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Living Bishop Events

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1922		Claude Henri Edouard Frikart, C.I.M.	Born	Ermont	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Paris, France
1927		Raffaele Castielli	Born	Faeto	Bishop Emeritus of Lucera-Troia, Italy
1930		Guy Étienne Germain Gaucher, O.C.D.	Born	Tournan-en-Brie	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bayeux (-Lisieux), France
1930		István Konkoly	Born	Kerkaszentmiklos	Bishop Emeritus of Szombathely, Hungary
1933		Walter Kasper	Born	Heidenheim/Brenz, Germany	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
1934		Austen Robin Crapp, O.F.M.	Born	Sydney, Australia	Bishop of Aitape, Papua New Guinea
1935		Francis Xavier Osamu Mizobe, S.D.B.	Born	Shingishu	Bishop of Takamatsu, Japan
1940		Mario Eusebio Mestril Vega	Born	Nuevitas	Bishop of Ciego de Avila, Cuba
1940		Romeo Tovar Astorga, O.F.M.	Born	Ciudad Delgado	Bishop of Santa Ana, El Salvador
1944		Jorge Ferreira da Costa Ortiga	Born	Brufe	Archbishop of Braga, Portugal
1946		William D'Souza, S.J.	Born	Madanthar	Archbishop of Patna, India
1947		John Ha Tiong Hock	Born	Kuching	Archbishop of Kuching, Malaysia
1948		Neil Tiedemann, C.P.	Born	Brooklyn, NY, USA	Bishop of Mandeville, Jamaica, Antilles
1949		Benoît Comlan Messan Alowonou	Born	Tsévié	Bishop of Kpalimé, Togo
1952		Rodrigo Aguilar Martínez	Born	Valle de Santiago	Bishop of Tehuacán, Puebla, México
1955	29.7	Olívio Aurélio Fazza, S.V.D.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of the Divine Word	Bishop Emeritus of Foz do Iguaçu, Parana, Brazil
1958		Franz Scharl	Born	Obendorf	Auxiliary Bishop of Wien {Vienna}, Austria
1964		Emílio Sumbelelo	Born	Cubal	Bishop of Uije, Angola
1966	26.1	Octavio Villegas Aguilar	Ordained Priest	Priest of Morelia, Michoacán, México	Auxiliary Bishop
1967	27.0	Miguel José Asurmendi Aramendia, S.D.B.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Bishop of Vitoria, Spain
	39.7	Raul Nicolau Gonsalves	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Rapidum	Archbishop Emeritus of Goa e Damão, India
	47.9	Hovhannes Tcholakian	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Istanbul (Armenian), Turkey
	35.0	Henry Anthony A. van Lieshout, C.M.M.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Lae, Papua New Guinea	Bishop Emeritus
1973	50.6	Luis Aponte Martínez	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of San Juan de Puerto Rico
	50.6	Luis Aponte Martínez	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria Madre della Providenza a Monte Verde	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of San Juan de Puerto Rico
	51.5	Paulo Evaristo Arns, O.F.M.	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	51.5	Paulo Evaristo Arns, O.F.M.	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of S. Antonio da Padova in Via Tuscolana	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	46.3	William Wakefield Baum	Appointed	Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia, USA	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
	48.8	Michel-Gaspard Coppenrath	Succeeded	Archbishop of Papeete, French Polynesia, Pacific (Oceania)	Archbishop Emeritus
	42.2	Raymond William Lessard	Appointed	Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	49.2	Anthony Francis Mestice	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of New York, New York, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	49.2	Anthony Francis Mestice	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Villa Nova	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of New York, New York, USA
1974	39.2	Noël Delaquis	Installed	Bishop of Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
1975	45.2	Angel T. Hobayan	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Catarman, Philippines	Bishop Emeritus
1978	46.2	Sixto José Parzinger Foidl, O.F.M. Cap.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Gaguari	Bishop of Villarrica, Chile
1979	38.5	Paulino Lukudu Loro, M.C.C.I.	Appointed	Bishop of El Obeid, Sudan	Archbishop of Juba, Sudan
	39.5	Sebelio Peralta Alvarez	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Villarrica, Paraguay	Bishop of Villarrica del Espíritu Santo, Paraguay
	39.5	Sebelio Peralta Alvarez	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Inuca in Mauretania	Bishop of Villarrica del Espíritu Santo, Paraguay
1980	56.8	Daniel William Kucera, O.S.B.	Appointed	Bishop of Salina, Kansas, USA	Archbishop Emeritus of Dubuque, Iowa, USA
1981	25.8	José Rafael Quirós Quirós	Ordained Priest	Priest of San José de Costa Rica	Bishop of Limón, Costa Rica
1989	51.6	Edward Marian Frankowski	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tigamibena	Auxiliary Bishop of Sandomierz, Poland
	48.5	Klaus Küng	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Feldkirch, Austria	Bishop of Sankt Pölten, Austria
	49.4	Baldomero Carlos Martini	Installed	Bishop of San Francisco, Argentina	Bishop of San Justo, Argentina
1994	42.7	Juan Bautista Gavilán Velásquez	Appointed	Bishop of Concepción (Santissima Concezione) en Paraguay	Bishop of Coronel Oviedo, Paraguay
	44.2	Jacek Jezierski	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Liberalia	Auxiliary Bishop of Warmia, Poland
	44.8	Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez, S.V.D.	Appointed	Bishop of San Pedro, Paraguay	Bishop Emeritus
	71.1	Jorge María Mejía	Appointed	Secretary of the Congregation for Bishops	Cardinal, Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archives
1996	50.3	John Raymond Manz	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Mulia	Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, Illinois, USA
1997	61.0	José da Cruz Policarpo	Appointed	Coadjutor Patriarch of Lisboa, Portugal	Cardinal, Patriarch
1997	62.5	Franc Rodé, C.M.	Appointed	Archbishop of Ljubljana, Slovenia	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
1998	53.0	Salvatore Pappalardo	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Nicosia, Italy
2000	61.3	Philippe Jean Marie Joseph Gueneley	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Langres, France
2002	49.8	Giuseppe Pinto	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Guinea-Bissau	Apostolic Nuncio to Chile
2004	55.5	Ramón José Aponte Fernández	Appointed	Bishop of Valle de la Pascua, Venezuela
	64.3	Michel Pierre Marie Mouïsse	Appointed	Bishop of Périgueux (-Sarlat), France
	76.6	Gaston Élie Poulain, P.S.S.	Retired	Bishop of Périgueux (-Sarlat), France	Bishop Emeritus
2005	64.1	Marcel Honorat Léon Agboton	Appointed	Archbishop of Cotonou, Benin
	76.0	Nestor Assogba	Retired	Archbishop of Cotonou, Benin	Archbishop Emeritus
	54.5	Oscar Cantoni	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Crema, Italy
	62.3	André Armand Vingt-Trois	Installed	Cardinal, Archbishop of Paris, France
2006	46.5	Giuseppe (José) Negri, P.I.M.E.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Puppi	Auxiliary Bishop of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
2007	47.7	Baselios Cleemis (Isaac) Thottunkal	Installed	Major Archbishop of Trivandrum (Malankarese), India

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