16th day of May

Living Bishop Events

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1925		Enzio d'Antonio	Born	Lanciano	Archbishop Emeritus of Lanciano-Ortona, Italy
1931		Blasco Francisco Collaço	Born	Raia, India	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to South Africa
1932		Antonio Racelis Rañola	Born	Manila	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Cebu, Philippines
1934		Slavomir Miklovš	Born	Djurdjevo Backa	Bishop Emeritus of Križevci (Byzantine), Croatia
1935		Sebastiano Dho	Born	Frabosa Soprana	Bishop of Alba (Pompea), Italy
1936		Adriano Caprioli	Born	Solbiate Olona	Bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy
1936		Karl Lehmann	Born	Sigmaringen	Cardinal, Bishop of Mainz, Germany
1939		Eugenio Dal Corso, P.S.D.P.	Born	Lugo di Valpantena di Grezzana, Italy	Bishop of Benguela, Angola
1939		Carmo João Rhoden, S.C.J.	Born		Bishop of Taubaté, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1940		Jesús Humberto Velázquez Garay	Born	Culiacán	Bishop Emeritus of Celaya, Guanajuato, México
1941		Denis James Hart	Born	Melbourne	Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia
		Ubaldo Ramón Santana Sequera, F.M.I.	Born	Cagua	Archbishop of Maracaibo, Venezuela
		José Song Sui-Wan, S.D.B.	Born	Shangay, China	Bishop Emeritus of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas, Brazil
1943		Karl Golser	Born	Tscherms-Cermes	Bishop of Bolzano-Bressanone {Bozen-Brixen}, Italy
1945		Carlos Osoro Sierra	Born	Castañeda	Archbishop of Valencia, Spain
1946		André Gazaille	Born	Montréal	Auxiliary Bishop of Montréal, Québec, Canada
1948		Boniface Choi Ki-San	Born	Kyeonki	Bishop of Incheon {Inch’on}, Korea (South)
1948		Domenico Sorrentino	Born	Boscoreale	Bishop of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino, Italy
1958		Kenneth Anthony Adam Nowakowski	Born	North Battleford	Bishop of New Westminster (Ukrainian), Canada
1962		Georges Bacaouni (Bakouny)	Born	Ain el-Roummaneh	Archbishop of Tyr (Melkite), Lebanon
1963	26.1	Roger William Gries, O.S.B.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Saint Benedict	Auxiliary Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio, USA
1964	25.9	Joseph Anthony Galante	Ordained Priest	Priest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA	Bishop of Camden, New Jersey, USA
	20.7	John Vadakel, C.M.I.	Professed	Member of Carmelites of Mary Immaculate	Bishop of Bijnor (Syro-Malabarese), India
	28.1	José Sótero Valero Ruz	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop of Guanare, Venezuela
1965	37.8	Hans Ludvig Martensen, S.J.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of København {Copenhagen}, Denmark	Bishop Emeritus
1970	25.7	Edward Joseph Adams	Ordained Priest	Priest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA	Apostolic Nuncio to Philippines
	26.2	Paul Lortie	Ordained Priest	Priest of Québec, Québec, Canada	Auxiliary Bishop
	27.9	Joseph Anthony Pepe	Ordained Priest	Priest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA	Bishop of Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
1972	37.1	Medardo Luis Luzardo Romero	Appointed	Bishop of San Carlos de Venezuela	Archbishop of Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela
1973	27.8	Roger Joseph Foys	Ordained Priest	Priest of Steubenville, Ohio, USA	Bishop of Covington, Kentucky, USA
1974	46.1	Giacomo Barabino	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Bobbio-San Colombano, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Ventimiglia-San Remo, Italy
	46.1	Giacomo Barabino	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Rebellum	Bishop Emeritus of Ventimiglia-San Remo, Italy
	46.2	John Stephen Cummins	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Lambaesis	Bishop Emeritus of Oakland, California, USA
1975	27.2	Neil Tiedemann, C.P.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Passion	Bishop of Mandeville, Jamaica, Antilles
1976	25.7	Denis Theurillat	Ordained Priest	Priest of Basel, Switzerland	Auxiliary Bishop
1981	34.0	Joseph Patrick McFadden	Ordained Priest	Priest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA	Auxiliary Bishop
