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Living Bishop Events

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1933		Bernard Mohlalisi, O.M.I.	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Maseru, Lesotho
1935		Lorenzo Chiarinelli	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Viterbo, Italy
1935		Xavier Gilles de Maupeou d’Ableiges	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Viana, Maranhão, Brazil
1937		Salvatore Di Cristina	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Monreale, Italy
1939		Ramon Barrera Villena	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Bayombong, Philippines
1942		Jorge Enrique Serpa Pérez	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Pinar del Rio, Cuba
1943		Francesco Giovanni Brugnaro	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Camerino-San Severino Marche, Italy
1946		Virgilio Pante, I.M.C.	Born		Bishop of Maralal, Kenya
1950		Lode Van Hecke, O.C.S.O.	Born		Bishop-Elect of Gent {Ghent, Gand}, Belgium
1951		Hansjörg Vogel	Born
1952		Emmanuel Kerketta	Born		Bishop of Jashpur, India
1952		Victor de la Cruz Ocampo	Born		Bishop of Gumaca, Philippines
1953		Vincent Coulibaly	Born		Archbishop of Conakry {Konakry}, Guinea
1953		Mariano Crociata	Born		Bishop of Latina-Terracina-Sezze-Priverno, Italy
1956		Luis Mariano Montemayor	Born		Apostolic Nuncio to Colombia
1957	25.1	Flavio Roberto Carraro, O.F.M. Cap.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin	Bishop Emeritus of Verona, Italy
	22.8	Francesco Monterisi	Ordained Priest	Priest of Trani e Barletta (e Nazareth e Bisceglie), Italy	Cardinal, Archpriest Emeritus of the Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura {Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls Basilica}
	25.1	José Saraiva Martins, C.M.F.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
1958	25.1	Mario Cecchini	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola, Italy
1974		Mario León Dorado, O.M.I.	Born		Prefect of Western Sahara {Sahara Occiental}
1974	29.7	Konrad Zdarsa	Ordained Priest	Priest of Meißen (Meissen), Germany	Bishop Emeritus of Augsburg, Germany
1979		Ivan Kulyk	Born		Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi (Ukrainian), Ukraine
1981	48.6	Ângelo Domingos Salvador, O.F.M. Cap.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Uruguaiana, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
1981	48.6	Ângelo Domingos Salvador, O.F.M. Cap.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Selia	Bishop Emeritus of Uruguaiana, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
1982	43.0	Ramon Barrera Villena	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Tagum, Philippines	Bishop Emeritus of Bayombong, Philippines
1982	43.0	Ramon Barrera Villena	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tucci	Bishop Emeritus of Bayombong, Philippines
1984	44.3	John Buckley	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Cork and Ross, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
1984	44.3	John Buckley	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Leptis Magna	Bishop Emeritus of Cork and Ross, Ireland
1986	53.1	Mario Cecchini	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Fano, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola, Italy
1986	44.7	Pablo Lizama Riquelme	Installed	Prelate of Illapel, Chile	Archbishop Emeritus of Antofagasta, Chile
1988	40.7	Romulo Tolentino de la Cruz	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Isabela, Philippines	Archbishop of Zamboanga, Philippines
1988	57.8	Adélio Giuseppe (José) Tomasin, P.S.D.P.	Appointed	Bishop of Quixadá, Ceara, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
1989	45.0	Flavio Calle Zapata	Ordained Bishop	Prelate of Alto Sinú, Colombia	Archbishop Emeritus of Ibagué, Colombia
1989	55.9	Severino Poletto	Appointed	Bishop of Asti, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Torino {Turin}, Italy
1990	47.5	Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino	Appointed	Archbishop of Valencia en Venezuela	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
1993	58.9	Karl-Josef Rauber	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland	Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Belgium
1993	58.9	Karl-Josef Rauber	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Liechtenstein	Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Belgium
1994	58.9	Justin Francis Rigali	Installed	Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1996	43.2	Paul-Siméon Ahouanan Djro, O.F.M.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire	Archbishop of Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire
	58.1	Giuseppe Molinari	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of L’Aquila, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
	24.9	Joseph Tobji	Ordained Priest	Priest of Alep [Beroea, Halab] (Maronite), Syria	Archbishop
1999	54.2	Vincent Sowah Boi-Nai, S.V.D.	Appointed	Bishop of Yendi, Ghana
	42.8	Antonieto Dumagan Cabajog	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Reperi	Bishop of Surigao, Philippines
	66.0	Walter Kasper	Appointed	Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity	Cardinal, President Emeritus
	41.2	Jacob Venance Koda	Appointed	Bishop of Same, Tanzania	Bishop Emeritus
	56.7	Josaphat Louis Lebulu	Appointed	Archbishop of Arusha, Tanzania	Archbishop Emeritus
	46.7	Rafael Masahiro Umemura	Appointed	Bishop of Yokohama, Japan
2001	54.1	Thomas Christopher Collins	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Saint Paul in Alberta, Canada	Cardinal, Archbishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2002	54.7	Romulo Tolentino de la Cruz	Succeeded	Bishop of San Jose de Antique, Philippines	Archbishop of Zamboanga, Philippines
	50.0	Gilberto Gómez González	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Mozotcori	Bishop of Abancay, Peru
	58.0	Ernest Léger	Resigned	Archbishop of Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus
	64.1	Raul José Quimpo Martirez	Resigned	Bishop of San Jose de Antique, Philippines	Bishop Emeritus
