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Living Bishop Events

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1923		Antonio Riboldi, I.C.	Born	Triuggio	Bishop Emeritus of Acerra, Italy
1927		Paul Antaki	Born	Le Caire	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Melkite), Syria
1930		Tadeusz Józef Zawistowski	Born	Sztabin	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Łomża, Poland
1935		William Walsh	Born	Roscrea	Bishop of Killaloe, Ireland
1937		Francis Eugene George, O.M.I.	Born	Chicago, IL	Cardinal, Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois, USA
1940		Teodoro C. Bacani, Jr.	Born	Bataan	Bishop Emeritus of Novaliches, Philippines
1941		Marcel Honorat Léon Agboton	Born	Avrankou	Archbishop of Cotonou, Benin
1941		Carlo Maria Viganò	Born	Varese, Italy	Secretary of the Governatorate of Vatican City State
1942		Mario Giordana	Born	Barge, Italy	Apostolic Nuncio to Slovakia
1945		Julian Winston Sebastian Fernando, S.S.S.	Born	Moratuwa	Bishop of Badulla, Sri Lanka
1947		Thomas Christopher Collins	Born	Guelph	Archbishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1956		Marcelo Arturo González Amador	Born	Placetas	Bishop of Santa Clara, Cuba
1959		Giovane Pereira de Melo	Born	Salinas	Bishop of Tocantinópolis, Tocatins, Brazil
1960	23.6	Lawrence John Saldanha	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lahore, Pakistan	Archbishop of Lahore, Pakistan
1963		Dodë Gjergji	Born	Stublla, Yugoslavia	Apostolic Administrator of Prizren, Serbia
1964	46.0	Jesús María Coronado Caro, S.D.B.	Appointed	Prefect of Ariari, Colombia	Bishop Emeritus of Duitama-Sogamoso, Colombia
1964	44.2	Georges-Hilaire Dupont, O.M.I.	Appointed	Bishop of Pala, Chad	Bishop Emeritus
1967	47.8	Hovhannes Tcholakian	Confirmed	Archbishop of Istanbul (Armenian), Turkey
1967	24.1	Décio Zandonade, S.D.B.	Professed	Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Bishop of Colatina, Espirito Santo, Brazil
1971	60.8	Joseph Oliver Bowers, S.V.D.	Appointed	Bishop of Saint John’s, Virgin Islands (British), Antilles	Bishop Emeritus of Saint John’s-Basseterre, Virgin Islands (British), Antilles
	52.4	Cornelius Elanjikal	Appointed	Bishop of Vijayapuram, India	Archbishop Emeritus of Verapoly, India
	41.0	Raymond Mwanyika	Appointed	Bishop of Njombe, Tanzania	Bishop Emeritus
	42.0	Jérôme Nday Kanyangu Lukundwe	Appointed	Bishop of Kongolo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop Emeritus
	43.1	Benedict Singh	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Georgetown, Guyana, Antilles	Bishop Emeritus
	43.1	Benedict Singh	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Arsennaria	Bishop Emeritus of Georgetown, Guyana, Antilles
1974	45.1	Adam Joseph Exner, O.M.I.	Appointed	Bishop of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1977	52.0	Bernardino Rivera Alvarez, O.F.M.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Mutugenna	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Potosí, Bolivia
1978	47.3	Jerónimo Tomás Abreu Herrera	Appointed	Bishop of Mao-Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic	Bishop Emeritus
1978	41.2	Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez	Appointed	Bishop of San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic	Cardinal, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1981	48.3	Joseph Keith Symons	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Palm Beach, Florida, USA
1981	48.3	Joseph Keith Symons	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Sigus	Bishop Emeritus of Palm Beach, Florida, USA
1983	40.2	Jean Khamsé Vithavong, O.M.I.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Moglaena	Vicar Apostolic of Vientiane, Laos
1984	45.9	William John Brennan	Appointed	Bishop of Wagga Wagga, Australia	Bishop Emeritus
1987	57.3	George Edward Rueger	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
1987	57.3	George Edward Rueger	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Maronana	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
1989	42.1	José Andrés Corral Arredondo	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Durango, México	Bishop of Parral, Chihuahua, México
1989	42.1	José Andrés Corral Arredondo	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Cincari	Bishop of Parral, Chihuahua, México
1991	41.0	Irynej Bilyk, O.S.B.M.	Confirmed	Auxiliary Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk [Stanislaviv] (Ukrainian), Ukraine	Bishop Emeritus of Buchach {Bučač} (Ukrainian), Ukraine
	41.0	Irynej Bilyk, O.S.B.M.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Novae	Bishop Emeritus of Buchach {Bučač} (Ukrainian), Ukraine
	54.8	Ivan Dias	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Albania	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
	64.4	Marian Jaworski	Appointed	Archbishop of Lviv, Ukraine	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	51.6	Ivan Martyniak	Appointed	Bishop of Przemyśl (Ukrainian), Poland	Archbishop of Przemyśl-Warszawa {-Warsaw} (Ukrainian), Poland
	56.2	Jan Purwinski	Appointed	Bishop of Zytomir, Ukraine	Bishop of Kyiv-Zhytomyr, Ukraine
	43.8	Markijan Trofimiak	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv, Ukraine	Bishop of Lutsk, Ukraine
	43.8	Markijan Trofimiak	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Auzia	Bishop of Lutsk, Ukraine
	54.7	Julian Voronovsky, M.S.U.	Confirmed	Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv (Ukrainian), Ukraine	Bishop of Sambir-Drohobych (Ukrainian), Ukraine
	54.7	Julian Voronovsky, M.S.U.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Deultum	Bishop of Sambir-Drohobych (Ukrainian), Ukraine
1996	75.0	Jean-Berchmans-Marcel-Yves-Marie-Bernard Chabbert, O.F.M.	Retired	Bishop of Perpignan-Elne, France	Bishop Emeritus
1996	60.3	André Louis Fort	Succeeded	Bishop of Perpignan-Elne, France	Bishop of Orléans, France
1998	61.1	Jacques Jean Joseph Jules Perrier	Succeeded	Bishop of Tarbes et Lourdes, France
2001	54.1	Edward William Clark	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, California, USA
2001	54.1	Edward William Clark	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Gardar	Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, California, USA
2002	59.8	Geraldo Lyrio Rocha	Appointed	Archbishop of Vitória da Conquista, Baia, Brazil	Archbishop of Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	77.1	Angelo Maria Rivato, S.J.	Retired	Bishop of Ponta de Pedras, Para, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	61.3	Alessio Saccardo, S.J.	Appointed	Bishop of Ponta de Pedras, Para, Brazil
	61.4	Itamar Navildo Vian, O.F.M. Cap.	Appointed	Archbishop of Feira de Santana, Baia, Brazil
2003	63.0	Teodoro C. Bacani, Jr.	Installed	Bishop of Novaliches, Philippines	Bishop Emeritus
2004	54.6	Daniel Nicholas DiNardo	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA	Cardinal, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA
	76.6	Raul Nicolau Gonsalves	Retired	Archbishop of Goa e Damão, India	Archbishop Emeritus
	76.6	Raul Nicolau Gonsalves	Retired	Patriarch of East Indies, India	Archbishop Emeritus of Goa e Damão, India
	59.8	Luis Alberto Parra Mora	Installed	Bishop of Mocoa-Sibundoy, Colombia
2005	48.4	François-Xavier Maroy Rusengo	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Thucca in Mauretania	Archbishop of Bukavu, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
2005	48.2	Luigi Ernesto Palletti	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Fundi	Auxiliary Bishop of Genova {Genoa}, Italy
2006	62.2	John Hung Shan-chuan, S.V.D.	Appointed	Bishop of Kiayi, Taiwan	Archbishop of Taipei, Taiwan
2006	75.7	René Pierre Louis Joseph Séjourné	Retired	Bishop of Saint-Flour, France	Bishop Emeritus
2007	53.8	Leo Boccardi	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Bitettum	Apostolic Nuncio to Sudan
	53.8	Leo Boccardi	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Sudan
	56.7	François Joseph Marie Jacolin, M.D.P.	Appointed	Bishop of Mende, France
2008	68.4	Seán Baptist Brady	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Quirico e Giulitta	Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland
	59.6	Felix Anthony Machado	Appointed	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Nashik, India	Bishop of Vasai, India
	67.5	Roger Lawrence Schwietz, O.M.I.	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Juneau, Alaska, USA	Archbishop of Anchorage, Alaska, USA
	59.3	Michael William Warfel	Installed	Bishop of Great Falls-Billings, Montana, USA

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