The Year of Our Lord 1998

Bishop Events

September to October

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

Sep 51.3 Appointed Heinz Wilhelm Steckling, O.M.I. Superior General of Oblates of Mary Immaculate Bishop of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay

1 Sep 75.0 Retired Lucien-Emile Bardonne † Bishop of Châlons, France Bishop Emeritus

69.3 Resigned Jacques André Marie Jullien † Archbishop of Rennes (-Dol-Saint-Malo), France Archbishop Emeritus

62.6 Succeeded François de Sales Marie Adrien Saint-Macary † Archbishop of Rennes (-Dol-Saint-Malo), France

2 Sep 75.8 Died Vincent de Paul Pham Van Du † Bishop of Lang Són et Cao Bang, Viet Nam

3 Sep 46.4 Installed Mario Antonio Cargnello Coadjutor Archbishop of Salta, Argentina Archbishop

4 Sep 87.4 Died Eldon Bernard Schuster † Bishop Emeritus of Great Falls-Billings, Montana, USA

62.0 Died Gerardo Eusebio Sueldo † Bishop of Santiago del Estero, Argentina

5 Sep 80.1 Retired António dos Reis Rodrigues † Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa {Lisbon}, Portugal Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

6 Sep 60.1 Ordained Bishop Peter Celestine Elampassery, O.F.M. Cap. Bishop of Jammu-Srinagar, India Bishop Emeritus

7 Sep 75.0 Retired Maximilian Ziegelbauer Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg, Germany Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

8 Sep 65.6 Resigned Mario Cecchini Bishop of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola, Italy Bishop Emeritus

68.1 Succeeded Vittorio Tomassetti † Bishop of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola, Italy Bishop Emeritus

45.9 Ordained Bishop Sebastian Vadakel, M.S.T.A. Bishop of Ujjain (Syro-Malabarese), India

10 Sep 67.5 Died Rafael Montiano Lim † Bishop of Boac, Philippines

73.3 Appointed Ignatius Paul Pinto Archbishop of Bangalore, India Archbishop Emeritus

11 Sep 77.0 Retired Paulos Tzadua † Archbishop of Addis Abeba (Ethiopian), Ethiopia Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

12 Sep 62.3 Died Hendrik Joseph Alois Bomers, C.M. † Bishop of Haarlem, Netherlands

62.3 Ordained Bishop Adriano Caprioli Bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy Bishop Emeritus

59.4 Ordained Bishop Stefan Cichy Titular Bishop of Bonusta Bishop Emeritus of Legnica, Poland

47.0 Ordained Bishop Salvatore Fisichella Titular Bishop of Vicohabentia President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization

49.5 Ordained Bishop Luigi Moretti Titular Bishop of Mopta Archbishop of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno, Italy

13 Sep 88.6 Died Alois Grillmeier, S.J. † Cardinal, Priest of Society of Jesus

62.0 Installed Roberto Rodríguez Bishop of Villa María, Argentina Bishop Emeritus of La Rioja, Argentina

62.6 Ordained Bishop Ernesto Vecchi Titular Bishop of Lemellefa Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bologna, Italy

14 Sep 53.3 Resigned Peter Wilfred Novecosky, O.S.B. Abbot of Saint Peter-Muenster, Saskatchewan, Canada Abbot Emeritus

54.5 Installed Terrence Thomas Prendergast, S.J. Archbishop of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Archbishop of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

59.2 Appointed Raymond Roussin, S. M. Coadjutor Bishop of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Archbishop Emeritus of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

16 Sep 56.9 Appointed Pedro Ercílio Simon Coadjutor Bishop of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Archbishop Emeritus of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

68.1 Died José Vittorio Tommasí † Bishop of Nueve de Julio, Argentina

17 Sep 72.7 Died Marcel Bam’ba Gongoa † Bishop Emeritus of Bondo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

53.2 Installed Patrick Joseph McGrath Coadjutor Bishop of San Jose in California, USA Bishop

18 Sep 73.4 Resigned Paul Verschuren, S.C.I. † Bishop of Helsinki, Finland Bishop Emeritus

47.8 Ordained Bishop John Charles Wester Titular Bishop of Lamiggiga Bishop of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

19 Sep 50.9 Ordained Bishop Freddy Antonio de Jesús Bretón Martínez Bishop of Baní, Dominican Republic

51.7 Ordained Bishop Vicente Costa Titular Bishop of Aquae Flaviae Bishop of Jundiaí, Sao Paulo, Brazil

56.3 Ordained Bishop Jesús García Burillo Titular Bishop of Basti Bishop of Ávila, Spain

59.7 Ordained Bishop Zef Gashi, S.D.B. Archbishop of Bar (Antivari), Montenegro

20 Sep 54.0 Ordained Bishop Bernard-Nicolas Jean-Marie Aubertin, O. Cist. Bishop of Chartres, France Archbishop of Tours, France

62.3 Installed Adriano Caprioli Bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy Bishop Emeritus

56.9 Ordained Bishop Cándido Cárdenas Villalba Bishop of Benjamín Aceval, Paraguay

58.4 Ordained Bishop Piergiorgio Debernardi Bishop of Pinerolo, Italy

50.0 Ordained Bishop Giuseppe Petrocchi Bishop of Latina-Terracina-Sezze-Priverno, Italy Archbishop of L’Aquila, Italy

21 Sep 49.5 Ordained Bishop Blase Joseph Cupich Bishop of Rapid City, South Dakota, USA Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois, USA

86.4 Died Clarence James Duhart, C.SS.R. † Bishop Emeritus of Udon Thani, Thailand

93.1 Died Domenico Ferrara, F.S.C.J. † Prefect Emeritus of Mupoi, Sudan

22 Sep 69.5 Died Vitalis Djebarus, S.V.D. † Bishop of Denpasar, Indonesia

63.1 Installed John Brendan McCormack Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire, USA Bishop Emeritus

24 Sep 78.4 Appointed Karel Otčenášek † Archbishop (Personal Title) Bishop Emeritus of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

26 Sep 55.4 Ordained Bishop Dominik Jaroslav Duka, O.P. Bishop of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic Cardinal, Archbishop of Praha {Prague}, Czech Republic

44.0 Ordained Bishop Philip Huang Chao-ming Titular Bishop of Lamphua Bishop of Hwalien, Taiwan

54.5 Appointed Juliusz Janusz Apostolic Nuncio to Mozambique Apostolic Nuncio to Slovenia

69.9 Ordained Bishop Giuseppe Pittau, S.J. † Titular Archbishop of Castro di Sardegna Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Institutes of Study)

73.2 Died Giovanni Maria Sartori † Archbishop of Trento, Italy

27 Sep 51.9 Ordained Bishop Louis Albert Joseph Roger Sankalé Bishop of Cayenne (Cajenna), French Guyana, Antilles Bishop Emeritus of Nice, France

28 Sep 83.9 Died Aureliano Sorrentino † Archbishop Emeritus of Reggio Calabria-Bova, Italy

29 Sep 38.7 Ordained Bishop Antoni Dziemianko Titular Bishop of Lesvi Bishop of Pinsk, Belarus

50.7 Ordained Bishop Marcello Semeraro Bishop of Oria, Italy Bishop of Albano, Italy

30 Sep 59.8 Appointed Janusz Bolonek Official of the Secretariat of State Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Bulgaria

1 Oct 47.9 Appointed Philippe Xavier Ignace Barbarin Bishop of Moulins, France Cardinal, Archbishop of Lyon, France

75.8 Retired André Bernard Michel Quélen † Bishop of Moulins, France Bishop Emeritus

2 Oct 80.4 Died Renatus Lwamosa Butibubage † Bishop Emeritus of Mwanza, Tanzania

90.3 Died Joseph Khiamsun Nittayo † Archbishop Emeritus of Bangkok, Thailand

3 Oct 100.4 Beatified Bl. Alojzije Stepinac † Cardinal, Archbishop of Zagreb, Croatia

4 Oct 68.6 Installed Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic † Cardinal-Priest of Santi Marcellino e Pietro Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