1982	51.7	Teodoro de Faria	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Funchal, Portugal	Bishop Emeritus
1982	51.4	José Siro González Bacallao	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Pinar del Rio, Cuba	Bishop Emeritus
1983	52.2	Camillo Ruini	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Reggio Emilia, Italy	Cardinal, Vicar General Emeritus of Roma {Rome}, Italy
1983	52.2	Camillo Ruini	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Nepte	Cardinal, Vicar General Emeritus of Roma {Rome}, Italy
1986	53.8	Ângelo Domingos Salvador, O.F.M. Cap.	Appointed	Prelate of Coxim, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Uruguaiana, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
1987	28.1	Frank Joseph Caggiano	Ordained Priest	Priest of Brooklyn, New York, USA	Auxiliary Bishop
1989	61.3	Pietro Bottaccioli	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Gubbio, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	53.4	John Clement Favalora	Installed	Bishop of Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA	Archbishop of Miami, Florida, USA
	53.7	Paul Albert Zipfel	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA	Bishop of Bismarck, North Dakota, USA
	53.7	Paul Albert Zipfel	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Walla Walla	Bishop of Bismarck, North Dakota, USA
1990	49.9	Michael Smith	Succeeded	Bishop of Meath, Ireland
1990	43.6	Kyrillos Kamal William Samaan, O.F.M.	Appointed	Bishop of Assiut {Lycopolis} (Coptic), Egypt
1993	66.1	Joseph Ratzinger	Installed	Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri-Segni	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
1995	45.0	Roberto Octavio González Nieves, O.F.M.	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Corpus Christi, Texas, USA	Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico
1999	45.3	Juda Thadaeus Ruwa'ichi, O.F.M. Cap.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Mbulu, Tanzania	Bishop of Dodoma, Tanzania
1999	56.5	André Armand Vingt-Trois	Installed	Archbishop of Tours, France	Cardinal, Archbishop of Paris, France
2000	57.8	Bernard César Augustin Barsi	Appointed	Archbishop of Monaco, Monaco
	77.2	Joseph Théophile Louis Marie Madec	Retired	Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon, France	Bishop Emeritus
	66.9	Marcel Germain Perrier	Appointed	Bishop of Pamiers, France	Bishop Emeritus
	47.7	Dominique Marie Jean Rey, Comm. l'Emm.	Appointed	Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon, France
2001	55.2	Gerald Almeida	Succeeded	Bishop of Jabalpur, India
2001	72.6	Théophane Matthew Thannickunnel, O. Praem.	Retired	Bishop of Jabalpur, India	Bishop Emeritus
2002	63.5	Giuseppe Moretti, B.	Appointed	Superior of Afghanistan
2004	63.7	Bernardo Fabio D'Onorio, O.S.B.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Minturnae	Archbishop of Gaeta, Italy
2004	58.8	Alberto Tanasini	Installed	Bishop of Chiavari, Italy
2006	57.5	Rodolfo Fontiveros Beltran	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Buffada	Vicar Apostolic of Bontoc-Lagawe, Philippines
	65.0	Pablo Jaime Galimberti di Vietri	Appointed	Bishop of Salto, Uruguay
	74.9	Joseph Leopold Imesch	Retired	Bishop of Joliet in Illinois, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	75.9	Theodore Edgar McCarrick	Retired	Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia, USA	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	53.9	James Peter Sartain	Appointed	Bishop of Joliet in Illinois, USA
	65.5	Donald William Wuerl	Appointed	Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia, USA
2009	56.2	Marian Buczek	Installed	Bishop of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia, Ukraine
	76.3	Vincent Mojwok Nyiker	Retired	Bishop of Malakal, Sudan	Bishop Emeritus
	75.2	Ignatius Chung Wang	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco, California, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	52.9	François-Xavier Yombandje	Resigned	Bishop of Bossangoa, Central African Republic	Bishop Emeritus

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