The Year of Our Lord 2012

Bishop Events

January

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
unknown	74.9	Retired	Pier Luigi Celata	Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue	Vice-Chamberlain Emeritus of the Apostolic Chamber
	48.7	Incardinated	Paulo Celso Dias do Nascimento	Priest of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Bishop of Itaguaí, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	54.0	Selected	Francis Xavier Jin Yangke	Coadjutor Bishop of Ningbo [Ningpo], China	Bishop
	78.7	Appointed	Bernard Mosiuoa Mohlalisi, O.M.I. †	Apostolic Administrator of Qacha’s Nek, Lesotho	Archbishop Emeritus of Maseru, Lesotho
	46.0	Appointed	Johannes Peng Weizhao	Apostolic Administrator of Yujiang [Yükiang], China	Auxiliary Bishop of Nanchang [Nanchang], China
	41.5	Confirmed	John Wang Renlei	Bishop of Xuzhou [Süchow], China
1 Jan	86.9	Died	Alfredo Battisti †	Archbishop Emeritus of Udine, Italy
	33.7	Appointed	Ivan Kovač	Official of the Congregation for Bishops	Under Secretary of the Dicastery for Bishops
	59.7	Appointed	Jeffrey Neil Steenson	Ordinary of The Chair of Saint Peter, USA	Ordinary Emeritus
4 Jan	63.5	Appointed	Cirilo Bustamante Flores †	Coadjutor Bishop of San Diego, California, USA	Bishop
4 Jan	60.3	Resigned	Gabino Zavala	Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, California, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
5 Jan	76.4	Retired	Fortunato Baldelli †	Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus
	59.3	Appointed	Constancio Miranda Wechmann	Apostolic Administrator of Parral, Chihuahua, México	Archbishop of Chihuahua, México
	73.7	Appointed	Manuel Monteiro de Castro	Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus
	63.4	Installed	Filippo Santoro	Archbishop of Taranto, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
	64.9	Appointed	Emil Paul Tscherrig	Apostolic Nuncio to Argentina	Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio
6 Jan	52.2	Ordained Bishop	Charles John Brown	Titular Archbishop of Aquileia	Apostolic Nuncio to Philippines
6 Jan	50.7	Ordained Bishop	Marek Solczyński	Titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Mauretania	Apostolic Nuncio to Turkey
7 Jan	47.4	Appointed	Henry Aruna	Bishop of Makeni, Sierra Leone	Bishop of Kenema, Sierra Leone
	75.9	Retired	George (Giorgio) Biguzzi, S.X. †	Bishop of Makeni, Sierra Leone	Bishop Emeritus
	55.5	Ordained Bishop	Antonio De Luca, C.Ss.R.	Bishop of Teggiano-Policastro, Italy
	61.8	Ordained Bishop	José Luis Del Palacio y Pérez-Medel	Bishop of Callao, Peru	Bishop Emeritus
	53.3	Appointed	John Oballa Owaa	Bishop of Ngong, Kenya
10 Jan	83.8	Died	José Freire de Oliveira Neto †	Bishop Emeritus of Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
11 Jan	59.7	Installed	Jose Lazaro Fuerte Advincula Jr.	Archbishop of Capiz, Philippines	Cardinal, Archbishop of Manila, Philippines
11 Jan	71.2	Appointed	Lorenzo Baldisseri	Secretary of the Congregation for Bishops	Cardinal, Secretary General Emeritus of the Synod of Bishops
12 Jan	54.4	Appointed	Ignatius Chama	Archbishop of Kasama, Zambia
	54.4	Appointed	Ignatius Chama	Apostolic Administrator of Mpika, Zambia	Archbishop of Kasama, Zambia
	71.7	Appointed	Agostino Vallini	Apostolic Administrator of Ostia, Italy	Cardinal, Vicar General Emeritus of Roma {Rome}, Italy
13 Jan	57.5	Appointed	Lawrence Pius Dorairaj	Bishop of Dharmapuri, India
	76.2	Retired	Joseph Anthony Irudayaraj, S.D.B. †	Bishop of Dharmapuri, India	Bishop Emeritus
	52.0	Appointed	Pascal Jean Marcel Wintzer	Archbishop of Poitiers, France	Archbishop of Sens (-Auxerre), France
14 Jan	75.1	Retired	Jaime Pedro Gonçalves †	Archbishop of Beira, Mozambique	Archbishop Emeritus
	43.8	Appointed	João Carlos Hatoa Nunes	Apostolic Administrator of Beira, Mozambique	Archbishop of Maputo, Mozambique
	48.1	Appointed	Salutaris Melchior Libena	Bishop of Ifakara, Tanzania
	99.8	Died	Antonio Mistrorigo †	Bishop Emeritus of Treviso, Italy
	75.0	Retired	Bosco Penha	Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay, India	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
16 Jan	52.6	Confirmed	Michel Aoun	Bishop of Jbeil {Byblos} (Maronite), Lebanon
	59.0	Confirmed	Mounir Khairallah	Bishop of Batrun (Maronite), Lebanon
	60.4	Confirmed	Elias Khoury Sleman	Bishop of Lattaquié {Laodicea} (Maronite), Syria	Bishop Emeritus
	77.0	Retired	Paweł Socha, C.M.	Auxiliary Bishop of Zielona Góra-Gorzów, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
17 Jan	80.5	Died	Colin Campbell †	Bishop Emeritus of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
