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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
2 Mar	68.0	Appointed	Roger Paul Morin	Bishop of Biloxi, Mississippi, USA
	54.6	Resigned	Gerhard Maria Wagner	Auxiliary Bishop of Linz, Austria	Former Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	54.6	Resigned	Gerhard Maria Wagner	Titular Bishop of Zuri	Former Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Linz, Austria
3 Mar	51.4	Ordained Bishop	Edward James Burns	Bishop of Juneau, Alaska, USA
	88.9	Died	Luis Mena Arroyo †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of México, Federal District
4 Mar	50.1	Appointed	Giovane Pereira de Melo	Bishop of Tocantinópolis, Tocatins, Brazil
	67.8	Resigned	José Song Sui-Wan, S.D.B. †	Bishop of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	61.0	Appointed	Edson Taschetto (Tasquetto) Damian	Bishop of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas, Brazil
5 Mar	75.0	Retired	Austen Robin Crapp, O.F.M.	Bishop of Aitape, Papua New Guinea	Bishop Emeritus
6 Mar	76.9	Died	Silvio Cesare Bonicelli †	Bishop Emeritus of Parma (-Fontevivo), Italy
7 Mar	43.7	Ordained Bishop	László Bőcskei	Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad}, Romania
	70.1	Appointed	Dermot Clifford	Apostolic Administrator of Cloyne, Ireland	Archbishop of Cashel (-Emly), Ireland
	52.6	Ordained Bishop	Jorge Anibal Quintero Chacón	Bishop of Margarita, Venezuela
	61.7	Appointed	Juan Antonio Reig Pla	Bishop of Alcalá de Henares, Spain
8 Mar	73.9	Died	Robert Lucien Chapuis, M.E.P. †	Bishop Emeritus of Mananjary, Madagascar
	65.8	Ordained Bishop	Karl Golser	Bishop of Bolzano-Bressanone {Bozen-Brixen}, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	51.7	Ordained Bishop	Vicente Carlos Kiaziku, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Mbanza Congo, Angola
9 Mar	67.2	Appointed	Guire Poulard	Bishop of Les Cayes, Haïti	Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, Haïti
	78.0	Retired	Jean Alix Verrier	Bishop of Les Cayes, Haïti	Bishop Emeritus
10 Mar	51.9	Appointed	Pascal Michel Ghislain Delannoy	Bishop of Saint-Denis, France
11 Mar	59.8	Installed	Jean-Pierre Blais	Bishop of Baie-Comeau, Québec, Canada
12 Mar	76.0	Retired	Salvador Martínez Pérez	Bishop of Huejutla, Hidalgo, México	Bishop Emeritus
	62.9	Appointed	Salvador Rangel Mendoza, O.F.M.	Bishop of Huejutla, Hidalgo, México
14 Mar	60.7	Appointed	Luigi Bonazzi	Apostolic Nuncio to Lithuania
	60.7	Appointed	Luigi Bonazzi	Apostolic Nuncio to Estonia	Apostolic Nuncio to Lithuania
	48.9	Ordained Bishop	Stanislaw Jan Dziuba, O.S.P.P.E.	Bishop of Umzimkulu, South Africa
	52.6	Installed	Jorge Anibal Quintero Chacón	Bishop of Margarita, Venezuela
	51.0	Appointed	José Slaby, C.SS.R.	Prelate of Esquel, Argentina
15 Mar	77.7	Died	Paulo Eduardo Andrade Ponte †	Archbishop Emeritus of São Luís do Maranhão, Maranho, Brazil
	57.6	Installed	Francesco Beschi	Bishop of Bergamo, Italy
	53.8	Ordained Bishop	Philippe Mousset	Bishop of Pamiers (-Couserans-Mirepoix), France
16 Mar	83.7	Died	Ramón Mantilla Duarte, C.SS.R. †	Bishop Emeritus of Ipiales, Colombia
17 Mar	59.7	Appointed	Wasyl Ihor Medwit, O.S.B.M.	Auxiliary Bishop of Donets’k-Kharkiv (Ukrainian), Ukraine
18 Mar	48.3	Appointed	Jan Romeo Pawłowski	Titular Archbishop of Sejny	Apostolic Nuncio to Congo, Republic of
