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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
Mar	38.6	Incardinated	Tommaso Ghirelli	Priest of Bologna, Italy	Bishop of Imola, Italy
1 Mar	49.6	Appointed	Stanley Girard Schlarman	Bishop of Dodge City, Kansas, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	25.7	Professed	Jorge Patricio Vega Velasco, S.V.D.	Member of Society of the Divine Word	Prelate of Illapel, Chile
	51.6	Appointed	Thomas A. White	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Ethiopia	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Fiji, Pacific (Oceania)
	69.1	Died	Saverio Zupi †	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Malta
2 Mar	95.9	Died	Giuseppe Rossi †	Titular Bishop of Palmyra
3 Mar	75.0	Retired	Román Acevedo Rojas †	Auxiliary Bishop of Morelia, Michoacán, México	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	77.8	Died	Émilien Frenette †	Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Jérôme, Québec, Canada
4 Mar	53.9	Appointed	Antônio Possamai, S.D.B.	Bishop of Ji-Paraná, Rondonia, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
5 Mar	78.2	Died	Joseph Michael McGee †	Bishop Emeritus of Galloway, Scotland, Great Britain
7 Mar	84.3	Died	Buenaventura Jáuregui Prieto †	Bishop Emeritus of Zipaquirá, Colombia
	50.2	Appointed	Eugenio Ravignani	Bishop of Vittorio Veneto, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Trieste, Italy
8 Mar	26.7	Professed	Yosyf Milan, M.S.U.	Member of Ukrainian Studite Monks (Ukrainian)	Auxiliary Bishop of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine
	63.0	Installed	José María Montes †	Bishop of Chascomús, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus
12 Mar	24.0	Ordained Priest	Pablo Virgilio Siongco David	Priest of San Fernando, Philippines	Auxiliary Bishop
13 Mar	53.2	Installed	Józef Glemp †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Warszawa {Warsaw}, Poland
	42.9	Ordained Bishop	Antoine Ntalou	Bishop of Yagoua, Cameroon	Archbishop of Garoua, Cameroon
14 Mar	46.2	Appointed	Alcides Jorge Pedro Casaretto	Coadjutor Bishop of San Isidro, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus
15 Mar	58.6	Ordained Bishop	Josyf Holovach †	Bishop	Auxiliary Bishop of Mukachevo (Munkács) (Ruthenian), Ukraine
	67.0	Retired	Rubén Isaza Restrepo †	Archbishop of Cartagena, Colombia	Archbishop Emeritus
17 Mar	55.9	Resigned	Leo Rajendram Antony †	Bishop of Trincomalee-Batticaloa, Sri Lanka	Bishop Emeritus
	72.3	Resigned	Raimundo Cesare Bergamin, S.X. †	Bishop of Padang, Indonesia	Bishop Emeritus
	40.6	Appointed	Joseph Vianney Fernando	Bishop of Kandy, Sri Lanka
	41.8	Appointed	Peter J. Kairo	Bishop of Muranga, Kenya	Archbishop of Nyeri, Kenya
	43.9	Appointed	Ferdinand Maemba Liwoke	Auxiliary Bishop of Lolo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop
	43.9	Appointed	Ferdinand Maemba Liwoke	Titular Bishop of Baliana	Bishop of Lolo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	44.3	Appointed	Vicente C. Manuel, S.V.D. †	Vicar Apostolic of San Jose in Mindoro, Philippines	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
	44.3	Appointed	Vicente C. Manuel, S.V.D. †	Titular Bishop of Albulae	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of San Jose in Mindoro, Philippines
	69.3	Retired	Appasinghe Paul Perera †	Bishop of Kandy, Sri Lanka	Bishop Emeritus
	54.0	Appointed	Michael Vincent Paschal Rowland, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Dundee, South Africa	Bishop Emeritus
	37.0	Appointed	Martinus Dogma Situmorang, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Padang, Indonesia
	46.3	Appointed	Joseph Kingsley Swampillai	Bishop of Trincomalee-Batticaloa, Sri Lanka	Bishop of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
	54.9	Appointed	Pierre Augustin Tchouanga, S.C.I. †	Bishop of Doumé-Abong’ Mbang, Cameroon	Bishop Emeritus
	62.3	Appointed	Lambertus Johannes van Heygen, C.S.Sp. †	Bishop of Bertoua, Cameroon	Archbishop Emeritus of Bertoua, Cameroon
18 Mar	64.8	Installed	Jorge Manuel López †	Archbishop of Rosario, Argentina	Archbishop Emeritus
	61.2	Appointed	Enrico Manfredini †	Archbishop of Bologna, Italy
	59.1	Appointed	Silvano Piovanelli	Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
19 Mar	47.9	Ordained Bishop	José Augusto Martins Fernandes Pedreira	Titular Bishop of Elvas	Bishop Emeritus of Viana do Castelo, Portugal
20 Mar	57.1	Installed	Estanislao Esteban Karlic	Coadjutor Archbishop of Paraná, Argentina	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
21 Mar	72.1	Died	Francesco Sanmartino †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Torino {Turin}, Italy
	61.3	Installed	Thomas Jerome Welsh †	Bishop of Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA	Bishop Emeritus
22 Mar	51.5	Appointed	Tadeusz Gocłowski, C.M.	Auxiliary Bishop of Gdańsk, Poland	Archbishop Emeritus of Gdańsk, Poland
	51.5	Appointed	Tadeusz Gocłowski, C.M.	Titular Bishop of Beneventum	Archbishop Emeritus of Gdańsk, Poland
23 Mar	60.9	Appointed	Giovanni Paolo Gibertini, O.S.B.	Bishop of Ales e Terralba, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy
	52.6	Died	Philip James Anthony Kennedy †	Auxiliary Bishop of Adelaide, Australia
24 Mar	66.4	Died	Igino Eugenio Cardinale †	Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium
	73.0	Died	José Adelino Dantas †	Bishop Emeritus of Ruy Barbosa (Rui Barbosa), Baia, Brazil
	89.6	Died	Aurelio Marena †	Bishop Emeritus of Ruvo e Bitonto, Italy
	45.1	Ordained Bishop	Raul José Quimpo Martirez	Bishop of San Jose de Antique, Philippines	Bishop Emeritus
25 Mar	54.2	Ordained Bishop	Oscar Julio Alzamora Revoredo, S. M. †	Bishop of Tacna, Peru	Bishop Emeritus of Tacna y Moquegua, Peru
	44.5	Appointed	Robert Henry Brom	Bishop of Duluth, Minnesota, USA	Bishop of San Diego, California, USA
	52.6	Appointed	Lawrence Joyce Kenney †	Auxiliary Bishop of United States of America, Military
	52.6	Appointed	Lawrence Joyce Kenney †	Titular Bishop of Hólar	Auxiliary Bishop of United States of America, Military
	46.8	Appointed	William Joseph Levada	Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, California, USA	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
	46.8	Appointed	William Joseph Levada	Titular Bishop of Capreae	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
	48.9	Ordained Bishop	Slavomir Miklovš †	Bishop of Križevci (Kreutz) (Križevci), Croatia	Bishop Emeritus
	59.9	Appointed	Donald William Montrose †	Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, California, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Stockton, California, USA
	59.9	Appointed	Donald William Montrose †	Titular Bishop of Forum Novum	Bishop Emeritus of Stockton, California, USA
	77.3	Retired	John Aloysius Murphy †	Archbishop of Cardiff, Wales, Great Britain	Archbishop Emeritus
	50.5	Appointed	Gabriel Jules Joseph Piroird, Ist. del Prado	Bishop of Constantine (-Hippone), Algeria	Bishop Emeritus
	70.0	Resigned	Jean Baptiste Joseph Scotto †	Bishop of Constantine (-Hippone), Algeria	Bishop Emeritus
	43.7	Appointed	Michael Jarboe Sheehan	Bishop of Lubbock, Texas, USA	Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
	44.0	Appointed	José Mário Stroeher	Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	Bishop of Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
	44.0	Appointed	José Mário Stroeher	Titular Bishop of Nicives	Bishop of Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
	54.2	Appointed	John Aloysius Ward, O.F.M. Cap. †	Archbishop of Cardiff, Wales, Great Britain	Archbishop Emeritus
26 Mar	74.8	Retired	Lionel Audet †	Auxiliary Bishop of Québec, Canada	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	73.0	Died	Stanislaw Jakiel †	Auxiliary Bishop of Przemyśl, Poland
	50.5	Appointed	Pedro Rubiano Sàenz	Coadjutor Archbishop of Cali, Colombia	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Bogotá, Colombia
	69.3	Died	Louis Van Steene, M. Afr. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Bukavu, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
28 Mar	77.6	Died	Martien Antoon Jansen †	Bishop Emeritus of Rotterdam, Netherlands
29 Mar	72.5	Died	Rémy Augustin, S.M.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Port-de-Paix, Haïti
	60.2	Appointed	Joseph Thomas Dimino	Auxiliary Bishop of United States of America, Military	Archbishop Emeritus
	60.2	Appointed	Joseph Thomas Dimino	Titular Bishop of Hyccarum (Hyccara)	Archbishop Emeritus of United States of America, Military
	54.5	Appointed	Francis Xavier Roque	Auxiliary Bishop of United States of America, Military	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	54.5	Appointed	Francis Xavier Roque	Titular Bishop of Bagai	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of United States of America, Military
31 Mar	72.9	Died	Augustin Farah †	Archbishop of Zahleh e Furzol (Melkite Greek), Lebanon
	75.0	Retired	Bernard Joseph Flanagan †	Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	27.1	Ordained Priest	Józef Piotr Kupny	Priest of Katowice, Poland	Archbishop of Wrocław {Breslavia}, Poland
	39.6	Converted	Paul Joseph Swain	Bishop of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
2 Apr	74.3	Died	Donald J. Herlihy †	Bishop of Ferns, Ireland
	84.1	Died	Ignatius Mummadi †	Bishop Emeritus of Guntur, India
4 Apr	57.6	Died	Matthew Baroi, S.D.B. †	Bishop of Krishnagar, India
	85.2	Died	Cesar Francesco Benedetti, O.F.M. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Cuevo, Bolivia
6 Apr	55.2	Appointed	Luis Armando Bambarén Gastelumendi, S.J.	Bishop of Chimbote, Peru	Bishop Emeritus
	42.6	Appointed	Anthony J. Farquhar	Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor, Ireland
	42.6	Appointed	Anthony J. Farquhar	Titular Bishop of Hermiana	Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor, Ireland
	52.0	Appointed	Patrick Joseph Walsh	Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
	52.0	Appointed	Patrick Joseph Walsh	Titular Bishop of Ros Cré	Bishop Emeritus of Down and Connor, Ireland
	47.7	Appointed	Celso Yegros Estigarribia †	Bishop of Carapeguá, Paraguay	Bishop Emeritus
7 Apr	53.7	Ordained Bishop	David Arias Pérez, O.A.R.	Titular Bishop of Badiae	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Newark, New Jersey, USA
	50.0	Appointed	Giuseppe Chiaretti	Bishop of Ripatransone-San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus of Perugia-Città della Pieve, Italy
	50.0	Appointed	Giuseppe Chiaretti	Bishop of Montalto (delle Marche), Italy	Archbishop Emeritus of Perugia-Città della Pieve, Italy
	60.6	Appointed	Ettore Di Filippo †	Bishop of Isernia e Venafro, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus of Campobasso-Boiano, Italy
	59.9	Appointed	Bruno Foresti	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Brescia, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	26.4	Ordained Priest	Martin S. Jumoad	Priest	Prelate of Isabela, Philippines
