24.6	Professed	Pedro Pablo Elizondo Cárdenas, L.C.	Member of Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ	Prelate of Cancún-Chetumal, Quintana Roo, México
1 Apr	84.7	Died	Giuseppe Schiavini †	Auxiliary Bishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy
2 Apr	78.1	Retired	Thomas Aloysius Boland †	Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
	61.7	Appointed	Peter Leo Gerety	Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
	76.0	Retired	Lawrence Joseph Shehan †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
3 Apr	53.2	Appointed	André Gustave Bossuyt †	Prelate of Mission de France o Pontigny, France
	58.4	Appointed	Arthur Joseph Gilbert †	Bishop of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
4 Apr	48.2	Confirmed	Johannes Joachim Degenhardt †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Paderborn, Germany
5 Apr	72.4	Died	Adolf Bolte †	Bishop of Fulda, Germany
	41.4	Appointed	Tulio Manuel Chirivella Varela	Bishop of Margarita, Venezuela	Archbishop Emeritus of Barquisimeto, Venezuela
	49.5	Ordained Bishop	Alfonso de Jesús Hinojosa Berrones	Bishop of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México	Bishop Emeritus
	41.6	Appointed	Patrick Nair	Bishop of Meerut, India	Bishop Emeritus
6 Apr	29.6	Ordained Priest	Jean-Paul Maurice Jaeger	Priest of Nancy (-Toul), France	Bishop of Arras (, Boulogne, e Saint-Omer), France
	27.1	Ordained Priest	Daniel Robert Jenky, C.S.C.	Priest of Congregation of Holy Cross	Bishop of Peoria, Illinois, USA
	29.8	Ordained Priest	Bruno Pedron, S.D.B.	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Bishop of Ji-Paraná, Rondonia, Brazil
	69.0	Died	Stepán Trochta, S.D.B. †	Cardinal, Bishop of Litomĕrice, Czech Republic
7 Apr	25.7	Ordained Priest	Wolfgang Haas	Priest of Chur, Switzerland	Archbishop of Vaduz, Liechtenstein
8 Apr	79.4	Died	James Charles McGuigan †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
	50.5	Appointed	Antônio Carlos Mesquita †	Coadjutor Bishop of Oliveira, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of São João del Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	50.5	Appointed	Antônio Carlos Mesquita †	Titular Bishop of Tamada	Bishop Emeritus of São João del Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil
9 Apr	41.9	Appointed	Gilbert Espinosa Chávez	Auxiliary Bishop of San Diego, California, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	41.9	Appointed	Gilbert Espinosa Chávez	Titular Bishop of Magarmel	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of San Diego, California, USA
10 Apr	23.5	Ordained Priest	Tommaso Caputo	Priest of Napoli {Naples}, Italy	Apostolic Nuncio to Malta
11 Apr	27.2	Ordained Priest	Emil Paul Tscherrig	Priest	Apostolic Nuncio to Sweden
14 Apr	19.1	Professed	Bernardo Bastres Florence, S.D.B.	Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Bishop of Punta Arenas, Chile
	28.6	Ordained Priest	Benjamín Castillo Plascencia	Priest of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México	Bishop of Tabasco, Tabasco, México
	47.2	Installed	Carlos Oviedo Cavada, O. de M. †	Archbishop of Antofagasta, Chile	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Santiago de Chile
16 Apr	44.5	Ordained Bishop	Antônio de Souza, C.S.S.	Titular Bishop of Egnatia	Bishop Emeritus of Assis, Sao Paulo, Brazil
17 Apr	58.0	Appointed	Albert Henry Ottenweller	Auxiliary Bishop of Toledo, Ohio, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Steubenville, Ohio, USA
	58.0	Appointed	Albert Henry Ottenweller	Titular Bishop of Perdices	Bishop Emeritus of Steubenville, Ohio, USA
	60.3	Installed	Cornelius Michael Power †	Archbishop of Portland in Oregon, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
18 Apr	76.6	Retired	Viktor Buric †	Archbishop of Rijeka-Senj, Croatia	Archbishop Emeritus
	43.2	Appointed	Bernard Louis Auguste Paul Panafieu	Auxiliary Bishop of Annecy, France	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Marseille, France
	43.2	Appointed	Bernard Louis Auguste Paul Panafieu	Titular Bishop of Thibilis	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Marseille, France
	59.3	Succeeded	Josip Pavlišic †	Archbishop of Rijeka-Senj, Croatia	Archbishop Emeritus
20 Apr	27.2	Ordained Priest	Hilary Paul Odili Okeke	Priest of Onitsha, Nigeria	Bishop of Nnewi, Nigeria
21 Apr	39.1	Ordained Bishop	Francis Folorunsho Clement Alonge	Titular Bishop of Thignica	Bishop of Ondo, Nigeria
	49.5	Ordained Bishop	Francisco Antunes Santana †	Bishop of Funchal, Portugal
	61.4	Ordained Bishop	José María Mestres †	Titular Bishop of Dardanus	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Paraná, Argentina
	27.7	Ordained Priest	Rolando Joven Tria Tirona, O.C.D.	Priest of Order of Discalced Carmelites	Prelate of Infanta, Philippines
22 Apr	67.2	Resigned	André-Jean-Marie Charles de la Brousse †	Bishop of Dijon, France	Bishop Emeritus
	51.0	Appointed	Albert Florent Augustin Decourtray †	Bishop of Dijon, France	Cardinal, Archbishop of Lyon (-Vienne), France
	38.7	Solemn Professed	Carlos Arthur Sevilla, S.J.	Priest of Society of Jesus	Bishop of Yakima, Washington, USA
23 Apr	75.2	Retired	James Donald Scanlan †	Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland, Great Britain	Archbishop Emeritus
	55.3	Ordained Bishop	Bernard Joseph Wallace †	Bishop of Rockhampton, Australia	Bishop Emeritus
	48.9	Appointed	Thomas Joseph Winning †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland, Great Britain
25 Apr	40.2	Ordained Bishop	Felipe Aguirre Franco	Titular Bishop of Otriculum	Archbishop of Acapulco, Guerrero, México
	55.7	Resigned	Michel-Maurice-Augustin-Marie Darmancier, S.M. †	Bishop of Wallis et Futuna, Wallis and Futuna, Pacific (Oceania)	Bishop Emeritus
	59.4	Appointed	Reginald John Delargey †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Wellington, New Zealand
	46.6	Appointed	Laurent Fuahea	Bishop of Wallis et Futuna, Wallis and Futuna, Pacific (Oceania)	Bishop Emeritus
	54.5	Resigned	François Hoenen, S.V.D. †	Bishop of Kenge, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop Emeritus
	71.4	Resigned	Victor Petrus Keuppens, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Kolwezi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop Emeritus
	56.3	Appointed	John Mackey	Bishop of Auckland, New Zealand	Bishop Emeritus
	38.8	Appointed	Dieudonné M'Sanda Tsinda-Hata †	Bishop of Kenge, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop Emeritus
	64.6	Appointed	Thomas Nantha †	Auxiliary Bishop of Vientiane, Laos	Vicar Apostolic
	64.6	Appointed	Thomas Nantha †	Titular Bishop of Succuba	Vicar Apostolic of Vientiane, Laos
	39.3	Appointed	Faustin Ngabu	Coadjutor Bishop of Goma, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop
	39.3	Appointed	Faustin Ngabu	Titular Bishop of Tigamibena	Bishop of Goma, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	36.7	Appointed	Floribert Songasonga Mwitwa	Bishop of Kolwezi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Archbishop of Lubumbashi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
27 Apr	39.0	Ordained Bishop	Tomás Osvaldo González Morales, S.D.B.	Bishop of Punta Arenas, Chile	Bishop Emeritus
	51.9	Appointed	Pio Laghi	Apostolic Nuncio to Argentina	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Seminaries and Institutes of Study)
	31.4	Ordained Priest	Francesco Panfilo, S.D.B.	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Bishop of Alotau-Sideia, Papua New Guinea
28 Apr	39.7	Ordained Bishop	Carlos Amigo Vallejo, O.F.M.	Bishop of Tanger, Morocco	Cardinal, Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain
	48.2	Installed	Johannes Joachim Degenhardt †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Paderborn, Germany
	40.1	Ordained Bishop	James Spaita	Bishop of Mansa, Zambia	Archbishop of Kasama, Zambia

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