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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Mar	84.2	Died	Paul Kim Ok-kyun †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Seoul, Korea (South)
2 Mar	56.6	Appointed	Charles Martin Wamika	Bishop of Jinja, Uganda
	79.4	Retired	Joseph Bernard Louis Willigers, M.H.M. †	Bishop of Jinja, Uganda	Bishop Emeritus
3 Mar	76.3	Retired	George Riashi, B.C. †	Archbishop of Tripoli del Libano {Tarabulus} (Melkite Greek)	Archbishop Emeritus
4 Mar	82.1	Died	Hilario Chávez Joya, M.N.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, México
	50.0	Installed	Anthony Colin Fisher, O.P.	Bishop of Parramatta, Australia
	43.6	Ordained Bishop	Arūnas Poniškaitis	Titular Bishop of Sinna	Auxiliary Bishop of Vilnius, Lithuania
	81.4	Retired	Juozas Tunaitis †	Auxiliary Bishop of Vilnius, Lithuania	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
6 Mar	67.5	Installed	Camilo Fernando Castrellón Pizano, S.D.B.	Bishop of Barrancabermeja, Colombia
	66.5	Appointed	Valentino Di Cerbo	Bishop of Alife-Caiazzo, Italy
7 Mar	63.2	Installed	Vicente Costa	Bishop of Jundiaí, Sao Paulo, Brazil
8 Mar	52.7	Installed	Joe Steve Vásquez	Bishop of Austin, Texas, USA
10 Mar	85.6	Died	Vincent Mensah †	Bishop Emeritus of Porto Novo, Benin
11 Mar	58.2	Appointed	John Douglas Deshotel	Auxiliary Bishop of Dallas, Texas, USA
	58.2	Appointed	John Douglas Deshotel	Titular Bishop of Cova	Auxiliary Bishop of Dallas, Texas, USA
	76.5	Retired	Bernardo Hombach Lütkermeier	Bishop of Granada, Nicaragua	Bishop Emeritus
	56.2	Appointed	Mark Joseph Seitz	Auxiliary Bishop of Dallas, Texas, USA	Bishop of El Paso, Texas, USA
	56.2	Appointed	Mark Joseph Seitz	Titular Bishop of Cozyla	Bishop of El Paso, Texas, USA
	49.0	Appointed	Jorge Solórzano Pérez	Bishop of Granada, Nicaragua
12 Mar	65.0	Appointed	Jean-Claude Ézechiel Jean-Baptiste Boulanger	Bishop of Bayeux (-Lisieux), France
	75.0	Retired	Pierre Auguste Gratien Pican, S.D.B.	Bishop of Bayeux (-Lisieux), France	Bishop Emeritus
13 Mar	67.9	Appointed	Ricardo Blázquez Pérez	Archbishop of Valladolid, Spain
	57.8	Ordained Bishop	Samuel Irenios Kattukallil	Titular Bishop of Tamalluma	Auxiliary Bishop of Trivandrum (Syro-Malankarese), India
	46.1	Ordained Bishop	Vincent Paulos Kulapuravilai	Bishop of Marthandom (Syro-Malankarese), India
	75.0	Retired	Paul John Marx, M.S.C.	Bishop of Kerema, Papua New Guinea	Bishop Emeritus
	51.4	Appointed	Eugene Martin Nugent	Apostolic Nuncio to Mauritius	Apostolic Nuncio to Madagascar
	51.4	Appointed	Eugene Martin Nugent	Apostolic Nuncio to Seychelles	Apostolic Nuncio to Madagascar
	53.9	Succeeded	Patrick Taval, M.S.C. †	Bishop of Kerema, Papua New Guinea
	57.8	Ordained Bishop	Philippos Stephanos Thottathil	Titular Bishop of Sozopolis in Haemimonto	Auxiliary Bishop of Tiruvalla (Syro-Malankarese), India
	54.3	Ordained Bishop	Thomas Antonios Valiyavilayil, O.I.C.	Titular Bishop of Igilgili	Curial Bishop of Trivandrum (Syro-Malankarese), India
	50.9	Resigned	Ramón José Viloria Pinzón, S.O.D.	Bishop of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela	Bishop Emeritus
14 Mar	46.1	Installed	Vincent Paulos Kulapuravilai	Bishop of Marthandom (Syro-Malankarese), India
	63.8	Installed	Antonio Lanfranchi	Archbishop of Modena-Nonantola, Italy
15 Mar	57.8	Appointed	Vicente Bokalic Iglic, C.M.	Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina
	57.8	Appointed	Vicente Bokalic Iglic, C.M.	Titular Bishop of Summa	Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina
	66.7	Appointed	Stanislav Lipovšek	Bishop of Celje, Slovenia
	63.0	Appointed	Želimir Puljić	Archbishop of Zadar (Zara), Croatia
17 Mar	76.7	Retired	Augusto Alves da Rocha	Bishop of Floriano, Piaui, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	49.7	Appointed	Valdemir Ferreira dos Santos	Bishop of Floriano, Piaui, Brazil
	57.5	Appointed	Milan Šašik, C.M.	Bishop of Mukachevo (Munkács) (Ruthenian), Ukraine
18 Mar	57.7	Appointed	Jacques Raymond Germain Benoit-Gonnin, Comm. l'Emm.	Bishop of Beauvais (-Noyon-Senlis), France
	77.4	Retired	Charles Caruana †	Bishop of Gibraltar	Bishop Emeritus
	57.0	Appointed	Ralph Heskett, C.SS.R.	Bishop of Gibraltar
	69.1	Succeeded	Théophile Kaboy Ruboneka	Bishop of Goma, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	75.2	Retired	Faustin Ngabu	Bishop of Goma, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop Emeritus
	51.4	Ordained Bishop	Eugene Martin Nugent	Titular Archbishop of Domnach Sechnaill	Apostolic Nuncio to Madagascar
	67.3	Appointed	Francesco Panfilo, S.D.B.	Coadjutor Archbishop of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea	Archbishop
	82.3	Died	Zygmunt Józef Pawłowicz †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Gdańsk, Poland
	49.5	Ordained Bishop	Piero Pioppo	Titular Archbishop of Torcello	Apostolic Nuncio to Cameroun
	52.4	Ordained Bishop	Novatus Rugambwa	Titular Archbishop of Tagaria	Apostolic Nuncio to São Tomé and Príncipe
19 Mar	50.1	Appointed	Vilson Basso, S.C.I.	Bishop of Caxias do Maranhão, Maranho, Brazil
	55.9	Died	Carlo Chenis, S.D.B. †	Bishop of Civitavecchia-Tarquinia, Italy
	76.1	Retired	Luís d’Andrea, O.F.M. Conv. †	Bishop of Caxias do Maranhão, Maranho, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	46.3	Ordained Bishop	Salutaris Melchior Libena	Titular Bishop of Sutunurca	Bishop of Ifakara, Tanzania
	54.0	Ordained Bishop	Pedro Daniel Martínez Perea	Coadjutor Bishop of San Luis, Argentina	Bishop
	43.6	Ordained Bishop	Eusebius Alfred Nzigilwa	Titular Bishop of Mozotcori	Auxiliary Bishop of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
	43.8	Ordained Bishop	Waldemar Passini Dalbello	Titular Bishop of Membressa	Auxiliary Bishop of Goiânia, Goias, Brazil
	60.7	Appointed	Joan Enric Vives Sicilia	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Urgell, Spain	Bishop
20 Mar	50.1	Ordained Bishop	Vjekoslav Huzjak	Bishop of Bjelovar-Križevci, Croatia
	80.7	Died	Fernando Iório Rodrigues †	Bishop Emeritus of Palmeira dos Índios, Alagoas, Brazil
	48.9	Appointed	Dominic Kimengich	Auxiliary Bishop of Lodwar, Kenya	Bishop
	48.9	Appointed	Dominic Kimengich	Titular Bishop of Tanaramusa	Bishop of Lodwar, Kenya
	56.8	Ordained Bishop	Calogero Peri, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Caltagirone, Italy
	64.4	Ordained Bishop	Alberto Francisco María Sanguinetti Montero	Bishop of Canelones, Uruguay
	39.7	Ordained Bishop	Olivier Michel Marie Schmitthaeusler, M.E.P.	Titular Bishop of Catabum Castra	Vicar Apostolic of Phnom-Penh, Cambodia
22 Mar	86.7	Died	Franco Gualdrini †	Bishop Emeritus of Terni-Narni-Amelia, Italy
