23rd day of February

Living Bishop Events

St. Polycarp, bishop and martyr (Memorial)

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1926		Luigi de Magistris	Born	Cagliari, Italy	Pro-Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
1928		Yves-Georges-René Ramousse, M.E.P.	Born	Sembadel, France	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Phnom-Penh, Cambodia
1929		Thomas Joseph Costello	Born	Camden	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Syracuse, New York, USA
1932		Dominic Kokkat, C.S.T.	Born	Vaikom	Bishop Emeritus of Gorakhpur (Syro-Malabarese), India
1932		Pedro Claro Meurice Estiu	Born	San Luis	Archbishop Emeritus of Santiago de Cuba
1934		Vicente Rodrigo Cisneros Durán	Born	Pelileo (Tungurahua)	Archbishop of Cuenca, Ecuador
1934		Luís d’Andrea, O.F.M. Conv.	Born	Albano	Bishop of Caxias do Maranhão, Maranho, Brazil
1943		Segismundo Martínez Álvarez, S.D.B.	Born	Acebes del Páramo, Spain	Bishop of Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
1944		Séamus Freeman, S.A.C.	Born	Mullinahone, Tipperary	Bishop of Ossory, Ireland
1947		Peter Turang	Born	Tataaran	Archbishop of Kupang, Indonesia
1948		Cherubim Dambui	Born	Timbunke	Auxiliary Bishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
1949		Aníbal Nieto Guerra, O.C.D.	Born	Formaselle, Spain	Auxiliary Bishop of Guayaquil, Ecuador
1953		Antônio Carlos Rossi Keller	Born	São Paulo	Bishop of Frederico Westphalen, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
1954		Hlib Lonchyna, M.S.U.	Born	Steubenville, USA	Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv (Ukrainian), Ukraine
1956		Józef Piotr Kupny	Born	Dabrówka Wielka	Auxiliary Bishop of Katowice, Poland
1956		Pierre-Célestin Tshitoko Mamba	Born	Kolwezi	Bishop of Luebo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
1963	25.7	Gerald William Wiesner, O.M.I.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate	Bishop of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
1968	45.6	Lorenzo Antonetti	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Rusellae	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See
	45.6	Lorenzo Antonetti	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Honduras	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See
	58.3	Jean Jadot	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Zuri	Pro-President Emeritus of the Secretariat of Non-Christians
	58.3	Jean Jadot	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Laos	Pro-President Emeritus of the Secretariat of Non-Christians
	58.3	Jean Jadot	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Singapore	Pro-President Emeritus of the Secretariat of Non-Christians
	58.3	Jean Jadot	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Malaysia	Pro-President Emeritus of the Secretariat of Non-Christians
1971	49.5	Paul-Marie François Rousset, Ist. del Prado	Appointed	Bishop of Saint-Etienne, France	Bishop Emeritus
1972	45.1	Raymond Joseph Louis Bouchex	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Aix (-Arles-Embrun), France	Archbishop Emeritus of Avignon (-Apt, Cavaillon, Carpentras, Orange, e Vaison), France
1972	45.1	Raymond Joseph Louis Bouchex	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Elvas	Archbishop Emeritus of Avignon (-Apt, Cavaillon, Carpentras, Orange, e Vaison), France
1974	53.6	Robert Marie Jean Victor de Boissonneaux de Chevigny, C.S.Sp.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Nouakchott, Mauritania	Bishop Emeritus
1979	52.3	Domenico Crescentino Marinozzi, O.F.M. Cap.	Appointed	Prefect of Soddo-Hosanna, Ethiopia	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Soddo-Hosanna, Ethiopia
1980	57.7	Federico O. Escaler, S.J.	Appointed	Prelate of Ipil, Philippines	Prelate Emeritus
1984	60.8	Daniel William Kucera, O.S.B.	Installed	Archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
1985	43.0	Roman Adam Marcinkowski	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Płock, Poland
	43.0	Roman Adam Marcinkowski	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Bulla Regia	Auxiliary Bishop of Płock, Poland
	46.2	Paul Kazuhiro Mori	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Fata	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Tokyo, Japan
	51.9	Henryk Muszynski	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Chelmno (Culma), Poland	Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland
	51.9	Henryk Muszynski	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Villa Regis	Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland
1987	43.9	Armando Xavier Ochoa	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Sitifis	Bishop of El Paso, Texas, USA
1987	45.4	George Patrick Ziemann	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Obba	Bishop Emeritus of Santa Rosa in California, USA
1988	55.4	Anthony Michael Milone	Installed	Bishop of Great Falls-Billings, Montana, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	41.5	Alberto Silvani	Incardinated	Priest of Massa Carrara-Pontremoli, Italy	Bishop of Volterra, Italy
	58.1	Bruno Tommasi	Appointed	Bishop of Massa Carrara-Pontremoli, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus of Lucca, Italy
1989	41.1	Michael Marai	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Goroka, Papua New Guinea	Bishop Emeritus
1990	30.2	Felix Lian Khen Thang	Ordained Priest	Priest of Mandalay, Myanmar	Auxiliary Bishop of Hakha, Myanmar
1991	45.5	Sławoj Leszek Głódź	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Bettonium	Archbishop of Gdańsk, Poland
1992	54.9	Gastone Simoni	Installed	Bishop of Prato, Italy
1996	57.3	Pedro D. Arigo	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Palawan, Philippines	Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Princesa, Philippines
	57.3	Pedro D. Arigo	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Mactaris	Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Princesa, Philippines
	56.8	José Angel Divassón Cilveti, S.D.B.	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Ayacucho, Venezuela
	56.8	José Angel Divassón Cilveti, S.D.B.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Bamaccora	Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Ayacucho, Venezuela
	76.8	Donatus Djagom, S.V.D.	Retired	Archbishop of Ende, Indonesia	Archbishop Emeritus
	56.9	Peter Fernando	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Tuticorin, India	Archbishop of Madurai, India
	56.9	Theotonius Gomes, C.S.C.	Resigned	Bishop of Dinajpur, Bangladesh	Auxiliary Bishop of Dhaka, Bangladesh
	56.9	Theotonius Gomes, C.S.C.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Dhaka, Bangladesh
	56.9	Theotonius Gomes, C.S.C.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Zucchabar	Auxiliary Bishop of Dhaka, Bangladesh
	48.7	John Baptist Odama	Appointed	Bishop of Nebbi, Uganda	Archbishop of Gulu, Uganda
1998	75.6	Lorenzo Antonetti	Appointed	President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See	Cardinal, President Emeritus
	68.6	Darío Castrillón Hoyos	Appointed	Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”
	71.2	Jorge Arturo Augustin Medina Estévez	Appointed	Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
2000	48.1	Jesús María Cizaurre Berdonces, O.A.R.	Appointed	Prelate of Cametá, Para, Brazil
2001	57.9	Jirí Padour, O.F.M. Cap.	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Ceské Budĕjovice {Budweis}, Czech Republic	Bishop
	58.5	Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Forum Novum	Official of the Roman Curia - Other
	58.5	Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo	Appointed	Official of the Roman Curia - Other
2002	47.3	Jean-Christophe André Robert Lagleize	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Valence (, Die, e Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux), France
	54.1	Gino Reali	Appointed	Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina, Italy
	66.7	Wilhelm Schraml	Installed	Bishop of Passau, Germany
2003	42.5	Michael Ekwoy Apochi	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Otukpo, Nigeria
	60.7	Jesús García Burillo	Installed	Bishop of Avila, Spain
	43.1	George Cosmas Zumaire Lungu	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Chipata, Zambia
2005	49.6	Faustino Armendáriz Jiménez	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, México
2005	53.3	Gerhard Feige	Appointed	Bishop of Magdeburg, Germany
2007	45.9	Ricardo Lingan Baccay	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Tuguegarao, Philippines
2007	45.9	Ricardo Lingan Baccay	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Gabala	Auxiliary Bishop of Tuguegarao, Philippines
2008	75.4	Carmelo Ferraro	Retired	Archbishop of Agrigento, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
	61.7	Marcelino Hernández Rodríguez	Appointed	Bishop of Orizaba, México
	61.8	Francesco Montenegro	Appointed	Archbishop of Agrigento, Italy

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