17th day of March

Living Bishop Events

St. Patrick, bishop (Opt. Memorial)

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1929		Leopold Nowak	Born	Magdeburg	Bishop Emeritus of Magdeburg, Germany
1931		Pietro Gabrielli, S.D.B.	Born	Pove del Grappa, Italy	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Méndez, Ecuador
1932		Mario Enrique Ríos Mont, C.M.	Born	Huehuetenango	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Guatemala
1938		Keith Michael Patrick O’Brien	Born	Ballycastle, Ireland	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain
1939		Adam Lepa	Born	Lódz	Auxiliary Bishop of Łódź, Poland
1944		Juliusz Janusz	Born	Lyczana, Poland	Apostolic Nuncio to Slovenia
1944		Paul Lortie	Born	Beauport	Bishop of Mont-Laurier, Québec, Canada
1945		Carlos Jesús Patricio Baladrón Valdés	Born	Campechuela	Bishop Emeritus of Guantánamo-Baracoa, Cuba
		Giuseppe Filippi, M.C.C.I.	Born	Baselga del Bondone, Italy	Bishop of Kotido, Uganda
		Dennis Joseph Sullivan	Born	New York City	Bishop of Camden, New Jersey, USA
1947		Želimir Puljić	Born	Kamena	Archbishop of Zadar (Zara), Croatia
1949		Fernando Carlos Maletti	Born	Buenos Aires	Bishop of Merlo-Moreno, Argentina
1954		Wolfgang Ipolt	Born	Gotha	Bishop of Görlitz, Germany
1956	26.2	Andrea Maria Erba, B.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Clerics Regular of St. Paul	Bishop Emeritus of Velletri-Segni, Italy
	24.7	Charles Victor Grahmann	Ordained Priest	Priest of San Antonio, Texas, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Dallas, Texas, USA
	25.6	John Joseph Leibrecht	Ordained Priest	Priest of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA
	23.3	Ian Murray	Ordained Priest	Priest of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain	Bishop Emeritus of Argyll and The Isles, Scotland, Great Britain
	27.0	José C. Sorra	Ordained Priest	Priest of Legazpi, Philippines	Bishop Emeritus
	24.3	Alessandro Staccioli, O.M.I.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Siena-Colle di Val d’Elsa-Montalcino, Italy
	28.2	Jesus Y. Varela	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Sorsogon, Philippines
	25.1	Ricardo Jamin Vidal	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lucena, Philippines	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Cebu, Philippines
	24.5	John Walter Yanta	Ordained Priest	Priest of San Antonio, Texas, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Amarillo, Texas, USA
1957	23.3	Pietro Brollo	Ordained Priest	Priest of Udine, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
1959		Charles Jason Gordon	Born	Port of Spain	Bishop of Bridgetown, Barbados, Antilles
1962	28.1	Enzo Dieci	Ordained Priest	Priest	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Roma {Rome}, Italy
1962	25.5	John Magee, S.P.S.	Ordained Priest	Priest of St. Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions	Bishop Emeritus of Cloyne, Ireland
1963	33.0	Guy Étienne Germain Gaucher, O.C.D.	Ordained Priest	Priest	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bayeux (-Lisieux), France
1966		José Francisco González González	Born	Yahualica	Auxiliary Bishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
1972	26.3	John Michael Quinn	Ordained Priest	Priest of Detroit, Michigan, USA	Bishop of Winona, Minnesota, USA
1974	40.3	Boniface Nyema Dalieh	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Talaptula	Bishop Emeritus of Cape Palmas, Liberia
	41.7	Jan Stefan Gałecki	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Maiuca	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Szczecin-Kamień, Poland
	27.8	Joseph Pibul Visitnondachai	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bangkok, Thailand	Bishop of Nakhon Sawan, Thailand
1975	47.1	Klaus Dick	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	47.1	Klaus Dick	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Guzabeta	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
	41.2	Joachim Meisner	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Erfurt-Meiningen, Germany	Cardinal, Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
	41.2	Joachim Meisner	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Vina	Cardinal, Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
1976	26.5	Wenceslao Selga Padilla, C.I.C.M.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary	Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
1978	41.0	Lorenzo Cárdenas Aregullín	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Tehuacán, Puebla, México	Bishop Emeritus of Papantla, Puebla, México
	41.0	Lorenzo Cárdenas Aregullín	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Crepedula	Bishop Emeritus of Papantla, Puebla, México
	47.5	Salvatore De Giorgi	Succeeded	Bishop of Oria, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Palermo, Italy
1979	28.0	Stephen Robson	Ordained Priest	Priest of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain	Auxiliary Bishop
1983	40.6	Joseph Vianney Fernando	Appointed	Bishop of Kandy, Sri Lanka
	41.8	Peter J. Kairo	Appointed	Bishop of Muranga, Kenya	Archbishop of Nyeri, Kenya
	43.9	Ferdinand Maemba Liwoke	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Lolo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop
	43.9	Ferdinand Maemba Liwoke	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Baliana	Bishop of Lolo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	37.0	Martinus Dogma Situmorang, O.F.M. Cap.	Appointed	Bishop of Padang, Indonesia
	46.3	Joseph Kingsley Swampillai	Appointed	Bishop of Trincomalee-Batticaloa, Sri Lanka	Bishop of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
1984	47.4	Luis Alfonso Santos Villeda, S.D.B.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras	Bishop Emeritus
1984	53.4	Christian Wiyghan Tumi	Succeeded	Archbishop of Garoua, Cameroon	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Douala, Cameroon
1986	61.4	Albert Jean Charles Ghislain Houssiau	Appointed	Bishop of Liège, Belgium	Bishop Emeritus
1987	50.5	John Magee, S.P.S.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
1987	48.4	Leonardo Yuzon Medroso	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Borongan, Philippines	Bishop of Tagbilaran, Philippines
1988	44.9	Franziskus Eisenbach	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz, Germany	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	44.9	Franziskus Eisenbach	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Sigus	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Mainz, Germany
	47.4	Andrea Mugione	Appointed	Bishop of Cassano all’Jonio, Italy	Archbishop of Benevento, Italy
1990	63.4	Maurice Couture, R.S.V.	Appointed	Archbishop of Québec, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus
	50.2	Vladimír Filo	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Trnava, Slovakia	Bishop of Rožňava, Slovakia
	50.2	Vladimír Filo	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Thucca in Mauretania	Bishop of Rožňava, Slovakia
	41.6	Jan Graubner	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Olomouc, Czech Republic	Archbishop
	41.6	Jan Graubner	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tagaria	Archbishop of Olomouc, Czech Republic
	48.2	Josef Hrdlička	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Olomouc, Czech Republic
	48.2	Josef Hrdlička	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Thunudruma	Auxiliary Bishop of Olomouc, Czech Republic
	42.2	František V. Lobkowicz, O. Praem.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Praha {Prague}, Czech Republic	Bishop of Ostrava-Opava, Czech Republic
	42.2	František V. Lobkowicz, O. Praem.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Catabum Castra	Bishop of Ostrava-Opava, Czech Republic
	29.4	José Mazuelos Pérez	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain	Bishop of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
	45.3	Joseph Paul Pierre Morissette	Appointed	Bishop of Baie-Comeau, Québec, Canada	Bishop of Saint-Jérôme, Québec, Canada
	50.5	František Radkovsky	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Praha {Prague}, Czech Republic	Bishop of Plzeň, Czech Republic
	50.5	František Radkovsky	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Aggar	Bishop of Plzeň, Czech Republic
	56.0	Alojz Tkáč	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Košice, Slovakia	Archbishop Emeritus of Košice, Slovakia
	64.6	Dominik Tóth	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Trnava, Slovakia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bratislava, Slovakia
	64.6	Dominik Tóth	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Ubaba	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bratislava, Slovakia
	53.7	Jean-Claude Turcotte	Appointed	Archbishop of Montréal, Québec, Canada	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
1991	24.0	Bohdan Dzyurakh, C.SS.R.	Ordained Priest	Priest	Curial Bishop of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine
1991	53.4	Charbel Georges Merhi, M.L.	Installed	Bishop of San Charbel en Buenos Aires (Maronite), Argentina	Bishop Emeritus
1992	46.9	Felipe Padilla Cardona	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, México	Bishop of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, México
1996	46.8	José Nambi	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Kwito-Bié, Angola	Bishop
1997	53.5	Sergio Lasam Utleg	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Ilagan, Philippines	Archbishop of Tuguegarao, Philippines
1997	65.5	John Walter Yanta	Installed	Bishop of Amarillo, Texas, USA	Bishop Emeritus
1999	69.8	Osório Bebber, O.F.M. Cap.	Appointed	Bishop of Joaçaba, Santa Catarina, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	59.6	Michael Patrick Driscoll	Installed	Bishop of Boise City, Idaho, USA
	63.9	Luc Julian Matthys	Appointed	Bishop of Armidale, Australia	Bishop Emeritus
2000	66.2	Edmond Carmody	Installed	Bishop of Corpus Christi, Texas, USA	Bishop Emeritus
2002	55.8	Zeno Hastenteufel	Installed	Bishop of Frederico Westphalen, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	Bishop of Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2004	75.0	Leopold Nowak	Retired	Bishop of Magdeburg, Germany	Bishop Emeritus
2005	63.3	Luigi Negri	Appointed	Bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro, Italy	Archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio, Italy
2006	55.8	Remídio José Bohn	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Uchi Maius	Bishop of Cachoeira do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
	49.2	José Luiz Ferreira Salles, C.SS.R.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tipasa in Numidia	Bishop of Pesqueira, Pernambuco, Brazil
	51.8	Heiner Koch	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany	Bishop of Dresden-Meißen (Meissen), Germany
	51.8	Heiner Koch	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Ros Cré	Bishop of Dresden-Meißen (Meissen), Germany
	62.6	Alessandro Carmelo Ruffinoni, C.S.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Furnos Maior	Bishop of Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2007	46.2	Emmanuel Félémou	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kankan, Guinea
2009	59.7	Wasyl Ihor Medwit, O.S.B.M.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Donets’k-Kharkiv (Ukrainian), Ukraine
2010	76.7	Augusto Alves da Rocha	Retired	Bishop of Floriano, Piaui, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	49.7	Valdemir Ferreira dos Santos	Appointed	Bishop of Floriano, Piaui, Brazil
	57.5	Milan Šašik, C.M.	Appointed	Bishop of Mukachevo (Munkács) (Ruthenian), Ukraine
2011	66.5	Antoine Vu Huy Chuong	Installed	Bishop of Ðà Lat, Viet Nam
2012	72.1	Rufin Anthony	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Faisalabad, Pakistan	Bishop of Islamabad-Rawalpindi, Pakistan
	68.6	Mario Roberto Cassari	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Lesotho	Apostolic Nuncio to South Africa
	50.6	Santo Rocco Gangemi	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Umbriatico	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Solomon Islands
	47.9	Jozef Hal’ko	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Serra	Auxiliary Bishop of Bratislava, Slovakia
	50.3	João Santos Cardoso	Installed	Bishop of São Raimundo Nonato, Piaui, Brazil
2013	54.6	Estanislau Marques Chindekasse, S.V.D.	Installed	Bishop of Dundo, Angola