62.0 Ordained Bishop Francis Joseph Pierre Deniau † Bishop of Nevers, France Bishop Emeritus

76.0 Installed Roger Marie Élie Etchegaray Cardinal-Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace

5 Oct 76.1 Retired Gilberto Agustoni Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus

58.9 Appointed Zenon Grocholewski Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Institutes of Study)

6 Oct 78.5 Died Kornél Pataky (Pataki) † Bishop Emeritus of Győr (Raab), Hungary

10 Oct 53.3 Ordained Bishop John Martin Darko † Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana Bishop Emeritus

66.0 Appointed Stanisław Padewski, O.F.M. Cap. Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv, Ukraine Bishop Emeritus of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia, Ukraine

11 Oct 46.0 Ordained Bishop Marie-Daniel Dadiet Titular Bishop of Sitipa Archbishop of Korhogo, Côte d’Ivoire

62.1 Installed Antonio María Rouco Varela Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Damaso Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Madrid, Spain

12 Oct 56.7 Ordained Bishop Guilherme Porto Coadjutor Bishop of Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, Brazil Bishop

13 Oct 68.0 Selected Ignace Moussa I (Basile) Daoud † Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus

68.0 Selected Ignace Moussa I (Basile) Daoud † Bishop of Beirut {Bairut} (Syrian), Lebanon Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon

76.1 Died Mariano Gaviola y Garcés † Archbishop Emeritus of Lipa, Philippines

16 Oct 77.8 Died Michael Kien Samophithak † Archbishop Emeritus of Thare and Nonseng, Thailand

72.7 Resigned Francis Joseph MacKiernan † Bishop of Kilmore, Ireland Bishop Emeritus

54.5 Succeeded Philip Leo O’Reilly Bishop of Kilmore, Ireland

17 Oct 65.9 Resigned Lawrence Aloysius Burke, S.J. † Superior of Turks and Caicos, Antilles Archbishop Emeritus of Kingston in Jamaica, Antilles

68.2 Appointed Theodore Edgar McCarrick Superior of Turks and Caicos, Antilles Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, District of Columbia, USA

18 Oct 56.3 Installed Norberto Rivera Carrera Cardinal-Priest of San Francesco d’Assisi a Ripa Grande Cardinal, Archbishop of México, Federal District

19 Oct 75.2 Retired Marco René Revelo Contreras † Bishop of Santa Ana, El Salvador Bishop Emeritus

20 Oct 68.0 Confirmed Ignace Moussa I (Basile) Daoud † Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus

68.0 Confirmed Ignace Moussa I (Basile) Daoud † Bishop of Beirut {Bairut} (Syrian), Lebanon Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon

23 Oct 66.7 Appointed Joseph Faber MacDonald † Bishop of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada Bishop Emeritus

70.1 Appointed Francesco Saverio Salerno Secretary of the Apostolic Signatura Secretary Emeritus

24 Oct 73.1 Installed Lucas Moreira Neves, O.P. † Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina-Poggio Mirteto Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil

25 Oct 68.1 Installed Ignace Moussa I (Basile) Daoud † Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus

74.1 Installed Serafim Fernandes de Araújo Cardinal-Priest of San Luigi Maria Grignion de Montfort Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

76.7 Died François-Marie Morvan, C.S.Sp. † Bishop Emeritus of Cayenne (Cajenna), French Guyana, Antilles

28 Oct 52.1 Appointed Manoel João Francisco Bishop of Chapecó, Santa Catarina, Brazil Bishop of Cornélio Procópio, Parana, Brazil

77.5 Retired José Gomes † Bishop of Chapecó, Santa Catarina, Brazil Bishop Emeritus

30 Oct 90.4 Died Segundo Garcia de Sierra y Méndez † Archbishop Emeritus of Burgos, Spain

31 Oct 42.7 Appointed Marcelo Arturo González Amador Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Clara, Cuba Bishop