	48.3	Appointed	Jan Romeo Pawłowski	Apostolic Nuncio to Congo, Republic of
	48.3	Appointed	Jan Romeo Pawłowski	Apostolic Nuncio to Gabon	Apostolic Nuncio to Congo, Republic of
	91.7	Died	Luis Rojas Mena †	Bishop Emeritus of Culiacán, Sinaloa, México
19 Mar	82.9	Died	Felipe Santiago Benitez Avalos †	Archbishop Emeritus of Asunción, Paraguay
	56.0	Succeeded	Marian Buczek	Bishop of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia, Ukraine
	50.7	Ordained Bishop	João José da Costa, O. Carm.	Bishop of Iguatú, Ceara, Brazil
	60.7	Ordained Bishop	Cirilo Flores	Titular Bishop of Quiza	Coadjutor Bishop of San Diego, California, USA
	48.4	Appointed	José Mazuelos Pérez	Bishop of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
	76.5	Retired	Stanisław Padewski, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia, Ukraine	Bishop Emeritus
	49.8	Ordained Bishop	Antonio Staglianò	Bishop of Noto, Italy
	51.7	Ordained Bishop	Richard Frank Stika	Bishop of Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
20 Mar	66.7	Ordained Bishop	Séamus Cunningham	Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, England, Great Britain
21 Mar	77.8	Retired	Lorenzo Ceresoli, M.C.C.I.	Vicar Apostolic of Awasa, Ethiopia	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
	61.3	Ordained Bishop	Mario Fiandri, S.D.B.	Titular Bishop of Madarsuma	Vicar Apostolic of El Petén, Guatemala
	66.6	Appointed	Giovanni Migliorati, M.C.C.I.	Vicar Apostolic of Awasa, Ethiopia
	66.6	Appointed	Giovanni Migliorati, M.C.C.I.	Titular Bishop of Ambia	Vicar Apostolic of Awasa, Ethiopia
	61.1	Ordained Bishop	Sebastián Taltavull Anglada	Titular Bishop of Gabii	Auxiliary Bishop of Barcelona, Spain
	51.1	Appointed	Mateus Feliciano Augusto Tomás †	Bishop of Namibe, Angola
22 Mar	61.2	Ordained Bishop	Derek John Christopher Byrne, S.P.S.	Bishop of Guiratinga, Mato Grosso, Brazil
	70.4	Ordained Bishop	Elio Giovanni Greselin, S.C.I.	Bishop of Lichinga, Mozambique
	54.7	Ordained Bishop	Liro Vendelino Meurer	Titular Bishop of Thucca in Numidia	Bishop of Santo Ângelo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
23 Mar	52.8	Appointed	Salvatore Joseph Cordileone	Bishop of Oakland, California, USA	Archbishop of San Francisco, California, USA
	93.7	Died	Manuel P. Del Rosario †	Bishop Emeritus of Malolos, Philippines
25 Mar	60.8	Appointed	Luigi Bonazzi	Apostolic Nuncio to Latvia	Apostolic Nuncio to Lithuania
	61.7	Installed	Claude Champagne, O.M.I.	Bishop of Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada
	63.2	Ordained Bishop	Robert Eric Guglielmone	Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina, USA
	45.8	Succeeded	Jorge Herbas Balderrama, O.F.M.	Prelate of Aiquile, Bolivia
	45.0	Appointed	Walter Jehowá Heras Segarra, O.F.M.	Vicar Apostolic of Zamora en Ecuador
	45.0	Appointed	Walter Jehowá Heras Segarra, O.F.M.	Titular Bishop of Vazari	Vicar Apostolic of Zamora en Ecuador
	50.4	Appointed	François Michel Pierre Kalist	Bishop of Limoges, France
	53.1	Ordained Bishop	Augustinus Kim Jong Soo	Titular Bishop of Sufasar	Auxiliary Bishop of Daejeon {Taejon}, Korea (South)
	62.2	Ordained Bishop	Salvatore Muratore	Bishop of Nicosia, Italy
	52.6	Appointed	José Rojas Rojas, Jr.	Bishop of Libmanan, Philippines