	51.7	Appointed	Alessandro Maggiolini †	Bishop of Carpi, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Como, Italy
	75.6	Retired	Luigi Morstabilini †	Bishop of Brescia, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	76.8	Retired	Achille Palmerini †	Bishop of Isernia e Venafro, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	59.9	Appointed	Mario Peressin †	Coadjutor Archbishop of L’Aquila, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
	25.5	Ordained Priest	Doraboina Moses Prakasam	Priest of Cuddapah, India	Bishop of Nellore, India
	76.1	Retired	Artemio Prati †	Bishop of Carpi, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	76.3	Retired	Vincenzo Radicioni †	Bishop of Montalto (delle Marche), Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	76.3	Retired	Vincenzo Radicioni †	Bishop of Ripatransone, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Montalto (delle Marche), Italy
	60.9	Succeeded	Ciceron Santa Maria Tumbocon †	Bishop of Cabanatuan, Philippines
9 Apr	54.5	Ordained Bishop	Giuseppe Germano Bernardini, O.F.M. Cap.	Archbishop of Izmir (Smirne), Turkey	Archbishop Emeritus
	50.6	Succeeded	Blaise-Ernest Morand	Bishop of Prince-Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
	75.2	Retired	Laurent Morin †	Bishop of Prince-Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
	75.5	Died	Louis Wach, S.M.A. †	Prefect Emeritus of Korhogo, Côte d’Ivoire
10 Apr	43.6	Installed	Jesus Armamento Dosado, C.M.	Archbishop of Ozamis, Philippines
	52.8	Ordained Bishop	Daniel Gil Zorrilla, S.J. †	Bishop of Tacuarembó, Uruguay	Bishop Emeritus of Salto, Uruguay
	60.1	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Théophile Louis Marie Madec †	Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon, France	Bishop Emeritus
	48.2	Ordained Bishop	Colm O’Reilly	Bishop of Ardagh (and Clonmacnois), Ireland
11 Apr	76.0	Retired	Telesforo Giovanni Cioli, O. Carm. †	Bishop of Arezzo, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, Italy
	76.0	Retired	Telesforo Giovanni Cioli, O. Carm. †	Bishop of Cortona, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, Italy
	76.0	Retired	Telesforo Giovanni Cioli, O. Carm. †	Bishop of Sansepolcro (Borgo San Sepolcro), Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, Italy
	63.3	Appointed	Giovanni D’Ascenzi †	Bishop of Arezzo, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, Italy
	63.3	Appointed	Giovanni D’Ascenzi †	Bishop of Cortona, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, Italy
	63.3	Appointed	Giovanni D’Ascenzi †	Bishop of Sansepolcro (Borgo San Sepolcro), Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, Italy
	76.0	Retired	José Pont y Gol †	Archbishop of Tarragona, Spain	Archbishop Emeritus
	59.9	Appointed	Ramón Torrella Cascante †	Archbishop of Tarragona, Spain	Archbishop Emeritus
12 Apr	75.9	Retired	Vicente Enrique y Tarancón †	Archbishop of Madrid, Spain	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	28.6	Ordained Priest	Philip Huang Chao-ming	Priest of Hwalien, Taiwan	Bishop
	66.5	Appointed	Angel Suquía Goicoechea †	Archbishop of Madrid, Spain	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	74.5	Retired	Albert Reuben Edward Thomas †	Bishop of Bathurst, Australia	Bishop Emeritus
14 Apr	61.2	Installed	George Avis Fulcher †	Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana, USA
15 Apr	61.0	Died	Georges Layek †	Archbishop of Alep [Beroea, Halab] (Armenian), Syria
	71.7	Died	Jules-Joseph Puset, S.M.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Tamatave, Madagascar
