25th day of May

Living Bishop Events

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1920		Abel Costas Montaño	Born	Pocona	Bishop Emeritus of Tarija, Bolivia
1925		François Xavier Nguyên Quang Sách	Born	An Ngai	Bishop Emeritus of Ðà Nang, Viet Nam
1927		Edvaldo Gonçalves Amaral, S.D.B.	Born	Recife	Archbishop Emeritus of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
1930		Paolo Lunardon, O.S.B.	Born	Cuasso al Monte	Abbot Emeritus of San Paolo fuori le Mura, Italy
1930		Joaquín Piña Batllevell, S.J.	Born	Sabadell, Spain	Bishop Emeritus of Puerto Iguazú, Argentina
1933		Heriberto Hermes, O.S.B.	Born	Shallow Water, KS, USA	Prelate Emeritus of Cristalândia, Goias, Brazil
1933	26.6	Francis Hong Yong-ho	Ordained Priest	Priest of Peng-yang, Korea (North)	Bishop of P’yŏng-yang, Korea (North)
1936		Alphonse Émile Georger	Born	Sarreguemines, France	Bishop Emeritus of Oran, Algeria
1936		Nei Paulo Moretto	Born	Caxias do Sul	Bishop Emeritus of Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
1938		Guy André Dominique Marie Chevalier, SS.CC.	Born	Les Herbiers, France	Bishop of Taiohae o Tefenuaenata, French Polynesia, Pacific (Oceania)
1946		Washington Cruz, C.P.	Born	Itabuna	Archbishop of Goiânia, Goias, Brazil
1950		Jorge Pedro Carrión Pavlich	Born	Junin	Bishop of Puno, Peru
1950		Thomas Osman, O.F.M. Cap.	Born	Lemuna	Bishop of Barentu (Ethiopian), Eritrea
1953		Francesco Moraglia	Born	Genova	Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy
1954		Yves-Marie Péan, C.S.C.	Born	Pilate	Bishop of Les Gonaïves, Haïti
1955		Miguel Angel Morán Aquino	Born	Esquípulas	Bishop of San Miguel, El Salvador
1955	27.5	Pierre Trân Thanh Chung	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Kontum, Viet Nam
1957	29.7	William George Curlin	Ordained Priest	Priest of Washington, District of Columbia, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
	26.2	Robert William Donnelly	Ordained Priest	Priest of Toledo, Ohio, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	26.6	Carl Frederick Mengeling	Ordained Priest	Priest of Gary, Indiana, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Lansing, Michigan, USA
	23.3	Raymundo Joseph Peña	Ordained Priest	Priest of Corpus Christi, Texas, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Brownsville, Texas, USA
	38.2	José Maria Pires	Appointed	Bishop of Araçuaí (Arassuaí), Minas Gerais, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus of Paraíba, Paraiba, Brazil
1961	24.8	Guido Plante, P.M.E.	Solemn Professed	Member of Société des Missions-Étrangères	Bishop Emeritus of Choluteca, Honduras
1962		Felix Femi Ajakaye	Born	Ibadan	Bishop of Ekiti, Nigeria
1963	25.6	Joseph Nunzio Latino	Ordained Priest	Priest of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA	Bishop of Jackson, Mississippi, USA
	26.0	William Keith Weigand	Ordained Priest	Priest of Boise City, Idaho, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Sacramento, California, USA
	26.7	James Kendrick Williams	Ordained Priest	Priest of Louisville, Kentucky, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Lexington, Kentucky, USA
1965	31.2	Jean-Baptiste Pham Minh Mân	Ordained Priest	Priest	Cardinal, Archbishop of Thành-Phô Hô Chí Minh (Hôchiminh Ville), Viet Nam
1967	25.1	Michel Marie Jacques Dubost, C.I.M.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of Jesus and Mary	Bishop of Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes, France
	33.1	Patrick O’Donoghue	Ordained Priest	Priest of Westminster, England, Great Britain	Bishop Emeritus of Lancaster, England, Great Britain
	25.2	Richard Stephen Seminack	Ordained Priest	Priest of Philadelphia (Ukrainian), Pennsylvania, USA	Bishop of Saint Nicholas of Chicago (Ukrainian), Illinois, USA
1968	26.5	Martin John Amos	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cleveland, Ohio, USA	Bishop of Davenport, Iowa, USA
	25.1	Frederick Bernard Henry	Ordained Priest	Priest of London, Ontario, Canada	Bishop of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
	24.0	Marc Ouellet, P.S.S.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of Priests of Saint Sulpice	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops
	28.2	John Huston Ricard, S.S.J.	Ordained Priest	Priest of St. Joseph’s Society of the Sacred Heart	Bishop Emeritus of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida, USA
1969	38.9	Orlando Octacílio Dotti, O.F.M. Cap.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Caçador, Santa Catarina, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Vacaria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
1969	24.1	Diarmuid Martin	Ordained Priest	Priest of Dublin, Ireland	Archbishop
1971	41.0	Basil Harry Losten	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Arcadiopolis in Asia	Bishop Emeritus of Stamford (Ukrainian), USA
1972	27.5	José Vilaplana Blasco	Ordained Priest	Priest of Valencia, Spain	Bishop of Huelva, Spain
1973	24.1	Zygmunt Zimowski	Ordained Priest	Priest of Tarnów, Poland	President of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers
1974	42.8	Tadeusz Werno	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Zattara	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg, Poland
1975	25.6	Joaquim Ferreira Lopes, O.F.M. Cap.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin	Bishop of Viana, Angola
	40.8	Cláudio Aury Affonso Hummes, O.F.M.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Carcabia	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Clergy
	24.7	Eduards Pavlovskis	Ordained Priest	Priest of Riga, Latvia	Bishop of Jelgava, Latvia
	39.6	Alano Maria Pena, O.P.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Vardimissa	Archbishop Emeritus of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1979	55.1	Manuel C. Sobreviñas	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tulana	Bishop Emeritus of Imus, Philippines
1980	26.0	Władisław Blin	Ordained Priest	Priest of Włocławek (Kujawy, Kalisze), Poland	Bishop Emeritus of Vitebsk, Belarus
	48.9	Pablo Puente Buces	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Macri	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Great Britain
	27.8	Heinrich Timmerevers	Ordained Priest	Priest of Münster, Germany	Auxiliary Bishop
1981	45.7	Mauro Morelli	Appointed	Bishop of Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
1982	45.5	Ennio Antonelli	Appointed	Bishop of Gubbio, Italy	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Family
1984	55.8	William Clifford Newman	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	55.8	William Clifford Newman	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Numluli	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
	44.2	John Huston Ricard, S.S.J.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida, USA
	44.2	John Huston Ricard, S.S.J.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Rucuma	Bishop Emeritus of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida, USA
1985	52.6	Francis Arinze	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
	52.6	Francis Arinze	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Giovanni della Pigna	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
	46.1	Wilhelmus Adrianus Josephus Maria de Bekker	Ordained Priest	Priest of Paramaribo, Suriname, Antilles	Bishop
	61.3	Vasco Giuseppe Bertelli	Appointed	Bishop of Volterra, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	56.9	Giacomo Biffi	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Bologna, Italy
	56.9	Giacomo Biffi	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni Evangelista e Petronio	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Bologna, Italy
	32.4	Peter Forsyth Christensen	Ordained Priest	Priest of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA	Bishop of Superior, Wisconsin, USA
	55.0	Giuseppe Di Falco	Appointed	Bishop of Valva e Sulmona, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Sulmona-Valva, Italy
	61.6	Henryk Roman Gulbinowicz	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Wrocław {Breslavia}, Poland
	61.6	Henryk Roman Gulbinowicz	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Immacolata Concezione di Maria a Grottarossa	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Wrocław {Breslavia}, Poland
	25.6	Matthias König	Ordained Priest	Priest of Paderborn, Germany	Auxiliary Bishop
	53.6	Bernard Francis Law	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archpriest Emeritus of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}
	53.6	Bernard Francis Law	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Susanna	Cardinal, Archpriest Emeritus of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}
	61.3	Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
	61.3	Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria delle Grazie alle Fornaci fuori Porta Cavalleggeri	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
	59.3	Miguel Obando Bravo, S.D.B.	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Managua, Nicaragua
	59.3	Miguel Obando Bravo, S.D.B.	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni Evangelista a Spinaceto	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Managua, Nicaragua
	61.3	Silvano Piovanelli	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Firenze {Florence}, Italy
	61.3	Silvano Piovanelli	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria delle Grazie a Via Trionfale	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Firenze {Florence}, Italy
	54.7	Paul Joseph Jean Poupard	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Culture
	54.7	Paul Joseph Jean Poupard	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Eugenio	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Culture
	53.5	Adrianus Johannes Simonis	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Utrecht, Netherlands
	53.5	Adrianus Johannes Simonis	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Clemente	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Utrecht, Netherlands
	61.2	Jozef Tomko	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Gesù Buon Pastore alla Montagnola	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses
	61.2	Jozef Tomko	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses
	54.3	Ricardo Jamin Vidal	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Cebu, Philippines
	54.3	Ricardo Jamin Vidal	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Pietro e Paolo a Via Ostiense	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Cebu, Philippines
	57.3	Friedrich Wetter	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of München und Freising {Munich}, Germany
	57.3	Friedrich Wetter	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santo Stefano al Monte Celio	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of München und Freising {Munich}, Germany
1986	24.8	Julio Murat	Ordained Priest	Priest of Izmir (Smirne), Turkey	Apostolic Nuncio to Zambia