	75.2	Retired	Adalberto Arturo Rosat, O.F.M.	Prelate of Aiquile, Bolivia	Prelate Emeritus
	57.1	Ordained Bishop	José Javier Travieso Martín, C.M.F.	Titular Bishop of Tubusuptu	Auxiliary Bishop of Trujillo, Peru
26 Mar	46.7	Ordained Bishop	Jorge Alberto Cavazos Arizpe	Titular Bishop of Isola	Auxiliary Bishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
27 Mar	62.4	Ordained Bishop	Luis Alberto Fernández	Titular Bishop of Carpi	Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina
28 Mar	49.1	Ordained Bishop	Berislav Grgić	Prelate of Tromsø, Norway
	61.2	Ordained Bishop	Jan de Groef, M. Afr.	Bishop of Bethlehem, South Africa
	45.1	Ordained Bishop	Grzegorz Kaszak	Bishop of Sosnowiec, Poland
	62.3	Installed	Salvatore Muratore	Bishop of Nicosia, Italy
	49.8	Ordained Bishop	Bonaventure Nahimana	Bishop of Rutana, Burundi
	62.9	Appointed	Adriano Tessarollo	Bishop of Chioggia, Italy
29 Mar	59.1	Installed	Felix Genn	Bishop of Münster, Germany
	49.1	Installed	Berislav Grgić	Prelate of Tromsø, Norway
	56.1	Ordained Bishop	José Valmor César Teixeira, S.D.B.	Bishop of Bom Jesus da Lapa, Baia, Brazil
30 Mar	61.2	Resigned	Paul Choi Deok-ki	Bishop of Suwon, Korea (South)	Bishop Emeritus
	57.5	Succeeded	Mathias Ri Iong-hoon (Lee Yong-Hoon)	Bishop of Suwon, Korea (South)
	93.5	Died	Loras Joseph Watters †	Bishop Emeritus of Winona, Minnesota, USA
31 Mar	59.2	Installed	Carlos Aguiar Retes	Archbishop of Tlalnepantla, México, México
	49.8	Installed	Antonio Staglianò	Bishop of Noto, Italy
1 Apr	87.1	Died	Umberto Betti, O.F.M. †	Cardinal, Rector Emeritus of the Pontifical Lateran University
	46.0	Appointed	Henrique Soares da Costa	Auxiliary Bishop of Aracajú, Sergipe, Brazil
	46.0	Appointed	Henrique Soares da Costa	Titular Bishop of Acufida	Auxiliary Bishop of Aracajú, Sergipe, Brazil
	75.0	Retired	Josephus Tethool, M.S.C. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Amboina, Indonesia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
2 Apr	53.8	Succeeded	John Barwa, S.V.D.	Bishop of Rourkela, India	Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, India
	75.8	Retired	Alphonse Bilung, S.V.D.	Bishop of Rourkela, India	Bishop Emeritus
	51.5	Installed	Edward James Burns	Bishop of Juneau, Alaska, USA
	58.9	Installed	José Víctor Manuel Valentín Sánchez Espinosa	Archbishop of Puebla de los Ángeles, Puebla, México
	97.7	Died	Albert Sanschagrin, O.M.I. †	Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
3 Apr	59.8	Ordained Bishop	Ignatius Loyola Mascarenhas	Bishop of Simla and Chandigarh, India
	76.6	Retired	Cormac Murphy-O’Connor	Archbishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	63.4	Appointed	Vincent Gerard Nichols	Archbishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain
4 Apr	63.4	Appointed	Thomas Dabre	Bishop of Poona, India
	75.5	Retired	Valerian D’Souza	Bishop of Poona, India	Bishop Emeritus
	56.3	Installed	Andrzej Dzięga	Archbishop of Szczecin-Kamień, Poland
	53.4	Appointed	Hyacinth Oroko Egbebo, M.S.P.N.	Vicar Apostolic of Bomadi, Nigeria
	69.0	Resigned	Joseph O. Egerega †	Vicar Apostolic of Bomadi, Nigeria	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
	49.3	Appointed	Silvio Siripong Charatsri	Bishop of Chanthaburi, Thailand
	77.4	Retired	Lawrence Thienchai Samanchit	Bishop of Chanthaburi, Thailand	Bishop Emeritus