	88.8	Died	Leroy Theodore Matthiesen †	Bishop Emeritus of Amarillo, Texas, USA
23 Mar	62.5	Installed	Oscar Campos Contreras	Bishop of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, México
	41.3	Appointed	Charles Joseph Sampa Kasonde	Bishop of Solwezi, Zambia
24 Mar	65.9	Appointed	Francisco Lerma Martínez, I.M.C.	Bishop of Gurué, Mozambique
	73.5	Resigned	John Magee, S.P.S.	Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
	73.7	Died	José Antonio Peteiro Freire, O.F.M. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Tanger, Morocco
25 Mar	49.1	Ordained Bishop	Donald Bolen	Bishop of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
	73.5	Resigned	Andreas Choi Chang-mou	Archbishop of Kwangju, Korea (South)	Archbishop Emeritus
	53.9	Ordained Bishop	Marcelo Alejandro Cuenca Revuelta	Bishop of Alto Valle del Río Negro, Argentina
	63.1	Succeeded	Hyginus Kim Hee-jong	Archbishop of Kwangju, Korea (South)
	65.4	Installed	Lucas Kim Woon-hoe (Un-hoe)	Bishop of Ch’unch’ŏn, Korea (South)
	60.6	Ordained Bishop	William Michael Mulvey	Bishop of Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
	46.7	Appointed	Jean de Dieu Raoelison	Auxiliary Bishop of Antananarivo, Madagascar
	46.7	Appointed	Jean de Dieu Raoelison	Titular Bishop of Corniculana	Auxiliary Bishop of Antananarivo, Madagascar
	59.8	Installed	Alberto Taveira Corrêa	Archbishop of Belém do Pará, Para, Brazil
27 Mar	49.9	Appointed	Raymond Ahoua, F.D.P.	Bishop of Grand-Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire
	75.3	Retired	Paul Dacoury-Tabley	Bishop of Grand-Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire	Bishop Emeritus
	50.8	Appointed	Petar Antun Rajič	Apostolic Nuncio to Yemen	Apostolic Nuncio to Kuwait
	50.8	Appointed	Petar Antun Rajič	Apostolic Nuncio to United Arab Emirates	Apostolic Nuncio to Kuwait
29 Mar	63.1	Appointed	John ’Oke Afareha	Bishop of Warri, Nigeria
	61.1	Resigned	Richard Anthony Burke, S.P.S.	Apostolic Administrator of Warri, Nigeria	Archbishop Emeritus of Benin City, Nigeria
	62.3	Succeeded	Christophe Dufour	Archbishop of Aix (-Arles), France
	74.1	Resigned	Claude Feidt	Archbishop of Aix (-Arles), France	Archbishop Emeritus
	66.1	Appointed	Jean Marie Vu Tât	Auxiliary Bishop of Hung Hoá, Viet Nam	Bishop
	66.1	Appointed	Jean Marie Vu Tât	Titular Bishop of Thisiduo	Bishop of Hung Hoá, Viet Nam
30 Mar	63.1	Installed	John ’Oke Afareha	Bishop of Warri, Nigeria
	80.7	Died	Josef Homeyer †	Bishop Emeritus of Hildesheim, Germany
	63.4	Appointed	Luis Madrid Merlano	Archbishop of Nueva Pamplona, Colombia
31 Mar	59.9	Appointed	William Hanna Shomali	Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine
	59.9	Appointed	William Hanna Shomali	Titular Bishop of Lydda	Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine
1 Apr	52.4	Appointed	Ruperto Cruz Santos	Bishop of Balanga, Philippines
	68.6	Died	Vito De Grisantis †	Bishop of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca, Italy
4 Apr	80.7	Died	Lajos Bálint †	Archbishop Emeritus of Alba Iulia, Romania
6 Apr	76.6	Retired	Tomas Aguon Camacho	Bishop of Chalan Kanoa, Northern Mariana Islands, Pacific (Oceania)	Bishop Emeritus
	58.3	Appointed	José Horacio Gómez Velasco	Coadjutor Archbishop of Los Angeles, California, USA	Archbishop
