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Living Bishop Events

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1927		Giovanni Zerbini, S.D.B.	Born	Chiari, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Guarapuava, Parana, Brazil
1930		Roman Danylak	Born	Toronto, Canada	Titular Bishop of Nyssa
1932		José Belvino do Nascimento	Born	Mercês	Bishop of Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil
1934		Raphael Cheenath, S.V.D.	Born	Manalur	Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, India
1937		Joseph Bolangi Egwanga Ediba Tasame	Born	Mbaya	Bishop of Budjala, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
1942		Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B.	Born	Tegucigalpa	Cardinal, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras
1951		Héctor Eduardo Vargas Bastidas, S.D.B.	Born	Valdivia	Bishop of Arica (San Marcos de), Chile
1955	27.4	Ronald Philippe Bär, O.S.B.	Professed	Member of Order of Saint Benedict	Bishop Emeritus of Rotterdam, Netherlands
1970	49.8	Gabriel Bullet	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg (Freiburg), Switzerland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	49.8	Gabriel Bullet	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Glavinitza	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg (Freiburg), Switzerland
	39.1	Adrianus Johannes Simonis	Appointed	Bishop of Rotterdam, Netherlands	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Utrecht, Netherlands
1971	28.5	Cornelius Fontem Esua	Ordained Priest	Priest	Archbishop of Bamenda, Cameroon
1972	26.2	Gustavo Arturo Help	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lomas de Zamora, Argentina	Bishop of Venado Tuerto, Argentina
1973	38.7	Robert Lucien Chapuis, M.E.P.	Resigned	Bishop of Mananjary, Madagascar	Bishop Emeritus
1973	27.4	Luis Felipe Solé Fa, C.M.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Mission	Bishop of Trujillo, Honduras
1975	41.4	Cláudio Hummes, O.F.M.	Succeeded	Bishop of Santo André, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy
1975	28.0	Ernest Sambou	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop of Saint-Louis du Sénégal
1976	53.6	Manuel Prado Perez-Rosas, S.J.	Appointed	Archbishop of Trujillo, Peru	Archbishop Emeritus
1978	48.0	Domingo Salvador Castagna	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Germania in Numidia	Archbishop Emeritus of Corrientes, Argentina
1978	51.6	Franciszek Macharski	Appointed	Archbishop of Kraków {Cracow}, Poland	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
1979	52.9	Carlo Maria Martini, S.J.	Appointed	Archbishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
1980	56.2	Stephen Sulyk	Appointed	Archbishop of Philadelphia (Ukrainian), Pennsylvania, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
1983	43.3	Itamar Navildo Vian, O.F.M. Cap.	Appointed	Bishop of Barra (do Rio Grande), Baia, Brazil	Archbishop of Feira de Santana, Baia, Brazil
1986	64.9	Norman Francis McFarland	Appointed	Bishop of Orange in California, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	43.7	Armando Xavier Ochoa	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, California, USA	Bishop of El Paso, Texas, USA
	43.7	Armando Xavier Ochoa	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Sitifis	Bishop of El Paso, Texas, USA
1987	44.3	Curtis John Guillory, S.V.D.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA	Bishop of Beaumont, Texas, USA
1987	44.3	Curtis John Guillory, S.V.D.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Stagnum	Bishop of Beaumont, Texas, USA
1991	27.0	José Manuel Imbamba	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lwena, Angola	Bishop of Dundo, Angola
1991	31.5	Mathieu Madega Lebouankehan	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop of Port-Gentil, Gabon
1992	52.6	Charles Michael Jarrell	Appointed	Bishop of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana, USA	Bishop of Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
1993	46.1	Wilton Daniel Gregory	Appointed	Bishop of Belleville, Illinois, USA	Archbishop of Atlanta, Georgia, USA
1994	48.4	Rolando Joven Tria Tirona, O.C.D.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Vulturaria	Prelate of Infanta, Philippines
1998	49.3	Anders Arborelius, O.C.D.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Stockholm, Sweden
	39.6	Vlado Košic	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb, Croatia
	39.6	Vlado Košic	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Ruspae	Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb, Croatia
	54.9	Josip Mrzljak	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb, Croatia	Bishop of Varaždin, Croatia
	54.9	Josip Mrzljak	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Caltadria	Bishop of Varaždin, Croatia
	49.4	José de Jesús Quintero Díaz	Appointed	Bishop of Tibú, Colombia	Vicar Apostolic of Leticia, Colombia
	54.5	Julio César Vidal Ortiz	Appointed	Bishop of Montelibano, Colombia	Bishop of Montería, Colombia
2000	62.9	Joseph Nguyên Tich Duc	Succeeded	Bishop of Ban Mê Thuôt, Viêt Nam	Bishop Emeritus
	62.8	Juan Horacio Suárez	Installed	Bishop of Gregorio de Laferrere, Argentina
	75.2	Joseph Trinh Chinh Truc	Retired	Bishop of Ban Mê Thuôt, Viêt Nam	Bishop Emeritus
2003	54.9	Jose Romeo Orquejo Lazo	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kalibo, Philippines
2004	60.5	Robert James Carlson	Appointed	Bishop of Saginaw, Michigan, USA
	55.2	Pedro José Conti	Appointed	Bishop of Macapá, Amapa, Brazil
	55.6	Daniel Nicholas DiNardo	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA	Cardinal, Archbishop
	73.9	Joseph Anthony Fiorenza	Appointed	Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
	75.4	Patrick Fernández Flores	Retired	Archbishop of San Antonio, Texas, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
	53.0	José Horacio Gómez	Appointed	Archbishop of San Antonio, Texas, USA
	55.8	Jerome Edward Listecki	Appointed	Bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
	54.3	Carlos Verzeletti	Appointed	Bishop of Castanhal, Para, Brazil
2005	65.9	Octavio Villegas Aguilar	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Morelia, Michoacán, México
2005	65.9	Octavio Villegas Aguilar	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Cissita	Auxiliary Bishop of Morelia, Michoacán, México
2006	43.6	Jorge Herbas Balderrama, O.F.M.	Appointed	Coadjutor Prelate of Aiquile, Bolivia
2007	75.1	Adam Dyczkowski	Retired	Bishop of Zielona Góra-Gorzów, Poland	Bishop Emeritus
	56.5	Stefan Regmunt	Appointed	Bishop of Zielona Góra-Gorzów, Poland
	76.6	Marian Kazimierz Zimałek	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Sandomierz, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

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