	52.3	Appointed	James Maria Wainaina Kungu	Bishop of Muranga, Kenya
	58.4	Appointed	Edmund Woga, C.SS.R.	Bishop of Weetebula, Indonesia
6 Apr	63.5	Appointed	Paul Joseph Bradley	Bishop of Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
	76.8	Retired	James Albert Murray	Bishop of Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA	Bishop Emeritus
7 Apr	55.7	Appointed	Sebastian Kallupura	Bishop of Buxar, India
	51.7	Appointed	Gérald Cyprien Lacroix, I.S.P.X.	Auxiliary Bishop of Québec, Canada	Archbishop
	51.7	Appointed	Gérald Cyprien Lacroix, I.S.P.X.	Titular Bishop of Hilta	Archbishop of Québec, Canada
	65.1	Appointed	Paul Lortie	Auxiliary Bishop of Québec, Canada	Bishop of Mont-Laurier, Québec, Canada
	65.1	Appointed	Paul Lortie	Titular Bishop of Hierpiniana	Bishop of Mont-Laurier, Québec, Canada
	38.9	Ordained Bishop	Sviatoslav Shevchuk	Titular Bishop of Castra Galbae	Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine
8 Apr	46.1	Appointed	Stephan Ackermann	Bishop of Trier, Germany
9 Apr	50.9	Appointed	Silvio José Báez Ortega, O.C.D.	Auxiliary Bishop of Managua, Nicaragua
	50.9	Appointed	Silvio José Báez Ortega, O.C.D.	Titular Bishop of Zica	Auxiliary Bishop of Managua, Nicaragua
12 Apr	72.5	Died	Ephraim Silas Obot †	Bishop of Idah, Nigeria
15 Apr	59.2	Installed	Timothy Michael Dolan	Cardinal, Archbishop of New York, New York, USA
	52.5	Appointed	José Daniel Falla Robles	Auxiliary Bishop of Cali, Colombia
	52.5	Appointed	José Daniel Falla Robles	Titular Bishop of Calama	Auxiliary Bishop of Cali, Colombia
	66.7	Appointed	Caetano Ferrari, O.F.M.	Bishop of Bauru, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	57.4	Appointed	Michael Joseph McKenna	Bishop of Bathurst, Australia
	67.7	Appointed	Gregory O’Kelly, S.J.	Bishop of Port Pirie, Australia
	69.7	Succeeded	John Tong Hon	Cardinal, Bishop of Hong Kong [Xianggang], China
	77.3	Retired	Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, S.D.B.	Bishop of Hong Kong [Xianggang], China	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus
16 Apr	67.6	Appointed	Domenico Umberto D’Ambrosio	Archbishop of Lecce, Italy
	52.8	Appointed	Yosyf Milan, M.S.U.	Auxiliary Bishop of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine
	52.8	Appointed	Yosyf Milan, M.S.U.	Titular Bishop of Drusiliana	Auxiliary Bishop of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine
	92.4	Died	Michel Louis Marie Joseph Mondésert †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Grenoble, France
	65.2	Appointed	Braulio Rodríguez Plaza	Archbishop of Toledo, Spain
	76.9	Retired	Cosmo Francesco Ruppi †	Archbishop of Lecce, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
18 Apr	49.1	Appointed	Róbert Bezák, C.SS.R.	Archbishop of Trnava, Slovakia	Archbishop Emeritus
	76.2	Retired	Javier Lozano Barragán	President of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers	Cardinal, President Emeritus
	75.2	Retired	Paulo Mandlate, S.S.S.	Bishop of Tete, Mozambique	Bishop Emeritus
	55.1	Ordained Bishop	Tarcísio Nascentes dos Santos	Bishop of Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop of Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	63.9	Installed	Carlos Osoro Sierra	Archbishop of Valencia, Spain
	73.2	Appointed	Beda (Umberto) Paluzzi, O.S.B.	Abbot of Montevergine, Italy
