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Living Bishop Events

St. Nicholas, bishop (Opt. Memorial)

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1938		Murphy Nicholas Xavier Pakiam	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
1939		Giovanni Scanavino, O.S.A.	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Orvieto-Todi, Italy
1946		Andrés Vargas Peña	Born		Bishop of Xochimilco, México, México
1947		Francisco Chimoio, O.F.M. Cap.	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Maputo, Mozambique
1953	27.3	Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto	Ordained Priest	Priest	Archbishop Emeritus of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
1957		José Luis Azuaje Ayala	Born		Archbishop of Maracaibo, Venezuela
1958	26.3	Jayme Henrique Chemello	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
1959	23.1	Pier Giacomo Grampa	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lugano, Switzerland	Bishop Emeritus
1959		Nicolaus Adi Seputra, M.S.C.	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Merauke, Indonesia
1961		Walter Guillén Soto, S.D.B.	Born		Bishop of Gracias, Honduras
1963		Michele Fusco	Born		Bishop of Sulmona-Valva, Italy
1964		Peter Hka Awng Tu	Born		Priest of Myitkyina, Myanmar
		Richard Kazadi Kamba	Born		Bishop of Kolwezi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	23.6	Wilfredo Dasco Manlapaz	Ordained Priest	Priest of Caceres (Nueva Caceres), Philippines	Bishop Emeritus of Tagum, Philippines
1967	26.3	Bernard Blasius Moras	Ordained Priest	Priest of Mangalore, India	Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore, India
1968		Joseph Tong Changping	Born		Bishop of Tongzhou [Tungchow], China
1969		Tesfaldet Tekie Tsada	Born		Apostolic Visitor (Visitator)
1970		Siby Mathew Peedikayil, H.G.N.	Born		Bishop of Aitape, Papua New Guinea
1971	43.5	Louis Edward Gelineau	Appointed	Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	48.4	René Henry Gracida	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Miami, Florida, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
	48.4	René Henry Gracida	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Masuccaba	Bishop Emeritus of Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
1975	20.7	James Douglas Conley	Converted	Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
1980	26.3	Agapiti Ndorobo	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop of Mahenge, Tanzania
1981	28.6	Valdomiro Koubetch, O.S.B.M.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat (Order of St. Basil the Great)	Archbishop of São João Batista em Curitiba (Ukrainian), Brazil
	24.5	Adam Leszek Musiałek, S.C.I.	Perpetual Vows	Member of Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart	Bishop of De Aar, South Africa
	45.2	Ricardo Ramirez, C.S.B.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Vatarba	Bishop Emeritus of Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
	25.9	Almachius Vincent Rweyongeza	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bukoba, Tanzania	Bishop of Kayanga, Tanzania
1982	51.0	Antônio Gaspar	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Barretos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1982	51.0	Antônio Gaspar	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Cozyla	Bishop Emeritus of Barretos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1983	43.5	James Terry Steib, S.V.D.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Memphis, Tennessee, USA
1983	43.5	James Terry Steib, S.V.D.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Fallaba	Bishop Emeritus of Memphis, Tennessee, USA
1984	26.4	Orlando Roa Barbosa	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ibagué, Colombia	Archbishop
1984	23.9	Pedro Javier Torres Aliaga	Ordained Priest	Priest of Córdoba, Argentina	Bishop of Rafaela, Argentina
1986	30.1	Fernando Martín Croxatto	Ordained Priest	Priest of Buenos Aires, Argentina	Bishop of Neuquén, Argentina
	28.8	Giovanni Mosciatti	Ordained Priest	Priest of Fabriano-Matelica, Italy	Bishop of Imola, Italy
	32.3	Moacir Silva	Ordained Priest	Priest of São José dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Archbishop of Ribeirão Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1987	33.0	Otacílio Luziano Da Silva	Ordained Priest	Priest of Assis, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Catanduva, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1988	52.0	Roger Francis Crispian Hollis	Appointed	Bishop of Portsmouth, England, Great Britain	Bishop Emeritus
	53.3	Carlos Arthur Sevilla, S.J.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco, California, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Yakima, Washington, USA
	53.3	Carlos Arthur Sevilla, S.J.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Mina	Bishop Emeritus of Yakima, Washington, USA
1990	51.4	Claudio Stagni	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Bologna, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Faenza-Modigliana, Italy
1990	51.4	Claudio Stagni	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Dardanus	Bishop Emeritus of Faenza-Modigliana, Italy
1991	34.0	Sebastian Francis Shaw, O.F.M.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor	Archbishop of Lahore, Pakistan
1992	30.1	José Altevir da Silva, C.S.Sp.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Holy Spirit	Prelate of Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil
1992	27.6	Sandro Salvucci	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Fermo, Italy	Archbishop of Pesaro, Italy
1993	50.0	Leo Laba Ladjar, O.F.M.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Jayapura, Indonesia	Bishop Emeritus
	50.0	Leo Laba Ladjar, O.F.M.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Bencenna	Bishop Emeritus of Jayapura, Indonesia
	44.3	Joseph Mokobe Ndjoku	Appointed	Bishop of Bokungu-Ikela, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop Emeritus of Basankusu, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
1995	42.9	Paul-Siméon Ahouanan Djro, O.F.M.	Appointed	Bishop of Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire	Archbishop of Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire
	39.5	Philip Arnold Subira Anyolo	Appointed	Bishop of Kericho, Kenya	Archbishop of Nairobi, Kenya
	46.7	Richard Anthony Burke, S.P.S.	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Warri, Nigeria	Archbishop Emeritus of Benin City, Nigeria
	55.6	Charles Henry Dufour	Appointed	Bishop of Montego Bay, Jamaica, Antilles	Archbishop Emeritus of Kingston in Jamaica, Antilles
	44.8	Jesús Alfonso Guerrero Contreras, O.F.M. Cap.	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Caroní, Venezuela	Bishop of Barinas, Venezuela
	44.8	Jesús Alfonso Guerrero Contreras, O.F.M. Cap.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Leptiminus	Bishop of Barinas, Venezuela
	45.7	Kurt Koch	Confirmed	Bishop of Basel {Bâle, Basilea}, Switzerland	Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity
	56.3	Francesco Sarego, S.V.D.	Appointed	Bishop of Goroka, Papua New Guinea	Bishop Emeritus
1996	35.0	François Xavier Ghanbodè Gnonhossou, S.M.A.	Perpetual Vows	Member of Society of African Missions	Bishop of Dassa-Zoumé, Benin
1996	54.8	José Palmeira Lessa	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Aracajú, Sergipe, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
1997	30.3	Giovanni Cefai, M.S.S.P.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionary Society of St. Paul	Prelate of Santiago Apóstol de Huancané, Peru
	54.5	Jean-Paul Aimé Gobel	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Sénégal	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Egypt, Arab Republic of
	54.5	Jean-Paul Aimé Gobel	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Guinea-Bissau	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Egypt, Arab Republic of
	54.5	Jean-Paul Aimé Gobel	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Mali	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Egypt, Arab Republic of
	54.5	Jean-Paul Aimé Gobel	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Cape Verde	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Egypt, Arab Republic of
1998	32.1	Dionísio Hisiilenapo	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ondjiva, Angola	Bishop of Namibe, Angola
	29.1	Germano Penemote	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ondjiva, Angola	Apostolic Nuncio to Pakistan
	31.8	Eduardo Gonzalo Redondo Castanera, H.S.O.D.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Santos, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Auxiliary Bishop of Quilmes, Argentina
	27.5	Franklin Raymond Schuster	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Seattle, Washington, USA	Auxiliary Bishop
2000	27.0	Moises Magpantay Cuevas	Ordained Priest	Priest of Zamboanga, Philippines	Vicar Apostolic of Calapan, Philippines
2001	52.7	Mikha Pola Maqdassi	Appointed	Bishop of Alquoch (Chaldean), Iraq	Auxiliary Bishop of Baghdad (Chaldean), Iraq
2002	64.0	José Soleibe Arbeláez	Appointed	Bishop of Caldas, Colombia	Bishop Emeritus
2003	31.6	Júlio César Gomes Moreira	Ordained Priest	Priest of Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil	Auxiliary Bishop of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2004	50.7	Hlib (Borys Sviatoslav) Lonchyna, M.S.U.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine	Bishop Emeritus of Holy Family of London (Ukrainian)
2004	55.3	Wasyl Ihor Medwit, O.S.B.M.	Appointed	Curial Bishop of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Donets’k-Kharkiv (Ukrainian), Ukraine
2005	52.4	John Stanley Kenneth Arnold	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain	Bishop of Salford, England, Great Britain
2005	52.4	John Stanley Kenneth Arnold	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Lindisfarna	Bishop of Salford, England, Great Britain
2006	67.6	Stanislaw Wojciech Wielgus	Appointed	Archbishop of Warszawa {Warsaw}, Poland	Titular Archbishop of Viminacium
2007	54.5	Francesco Moraglia	Appointed	Bishop of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato, Italy	Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy
	55.5	Giuseppe Pinto	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Chile	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Croatia
	51.5	William Charles Skurla	Appointed	Bishop of Passaic (Ruthenian), New Jersey, USA	Archbishop of Pittsburgh (Ruthenian), Pennsylvania, USA
2008	61.1	Ulrich Boom	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Würzburg, Germany
	61.1	Ulrich Boom	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Sullectum	Auxiliary Bishop of Würzburg, Germany
	46.3	Youssef Antoine Soueif	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Cipro (Maronite)	Archbishop of Tripoli del Libano {Tarabulus} (Maronite)
2010	59.0	Vincenzo Di Mauro	Installed	Coadjutor Bishop of Vigevano, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
2012	49.8	Murray Chatlain	Appointed	Archbishop of Keewatin-Le Pas, Manitoba, Canada
	49.8	Murray Chatlain	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Mackenzie-Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada	Archbishop of Keewatin-Le Pas, Manitoba, Canada
	53.1	Rudolf Voderholzer	Appointed	Bishop of Regensburg, Germany
2013	52.9	Tomás López Durán	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Puebla de los Ángeles, México
	52.9	Tomás López Durán	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Socia	Auxiliary Bishop of Puebla de los Ángeles, México
	76.9	Alessandro Pagani, S.M.M.	Retired	Bishop of Mangochi, Malawi	Bishop Emeritus
	46.8	Rutilo Felipe Pozos Lorenzini	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Puebla de los Ángeles, México	Bishop of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, México
	46.8	Rutilo Felipe Pozos Lorenzini	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Satafis	Bishop of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, México
	55.9	Montfort Stima (Sitima)	Appointed	Bishop of Mangochi, Malawi
2015	60.3	Piero Delbosco	Installed	Bishop of Cuneo, Italy	Bishop of Cuneo-Fossano, Italy
2015	77.6	Pierre Nguyễn Văn Nhơn	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of San Tommaso Apostolo	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Hà Nội, Viet Nam
2016	59.4	Michael Francis Burbidge	Installed	Bishop of Arlington, Virginia, USA
2016	66.1	Wilfredo Pino Estévez	Appointed	Archbishop of Camagüey, Cuba
2017	68.2	Anders Arborelius, O.C.D.	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria degli Angeli	Cardinal, Bishop of Stockholm, Sweden
	48.1	Severo Cagátan Caérmare	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Iligan, Philippines	Bishop of Dipolog, Philippines
	75.0	Francisco Javier Del Valle Paredes	Retired	Bishop of Campo Mourão, Parana, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	58.5	Bruno Elizeu Versari	Succeeded	Bishop of Campo Mourão, Parana, Brazil
2018	64.6	Đura Džudžar	Appointed	Bishop of San Nicola di Ruski Krstur (Križevci)
2020	53.8	Charbel Yusef Abdallah	Installed	Archbishop of Tyr (Maronite), Lebanon
	45.4	Francisco Agamenilton Damascena	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Rubiataba-Mozarlândia, Goias, Brazil
	62.5	Joseba Segura Etxezarraga	Appointed	Administrator of Bilbao, Spain	Bishop
	58.3	Youssef Antoine Soueif	Installed	Archbishop of Tripoli del Libano {Tarabulus} (Maronite)
2021	53.3	Andrew Harmon Cozzens	Installed	Bishop of Crookston, Minnesota, USA
2021	78.8	Richard Edmund Pates	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Crookston, Minnesota, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Des Moines, Iowa, USA

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