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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
2 Mar	50.7	Ordained Bishop	Osório Bebber, O.F.M. Cap.	Coadjutor Bishop of Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Joaçaba, Santa Catarina, Brazil
	90.6	Died	João da Silva Campos Neves †	Bishop Emeritus of Lamego, Portugal
3 Mar	56.0	Appointed	Rafael Bellido Caro †	Bishop of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain	Bishop Emeritus
	40.7	Ordained Priest	Albert Ayinde Fasina	Priest of Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria	Bishop
4 Mar	67.1	Resigned	Gabriel Bukatko †	Archbishop of Beograd (-Smederevo), Serbia	Archbishop Emeritus
	58.3	Appointed	Oscar Garcia Urizar †	Bishop of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos, Guatemala	Bishop Emeritus
	45.8	Appointed	José Lizares Estrada	Bishop of Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero, México	Auxiliary Bishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
	52.3	Ordained Bishop	José de Jesús Madera Uribe, M.Sp.S.	Coadjutor Bishop of Fresno, California, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of United States of America, Military
	70.3	Appointed	Alojz Turk †	Archbishop of Beograd (-Smederevo), Serbia	Archbishop Emeritus
5 Mar	56.8	Appointed	Daniel William Kucera, O.S.B.	Bishop of Salina, Kansas, USA	Archbishop Emeritus of Dubuque, Iowa, USA
6 Mar	62.5	Appointed	Albert-Leo Bundervoet, M.S.C. †	Archbishop of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
	43.3	Appointed	Peter James Cullinane	Bishop of Palmerston North, New Zealand
	62.2	Resigned	Paul-Pierre-Yves Dalmais, S.J. †	Archbishop of N’Djaména, Chad	Archbishop Emeritus
	53.3	Appointed	Edward Russell Gaines †	Bishop of Hamilton in New Zealand
	59.2	Resigned	Michel Kien Samophithak †	Archbishop of Thare and Nonseng, Thailand	Archbishop Emeritus
	73.3	Retired	Marc-Armand Lallier †	Archbishop of Besançon, France	Archbishop Emeritus
	56.2	Appointed	Roger Mpungu †	Bishop of Muyinga, Burundi	Bishop Emeritus
	48.6	Appointed	Benedict John Osta, S.J.	Bishop of Patna, India	Archbishop Emeritus of Patna, India
	51.6	Appointed	Lawrence Khai Saen-Phon-On †	Archbishop of Thare and Nonseng, Thailand	Archbishop Emeritus
	44.4	Appointed	Anthony Selvanayagam	Auxiliary Bishop of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Bishop of Penang, Malaysia
	44.4	Appointed	Anthony Selvanayagam	Titular Bishop of Giru Mons	Bishop of Penang, Malaysia
	43.1	Appointed	John Baptist Thakur, S.J.	Bishop of Muzaffarpur, India
	76.0	Retired	Augustine Francis Wildermuth, S.J. †	Bishop of Patna, India	Bishop Emeritus
7 Mar	64.6	Appointed	Alfonso Coto Monge †	Vicar Apostolic of Limón, Costa Rica	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
	64.6	Appointed	Alfonso Coto Monge †	Titular Bishop of Bigastro	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Limón, Costa Rica
	71.7	Died	Juan Carlos Ferro †	Bishop of Concepción, Argentina
	85.7	Died	Abílio Augusto Vaz das Neves †	Bishop Emeritus of Bragança e Miranda, Portugal
9 Mar	74.5	Died	Giuseppe Mojoli †	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Malta
11 Mar	45.5	Appointed	Paul Josef Cordes	Vice President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”
	49.7	Appointed	Carmelo Juan Giaquinta	Auxiliary Bishop of Viedma, Argentina	Archbishop Emeritus of Resistencia, Argentina
	49.7	Appointed	Carmelo Juan Giaquinta	Titular Bishop of Zama Minor	Archbishop Emeritus of Resistencia, Argentina
	57.8	Appointed	John Charles Reiss	Bishop of Trenton, New Jersey, USA	Bishop Emeritus
12 Mar	44.7	Appointed	Wladyslaw Ziólek	Auxiliary Bishop of Łódź, Poland	Archbishop of Łódź, Poland
	44.7	Appointed	Wladyslaw Ziólek	Titular Bishop of Risinium	Archbishop of Łódź, Poland
13 Mar	89.6	Died	Joseph-Alphonse Baud, M.S.F.S. †	Bishop Emeritus of Visakhapatnam, India
14 Mar	76.6	Retired	Severino Mariano de Aguiar †	Bishop of Pesqueira, Pernambuco, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	80.1	Retired	Gérard Mongeau, O.M.I. †	Archbishop of Cotabato, Philippines	Archbishop Emeritus
	61.0	Appointed	Manuel Palmeira da Rocha †	Bishop of Pesqueira, Pernambuco, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	55.4	Succeeded	Philip Francis Smith, O.M.I. †	Archbishop of Cotabato, Philippines	Archbishop Emeritus
	51.9	Appointed	Antônio Eliseu Zuqueto, O.F.M. Cap.	Auxiliary Bishop of Teófilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Teixeira de Freitas-Caravelas, Baia, Brazil
	51.9	Appointed	Antônio Eliseu Zuqueto, O.F.M. Cap.	Titular Bishop of Tela	Bishop Emeritus of Teixeira de Freitas-Caravelas, Baia, Brazil
16 Mar	47.0	Installed	Reinhard Lettmann	Bishop of Münster, Germany	Bishop Emeritus
18 Mar	53.3	Appointed	William Wakefield Baum	Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Seminaries and Institutes of Study)	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
	53.3	Resigned	William Wakefield Baum	Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia, USA	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
	58.8	Appointed	Leroy Theodore Matthiesen	Bishop of Amarillo, Texas, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	50.1	Appointed	Gabriel Montalvo Higuera †	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Algeria	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to United States of America
	50.1	Appointed	Gabriel Montalvo Higuera †	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Tunisia	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to United States of America
	50.1	Appointed	Gabriel Montalvo Higuera †	Apostolic Delegate to Libya	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to United States of America
	48.8	Appointed	Pablo Puente Buces	Titular Archbishop of Macri	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Great Britain
	48.8	Appointed	Pablo Puente Buces	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Indonesia	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Great Britain
	56.9	Appointed	Dino Trabalzini †	Archbishop of Cosenza e Bisignano, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus of Cosenza-Bisignano, Italy
19 Mar	63.1	Ordained Bishop	Juvencio González Alvarez †	Bishop of Ciudad Valles, San Luís Potosí, México	Bishop Emeritus
	48.2	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Faber MacDonald	Bishop of Grand Falls, Newfoundland, Canada	Bishop Emeritus of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
	45.4	Ordained Bishop	José Sánchez González	Titular Bishop of Rubicon	Bishop of Sigüenza-Guadalajara, Spain
	43.7	Ordained Bishop	Benedict To Varpin	Bishop of Bereina, Papua New Guinea	Archbishop Emeritus of Madang, Papua New Guinea
	28.7	Ordained Priest	Pablo Vizcaino Prado	Priest of Guatemala	Bishop of Suchitepéquez-Retalhuleu, Guatemala
20 Mar	66.8	Resigned	William Eric Grasar †	Bishop of Shrewsbury, England, Great Britain	Bishop Emeritus
	48.1	Ordained Bishop	Francis Xavier Kaname Shimamoto, Ist. del Prado †	Bishop of Urawa, Japan	Archbishop of Nagasaki, Japan
21 Mar	44.8	Appointed	Manuel Camilo Vial Risopatrón	Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de Chile	Bishop of Temuco, Chile
	44.8	Appointed	Manuel Camilo Vial Risopatrón	Titular Bishop of Pauzera	Bishop of Temuco, Chile
22 Mar	50.5	Installed	Justo Oscar Laguna	Bishop of Morón, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus
24 Mar	53.9	Appointed	Helímenas de Jesús Rojo Paredes, C.I.M.	Bishop of Calabozo, Venezuela	Archbishop Emeritus of Calabozo, Venezuela
	62.6	Died	Oscar Amulfo Romero y Galdamez †	Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador
25 Mar	26.2	Ordained Priest	José Colin Mendoza Bagaforo	Priest of Cotabato, Philippines	Auxiliary Bishop
	53.5	Appointed	Jacques Louis Léon Delaporte †	Archbishop of Cambrai, France
	75.7	Retired	Henri-Martin-Félix Jenny †	Archbishop of Cambrai, France	Archbishop Emeritus
	77.5	Died	Jože Pogacnik †	Archbishop Emeritus of Ljubljana, Slovenia
	56.4	Ordained Bishop	Carlos Talavera Ramírez †	Titular Bishop of Aufinium	Bishop Emeritus of Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, México
26 Mar	71.8	Ordained Bishop	Agnellus Andrew, O.F.M. †	Titular Archbishop of Numana	Vice President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission of Social Communications
27 Mar	49.1	Appointed	Rodolfo Bufano †	Bishop of Chascomús, Argentina	Bishop of San Justo, Argentina
	57.7	Appointed	Roger Joseph Heckel, S.J. †	Coadjutor Bishop of Strasbourg, France
	65.8	Appointed	Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky †	Coadjutor Archbishop of Lviv (Ukrainian), Ukraine	Cardinal, Archbishop
28 Mar	48.7	Appointed	Luiz Colussi †	Coadjutor Bishop of Lins, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop of Caçador, Santa Catarina, Brazil
	54.3	Appointed	Ferdinand Joseph Fonseca	Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay, India	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	54.3	Appointed	Ferdinand Joseph Fonseca	Titular Bishop of Aquae in Mauretania	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bombay, India
	60.7	Died	Jaroslav Gabro †	Bishop of Saint Nicolas of Chicago (Ukrainian), Illinois, USA
	47.0	Appointed	Michel-Joseph-Gérard Gagnon, M. Afr. †	Bishop of Djibouti	Bishop of Laghouat, Algeria
	43.9	Appointed	Ramón Godinez Flores †	Auxiliary Bishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México	Bishop of Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, México
	43.9	Appointed	Ramón Godinez Flores †	Titular Bishop of Centenaria	Bishop of Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, México
	91.1	Died	James Thomas Gibbons Hayes, S.J. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Cagayan de Oro, Philippines
	46.6	Appointed	Dominique Kimpinde Amando	Bishop of Kilwa-Kasenga, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop of Kalemie-Kirungu, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	48.3	Appointed	Fernando Legal, S.D.B.	Bishop of Itapeva, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of São Miguel Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	48.7	Appointed	Joseph Mittathany	Bishop of Imphal, India	Archbishop Emeritus of Imphal, India
	63.1	Appointed	Bernard Martin Ngaviliau, C.S.Sp. †	Bishop of Zanzibar, Tanzania	Bishop Emeritus
	46.4	Appointed	Joachim Ruhuna †	Coadjutor Archbishop of Gitega, Burundi	Archbishop
30 Mar	50.3	Ordained Bishop	Paul Fouad Tabet	Titular Archbishop of Sinna	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Greece
2 Apr	71.1	Succeeded	Antal Jakab †	Bishop of Alba Iulia, Romania	Bishop Emeritus of Alba Iulia, Romania
	83.6	Retired	Áron Márton †	Bishop of Alba Iulia, Romania	Bishop Emeritus
3 Apr	47.0	Appointed	Severino Poletto	Coadjutor Bishop of Fossano, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop of Torino {Turin}, Italy
4 Apr	27.2	Ordained Priest	Tesfay Medhin	Priest of Adigrat, Ethiopia	Bishop
	70.6	Died	Robert Emmet Tracy †	Bishop Emeritus of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
8 Apr	57.3	Died	Luis Mario Martínez de Lejarza Valle, S.J. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Guatemala
9 Apr	38.6	Appointed	Eduardo Ernesto Fuentes Duarte †	Auxiliary Bishop of Guatemala	Bishop of Sololá-Chimaltenango, Guatemala
	38.6	Appointed	Eduardo Ernesto Fuentes Duarte †	Titular Bishop of Lares	Bishop of Sololá-Chimaltenango, Guatemala
11 Apr	28.7	Ordained Priest	Jean-Pierre Bassène	Priest	Bishop of Kolda, Senegal
	29.7	Ordained Priest	Isidore Battikha, B.A.	Priest of Ordre Basilien Alepin	Archbishop of Homs (-Hama-Jabrud) (Melkite), Syria
	64.7	Ordained Bishop	Alfonso Coto Monge †	Titular Bishop of Bigastro	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Limón, Costa Rica
12 Apr	54.0	Ordained Bishop	Vincenzo Cirrincione †	Titular Bishop of Apollonia	Bishop of Piazza Armerina, Italy
	23.6	Ordained Priest	Julius Sullan Tonel	Priest of Davao, Philippines	Prelate of Ipil, Philippines
13 Apr	33.7	Ordained Priest	Angelus Kujur, S.J.	Priest of Society of Jesus	Bishop of Purnea, India
	29.0	Ordained Priest	Peter Liu Cheng-chung	Priest of Kiayi, Taiwan	Bishop of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
	59.4	Ordained Bishop	Alojzij Šuštar †	Archbishop of Ljubljana, Slovenia	Archbishop Emeritus
15 Apr	90.4	Died	Jules Georges Kandela †	Archbishop Emeritus of Mossul (Syrian), Iraq
16 Apr	57.9	Appointed	Alfredo Guillermo Disandro †	Bishop of Villa María, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus
17 Apr	76.9	Died	Jan Jaroszewicz †	Bishop of Kielce, Poland
	44.1	Installed	Roger Michael Mahony	Bishop of Stockton, California, USA	Cardinal, Archbishop of Los Angeles, California, USA
19 Apr	33.2	Ordained Priest	Lourdunada Daniel	Priest of Poona, India	Bishop of Amravati, India
	48.6	Appointed	Marcel André J. Gervais	Auxiliary Bishop of London, Ontario, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
	48.6	Appointed	Marcel André J. Gervais	Titular Bishop of Rossmarkaeum	Archbishop Emeritus of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
	58.9	Ordained Bishop	Ramón Iribarne Arámburu, O. de M. †	Prelate of Deán Funes, Argentina
	42.0	Appointed	Joseph Nduhirubusa	Bishop of Ruyigi, Burundi
20 Apr	24.9	Ordained Priest	Dominique Bulamatari	Priest of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Auxiliary Bishop
	29.1	Ordained Priest	Abraham Desta	Priest of Adigrat, Ethiopia	Vicar Apostolic of Meki, Ethiopia
	26.5	Ordained Priest	Daniel Nlandu Mayi	Priest of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Auxiliary Bishop
	70.4	Ordained Bishop	Alojz Turk †	Archbishop of Beograd (-Smederevo), Serbia	Archbishop Emeritus
21 Apr	60.4	Appointed	Milton Corrêa Pereira †	Apostolic Administrator of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil	Archbishop
	60.1	Appointed	Miguel Maria Giambelli, B.	Bishop of Guamá, Para, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Bragança do Pará, Para, Brazil
	67.1	Appointed	João de Souza Lima †	Coadjutor Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
	67.1	Resigned	João de Souza Lima †	Archbishop of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
	48.4	Appointed	Vital João Geraldo Wilderink, O. Carm.	Bishop of Itaguaí, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
22 Apr	27.2	Ordained Priest	George Beluso Rimando	Priest of Davao, Philippines	Auxiliary Bishop
	70.3	Retired	Joseph Lennox Federal †	Bishop of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	46.3	Appointed	Joachim Meisner	Bishop of Berlin, Germany	Cardinal, Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
23 Apr	63.8	Appointed	Ephrem Bédé †	Bishop of Le Caire {Cairo} (Chaldean), Egypt
	43.4	Ordained Bishop	Peter James Cullinane	Bishop of Palmerston North, New Zealand
	68.6	Ordained Bishop	George Eli Dion, O.M.I. †	Titular Bishop of Caudium	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Jolo, Philippines
	58.4	Appointed	Georges F. Garmou †	Archbishop of Mossul (Chaldean), Iraq
	48.1	Appointed	José Higinio Gómez González, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Lugo, Spain	Bishop Emeritus
	65.8	Died	Alfredo Poledrini †	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Lesotho
	64.0	Appointed	Abdul-Ahad Rabban, O.S.H. †	Bishop of Aqra {Akra} (Chaldean), Iraq
	66.5	Resigned	Paulo Hipólito de Souza Libório †	Bishop of Parnaíba, Piaui, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
24 Apr	77.8	Died	James Buis, M.H.M. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
	44.6	Appointed	John Etheridge, C.P. †	Bishop of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea	Bishop Emeritus
	52.6	Appointed	Raymond Philip Kalisz, S.V.D.	Bishop of Wewak, Papua New Guinea	Bishop Emeritus
	60.9	Appointed	Antonio Magnoni †	Titular Archbishop of Boseta	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio Emeritus to Egypt, Arab Republic of
	60.9	Appointed	Antonio Magnoni †	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to New Zealand	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio Emeritus to Egypt, Arab Republic of
	60.9	Appointed	Antonio Magnoni †	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Fiji, Pacific (Oceania)	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio Emeritus to Egypt, Arab Republic of
	38.9	Appointed	Basile Mvé Engone, S.D.B.	Coadjutor Bishop of Oyem, Gabon	Archbishop of Libreville, Gabon
25 Apr	45.9	Ordained Bishop	José Lizares Estrada	Bishop of Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero, México	Auxiliary Bishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
	60.9	Appointed	Giovanni Mariani †	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Greece	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus
	51.0	Ordained Bishop	Jude Speyrer	Bishop of Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA	Bishop Emeritus
26 Apr	69.8	Appointed	Javier Miguel Ariz Huarte, O.P. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru
	58.4	Ordained Bishop	Oscar Garcia Urizar †	Bishop of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos, Guatemala	Bishop Emeritus
	39.1	Appointed	Juan José Larrañeta Olleta, O.P.	Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Maldonado, Peru	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
	57.6	Appointed	Alfredo Noriega Arce, S.J. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru
	57.6	Appointed	Alfredo Noriega Arce, S.J. †	Titular Bishop of Mutia	Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru
	31.6	Ordained Priest	Michael William Warfel	Priest of Anchorage, Alaska, USA	Bishop of Great Falls-Billings, Montana, USA
27 Apr	61.2	Ordained Bishop	Manuel Palmeira da Rocha †	Bishop of Pesqueira, Pernambuco, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
28 Apr	70.1	Died	Vittore Ugo Righi †	Official of the Secretariat of State
29 Apr	46.2	Appointed	Raymundo Joseph Peña	Bishop of El Paso, Texas, USA	Bishop of Brownsville, Texas, USA
	69.3	Resigned	Francis Frederick Reh †	Bishop of Saginaw, Michigan, USA	Bishop Emeritus
30 Apr	60.3	Died	John Edgar McCafferty †	Auxiliary Bishop of Rochester, New York, USA
	27.5	Ordained Priest	Joseph Ponniah	Priest of Trincomalee-Batticaloa, Sri Lanka	Auxiliary Bishop

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