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Living Bishop Events

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1930		Albert Edward Baharagate	Born	Masindi	Bishop Emeritus of Hoima, Uganda
1938		Jacques Ishaq	Born	Mosul	Auxiliary Bishop of Baghdad (Chaldean), Iraq
1940		Béchara Raï, O.M.M.	Born	Himlaya	Bishop of Jbeil {Byblos} (Maronite), Lebanon
1942		Antonio Lucibello	Born	Spezzano Albanese, Italy	Apostolic Nuncio to Turkey
1944		Hippolyte Louis Jean Simon	Born	Saint-Georges-de-Rouelley	Archbishop of Clermont, France
1947		Giuseppe Betori	Born	Foligno, Italy	Titular Bishop of Falerone
1951		Paulo Mendes Peixoto	Born	Imbé	Bishop of São José do Rio Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1956	25.6	Thadeu Gomes Canellas	Ordained Priest	Priest of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Osório, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
	26.1	Affonso Felippe Gregory	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Imperatriz, Maranho, Brazil
	23.7	Patrick Francis Sheehan, O.S.A.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of St. Augustine	Bishop Emeritus of Kano, Nigeria
	24.9	Patrick Joseph Walsh	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Down and Connor, Ireland
	24.5	Thomas A. White	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ossory, Ireland	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Fiji, Pacific (Oceania)
1960	45.0	Marius-Félix-Antoine Maziers	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Augustopolis in Phrygia	Archbishop Emeritus of Bordeaux (-Bazas), France
1961		Gualtiero Sigismondi	Born	Ospedalicchio di Bastia Umbra	Bishop of Foligno, Italy
1962		Michael Mulhall	Born	Peterborough	Bishop of Pembroke, Ontario, Canada
1964	40.6	Waldyr Calheiros Novaes (de Novais)	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Barra do Piraí-Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	40.6	Waldyr Calheiros Novaes (de Novais)	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Mulia	Bishop Emeritus of Barra do Piraí-Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	48.3	Andreas Peter Cornelius Sol, M.S.C.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Regiana	Bishop Emeritus of Amboina, Indonesia
1973	48.1	Alfredo Battisti	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Udine, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
1973	46.1	Jean Pierre XVIII Kasparian, I.C.P.B.	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Baghdad (Armenian), Iraq	Patriarch Emeritus of Cilicia (Armenian), Lebanon
1975	53.5	Raymond Gerhardt Hunthausen	Appointed	Archbishop of Seattle, Washington, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
1978	41.3	Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic	Cardinal, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1979	24.4	Francisco Moreno Barrón	Ordained Priest	Priest of Morelia, Michoacán, México	Bishop of Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala, México
1984	53.6	Thadeu Gomes Canellas	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Iunca in Byzacena	Bishop Emeritus of Osório, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
1986	55.7	John Edward McCarthy	Installed	Bishop of Austin, Texas, USA	Bishop Emeritus
1987	57.4	George Edward Rueger	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Maronana	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
1988	46.1	Guire Poulard	Appointed	Bishop of Jacmel, Haïti
1989	52.3	Germán Trajano Pavón Puente	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tulcán, Ecuador	Bishop of Ambato, Ecuador
1993	68.9	Manuel C. Sobreviñas	Appointed	Bishop of Imus, Philippines	Bishop Emeritus
1994	51.7	Alfonso Delgado Evers	Appointed	Bishop of Posadas, Argentina	Archbishop of San Juan de Cuyo, Argentina
	75.1	Ernst Gutting	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Speyer, Germany	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	63.6	José Mario Ruiz Navas	Appointed	Archbishop of Portoviejo, Ecuador	Archbishop Emeritus
1995	65.1	Albert Kanene Obiefuna	Succeeded	Archbishop of Onitsha, Nigeria	Archbishop Emeritus
1996	51.1	Ramzi Garmou	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Archbishop of Teheran (Chaldean), Iran	Archbishop
	51.6	Eugène Lambert Adrian Rixen	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tabbora	Bishop of Goiás, Goias, Brazil
	49.3	Benedito Roberto, C.S.Sp.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Novo Redondo, Angola	Bishop of Sumbe, Angola
1997	45.7	Jesse Eugenio Mercado	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Manila, Philippines	Bishop of Parañaque, Philippines
	45.7	Jesse Eugenio Mercado	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Talaptula	Bishop of Parañaque, Philippines
	55.5	Bernard Blasius Moras	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Belgaum, India	Archbishop of Bangalore, India
2001	53.2	Francisco Chimoio, O.F.M. Cap.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Pemba, Mozambique	Archbishop of Maputo, Mozambique
2001	55.9	Joseph Djida, O.M.I.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ngaoundéré, Cameroon
2002	62.2	Pierre Melki	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon
	62.2	Pierre Melki	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Batnae dei Siri	Auxiliary Bishop of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon
	65.9	Luis Teodorico Stöckler	Appointed	Bishop of Quilmes, Argentina
2006	49.5	Augustine Obiora Akubeze	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Uromi, Nigeria
	66.2	Elias Chacour	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Akka [San Giovanni d’Acri; Tolemaide] (Melkite), Israel
	80.5	Michael J. Cleary, C.S.Sp.	Retired	Bishop of Banjul, Gambia	Bishop Emeritus
	62.9	Jaime Enrique Duque Correa, M.X.Y.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of El Banco, Colombia
	64.0	Robert Patrick Ellison, C.S.Sp.	Appointed	Bishop of Banjul, Gambia
	59.9	Fernando Filoni	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Philippines	Substitute (Sostituto) of the Secretariat of State
	52.5	Joércio Gonçalves Pereira, C.SS.R.	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Prelate of Coari, Amazonas, Brazil	Prelate
	55.0	Paulo Mendes Peixoto	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of São José do Rio Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	58.3	José María Yanguas Sanz	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Cuenca, Spain
2007	39.7	Anton Leichtfried	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Rufiniana	Auxiliary Bishop of Sankt Pölten, Austria
2007	43.0	Emílio Sumbelelo	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Uije, Angola	Bishop

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