42.7 Appointed Marcelo Arturo González Amador Titular Bishop of Segia Bishop of Santa Clara, Cuba

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
Sep	51.3	Appointed	Heinz Wilhelm Steckling, O.M.I.	Superior General of Oblates of Mary Immaculate	Bishop of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
1 Sep	75.0	Retired	Lucien-Emile Bardonne †	Bishop of Châlons, France	Bishop Emeritus
69.3	Resigned	Jacques André Marie Jullien †	Archbishop of Rennes (-Dol-Saint-Malo), France	Archbishop Emeritus
62.6	Succeeded	François de Sales Marie Adrien Saint-Macary †	Archbishop of Rennes (-Dol-Saint-Malo), France
2 Sep	75.8	Died	Vincent de Paul Pham Van Du †	Bishop of Lang Són et Cao Bang, Viet Nam
3 Sep	46.4	Installed	Mario Antonio Cargnello	Coadjutor Archbishop of Salta, Argentina	Archbishop
4 Sep	87.4	Died	Eldon Bernard Schuster †	Bishop Emeritus of Great Falls-Billings, Montana, USA
62.0	Died	Gerardo Eusebio Sueldo †	Bishop of Santiago del Estero, Argentina
5 Sep	80.1	Retired	António dos Reis Rodrigues †	Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa {Lisbon}, Portugal	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
6 Sep	60.1	Ordained Bishop	Peter Celestine Elampassery, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Jammu-Srinagar, India	Bishop Emeritus
7 Sep	75.0	Retired	Maximilian Ziegelbauer	Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg, Germany	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
8 Sep	65.6	Resigned	Mario Cecchini	Bishop of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
68.1	Succeeded	Vittorio Tomassetti †	Bishop of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
45.9	Ordained Bishop	Sebastian Vadakel, M.S.T.A.	Bishop of Ujjain (Syro-Malabarese), India
10 Sep	67.5	Died	Rafael Montiano Lim †	Bishop of Boac, Philippines
73.3	Appointed	Ignatius Paul Pinto	Archbishop of Bangalore, India	Archbishop Emeritus
11 Sep	77.0	Retired	Paulos Tzadua †	Archbishop of Addis Abeba (Ethiopian), Ethiopia	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
12 Sep	62.3	Died	Hendrik Joseph Alois Bomers, C.M. †	Bishop of Haarlem, Netherlands
62.3	Ordained Bishop	Adriano Caprioli	Bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
59.4	Ordained Bishop	Stefan Cichy	Titular Bishop of Bonusta	Bishop Emeritus of Legnica, Poland
47.0	Ordained Bishop	Salvatore Fisichella	Titular Bishop of Vicohabentia	President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization
49.5	Ordained Bishop	Luigi Moretti	Titular Bishop of Mopta	Archbishop of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno, Italy
13 Sep	88.6	Died	Alois Grillmeier, S.J. †	Cardinal, Priest of Society of Jesus
62.0	Installed	Roberto Rodríguez	Bishop of Villa María, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus of La Rioja, Argentina
62.6	Ordained Bishop	Ernesto Vecchi	Titular Bishop of Lemellefa	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bologna, Italy
14 Sep	53.3	Resigned	Peter Wilfred Novecosky, O.S.B.	Abbot of Saint Peter-Muenster, Saskatchewan, Canada	Abbot Emeritus
54.5	Installed	Terrence Thomas Prendergast, S.J.	Archbishop of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada	Archbishop of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
59.2	Appointed	Raymond Roussin, S. M.	Coadjutor Bishop of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
16 Sep	56.9	Appointed	Pedro Ercílio Simon	Coadjutor Bishop of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
68.1	Died	José Vittorio Tommasí †	Bishop of Nueve de Julio, Argentina
17 Sep	72.7	Died	Marcel Bam’ba Gongoa †	Bishop Emeritus of Bondo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
53.2	Installed	Patrick Joseph McGrath	Coadjutor Bishop of San Jose in California, USA	Bishop
18 Sep	73.4	Resigned	Paul Verschuren, S.C.I. †	Bishop of Helsinki, Finland	Bishop Emeritus