1986	25.7	Krzysztof Zadarko	Ordained Priest	Priest of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop
1987	53.0	Marcel Paul Herriot	Appointed	Bishop of Verdun, France	Bishop Emeritus of Soissons (-Laon-Saint-Quentin), France
1988	49.4	Gabriel Mmole	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Mtwara, Tanzania
1990	47.7	Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino	Installed	Archbishop of Valencia en Venezuela	Cardinal, Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
1991	26.7	Robert Joseph Coyle	Ordained Priest	Priest of Rockville Centre, New York, USA	Auxiliary Bishop of United States of America, Military
1991	62.4	Adam Joseph Exner, O.M.I.	Appointed	Archbishop of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus
1992	58.4	Edmond Carmody	Installed	Bishop of Tyler, Texas, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
1992	57.1	Gerardo Pierro	Appointed	Archbishop of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
1993	61.9	Pablo Puente Buces	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Kuwait	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Great Britain
1994	54.3	Octavio Villegas Aguilar	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tula, Hidalgo, México	Auxiliary Bishop of Morelia, Michoacán, México
1995	55.1	Jacyr Francisco Braido, C.S.	Installed	Coadjutor Bishop of Santos, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop
	64.4	Karl Heinrich Braun	Installed	Archbishop of Bamberg, Germany	Archbishop Emeritus
	41.7	Neal James Buckon	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cleveland, Ohio, USA	Auxiliary Bishop of United States of America, Military
	63.3	Mariano De Nicolò	Resigned	Bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Rimini, Italy
	58.6	Paolo Rabitti	Appointed	Bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus of Ferrara-Comacchio, Italy
1996	37.8	Michael Jude Byrnes	Ordained Priest	Priest of Detroit, Michigan, USA	Auxiliary Bishop
	64.6	Flavien Joseph Melki	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Dara dei Siri	Curial Bishop of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon
	55.2	Gregorios Elias Tabé	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Mardin dei Siri	Archbishop of Damas (Syrian), Syria
	53.3	Daniel Thomas Turley Murphy, O.S.A.	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Chulucanas, Peru	Bishop
1997	63.7	Raffaele Farina, S.D.B.	Appointed	Prefect of the Vatican Library	Cardinal, Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archives
	56.2	Berard Toshio Oshikawa, O.F.M. Conv.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Naha, Japan
	55.1	Mário Rino Sivieri	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Propriá, Sergipe, Brazil
2000	60.8	Mile Bogovic	Appointed	Bishop of Gospić-Senj, Croatia
2001	54.4	Giorgio Bertin, O.F.M.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Djibouti
2002	59.1	Isidro Barrio Barrio	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Huancavélica, Peru	Bishop
2002	53.1	Zygmunt Zimowski	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Radom, Poland	President of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers
2003	43.9	Thierry Marie Jacques Brac de la Perrière	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Zallata	Bishop of Nevers, France
2003	46.2	Hervé Jean Robert Giraud	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Silli	Bishop of Soissons (-Laon-Saint-Quentin), France
2005	76.8	Benedito Francisco de Albuquerque	Retired	Bishop of Itapipoca, Ceara, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	61.0	Antônio Roberto Cavuto, O.F.M. Cap.	Appointed	Bishop of Itapipoca, Ceara, Brazil
	60.3	Fernando Mason, O.F.M. Conv.	Appointed	Bishop of Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2006	53.3	George Beluso Rimando	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Vada	Auxiliary Bishop of Davao, Philippines
2008	75.8	James Francis Stafford	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Montorio	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
2008	54.2	Guido Zendron	Installed	Bishop of Paulo Afonso, Baia, Brazil
2009	66.4	Nikola Nino Kekić	Appointed	Bishop of Križevci (Kreutz) (Križevci), Croatia
2009	39.9	Bashar Matti Warda, C.SS.R.	Selected	Archbishop of Arbil {Erbil} (Chaldean), Iraq
2010	45.4	José de Jesús González Hernández, O.F.M.	Ordained Bishop	Prelate of Jesús María (del Nayar), Nayarit, México
2010	78.7	Joseph Kallas, S.M.S.P.	Retired	Archbishop of Beirut and Jbeil {Bairut e Gibail} (Melkite Greek), Lebanon	Archbishop Emeritus
2011	66.1	George Alencherry	Confirmed	Cardinal, Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabarese), India
	51.1	Thomas Anthony Daly	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tabalta	Auxiliary Bishop of San Jose in California, USA
	43.2	João Carlos Hatoa Nunes	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Maputo, Mozambique
	43.2	João Carlos Hatoa Nunes	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Amudarsa	Auxiliary Bishop of Maputo, Mozambique
	60.9	Jose Corazon Tumbagahan Tala-oc	Appointed	Bishop of Kalibo, Philippines
2012	53.0	Alfred Adewale Martins	Appointed	Archbishop of Lagos, Nigeria
2012	75.9	Anthony Olubunmi Okogie	Retired	Archbishop of Lagos, Nigeria	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
2013	58.9	Michael Charles Barber, S.J.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Oakland, California, USA
2013	46.4	André Gueye	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Thiès, Senegal