7 Apr	63.8	Ordained Bishop	George Njaralakatt	Bishop of Mandya (Syro-Malabarese), India
	63.5	Resigned	James Matthew Wingle	Bishop of Saint Catharines, Ontario, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
8 Apr	45.7	Appointed	Nicolás Baisi	Auxiliary Bishop of La Plata, Argentina
	45.7	Appointed	Nicolás Baisi	Titular Bishop of Tepelta	Auxiliary Bishop of La Plata, Argentina
	48.7	Ordained Bishop	Remigius Maria Paul Inchananiyil	Bishop of Thamarasserry (Syro-Malabarese), India
	50.9	Ordained Bishop	Vincenzo Pisanello	Bishop of Oria, Italy
10 Apr	67.0	Installed	Dominik Jaroslav Duka, O.P.	Cardinal, Archbishop of Praha {Prague}, Czech Republic
	75.5	Retired	Miguel Mykycej, F.D.P.	Bishop of Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires (Ukrainian), Argentina	Bishop Emeritus
	63.7	Installed	Guillermo Orozco Montoya	Bishop of Girardota, Colombia
	54.1	Died	Tadeusz Płoski †	Bishop of Poland, Military
	53.1	Ordained Bishop	Jean Marie Prida Inthirath	Titular Bishop of Lemfocta	Vicar Apostolic of Savannakhet, Laos
	39.9	Appointed	Sviatoslav Shevchuk	Apostolic Administrator of Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires (Ukrainian), Argentina	Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine
	54.0	Ordained Bishop	Raphael Thattil	Titular Bishop of Buruni	Auxiliary Bishop of Trichur (Syro-Malabarese), India
	47.9	Appointed	Jaime José Villarroel Rodríguez	Bishop of Carúpano, Venezuela
11 Apr	48.0	Ordained Bishop	Paul Alappatt	Bishop of Ramanathapuram (Syro-Malabarese), India
	53.9	Installed	Marcelo Alejandro Cuenca Revuelta	Bishop of Alto Valle del Río Negro, Argentina
	68.3	Ordained Bishop	Woldeghiorghis Mathewos	Titular Bishop of Turuda	Vicar Apostolic of Hosanna, Ethiopia
12 Apr	81.0	Died	Andrea Cassone †	Archbishop Emeritus of Rossano-Cariati, Italy
	78.2	Died	Miguel C. Cinches, S.V.D. †	Bishop Emeritus of Surigao, Philippines
	58.9	Appointed	Barnaba Yousif Benham Habash	Bishop of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark (Syrian), USA
13 Apr	90.2	Died	André Bedoglouyan, I.C.P.B. †	Patriarchal Exarch Emeritus of Jerusalem and Amman {Gerusalemme e Amman} (Armenian), Palestine
	57.9	Installed	Joseph Thomas Konnath	Bishop of Battery (Bathery) (Syro-Malankarese), India
14 Apr	51.3	Ordained Bishop	Hubertus Leteng	Bishop of Ruteng, Indonesia
	72.0	Resigned	Walmir Alberto Valle, I.M.C.	Bishop of Joaçaba, Santa Catarina, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
15 Apr	54.5	Ordained Bishop	Rafael Biernaski	Titular Bishop of Ruspae	Auxiliary Bishop of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
	52.3	Resigned	Jacob Venance Koda	Bishop of Same, Tanzania	Bishop Emeritus
16 Apr	88.2	Died	Norman Francis McFarland †	Bishop Emeritus of Orange in California, USA
	90.3	Died	Tomáš Špidlík, S.J. †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Agata de’ Goti
17 Apr	47.9	Succeeded	Felix Femi Ajakaye	Bishop of Ekiti, Nigeria
	75.0	Retired	Michael Patrick Olatunji Fagun	Bishop of Ekiti, Nigeria	Bishop Emeritus
	85.1	Died	Edmund Joseph Fitzgibbon, S.P.S. †	Bishop Emeritus of Warri, Nigeria
	54.1	Ordained Bishop	Gabriel Edoe Kumordji, S.V.D.	Titular Bishop of Ita	Vicar Apostolic of Donkorkrom, Ghana
	66.6	Installed	Carlos Germán Mesa Ruiz	Bishop of Socorro y San Gil, Colombia
