Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
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2 Nov | 51.8 | Appointed | Armando Martín Gutiérrez, F.A.M. | Bishop of Bacabal, Maranhão, Brazil | |
4 Nov | 57.0 | Appointed | Mansueto Bianchi † | Bishop of Pistoia, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
72.9 | Died | Gerhard Ludwig Goebel, M.S.F. † | Prelate of Tromsø, Norway | ||
83.5 | Died | William Thomas Larkin † | Bishop Emeritus of Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA | ||
75.4 | Retired | Simone Scatizzi † | Bishop of Pistoia, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
5 Nov | 55.0 | Installed | Antônio Carlos Altieri, S.D.B. | Bishop of Caraguatatuba, Sao Paulo, Brazil | Archbishop Emeritus of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
6 Nov | 75.1 | Retired | Vincent Michael Rizzotto | Auxiliary Bishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus |
10 Nov | 88.6 | Died | Nivaldo Monte † | Archbishop Emeritus of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil | |
11 Nov | 57.9 | Appointed | Michel Abrass, B.A. | Titular Archbishop of Myra dei Greco-Melkiti | Archbishop of Tyr (Melkite Greek), Lebanon |
54.3 | Appointed | Jean-Abdo Arbach, B.C. | Titular Bishop of Palmyra dei Greco-Melkiti | Archbishop of Homs (-Hama-Jabrud) (Melkite Greek), Syria | |
12 Nov | 91.7 | Died | Custódio Alvim Pereira † | Archbishop Emeritus of Lourenço Marques, Mozambique | |
13 Nov | 61.6 | Appointed | José Alejandro Castaño Arbeláez, O.A.R. | Auxiliary Bishop of Cali, Colombia | Bishop of Cartago, Colombia |
61.6 | Appointed | José Alejandro Castaño Arbeláez, O.A.R. | Titular Bishop of Castellum Tatroportus | Bishop of Cartago, Colombia | |
98.3 | Died | Auguste Delisle, C.S.Sp. † | Bishop Emeritus of Lokoja, Nigeria | ||
75.9 | Retired | Carmelo Dominador Flores Morelos † | Archbishop of Zamboanga, Philippines | Archbishop Emeritus | |
63.1 | Appointed | Sergio Lasam Utleg | Bishop of Laoag, Philippines | Archbishop of Tuguegarao, Philippines | |
55.3 | Appointed | Romulo Geolina Valles | Archbishop of Zamboanga, Philippines | Archbishop of Davao, Philippines | |
14 Nov | 54.1 | Appointed | Pedro María Laxague | Auxiliary Bishop of Bahía Blanca, Argentina | Bishop of Zárate-Campana, Argentina |
54.1 | Appointed | Pedro María Laxague | Titular Bishop of Castra Severiana | Bishop of Zárate-Campana, Argentina | |
48.3 | Appointed | Luis Urbanč | Coadjutor Bishop of Catamarca, Argentina | Bishop | |
15 Nov | 73.1 | Appointed | Raffaele Farina, S.D.B. | Titular Bishop of Opitergium | Cardinal, Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archives |
69.5 | Appointed | Gianfranco Girotti, O.F.M. Conv. | Titular Bishop of Meta | Regent Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary | |
76.2 | Retired | Thadeu Gomes Canellas | Bishop of Osório, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus | |
51.9 | Appointed | Jaime Pedro Kohl, P.S.D.P. | Bishop of Osório, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | ||
73.8 | Resigned | Tarciscio Giovanni Nazzaro, O.S.B. | Abbot of Montevergine, Italy | Abbot Emeritus | |
71.1 | Appointed | Antoni Stankiewicz | Titular Bishop of Nova Petra | Dean Emeritus of the Roman Rota | |
16 Nov | 65.5 | Installed | Edward Ozorowski | Archbishop of Białystok, Poland | Archbishop Emeritus |
73.9 | Died | Augusto José Zini Filho † | Bishop of Limeira, Sao Paulo, Brazil | ||
17 Nov | 74.7 | Died | Joseph D’Silva † | Bishop of Bellary, India | |
78.3 | Died | Jean Mansour, S.M.S.P. † | Curial Bishop Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Melkite Greek), Syria | ||
75.9 | Died | Manuel Duran Moreno † | Bishop Emeritus of Tucson, Arizona, USA | ||
18 Nov | 54.8 | Appointed | Calogero La Piana, S.D.B. | Archbishop of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela, Italy | Archbishop Emeritus |
75.7 | Retired | Giovanni Marra | Archbishop of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela, Italy | Archbishop Emeritus | |
75.9 | Retired | Osmond Peter Martin † | Bishop of Belize City-Belmopan, Belize, Antilles | Bishop Emeritus | |
61.0 | Appointed | Dorick McGowan Wright | Bishop of Belize City-Belmopan, Belize, Antilles | Bishop Emeritus | |
42.0 | Ordained Bishop | Marco Antonio Órdenes Fernández | Bishop of Iquique, Chile | Bishop Emeritus | |
53.4 | Ordained Bishop | Raymond Sumlut Gam | Bishop of Banmaw, Myanmar | ||
19 Nov | 74.9 | Installed | Nicholas Cheong Jin-Suk | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Immacolata di Lourdes a Boccea | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Seoul, Korea (South) |
20 Nov | 64.9 | Installed | Martin John Amos | Bishop of Davenport, Iowa, USA | Bishop Emeritus |
79.9 | Died | Paul Vincent Dudley † | Bishop Emeritus of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA | ||
21 Nov | 75.0 | Retired | Patrick Ebosele Ekpu | Archbishop of Benin City, Nigeria | Archbishop Emeritus |
62.4 | Appointed | Domenico Graziani | Archbishop of Crotone-Santa Severina, Italy | ||
39.4 | Appointed | Anton Leichtfried | Auxiliary Bishop of Sankt Pölten, Austria | ||
39.4 | Appointed | Anton Leichtfried | Titular Bishop of Rufiniana | Auxiliary Bishop of Sankt Pölten, Austria | |
22 Nov | 85.5 | Died | Michel Hakim, B.S. † | Archbishop Emeritus of Saint-Sauveur de Montréal (Melkite Greek), Canada | |
61.0 | Appointed | Paulo Sérgio Machado | Bishop of São Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus | |
76.4 | Retired | José Carlos Melo, C.M. † | Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil | Archbishop Emeritus | |
54.2 | Appointed | Antônio Muniz Fernandes, O. Carm. | Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil | ||
23 Nov | 42.1 | Ordained Bishop | Janusz Wiesław Kaleta | Titular Bishop of Phelbes | |
24 Nov | 64.6 | Appointed | Matthias Kobena Nketsiah | Auxiliary Bishop of Cape Coast, Ghana | Archbishop |
64.6 | Appointed | Matthias Kobena Nketsiah | Titular Bishop of Abaradira | Archbishop of Cape Coast, Ghana | |
25 Nov | 73.4 | Appointed | Pedro Aranda Díaz-Muñoz | Archbishop of Tulancingo, Hidalgo, México | Archbishop Emeritus |
55.8 | Appointed | Rogelio Cabrera López | Archbishop of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México | Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México | |
60.7 | Appointed | Joseph Karikkassery | Auxiliary Bishop of Verapoly, India | Bishop of Kottapuram, India | |
60.7 | Appointed | Joseph Karikkassery | Titular Bishop of Buxentum | Bishop of Kottapuram, India | |
52.8 | Appointed | Peter Kihara Kariuki, I.M.C. | Bishop of Marsabit, Kenya | ||
80.3 | Died | Santiago Martínez Acebes † | Archbishop Emeritus of Burgos, Spain | ||
71.1 | Appointed | José Guadalupe Martín Rábago | Archbishop of León, Guanajuato, México | Archbishop Emeritus | |
64.8 | Appointed | Evariste Ngoyagoye | Archbishop of Bujumbura, Burundi | Archbishop Emeritus | |
77.7 | Retired | Ambrogio Ravasi, I.M.C. | Bishop of Marsabit, Kenya | Bishop Emeritus | |
66.0 | Appointed | Rafael Romo Muñoz | Archbishop of Tijuana, Baja California Norte, México | Archbishop Emeritus | |
58.8 | Appointed | Paul Runangaza Ruzoka | Archbishop of Tabora, Tanzania | ||
42.8 | Ordained Bishop | Johannes Harmannes Jozefus van den Hende | Coadjutor Bishop of Breda, Netherlands | Bishop of Rotterdam, Netherlands | |
26 Nov | 55.4 | Ordained Bishop | Juan Pedro Juárez Meléndez | Bishop of Tula, Hidalgo, México | |
50.6 | Ordained Bishop | Edgar Amine Madi | Bishop of Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo (Maronite), Sao Paulo, Brazil | ||
56.3 | Ordained Bishop | Samir Nassar | Archbishop of Damas (Maronite), Syria | ||
27 Nov | 76.3 | Retired | Joseph Das † | Bishop of Berhampur, India | Bishop Emeritus |
49.4 | Appointed | Sarat Chandra Nayak | Bishop of Berhampur, India | ||
28 Nov | 66.4 | Appointed | Bernard Housset | Bishop of La Rochelle (-Saintes), France | Bishop Emeritus |
29 Nov | 64.3 | Succeeded | Caetano Ferrari, O.F.M. | Bishop of Franca, Sao Paulo, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus of Bauru, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
45.2 | Ordained Bishop | Daniel Ernest Flores | Titular Bishop of Cozyla | Bishop of Brownsville, Texas, USA | |
75.1 | Retired | Diógenes da Silva Matthes † | Bishop of Franca, Sao Paulo, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus | |
30 Nov | 76.5 | Retired | Pius Suh Awa † | Bishop of Buéa, Cameroon | Bishop Emeritus |
62.3 | Appointed | Emmanuel Bushu | Bishop of Buéa, Cameroon | ||
75.5 | Retired | Arthé Guimond † | Archbishop of Grouard-McLennan, Alberta, Canada | Archbishop Emeritus | |
77.3 | Retired | Joachim Phayao Manisap † | Bishop of Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand | Bishop Emeritus | |
56.2 | Appointed | Gérard Pettipas, C.SS.R. | Archbishop of Grouard-McLennan, Alberta, Canada | ||
50.7 | Appointed | Joseph Chusak Sirisut | Bishop of Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand | ||
45.4 | Appointed | Christophe Zoa | Auxiliary Bishop of Yaoundé, Cameroon | Bishop of Sangmélima, Cameroon | |
45.4 | Appointed | Christophe Zoa | Titular Bishop of Hilta | Bishop of Sangmélima, Cameroon | |
1 Dec | 46.6 | Appointed | Manuel António Mendes dos Santos, C.M.F. | Bishop of São Tomé e Príncipe | |
75.9 | Retired | Abílio Rodas de Sousa Ribas, C.S.Sp. | Bishop of São Tomé e Príncipe | Bishop Emeritus | |
42.7 | Appointed | Emílio Sumbelelo | Coadjutor Bishop of Uije, Angola | Bishop | |
2 Dec | 65.1 | Appointed | Diego Coletti | Bishop of Como, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
60.8 | Appointed | Paul Cremona, O.P. | Archbishop of Malta | Archbishop Emeritus | |
69.7 | Appointed | Salvatore Di Cristina | Archbishop of Monreale, Italy | Archbishop Emeritus | |
54.8 | Ordained Bishop | Fausto Feliciano Gaibor García | Titular Bishop of Naraggara | Bishop of Tulcán, Ecuador | |
52.4 | Ordained Bishop | Gregor Maria Franz Hanke, O.S.B. | Bishop of Eichstätt, Germany | ||
75.3 | Retired | Alessandro Maggiolini † | Bishop of Como, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
78.0 | Retired | Joseph Mercieca † | Archbishop of Malta | Archbishop Emeritus | |
76.4 | Retired | John Baptist Sequeira | Bishop of Chikmagalur, India | Bishop Emeritus | |
55.8 | Appointed | Anthony Swamy Thomasappa | Bishop of Chikmagalur, India | ||
3 Dec | 70.1 | Installed | José Ángel Rovai | Bishop of Villa María, Argentina | Bishop Emeritus |
5 Dec | 47.5 | Appointed | Sergio Alfredo Fenoy | Bishop of San Miguel, Argentina | Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, Argentina |
88.5 | Died | Bernard Matthew Kelly † | |||
60.8 | Died | Elio Alevi Pérez Tapia, S.D.B. † | Prelate Emeritus of Juli, Peru | ||
