The Year of Our Lord 2006

Bishop Events

December

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

Dec 60.3 Appointed Francis An Shuxin Administrator of Baoding [Paoting, Ching-Yüan], China Bishop

40.7 Selected [Francis Lu Shouwang] † Bishop of Yichang [Ichang], China

1 Dec 46.6 Appointed Manuel António Mendes dos Santos, C.M.F. Bishop of São Tomé e Príncipe Bishop Emeritus

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 of Viana, Angola

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

4 Dec 81.9 Died John Baptist Su Changshan † Coadjutor Bishop of Baoding [Paoting, Ching-Yüan], China

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 Bishop Emeritus

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 32.5 Ordained Priest Leandro Maria Alves Priest of Díli, Timor-Leste Bishop of Baucau, Timor-Leste

61.7 Ordained Bishop Marcelo Raúl Martorell † Bishop of Puerto Iguazú, Argentina Bishop Emeritus

48.7 Ordained Bishop Jan Niemiec † Titular Bishop of Decoriana Auxiliary Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Ukraine

69.0 Ordained Bishop Sergio Giovanni Pintor † Bishop of Ozieri, Italy Bishop Emeritus

9 Dec 51.5 Appointed Marcel Madila Basanguka Archbishop of Kananga, Congo (Dem. Rep.) Archbishop Emeritus

34.8 Ordained Priest Vicente de Paula Tavares Priest of Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil Auxiliary Bishop

10 Dec 57.9 Ordained Bishop Michel Abrass, B.A. Titular Archbishop of Myra dei Greco-Melkiti Archbishop Emeritus of Tyr (Melkite Greek), Lebanon

50.7 Installed Edgar Amine Madi Bishop of Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo (Maronite), 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 Emeritus of Boston, Massachusetts, USA

43.9 Appointed Dodë Gjergji Apostolic Administrator of Prizren, Serbia Bishop of Prizren-Prishtina, 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 Archbishop of Louisville, Kentucky, USA

43.1 Appointed Shelton Joseph Fabre Titular Bishop of Pudentiana Archbishop of Louisville, Kentucky, 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

80.4 Died Josaphat Li Hongguang † Bishop of Xinjiang [Kiangchow], China

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 Bishop Emeritus

60.0 Resigned Carlos Suárez Cázares Bishop of Zamora, Michoacán, México Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus 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 Bishop Emeritus

57.1 Installed Mansueto Bianchi † Bishop of Pistoia, Italy Bishop Emeritus

59.9 Appointed Thomas Christopher Collins Archbishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

73.2 Ordained Bishop Raffaele Farina, S.D.B. Titular Bishop of Opitergium Cardinal, Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archive

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

93.8 Died [Joseph Zhen Changcheng (Chen Changcheng, Tangtionsin)] † Bishop of Fuzhou [Foochow], China

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 Emeritus 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 Emeritus of Kottapuram, India

29 Dec 43.5 Appointed Jorge Herbas Balderrama, O.F.M. Coadjutor Prelate of Aiquile, Bolivia Prelate

38.1 Selected Joseph Li Jing Coadjutor Bishop of Yinchuan [Ningsia], China Bishop

30 Dec 54.3 Ordained Bishop Thomas Chung An-zu Titular Bishop of Munatiana Archbishop of Taipei, Taiwan

34.4 Ordained Priest Andrew Souksavath Nouane Asa Priest of Paksé, Laos Vicar Apostolic

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
Dec	60.3	Appointed	Francis An Shuxin	Administrator of Baoding [Paoting, Ching-Yüan], China	Bishop
40.7	Selected	[Francis Lu Shouwang] †	Bishop of Yichang [Ichang], China
1 Dec	46.6	Appointed	Manuel António Mendes dos Santos, C.M.F.	Bishop of São Tomé e Príncipe	Bishop Emeritus
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 of Viana, Angola
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
4 Dec	81.9	Died	John Baptist Su Changshan †	Coadjutor Bishop of Baoding [Paoting, Ching-Yüan], China
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	Bishop Emeritus
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	32.5	Ordained Priest	Leandro Maria Alves	Priest of Díli, Timor-Leste	Bishop of Baucau, Timor-Leste
61.7	Ordained Bishop	Marcelo Raúl Martorell †	Bishop of Puerto Iguazú, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus
48.7	Ordained Bishop	Jan Niemiec †	Titular Bishop of Decoriana	Auxiliary Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Ukraine
69.0	Ordained Bishop	Sergio Giovanni Pintor †	Bishop of Ozieri, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
9 Dec	51.5	Appointed	Marcel Madila Basanguka	Archbishop of Kananga, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Archbishop Emeritus
34.8	Ordained Priest	Vicente de Paula Tavares	Priest of Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil	Auxiliary Bishop
10 Dec	57.9	Ordained Bishop	Michel Abrass, B.A.	Titular Archbishop of Myra dei Greco-Melkiti	Archbishop Emeritus of Tyr (Melkite Greek), Lebanon
50.7	Installed	Edgar Amine Madi	Bishop of Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo (Maronite), 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 Emeritus of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
43.9	Appointed	Dodë Gjergji	Apostolic Administrator of Prizren, Serbia	Bishop of Prizren-Prishtina, 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	Archbishop of Louisville, Kentucky, USA
43.1	Appointed	Shelton Joseph Fabre	Titular Bishop of Pudentiana	Archbishop of Louisville, Kentucky, 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
80.4	Died	Josaphat Li Hongguang †	Bishop of Xinjiang [Kiangchow], China
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	Bishop Emeritus
60.0	Resigned	Carlos Suárez Cázares	Bishop of Zamora, Michoacán, México	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus 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	Bishop Emeritus
57.1	Installed	Mansueto Bianchi †	Bishop of Pistoia, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
59.9	Appointed	Thomas Christopher Collins	Archbishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
73.2	Ordained Bishop	Raffaele Farina, S.D.B.	Titular Bishop of Opitergium	Cardinal, Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archive
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
93.8	Died	[Joseph Zhen Changcheng (Chen Changcheng, Tangtionsin)] †	Bishop of Fuzhou [Foochow], China
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 Emeritus 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 Emeritus of Kottapuram, India
29 Dec	43.5	Appointed	Jorge Herbas Balderrama, O.F.M.	Coadjutor Prelate of Aiquile, Bolivia	Prelate
38.1	Selected	Joseph Li Jing	Coadjutor Bishop of Yinchuan [Ningsia], China	Bishop
30 Dec	54.3	Ordained Bishop	Thomas Chung An-zu	Titular Bishop of Munatiana	Archbishop of Taipei, Taiwan
34.4	Ordained Priest	Andrew Souksavath Nouane Asa	Priest of Paksé, Laos	Vicar Apostolic

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