| Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
|---|
| 1 Mar | 44.8 | Appointed | Paulin Kouabénan N`Gnamé † | Bishop of San Pedro-en-Côte d’Ivoire |
| 3 Mar | 77.2 | Resigned | Józef Glemp | Apostolic Administrator of Warszawa {Warsaw}, Poland | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus |
| 65.5 | Appointed | Héctor Guerrero Córdova, S.D.B. | Prelate of Mixes, Oaxaca, México |
| 57.1 | Appointed | Kazimierz Nycz | Archbishop of Warszawa {Warsaw}, Poland |
| 4 Mar | 74.6 | Installed | Gaudencio Borbon Rosales | Cardinal-Priest of SS. Nome di Maria in Via Latina | Cardinal, Archbishop of Manila, Philippines |
| 68.5 | Ordained Bishop | Rodrigo Mejía Saldarriaga, S.J. | Titular Bishop of Vulturia | Vicar Apostolic of Soddo-Hosanna, Ethiopia |
| 5 Mar | 79.2 | Died | José Ivo Lorscheiter † | Bishop Emeritus of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
| 47.7 | Installed | Baselios Cleemis (Isaac) Thottunkal | Major Archbishop of Trivandrum (Malankarese), India |
| 6 Mar | 59.5 | Appointed | Kevin Joseph Farrell | Bishop of Dallas, Texas, USA |
| 75.6 | Retired | Charles Victor Grahmann | Bishop of Dallas, Texas, USA | Bishop Emeritus |
| 57.6 | Appointed | Glen John Provost | Bishop of Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA |
| 7 Mar | 62.1 | Appointed | Severino Batista de França, O.F.M. Cap. | Bishop of Nazaré, Pernambuco, Brazil |
| 57.7 | Appointed | Francis Xavier Kriengsak Kovitvanit | Bishop of Nakhon Sawan, Thailand |
| 8 Mar | 47.7 | Installed | Isabelo Caiban Abarquez | Bishop of Calbayog, Philippines |
| 64.9 | Appointed | António José Cavaco Carrilho | Bishop of Funchal, Portugal |
| 67.0 | Resigned | Francesc-Xavier Ciuraneta Aymí | Bishop of Lleida, Spain | Bishop Emeritus |
| 76.5 | Retired | Teodoro de Faria | Bishop of Funchal, Portugal | Bishop Emeritus |
| 76.7 | Retired | Tarcisio Pillolla | Bishop of Iglesias, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
| 59.5 | Appointed | Giovanni Paolo Zedda | Bishop of Iglesias, Italy |
| 10 Mar | 46.3 | Ordained Bishop | Jacob Barnabas Chacko Aerath, O.I.C. | Titular Bishop of Bapara |
| 60.3 | Appointed | Vincenzo Bertolone, S.d.P. | Bishop of Cassano all’Jonio, Italy |
| 68.1 | Resigned | Bernardo Filipe Governo, O.F.M. Cap. | Bishop of Quelimane, Mozambique | Bishop Emeritus |
| 48.6 | Ordained Bishop | Luis Urbanc | Coadjutor Bishop of Catamarca, Argentina | Bishop |
| 11 Mar | 48.2 | Ordained Bishop | Messias dos Reis Silveira | Bishop of Uruaçu (Uruassu), Goias, Brazil |
| 52.2 | Installed | Jaime Pedro Kohl, P.S.D.P. | Bishop of Osório, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
| 60.3 | Ordained Bishop | Ângelo Pignoli | Bishop of Quixadá, Ceara, Brazil |
| 13 Mar | 56.6 | Appointed | Fabio Martínez Castilla | Bishop of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, México |
| 14 Mar | 82.8 | Died | Miguel Angel Lecumberri Erburu, O.C.D. † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Tumaco, Colombia |
| 51.9 | Appointed | Ludovikus Simanullang, O.F.M. Cap. | Bishop of Sibolga, Indonesia |
| 56.4 | Installed | John Charles Wester | Bishop of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA |
| 15 Mar | 38.9 | Ordained Bishop | Emigdio Duarte Figueroa | Titular Bishop of Bilta | Auxiliary Bishop of Culiacán, Sinaloa, México |
| 76.0 | Retired | István Seregély | Archbishop of Eger, Hungary | Archbishop Emeritus |
| 50.4 | Resigned | Tamás Szabó | Bishop of Hungary, Military | Bishop Emeritus |
| 53.3 | Appointed | Csaba Ternyák | Archbishop of Eger, Hungary |
| 17 Mar | 46.2 | Ordained Bishop | Emmanuel Félémou | Bishop of Kankan, Guinea |
| 94.2 | Died | Frane Franić † | Archbishop Emeritus of Split-Makarska, Croatia |
| 18 Mar | 53.9 | Ordained Bishop | Leo Boccardi | Titular Archbishop of Bitettum | Apostolic Nuncio to Sudan |
| 56.9 | Ordained Bishop | François Joseph Marie Jacolin, M.D.P. | Bishop of Mende, France |
| 87.8 | Died | Antonio Magnoni † | Apostolic Pro-Nuncio Emeritus to Egypt, Arab Republic of |
| 86.4 | Died | Patrick Laurence Murphy † | Bishop Emeritus of Broken Bay, Australia |
| 81.2 | Died | Michael Rozario † | Archbishop Emeritus of Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| 55.3 | Installed | Andrews Thazhath | Archbishop of Trichur (Syro-Malabarese), India |
| 19 Mar | 52.9 | Ordained Bishop | Hugo Norberto Santiago | Bishop of Santo Tomé, Argentina |
| 20 Mar | 63.2 | Appointed | Josip Mrzljak | Bishop of Varaždin, Croatia |
| 21 Mar | 57.5 | Appointed | Odilo Pedro Scherer | Cardinal, Archbishop of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 22 Mar | 79.6 | Died | Marianus Arokiasamy † | Archbishop Emeritus of Madurai, India |
| 75.0 | Retired | Joseph Henry Ganda | Archbishop of Freetown and Bo, Sierra Leone | Archbishop Emeritus |
| 61.1 | Appointed | Christophe Pierre | Apostolic Nuncio to México |
| 55.6 | Ordained Bishop | Gervas Rozario | Bishop of Rajshahi, Bangladesh |
| 47.9 | Appointed | Richard William Smith | Archbishop of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| 23 Mar | 52.4 | Appointed | Thaddeus Cho Hwan-Kil | Auxiliary Bishop of Daegu {Taegu}, Korea (South) |
| 52.4 | Appointed | Thaddeus Cho Hwan-Kil | Titular Bishop of Abbir Maius | Auxiliary Bishop of Daegu {Taegu}, Korea (South) |
| 47.2 | Appointed | José Luis Mendoza Corzo | Auxiliary Bishop of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México |
| 47.2 | Appointed | José Luis Mendoza Corzo | Titular Bishop of Lamiggiga | Auxiliary Bishop of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México |
| 24 Mar | 47.2 | Ordained Bishop | Elie Bechara Haddad, B.S. | Archbishop of Saïda (Melkite), Lebanon |
| 43.8 | Ordained Bishop | Jorge Herbas Balderrama, O.F.M. | Coadjutor Prelate of Aiquile, Bolivia |
| 60.0 | Ordained Bishop | Domenico Mogavero | Bishop of Mazara del Vallo, Italy |
| 45.2 | Installed | David Motiuk | Bishop of Edmonton (Ukrainian), Canada |
| 25 Mar | 54.3 | Ordained Bishop | João Bosco Barbosa de Sousa, O.F.M. | Bishop of União da Vitória, Parana, Brazil |
| 48.3 | Installed | Messias dos Reis Silveira | Bishop of Uruaçu (Uruassu), Goias, Brazil |
| 58.7 | Installed | Manuel José Macário do Nascimento Clemente | Bishop of Porto, Portugal |
| 48.7 | Ordained Bishop | Reinhard Pappenberger | Titular Bishop of Aptuca | Auxiliary Bishop of Regensburg, Germany |
| 60.3 | Installed | Ângelo Pignoli | Bishop of Quixadá, Ceara, Brazil |
| 58.0 | Died | Eugenio Romero Pose † | Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid, Spain |
