Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
1 May | 54.0 | Appointed | Raymond Poisson | Auxiliary Bishop of Saint-Jérôme, Québec, Canada | Bishop |
54.0 | Appointed | Raymond Poisson | Titular Bishop of Gegi | Bishop of Saint-Jérôme, Québec, Canada |
51.3 | Ordained Bishop | Edward Joseph Weisenburger | Bishop of Salina, Kansas, USA | Bishop of Tucson, Arizona, USA |
2 May | 75.1 | Retired | Lorenzo Cárdenas Aregullín | Bishop of Papantla, Puebla, México | Bishop Emeritus |
66.7 | Appointed | Raymond Francis Chappetto | Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn, New York, USA |
66.7 | Appointed | Raymond Francis Chappetto | Titular Bishop of Citium | Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn, New York, USA |
50.0 | Ordained Bishop | Juan María Huerta Muro, O.F.M. | Prelate of El Salto, Durango, México |
54.3 | Succeeded | Jorge Carlos Patrón Wong | Bishop of Papantla, Puebla, México | Official of the Congregation for the Clergy |
65.4 | Appointed | Paul Robert Sanchez | Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn, New York, USA |
65.4 | Appointed | Paul Robert Sanchez | Titular Bishop of Coeliana | Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn, New York, USA |
66.0 | Ordained Bishop | George Arthur Sheltz | Titular Bishop of Hirina | Auxiliary Bishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA |
3 May | 41.3 | Ordained Bishop | Bulus Dauwa Yohanna | Titular Bishop of Scebatiana | Bishop of Kontagora, Nigeria |
52.3 | Appointed | Antoni Dziemianko | Bishop of Pinsk, Belarus |
75.9 | Died | František Tondra † | Bishop Emeritus of Spiš, Slovakia |
4 May | 57.0 | Appointed | James Romen Boiragi | Bishop of Khulna, Bangladesh |
73.9 | Died | Anthony Joseph O’Connell † | Bishop Emeritus of Palm Beach, Florida, USA |
5 May | 52.0 | Ordained Bishop | Christopher John Glancy, C.S.V. | Titular Bishop of Absa Salla | Auxiliary Bishop of Belize City-Belmopan, Belize, Antilles |
6 May | 73.3 | Died | Félix Kouadjo † | Bishop of Bondoukou, Côte d’Ivoire |
7 May | 75.1 | Retired | Onésimo Cepeda Silva | Bishop of Ecatepec, México, México | Bishop Emeritus |
8 May | 89.5 | Died | William Aquin Carew † | Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Japan |
61.1 | Appointed | Stephen Robson | Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain | Bishop of Dunkeld, Scotland, Great Britain |
61.1 | Appointed | Stephen Robson | Titular Bishop of Tunnuna | Bishop of Dunkeld, Scotland, Great Britain |
9 May | 45.7 | Appointed | Roque Costa Souza | Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
45.7 | Appointed | Roque Costa Souza | Titular Bishop of Castellum Medianum | Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
10 May | 80.4 | Retired | Nicholas Cheong Jin-Suk | Archbishop of Seoul, Korea (South) | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus |
80.4 | Retired | Nicholas Cheong Jin-Suk | Apostolic Administrator of P’yŏng-yang, Korea (North) | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Seoul, Korea (South) |
75.5 | Retired | Hernán Giraldo Jaramillo | Bishop of Buga, Colombia | Bishop Emeritus |
65.1 | Appointed | José Roberto Ospina Leongómez | Bishop of Buga, Colombia |
68.4 | Appointed | Andrew Yeom Soo-jung | Cardinal, Archbishop of Seoul, Korea (South) |
68.4 | Appointed | Andrew Yeom Soo-jung | Apostolic Administrator of P’yŏng-yang, Korea (North) | Cardinal, Archbishop of Seoul, Korea (South) |
11 May | 63.6 | Installed | Mark Benedict Coleridge | Archbishop of Brisbane, Australia |
12 May | 44.9 | Ordained Bishop | Luiz Henrique da Silva Brito | Titular Bishop of Zallata | Bishop of Barra do Piraí-Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
49.0 | Appointed | Andrzej Jeż | Bishop of Tarnów, Poland |