	75.4	Retired	Simon Akwali Okafor	Bishop of Awka, Nigeria	Bishop Emeritus
	52.8	Ordained Bishop	Jorge Patricio Vega Velasco, S.V.D.	Prelate of Illapel, Chile
18 Apr	48.3	Ordained Bishop	Pauly Kannookadan	Bishop of Irinjalakuda (Syro-Malabarese), India
	55.1	Ordained Bishop	João Noé Rodrigues	Bishop of Tzaneen, South Africa
	50.3	Ordained Bishop	Lisane-Christos Matheos Semahun	Titular Bishop of Mathara in Numidia	Auxiliary Bishop of Addis Abeba (Ethiopian), Ethiopia
19 Apr	96.5	Died	William Donald Borders †	Archbishop Emeritus of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
20 Apr	74.4	Resigned	John Clement Favalora	Archbishop of Miami, Florida, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
	57.7	Appointed	Thomas John Joseph Paprocki	Bishop of Springfield in Illinois, USA
	59.5	Appointed	Thomas Gerard Wenski	Archbishop of Miami, Florida, USA
21 Apr	47.1	Confirmed	Jaroslav Pryriz, C.SS.R.	Coadjutor Bishop of Sambir-Drohobych (Ukrainian), Ukraine	Bishop
22 Apr	73.7	Resigned	James Moriarty	Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
	72.1	Appointed	Pierre Nguyên Văn Nhon	Coadjutor Archbishop of Hà Nôi, Viet Nam	Archbishop
23 Apr	73.5	Resigned	Roger Joseph Vangheluwe	Bishop of Brugge {Bruges}, Belgium	Bishop Emeritus
24 Apr	54.2	Ordained Bishop	Norberto do Amaral	Bishop of Maliana, Timor-Leste
	66.8	Ordained Bishop	Stanislav Lipovšek	Bishop of Celje, Slovenia
	51.0	Installed	Vincenzo Pisanello	Bishop of Oria, Italy
	62.8	Installed	Luis Quinteiro Fiuza	Bishop of Tui-Vigo, Spain
	52.3	Ordained Bishop	Montfort Stima (Sitima)	Titular Bishop of Puppi	Auxiliary Bishop of Blantyre, Malawi
25 Apr	54.2	Installed	Norberto do Amaral	Bishop of Maliana, Timor-Leste
26 Apr	54.1	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Charles Bambera	Bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
27 Apr	58.3	Ordained Bishop	John Douglas Deshotel	Titular Bishop of Cova	Auxiliary Bishop of Dallas, Texas, USA
	56.3	Ordained Bishop	Mark Joseph Seitz	Titular Bishop of Cozyla	Bishop of El Paso, Texas, USA
28 Apr	46.3	Appointed	Launay Saturné	Bishop of Jacmel, Haïti
29 Apr	64.6	Appointed	Benjamín Castillo Plascencia	Bishop of Celaya, Guanajuato, México
	69.4	Appointed	Victor Gnanapragasam, O.M.I.	Vicar Apostolic of Quetta, Pakistan
	69.4	Appointed	Victor Gnanapragasam, O.M.I.	Titular Bishop of Thimida	Vicar Apostolic of Quetta, Pakistan
	45.5	Appointed	John Baptist Jung Shin-chul	Auxiliary Bishop of Incheon {Inch’on}, Korea (South)
	45.5	Appointed	John Baptist Jung Shin-chul	Titular Bishop of Cuicul	Auxiliary Bishop of Incheon {Inch’on}, Korea (South)
30 Apr	52.9	Ordained Bishop	José Araneta Cabantan	Bishop of Malaybalay, Philippines
	70.0	Resigned	Timothy Joseph Carroll, S.M.A.	Vicar Apostolic of Kontagora, Nigeria	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
	53.5	Appointed	Rogatus Kimaryo, C.S.Sp.	Bishop of Same, Tanzania
	54.1	Ordained Bishop	Terry Ronald LaValley	Bishop of Ogdensburg, New York, USA
	61.0	Appointed	Juan Odilón Martínez García	Bishop of Atlacomulco, México, México
	98.9	Died	Paul Augustin Mayer, O.S.B. †	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”
	66.5	Appointed	Peter David Smith	Archbishop of Southwark, England, Great Britain
	52.9	Installed	Jorge Patricio Vega Velasco, S.V.D.	Prelate of Illapel, Chile