	61.2	Appointed	Jožef Smej	Auxiliary Bishop of Maribor, Slovenia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Maribor, Slovenia
	61.2	Appointed	Jožef Smej	Titular Bishop of Tzernicus	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Maribor, Slovenia
16 Apr	25.3	Ordained Priest	Claudio Giuliodori	Priest of Osimo e Cingoli, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Macerata-Tolentino-Recanati-Cingoli-Treia, Italy
17 Apr	51.6	Ordained Bishop	Tadeusz Gocłowski, C.M.	Titular Bishop of Beneventum	Archbishop Emeritus of Gdańsk, Poland
	60.3	Died	Joseph Alphonse McNicholas †	Bishop of Springfield in Illinois, USA
18 Apr	66.8	Retired	Filippo Tiago Broers, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Caravelas, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	50.0	Appointed	João Oneres Marchiori	Coadjutor Bishop of Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	55.0	Appointed	Antônio Eliseu Zuqueto, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Teixeira de Freitas-Caravelas, Baia, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
19 Apr	90.5	Died	Renato Ziggiotti, S.D.B. †	Rector General Emeritus of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
21 Apr	46.8	Ordained Bishop	Aloísio Roque Oppermann, S.C.I.	Bishop of Ituiutaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus of Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil
22 Apr	52.8	Installed	Daniel Gil Zorrilla, S.J. †	Bishop of Tacuarembó, Uruguay	Bishop Emeritus of Salto, Uruguay
23 Apr	47.7	Ordained Bishop	Fortunato Baldelli †	Titular Archbishop of Mevania	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
	29.2	Ordained Priest	Raúl Gómez González	Priest of San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, México	Bishop of Tenancingo, México, México
24 Apr	50.0	Ordained Bishop	Gregory Karotemprel, C.M.I.	Bishop of Rajkot (Syro-Malabarese), India	Bishop Emeritus
	50.3	Ordained Bishop	Eugenio Ravignani	Bishop of Vittorio Veneto, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Trieste, Italy
	47.3	Ordained Bishop	François de Sales Marie Adrien Saint-Macary †	Coadjutor Bishop of Nice, France	Archbishop of Rennes (-Dol-Saint-Malo), France
	43.0	Ordained Bishop	Adrian Thomas Smith, S.M.	Titular Bishop of Vissalsa	Archbishop of Honiara, Solomon Islands
	28.0	Ordained Priest	Dagoberto Sosa Arriaga	Priest of Puebla de los Ángeles, Puebla, México	Bishop of Tlapa, Guerrero, México
25 Apr	42.7	Selected	Bernardo Fabio D’Onorio, O.S.B.	Abbot of Montecassino, Italy	Archbishop of Gaeta, Italy
	60.4	Appointed	Pierre François Marie Joseph Duprey, M. Afr. †	Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity	Secretary Emeritus
	61.0	Ordained Bishop	Giovanni Paolo Gibertini, O.S.B.	Bishop of Ales e Terralba, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy
	48.9	Installed	James Anthony Griffin	Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, USA	Bishop Emeritus
26 Apr	56.3	Ordained Bishop	José María Hernández González	Bishop of Chilapa, Guerrero, México	Bishop Emeritus of Netzahualcóyotl, México, México
27 Apr	55.4	Ordained Bishop	Bernhard Franz Kühnel Langer, M.S.C.	Prelate of Caravelí, Peru	Prelate Emeritus
30 Apr	88.3	Died	Francis Doyle Gleeson, S.J. †	Bishop Emeritus of Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
	50.0	Appointed	Rafael Eleuterio Rey	Auxiliary Bishop of Mendoza, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus of Zárate-Campana, Argentina
	50.0	Appointed	Rafael Eleuterio Rey	Titular Bishop of Hilta	Bishop Emeritus of Zárate-Campana, Argentina
	75.9	Died	Vicente P. Reyes †	Bishop Emeritus of Cabanatuan, Philippines