57.6 | Ordained Bishop | Pierre Claver Malgo | Bishop of Fada N’Gourma, Burkina Faso |
72.9 | Ceased | Salvatore Nunnari | Apostolic Administrator of Lungro degli Italo-Albanesi (Italo-Albanese), Italy | Archbishop Emeritus of Cosenza-Bisignano, Italy |
56.1 | Appointed | Donato Oliverio | Bishop of Lungro degli Italo-Albanesi (Italo-Albanese), Italy |
53.8 | Appointed | Orlando Roa Barbosa | Auxiliary Bishop of Ibagué, Colombia | Archbishop |
53.8 | Appointed | Orlando Roa Barbosa | Titular Bishop of Nasbinca | Archbishop of Ibagué, Colombia |
13 May | 62.8 | Installed | Adriano Ciocca Vasino | Prelate of São Félix, Mato Grosso, Brazil |
53.6 | Ordained Bishop | Giovanni Crippa, I.M.C. | Titular Bishop of Accia | Bishop of Estância, Sergipe, Brazil |
63.8 | Ordained Bishop | Francesco Milito | Bishop of Oppido Mamertina-Palmi, Italy |
106.1 | Died | Antoine Nguyễn Văn Thiện † | Bishop Emeritus of Vĩnh Long, Viet Nam |
14 May | 47.5 | Appointed | Dennis Kofi Agbenyadzi, S.M.A. | Bishop of Berbérati, Central African Republic |
79.5 | Retired | Rodolfo Francisco Bobadilla Mata, C.M. † | Bishop of Huehuetenango, Guatemala | Bishop Emeritus |
56.2 | Ordained Bishop | David John Malloy | Bishop of Rockford, Illinois, USA |
68.2 | Appointed | Robert Michael McGuckin | Bishop of Toowoomba, Australia |
42.1 | Appointed | Nestor-Désiré Nongo-Aziagbia, S.M.A. | Bishop of Bossangoa, Central African Republic |
45.1 | Appointed | Dieudonné Nzapalainga, C.S.Sp. | Cardinal, Archbishop of Bangui, Central African Republic |
64.8 | Appointed | Alvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri | Cardinal, Bishop of Huehuetenango, Guatemala |
72.9 | Appointed | Dimitrios Salachas | Titular Bishop of Gratianopolis | Apostolic Exarch Emeritus of Greece (Greek) |
42.2 | Appointed | Cyr-Nestor Yapaupa | Coadjutor Bishop of Alindao, Central African Republic | Bishop |
15 May | 59.2 | Appointed | Varghese Chakkalakal | Bishop of Calicut, India |
59.2 | Appointed | Varghese Chakkalakal | Apostolic Administrator of Kannur, India | Bishop of Calicut, India |
54.1 | Appointed | Roberto Calara Mallari | Bishop of San Jose, Philippines |
77.2 | Retired | Thomas Kwaku Mensah † | Archbishop of Kumasi, Ghana | Archbishop Emeritus |
51.9 | Appointed | Gabriel Justice Yaw Anokye | Archbishop of Kumasi, Ghana |
16 May | 66.0 | Installed | Jesús Carlos Cabrero Romero | Archbishop of San Luis Potosí, México |
61.0 | Installed | William Edward Lori | Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
73.1 | Ceased | Edwin Frederick O’Brien | Apostolic Administrator of Baltimore, Maryland, USA | Cardinal, Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem |
48.1 | Selected | Joseph Yue Fusheng | Bishop of Harbin [Harbin], China |
17 May | 47.7 | Appointed | Vincent Dollmann | Auxiliary Bishop of Strasbourg, France | Archbishop of Cambrai, France |
47.7 | Appointed | Vincent Dollmann | Titular Bishop of Cursola | Archbishop of Cambrai, France |
58.9 | Installed | Willem Jacobus Eijk | Cardinal-Priest of San Callisto | Cardinal, Archbishop of Utrecht, Netherlands |
18 May | 64.7 | Ordained Bishop | Liam Stephen Cary | Bishop of Baker, Oregon, USA |
54.9 | Appointed | Wayne Joseph Kirkpatrick | Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Bishop of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada |
54.9 | Appointed | Wayne Joseph Kirkpatrick | Titular Bishop of Aradi | Bishop of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada |
19 May | 80.6 | Died | Isak Doera † | Bishop Emeritus of Sintang, Indonesia |
68.9 | Removed | Francesco Micciché | Bishop of Trapani, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
79.1 | Retired | Luis María Pérez de Onraita Aguirre † | Archbishop of Malanje, Angola | Archbishop Emeritus |
79.7 | Appointed | Alessandro Plotti † | Apostolic Administrator of Trapani, Italy | Archbishop Emeritus of Pisa, Italy |
65.5 | Appointed | Benedito Roberto, C.S.Sp. † | Archbishop of Malanje, Angola |
46.1 | Appointed | Zeferino Zeca Martins, S.V.D. | Auxiliary Bishop of Luanda, Angola | Archbishop of Huambo, Angola |
46.1 | Appointed | Zeferino Zeca Martins, S.V.D. | Titular Bishop of Tanaramusa | Archbishop of Huambo, Angola |
20 May | 76.6 | Installed | Santos Abril y Castelló | Cardinal-Deacon of San Ponziano | Cardinal, Archpriest Emeritus of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica} |
65.0 | Installed | João Bráz de Aviz | Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Elena fuori Porta Prenestina | Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life |
41.5 | Ordained Bishop | Fikremariam Hagos Tsalim | Bishop of Segheneity (Eritrean), Eritrea |
21 May | 61.5 | Appointed | Alessandro D’Errico | Apostolic Nuncio to Croatia | Apostolic Nuncio to Malta |
24 May | 88.5 | Died | Ermenegildus (Paul) Li Yi, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Changzhi [Luan], China |
25 May | 52.9 | Appointed | Alfred Adewale Martins | Archbishop of Lagos, Nigeria |
75.9 | Retired | Anthony Olubunmi Okogie | Archbishop of Lagos, Nigeria | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus |
26 May | 54.1 | Appointed | Dieudonné Espoir Atangana | Bishop of Nkongsamba, Cameroon |
53.3 | Ordained Bishop | Kuriakose Bharanikulangara | Bishop of Faridabad (Syro-Malabar), India |
65.2 | Appointed | Jurij Bizjak | Bishop of Koper, Slovenia |
42.8 | Appointed | Abraham Boualo Kome | Bishop of Bafang, Cameroon |
76.0 | Retired | Metod Pirih | Bishop of Koper, Slovenia | Bishop Emeritus |
27 May | 53.3 | Installed | Kuriakose Bharanikulangara | Bishop of Faridabad (Syro-Malabar), India |
69.3 | Installed | Domenico Calcagno | Cardinal-Deacon of Annunciazione della Beata Vergine Maria a Via Ardeatina | Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See |
41.5 | Installed | Fikremariam Hagos Tsalim | Bishop of Segheneity (Eritrean), Eritrea |
28 May | 43.5 | Appointed | Elkin Fernando Álvarez Botero | Auxiliary Bishop of Medellín, Colombia | Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia |
43.5 | Appointed | Elkin Fernando Álvarez Botero | Titular Bishop of Gemellae in Numidia | Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia |
58.9 | Appointed | Médard Léopold Ouédraogo | Auxiliary Bishop of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso |
58.9 | Appointed | Médard Léopold Ouédraogo | Titular Bishop of Sutunurca | Auxiliary Bishop of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso |
64.0 | Appointed | Philippe Rukamba | Apostolic Administrator of Gikongoro, Rwanda | Bishop of Butare, Rwanda |
29 May | 61.6 | Appointed | Samuel Joseph Aquila | Archbishop of Denver, Colorado, USA |
75.9 | Retired | Edward Urban Kmiec † | Bishop of Buffalo, New York, USA | Bishop Emeritus |
66.1 | Appointed | Richard Joseph Malone | Bishop of Buffalo, New York, USA | Bishop Emeritus |
30 May | 46.0 | Appointed | Jeremias Antônio de Jesus | Bishop of Guanhães, Minas Gerais, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus |
44.4 | Selected | Thaddeus Ma Daquin | Auxiliary Bishop of Shanghai [Shanghai], China |
31 May | 77.5 | Retired | Jesús María de Jesús Moya | Bishop of San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic | Bishop Emeritus |
70.4 | Appointed | Fausto Ramón Mejía Vallejo | Bishop of San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic |
67.4 | Appointed | Benedetto Tuzia | Bishop of Orvieto-Todi, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |