| Year | Age | Bishop | Event | Title | Current Title |
| 1916 |
| Damián Iguacén Borau | Born | Fuencalderas | Bishop Emeritus of San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife, Spain |
| 1931 |
| Agustín García-Gasco y Vicente | Born | Corral de Almaguer | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Valencia, Spain |
| 1934 |
| Alfred Gonti Pius Datubara, O.F.M. Cap. | Born | Lawe Bekung | Archbishop Emeritus of Medan, Indonesia |
| 1936 |
| Michael Kpakala Francis | Born | Kakata | Archbishop of Monrovia, Liberia |
| 1940 |
| Rufin Anthony | Born | Khushpur | Coadjutor Bishop of Islamabad-Rawalpindi, Pakistan |
| 1942 |
| Robert Patrick Ellison, C.S.Sp. | Born | Dublin, Ireland | Bishop of Banjul, Gambia |
| 1943 |
| Richard Edmund Pates | Born | Saint Paul | Bishop of Des Moines, Iowa, USA |
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| Giovanni Battista Pichierri | Born | Sava | Archbishop of Trani-Barletta-Bisceglie (-Nazareth), Italy |
| 1944 |
| Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimeno, S.J. | Born | Lima | Archbishop of Huancayo, Peru |
| 1945 |
| Philip Lasap Za Hawng | Born | Pang-Pu | Bishop of Lashio, Myanmar |
| 1947 |
| Ferenc Cserháti | Born | Túrterebes | Auxiliary Bishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary |
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| Eduardo Zielski | Born | Brodnica | Bishop of Campo Maior, Piaui, Brazil |
| 1952 |
| Gilberto Gómez González | Born | Albeos, Spain | Bishop of Abancay, Peru |
| 1954 |
| Gerard Tlali Lerotholi, O.M.I. | Born | Mokhotlong | Archbishop of Maseru, Lesotho |
| 1963 |
| Damián Santiago Bitar | Born | Arroyo Cabral | Auxiliary Bishop of San Justo, Argentina |
| 1970 | 50.5 | Martin Nicholas Lohmuller | Appointed | Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus |
| 50.5 | Martin Nicholas Lohmuller | Appointed | Titular Bishop of Ramsbiria | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 1971 | 46.1 | Luciano José Cabral Duarte | Appointed | Archbishop of Aracajú, Sergipe, Brazil | Archbishop Emeritus |
| 1974 | 49.3 | Alfonso de Jesús Hinojosa Berrones | Appointed | Bishop of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México | Bishop Emeritus |
| 1979 | 49.2 | Andrew Zolile T. Brook | Appointed | Bishop of Umtata, South Africa | Bishop Emeritus |
| 54.8 | Carmelo Cassati, M.S.C. | Appointed | Bishop of Tricarico, Italy | Archbishop Emeritus of Trani-Barletta-Bisceglie (-Nazareth), Italy |
| 48.9 | Francesco Cuccarese | Appointed | Archbishop of Acerenza, Italy | Archbishop Emeritus of Pescara-Penne, Italy |
| 36.7 | Josaphat Louis Lebulu | Appointed | Bishop of Same, Tanzania | Archbishop of Arusha, Tanzania |
| 47.5 | Felix Eugenio Mkhori | Appointed | Bishop of Chikwawa, Malawi | Bishop Emeritus of Lilongwe, Malawi |
| 1981 | 52.8 | Allan Chamgwera | Appointed | Bishop of Zomba, Malawi | Bishop Emeritus |
| 1982 | 47.6 | Laurindo Guizzardi, C.S. | Succeeded | Coadjutor Bishop of Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | Bishop of Foz do Iguaçu, Parana, Brazil |
| 42.0 | Séamus Hegarty | Appointed | Bishop of Raphoe, Ireland | Bishop of Derry, Ireland |
| 60.1 | Júlio Tavares Rebimbas | Appointed | Archbishop (Personal Title) of Porto, Portugal | Bishop Emeritus |
| 1983 | 47.5 | Fortunato Baldelli | Appointed | Titular Archbishop of Mevania | Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary |
| 47.5 | Fortunato Baldelli | Appointed | Apostolic Delegate to Angola | Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary |
| 59.2 | Edward Bede Clancy | Appointed | Archbishop of Sydney, Australia | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus |
| 51.4 | Jacques Louis Marie Joseph Fihey | Appointed | Bishop of France, Military | Bishop Emeritus of Coutances (-Avranches), France |
| 58.1 | Gabriel Marie Étienne Vanel | Resigned | Vicar Apostolic of France, Military | Archbishop Emeritus of Auch (-Condom-Lectoure-Lombez), France |
| 1987 | 57.6 | Daniel Joseph Mullins | Appointed | Bishop of Menevia, Wales, Great Britain | Bishop Emeritus |
| 1988 | 49.3 | Ramón Calderón Batres | Appointed | Bishop of Linares, Nuevo León, México |
| 66.9 | José Trinidad Sepúlveda Ruiz-Velasco | Appointed | Bishop of San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, México | Bishop Emeritus |
| 1989 | 48.7 | Gilberto Délio Gonçalves Canavarro dos Reis | Ordained Bishop | Titular Bishop of Elephantaris in Mauretania | Bishop of Setúbal, Portugal |
| 55.1 | Joachim Meisner | Installed | Cardinal, Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany |
| 1990 | 60.9 | Leopold Nowak | Appointed | Apostolic Administrator of Magdeburg, Germany | Bishop Emeritus of Magdeburg, Germany |
| 60.9 | Leopold Nowak | Appointed | Titular Bishop of Cissa | Bishop Emeritus of Magdeburg, Germany |
| 1994 | 45.4 | Giancarlo Maria Bregantini, C.S.S. | Appointed | Bishop of Locri-Gerace (-Santa Maria di Polsi), Italy | Archbishop of Campobasso-Boiano, Italy |
| 40.9 | Vincent Coulibaly | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Kankan, Guinea | Archbishop of Conakry {Konakry}, Guinea |
| 41.1 | Juan Rubén Martinez | Appointed | Bishop of Reconquista, Argentina | Bishop of Posadas, Argentina |
| 58.5 | Adrianus Herman van Luyn, S.D.B. | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| 1997 | 64.5 | Pier Luigi Mazzoni | Appointed | Archbishop of Gaeta, Italy | Archbishop Emeritus |
| 58.5 | José María Pinheiro | Appointed | Auxiliary Bishop of Guajará-Mirim, Rondonia, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus of Bragança Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 58.5 | José María Pinheiro | Appointed | Titular Bishop of Cabarsussi | Bishop Emeritus of Bragança Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 1999 | 58.8 | Daniel Eugene Hurley | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Port Pirie, Australia | Bishop of Darwin, Australia |
| 2000 | 46.7 | José Câmnate na Bissign | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Bissau, Guinea-Bissau |
| 2002 | 72.6 | Gérard-Joseph Deschamps, S.M.M. | Resigned | Bishop of Bereina, Papua New Guinea | Bishop Emeritus |
| 54.9 | Daniel Robert Jenky, C.S.C. | Appointed | Bishop of Peoria, Illinois, USA |
| 45.0 | John Ribat, M.S.C. | Appointed | Bishop of Bereina, Papua New Guinea | Archbishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea |
| 2003 | 62.8 | Thomas Vazhapilly | Appointed | Bishop of Mysore, India |
| 2004 | 57.7 | Francisco Javier Chavolla Ramos | Installed | Bishop of Toluca, México, México |
| 2005 | 76.1 | Edmundo M. Abaya | Retired | Archbishop of Nueva Segovia, Philippines | Archbishop Emeritus |
| 43.8 | José Miguel Gómez Rodríguez | Installed | Bishop of Líbano-Honda, Colombia |
| 50.6 | Pedro Joaquin Hernández Cantarero, C.M.F. | Appointed | Vicar Apostolic of Darién, Panama |
| 50.6 | Pedro Joaquin Hernández Cantarero, C.M.F. | Appointed | Titular Bishop of Thabraca | Vicar Apostolic of Darién, Panama |
| 68.2 | Ernesto Antolin Salgado | Appointed | Archbishop of Nueva Segovia, Philippines |
| 42.3 | Mylo Hubert Claudio Vergara | Appointed | Bishop of San Jose, Philippines |
| 2006 | 59.7 | Odon Marie Arsène Razanakolona | Installed | Archbishop of Antananarivo, Madagascar |
| 2008 | 66.4 | Michael Gregory Campbell, O.S.A. | Appointed | Coadjutor Bishop of Lancaster, England, Great Britain | Bishop |
| 64.6 | Rafael Ramón Conde Alfonzo | Appointed | Bishop of Maracay, Venezuela |
| 2009 | 75.0 | Alfred Gonti Pius Datubara, O.F.M. Cap. | Retired | Archbishop of Medan, Indonesia | Archbishop Emeritus |
| 64.8 | Paul Jacques Marie Desfarges, S.J. | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Constantine (-Hippone), Algeria |
| 76.1 | Gregory Ebolawola Kpiebaya | Retired | Archbishop of Tamale, Ghana | Archbishop Emeritus |
| 60.4 | Philip Naameh | Appointed | Archbishop of Tamale, Ghana |
| 64.0 | Juan Navarro Castellanos | Appointed | Bishop of Tuxpan, Veracruz, México |
| 67.4 | Anicetus Bongsu Antonius Sinaga, O.F.M. Cap. | Succeeded | Archbishop of Medan, Indonesia |