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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
3 May	56.3	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Kariyil	Bishop of Punalur, India	Bishop of Cochin, India
4 May	47.4	Ordained Bishop	Marco Antonio Cortez Lara	Coadjutor Bishop of Tacna y Moquegua, Peru	Bishop
	66.1	Died	Youhanna Fouad El-Hage †	Archbishop of Tripoli del Libano {Tarabulus} (Maronite)
	76.1	Retired	José Lambert Filho, C.S.S. †	Archbishop of Sorocaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
	63.9	Appointed	Eduardo Benes de Sales Rodrigues	Archbishop of Sorocaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil
6 May	49.2	Ordained Bishop	Bejoy Nicephorus D’Cruze, O.M.I.	Bishop of Khulna, Bangladesh	Bishop of Sylhet, Bangladesh
	46.3	Ordained Bishop	Eduardo Pinheiro da Silva, S.D.B.	Titular Bishop of Gisipa	Auxiliary Bishop of Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
7 May	61.2	Appointed	Manuel Hilario de Céspedes y García Menocal	Bishop of Matanzas, Cuba
	63.4	Ordained Bishop	Luigi Negri	Bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro, Italy	Archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio, Italy
	59.0	Appointed	Luigi Pezzuto	Apostolic Nuncio to Belize, Antilles	Apostolic Nuncio to Bosnia-Herzegovina
8 May	66.8	Installed	José María Pinheiro	Bishop of Bragança Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
10 May	75.3	Retired	David Edward Foley	Bishop of Birmingham, Alabama, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	56.4	Appointed	Carlos Enrique Herrera Gutiérrez, O.F.M.	Bishop of Jinotega, Nicaragua
	65.2	Appointed	Denis James Madden	Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
	65.2	Appointed	Denis James Madden	Titular Bishop of Baia	Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
	87.6	Died	Héctor Enrique Santos Hernández, S.D.B. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Tegucigalpa, Honduras
	87.9	Died	Manuel Talamás Camandari †	Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México
	76.0	Retired	Pedro Lisímaco de Jesús Vílchez Vílchez †	Bishop of Jinotega, Nicaragua	Bishop Emeritus
11 May	50.9	Appointed	Severino Clasen, O.F.M.	Bishop of Araçuaí (Arassuaí), Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop of Caçador, Santa Catarina, Brazil
	52.4	Ordained Bishop	José Antonio Fernández Hurtado	Bishop of Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, México
	56.9	Appointed	Salvador Giménez Valls	Auxiliary Bishop of Valencia, Spain	Bishop of Menorca, Spain
	56.9	Appointed	Salvador Giménez Valls	Titular Bishop of Abula	Bishop of Menorca, Spain
12 May	50.8	Appointed	Eusebio L. Elizondo Almaguer, M.Sp.S.	Auxiliary Bishop of Seattle, Washington, USA
	50.8	Appointed	Eusebio L. Elizondo Almaguer, M.Sp.S.	Titular Bishop of Acholla	Auxiliary Bishop of Seattle, Washington, USA
	76.7	Appointed	Kuriakose Kunnacherry	Archbishop of Kottayam (Syro-Malabarese), India	Archbishop Emeritus
	52.2	Appointed	Mathew Moolakkattu, O.S.B.	Coadjutor Archbishop of Kottayam (Syro-Malabarese), India	Archbishop
	75.1	Retired	Joseph Michael Sullivan †	Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn, New York, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	47.6	Appointed	Joseph Jude Tyson	Auxiliary Bishop of Seattle, Washington, USA	Bishop of Yakima, Washington, USA
	47.6	Appointed	Joseph Jude Tyson	Titular Bishop of Migirpa	Bishop of Yakima, Washington, USA
13 May	63.0	Ordained Bishop	Virginio Domingo Bressanelli, S.C.I.	Bishop of Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina	Bishop of Neuquén, Argentina
	44.0	Ordained Bishop	Tomé Ferreira da Silva	Titular Bishop of Giufi	Bishop of São José do Rio Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	68.9	Appointed	William Joseph Levada	Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	68.9	Appointed	William Joseph Levada	President of the International Theological Commission	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
	68.9	Appointed	William Joseph Levada	President of the Pontifical Biblical Commission	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
	79.7	Died	Próspero Penados del Barrio †	Archbishop Emeritus of Guatemala
	62.4	Appointed	Héctor Ignacio Salah Zuleta	Bishop of Riohacha, Colombia
14 May	48.9	Appointed	Francesco Alfano	Archbishop of Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi-Conza-Nusco-Bisaccia, Italy	Archbishop of Sorrento-Castellammare di Stabia, Italy
	47.5	Ordained Bishop	Cecilio Raúl Berzosa Martínez	Titular Bishop of Arcavica	Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain
	53.3	Appointed	Michele Castoro	Bishop of Oria, Italy	Archbishop of Manfredonia-Vieste-San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
	50.0	Ordained Bishop	Jerzy Maculewicz, O.F.M. Conv.	Titular Bishop of Nara	Apostolic Administrator of Uzbekistan
	50.0	Ordained Bishop	Vicente Juan Segura	Bishop of Ibiza, Spain
	42.6	Installed	Mylo Hubert Claudio Vergara	Bishop of San Jose, Philippines	Bishop of Pasig, Philippines
15 May	62.9	Ordained Bishop	Domenico Sigalini	Bishop of Palestrina, Italy
	59.6	Ordained Bishop	Jebalamai Susaimanickam	Coadjutor Bishop of Sivagangai, India	Bishop
16 May	63.0	Died	Cornelio Galleo Wigwigan †	Vicar Apostolic of Bontoc-Lagawe, Philippines
17 May	55.8	Appointed	Clarence Richard Silva	Bishop of Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
	54.0	Appointed	Kevin William Vann	Coadjutor Bishop of Fort Worth, Texas, USA	Bishop of Orange in California, USA
18 May	72.4	Resigned	Maximilian Aichern, O.S.B.	Bishop of Linz, Austria	Bishop Emeritus
	62.7	Ordained Bishop	Yvon Ambroise	Bishop of Tuticorin, India
	48.5	Appointed	Roque Paloschi	Bishop of Roraima, Roraima, Brazil
	57.9	Appointed	Fernando Antônio Saburido, O.S.B.	Bishop of Sobral, Ceara, Brazil	Archbishop of Olinda e Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
19 May	64.7	Appointed	Ramón del Hoyo López	Bishop of Jaén, Spain
20 May	75.0	Retired	William Joseph Winter	Auxiliary Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
21 May	55.3	Ordained Bishop	Joaquim Justino Carreira	Titular Bishop of Cabarsussi	Bishop of Guarulhos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	44.4	Appointed	Juan José Pineda Fasquelle, C.M.F.	Auxiliary Bishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras
	44.4	Appointed	Juan José Pineda Fasquelle, C.M.F.	Titular Bishop of Obori	Auxiliary Bishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras
22 May	72.6	Installed	Francis Arinze	Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri-Segni	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
	63.5	Installed	Luigi Negri	Bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro, Italy	Archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio, Italy
23 May	61.4	Appointed	Martin Drennan	Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh, Ireland
	76.1	Retired	James McLoughlin †	Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
	64.9	Died	Roderick Wright †	Bishop Emeritus of Argyll and The Isles, Scotland, Great Britain
24 May	73.3	Resigned	Raymond James Boland	Bishop of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	61.1	Appointed	Peter John Haworth Doyle	Bishop of Northampton, England, Great Britain
	52.1	Succeeded	Robert William Finn	Bishop of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
	68.6	Appointed	Elmar Fischer	Bishop of Feldkirch, Austria	Bishop Emeritus
	70.5	Died	Marian Oles †	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Slovenia
	64.6	Appointed	José Francisco Ulloa Rojas	Bishop of Cartago, Costa Rica
25 May	76.8	Retired	Benedito Francisco de Albuquerque	Bishop of Itapipoca, Ceara, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	61.0	Appointed	Antônio Roberto Cavuto, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Itapipoca, Ceara, Brazil
	60.3	Appointed	Fernando Mason, O.F.M. Conv.	Bishop of Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil
26 May	76.6	Died	Brian David Usanga †	Archbishop Emeritus of Calabar, Nigeria
28 May	54.4	Appointed	Solomon Amanchukwu Amatu	Coadjutor Bishop of Okigwe, Nigeria	Bishop
	55.4	Ordained Bishop	John Bosco Panya Kritcharoen	Bishop of Ratchaburi, Thailand
29 May	86.1	Died	Marco Caliaro, C.S. †	Bishop Emeritus of Sabina-Poggio Mirteto, Italy
30 May	52.0	Resigned	James Liu Tan-kuei	Bishop of Hsinchu, Taiwan	Bishop Emeritus
31 May	46.7	Appointed	Julio César Corniel Amaro	Bishop of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
