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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
2 Nov	51.9	Appointed	Armando Martín Gutiérrez, F.A.M.	Bishop of Bacabal, Maranho, Brazil
4 Nov	57.0	Appointed	Mansueto Bianchi	Bishop of Pistoia, Italy
	72.9	Died	Gerhard Ludwig Goebel, M.S.F. †	Prelate of Tromsø, Norway
	83.6	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 of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
6 Nov	75.2	Retired	Vincent Michael Rizzotto	Auxiliary Bishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
10 Nov	88.7	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	Curial Bishop of Antiochia {Antioch} (Melkite Greek), Syria
	54.4	Appointed	Jean-Abdo Arbach, B.C.	Titular Bishop of Palmyra dei Greco-Melkiti	Archbishop of Homs (-Hama-Jabrud) (Melkite Greek), Syria
12 Nov	91.8	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
	63.2	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	54.2	Appointed	Pedro María Laxague	Auxiliary Bishop of Bahía Blanca, Argentina
	54.2	Appointed	Pedro María Laxague	Titular Bishop of Castra Severiana	Auxiliary Bishop of Bahía Blanca, 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
	69.6	Appointed	Gianfranco Girotti, O.F.M. Conv.	Titular Bishop of Meta	Regent Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
	76.3	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
	73.9	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
	74.0	Died	Augusto José Zini Filho †	Bishop of Limeira, Sao Paulo, Brazil
17 Nov	74.8	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
	76.0	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
	75.8	Retired	Giovanni Marra	Archbishop of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
	76.0	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
	42.1	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
	80.0	Died	Paul Vincent Dudley †	Bishop Emeritus of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
21 Nov	75.1	Retired	Patrick Ebosele Ekpu	Archbishop of Benin City, Nigeria	Archbishop Emeritus
	62.5	Appointed	Domenico Graziani	Archbishop of Crotone-Santa Severina, Italy
	39.5	Appointed	Anton Leichtfried	Auxiliary Bishop of Sankt Pölten, Austria
	39.5	Appointed	Anton Leichtfried	Titular Bishop of Rufiniana	Auxiliary Bishop of Sankt Pölten, Austria
22 Nov	85.6	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
	76.5	Retired	José Carlos Melo, C.M.	Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
	54.3	Appointed	Antônio Muniz Fernandes, O. Carm.	Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
23 Nov	42.1	Ordained Bishop	Janusz Kaleta	Titular Bishop of Phelbes	Bishop of Karaganda, Kazakhstan
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
	60.8	Appointed	Joseph Karikkassery	Auxiliary Bishop of Verapoly, India	Bishop of Kottapuram, India
	60.8	Appointed	Joseph Karikkassery	Titular Bishop of Buxentum	Bishop of Kottapuram, India
	52.8	Appointed	Peter Kihara Kariuki, I.M.C.	Bishop of Marsabit, Kenya
	80.4	Died	Santiago Martínez Acebes †	Archbishop Emeritus of Burgos, Spain
	71.1	Appointed	José Guadalupe Martín Rábago	Archbishop of León, Guanajuato, México	Archbishop Emeritus
	64.9	Appointed	Evariste Ngoyagoye	Archbishop of Bujumbura, Burundi
	77.8	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
	58.9	Appointed	Paul R. Ruzoka	Archbishop of Tabora, Tanzania
	42.9	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
	50.7	Ordained Bishop	Edgar Amine Madi	Bishop of Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo (Maronite), Sao Paulo, Brazil
	56.4	Ordained Bishop	Samir Nassar	Archbishop of Damas (Maronite), Syria
27 Nov	76.4	Retired	Joseph Das †	Bishop of Berhampur, India	Bishop Emeritus
	49.4	Appointed	Sarat Chandra Nayak	Bishop of Berhampur, India
28 Nov	66.5	Appointed	Bernard Housset	Bishop of La Rochelle (-Saintes), France
29 Nov	64.3	Succeeded	Caetano Ferrari, O.F.M.	Bishop of Franca, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop of Bauru, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	45.3	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	76.6	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
	77.4	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
	50.8	Appointed	Joseph Chusak Sirisut	Bishop of Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
	45.5	Appointed	Christophe Zoa	Auxiliary Bishop of Yaoundé, Cameroon	Bishop of Sangmélima, Cameroon
	45.5	Appointed	Christophe Zoa	Titular Bishop of Hilta	Bishop of Sangmélima, Cameroon
