Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
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1 May | 60.0 | Ordained Bishop | Herman Guinto Abcede, R.C.J. | Bishop of Daet, Philippines | |
52.8 | Ordained Bishop | Johannes Freitag | Titular Bishop of Guzabeta | Auxiliary Bishop of Graz-Seckau, Austria | |
59.4 | Ordained Bishop | John Edward Keehner, Jr. | Bishop of Sioux City, Iowa, USA | ||
80.4 | Appointed | Donald Joseph Kettler | Administrator of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA | Bishop Emeritus of Saint Cloud, Minnesota, USA | |
51.6 | Ordained Bishop | Eloy Alberto Santiago Santiago | Bishop of San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife, Spain | ||
53.7 | Ceased | Ronald Anthony Parco Timoner | Administrator of Daet, Philippines | Bishop-Elect of Pagadian, Philippines | |
64.3 | Ordained Bishop | Fabian Toppo | Bishop of Jalpaiguri, India | ||
60.2 | Installed | Zbigniew Jan Zieliński | Archbishop of Poznań, Poland | ||
2 May | 89.4 | Died | Jorge Iván Castaño Rubio, C.M.F. † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Medellín, Colombia | |
79.2 | Died | Esteban Escudero Torres † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Valencia, Spain | ||
62.0 | Ordained Bishop | Anthony Gerard Percy | Titular Bishop of Appiaria | Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney, Australia | |
3 May | 59.9 | Installed | Ángel Francisco Caraballo Fermín | Archbishop of Cumaná, Venezuela | |
58.3 | Installed | André Guèye | Archbishop of Dakar, Senegal | ||
48.8 | Installed | Yohane Suzgo Nyirenda | Bishop of Mzuzu, Malawi | ||
78.0 | Ceased | Mariano José Parra Sandoval | Apostolic Administrator of Cumaná, Venezuela | Archbishop Emeritus of Coro, Venezuela | |
56.8 | Ordained Bishop | Ángel Román Idígoras | Bishop of Albacete, Spain | ||
56.6 | Ordained Bishop | Guy Mukasa Sanon | Bishop of Nouna, Burkina Faso | ||
4 May | 83.0 | Died | Gerald Thomas Walsh † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of New York, New York, USA | |
7 May | 60.8 | Installed | Michael George McGovern | Archbishop of Omaha, Nebraska, USA | |
8 May | 63.8 | Ordained Bishop | Peter Mel Murphy | Bishop of Armidale, Australia | |
69.6 | Appointed | Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A. | Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) | |
69.6 | Elected | Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A. | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) | ||
9 May | 62.9 | Confirmed | Alejandro Arellano Cedillo, C.O.R.C. | Dean of the Roman Rota | |
60.1 | Confirmed | Simona Brambilla, M. C. | Prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life | ||
65.3 | Confirmed | Maximino Caballero Ledo | Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy | ||
56.7 | Ordained Bishop | Gregg Michael Caggianelli | Titular Bishop of Gemellae in Byzacena | Auxiliary Bishop of United States of America, Military | |
78.8 | Confirmed | Michael Felix Czerny, S.J. | Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development | ||
77.6 | Confirmed | Kevin Joseph Farrell | Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life | ||
64.7 | Confirmed | Ángel Fernández Artime, S.D.B. | Cardinal, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life | ||
62.8 | Confirmed | Victor Manuel Fernández | Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith | ||
73.7 | Confirmed | Salvatore Rino Fisichella | Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization | ||
69.5 | Confirmed | Claudio Gugerotti | Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches | ||
67.4 | Confirmed | Filippo Iannone, O. Carm. | Prefect of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts | ||
91.5 | Died | John Peter Mark Jabalé, O.S.B. † | Bishop Emeritus of Menevia, Wales, Great Britain | ||
75.1 | Confirmed | Kurt Koch | Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity | ||
51.7 | Confirmed | George Jacob Koovakad | Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue | ||
73.1 | Confirmed | Dominique François Joseph Mamberti | Cardinal, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura | ||
59.4 | Confirmed | José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça | Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education | ||
59.2 | Appointed | Godfrey Mullen, O.S.B. | Administrator of Belleville, Illinois, USA | ||
70.3 | Confirmed | Pietro Parolin | Cardinal, Secretary of State | ||
50.2 | Confirmed | Giordano Piccinotti, S.D.B. | President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See | ||
75.1 | Confirmed | Arthur Roche | Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments | ||
68.5 | Confirmed | Paolo Ruffini | Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication | ||
77.3 | Confirmed | Marcello Semeraro | Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints | ||
67.8 | Confirmed | Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle | Cardinal, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization | ||
73.4 | Confirmed | Lazzaro You Heung-sik | Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Clergy | ||
10 May | 68.6 | Ordained Bishop | Marcelo Benítez Martínez, O.F.M. | Bishop of Caazapá, Paraguay | |
50.8 | Ordained Bishop | Estêvão Ângelo Fernando | Bishop of Alto Molócuè, Mozambique | ||
70.4 | Ordained Bishop | Vitalis Sekhonyana Marole, O.M.I. | Bishop of Leribe, Lesotho | ||
11 May | 66.6 | Ordained Bishop | Saverio Antonio Gennaro Cannistrà, O.C.D. | Archbishop of Pisa, Italy | |
56.0 | Ordained Bishop | John Carvalho | Bishop of Ajmer, India | ||
80.7 | Ceased | Oswald Joseph Lewis | Apostolic Administrator of Ajmer, India | Bishop Emeritus of Jaipur, India | |
56.6 | Installed | Guy Mukasa Sanon | Bishop of Nouna, Burkina Faso | ||
13 May | 75.9 | Ceased | Ignatius Loyola Ivan Mascarenhas | Apostolic Administrator of Simla and Chandigarh, India | Bishop Emeritus |
53.5 | Ordained Bishop | Sahaya Thatheus Thomas | Bishop of Simla and Chandigarh, India | ||
14 May | 55.7 | Ordained Bishop | Bernardus Bofitwos Baru, O.S.A. | Bishop of Timika, Indonesia | |
61.0 | Ordained Bishop | Charles Duval, C.Ss.R. | Coadjutor Archbishop of Grouard-McLennan, Alberta, Canada | ||
15 May | 45.8 | Appointed | Miguel Ángel Contreras Llajaruna, S.M. | Auxiliary Bishop of Callao, Peru | Auxiliary Bishop-Elect |
45.8 | Appointed | Miguel Ángel Contreras Llajaruna, S.M. | Titular Bishop of Babra | Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Callao, Peru | |
16 May | 59.6 | Appointed | Dave Dean Capucao | Prelate of Infanta, Philippines | |
75.8 | Retired | Bernardino Cruz Cortez | Prelate of Infanta, Philippines | Prelate Emeritus | |
76.4 | Ceased | John (Gordon) MacWilliam, M. Afr. | Apostolic Administrator of Laghouat, Algeria | Bishop Emeritus | |
53.8 | Installed | Diego Ramón Sarrió Cucarella, M. Afr. | Bishop of Laghouat, Algeria | ||
17 May | 63.1 | Installed | Jean-Jacques Koffi Oi Koffi | Archbishop of Gagnoa, Côte d’Ivoire | |
51.7 | Ordained Bishop | Antônio Ranis Rosendo Dos Santos, C.Ss.R. | Bishop of Caicó, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil | ||
50.4 | Ordained Bishop | Wilder Alberto Vásquez Saldaña, O.S.A. | Prelate of Chuquibambilla, Peru | ||
18 May | 69.6 | Installed | Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A. | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) | |
52.8 | Ordained Bishop | Giuseppe Luigi Spiga | Bishop of Grajaú, Maranhão, Brazil | ||
63.1 | Installed | Jean-Paul Vesco, O.P. | Cardinal-Priest of Sacro Cuore di Gesù agonizzante a Vitinia | Cardinal, Archbishop of Alger, Algeria | |
19 May | 72.6 | Died | Joseph Ponniah † | Bishop Emeritus of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka | |
20 May | 65.2 | Appointed | Luigi Bianco | Apostolic Nuncio to Slovenia | |
65.2 | Appointed | Luigi Bianco | Apostolic Delegate to Kosovo | Apostolic Nuncio to Slovenia | |
58.3 | Ceased | Albert A. Kenney | Administrator of Providence, Rhode Island, USA | Priest | |
57.9 | Installed | Bruce Alan Lewandowski, C.Ss.R. | Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island, USA | ||
62.1 | Appointed | Jean Pelletier | Bishop of Mende, France | Bishop-Elect | |
60.2 | Resigned | Edmar Perón | Bishop of Paranaguá, Parana, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus | |
65.9 | Appointed | Bruno Elizeu Versari | Apostolic Administrator of Paranaguá, Parana, Brazil | Bishop of Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brazil | |
21 May | 59.2 | Appointed | Dominique Marie Joseph Blanchet, Ist. del Prado | Prelate of Mission de France o Pontigny, France | Bishop of Créteil, France |
68.2 | Resigned | Hervé Jean Robert Giraud | Prelate of Mission de France o Pontigny, France | Bishop of Viviers, France | |
76.9 | Retired | Salvador Giménez Valls | Bishop of Lleida, Spain | Bishop Emeritus | |
52.4 | Appointed | Daniel Palau Valero | Bishop of Lleida, Spain | Bishop-Elect | |
22 May | 75.4 | Retired | Irineu Andreassa, O.F.M. | Bishop of Ituiutaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus |
72.9 | Installed | Vicente Bokalic Iglic, C.M. | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Maddalena in Campo Marzio | Cardinal, Archbishop of Santiago del Estero, Argentina | |
75.7 | Retired | Markus Büchel | Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | Bishop Emeritus | |
50.0 | Ordained Bishop | Ignazio Ceffalia | Titular Archbishop of Fiorentino | Apostolic Nuncio to Belarus | |
67.5 | Appointed | Antônio Emídio Vilar, S.D.B. | Archbishop of São José do Rio Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil | ||
54.6 | Appointed | Beat Grögli | Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | Bishop-Elect | |
52.2 | Appointed | Valter Magno de Carvalho | Bishop of Ituiutaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil | ||
65.6 | Appointed | Tiziana Merletti, S.F.P. | Secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life | ||
58.3 | Appointed | Michael (Micae) Phạm Minh Cường | Bishop of San Diego, California, USA | ||
23 May | 61.9 | Installed | Dominique Joseph Mathieu, O.F.M. Conv. | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Giovanna Antida Thouret | Cardinal, Archbishop of Teheran-Ispahan, Iran |
71.8 | Retired | Ivo Scapolo | Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal | Apostolic Nuncio | |
24 May | 86.7 | Died | Nestor Celestial Cariño † | Bishop Emeritus of Legazpi, Philippines | |
67.9 | Succeeded | Joseph Ðặng Ðức Ngân | Archbishop of Huế, Viet Nam | ||
69.6 | Installed | Jesús Fernández González | Bishop of Córdoba, Spain | ||
52.8 | Ordained Bishop | David Koudougou | Bishop of Tenkodogo, Burkina Faso | ||
68.7 | Installed | Ladislav Nemet, S.V.D. | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Stella Maris | Cardinal, Archbishop of Beograd (-Smederevo), Serbia | |
75.5 | Retired | Joseph Nguyễn Chí Linh | Archbishop of Huế, Viet Nam | Archbishop Emeritus | |
67.9 | Appointed | Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle | Cardinal-Bishop of Albano | Cardinal, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization | |
50.4 | Installed | Wilder Alberto Vásquez Saldaña, O.S.A. | Prelate of Chuquibambilla, Peru | ||
The future events listed below have been publicly announced, but are subject to change. | |||||
25 May | 62.7 | Ordained Bishop | Riccardo Battocchio | Bishop of Vittorio Veneto, Italy | Bishop-Elect |
48.1 | Ordained Bishop | Josaphat Jackson Bududu | Titular Bishop of Vegesela in Numidia | Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Tabora, Tanzania | |
27 May | 56.9 | Installed | William Shawn McKnight | Archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas, USA | |
75.9 | Ceased | Joseph Fred Naumann | Apostolic Administrator of Kansas City in Kansas, USA | Archbishop Emeritus | |
52.0 | Ordained Bishop | Paul Nguyễn Quang Ðĩnh | Titular Bishop of Voncaria | Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Hưng Hóa, Viet Nam | |
67.3 | Installed | John Francis Sherrington | Archbishop of Liverpool, England, Great Britain | ||
28 May | 62.4 | Ordained Bishop | Pierre Charland, O.F.M. | Bishop of Baie-Comeau, Québec, Canada | Bishop-Elect |
31 May | 62.5 | Installed | Júlio Endi Akamine, S.A.C. | Coadjutor Archbishop of Belém do Pará, Brazil | |
65.5 | Ordained Bishop | Ignatius Kanmurum Anipu, M. Afr. | Bishop of Maradi, Niger | Bishop-Elect | |
6 Jun | 58.0 | Installed | Arkadiusz Okroj | Bishop of Toruń, Poland | |
70.6 | Ceased | Józef Szamocki | Apostolic Administrator of Toruń, Poland | Auxiliary Bishop | |
14 Jun | 67.9 | Ordained Bishop | Pedro Aguado Cuesta, Sch. P. | Bishop of Huesca, Spain | Bishop-Elect |
81.3 | Ceased | Vicente Jiménez Zamora | Apostolic Administrator of Huesca, Spain | Archbishop Emeritus of Zaragoza, Spain | |
50.0 | Ordained Bishop | Ósmar Pedro López Benítez | Bishop of San Juan Bautista de las Misiones, Paraguay | Bishop-Elect | |
57.0 | Ordained Bishop | Antônio Carlos Paiva | Coadjutor Bishop of Oliveira, Minas Gerais, Brazil | Coadjutor Bishop-Elect | |
51.7 | Installed | Antônio Ranis Rosendo Dos Santos, C.Ss.R. | Bishop of Caicó, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil | ||
15 Jun | 67.9 | Installed | Pedro Aguado Cuesta, Sch. P. | Bishop of Jaca, Spain | Bishop-Elect of Huesca, Spain |
54.0 | Ordained Bishop | Éric Bidot, O.F.M. Cap. | Bishop of Tulle, France | Bishop-Elect | |
81.3 | Ceased | Vicente Jiménez Zamora | Apostolic Administrator of Jaca, Spain | Archbishop Emeritus of Zaragoza, Spain | |
18 Jun | 55.8 | Ordained Bishop | Andrés Sáinz Márquez | Prelate of Jesús María (del Nayar), Nayarit, México | |
22 Jun | 45.3 | Installed | Mykola Bychok, C.Ss.R. | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Sofia a Via Boccea | Cardinal, Bishop of Saints Peter and Paul of Melbourne (Ukrainian), Australia |
27 Jun | 62.0 | Installed | Luis Manuel López Alfaro | Bishop of Tapachula, Chiapas, México | |
28 Jun | 58.1 | Ordained Bishop | Víctor Luís Quematcha, O.F.M. | Bishop of Bafatá, Guinea-Bissau | Bishop-Elect |
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