| 26 Mar | 48.4 | Appointed | Thomas Koorilos Chakkalapadickal | Archbishop of Tiruvalla (Malankarese), India |
| 53.9 | Succeeded | Pierre d'Ornellas | Archbishop of Rennes (, Dol, e Saint-Malo), France |
| 46.7 | Ordained Bishop | Leopoldo Corpuz Jaucian, S.V.D. | Bishop of Bangued, Philippines |
| 71.2 | Died | François de Sales Marie Adrien Saint-Macary † | Archbishop of Rennes (, Dol, e Saint-Malo), France |
| 44.4 | Appointed | Philibert Tembo Nlandu, C.I.C.M. | Coadjutor Bishop of Budjala, Congo (Dem. Rep.) |
| 27 Mar | 50.9 | Appointed | Oscar Roberto Domínguez Couttolenc, M.G. | Bishop of Tlapa, México |
| 78.2 | Died | John Aloysius Ward, O.F.M. Cap. † | Archbishop Emeritus of Cardiff, Wales, Great Britain |
| 28 Mar | 60.8 | Appointed | Zeno Hastenteufel | Bishop of Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
| 58.3 | Installed | George Vance Murry, S.J. | Bishop of Youngstown, Ohio, USA |
| 29 Mar | 65.0 | Succeeded | John Choi Young-su | Archbishop of Daegu {Taegu}, Korea (South) |
| 71.5 | Resigned | Paul Ri Moun-hi | Archbishop of Daegu {Taegu}, Korea (South) | Archbishop Emeritus |
| 31 Mar | 74.2 | Resigned | Thomas Bhalerao, S.J. | Bishop of Nashik, India | Bishop Emeritus |
| 49.2 | Ordained Bishop | Claudio Giuliodori | Bishop of Macerata-Tolentino-Recanati-Cingoli-Treia, Italy |
| 46.7 | Installed | Leopoldo Corpuz Jaucian, S.V.D. | Bishop of Bangued, Philippines |
| 78.2 | Retired | Jérôme Nday Kanyangu Lukundwe | Bishop of Kongolo, Congo (Dem. Rep.) | Bishop Emeritus |
| 42.3 | Appointed | Oscar Ngoy wa Mpanga, C.S.Sp. | Bishop of Kongolo, Congo (Dem. Rep.) |
| 1 Apr | 60.0 | Installed | Domenico Mogavero | Bishop of Mazara del Vallo, Italy |
| 57.2 | Installed | Kazimierz Nycz | Archbishop of Warszawa {Warsaw}, Poland |
| 2 Apr | 81.8 | Died | Francesco Saverio Toppi, O.F.M. Cap. † | Prelate Emeritus of Pompei o Beatissima Vergine Maria del SS.mo Rosario, Italy |
| 47.3 | Appointed | Pascal Jean Marcel Wintzer | Auxiliary Bishop of Poitiers, France |
| 47.3 | Appointed | Pascal Jean Marcel Wintzer | Titular Bishop of Rusadus | Auxiliary Bishop of Poitiers, France |
| 3 Apr | 76.9 | Retired | Giuseppe Di Falco | Bishop of Sulmona-Valva, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
| 55.4 | Appointed | Peter Anthony Libasci | Auxiliary Bishop of Rockville Centre, New York, USA |
| 55.4 | Appointed | Peter Anthony Libasci | Titular Bishop of Satafis | Auxiliary Bishop of Rockville Centre, New York, USA |
| 91.8 | Died | Michael Joseph Murphy † | Bishop Emeritus of Erie, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 70.3 | Appointed | Alessandro Pagani, S.M.M. | Bishop of Mangochi, Malawi |
| 52.4 | Appointed | Angelo Spina | Bishop of Sulmona-Valva, Italy |
| 83.7 | Died | Félix María Torres Parra † | Archbishop Emeritus of Barranquilla, Colombia |
| 75.9 | Retired | Emil Aloysius Wcela | Auxiliary Bishop of Rockville Centre, New York, USA | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus |
| 53.5 | Appointed | Vincentius Sutikno Wisaksono | Bishop of Surabaya, Indonesia |
| 4 Apr | 77.0 | Retired | Benjamin J. Almoneda | Bishop of Daet, Philippines | Bishop Emeritus |