47.8	Ordained Bishop	John Charles Wester	Titular Bishop of Lamiggiga	Bishop of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
19 Sep	50.9	Ordained Bishop	Freddy Antonio de Jesús Bretón Martínez	Bishop of Baní, Dominican Republic
51.7	Ordained Bishop	Vicente Costa	Titular Bishop of Aquae Flaviae	Bishop of Jundiaí, Sao Paulo, Brazil
56.3	Ordained Bishop	Jesús García Burillo	Titular Bishop of Basti	Bishop of Ávila, Spain
59.7	Ordained Bishop	Zef Gashi, S.D.B.	Archbishop of Bar (Antivari), Montenegro
20 Sep	54.0	Ordained Bishop	Bernard-Nicolas Jean-Marie Aubertin, O. Cist.	Bishop of Chartres, France	Archbishop of Tours, France
62.3	Installed	Adriano Caprioli	Bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
56.9	Ordained Bishop	Cándido Cárdenas Villalba	Bishop of Benjamín Aceval, Paraguay
58.4	Ordained Bishop	Piergiorgio Debernardi	Bishop of Pinerolo, Italy
50.0	Ordained Bishop	Giuseppe Petrocchi	Bishop of Latina-Terracina-Sezze-Priverno, Italy	Archbishop of L’Aquila, Italy
21 Sep	49.5	Ordained Bishop	Blase Joseph Cupich	Bishop of Rapid City, South Dakota, USA	Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois, USA
86.4	Died	Clarence James Duhart, C.SS.R. †	Bishop Emeritus of Udon Thani, Thailand
93.1	Died	Domenico Ferrara, F.S.C.J. †	Prefect Emeritus of Mupoi, Sudan
22 Sep	69.5	Died	Vitalis Djebarus, S.V.D. †	Bishop of Denpasar, Indonesia
63.1	Installed	John Brendan McCormack	Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire, USA	Bishop Emeritus
24 Sep	78.4	Appointed	Karel Otčenášek †	Archbishop (Personal Title)	Bishop Emeritus of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
26 Sep	55.4	Ordained Bishop	Dominik Jaroslav Duka, O.P.	Bishop of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic	Cardinal, Archbishop of Praha {Prague}, Czech Republic
44.0	Ordained Bishop	Philip Huang Chao-ming	Titular Bishop of Lamphua	Bishop of Hwalien, Taiwan
54.5	Appointed	Juliusz Janusz	Apostolic Nuncio to Mozambique	Apostolic Nuncio to Slovenia
69.9	Ordained Bishop	Giuseppe Pittau, S.J. †	Titular Archbishop of Castro di Sardegna	Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Institutes of Study)
73.2	Died	Giovanni Maria Sartori †	Archbishop of Trento, Italy
27 Sep	51.9	Ordained Bishop	Louis Albert Joseph Roger Sankalé	Bishop of Cayenne (Cajenna), French Guyana, Antilles	Bishop Emeritus of Nice, France
28 Sep	83.9	Died	Aureliano Sorrentino †	Archbishop Emeritus of Reggio Calabria-Bova, Italy
29 Sep	38.7	Ordained Bishop	Antoni Dziemianko	Titular Bishop of Lesvi	Bishop of Pinsk, Belarus
50.7	Ordained Bishop	Marcello Semeraro	Bishop of Oria, Italy	Bishop of Albano, Italy
30 Sep	59.8	Appointed	Janusz Bolonek	Official of the Secretariat of State	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Bulgaria
1 Oct	47.9	Appointed	Philippe Xavier Ignace Barbarin	Bishop of Moulins, France	Cardinal, Archbishop of Lyon, France
75.8	Retired	André Bernard Michel Quélen †	Bishop of Moulins, France	Bishop Emeritus
2 Oct	80.4	Died	Renatus Lwamosa Butibubage †	Bishop Emeritus of Mwanza, Tanzania
90.3	Died	Joseph Khiamsun Nittayo †	Archbishop Emeritus of Bangkok, Thailand
3 Oct	100.4	Beatified	Bl. Alojzije Stepinac †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Zagreb, Croatia
4 Oct	68.6	Installed	Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic †	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Marcellino e Pietro	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
62.0	Ordained Bishop	Francis Joseph Pierre Deniau †	Bishop of Nevers, France	Bishop Emeritus
76.0	Installed	Roger Marie Élie Etchegaray	Cardinal-Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
5 Oct	76.1	Retired	Gilberto Agustoni	Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
