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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
May	80.3	Died	Donaldo Chávez Núñez †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Managua, Nicaragua
1 May	60.0	Installed	Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel	Bishop of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México
	61.7	Installed	Raúl Omar Rossi †	Bishop of San Martín, Argentina
3 May	50.5	Ordained Bishop	Mansueto Bianchi	Bishop of Volterra, Italy	Bishop of Pistoia, Italy
	42.6	Appointed	Maurício Grotto de Camargo	Coadjutor Bishop of Assis, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop
	80.3	Died	John Joseph O’Connor †	Cardinal, Archbishop of New York, New York, USA
7 May	50.0	Ordained Bishop	Jorge Pedro Carrión Pavlich	Bishop of Puno, Peru
	48.3	Ordained Bishop	Jesús María Cizaurre Berdonces, O.A.R.	Prelate of Cametá, Para, Brazil
	39.8	Ordained Bishop	Mathieu Madega Lebouankehan	Titular Bishop of Zallata	Bishop of Port-Gentil, Gabon
	60.5	Ordained Bishop	Michel Pierre Marie Mouïsse	Titular Bishop of Lambaesis	Bishop of Périgueux (-Sarlat), France
	40.3	Ordained Bishop	Jean-Vincent Ondo Eyene	Bishop of Oyem, Gabon
	53.2	Ordained Bishop	Eduardo Zielski	Bishop of Campo Maior, Piaui, Brazil
8 May	81.4	Died	Franciscus van Roessel, C.I.C.M. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Ujung Pandang, Indonesia
10 May	47.7	Appointed	Gervais Banshimiyubusa	Coadjutor Bishop of Ngozi, Burundi	Bishop
	61.8	Appointed	Anthony Joseph Burgess	Coadjutor Bishop of Wewak, Papua New Guinea	Bishop
	76.1	Retired	Peter Takaaki Hirayama	Bishop of Oita, Japan	Bishop Emeritus
	53.9	Appointed	Antonino Migliore	Prelate of Coxim, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil	Bishop of Coxim, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
	45.0	Appointed	Dominic Ryoji Miyahara	Bishop of Oita, Japan	Bishop of Fukuoka, Japan
	65.2	Appointed	Francis Xavier Osamu Mizobe, S.D.B.	Bishop of Sendai, Japan	Bishop of Takamatsu, Japan
	61.4	Resigned	Paul Kazuhiro Mori	Auxiliary Bishop of Tokyo, Japan	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	69.9	Appointed	Paul Nguyên Binh Tinh, P.S.S.	Coadjutor Bishop of Ðà Nang, Viêt Nam	Bishop Emeritus
	73.6	Resigned	Raphaël Nguyên Van Diêp †	Coadjutor Bishop of Vinh Long, Viêt Nam	Coadjutor Bishop Emeritus
	59.4	Appointed	Thomas Nguyên Van Tan	Coadjutor Bishop of Vinh Long, Viêt Nam	Bishop
	45.8	Appointed	Thomas Pulloppillil	Bishop of Bongaigaon, India
	58.4	Appointed	Julianus Kemo Sunarko, S.J.	Bishop of Purwokerto, Indonesia
	47.2	Appointed	Marcellino Taiji Tani	Bishop of Urawa, Japan	Bishop of Saitama, Japan
	66.7	Appointed	Johannes Henricus J. Te Maarssen, S.V.D.	Bishop of Kundiawa, Papua New Guinea
	49.9	Appointed	John Thattumkal, S.S.C.	Bishop of Cochin, India
11 May	68.1	Appointed	Edward Michael Egan	Cardinal, Archbishop of New York, New York, USA
12 May	58.1	Installed	Michel Marie Jacques Dubost, C.I.M.	Bishop of Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes, France
	85.4	Died	Wladyslaw Miziolek †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Warszawa {Warsaw}, Poland
13 May	53.2	Appointed	Jurij Bizjak	Auxiliary Bishop of Koper, Slovenia
	53.2	Appointed	Jurij Bizjak	Titular Bishop of Gergis	Auxiliary Bishop of Koper, Slovenia
	52.7	Appointed	Domenico Caliandro	Bishop of Nardò-Gallipoli, Italy
	56.6	Appointed	Andrej Glavan	Auxiliary Bishop of Ljubljana, Slovenia	Bishop of Novo Mesto, Slovenia