1 Dec	46.7	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	65.2	Appointed	Diego Coletti	Bishop of Como, Italy
	60.9	Appointed	Paul Cremona, O.P.	Archbishop of Malta
	69.7	Appointed	Salvatore Di Cristina	Archbishop of Monreale, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
	54.9	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
	75.4	Retired	Alessandro Maggiolini †	Bishop of Como, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	78.1	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
	88.6	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
	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
	77.0	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	78.2	Retired	Pudhota Chinniah Balaswamy †	Bishop of Nellore, India	Bishop Emeritus
	49.2	Appointed	Doraboina Moses Prakasam	Bishop of Nellore, India
	83.1	Died	Jean Yves Marie Sahuquet †	Bishop Emeritus of Tarbes et Lourdes, France
8 Dec	61.8	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
	69.1	Ordained Bishop	Sergio Pintor	Bishop of Ozieri, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
9 Dec	51.6	Appointed	Marcel Madila Basanguka	Archbishop of Kananga, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
10 Dec	58.0	Ordained Bishop	Michel Abrass, B.A.	Titular Archbishop of Myra dei Greco-Melkiti	Curial Bishop of Antiochia {Antioch} (Melkite Greek), Syria
	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	43.3	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
	43.1	Appointed	Shelton Joseph Fabre	Titular Bishop of Pudentiana	Auxiliary Bishop of New Orleans, 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
	78.0	Retired	Efraím Basílio Krevey (Krevei), O.S.B.M. †	Bishop of São João Batista em Curitiba (Ukrainian), Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	56.2	Appointed	Wilfredo Pino Estévez	Bishop of Guantánamo-Baracoa, 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	62.0	Installed	Oswald Gracias	Cardinal, Archbishop of Bombay, India
	63.8	Ordained Bishop	Lucas Martínez Lara	Bishop of Matehuala, San Luís Potosí, México
	68.1	Installed	Leonardo Yuzon Medroso	Bishop of Tagbilaran, Philippines
15 Dec	60.0	Appointed	Gregorio Martínez Sacristán	Bishop of Zamora, Spain
16 Dec	76.9	Retired	Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic †	Archbishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	64.0	Installed	Ciriaco Benavente Mateos	Bishop of Albacete, Spain
	57.1	Installed	Mansueto Bianchi	Bishop of Pistoia, Italy
	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
	69.7	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
	47.1	Ordained Bishop	Alexis Touably Youlo	Bishop of Agboville, Côte d’Ivoire
18 Dec	84.3	Died	Ettore Di Filippo †	Archbishop Emeritus of Campobasso-Boiano, Italy
19 Dec	76.3	Retired	Salvatore De Giorgi	Archbishop of Palermo, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	59.7	Appointed	Richard John Garcia	Bishop of Monterey in California, USA
	68.8	Appointed	Paolo Romeo	Cardinal, Archbishop of Palermo, Italy
	76.3	Retired	Sylvester Donovan Ryan	Bishop of Monterey in California, USA	Bishop Emeritus
20 Dec	86.9	Died	Daniele Ferrari †	Bishop Emeritus of Chiavari, Italy
	75.2	Retired	William Benedict Friend	Bishop of Shreveport, Louisiana, USA	Bishop Emeritus
21 Dec	52.7	Appointed	Carlo Chenis, S.D.B. †	Bishop of Civitavecchia-Tarquinia, Italy
	76.3	Retired	Girolamo Grillo	Bishop of Civitavecchia-Tarquinia, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	54.3	Ordained Bishop	Pedro María Laxague	Titular Bishop of Castra Severiana	Auxiliary Bishop of Bahía Blanca, Argentina
22 Dec	88.5	Died	Jorge Manuel López †	Archbishop Emeritus of Rosario, Argentina
23 Dec	69.8	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), Armenia
27 Dec	65.0	Appointed	Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, S.D.B.	Archbishop of Concepción (Santissima Concezione), Chile	Archbishop of Santiago de Chile
	72.3	Died	Jacinto Guerrero Torres †	Bishop of Tlaxcala, México
	79.5	Retired	Antonio Moreno Casamitjana	Archbishop of Concepción (Santissima Concezione), Chile	Archbishop Emeritus
28 Dec	60.9	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Karikkassery	Titular Bishop of Buxentum	Bishop of Kottapuram, India
29 Dec	43.6	Appointed	Jorge Herbas Balderrama, O.F.M.	Coadjutor Prelate of Aiquile, Bolivia	Prelate
30 Dec	54.4	Ordained Bishop	Thomas Chung An-zu	Titular Bishop of Munatiana	Bishop of Kiayi, Taiwan