The Year of Our Lord 2012

Bishop Events

December

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

1 Dec 76.5 Retired Alphonse Émile Georger Bishop of Oran, Algeria Bishop Emeritus

44.5 Appointed Michael Robert Kennedy Apostolic Administrator of Wilcannia-Forbes, Australia Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Australia

79.1 Retired John Lee Hiong Fun-Yit Yaw Archbishop of Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia Archbishop Emeritus

79.0 Ceased Kevin Michael Manning † Apostolic Administrator of Wilcannia-Forbes, Australia Bishop Emeritus of Parramatta, Australia

71.0 Appointed Luigi Negri † Archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio, Italy Archbishop Emeritus

76.0 Retired Paolo Rabitti Archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio, Italy Archbishop Emeritus

53.7 Ordained Bishop Ramón Alberto Rolón Güepsa Bishop of Montería, Colombia Bishop of Chiquinquirá, Colombia

50.7 Appointed Jean-Paul Vesco, O.P. Bishop of Oran, Algeria Cardinal, Archbishop of Alger, Algeria

44.4 Succeeded John Wong Soo Kau Archbishop of Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

2 Dec 52.0 Installed Borys Andrij Gudziak Apostolic Exarch of France (Ukrainian) Archbishop of Philadelphia (Ukrainian), Pennsylvania, USA

56.0 Installed Luigi Ernesto Palletti Bishop of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato, Italy

3 Dec 74.0 Died Jules Mikhael Al-Jamil † Auxiliary Bishop of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon

85.6 Died Leo Rajendram Antony † Bishop Emeritus of Trincomalee-Batticaloa, Sri Lanka

54.4 Ceased Christopher James Coyne Apostolic Administrator of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Archbishop of Hartford, Connecticut, USA

60.5 Installed Joseph William Tobin, C.Ss.R. Archbishop of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Cardinal, Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA

4 Dec 73.6 Died José Alves da Costa, D.C. † Bishop Emeritus of Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

57.3 Appointed Alberto Germán Bochatey Chaneton, O.S.A. Auxiliary Bishop of La Plata, Argentina

57.3 Appointed Alberto Germán Bochatey Chaneton, O.S.A. Titular Bishop of Mons in Mauretania Auxiliary Bishop of La Plata, Argentina

86.7 Died Massimo Giustetti † Bishop Emeritus of Biella, Italy

39.5 Solemn Vows Nil Yuriy Lushchak, O.F.M. Priest of Order of Friars Minor Auxiliary Bishop of Mukachevo (Munkács) (Ruthenian), Ukraine

5 Dec 61.8 Installed Rogelio Cabrera López Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México

50.3 Ceased Jorge Alberto Cavazos Arizpe Apostolic Administrator of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México Archbishop of San Luis Potosí, México

95.8 Died Wilhelmus Joannes (Guillaume Jean) Demarteau, M.S.F. † Bishop Emeritus of Banjarmasin, Indonesia

6 Dec 49.8 Appointed Murray Chatlain Archbishop of Keewatin-Le Pas, Manitoba, Canada Archbishop of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

49.8 Appointed Murray Chatlain Apostolic Administrator of Mackenzie-Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada Archbishop of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

53.1 Appointed Rudolf Voderholzer Bishop of Regensburg, Germany

7 Dec 66.0 Ordained Bishop Massimo Camisasca, F.S.C.B. Bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy Bishop Emeritus

