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Living Bishop Events

St. Peter Chanel, priest and martyr (Opt. Memorial)
St. Louis Mary de Montfort, priest (Opt. Memorial)

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1925		James Hector MacDonald, C.S.C.	Born	Whycocomagh	Archbishop Emeritus of Saint John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
1928		Patrick Paul D'Souza	Born	Bendur	Bishop Emeritus of Varanasi, India
1928		Georges Kwaïter, B.S.	Born	Damas	Archbishop Emeritus of Saïda (Melkite), Lebanon
1933		Ramón Búa Otero	Born	Isla de Arosa	Bishop Emeritus of Calahorra y La Calzada-Logroño, Spain
1933		Petero Mataca	Born	Cawaci	Archbishop of Suva, Fiji, Pacific (Oceania)
1940		Massoud Massoud	Born	Kafroum	Bishop of Lattaquié {Laodicea} (Maronite), Syria
1940		Antoine Ntalou	Born	Bandounga	Archbishop of Garoua, Cameroon
1942		André Rivest	Born	Repentigny	Bishop of Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada
1943		Jude Gerald Paulraj	Born	Pazhayakovil	Bishop of Palayamkottai, India
1949		Luis Artemio Flores Calzada	Born	San Antonio Tultitlán	Bishop of Valle de Chalco, México
1954		Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez, S.J.	Born	Madrid, Spain	Bishop of Sololá-Chimaltenango, Guatemala
1956	26.4	Norbert Mary Leonard James Dorsey, C.P.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Passion	Bishop Emeritus of Orlando, Florida, USA
1957	27.8	Lajos Bálint	Ordained Priest	Priest of Alba Iulia, Romania	Archbishop Emeritus of Alba Iulia, Romania
	23.8	José Cardoso Sobrinho, O. Carm.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel	Archbishop of Olinda e Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
	25.9	Andrea Gemma, F.D.P.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sons of Divine Providence	Bishop Emeritus of Isernia-Venafro, Italy
	24.1	Henryk Muszynski	Ordained Priest	Priest of Chelmno (Culma), Poland	Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland
1958	30.1	Alcides Mendoza Castro	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Abancay, Peru	Archbishop Emeritus of Cuzco, Peru
1958	30.1	Alcides Mendoza Castro	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Metrae	Archbishop Emeritus of Cuzco, Peru
1959		Richard William Smith	Born	Halifax	Archbishop of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1960	45.3	Samuel-Louis-Marie-Antoine Gaumain, O.F.M. Cap.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Moundou, Chad	Bishop Emeritus
1962	31.6	Mathew Cheriankunnel, P.I.M.E.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions	Bishop Emeritus of Kurnool, India
1965	29.6	Mauro Morelli	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1969	48.5	Eugênio de Araújo Sales	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	48.5	Eugênio de Araújo Sales	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of S. Gregorio VII	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	47.0	Stephen Kim Sou-hwan	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Seoul, Korea (South)
	47.0	Stephen Kim Sou-hwan	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of S. Felice da Cantalice a Centocelle	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Seoul, Korea (South)
	54.8	Ersilio Tonini	Appointed	Bishop of Macerata-Tolentino, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Ravenna-Cervia, Italy
1973	29.1	Michel-Marie-Bernard Calvet, S. M.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of Mary	Archbishop of Nouméa, New Caledonia, Pacific (Oceania)
1973	26.2	Paul Mandla Khumalo, C.M.M.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of Mariannhill Missionaries	Bishop of Witbank, South Africa
1974	39.7	Carlos Amigo Vallejo, O.F.M.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tanger, Morocco	Cardinal, Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain
1974	40.1	James Spaita	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Mansa, Zambia	Archbishop of Kasama, Zambia
1975	42.0	George Francis Daniel	Appointed	Archbishop of Pretoria, South Africa
1976	43.9	Elden Francis Curtiss	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Helena, Montana, USA	Archbishop of Omaha, Nebraska, USA
1976	54.5	Girolamo Prigione	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Nigeria	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to México
1977	47.5	Tadeusz Rybak	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Wrocław {Breslavia}, Poland	Bishop Emeritus of Legnica, Poland
1977	47.5	Tadeusz Rybak	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Benepota	Bishop Emeritus of Legnica, Poland
1979	25.5	Oscar Azarcon Solis	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cabanatuan, Philippines	Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, California, USA
1984	62.0	Anton Bogetic	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Poreč i Pula, Croatia	Bishop Emeritus
	54.4	Peter Michael Chenaparampil	Succeeded	Bishop of Alleppey, India	Bishop Emeritus
	49.4	Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja, S.J.	Appointed	Bishop of Indonesia, Military	Cardinal, Archbishop of Jakarta, Indonesia
	47.7	Herbert Nikolaus Lenhof, S.A.C.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Queenstown, South Africa
1985	59.9	Carlos Francisco Martins Pinheiro	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Dumium	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Braga, Portugal
1985	41.6	Murilo Sebastião Ramos Krieger, S.C.J.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Lysinia	Archbishop of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
1986	55.1	Edmund John Patrick Collins, M.S.C.	Appointed	Bishop of Darwin, Australia	Bishop Emeritus
1988	54.2	Felipe Aguirre Franco	Appointed	Bishop of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México	Archbishop of Acapulco, Guerrero, México
	59.3	Manuel Mireles Vaquera	Appointed	Coadjutor Prelate of El Salto, Durango, México	Prelate Emeritus
	47.5	Andrea Mugione	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Cassano all’Jonio, Italy	Archbishop of Benevento, Italy
	59.1	Francisco Javier Prado Aránguiz, SS.CC.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Valparaíso, Chile	Bishop Emeritus of Rancagua, Chile
	47.9	Jesús Humberto Velázquez Garay	Appointed	Bishop of Celaya, Guanajuato, México	Bishop Emeritus
1990	64.7	Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine	Cardinal, Archpriest of the Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura {Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls Basilica}
	60.1	Adam Joseph Maida	Appointed	Cardinal, Archbishop of Detroit, Michigan, USA
	62.6	Edmund Casimir Szoka	Appointed	President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Governatorate of Vatican City State
1991	34.7	José Soares Filho, O.F.M. Cap.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin	Bishop of Carolina, Maranho, Brazil
1992	65.0	Waclaw Swierzawski	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sandomierz, Poland	Bishop Emeritus
1996	70.2	Luigi de Magistris	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Nova	Pro-Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
2001	50.4	Solomon Amanchukwu Amatu	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Sabrata	Bishop of Okigwe, Nigeria
2001	61.6	Juan Piris Frígola	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Menorca, Spain
2002	57.0	Julián López Martín	Installed	Bishop of León, Spain
2003	54.2	Francisco Robles Ortega	Installed	Cardinal, Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
2007	54.6	Paulinus Chukwuemeka Ezeokafor	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tetci	Auxiliary Bishop of Awka, Nigeria
	65.6	Héctor Guerrero Córdova, S.D.B.	Ordained Bishop	Prelate of Mixes, Oaxaca, México
	59.0	Luis Armando Tineo Rivera	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Horrea Coelia	Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela

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