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Living Bishop Events

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1919		Santo Bartolomeo Quadri	Born	Ossanesga	Archbishop Emeritus of Modena-Nonantola, Italy
1921		Carlo Furno	Born	Bairo Canavese	Cardinal, Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
1925		Ferdinand Joseph Fonseca	Born	Mumbai	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bombay, India
1927		Benedict Singh	Born	Buxton	Bishop Emeritus of Georgetown, Guyana, Antilles
1929		Ignacio José Gómez Aristizábal	Born	El Peñol	Archbishop Emeritus of Santa Fe de Antioquia, Colombia
1930		Emmanuel Lê Phong Thuân	Born	My Luong	Bishop of Cân Tho, Viêt Nam
1931		Homero Leite Meira	Born	Brumado	Bishop Emeritus of Irecê, Baia, Brazil
1931		Hilário Moser, S.D.B.	Born	Rios dos Cedros	Bishop Emeritus of Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil
1932		Alfred Clifton Hughes	Born	Boston	Archbishop of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
1934		Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B.	Born	Romano Canavese	Cardinal, Secretary of the Secretariat of State
1939		Patricio Hacbang Alo	Born	Cebu	Bishop of Mati, Philippines
1940		Jairo Jaramillo Monsalve	Born	Rionegro	Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia
1941		William Lee	Born	Newport	Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, Ireland
1942		Franciscus Jozef Maria Wiertz	Born	Kerkrade	Bishop of Roermond, Netherlands
1942		Décio Zandonade, S.D.B.	Born	Venda Nova do Imigrante	Bishop of Colatina, Espirito Santo, Brazil
1946		Carlos Suárez Cázares	Born	La Pielad	Bishop Emeritus of Zamora, Michoacán, México
1948		Gebhard Fürst	Born	Bietigheim	Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany
1950		Otto Georgens	Born	Weisenheim am Berg	Auxiliary Bishop of Speyer, Germany
1951	25.5	Hildebrando Mendes Costa	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Estância, Sergipe, Brazil
1952		José Antonio Fernández Hurtado	Born	Morelia	Bishop of Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, México
1953		Manuel Aurelio Cruz	Born	La Habana, Cuba	Auxiliary Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA
1956	23.9	José Belvino do Nascimento	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop of Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	24.5	José Lorenzo Sartori	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, Argentina
	33.5	Conrado Walter, S.A.C.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of the Catholic Apostolate	Bishop Emeritus of Jacarezinho, Parana, Brazil
1957		Rimantas Norvila	Born	Baptai	Bishop of Vilkaviškis, Lithuania
1960		Enrique Sánchez Martínez	Born	Cuencamé	Auxiliary Bishop of Durango, Durango, México
1961	26.6	Luc Julian Matthys	Ordained Priest	Priest of Johannesburg, South Africa	Bishop of Armidale, Australia
1962	26.4	Luis Morales Reyes	Ordained Priest	Priest of Tacámbaro, Michoacán, México	Archbishop of San Luis Potosí, San Luís Potosí, México
1964	27.2	Edwin Colaço	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop of Aurangabad, India
	28.4	Anthony Fernandes	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop of Bareilly, India
	24.6	Thomas Vazhapilly	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bombay, India	Bishop of Mysore, India
1965	46.7	José Maria Pires	Appointed	Archbishop of Paraíba, Paraiba, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
1967	27.5	Gustavo Girón Higuita, O.C.D.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Discalced Carmelites	Bishop of Tumaco, Colombia
	24.0	Leonardo Sandri	Ordained Priest	Priest of Buenos Aires, Argentina	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
	29.7	Juan Horacio Suárez	Ordained Priest	Priest of San Justo, Argentina	Bishop of Gregorio de Laferrere, Argentina
1970	38.4	Ramón Ovidio Pérez Morales	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela	Bishop Emeritus of Los Teques, Venezuela
1970	38.4	Ramón Ovidio Pérez Morales	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Aquae Albae in Byzacena	Bishop Emeritus of Los Teques, Venezuela
1972	30.2	Camilo Fernando Castrellón Pizano, S.D.B.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Bishop of Tibú, Colombia
1973	42.6	Oscar Rolando Cantuarias Pastor	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tacna, Peru	Archbishop Emeritus of Piura, Peru
1976	51.1	António José Rafael	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Bragança e Miranda, Portugal	Bishop Emeritus of Bragança-Miranda, Portugal
1976	51.1	António José Rafael	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Budua	Bishop Emeritus of Bragança-Miranda, Portugal
1977	55.2	Sefafín Vásquez Elizalde	Appointed	Bishop of Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, México	Bishop Emeritus
1979	28.2	Laurent Bernard Marie Ulrich	Ordained Priest	Priest of Dijon, France	Archbishop of Lille, France
1982	54.2	Moses Bosco Anderson, S.S.E.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit, Michigan, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
1982	54.2	Moses Bosco Anderson, S.S.E.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Vatarba	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Detroit, Michigan, USA
1983	24.5	Sergio Alfredo Fenoy	Ordained Priest	Priest of Rosario, Argentina	Bishop of San Miguel, Argentina
1984	28.4	Michael George Mabuga Msonganzila	Ordained Priest	Priest of Mwanza, Tanzania	Bishop of Musoma, Tanzania
	60.9	John C. O'Riordan, C.S.Sp.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kenema, Sierra Leone	Bishop Emeritus
	58.0	Juozas Preikšas	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Egnatia	Bishop Emeritus of Panevėžys, Lithuania
	27.5	Pablo Emiro Salas Anteliz	Ordained Priest	Priest of Valledupar, Colombia	Bishop of Espinal, Colombia
1988	63.7	Francisco José Arnáiz Zarandona, S.J.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	63.7	Francisco José Arnáiz Zarandona, S.J.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Leges	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
	49.2	Ramón Benito de La Rosa y Carpio	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	Archbishop of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
	49.2	Ramón Benito de La Rosa y Carpio	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Cerbali	Archbishop of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
	49.1	Baldomero Carlos Martini	Appointed	Bishop of San Francisco, Argentina	Bishop of San Justo, Argentina
1989	50.4	Ignazio Bedini, S.D.B.	Appointed	Archbishop of Ispahan, Iran
	65.3	Pedro Fré, C.SS.R.	Appointed	Bishop of Barretos, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	56.4	Henrique Johannpötter, O.F.M.	Succeeded	Bishop of Bacabal, Maranho, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	49.1	Jean-Louis Plouffe	Appointed	Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada
1990	46.8	Kevin Dowling, C.SS.R.	Appointed	Bishop of Rustenburg, South Africa
1990	53.1	Charbel Georges Merhi, C.M.L.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of San Charbel en Buenos Aires (Maronite), Argentina
1994	47.1	Zacharias Cenita Jimenez	Appointed	Bishop of Pagadian, Philippines	Auxiliary Bishop of Butuan, Philippines
1995	52.4	Rafael Ramón Conde Alfonzo	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela	Bishop of Maracay, Venezuela
	52.4	Rafael Ramón Conde Alfonzo	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Bapara	Bishop of Maracay, Venezuela
	61.2	Paul Josef Cordes	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Naissus	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”
	61.2	Paul Josef Cordes	Appointed	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”
	73.2	Roger Marie Élie Etchegaray	Resigned	President of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
	52.0	Gyula Márfi	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Amantia	Archbishop of Veszprém, Hungary
	46.8	Mario del Valle Moronta Rodríguez	Appointed	Bishop of Los Teques, Venezuela	Bishop of San Cristóbal de Venezuela
	51.2	José Paulino Ríos Reynoso	Appointed	Archbishop of Huancayo, Peru	Archbishop Emeritus of Arequipa, Peru
	53.2	Oscar Aníbal Salazar Gómez	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Voncariana	Bishop of La Dorada-Guaduas, Colombia
1997	49.3	Wolfgang Haas	Appointed	Archbishop of Vaduz, Liechtenstein
1998	75.9	Tomás Balduino, O.P.	Retired	Bishop of Goiás, Goias, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
1998	54.4	Eugène Lambert Adrian Rixen	Appointed	Bishop of Goiás, Goias, Brazil
2000	68.2	Carmelo Ferraro	Appointed	Archbishop of Agrigento, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
	75.0	Ferdinand Joseph Fonseca	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay, India	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	54.3	John Stephen Pazak, C.SS.R.	Appointed	Bishop of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto (Slovakian), Canada
	54.0	Teodoro Enrique Pino Miranda	Appointed	Bishop of Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, México
2001	56.8	Jean-Claude Ézechiel Jean-Baptiste Boulanger	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Sées, France	Bishop
2003	55.4	Raymond Leo Burke	Appointed	Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA	Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura
2003	67.8	Joseph Oyanga	Resigned	Bishop of Lira, Uganda	Bishop Emeritus
2005	50.6	José Rafael Quirós Quirós	Appointed	Bishop of Limón, Costa Rica
2006	65.2	Diego Coletti	Appointed	Bishop of Como, Italy
	60.9	Paul Cremona, O.P.	Appointed	Archbishop of Malta
	69.7	Salvatore Di Cristina	Appointed	Archbishop of Monreale, Italy
	54.9	Fausto Gaibor García	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Naraggara	Auxiliary Bishop of Riobamba, Ecuador
	52.4	Gregor Maria Franz Hanke, O.S.B.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Eichstätt, Germany
	75.4	Alessandro Maggiolini	Retired	Bishop of Como, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	78.1	Joseph Mercieca	Retired	Archbishop of Malta	Archbishop Emeritus
	76.4	John Baptist Sequeira	Retired	Bishop of Chikmagalur, India	Bishop Emeritus
	55.8	Anthony Swamy Thomasappa	Appointed	Bishop of Chikmagalur, India
2007	63.8	Séamus Freeman, S.A.C.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ossory, Ireland
	52.4	Simone Giusti	Installed	Bishop of Livorno, Italy
	50.5	Pablo Emiro Salas Anteliz	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Espinal, Colombia
	64.0	Leonardo Sandri	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of S. Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
	56.7	Justin Saw Min Thide	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Lemfocta	Auxiliary Bishop of Yangon, Myanmar

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