The Year of Our Lord 2013

Bishop Events

November

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Nov	73.7	Ceased	Rufin Anthony †	Apostolic Administrator of Faisalabad, Pakistan	Bishop of Islamabad-Rawalpindi, Pakistan
48.1	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Arshad	Bishop of Faisalabad, Pakistan	Bishop of Islamabad-Rawalpindi, Pakistan
64.0	Appointed	Emanuel Barbara, O.F.M. Cap. †	Apostolic Administrator of Mombasa, Kenya	Bishop of Malindi, Kenya
76.5	Retired	Roger William Gries, O.S.B.	Auxiliary Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
66.5	Resigned	Boniface Lele †	Archbishop of Mombasa, Kenya	Archbishop Emeritus
51.8	Appointed	Max Leroy Mésidor	Coadjutor Archbishop of Cap-Haïtien, Haïti	Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, Haïti
2 Nov	89.7	Died	Vasco Giuseppe Bertelli †	Bishop Emeritus of Volterra, Italy
3 Nov	61.6	Installed	Pietro Maria Fragnelli	Bishop of Trapani, Italy
81.2	Ceased	Alessandro Plotti †	Apostolic Administrator of Trapani, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus of Pisa, Italy
4 Nov	66.2	Appointed	Georges Abou Khazen, O.F.M.	Vicar Apostolic of Alep [Beroea, Halab], Syria
66.2	Appointed	Georges Abou Khazen, O.F.M.	Titular Bishop of Rusadus	Vicar Apostolic of Alep [Beroea, Halab], Syria
64.6	Appointed	Carlo Bresciani	Bishop of San Benedetto del Tronto-Ripatransone-Montalto, Italy
75.3	Retired	Marian Duś †	Auxiliary Bishop of Warszawa {Warsaw}, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
75.2	Retired	Emiliano Fabbricatore, O.S.B.I. †	Abbot of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata (Italo-Albanese), Italy	Abbot Emeritus
77.7	Retired	Gervasio Gestori	Bishop of San Benedetto del Tronto-Ripatransone-Montalto, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
54.6	Appointed	Józef Górzyński	Auxiliary Bishop of Warszawa {Warsaw}, Poland	Archbishop of Warmia, Poland
54.6	Appointed	Józef Górzyński	Titular Bishop of Leontium	Archbishop of Warmia, Poland
77.0	Retired	Pier Giacomo Grampa	Bishop of Lugano, Switzerland	Bishop Emeritus
76.4	Retired	Alois Kothgasser, S.D.B.	Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria	Archbishop Emeritus
50.2	Appointed	Valerio Lazzeri	Bishop of Lugano, Switzerland
55.5	Appointed	Rafał Markowski	Auxiliary Bishop of Warszawa {Warsaw}, Poland
55.5	Appointed	Rafał Markowski	Titular Bishop of Obba	Auxiliary Bishop of Warszawa {Warsaw}, Poland
52.0	Appointed	Eugeniusz Mirosław Popowicz	Auxiliary Bishop of Przemyśl-Warszawa {-Warsaw} (Ukrainian), Poland	Archbishop
52.0	Appointed	Eugeniusz Mirosław Popowicz	Titular Bishop of Horrea Coelia	Archbishop of Przemyśl-Warszawa {-Warsaw} (Ukrainian), Poland
65.8	Appointed	Marcello Semeraro	Apostolic Administrator of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata (Italo-Albanese), Italy	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
5 Nov	54.1	Installed	Bernard Anthony Hebda	Coadjutor Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA	Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
6 Nov	52.2	Appointed	Santo Rocco Gangemi	Apostolic Nuncio to Guinea	Apostolic Nuncio to El Salvador
53.2	Appointed	Pierre Laurent Jubinville, C.S.Sp.	Bishop of San Pedro, Paraguay
67.1	Appointed	Salvatore Ronald Matano	Bishop of Rochester, New York, USA
51.0	Appointed	Ailton Menegussi	Bishop of Crateús, Ceara, Brazil
7 Nov	68.9	Installed	Donald Joseph Kettler	Bishop of Saint Cloud, Minnesota, USA
54.3	Ordained Bishop	Ilson de Jesus Montanari	Titular Archbishop of Caput Cilla	Secretary of the Congregation for Bishops
9 Nov	76.4	Retired	Hugh Christopher Budd	Bishop of Plymouth, England, Great Britain	Bishop Emeritus
50.3	Appointed	Mark O’Toole	Bishop of Plymouth, England, Great Britain
10 Nov	54.4	Succeeded	Varghese Thottamkara, C.M.	Vicar Apostolic of Nekemte, Ethiopia
75.4	Retired	Theodorus van Ruijven (van Ruyven), C.M.	Vicar Apostolic of Nekemte, Ethiopia	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
11 Nov	73.8	Resigned	Youssef Anis Abi-Aad, Ist. del Prado †	Archbishop of Alep [Beroea, Halab] (Maronite), Syria	Archbishop Emeritus
75.5	Retired	José Luis Amezcua Melgoza	Bishop of Colima, México	Bishop Emeritus
96.5	Died	Domenico Bartolucci †	Cardinal, Official Emeritus of the Roman Curia - Other
67.4	Appointed	Marcelino Hernández Rodríguez	Bishop of Colima, México
13 Nov	78.7	Died	Onesimo Cadiz Gordoncillo †	Archbishop Emeritus of Capiz, Philippines
75.0	Retired	David Louis Walker	Bishop of Broken Bay, Australia	Bishop Emeritus
14 Nov	72.5	Resigned	Gérard Antoine Léopold Daucourt	Bishop of Nanterre, France	Bishop Emeritus
56.0	Appointed	Sebastian Francis Shaw, O.F.M.	Archbishop of Lahore, Pakistan
15 Nov	53.1	Installed	Jaime Spengler, O.F.M.	Archbishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
68.7	Ordained Bishop	Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, L.C.	Titular Bishop of Villamagna in Proconsulari	Secretary General of the Governatorate of Vatican City State
16 Nov	54.9	Appointed	Roman Pindel	Bishop of Bielsko-Żywiec, Poland
75.6	Retired	Tadeusz Rakoczy	Bishop of Bielsko-Żywiec, Poland	Bishop Emeritus
52.8	Appointed	Pedro Javier Torres Aliaga	Auxiliary Bishop of Córdoba, Argentina
52.8	Appointed	Pedro Javier Torres Aliaga	Titular Bishop of Castellum in Numidia	Auxiliary Bishop of Córdoba, Argentina
17 Nov	60.0	Installed	Jean-Luc Marie Maurice Louis Bouilleret	Archbishop of Besançon, France
18 Nov	54.2	Installed	Gerardo Alimane Alminaza	Bishop of San Carlos, Philippines
57.3	Appointed	Franz Lackner, O.F.M.	Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria
19 Nov	60.6	Appointed	Mariano Crociata	Bishop of Latina-Terracina-Sezze-Priverno, Italy
90.4	Died	Joseph Frans Lescrauwaet, M.S.C. †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Haarlem, Netherlands
71.8	Died	Matthias N’Gartéri Mayadi †	Archbishop of N’Djaména, Chad
47.3	Appointed	Michael Fors Olson	Bishop of Fort Worth, Texas, USA
60.0	Installed	Christopher Charles Prowse	Archbishop of Canberra-Goulburn, Australia
20 Nov	61.7	Appointed	Armando António Ortíz Aguirre	Bishop of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, México
21 Nov	76.8	Retired	Cosmas Michael Angkur, O.F.M.	Bishop of Bogor, Indonesia	Bishop Emeritus
74.9	Retired	Rainer Klug	Auxiliary Bishop of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
57.4	Appointed	Celmo Lazzari, C.S.I.	Vicar Apostolic of San Miguel de Sucumbíos, Ecuador
79.4	Ceased	Paolo Mietto, C.S.I. †	Apostolic Administrator of San Miguel de Sucumbíos, Ecuador	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Napo, Ecuador
51.8	Appointed	Thomas Luke Msusa, S.M.M.	Archbishop of Blantyre, Malawi
51.5	Appointed	Paskalis Bruno Syukur, O.F.M.	Bishop of Bogor, Indonesia
22 Nov	67.0	Installed	Luis Alberto Fernández Alara	Bishop of Rafaela, Argentina
83.3	Died	Pierre Jacques Joatton, Ist. del Prado †	Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Etienne, France
23 Nov	46.4	Appointed	Medardo de Jesús Henao del Río, M.X.Y.	Vicar Apostolic of Mitú, Colombia
46.4	Appointed	Medardo de Jesús Henao del Río, M.X.Y.	Titular Bishop of Casae Medianae	Vicar Apostolic of Mitú, Colombia
89.8	Died	William Jerome McCormack †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of New York, New York, USA
24 Nov	70.0	Ordained Bishop	Tsegaye Keneni Derara	Titular Bishop of Maximiana in Byzacena	Vicar Apostolic of Soddo, Ethiopia
87.9	Retired	Sylvester Li Jiantang (Liu Jiantang) †	Bishop of Taiyuan [Taiyüan], China	Bishop Emeritus
46.6	Ordained Bishop	Ángel José Macín	Bishop of Reconquista, Argentina
50.8	Succeeded	Paul Meng Ningyou	Bishop of Taiyuan [Taiyüan], China
67.9	Installed	Ibrahim Salameh, S.M.S.P.	Apostolic Exarch of Argentina (Melkite Greek)
90.4	Died	David Bernard Thompson †	Bishop Emeritus of Charleston, South Carolina, USA
25 Nov	85.1	Retired	István Katona	Auxiliary Bishop of Eger, Hungary	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
84.9	Died	Zéphyrin Toé †	Bishop Emeritus of Dédougou, Burkina Faso
27 Nov	75.6	Retired	Michel Malo, Ist. del Prado	Archbishop of Antsiranana, Madagascar	Archbishop Emeritus
58.5	Appointed	Benjamin Marc Balthason Ramaroson, C.M.	Archbishop of Antsiranana, Madagascar
28 Nov	87.2	Died	Max Georg von Twickel †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Münster, Germany
29 Nov	41.6	Appointed	Aleh Butkevich	Bishop of Vitebsk, Belarus
43.7	Appointed	Yury Kasabutski	Auxiliary Bishop of Minsk-Mohilev, Belarus
43.7	Appointed	Yury Kasabutski	Titular Bishop of Scilium	Auxiliary Bishop of Minsk-Mohilev, Belarus
52.5	Appointed	José Luís Gerardo Ponce de León, I.M.C.	Bishop of Manzini, eSwatini
52.5	Appointed	José Luís Gerardo Ponce de León, I.M.C.	Apostolic Administrator of Ingwavuma, South Africa	Bishop of Manzini, eSwatini
44.6	Appointed	Iosif Staneuski	Auxiliary Bishop of Grodno, Belarus	Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev, Belarus
44.6	Appointed	Iosif Staneuski	Titular Bishop of Tabaicara	Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev, Belarus
30 Nov	51.1	Appointed	Raúl Biord Castillo, S.D.B.	Bishop of La Guaira, Venezuela
90.3	Died	Waldyr Calheiros Novaes (de Novais) †	Bishop Emeritus of Barra do Piraí-Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
42.5	Appointed	Patrick Chilekwa Chisanga, O.F.M. Conv.	Bishop of Mansa, Zambia
54.6	Appointed	Alain de Raemy	Auxiliary Bishop of Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg (Freiburg), Switzerland
54.6	Appointed	Alain de Raemy	Titular Bishop of Turris in Mauretania	Auxiliary Bishop of Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg (Freiburg), Switzerland
65.2	Appointed	Andrea Turazzi	Bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro, Italy
58.7	Ordained Bishop	Bertram Víctor Wick Enzler	Titular Bishop of Carpi	Bishop of Santo Domingo en Ecuador

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