	56.6	Appointed	Andrej Glavan	Titular Bishop of Musti in Numidia	Bishop of Novo Mesto, Slovenia
	58.7	Appointed	Vito De Grisantis	Bishop of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca, Italy
	61.9	Appointed	Jonas Kauneckas	Auxiliary Bishop of Telšiai (-Klaipeda), Lithuania	Bishop of Panevėžys, Lithuania
	61.9	Appointed	Jonas Kauneckas	Titular Bishop of Forconium	Bishop of Panevėžys, Lithuania
	49.0	Ordained Bishop	Angelo Spinillo	Bishop of Teggiano-Policastro, Italy
	57.4	Appointed	Anton Stres, C.M.	Auxiliary Bishop of Maribor, Slovenia	Bishop of Celje, Slovenia
	57.4	Appointed	Anton Stres, C.M.	Titular Bishop of Poetovium	Bishop of Celje, Slovenia
	62.5	Ordained Bishop	Giuseppe Verucchi	Archbishop of Ravenna-Cervia, Italy
14 May	60.3	Ordained Bishop	Claude Pierre Charles Schockert	Bishop of Belfort-Montbéliard, France
16 May	57.8	Appointed	Bernard César Augustin Barsi	Archbishop of Monaco, Monaco
	77.2	Retired	Joseph Théophile Louis Marie Madec	Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon, France	Bishop Emeritus
	66.9	Appointed	Marcel Germain Perrier	Bishop of Pamiers, France	Bishop Emeritus
	47.7	Appointed	Dominique Marie Jean Rey, Comm. l'Emm.	Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon, France
	77.6	Retired	Joseph-Marie Sardou, T.D.	Archbishop of Monaco, Monaco	Archbishop Emeritus
17 May	54.0	Appointed	José Luis Mollaghan	Bishop of San Miguel, Argentina	Archbishop of Rosario, Argentina
	75.8	Retired	Abelardo Francisco Silva †	Bishop of San Miguel, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus
18 May	66.3	Resigned	José Ignacio Alemany Grau, C.SS.R.	Bishop of Chachapoyas, Peru	Bishop Emeritus
	48.9	Appointed	Adalberto Martínez Flores	Bishop of San Lorenzo, Paraguay	Bishop of San Pedro, Paraguay
19 May	75.2	Died	Vilmos Dékány, Sch. P. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary
	69.6	Died	Gerardo Tomás Farrell †	Coadjutor Bishop of Quilmes, Argentina
20 May	56.0	Ordained Bishop	Luciano Bergamin, C.R.L.	Titular Bishop of Octabia	Bishop of Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	54.4	Ordained Bishop	Rodolfo Cetoloni, O.F.M.	Bishop of Montepulciano-Chiusi-Pienza, Italy
	51.5	Appointed	Carlos Humberto Malfa	Bishop of Chascomús, Argentina
	47.8	Ordained Bishop	Tommaso Valentinetti	Bishop of Termoli-Larino, Italy	Archbishop of Pescara-Penne, Italy
	46.5	Ordained Bishop	Jan Franciszek Watroba	Titular Bishop of Bisica	Auxiliary Bishop of Częstochowa, Poland
22 May	62.6	Installed	Daniel Francis Walsh	Bishop of Santa Rosa in California, USA
23 May	83.1	Died	José Pedro da Silva †	Bishop Emeritus of Viseu, Portugal
	61.4	Appointed	Rainer Klug	Auxiliary Bishop of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
	61.4	Appointed	Rainer Klug	Titular Bishop of Ala Miliaria	Auxiliary Bishop of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
	47.4	Appointed	Patrick Le Gal	Bishop of France, Military
24 May	69.0	Appointed	Blasco Francisco Collaço	Apostolic Nuncio to South Africa	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus
	69.0	Appointed	Blasco Francisco Collaço	Apostolic Nuncio to Nambia	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to South Africa
	69.0	Appointed	Blasco Francisco Collaço	Apostolic Delegate to Botswana	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to South Africa
	81.5	Died	Belchior Joaquim da Silva Neto, C.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Luz, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	57.9	Installed	Alfonso Delgado Evers	Archbishop of San Juan de Cuyo, Argentina
	54.5	Ordained Bishop	Stanislav Hocevar, S.D.B.	Coadjutor Archbishop of Beograd (-Smederevo), Serbia	Archbishop
	61.4	Died	Nino Marzoli, C. R. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
	97.3	Died	Alberico Semeraro †	Bishop Emeritus of Oria, Italy
	62.2	Appointed	Marko Sopi †	Apostolic Administrator of Prizren, Serbia
25 May	60.8	Appointed	Mile Bogovic	Bishop of Gospić-Senj, Croatia
26 May	77.8	Died	Henrique Müller, O.F.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Joaçaba, Santa Catarina, Brazil
27 May	57.0	Ordained Bishop	Miklós Beer	Titular Bishop of Caeciri	Bishop of Vác, Hungary
	64.6	Installed	Francesco Marinelli	Archbishop of Urbino-Urbania-Sant’Angelo in Vado, Italy
	48.4	Appointed	Antonysamy Susairaj, M.E.P.	Prefect of Kompong-Cham, Cambodia
	45.6	Ordained Bishop	Józef Szamocki	Titular Bishop of Clypia	Auxiliary Bishop of Toruń, Poland
28 May	49.4	Ordained Bishop	Jean-Luc Brunin	Titular Bishop of Usinaza	Bishop of Ajaccio, France
	79.8	Died	Vincentas Sladkevicius, M.I.C. †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Kaunas, Lithuania
	62.5	Appointed	Enrique Troncoso Troncoso	Bishop of Melipilla, Chile
31 May	53.7	Appointed	Mílton Antônio dos Santos, S.D.B.	Bishop of Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil	Archbishop of Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil
	70.0	Appointed	José Carlos Melo, C.M.	Coadjutor Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
	53.0	Appointed	Fernando Antônio Saburido, O.S.B.	Auxiliary Bishop of Olinda e Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil	Bishop of Sobral, Ceara, Brazil
	53.0	Appointed	Fernando Antônio Saburido, O.S.B.	Titular Bishop of Tacia Montana	Bishop of Sobral, Ceara, Brazil
	44.4	Ordained Bishop	Jaime Soto	Titular Bishop of Segia	Coadjutor Bishop of Sacramento, California, USA
2 Jun	50.6	Appointed	Gregory Michael Aymond	Coadjutor Bishop of Austin, Texas, USA	Bishop
	63.9	Appointed	Francis Baldacchino, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Malindi, Kenya
	52.6	Appointed	Pius Mlungisi Dlungwana	Auxiliary Bishop of Mariannhill, South Africa	Bishop
	52.6	Appointed	Pius Mlungisi Dlungwana	Titular Bishop of Altinum	Bishop of Mariannhill, South Africa
	50.8	Ordained Bishop	Diómedes Antonio Espinal de León	Titular Bishop of Vardimissa	Bishop of Mao-Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic
	56.7	Appointed	Curtis John Guillory, S.V.D.	Bishop of Beaumont, Texas, USA
	50.2	Appointed	Camille Lembi Zaneli	Bishop of Isangi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	63.5	Appointed	Théodore-Adrien Sarr	Cardinal, Archbishop of Dakar, Senegal
	79.3	Retired	Hyacinthe Thiandoum †	Archbishop of Dakar, Senegal	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
3 Jun	72.4	Appointed	Hilario Chávez Joya, M.N.M.	Bishop of Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, México	Bishop Emeritus
	77.1	Died	Paul Huynh Dông Các †	Bishop Emeritus of Quy Nhon, Viêt Nam
	59.4	Ordained Bishop	Alfredo Schäffler	Coadjutor Bishop of Parnaíba, Piaui, Brazil	Bishop
	47.9	Appointed	Orazio Soricelli	Archbishop of Amalfi-Cava de’ Tirreni, Italy
4 Jun	82.8	Died	Paul Zoungrana, M. Afr. †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
6 Jun	71.2	Succeeded	José Ramón Santos Iztueta Mendizábal, C.P. †	Prelate of Moyobamba, Peru	Prelate Emeritus