58.9	Appointed	Zenon Grocholewski	Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Institutes of Study)
6 Oct	78.5	Died	Kornél Pataky (Pataki) †	Bishop Emeritus of Győr (Raab), Hungary
10 Oct	53.3	Ordained Bishop	John Martin Darko †	Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana	Bishop Emeritus
66.0	Appointed	Stanisław Padewski, O.F.M. Cap.	Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv, Ukraine	Bishop Emeritus of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia, Ukraine
11 Oct	46.0	Ordained Bishop	Marie-Daniel Dadiet	Titular Bishop of Sitipa	Archbishop of Korhogo, Côte d’Ivoire
62.1	Installed	Antonio María Rouco Varela	Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Damaso	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Madrid, Spain
12 Oct	56.7	Ordained Bishop	Guilherme Porto	Coadjutor Bishop of Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop
13 Oct	68.0	Selected	Ignace Moussa I (Basile) Daoud †	Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon	Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus
68.0	Selected	Ignace Moussa I (Basile) Daoud †	Bishop of Beirut {Bairut} (Syrian), Lebanon	Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon
76.1	Died	Mariano Gaviola y Garcés †	Archbishop Emeritus of Lipa, Philippines
16 Oct	77.8	Died	Michael Kien Samophithak †	Archbishop Emeritus of Thare and Nonseng, Thailand
72.7	Resigned	Francis Joseph MacKiernan †	Bishop of Kilmore, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
54.5	Succeeded	Philip Leo O’Reilly	Bishop of Kilmore, Ireland
17 Oct	65.9	Resigned	Lawrence Aloysius Burke, S.J. †	Superior of Turks and Caicos, Antilles	Archbishop Emeritus of Kingston in Jamaica, Antilles
68.2	Appointed	Theodore Edgar McCarrick	Superior of Turks and Caicos, Antilles	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, District of Columbia, USA
18 Oct	56.3	Installed	Norberto Rivera Carrera	Cardinal-Priest of San Francesco d’Assisi a Ripa Grande	Cardinal, Archbishop of México, Federal District
19 Oct	75.2	Retired	Marco René Revelo Contreras †	Bishop of Santa Ana, El Salvador	Bishop Emeritus
20 Oct	68.0	Confirmed	Ignace Moussa I (Basile) Daoud †	Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon	Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus
68.0	Confirmed	Ignace Moussa I (Basile) Daoud †	Bishop of Beirut {Bairut} (Syrian), Lebanon	Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon
23 Oct	66.7	Appointed	Joseph Faber MacDonald †	Bishop of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
70.1	Appointed	Francesco Saverio Salerno	Secretary of the Apostolic Signatura	Secretary Emeritus
24 Oct	73.1	Installed	Lucas Moreira Neves, O.P. †	Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina-Poggio Mirteto	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
25 Oct	68.1	Installed	Ignace Moussa I (Basile) Daoud †	Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon	Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus
74.1	Installed	Serafim Fernandes de Araújo	Cardinal-Priest of San Luigi Maria Grignion de Montfort	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
76.7	Died	François-Marie Morvan, C.S.Sp. †	Bishop Emeritus of Cayenne (Cajenna), French Guyana, Antilles
28 Oct	52.1	Appointed	Manoel João Francisco	Bishop of Chapecó, Santa Catarina, Brazil	Bishop of Cornélio Procópio, Parana, Brazil
77.5	Retired	José Gomes †	Bishop of Chapecó, Santa Catarina, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
30 Oct	90.4	Died	Segundo Garcia de Sierra y Méndez †	Archbishop Emeritus of Burgos, Spain
31 Oct	42.7	Appointed	Marcelo Arturo González Amador	Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Clara, Cuba	Bishop
42.7	Appointed	Marcelo Arturo González Amador	Titular Bishop of Segia	Bishop of Santa Clara, Cuba