64.3 Appointed Adelio Dell’Oro Apostolic Administrator of Atyrau, Kazakhstan Bishop of Karaganda, Kazakhstan

64.3 Appointed Adelio Dell’Oro Titular Bishop of Castulo Bishop of Karaganda, Kazakhstan

56.3 Appointed Georg Gänswein Prefect of the Prefecture of the Papal Household Apostolic Nuncio to Lithuania

56.3 Appointed Georg Gänswein Titular Archbishop of Urbs Salvia Apostolic Nuncio to Lithuania

48.1 Resigned Janusz Wiesław Kaleta Apostolic Administrator of Atyrau, Kazakhstan

49.7 Appointed Peter Ebere Okpaleke Bishop of Ahiara, Nigeria Cardinal, Bishop of Ekwulobia, Nigeria

8 Dec 53.5 Ordained Bishop Anand Jojo Bishop of Hazaribag, India

55.1 Installed Ryszard Kasyna Bishop of Pelplin, Poland

57.0 Died Ambrose Madtha † Apostolic Nuncio to Côte d’Ivoire

9 Dec 89.6 Died Ivan Ljavinec † Apostolic Exarch Emeritus of Czech Republic (Ruthenian)

10 Dec 83.5 Died Jacques André Marie Jullien † Archbishop Emeritus of Rennes (-Dol-Saint-Malo), France

75.0 Retired Sergio Giovanni Pintor † Bishop of Ozieri, Italy Bishop Emeritus

67.6 Appointed Sebastiano Sanguinetti Apostolic Administrator of Ozieri, Italy Bishop Emeritus of Tempio-Ampurias, Italy

61.5 Installed Kevin William Vann Bishop of Orange in California, USA

11 Dec 58.8 Appointed Paul Richard Gallagher Apostolic Nuncio to Australia Secretary (Relations with States) of the Secretariat of State

97.2 Died Pedro Reginaldo Lira † Bishop Emeritus of San Francisco, Argentina

84.5 Died Walter Francis Sullivan † Bishop Emeritus of Richmond, Virginia, USA

12 Dec 58.5 Appointed Sérgio Eduardo Castriani, C.S.Sp. † Archbishop of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil Archbishop Emeritus

92.1 Died Augustin Sagna † Bishop Emeritus of Ziguinchor, Senegal

75.6 Retired Luiz Soares Vieira Archbishop of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil Archbishop Emeritus

69.6 Ordained Bishop Paul Terrio Bishop of Saint Paul in Alberta, Canada Bishop Emeritus

13 Dec 74.7 Died Jan Blaha † Bishop Bishop of the Titular See

15 Dec 55.2 Installed Marián Chovanec Bishop of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

57.2 Ordained Bishop Henryk Ciereszko Titular Bishop of Dices Auxiliary Bishop of Białystok, Poland

53.7 Installed Ramón Alberto Rolón Güepsa Bishop of Montería, Colombia Bishop of Chiquinquirá, Colombia

54.5 Appointed Nicolas Henry Marie Denis Thevenin Titular Archbishop of Aeclanum Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt, Arab Republic of

54.5 Appointed Nicolas Henry Marie Denis Thevenin Apostolic Nuncio Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt, Arab Republic of

16 Dec 66.1 Installed Massimo Camisasca, F.S.C.B. Bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy Bishop Emeritus

96.8 Died John Chen Shi-zhong † Bishop of Yibin [Suifu], China

48.9 Succeeded Peter Luo Xuegang Bishop of Yibin [Suifu], China

48.1 Installed Gregório (Leozírio) Ben Lâmed Paixão (Neto), O.S.B. Bishop of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Archbishop of Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil

19 Dec 51.8 Appointed Peter Loy Chong Archbishop of Suva, Fiji, Pacific (Oceania)

85.2 Retired Emmanuel III (Emmanuel-Karim) Delly † Patriarch of Babylon {Babilonia} (Chaldean), Iraq Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus

85.2 Retired Emmanuel III (Emmanuel-Karim) Delly † Archbishop of Baghdad (Chaldean), Iraq Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus of Babylon {Babilonia} (Chaldean), Iraq

74.8 Appointed Jacques Ishaq † Administrator of Babylon {Babilonia} (Chaldean), Iraq Curial Bishop Emeritus

79.6 Retired Petero Mataca † Archbishop of Suva, Fiji, Pacific (Oceania) Archbishop Emeritus

21 Dec 53.0 Installed Vital Corbellini Bishop of Marabá, Para, Brazil

61.0 Appointed Devprasad John Ganawa, S.V.D. Bishop of Udaipur, India

61.0 Appointed Devprasad John Ganawa, S.V.D. Apostolic Administrator of Jhabua, India Bishop of Udaipur, India

75.9 Retired Joseph Pathalil † Bishop of Udaipur, India Bishop Emeritus

22 Dec 63.0 Ordained Bishop Quesnel Alphonse, S.M.M. Titular Bishop of Dionysiana Bishop of Fort-Liberté, Haïti

65.4 Appointed Alfonso Cortés Contreras Archbishop of León, Guanajuato, México Archbishop Emeritus

54.3 Appointed Estanislau Marques Chindekasse, S.V.D. Bishop of Dundo, Angola

77.1 Retired José Guadalupe Martín Rábago Archbishop of León, Guanajuato, México Archbishop Emeritus

49.3 Ordained Bishop Krzysztof Jakub Wętkowski Titular Bishop of Glavinitza Bishop of Włocławek (Kujawy, Kalisze), Poland

