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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Mar	56.0	Installed	Jerome Edward Listecki	Bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
2 Mar	46.1	Appointed	Eduardo Pinheiro da Silva, S.D.B.	Auxiliary Bishop of Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
	46.1	Appointed	Eduardo Pinheiro da Silva, S.D.B.	Titular Bishop of Gisipa	Auxiliary Bishop of Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
	91.3	Died	Eugenio Santiago Peyrou, S.D.B. †	Bishop Emeritus of Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina
3 Mar	76.4	Retired	Rafael Barraza Sánchez	Bishop of Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México	Bishop Emeritus
	55.3	Appointed	Mario Espinosa Contreras	Bishop of Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México
	58.5	Appointed	Salvatore Ronald Matano	Coadjutor Bishop of Burlington, Vermont, USA	Bishop
5 Mar	64.1	Appointed	Marcel Honorat Léon Agboton	Archbishop of Cotonou, Benin
	76.0	Retired	Nestor Assogba	Archbishop of Cotonou, Benin	Archbishop Emeritus
	54.5	Ordained Bishop	Oscar Cantoni	Bishop of Crema, Italy
	62.3	Installed	André Armand Vingt-Trois	Cardinal, Archbishop of Paris, France
6 Mar	45.1	Ordained Bishop	Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Bokungu-Ikela, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
7 Mar	81.5	Died	José Gottardi Cristelli, S.D.B. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Montevideo, Uruguay
8 Mar	92.4	Died	José Alves de Sà Trindade †	Bishop Emeritus of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	80.3	Died	Román Arrieta Villalobos †	Archbishop Emeritus of San José de Costa Rica
	67.1	Died	Luciano Nervi, S.M.M. †	Bishop of Mangochi, Malawi
	53.7	Installed	Harold Anthony Perera	Bishop of Galle, Sri Lanka
9 Mar	43.8	Appointed	Tomé Ferreira da Silva	Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	43.8	Appointed	Tomé Ferreira da Silva	Titular Bishop of Giufi	Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	66.6	Appointed	José María Pinheiro	Bishop of Bragança Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	57.9	Ordained Bishop	Rafael Sandoval Sandoval, M.N.M.	Bishop of Tarahumara, Chihuahua, México
10 Mar	75.2	Retired	Angel T. Hobayan	Bishop of Catarman, Philippines	Bishop Emeritus
	46.2	Ordained Bishop	Josafá Menezes da Silva	Titular Bishop of Gummi in Byzacena	Auxiliary Bishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
	59.3	Ordained Bishop	João Carlos Petrini	Titular Bishop of Augurus	Auxiliary Bishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
	51.6	Succeeded	Emmanuel Celeste Trance	Bishop of Catarman, Philippines
12 Mar	46.1	Ordained Bishop	Sebastião Bandeira Coêlho	Titular Bishop of Thubursicum	Auxiliary Bishop of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
	90.6	Died	Joseph Matthew Breitenbeck †	Bishop Emeritus of Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
	55.9	Ordained Bishop	Edson de Castro Homem	Titular Bishop of Mutia	Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	56.3	Ordained Bishop	Antônio Augusto Dias Duarte	Titular Bishop of Tuscamia	Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	62.7	Installed	Luis Guillermo Eichhorn	Bishop of Morón, Argentina
	77.1	Retired	Mathias Kappil †	Bishop of Punalur, India	Bishop Emeritus
	56.2	Appointed	Joseph Kariyil	Bishop of Punalur, India
	48.1	Ordained Bishop	Edney Gouvêa Mattoso	Titular Bishop of Tunnuna	Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
14 Mar	92.2	Died	Abele Conigli †	Bishop Emeritus of Teramo-Atri, Italy
	78.5	Retired	Jean-Marie Lustiger †	Ordinary of France, Faithful of Eastern Rites	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Paris, France
	77.1	Died	Giuseppe Torti †	Bishop Emeritus of Lugano, Switzerland
	62.4	Appointed	André Armand Vingt-Trois	Ordinary of France, Faithful of Eastern Rites	Cardinal, Archbishop of Paris, France
15 Mar	60.7	Appointed	Edward Kenneth Braxton	Bishop of Belleville, Illinois, USA
17 Mar	63.3	Appointed	Luigi Negri	Bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro, Italy
18 Mar	47.3	Appointed	Marco Antonio Cortez Lara	Coadjutor Bishop of Tacna y Moquegua, Peru	Bishop
	55.3	Appointed	John Bosco Panya Kritcharoen	Bishop of Ratchaburi, Thailand
	49.2	Appointed	Vincent de Paul Kwanga Njubu	Bishop of Manono, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	42.7	Appointed	Fulgence Muteba Mugalu	Bishop of Kilwa-Kasenga, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	58.7	Appointed	Luis Felipe Solé Fa, C.M.	Bishop of Trujillo, Honduras
19 Mar	76.1	Died	Bohdan Bejze †	Auxiliary Bishop of Łódź, Poland
	54.5	Installed	Oscar Cantoni	Bishop of Crema, Italy
	66.0	Appointed	Stefan Cichy	Bishop of Legnica, Poland
	56.6	Ordained Bishop	António Francisco dos Santos	Titular Bishop of Magnetum	Bishop of Aveiro, Portugal
	50.7	Ordained Bishop	Pedro Joaquin Hernández Cantarero, C.M.F.	Titular Bishop of Thabraca	Vicar Apostolic of Darién, Panama
	62.3	Ordained Bishop	Henryk Hoser, S.A.C.	Titular Archbishop of Tepelta	Bishop of Warszawa-Praga, Poland
	62.1	Installed	Segismundo Martínez Álvarez, S.D.B.	Bishop of Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
	52.5	Installed	Joseph Ngô Quang Kiêt	Archbishop of Hà Nôi, Viêt Nam
	43.0	Ordained Bishop	Joachim Ouédraogo	Bishop of Dori, Burkina Faso
	59.5	Ordained Bishop	Valentin Pozaic, S.J.	Titular Bishop of Petina	Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb, Croatia
	75.4	Retired	Tadeusz Rybak	Bishop of Legnica, Poland	Bishop Emeritus
21 Mar	56.9	Succeeded	John Atcherley Dew	Archbishop of Wellington, New Zealand
	78.7	Retired	Giovanni Bernardo Gremoli, O.F.M. Cap.	Vicar Apostolic of Arabia, Yemen	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
	81.8	Died	Vekoslav Grmic †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Maribor, Slovenia
	62.9	Appointed	Paul Hinder, O.F.M. Cap.	Vicar Apostolic of Arabia, Yemen
	75.0	Retired	Thomas Stafford Williams	Archbishop of Wellington, New Zealand	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
22 Mar	47.3	Appointed	Cecilio Raúl Berzosa Martínez	Auxiliary Bishop of Oviedo, Spain
	47.3	Appointed	Cecilio Raúl Berzosa Martínez	Titular Bishop of Arcavica	Auxiliary Bishop of Oviedo, Spain
	77.3	Retired	Pierre-Marie Coty	Bishop of Daloa, Côte d’Ivoire	Bishop Emeritus
	67.2	Appointed	Maurice Konan Kouassi	Bishop of Daloa, Côte d’Ivoire
23 Mar	68.7	Resigned	José Antonio Peteiro Freire, O.F.M.	Archbishop of Tanger, Morocco	Archbishop Emeritus
	61.6	Resigned	Peter Stephan Zurbriggen	Apostolic Administrator of Estonia	Apostolic Nuncio to Lithuania
24 Mar	55.2	Appointed	Joaquim Justino Carreira	Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	55.2	Appointed	Joaquim Justino Carreira	Titular Bishop of Cabarsussi	Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	75.6	Retired	Eduardo Davino	Bishop of Palestrina, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	62.8	Appointed	Domenico Sigalini	Bishop of Palestrina, Italy
28 Mar	75.1	Retired	Jean Marie Louis Bonfils, S.M.A.	Bishop of Nice, France	Bishop Emeritus
	58.4	Succeeded	Louis Albert Joseph Roger Sankalé	Bishop of Nice, France
29 Mar	85.6	Died	Edward Dennis Head †	Bishop Emeritus of Buffalo, New York, USA
30 Mar	75.9	Retired	Dominic Kodwo Andoh	Archbishop of Accra, Ghana	Archbishop Emeritus
	63.4	Appointed	Daniel Joseph Bohan	Archbishop of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
	75.3	Retired	Peter Joseph Mallon †	Archbishop of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus
	69.5	Retired	Mauro Morelli	Bishop of Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	54.8	Appointed	Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle	Archbishop of Accra, Ghana
	49.0	Appointed	José Francisco Rezende Dias	Bishop of Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
31 Mar	75.1	Retired	Robert Edward Mulvee	Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	57.0	Appointed	Thomas Joseph Tobin	Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island, USA
1 Apr	62.6	Appointed	Yvon Ambrose	Bishop of Tuticorin, India
	53.8	Appointed	Charles Daniel Balvo	Titular Archbishop of Castello	Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand
	53.8	Appointed	Charles Daniel Balvo	Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand
	53.8	Appointed	Charles Daniel Balvo	Apostolic Nuncio to Fiji, Pacific (Oceania)	Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand
	53.8	Appointed	Charles Daniel Balvo	Apostolic Nuncio to Marshall Islands, Pacific (Oceania)	Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand
	53.8	Appointed	Charles Daniel Balvo	Apostolic Nuncio to Micronesia, Federated States of, Pacific (Oceania)	Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand
	53.8	Appointed	Charles Daniel Balvo	Apostolic Nuncio to Vanuatu, Pacific (Oceania)	Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand
	53.8	Appointed	Charles Daniel Balvo	Apostolic Nuncio to Tonga, Pacific (Oceania)	Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand
	53.8	Appointed	Charles Daniel Balvo	Apostolic Nuncio to Kiribata, Pacific (Oceania)	Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand
	53.8	Appointed	Charles Daniel Balvo	Apostolic Nuncio to Palau, Pacific (Oceania)	Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand
	62.7	Appointed	Alberto Bottari de Castello	Apostolic Nuncio to Japan
	56.1	Appointed	Leopoldo José Brenes Solórzano	Archbishop of Managua, Nicaragua
	66.6	Appointed	Nestor Celestial Cariño	Bishop of Legazpi, Philippines	Bishop Emeritus
	67.7	Appointed	Malayappan Chinnappa, S.D.B.	Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor), India
	56.9	Appointed	John Atcherley Dew	Bishop of New Zealand, Military	Archbishop of Wellington, New Zealand
	63.0	Appointed	Giuseppe Franzelli, M.C.C.I.	Bishop of Lira, Uganda
	74.8	Resigned	Carmelo Juan Giaquinta	Archbishop of Resistencia, Argentina	Archbishop Emeritus
	77.9	Retired	Nicolas Huynh Van Nghi	Bishop of Phan Thiêt, Viêt Nam	Bishop Emeritus
	44.6	Appointed	Philippe Jean-Charles Jourdan	Apostolic Administrator of Estonia
	44.6	Appointed	Philippe Jean-Charles Jourdan	Titular Bishop of Pertusa	Apostolic Administrator of Estonia
	46.2	Resigned	Krzysztof Kukulka, O.F.M. Conv.	Superior of Uzbekistan	Superior Emeritus of Uzbekistan
	75.1	Resigned	Joseph Kyeong Kap-ryong	Bishop of Daejeon {Taejon}, Korea (South)	Bishop Emeritus
	58.4	Appointed	Adriano Langa, O.F.M.	Coadjutor Bishop of Inhambane, Mozambique	Bishop
	58.0	Appointed	Boniface Lele	Archbishop of Mombasa, Kenya
	74.9	Retired	Paolo Lunardon, O.S.B.	Abbot of San Paolo fuori le Mura, Italy	Abbot Emeritus
	49.8	Appointed	Jerzy Maculewicz, O.F.M. Conv.	Apostolic Administrator of Uzbekistan
	49.8	Appointed	Jerzy Maculewicz, O.F.M. Conv.	Titular Bishop of Nara	Apostolic Administrator of Uzbekistan
	65.4	Succeeded	Paul Nguyên Thanh Hoan	Bishop of Phan Thiêt, Viêt Nam
	76.3	Retired	John Njenga	Archbishop of Mombasa, Kenya	Archbishop Emeritus
	79.2	Retired	Miguel Obando Bravo, S.D.B.	Archbishop of Managua, Nicaragua	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	62.9	Appointed	Artemio Lomboy Rillera, S.V.D.	Bishop of San Fernando de La Union, Philippines
	76.1	Retired	José C. Sorra	Bishop of Legazpi, Philippines	Bishop Emeritus
	59.5	Appointed	Jebalamai Susaimanickam	Coadjutor Bishop of Sivagangai, India	Bishop
	47.4	Appointed	Dieudonné Uringi Uuci	Bishop of Bunia, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	87.9	Died	Petrus Malachias van Diepen, O.S.A. †	Bishop Emeritus of Manokwari-Sorong, Indonesia
	75.0	Retired	Thomas Stafford Williams	Bishop of New Zealand, Military	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Wellington, New Zealand
	53.4	Succeeded	Lazarus You Heung-sik	Bishop of Daejeon {Taejon}, Korea (South)
2 Apr	72.4	Ceased	Francis Arinze	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
	75.7	Ceased	Darío Castrillón Hoyos	Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”
	75.7	Ceased	Darío Castrillón Hoyos	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”
	70.6	Ceased	Paul Josef Cordes	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”
	74.5	Ceased	Ignace Moussa I (Basile) Daoud	Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches	Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon
	84.4	Retired	Nerses Der Nersessian, C.A.M. †	Bishop of Eastern Europe {Europa Orientale} (Armenian), Armenia	Bishop Emeritus
	51.0	Appointed	Giambattista Diquattro	Titular Archbishop of Giru Mons	Apostolic Nuncio to Panama
	51.0	Appointed	Giambattista Diquattro	Apostolic Nuncio to Panama
	67.6	Ceased	Michael Louis Fitzgerald, M. Afr.	President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue	Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt, Arab Republic of
	69.4	Ceased	John Patrick Foley	President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications	Cardinal, Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
	46.7	Ordained Bishop	Julio Hernando García Peláez	Titular Bishop of Bida	Auxiliary Bishop of Cali, Colombia
	65.5	Ceased	Zenon Grocholewski	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Seminaries and Institutes of Study)
	75.1	Ceased	Stephen Fumio Hamao †	President of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples	Cardinal, President Emeritus