18 Jan	86.0	Appointed	Prospero (Stanley) Grech, O.S.A. †	Titular Archbishop of San Leone	Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria Goretti
	75.2	Retired	Thomas Menamparampil, S.D.B.	Archbishop of Guwahati, India	Archbishop Emeritus
	60.0	Succeeded	John Moolachira	Archbishop of Guwahati, India
19 Jan	83.7	Died	Giovanni De Andrea †	Vice President Emeritus of the Labour Office of the Apostolic See
	63.4	Appointed	Maroun Elias Nimeh Lahham	Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	63.4	Appointed	Maroun Elias Nimeh Lahham	Titular Archbishop of Medaba	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine
	76.8	Retired	Salim Sayegh	Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	55.6	Appointed	William Charles Skurla	Archbishop of Pittsburgh (Ruthenian), Pennsylvania, USA
20 Jan	77.8	Died	Robert Fortune Sanchez †	Archbishop Emeritus of Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
22 Jan	56.9	Ordained Bishop	Francesco Cavina	Bishop of Carpi, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
22 Jan	61.8	Installed	José Luis Del Palacio y Pérez-Medel	Bishop of Callao, Peru	Bishop Emeritus
23 Jan	91.7	Appointed	Julien Ries †	Titular Archbishop of Bellicastrum	Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Antonio di Padova a Circonvallazione Appia
24 Jan	75.2	Retired	Philippe Jean Louis Breton †	Bishop of Aire et Dax, France	Bishop Emeritus
24 Jan	52.6	Appointed	Hervé Gaschignard	Bishop of Aire et Dax, France	Bishop Emeritus
25 Jan	66.5	Appointed	Joseph Coutts	Archbishop of Karachi, Pakistan	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	51.1	Appointed	Paul Abel Mamba Diatta	Bishop of Ziguinchor, Senegal	Bishop of Tambacounda, Senegal
	78.0	Retired	Evarist Pinto	Archbishop of Karachi, Pakistan	Archbishop Emeritus
26 Jan	86.2	Died	Juan Fremiot Torres Oliver †	Bishop Emeritus of Ponce, Puerto Rico
27 Jan	50.4	Appointed	Santo Rocco Gangemi	Apostolic Nuncio to Solomon Islands	Apostolic Nuncio to Serbia
	50.4	Appointed	Santo Rocco Gangemi	Titular Archbishop of Umbriatico	Apostolic Nuncio to Serbia
	50.4	Appointed	Julio Murat	Apostolic Nuncio to Zambia	Apostolic Nuncio to Sweden
	50.4	Appointed	Julio Murat	Titular Archbishop of Orange	Apostolic Nuncio to Sweden
	48.5	Appointed	Luciano Russo	Official of the Secretariat of State	Secretary (Pontifical Representations)
	48.5	Appointed	Luciano Russo	Titular Archbishop of Monteverde	Secretary (Pontifical Representations) of the Secretariat of State
	44.6	Ordained Bishop	Sebastian Tudu	Bishop of Dinajpur, Bangladesh
28 Jan	64.1	Installed	Jan Kopiec	Bishop of Gliwice, Poland	Bishop Emeritus
28 Jan	51.3	Installed	Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Liesen	Bishop of Breda, Netherlands
29 Jan	59.7	Installed	António José da Rocha Couto, S.M.P.	Bishop of Lamego, Portugal
29 Jan	83.3	Died	Gabriel Lawrence Sengol †	Bishop Emeritus of Tiruchirapalli, India
30 Jan	95.8	Died	Eladio Acosta Arteaga, C.I.M. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Santa Fe de Antioquia, Colombia
30 Jan	52.0	Ordained Bishop	José Armando Álvarez Cano	Prelate of Huautla, Oaxaca, México	Bishop of Tampico, Tamaulipas, México
31 Jan	90.8	Died	Everardus Antonius M. Baaij, S.C.I. †	Bishop Emeritus of Aliwal, South Africa
	69.2	Resigned	Gerard Bernacki †	Auxiliary Bishop of Katowice, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	88.6	Died	Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
	47.7	Appointed	Jozef Hal’ko	Auxiliary Bishop of Bratislava, Slovakia
	47.7	Appointed	Jozef Hal’ko	Titular Bishop of Serra	Auxiliary Bishop of Bratislava, Slovakia
	49.4	Appointed	Vincent Harolimana	Bishop of Ruhengeri, Rwanda
	54.1	Appointed	Filippo Iannone, O. Carm.	Vicegerent of Roma {Rome}, Italy	Prefect of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts
	54.1	Appointed	Filippo Iannone, O. Carm.	Archbishop (Personal Title)	Prefect of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts
	56.3	Appointed	Lorenzo Leuzzi	Auxiliary Bishop of Roma {Rome}, Italy	Bishop of Teramo-Atri, Italy
	56.3	Appointed	Lorenzo Leuzzi	Titular Bishop of Aemona	Bishop of Teramo-Atri, Italy
	58.6	Appointed	Francesco Moraglia	Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy
	56.3	Appointed	Matteo Maria Zuppi	Auxiliary Bishop of Roma {Rome}, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy
	56.3	Appointed	Matteo Maria Zuppi	Titular Bishop of Villa Nova	Cardinal, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy

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