The Year of Our Lord 2006

Bishop Events

November to December

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

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

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 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

88.5 Died Bernard Matthew Kelly † Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Providence, Rhode Island, USA

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

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
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
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 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
88.5	Died	Bernard Matthew Kelly †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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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