	75.0	Ceased	Julián Herranz Casado	President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts	Cardinal, President Emeritus
	73.0	Appointed	Nechan Karakéhéyan, I.C.P.B.	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Eastern Europe {Europa Orientale} (Armenian), Armenia	Bishop
	73.0	Appointed	Nechan Karakéhéyan, I.C.P.B.	Titular Archbishop of Adana degli Armeni	Bishop of Eastern Europe {Europa Orientale} (Armenian), Armenia
	72.1	Ceased	Walter Kasper	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
	47.5	Ordained Bishop	Ryszard Kasyna	Titular Bishop of Dices	Auxiliary Bishop of Gdańsk, Poland
	71.6	Retired	Vartan Kechichian, C.A.M.	Coadjutor Bishop of Eastern Europe {Europa Orientale} (Armenian), Armenia	Coadjutor Bishop Emeritus
	69.4	Ceased	Alfonso López Trujillo †	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family
	72.2	Ceased	Javier Lozano Barragán	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers
	72.4	Ceased	Renato Raffaele Martino	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
	68.0	Ceased	Attilio Nicora	Cardinal, President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See
	58.9	Appointed	Luigi Pezzuto	Apostolic Nuncio to El Salvador
	51.6	Ordained Bishop	Carlos Alberto de Pinho Moreira Azevedo	Titular Bishop of Belali	Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa, Portugal
	74.6	Ceased	Paul Joseph Jean Poupard	President of the Pontifical Council for Culture	Cardinal, President Emeritus
	78.0	Ceased	Joseph Ratzinger	President of the International Theological Commission	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
	78.0	Ceased	Joseph Ratzinger	Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
	78.0	Ceased	Joseph Ratzinger	President of the Pontifical Biblical Commission	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
	71.2	Ceased	Giovanni Battista Re	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops
	71.2	Ceased	Giovanni Battista Re	President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops
	70.5	Ceased	Franc Rodé, C.M.	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
	59.7	Ceased	Stanisław Ryłko	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity
	73.2	Ceased	José Saraiva Martins, C.M.F.	Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	74.0	Ceased	Sergio Sebastiani	President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See	Cardinal, President Emeritus
	61.8	Ceased	Crescenzio Sepe	Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples	Cardinal, Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy
	77.4	Ceased	Angelo Sodano	Secretary of the Secretariat of State	Cardinal, Secretary Emeritus
	60.1	Appointed	Manuel Ureña Pastor	Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain
	65.0	Ceased	Agostino Vallini	Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura	Cardinal, Vicar General of Roma {Rome}, Italy
	46.9	Ordained Bishop	Warnakulasurya Wadumestrige Devasritha Valence Mendis	Coadjutor Bishop of Chilaw, Sri Lanka	Bishop
	84.9	Died	Karol Józef Wojtyla †	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
	77.1	Retired	Elías Yanes Alvarez	Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain	Archbishop Emeritus
3 Apr	66.0	Ordained Bishop	Peter Marzinkowski, C.S.Sp.	Bishop of Alindao, Central African Republic
	65.8	Ordained Bishop	Jaime Rodríguez Salazar, M.C.C.I.	Bishop of Huánuco, Peru
4 Apr	51.0	Ordained Bishop	Michael Owen Jackels	Bishop of Wichita, Kansas, USA
7 Apr	64.8	Ordained Bishop	François Xavier Le Van Hong	Titular Bishop of Gadiaufala	Auxiliary Bishop of Huê, Viêt Nam
9 Apr	69.0	Died	Vicente Salgado y Garrucho †	Bishop Emeritus of Romblon, Philippines
10 Apr	61.8	Ordained Bishop	Pierre-André Fournier	Titular Bishop of Diana	Archbishop of Rimouski, Québec, Canada
	57.1	Ordained Bishop	Gilles Lemay	Titular Bishop of Eguga	Auxiliary Bishop of Québec, Québec, Canada
13 Apr	76.6	Died	Alessandro Assolari, S.M.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Mangochi, Malawi
14 Apr	73.8	Resigned	Salim Ghazal, B.S.	Auxiliary Bishop of Antiochia {Antioch} (Melkite), Syria	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
15 Apr	77.2	Died	Joakim Herbut †	Bishop of Skopje, Macedonia
16 Apr	53.4	Installed	Gerhard Feige	Bishop of Magdeburg, Germany
	54.4	Ordained Bishop	Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, O.F.M.	Prelate of São Félix, Mato Grosso, Brazil
19 Apr	58.6	Ordained Bishop	Salvatore Ronald Matano	Coadjutor Bishop of Burlington, Vermont, USA	Bishop