24 Dec 58.1 Appointed Thomas Vũ Ðình Hiệu Coadjutor Bishop of Bùi Chu, Viet Nam Bishop

25 Dec 92.1 Died Edward Thomas Hughes † Bishop Emeritus of Metuchen, New Jersey, USA

81.5 Died Rudolf Müller † Bishop Emeritus of Görlitz, Germany

27 Dec 46.3 Ordained Bishop Eraldo Bispo da Silva Bishop of Patos, Paraiba, Brazil

93.1 Died Maurice Paul Delorme, Ist. del Prado † Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Lyon (-Vienne), France

79.5 Died Paul Khoarai † Bishop Emeritus of Leribe, Lesotho

63.5 Ordained Bishop Serge Patrick Poitras Bishop of Timmins, Ontario, Canada

29 Dec 54.7 Appointed Peter Iorzuul Adoboh † Bishop of Katsina-Ala, Nigeria

57.5 Appointed William Amove Avenya Bishop of Gboko, Nigeria

41.7 Incardinated Isaac Bundepuun Dugu Priest of Gboko, Nigeria Bishop of Katsina-Ala, Nigeria

55.5 Appointed William Goh Seng Chye Coadjutor Archbishop of Singapore Cardinal, Archbishop

94.9 Died Ignacy Marcin Tokarczuk † Archbishop Emeritus of Przemyśl, Poland

30 Dec 59.1 Ordained Bishop Elio Rama, I.M.C. Bishop of Pinheiro, Maranhão, Brazil

31 Dec 70.4 Resigned Oswaldo Brenes Álvarez † Bishop of Ciudad Quesada, Costa Rica Bishop Emeritus

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Dec	76.5	Retired	Alphonse Émile Georger	Bishop of Oran, Algeria	Bishop Emeritus
44.5	Appointed	Michael Robert Kennedy	Apostolic Administrator of Wilcannia-Forbes, Australia	Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Australia
79.1	Retired	John Lee Hiong Fun-Yit Yaw	Archbishop of Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia	Archbishop Emeritus
79.0	Ceased	Kevin Michael Manning †	Apostolic Administrator of Wilcannia-Forbes, Australia	Bishop Emeritus of Parramatta, Australia
71.0	Appointed	Luigi Negri †	Archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
76.0	Retired	Paolo Rabitti	Archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
53.7	Ordained Bishop	Ramón Alberto Rolón Güepsa	Bishop of Montería, Colombia	Bishop of Chiquinquirá, Colombia
50.7	Appointed	Jean-Paul Vesco, O.P.	Bishop of Oran, Algeria	Cardinal, Archbishop of Alger, Algeria
44.4	Succeeded	John Wong Soo Kau	Archbishop of Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
2 Dec	52.0	Installed	Borys Andrij Gudziak	Apostolic Exarch of France (Ukrainian)	Archbishop of Philadelphia (Ukrainian), Pennsylvania, USA
56.0	Installed	Luigi Ernesto Palletti	Bishop of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato, Italy
3 Dec	74.0	Died	Jules Mikhael Al-Jamil †	Auxiliary Bishop of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon
85.6	Died	Leo Rajendram Antony †	Bishop Emeritus of Trincomalee-Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
54.4	Ceased	Christopher James Coyne	Apostolic Administrator of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA	Archbishop of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
60.5	Installed	Joseph William Tobin, C.Ss.R.	Archbishop of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA	Cardinal, Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA
4 Dec	73.6	Died	José Alves da Costa, D.C. †	Bishop Emeritus of Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
57.3	Appointed	Alberto Germán Bochatey Chaneton, O.S.A.	Auxiliary Bishop of La Plata, Argentina
57.3	Appointed	Alberto Germán Bochatey Chaneton, O.S.A.	Titular Bishop of Mons in Mauretania	Auxiliary Bishop of La Plata, Argentina
86.7	Died	Massimo Giustetti †	Bishop Emeritus of Biella, Italy
39.5	Solemn Vows	Nil Yuriy Lushchak, O.F.M.	Priest of Order of Friars Minor	Auxiliary Bishop of Mukachevo (Munkács) (Ruthenian), Ukraine
5 Dec	61.8	Installed	Rogelio Cabrera López	Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
50.3	Ceased	Jorge Alberto Cavazos Arizpe	Apostolic Administrator of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México	Archbishop of San Luis Potosí, México
95.8	Died	Wilhelmus Joannes (Guillaume Jean) Demarteau, M.S.F. †	Bishop Emeritus of Banjarmasin, Indonesia
6 Dec	49.8	Appointed	Murray Chatlain	Archbishop of Keewatin-Le Pas, Manitoba, Canada	Archbishop of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
49.8	Appointed	Murray Chatlain	Apostolic Administrator of Mackenzie-Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada	Archbishop of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
53.1	Appointed	Rudolf Voderholzer	Bishop of Regensburg, Germany
7 Dec	66.0	Ordained Bishop	Massimo Camisasca, F.S.C.B.	Bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
64.3	Appointed	Adelio Dell’Oro	Apostolic Administrator of Atyrau, Kazakhstan	Bishop of Karaganda, Kazakhstan
64.3	Appointed	Adelio Dell’Oro	Titular Bishop of Castulo	Bishop of Karaganda, Kazakhstan
56.3	Appointed	Georg Gänswein	Prefect of the Prefecture of the Papal Household	Apostolic Nuncio to Lithuania
56.3	Appointed	Georg Gänswein	Titular Archbishop of Urbs Salvia	Apostolic Nuncio to Lithuania
48.1	Resigned	Janusz Wiesław Kaleta	Apostolic Administrator of Atyrau, Kazakhstan
49.7	Appointed	Peter Ebere Okpaleke	Bishop of Ahiara, Nigeria	Cardinal, Bishop of Ekwulobia, Nigeria
8 Dec	53.5	Ordained Bishop	Anand Jojo	Bishop of Hazaribag, India
55.1	Installed	Ryszard Kasyna	Bishop of Pelplin, Poland
57.0	Died	Ambrose Madtha †	Apostolic Nuncio to Côte d’Ivoire
9 Dec	89.6	Died	Ivan Ljavinec †	Apostolic Exarch Emeritus of Czech Republic (Ruthenian)
10 Dec	83.5	Died	Jacques André Marie Jullien †	Archbishop Emeritus of Rennes (-Dol-Saint-Malo), France
75.0	Retired	Sergio Giovanni Pintor †	Bishop of Ozieri, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
67.6	Appointed	Sebastiano Sanguinetti	Apostolic Administrator of Ozieri, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Tempio-Ampurias, Italy
61.5	Installed	Kevin William Vann	Bishop of Orange in California, USA
11 Dec	58.8	Appointed	Paul Richard Gallagher	Apostolic Nuncio to Australia	Secretary (Relations with States) of the Secretariat of State
97.2	Died	Pedro Reginaldo Lira †	Bishop Emeritus of San Francisco, Argentina
84.5	Died	Walter Francis Sullivan †	Bishop Emeritus of Richmond, Virginia, USA
12 Dec	58.5	Appointed	Sérgio Eduardo Castriani, C.S.Sp. †	Archbishop of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
92.1	Died	Augustin Sagna †	Bishop Emeritus of Ziguinchor, Senegal
75.6	Retired	Luiz Soares Vieira	Archbishop of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
69.6	Ordained Bishop	Paul Terrio	Bishop of Saint Paul in Alberta, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
13 Dec	74.7	Died	Jan Blaha †	Bishop	Bishop of the Titular See
15 Dec	55.2	Installed	Marián Chovanec	Bishop of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
57.2	Ordained Bishop	Henryk Ciereszko	Titular Bishop of Dices	Auxiliary Bishop of Białystok, Poland
53.7	Installed	Ramón Alberto Rolón Güepsa	Bishop of Montería, Colombia	Bishop of Chiquinquirá, Colombia
54.5	Appointed	Nicolas Henry Marie Denis Thevenin	Titular Archbishop of Aeclanum	Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt, Arab Republic of
54.5	Appointed	Nicolas Henry Marie Denis Thevenin	Apostolic Nuncio	Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt, Arab Republic of
16 Dec	66.1	Installed	Massimo Camisasca, F.S.C.B.	Bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
96.8	Died	John Chen Shi-zhong †	Bishop of Yibin [Suifu], China
48.9	Succeeded	Peter Luo Xuegang	Bishop of Yibin [Suifu], China
48.1	Installed	Gregório (Leozírio) Ben Lâmed Paixão (Neto), O.S.B.	Bishop of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Archbishop of Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil
19 Dec	51.8	Appointed	Peter Loy Chong	Archbishop of Suva, Fiji, Pacific (Oceania)
85.2	Retired	Emmanuel III (Emmanuel-Karim) Delly †	Patriarch of Babylon {Babilonia} (Chaldean), Iraq	Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus
85.2	Retired	Emmanuel III (Emmanuel-Karim) Delly †	Archbishop of Baghdad (Chaldean), Iraq	Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus of Babylon {Babilonia} (Chaldean), Iraq
74.8	Appointed	Jacques Ishaq †	Administrator of Babylon {Babilonia} (Chaldean), Iraq	Curial Bishop Emeritus
79.6	Retired	Petero Mataca †	Archbishop of Suva, Fiji, Pacific (Oceania)	Archbishop Emeritus
21 Dec	53.0	Installed	Vital Corbellini	Bishop of Marabá, Para, Brazil
61.0	Appointed	Devprasad John Ganawa, S.V.D.	Bishop of Udaipur, India
61.0	Appointed	Devprasad John Ganawa, S.V.D.	Apostolic Administrator of Jhabua, India	Bishop of Udaipur, India
75.9	Retired	Joseph Pathalil †	Bishop of Udaipur, India	Bishop Emeritus
22 Dec	63.0	Ordained Bishop	Quesnel Alphonse, S.M.M.	Titular Bishop of Dionysiana	Bishop of Fort-Liberté, Haïti
65.4	Appointed	Alfonso Cortés Contreras	Archbishop of León, Guanajuato, México	Archbishop Emeritus
54.3	Appointed	Estanislau Marques Chindekasse, S.V.D.	Bishop of Dundo, Angola
77.1	Retired	José Guadalupe Martín Rábago	Archbishop of León, Guanajuato, México	Archbishop Emeritus
49.3	Ordained Bishop	Krzysztof Jakub Wętkowski	Titular Bishop of Glavinitza	Bishop of Włocławek (Kujawy, Kalisze), Poland
24 Dec	58.1	Appointed	Thomas Vũ Ðình Hiệu	Coadjutor Bishop of Bùi Chu, Viet Nam	Bishop
25 Dec	92.1	Died	Edward Thomas Hughes †	Bishop Emeritus of Metuchen, New Jersey, USA
81.5	Died	Rudolf Müller †	Bishop Emeritus of Görlitz, Germany
27 Dec	46.3	Ordained Bishop	Eraldo Bispo da Silva	Bishop of Patos, Paraiba, Brazil
93.1	Died	Maurice Paul Delorme, Ist. del Prado †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Lyon (-Vienne), France
79.5	Died	Paul Khoarai †	Bishop Emeritus of Leribe, Lesotho
63.5	Ordained Bishop	Serge Patrick Poitras	Bishop of Timmins, Ontario, Canada
29 Dec	54.7	Appointed	Peter Iorzuul Adoboh †	Bishop of Katsina-Ala, Nigeria
57.5	Appointed	William Amove Avenya	Bishop of Gboko, Nigeria
41.7	Incardinated	Isaac Bundepuun Dugu	Priest of Gboko, Nigeria	Bishop of Katsina-Ala, Nigeria
55.5	Appointed	William Goh Seng Chye	Coadjutor Archbishop of Singapore	Cardinal, Archbishop
94.9	Died	Ignacy Marcin Tokarczuk †	Archbishop Emeritus of Przemyśl, Poland
30 Dec	59.1	Ordained Bishop	Elio Rama, I.M.C.	Bishop of Pinheiro, Maranhão, Brazil
31 Dec	70.4	Resigned	Oswaldo Brenes Álvarez †	Bishop of Ciudad Quesada, Costa Rica	Bishop Emeritus

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