	43.3	Appointed	Anton Losinger	Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg, Germany
	43.3	Appointed	Anton Losinger	Titular Bishop of Vazi-Sarra	Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg, Germany
	73.2	Resigned	Venancio Celestino Orbe Uriarte, C.P. †	Prelate of Moyobamba, Peru	Prelate Emeritus
	48.7	Appointed	Laurent Bernard Marie Ulrich	Archbishop of Chambéry (, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, et Tarentaise), France	Archbishop of Lille, France
7 Jun	67.3	Appointed	Aloysio José Leal Penna, S.J.	Archbishop of Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	42.4	Succeeded	Gabriel Mbilingi, C.S.Sp.	Bishop of Lwena, Angola	Coadjutor Archbishop of Lubango, Angola
	77.1	Retired	Antônio Maria Mucciolo	Archbishop of Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
	72.2	Resigned	José Próspero da Ascensão Puaty †	Bishop of Lwena, Angola	Bishop Emeritus
	75.7	Retired	Leonard James Wall †	Archbishop of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus
	62.1	Appointed	James Vernon Weisgerber	Archbishop of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
9 Jun	69.0	Appointed	Arthé Guimond	Archbishop of Grouard-McLennan, Alberta, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus
10 Jun	44.9	Ordained Bishop	Martin Adjou Moumouni	Bishop of N’Dali, Benin
	49.6	Ordained Bishop	Fidèle Agbatchi	Archbishop of Parakou, Benin
	70.5	Died	John Brewer †	Bishop of Lancaster, England, Great Britain
	46.3	Ordained Bishop	Clet Feliho	Bishop of Kandi, Benin
	55.3	Appointed	George Kocherry	Titular Archbishop of Othona	Apostolic Nuncio to Zimbabwe
	55.3	Appointed	George Kocherry	Apostolic Nuncio to Ghana	Apostolic Nuncio to Zimbabwe
	55.3	Appointed	George Kocherry	Apostolic Nuncio to Togo	Apostolic Nuncio to Zimbabwe
	91.5	Died	José del Carmen Valle Gallardo †	Bishop Emeritus of Iquique, Chile
11 Jun	50.9	Ordained Bishop	Esmeraldo Barreto de Farias, Ist. del Prado	Bishop of Paulo Afonso, Baia, Brazil	Bishop of Santarém, Para, Brazil
12 Jun	57.1	Succeeded	Héctor Rubén Aguer	Archbishop of La Plata, Argentina
	75.0	Retired	Carlos Walter Galán Barry †	Archbishop of La Plata, Argentina	Archbishop Emeritus
	56.7	Ordained Bishop	Andrej Glavan	Titular Bishop of Musti in Numidia	Bishop of Novo Mesto, Slovenia
13 Jun	53.8	Ordained Bishop	Hipólito Reyes Larios	Bishop of Orizaba, México	Archbishop of Jalapa (Xalapa), Veracruz, México
14 Jun	50.6	Ordained Bishop	Eduardo Porfirio Patiño Leal	Bishop of Córdoba, Veracruz, México
	63.7	Appointed	Irineu Silvio Wilges, O.F.M.	Bishop of Cachoeira do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
16 Jun	87.6	Died	Théophile Jean Dahi †	Archbishop Emeritus of Homs (-Hama-Nabk) (Syrian), Syria
17 Jun	39.2	Appointed	Jorge Solórzano Pérez	Auxiliary Bishop of Managua, Nicaragua	Bishop of Matagalpa, Nicaragua
	39.2	Appointed	Jorge Solórzano Pérez	Titular Bishop of Theuzi	Bishop of Matagalpa, Nicaragua
	63.8	Appointed	Elio Tinti	Bishop of Carpi, Italy
18 Jun	63.9	Installed	Claudio Baggini	Bishop of Vigevano, Italy
	66.6	Ordained Bishop	Lucien Prosper Ernest Fischer, C.S.Sp.	Titular Bishop of Avioccala	Vicar Apostolic of Iles Saint-Pierre et Miquelon
	75.9	Died	Josyf Holovach †	Auxiliary Bishop of Mukacheve (Ruthenian), Ukraine
	56.2	Ordained Bishop	Antônio Wagner da Silva, S.C.J.	Coadjutor Bishop of Guarapuava, Parana, Brazil	Bishop
19 Jun	68.2	Installed	Edward Michael Egan	Cardinal, Archbishop of New York, New York, USA
	48.8	Ordained Bishop	Carlos María Franzini	Bishop of Rafaela, Argentina
20 Jun	70.7	Died	Alan Basil de Lastic †	Archbishop of Delhi, India
21 Jun	53.2	Appointed	Marin Barišic	Archbishop of Split-Makarska, Croatia
	78.1	Retired	Ante Juric	Archbishop of Split-Makarska, Croatia	Archbishop Emeritus
22 Jun	49.8	Ordained Bishop	Denis Theurillat	Titular Bishop of Tubulbaca	Auxiliary Bishop of Basel, Switzerland
23 Jun	46.2	Appointed	Edwin de la Peña y Angot, M.S.P.	Prelate of Marawi, Philippines
	60.2	Appointed	José Vicente Huertas Vargas	Bishop of Garagoa, Colombia
	54.0	Ordained Bishop	Antonino Migliore	Prelate of Coxim, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil	Bishop of Coxim, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
	79.9	Died	Jerónimo José Podestá †	Bishop Emeritus of Avellaneda, Argentina
24 Jun	40.9	Appointed	Alphonse Liguori Chaupa	Auxiliary Bishop of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea	Bishop Emeritus of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea
	40.9	Appointed	Alphonse Liguori Chaupa	Titular Bishop of Turris Tamalleni	Bishop Emeritus of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea
	69.1	Appointed	Blasco Francisco Collaço	Apostolic Nuncio to Lesotho	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to South Africa
	69.1	Appointed	Blasco Francisco Collaço	Apostolic Nuncio to Swaziland	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to South Africa
	52.5	Installed	Donato Negro	Archbishop of Otranto, Italy
	53.0	Appointed	Luigi Antonio Secco, S.D.B.	Coadjutor Bishop of Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles, Antilles	Bishop
	57.5	Ordained Bishop	Anton Stres, C.M.	Titular Bishop of Poetovium	Bishop of Celje, Slovenia
	64.5	Appointed	Johannes Gerardus Maria van Burgsteden, S.S.S.	Auxiliary Bishop of Haarlem, Netherlands
	64.5	Appointed	Johannes Gerardus Maria van Burgsteden, S.S.S.	Titular Bishop of Thibilis	Auxiliary Bishop of Haarlem, Netherlands
25 Jun	50.0	Ordained Bishop	John Thattumkal, S.S.C.	Bishop of Cochin, India
26 Jun	58.8	Ordained Bishop	Vito De Grisantis	Bishop of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca, Italy
	72.7	Died	Austin Bernard Vaughan †	Auxiliary Bishop of New York, New York, USA
28 Jun	67.6	Died	Anton Tamarut †	Archbishop of Rijeka, Croatia
29 Jun	76.3	Retired	Rafael Bellido Caro †	Bishop of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain	Bishop Emeritus
	61.5	Ordained Bishop	Rainer Klug	Titular Bishop of Ala Miliaria	Auxiliary Bishop of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
	52.7	Appointed	Juan del Río Martín	Bishop of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain	Archbishop of Spain, Military
30 Jun	66.4	Appointed	Felipe Aguirre Franco	Coadjutor Archbishop of Acapulco, Guerrero, México	Archbishop
	75.6	Retired	Robert Lebel	Bishop of Valleyfield, Québec, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
	70.0	Ordained Bishop	Paul Nguyên Binh Tinh, P.S.S.	Coadjutor Bishop of Ðà Nang, Viêt Nam	Bishop Emeritus
	50.8	Appointed	Manuel Neto Quintas, S.C.I.	Auxiliary Bishop of Faro {Algarve}, Portugal	Bishop
	50.8	Appointed	Manuel Neto Quintas, S.C.I.	Titular Bishop of Elicroca	Bishop of Faro {Algarve}, Portugal
	48.0	Ordained Bishop	Orazio Soricelli	Archbishop of Amalfi-Cava de’ Tirreni, Italy

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