	78.0	Elected	Joseph Ratzinger	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
21 Apr	72.5	Confirmed	Francis Arinze	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
	75.8	Confirmed	Darío Castrillón Hoyos	Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”
	75.8	Confirmed	Darío Castrillón Hoyos	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”
	70.6	Confirmed	Paul Josef Cordes	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”
	74.6	Confirmed	Ignace Moussa I (Basile) Daoud	Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches	Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon
	67.7	Confirmed	Michael Louis Fitzgerald, M. Afr.	President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue	Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt, Arab Republic of
	69.4	Confirmed	John Patrick Foley	President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications	Cardinal, Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
	65.5	Confirmed	Zenon Grocholewski	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Seminaries and Institutes of Study)
	75.1	Confirmed	Stephen Fumio Hamao †	President of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples	Cardinal, President Emeritus
	75.1	Confirmed	Julián Herranz Casado	President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts	Cardinal, President Emeritus
	72.1	Confirmed	Walter Kasper	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
	69.5	Confirmed	Alfonso López Trujillo †	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family
	72.2	Confirmed	Javier Lozano Barragán	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers
	72.4	Confirmed	Renato Raffaele Martino	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
	68.1	Confirmed	Attilio Nicora	Cardinal, President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See
	74.6	Confirmed	Paul Joseph Jean Poupard	President of the Pontifical Council for Culture	Cardinal, President Emeritus
	71.2	Confirmed	Giovanni Battista Re	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops
	71.2	Confirmed	Giovanni Battista Re	President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops
	70.6	Confirmed	Franc Rodé, C.M.	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
	59.8	Confirmed	Stanisław Ryłko	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity
	73.3	Confirmed	José Saraiva Martins, C.M.F.	Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	74.0	Confirmed	Sergio Sebastiani	President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See	Cardinal, President Emeritus
	61.9	Confirmed	Crescenzio Sepe	Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples	Cardinal, Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy
	77.4	Confirmed	Angelo Sodano	Secretary of the Secretariat of State	Cardinal, Secretary Emeritus
	65.0	Confirmed	Agostino Vallini	Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura	Cardinal, Vicar General of Roma {Rome}, Italy
22 Apr	81.8	Died	Josef Plöger †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
23 Apr	77.4	Appointed	Angelo Sodano	Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia	Cardinal, Secretary Emeritus of the Secretariat of State
24 Apr	58.8	Ordained Bishop	Anacleto Cordeiro Gonçalves de Oliveira	Titular Bishop of Aquae Flaviae	Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa, Portugal
	56.9	Ordained Bishop	Hubert Marie Michel Marcel Herbreteau	Bishop of Agen, France
	78.0	Installed	Joseph Ratzinger	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
25 Apr	72.5	Appointed	Francis Arinze	Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri-Segni	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
	80.3	Died	Sennen Corrà †	Bishop Emeritus of Concordia-Pordenone, Italy
26 Apr	94.9	Died	Giustino Giulio Pastorino, O.F.M. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Benghazi, Libya
30 Apr	66.1	Installed	Stefan Cichy	Bishop of Legnica, Poland
	82.6	Confirmed	Roger Marie Élie Etchegaray	Vice-Dean (Sub-Dean) of the College of Cardinals	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
	90.0	Died	Ferdinando Palatucci †	Archbishop Emeritus of Amalfi-Cava de’ Tirreni, Italy
	77.4	Confirmed	Angelo Sodano	Dean of the College of Cardinals	Cardinal, Secretary Emeritus of the Secretariat of State
	42.5	Ordained Bishop	Mylo Hubert Claudio Vergara	Bishop of San Jose, Philippines

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