	47.9	Ordained Bishop	José Luís Gerardo Ponce de León, I.M.C.	Titular Bishop of Maturba	Vicar Apostolic of Ingwavuma, South Africa
	75.5	Retired	Ján Sokol	Archbishop of Trnava, Slovakia	Archbishop Emeritus
	56.1	Installed	José Valmor César Teixeira, S.D.B.	Bishop of Bom Jesus da Lapa, Baia, Brazil
	60.0	Appointed	Zygmunt Zimowski	President of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers
	60.0	Appointed	Zygmunt Zimowski	Archbishop (Personal Title)	President of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers
19 Apr	44.8	Ordained Bishop	Guillermo Martín Abanto Guzmán	Titular Bishop of Pinhel	Bishop of Peru, Military
	56.2	Ordained Bishop	José Moreira Bastos Neto	Bishop of Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
	41.6	Ordained Bishop	Raúl Antonio Chau Quispe	Titular Bishop of Aveia	Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru
	54.8	Ordained Bishop	Matthias Heinrich	Titular Bishop of Thibaris	Auxiliary Bishop of Berlin, Germany
	77.3	Installed	José Saraiva Martins, C.M.F.	Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
	46.9	Ordained Bishop	Francisco Javier Stegmeier Schmidlin	Bishop of Villarrica, Chile
	58.8	Installed	Orani João Tempesta, O. Cist.	Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
20 Apr	53.5	Appointed	Luis Cabrera Herrera, O.F.M.	Archbishop of Cuenca, Ecuador
	75.2	Retired	Vicente Rodrigo Cisneros Durán	Archbishop of Cuenca, Ecuador	Archbishop Emeritus
21 Apr	64.8	Appointed	Robert James Carlson	Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
	65.8	Appointed	Robert Joseph Cunningham	Bishop of Syracuse, New York, USA
	68.2	Appointed	Théophile Kaboy Ruboneka	Coadjutor Bishop of Goma, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop
	76.8	Retired	James Michael Moynihan	Bishop of Syracuse, New York, USA	Bishop Emeritus
23 Apr	44.5	Ordained Bishop	James Sean Wall	Bishop of Gallup, New Mexico, USA
25 Apr	49.1	Ordained Bishop	Luigi Bianco	Titular Archbishop of Falerone	Apostolic Nuncio to Honduras
	67.0	Appointed	Pietro Farina	Bishop of Caserta, Italy
	75.3	Retired	Raffaele Nogaro	Bishop of Caserta, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	42.5	Ordained Bishop	Valentine Tsamma Seane	Bishop of Gaborone, Botswana
	51.4	Ordained Bishop	Sebastian Francis Shah, O.F.M.	Titular Bishop of Tinum	Auxiliary Bishop of Lahore, Pakistan
	48.6	Ordained Bishop	Krzysztof Zadarko	Titular Bishop of Cavaillon	Auxiliary Bishop of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg, Poland
26 Apr	52.6	Ordained Bishop	Philippe Gabriel Marie Augustin Ballot	Archbishop of Chambéry (-Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne-Tarentaise), France
27 Apr	68.1	Installed	Roger Paul Morin	Bishop of Biloxi, Mississippi, USA
29 Apr	41.2	Appointed	Stanislaus Tobias Magombo †	Auxiliary Bishop of Lilongwe, Malawi
	41.2	Appointed	Stanislaus Tobias Magombo †	Titular Bishop of Caesarea in Mauretania	Auxiliary Bishop of Lilongwe, Malawi
30 Apr	48.4	Ordained Bishop	Jan Romeo Pawłowski	Titular Archbishop of Sejny	Apostolic Nuncio to Congo, Republic of
	85.7	Died	David Picão †	Bishop Emeritus of Santos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	75.1	Retired	James Mwewa Spaita	Archbishop of Kasama, Zambia	Archbishop Emeritus