| 72.3 | Appointed | Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B. | Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber | Cardinal, Secretary of the Secretariat of State |
| 75.6 | Retired | Fernando Charrier | Bishop of Alessandria (della Paglia), Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
| 48.2 | Appointed | Gilbert Armea Garcera | Bishop of Daet, Philippines |
| 58.7 | Appointed | Stanislas Marie Georges Jude Lalanne | Bishop of Coutances (-Avranches), France |
| 80.0 | Retired | Eduardo Martínez Somalo | Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber | Cardinal, Chamberlain Emeritus |
| 63.7 | Appointed | Giuseppe Versaldi | Bishop of Alessandria (della Paglia), Italy |
| 5 Apr | 75.4 | Died | José Antonio Gentico † | Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| 58.7 | Appointed | Salvatore Visco | Bishop of Isernia-Venafro, Italy |
| 6 Apr | 88.2 | Died | Stéphane Babaca (Babeka, Babaqa) † | Archbishop Emeritus of Arbil {Erbil} (Chaldean), Iraq |
| 81.5 | Died | James Joseph McGuinness † | Bishop Emeritus of Nottingham, England, Great Britain |
| 7 Apr | 69.1 | Died | Luis Robles Díaz † | Vice President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America |
| 10 Apr | 46.0 | Ordained Bishop | Ricardo Lingan Baccay | Titular Bishop of Gabala | Auxiliary Bishop of Tuguegarao, Philippines |
| 67.3 | Resigned | Joseph Leo Charron, C.Pp.S. | Bishop of Des Moines, Iowa, USA | Bishop Emeritus |
| 75.4 | Retired | Sergio Obeso Rivera | Archbishop of Jalapa (Xalapa), Veracruz, México | Archbishop Emeritus |
| 55.1 | Appointed | Reinaldo del Prette Lissot | Archbishop of Valencia en Venezuela |
| 60.7 | Appointed | Hipólito Reyes Larios | Archbishop of Jalapa (Xalapa), Veracruz, México |
| 11 Apr | 64.8 | Appointed | Santiago Agrelo Martínez, O.F.M. | Archbishop of Tanger, Morocco |
| 65.1 | Appointed | Geraldo Lyrio Rocha | Archbishop of Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| 76.7 | Died | James Joseph O’Brien † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Westminster, England, Great Britain |
| 62.9 | Appointed | Bruno Pedron, S.D.B. | Bishop of Ji-Paraná, Rondonia, Brazil |
| 78.0 | Retired | Antônio Possamai, S.D.B. | Bishop of Ji-Paraná, Rondonia, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus |
| 12 Apr | 93.6 | Died | Ismaele Mario Castellano, O.P. † | Archbishop Emeritus of Siena-Colle di Val d’Elsa-Montalcino, Italy |
| 14 Apr | 64.3 | Resigned | Joseph Nguyên Van Yên | Bishop of Phát Diêm, Viêt Nam | Bishop Emeritus |
| 55.8 | Appointed | Vincentius Sensi Potokota | Archbishop of Ende, Indonesia |
| 75.4 | Retired | Adrianus Johannes Simonis | Archbishop of Utrecht, Netherlands | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus |
| 15 Apr | 62.2 | Installed | Severino Batista de França, O.F.M. Cap. | Bishop of Nazaré, Pernambuco, Brazil |
| 55.3 | Ordained Bishop | John Moolachira | Bishop of Diphu, India |
| 16 Apr | 50.2 | Appointed | John Ribat, M.S.C. | Coadjutor Archbishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea | Archbishop |
| 18 Apr | 69.8 | Died | Piero Biggio † | Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Denmark |
| 60.8 | Ordained Bishop | Angelus Kujur, S.J. | Bishop of Purnea, India |
| 19 Apr | 77.1 | Retired | Victor Hugo Martínez Contreras | Archbishop of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán, Guatemala | Archbishop Emeritus |
| 59.5 | Appointed | Oscar Julio Vian Morales, S.D.B. | Archbishop of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán, Guatemala |
| 20 Apr | 52.9 | Ordained Bishop | Derek Fernandes | Bishop of Karwar, India |
| 71.0 | Died | Ramón Godinez Flores † | Bishop of Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, México |
| 21 Apr | 76.8 | Retired | Eduardo Alas Alfaro | Bishop of Chalatenango, El Salvador | Bishop Emeritus |
| 43.0 | Ordained Bishop | Daniel Fernández Torres | Titular Bishop of Sufes | Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico |
| 65.9 | Appointed | Jean-Pierre Grallet, O.F.M. | Archbishop of Strasbourg, France |
| 75.0 | Retired | George Mamalassery | Bishop of Tura, India | Bishop Emeritus |
| 57.2 | Succeeded | Andrew Marak | Bishop of Tura, India |
| 67.8 | Appointed | Luis Morao Andreazza, O.F.M. | Bishop of Chalatenango, El Salvador |
| 23 Apr | 57.7 | Ordained Bishop | Glen John Provost | Bishop of Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA |
| 24 Apr | 60.1 | Appointed | John Clayton Nienstedt | Coadjutor Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA | Archbishop |
| 62.9 | Appointed | Konrad Zdarsa | Bishop of Görlitz, Germany |
| 25 Apr | 42.2 | Appointed | Willy Ngumbi Ngengele, M. Afr. | Bishop of Kindu, Congo (Dem. Rep.) |
| 55.5 | Ordained Bishop | Sigifredo Noriega Barceló | Bishop of Ensenada, Baja California Norte, México |
| 27 Apr | 57.5 | Died | José Aníbal Casasola Sosa † | Bishop of Zacapa y Santo Cristo de Esquipulas, Guatemala |
| 87.2 | Died | Walter Joseph Schoenherr † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Detroit, Michigan, USA |
| 28 Apr | 54.6 | Ordained Bishop | Paulinus Chukwuemeka Ezeokafor | Titular Bishop of Tetci | Auxiliary Bishop of Awka, Nigeria |
| 65.6 | Ordained Bishop | Héctor Guerrero Córdova, S.D.B. | Prelate of Mixes, Oaxaca, México |
| 88.3 | Died | Federico Bonifacio Madersbacher Gasteiger, O.F.M. † | Bishop Emeritus of San Ignacio de Velasco, Bolivia |
| 59.0 | Ordained Bishop | Luis Armando Tineo Rivera | Titular Bishop of Horrea Coelia | Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela |
| 29 Apr | 91.2 | Died | Kazimierz Jan Majdański † | Bishop Emeritus of Szczecin-Kamień, Poland |
| 57.6 | Installed | Odilo Pedro Scherer | Cardinal, Archbishop of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 30 Apr | 52.5 | Ordained Bishop | Thaddeus Cho Hwan-Kil | Titular Bishop of Abbir Maius | Auxiliary Bishop of Daegu {Taegu}, Korea (South) |
| 53.2 | Appointed | Timothy Costelloe, S.D.B. | Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia |
| 53.2 | Appointed | Timothy Costelloe, S.D.B. | Titular Bishop of Cluain Iraird | Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia |
| 63.6 | Appointed | Peter John Elliott | Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia |
| 63.6 | Appointed | Peter John Elliott | Titular Bishop of Manaccenser | Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia |
| 49.2 | Ordained Bishop | Raphy Manjaly | Bishop of Varanasi, India |
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