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
1934		Vicente Rodrigo Cisneros Durán	Born	Pelileo (Tungurahua)	Archbishop Emeritus of Cuenca, Ecuador
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
1949		Aníbal Nieto Guerra, O.C.D.	Born	Formaselle, Spain	Bishop of San Jacinto de Yaguachi, Ecuador
1953		Antônio Carlos Rossi Keller	Born	São Paulo	Bishop of Frederico Westphalen, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
1954		Hlib (Borys Sviatoslav) Lonchyna, M.S.U.	Born	Steubenville, USA	Bishop of Holy Family of London (Ukrainian)
1955		Giuseppe Sciacca	Born	Catania, Italy	Official of the Apostolic Signatura
1956		Józef Piotr Kupny	Born	Dabrówka Wielka	Archbishop of Wrocław {Breslavia}, Poland
1956		Pierre-Célestin Tshitoko Mamba	Born	Kolwezi	Bishop of Luebo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
1957		José Gislon, O.F.M. Cap.	Born	Ibirama	Bishop of Erexim, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
1963	25.7	Gerald William Wiesner, O.M.I.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate	Bishop Emeritus of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
1966		Johannes Wübbe	Born	Lengerich	Auxiliary Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany
1971	49.5	Paul-Marie François Rousset, Ist. del Prado	Appointed	Bishop of Saint-Etienne, France	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 Tōkyō, Japan
	51.9	Henryk Józef Muszyński	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Chelmno (Culma, Kulm), Poland	Archbishop Emeritus of Gniezno, Poland
	51.9	Henryk Józef Muszyński	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Villa Regis	Archbishop Emeritus of Gniezno, Poland
1987	43.9	Armando Xavier Ochoa	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Sitifis	Bishop of Fresno, 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	30.1	Lucius Hre Kung	Ordained Priest	Priest of Hakha, Myanmar	Bishop
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	Bishop of Kalay, 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	Bishop Emeritus
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
	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
	38.9	Sanctus Lino Wanok	Incardinated	Priest of Nebbi, Uganda	Bishop
1998	68.6	Darío Castrillón Hoyos	Appointed	Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”
	68.6	Darío Castrillón Hoyos	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of Santissimo Nome di Maria al Foro Traiano	Cardinal, President Emeritus 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	Bishop of Cametá, Para, Brazil
2001	68.9	Edward Michael Egan	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of New York, New York, USA
	57.9	Jiří Paďour, O.F.M. Cap.	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of České Budĕjovice {Budweis}, Czech Republic	Bishop Emeritus
	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-Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux), France	Bishop of Metz, France
	54.1	Gino Reali	Appointed	Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina, Italy
	66.7	Wilhelm Schraml	Installed	Bishop of Passau, Germany	Bishop Emeritus
2003	42.5	Michael Ekwoy Apochi	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Otukpo, Nigeria
	60.7	Jesús García Burillo	Installed	Bishop of Ávila, 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	Bishop of Querétaro, 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, Veracruz, México	Bishop of Colima, México
	61.8	Francesco Montenegro	Appointed	Archbishop of Agrigento, Italy
2009	59.0	Timothy Michael Dolan	Appointed	Cardinal, Archbishop of New York, New York, USA
2009	76.9	Edward Michael Egan	Retired	Archbishop of New York, New York, USA	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
2010	53.9	Joseph Charles Bambera	Appointed	Bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
	53.9	Terry Ronald LaValley	Appointed	Bishop of Ogdensburg, New York, USA
	76.2	Orlando Romero Cabrera	Retired	Bishop of Canelones, Uruguay	Bishop Emeritus
	64.4	Alberto Francisco María Sanguinetti Montero	Appointed	Bishop of Canelones, Uruguay
2011	75.3	Francisco de Paula Victor	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
2012	61.5	Thomas D’Souza	Succeeded	Archbishop of Calcutta, India
	64.2	Noël Simard	Installed	Bishop of Valleyfield, Québec, Canada
	75.4	Lucas Sirkar, S.D.B.	Retired	Archbishop of Calcutta, India	Archbishop Emeritus
2013	54.9	Peter Iorzuul Adoboh	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Katsina-Ala, Nigeria
	51.5	Pietro Lagnese	Appointed	Bishop of Ischia, Italy
	57.9	Dagoberto Sosa Arriaga	Appointed	Bishop of Tlapa, Guerrero, México
2014	56.8	Francis Victor Bestion	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tulle, France
2014	66.2	Mario Aurelio Poli	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of San Roberto Bellarmino	Cardinal, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina