6th day of December

Living Bishop Events

St. Nicholas, bishop (Opt. Memorial)

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1931		Kamal Hanna Bathish	Born		Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine
1932		Nicholas Marcus Fernando	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Colombo, Sri Lanka
1934		Stanislaw Kędziora	Born		Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Warszawa-Praga, Poland
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		Auxiliary Bishop of México, Federal District
1947		Francisco Chimoio, O.F.M. Cap.	Born		Archbishop of Maputo, Mozambique
1953	27.3	Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto	Ordained Priest	Priest	Archbishop Emeritus of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
1953	28.2	Antônio Agostinho Marochi	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Presidente Prudente, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1957		José Luis Azuaje Ayala	Born		Bishop of Barinas, 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 of Merauke, Indonesia
1964	23.6	Wilfredo Dasco Manlapaz	Ordained Priest	Priest of Caceres (Nueva Caceres), Philippines	Bishop of Tagum, Philippines
1967	26.3	Bernard Blasius Moras	Ordained Priest	Priest of Mangalore, India	Archbishop of Bangalore, India
1970	31.8	Nicola de Angelis, C.F.I.C.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregazione dei Figli dell’Immacolata Concezione	Bishop Emeritus of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
1970	37.6	Tharcisse Tshibangu Tshishiku	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Scampa	Bishop Emeritus of Mbujimayi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
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
1973	48.2	Antônio Agostinho Marochi	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Thabraca	Bishop Emeritus of Presidente Prudente, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1975	20.7	James Douglas Conley	Converted	Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
	43.6	António dos Santos	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Aveiro, Portugal	Bishop Emeritus of Guarda, Portugal
	43.6	António dos Santos	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tabbora	Bishop Emeritus of Guarda, Portugal
1976	28.9	Michael Marai	Ordained Priest	Priest of Wewak, Papua New Guinea	Bishop Emeritus of Goroka, Papua New Guinea
1979	49.1	Christian Wiyghan Tumi	Appointed	Bishop of Yagoua, Cameroon	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Douala, Cameroon
1980	49.6	Víctor Manuel López Forero	Appointed	Bishop of Socorro y San Gil, Colombia	Archbishop Emeritus of Bucaramanga, Colombia
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
	51.7	Robert John Rose	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Gaylord, Michigan, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Grand Rapids, Michigan, 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	53.8	Joseph Anthony Fiorenza	Appointed	Bishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA	Archbishop Emeritus of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA
	26.4	Orlando Roa Barbosa	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ibagué, Colombia	Bishop of Espinal, Colombia
	23.9	Pedro Javier Torres Aliaga	Ordained Priest	Priest of Córdoba, Argentina	Auxiliary Bishop
1985	26.6	Miguel Ángel D’Annibale	Ordained Priest	Priest of San Isidro, Argentina	Bishop of Río Gallegos, Argentina
1986	30.1	Fernando Martín Croxatto	Ordained Priest	Priest of Buenos Aires, Argentina	Auxiliary Bishop of Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina
1986	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 of Catanduva, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1988	52.0	Roger Francis Crispian Hollis	Appointed	Bishop of Portsmouth, England, Great Britain	Bishop Emeritus
	53.7	Paul John Marx, M.S.C.	Succeeded	Bishop of Kerema, Papua New Guinea	Bishop Emeritus
	43.4	Patrick Joseph McGrath	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco, California, USA	Bishop of San Jose in California, USA
	43.4	Patrick Joseph McGrath	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Allegheny	Bishop of San Jose in California, USA
	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
1993	43.4	Manuel Chuanguira Machado	Appointed	Bishop of Gurué, Mozambique	Bishop Emeritus
	50.0	Leo Laba Ladjar, O.F.M.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Jayapura, Indonesia	Bishop
	50.0	Leo Laba Ladjar, O.F.M.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Bencenna	Bishop of Jayapura, Indonesia
	44.3	Joseph Mokobe Ndjoku	Appointed	Bishop of Bokungu-Ikela, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop 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	Bishop of Homa Bay, 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 Machiques, Venezuela
	44.8	Jesús Alfonso Guerrero Contreras, O.F.M. Cap.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Leptiminus	Bishop of Machiques, Venezuela
	45.7	Kurt Koch	Confirmed	Bishop of Basel {Bâle, Basilea}, Switzerland	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council 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	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 Hisilenapo	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ondjiva, Angola	Bishop of Namibe, Angola
2001	52.7	Mikha Pola Maqdassi	Appointed	Bishop of Alquoch (Chaldean), Iraq
2002	64.0	José Soleibe Arbeláez	Appointed	Bishop of Caldas, Colombia	Bishop Emeritus
2004	50.7	Hlib (Borys Sviatoslav) Lonchyna, M.S.U.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine	Bishop 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	67.9	Gerald Nicholas Dino	Appointed	Bishop of Van Nuys (Ruthenian), California, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Holy Protection of Mary of Phoenix (Ruthenian), Arizona, USA
	57.7	John Doaninoel, S.M.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea	Auxiliary Bishop of Honiara, Solomon Islands
	57.7	John Doaninoel, S.M.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Girus Tarasii	Auxiliary Bishop of Honiara, Solomon Islands
	68.1	Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya	Appointed	Cardinal, Archbishop of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	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 to Croatia
	51.5	William Charles Skurla	Appointed	Bishop of Passaic (Ruthenian), New Jersey, USA	Archbishop of Pittsburgh (Ruthenian), Pennsylvania, USA
	76.2	Bassano Staffieri	Retired	Bishop of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
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	Joseph Soueif	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Cipro (Maronite), Cyprus
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, Puebla, México
	52.9	Tomás López Durán	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Socia	Auxiliary Bishop of Puebla de los Ángeles, Puebla, 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, Puebla, México
	46.8	Rutilo Felipe Pozos Lorenzini	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Satafis	Auxiliary Bishop of Puebla de los Ángeles, Puebla, México
	55.9	Montfort Stima (Sitima)	Appointed	Bishop of Mangochi, Malawi
2014	65.7	György Snell	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Pudentiana	Auxiliary Bishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary
2015	60.3	Piero Delbosco	Installed	Bishop of Cuneo, Italy
2015	77.6	Pierre Nguyên Văn Nhon	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of San Tommaso Apostolo	Cardinal, Archbishop 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

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