52.6 | Appointed | Hugo Norberto Santiago | Bishop of Santo Tomé, Argentina | Bishop of San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Argentina | |
64.6 | Appointed | José Alberto Serrano Antón, I.E.M.E. | Bishop of Hwange, Zimbabwe | ||
6 Dec | 69.1 | Appointed | Ladislau Biernaski, C.M. † | Bishop of São José dos Pinhais, Parana, Brazil | |
76.9 | Retired | Józef Glemp † | Archbishop of Warszawa {Warsaw}, Poland | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus | |
67.6 | Appointed | Stanislaw Wojciech Wielgus | Archbishop of Warszawa {Warsaw}, Poland | Titular Archbishop of Viminacium | |
7 Dec | 78.1 | Retired | Pudhota Chinniah Balaswamy † | Bishop of Nellore, India | Bishop Emeritus |
49.1 | Appointed | Doraboina Moses Prakasam | Bishop of Nellore, India | ||
83.0 | Died | Jean Yves Marie Sahuquet † | Bishop Emeritus of Tarbes et Lourdes, France | ||
8 Dec | 61.7 | Ordained Bishop | Marcelo Raúl Martorell | Bishop of Puerto Iguazú, Argentina | |
48.7 | Ordained Bishop | Jan Niemiec | Titular Bishop of Decoriana | Auxiliary Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Ukraine | |
69.0 | Ordained Bishop | Sergio Pintor | Bishop of Ozieri, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
9 Dec | 51.5 | Appointed | Marcel Madila Basanguka | Archbishop of Kananga, Congo (Dem. Rep.) | |
10 Dec | 57.9 | Ordained Bishop | Michel Abrass, B.A. | Titular Archbishop of Myra dei Greco-Melkiti | Archbishop of Tyr (Melkite Greek), Lebanon |
50.7 | Installed | Edgar Amine Madi | Bishop of Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo (Maronite), Sao Paulo, Brazil | ||
88.2 | Died | Salvatore Pappalardo † | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Palermo, Italy | ||
11 Dec | 48.9 | Appointed | Gabriel Mbilingi, C.S.Sp. | Coadjutor Archbishop of Lubango, Angola | Archbishop |
75.0 | Retired | Joseph Peter O’Connell † | Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | |
12 Dec | 43.2 | Appointed | Lucjan Avgustini † | Bishop of Sapë, Albania | |
63.6 | Ordained Bishop | John Anthony Dooher | Titular Bishop of Theveste | Auxiliary Bishop of Boston, Massachusetts, USA | |
43.9 | Appointed | Dodë Gjergji | Apostolic Administrator of Prizren, Serbia | ||
54.6 | Ordained Bishop | Robert Francis Hennessey | Titular Bishop of Tigias | Auxiliary Bishop of Boston, Massachusetts, USA | |
13 Dec | 61.7 | Resigned | Carlos Jesús Patricio Baladrón Valdés | Bishop of Guantánamo-Baracoa, Cuba | Bishop Emeritus |
76.0 | Retired | Dominic Carmon, S.V.D. | Auxiliary Bishop of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | |
43.1 | Appointed | Shelton Joseph Fabre | Auxiliary Bishop of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA | Bishop of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana, USA | |
43.1 | Appointed | Shelton Joseph Fabre | Titular Bishop of Pudentiana | Bishop of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana, USA | |
76.0 | Retired | José Siro González Bacallao | Bishop of Pinar del Rio, Cuba | Bishop Emeritus | |
53.7 | Succeeded | Valdomiro Koubetch, O.S.B.M. | Bishop of São João Batista em Curitiba (Ukrainian), Brazil | Archbishop of São João Batista em Curitiba (Ukrainian), Brazil | |
78.0 | Retired | Efraím Basílio Krevey (Krevei), O.S.B.M. † | Bishop of São João Batista em Curitiba (Ukrainian), Brazil | Bishop Emeritus | |
56.1 | Appointed | Wilfredo Pino Estévez | Bishop of Guantánamo-Baracoa, Cuba | Archbishop of Camagüey, Cuba | |
64.7 | Appointed | Jorge Enrique Serpa Pérez | Bishop of Pinar del Rio, Cuba | ||
60.0 | Resigned | Carlos Suárez Cázares | Bishop of Zamora, Michoacán, México | Auxiliary Bishop of Morelia, Michoacán, México | |
14 Dec | 61.9 | Installed | Oswald Gracias | Cardinal, Archbishop of Bombay, India | |
63.7 | Ordained Bishop | Lucas Martínez Lara † | Bishop of Matehuala, San Luís Potosí, México | ||
68.1 | Installed | Leonardo Yuzon Medroso | Bishop of Tagbilaran, Philippines | Bishop Emeritus | |
15 Dec | 59.9 | Appointed | Gregorio Martínez Sacristán | Bishop of Zamora, Spain | |
16 Dec | 76.8 | Retired | Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic † | Archbishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus |
63.9 | Installed | Ciriaco Benavente Mateos | Bishop of Albacete, Spain | ||
57.1 | Installed | Mansueto Bianchi † | Bishop of Pistoia, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
59.9 | Appointed | Thomas Christopher Collins | Cardinal, Archbishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||
73.2 | Ordained Bishop | Raffaele Farina, S.D.B. | Titular Bishop of Opitergium | Cardinal, Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archives | |
69.6 | Ordained Bishop | Gianfranco Girotti, O.F.M. Conv. | Titular Bishop of Meta | Regent Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary | |
71.2 | Ordained Bishop | Antoni Stankiewicz | Titular Bishop of Nova Petra | Dean Emeritus of the Roman Rota | |
47.0 | Ordained Bishop | Alexis Touably Youlo | Bishop of Agboville, Côte d’Ivoire | ||
18 Dec | 84.2 | Died | Ettore Di Filippo † | Archbishop Emeritus of Campobasso-Boiano, Italy | |
19 Dec | 76.2 | Retired | Salvatore De Giorgi | Archbishop of Palermo, Italy | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus |
59.6 | Appointed | Richard John Garcia | Bishop of Monterey in California, USA | ||
68.8 | Appointed | Paolo Romeo | Archbishop of Palermo, Italy | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus | |
76.2 | Retired | Sylvester Donovan Ryan | Bishop of Monterey in California, USA | Bishop Emeritus | |
20 Dec | 86.9 | Died | Daniele Ferrari † | Bishop Emeritus of Chiavari, Italy | |
75.1 | Retired | William Benedict Friend † | Bishop of Shreveport, Louisiana, USA | Bishop Emeritus | |
21 Dec | 52.6 | Appointed | Carlo Chenis, S.D.B. † | Bishop of Civitavecchia-Tarquinia, Italy | |
76.3 | Retired | Girolamo Grillo † | Bishop of Civitavecchia-Tarquinia, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
54.2 | Ordained Bishop | Pedro María Laxague | Titular Bishop of Castra Severiana | Bishop of Zárate-Campana, Argentina | |
22 Dec | 88.5 | Died | Jorge Manuel López † | Archbishop Emeritus of Rosario, Argentina | |
23 Dec | 69.7 | Installed | Salvatore Di Cristina | Archbishop of Monreale, Italy | Archbishop Emeritus |
24 Dec | 86.1 | Died | Nerses Der Nersessian, C.A.M. † | Ordinary Emeritus of Eastern Europe {Europa Orientale} (Armenian) | |
27 Dec | 64.9 | Appointed | Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, S.D.B. | Archbishop of Concepción (Santissima Concezione), Chile | Cardinal, Archbishop of Santiago de Chile |
72.3 | Died | Jacinto Guerrero Torres † | Bishop of Tlaxcala, México | ||
79.4 | Retired | Antonio Moreno Casamitjana † | Archbishop of Concepción (Santissima Concezione), Chile | Archbishop Emeritus | |
28 Dec | 60.8 | Ordained Bishop | Joseph Karikkassery | Titular Bishop of Buxentum | Bishop of Kottapuram, India |
29 Dec | 43.5 | Appointed | Jorge Herbas Balderrama, O.F.M. | Coadjutor Prelate of Aiquile, Bolivia | Prelate |
30 Dec | 54.3 | Ordained Bishop | Thomas Chung An-zu | Titular Bishop of Munatiana | Bishop of Kiayi, Taiwan |
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