	64.7	André Richard, C.S.C.	Appointed	Archbishop of Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus
	46.0	Joseph Anthony Zziwa	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Kiyinda-Mityana, Uganda	Bishop
2003	75.9	Joseph Ratzinger	Installed	Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia	Pope Emeritus of Roma {Rome}, Italy
2011	50.8	Thomas Anthony Daly	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of San Jose in California, USA	Bishop of Spokane, Washington, USA
2011	50.8	Thomas Anthony Daly	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tabalta	Bishop of Spokane, Washington, USA
2012	71.7	Raymond John Lahey	Laicized
2013	74.7	Angelo Amato, S.D.B.	Confirmed	Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	64.8	Ilario Antoniazzi	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Tunis, Tunisia
	78.2	Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Bertone, S.D.B.	Confirmed	Secretary of State	Cardinal, Secretary Emeritus
	65.8	João Bráz de Aviz	Confirmed	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
	69.3	Jean-Louis Bruguès, O.P.	Confirmed	Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archive	Archivist Emeritus
	69.3	Jean-Louis Bruguès, O.P.	Confirmed	Librarian of the Vatican Library	Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archive
	64.7	Raymond Leo Burke	Confirmed	Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	70.1	Domenico Calcagno	Confirmed	President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See	Cardinal, President Emeritus
	67.4	Antonio Cañizares Llovera	Confirmed	Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments	Cardinal, Archbishop of Valencia, Spain
	71.6	Claudio Maria Celli	Confirmed	President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications	President Emeritus
	75.0	Francesco Coccopalmerio	Confirmed	President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts	Cardinal, President Emeritus
	69.4	Angelo Comastri	Confirmed	Cardinal, President of the Fabric of St. Peter
	66.9	Fernando Filoni	Confirmed	Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples	Cardinal, Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
	61.5	Salvatore Fisichella	Confirmed	President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization
	73.4	Zenon Grocholewski	Confirmed	Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Institutes of Study)	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	58.7	Heiner Koch	Installed	Bishop of Dresden-Meißen (Meissen), Germany	Archbishop of Berlin, Germany
	63.0	Kurt Koch	Confirmed	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
	51.6	Valdir Mamede	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Naissus	Bishop of Catanduva, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	65.2	Gerhard Ludwig Müller	Confirmed	Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	65.2	Gerhard Ludwig Müller	Confirmed	President of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
	65.2	Gerhard Ludwig Müller	Confirmed	President of the International Theological Commission	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
	65.2	Gerhard Ludwig Müller	Confirmed	President of the Pontifical Biblical Commission	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
	68.7	Marc Armand Ouellet, P.S.S.	Confirmed	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops
	67.9	Vincenzo Paglia	Confirmed	President of the Pontifical Council for the Family	President of the Pontifical Academy for Life
	68.5	Mauro Piacenza	Confirmed	Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary
	70.4	Gianfranco Ravasi	Confirmed	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture
	70.4	Gianfranco Ravasi	Confirmed	President of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture
	67.6	Stanisław Ryłko	Confirmed	President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity	Cardinal, Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}
	69.3	Leonardo Sandri	Confirmed	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
	67.7	Robert Sarah	Confirmed	President of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
	64.4	Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson	Confirmed	President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace	Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
	75.1	Antonio Maria Vegliò	Confirmed	President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People	Cardinal, President Emeritus
	69.6	Giuseppe Versaldi	Confirmed	President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Institutes of Study)
2014	46.7	Medardo de Jesús Henao del Río, M.X.Y.	Installed	Vicar Apostolic of Mitú, Colombia
2014	55.1	Joseph-Marie-Edouard de Metz-Noblat	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Langres, France
2016	47.7	José Albuquerque de Araújo	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
	47.7	José Albuquerque de Araújo	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Altava	Auxiliary Bishop of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
	51.5	Luiz Carlos Dias	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Brazil
	51.5	Luiz Carlos Dias	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tunes	Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Brazil
	52.7	Luis Ángel de las Heras Berzal, C.M.F.	Appointed	Bishop of Mondoñedo-Ferrol, Spain
2017	57.9	Steven Robert Biegler	Appointed	Bishop of Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA
	60.9	Gabriel Edoe Kumordji, S.V.D.	Appointed	Bishop of Keta-Akatsi, Ghana
	68.3	John Gordon MacWilliam, M. Afr.	Appointed	Bishop of Laghouat, Algeria
	76.3	Claude Jean Narcisse Rault, M. Afr.	Retired	Bishop of Laghouat, Algeria	Bishop Emeritus
2018	51.0	Jon Paul Christian Hansen, C.SS.R.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Mackenzie-Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada
	54.5	Célestin Hakizimana	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Cyangugu, Rwanda	Bishop of Gikongoro, Rwanda
	46.5	Marcelo Julián Margni	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Stephaniacum	Auxiliary Bishop of Quilmes, Argentina

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