	79.8	Appointed	Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo	Archpriest of the Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura {Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls Basilica}	Cardinal, Archpriest Emeritus
	75.9	Retired	Malcolm Patrick Galt, C.S.Sp.	Bishop of Bridgetown, Barbados, Antilles	Bishop Emeritus
	57.2	Installed	Thomas Joseph Tobin	Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island, USA
1 Jun	65.5	Died	Thomas Kozhimala †	Bishop of Bhagalpur, India
2 Jun	81.5	Retired	Sofron Stefan Mudry, O.S.B.M.	Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk [Stanisławów] (Ukrainian), Ukraine	Bishop Emeritus
	95.8	Died	Andrea Pangrazio †	Bishop Emeritus of Porto e Santa Rufina, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
	52.5	Confirmed	Mykola Simkaylo †	Bishop of Kolomyia-Chernivtsi (Ukrainian), Ukraine
	45.6	Appointed	Volodymyr Viytyshyn	Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk [Stanisławów] (Ukrainian), Ukraine	Archbishop of Ivano-Frankivsk [Stanislaviv] (Ukrainian), Ukraine
3 Jun	66.1	Appointed	Stanisław Dziwisz	Cardinal, Archbishop of Kraków {Cracow}, Poland
	78.0	Retired	Franciszek Macharski	Archbishop of Kraków {Cracow}, Poland	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
4 Jun	66.5	Retired	José Oscar Barahona Castillo	Bishop of San Vicente, El Salvador	Bishop Emeritus
	58.4	Appointed	Judes Bicaba	Bishop of Dédougou, Burkina Faso
	61.2	Ordained Bishop	Manuel Hilario de Céspedes y García Menocal	Bishop of Matanzas, Cuba
	51.2	Ordained Bishop	Giambattista Diquattro	Titular Archbishop of Giru Mons	Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia
	46.2	Appointed	José Luis Escobar Alas	Bishop of San Vicente, El Salvador	Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador
	76.4	Retired	Zéphyrin Toé	Bishop of Dédougou, Burkina Faso	Bishop Emeritus
5 Jun	94.6	Died	Guglielmo Motolese †	Archbishop Emeritus of Taranto, Italy
6 Jun	50.8	Ordained Bishop	Eusebio L. Elizondo Almaguer, M.Sp.S.	Titular Bishop of Acholla	Auxiliary Bishop of Seattle, Washington, USA
	76.0	Retired	José Gea Escolano	Bishop of Mondoñedo-Ferrol, Spain	Bishop Emeritus
	58.1	Appointed	Manuel Sánchez Monge	Bishop of Mondoñedo-Ferrol, Spain
	47.6	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Jude Tyson	Titular Bishop of Migirpa	Bishop of Yakima, Washington, USA
7 Jun	87.2	Died	Edward Anthony McCarthy †	Archbishop Emeritus of Miami, Florida, USA
8 Jun	50.3	Appointed	Romuald Kaminski	Auxiliary Bishop of Ełk, Poland
	50.3	Appointed	Romuald Kaminski	Titular Bishop of Aguntum	Auxiliary Bishop of Ełk, Poland
9 Jun	67.1	Appointed	José Luis Amezcua Melgoza	Bishop of Colima, México
	54.6	Appointed	Leopoldo González González	Bishop of Tapachula, Chiapas, México
	47.6	Appointed	Viliam Judák	Bishop of Nitra, Slovakia
	81.4	Retired	Ján Chryzostom Korec, S.J.	Bishop of Nitra, Slovakia	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus
	76.3	Retired	Gilberto Valbuena Sánchez	Bishop of Colima, México	Bishop Emeritus
10 Jun	77.6	Died	José Mario Escobar Serna †	Bishop Emeritus of Palmira, Colombia
	88.8	Died	Joseph-Marie Raya †	Archbishop Emeritus of Akka [San Giovanni d’Acri; Tolemaide] (Melkite Greek), Israel
11 Jun	61.3	Installed	Manuel Hilario de Céspedes y García Menocal	Bishop of Matanzas, Cuba
14 Jun	93.7	Died	James John Hogan †	Bishop Emeritus of Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
15 Jun	61.7	Appointed	Joseph Chennoth	Apostolic Nuncio to Tanzania	Apostolic Nuncio to Japan
	49.7	Appointed	Carlos Alberto dos Santos	Bishop of Teixeira de Freitas-Caravelas, Baia, Brazil
	63.5	Died	Paul Themba Mngoma †	Bishop Emeritus of Mariannhill, South Africa
	77.1	Retired	Antônio Eliseu Zuqueto, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Teixeira de Freitas-Caravelas, Baia, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
18 Jun	41.9	Appointed	Audilio Aguilar Aguilar	Bishop of Colón-Kuna Yala, Panama	Bishop of Santiago de Veraguas, Panama
	76.5	Retired	Carlos María Ariz Bolea, C.M.F.	Bishop of Colón-Kuna Yala, Panama	Bishop Emeritus
	62.1	Succeeded	Isidro Barrio Barrio	Bishop of Huancavélica, Peru
	77.5	Retired	Bernhard Franz Kühnel Langer, M.S.C.	Prelate of Caravelí, Peru	Prelate Emeritus
	49.4	Ordained Bishop	Vincent de Paul Kwanga Njubu	Bishop of Manono, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	75.1	Retired	William Dermott Molloy McDermott	Bishop of Huancavélica, Peru	Bishop Emeritus
	44.0	Appointed	Juan Carlos Vera Plasencia, M.S.C.	Prelate of Caravelí, Peru
19 Jun	90.4	Died	Aliprando Catani, O.S.B. †	Prior General Emeritus of Order of Saint Benedict
20 Jun	77.8	Retired	Lolesio (Laurent) Fuahea †	Bishop of Wallis et Futuna, Wallis and Futuna, Pacific (Oceania)	Bishop Emeritus
	78.5	Retired	Jean Assaad Haddad	Archbishop of Tyr (Melkite Greek), Lebanon	Archbishop Emeritus
	61.9	Appointed	Ghislain Marie Raoul Suzanne de Rasilly, S.M.	Bishop of Wallis et Futuna, Wallis and Futuna, Pacific (Oceania)
21 Jun	68.1	Appointed	Walter Allison Hurley	Bishop of Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	54.3	Appointed	John Gerard Noonan	Auxiliary Bishop of Miami, Florida, USA	Bishop of Orlando, Florida, USA
	54.3	Appointed	John Gerard Noonan	Titular Bishop of Bonusta	Bishop of Orlando, Florida, USA
	76.8	Died	Jaime Lachica Sin †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Manila, Philippines
	72.2	Resigned	Phillip Francis Straling	Bishop of Reno, Nevada, USA	Bishop Emeritus
22 Jun	43.1	Selected	Georges Bacaouni (Bakouny)	Archbishop of Tyr (Melkite Greek), Lebanon
	61.0	Installed	Edward Kenneth Braxton	Bishop of Belleville, Illinois, USA
	84.4	Died	Joseph Paul Barnabé Perrot, M. Afr. †	Bishop Emeritus of San, Mali
23 Jun	60.8	Appointed	Bernard-Nicolas Jean-Marie Aubertin, O. Cist.	Archbishop of Tours, France
	70.7	Died	Jean-Baptiste Gourion, O.S.B. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine
	50.4	Ordained Bishop	Romuald Kaminski	Titular Bishop of Aguntum	Auxiliary Bishop of Ełk, Poland
24 Jun	57.9	Appointed	Alfonso Cortés Contreras	Auxiliary Bishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México	Archbishop of León, Guanajuato, México
	57.9	Appointed	Alfonso Cortés Contreras	Titular Bishop of Aquae Regiae	Archbishop of León, Guanajuato, México
	56.5	Ordained Bishop	Carlos Enrique Herrera Gutiérrez, O.F.M.	Bishop of Jinotega, Nicaragua
	78.6	Died	John Mendes †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Antilles
	53.2	Appointed	Robert Michael Miranda	Bishop of Gulbarga, India
	48.8	Appointed	Fidelis Rakotonarivo, S.J.	Bishop of Ambositra, Madagascar
	47.7	Ordained Bishop	Dieudonné Uringi Uuci	Bishop of Bunia, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
25 Jun	53.4	Ordained Bishop	Michele Castoro	Bishop of Oria, Italy	Archbishop of Manfredonia-Vieste-San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
	51.0	Ordained Bishop	Severino Clasen, O.F.M.	Bishop of Araçuaí (Arassuaí), Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop of Caçador, Santa Catarina, Brazil
	59.4	Resigned	Elio Alevi Pérez Tapia, S.D.B. †	Prelate of Juli, Peru	Prelate Emeritus
26 Jun	88.3	Died	Bernard Martin Ngaviliau, C.S.Sp. †	Bishop Emeritus of Zanzibar, Tanzania
	74.7	Died	Manuel Samaniego Barriga †	Bishop of Cuautitlán, México, México
28 Jun	47.3	Appointed	Raymond Michel René Centène	Bishop of Vannes, France
	61.2	Ordained Bishop	Peter John Haworth Doyle	Bishop of Northampton, England, Great Britain
	76.0	Retired	François-Mathurin Gourvès	Bishop of Vannes, France	Bishop Emeritus
29 Jun	55.9	Appointed	Bernardo Álvarez Afonso	Bishop of San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife, Spain
	54.0	Ordained Bishop	Charles Daniel Balvo	Titular Archbishop of Castello	Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya
	69.8	Resigned	Felipe Fernández García †	Bishop of San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife, Spain	Bishop Emeritus
	58.9	Ordained Bishop	Luis Felipe Solé Fa, C.M.	Bishop of Trujillo, Honduras
30 Jun	47.0	Appointed	Krzysztof Białasik Wawrowska, S.V.D.	Bishop of Oruro, Bolivia
	42.6	Appointed	Ricardo Ernesto Centellas Guzmán	Auxiliary Bishop of Potosí, Bolivia	Bishop
	42.6	Appointed	Ricardo Ernesto Centellas Guzmán	Titular Bishop of Turres Ammeniae	Bishop of Potosí, Bolivia
	74.9	Retired	James Joseph O’Brien †	Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus