The Year of Our Lord 1850

Bishop Events

January to March

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
unknown		Born	Ignace Abdulmessih †
	38.7	Appointed	Ruggero Luigi Emidio Antici Mattei †	Secretary of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
	61.7	Resigned	László Bémer de Bezdéd et Kisbáka †	Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad}, Romania	Bishop Emeritus
	53.6	Appointed	Clément Bonnand, M.E.P. †	Vicar Apostolic of Pondicherry, India
	47.8	Appointed	Giuseppe Cardoni †	President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy	Bishop Emeritus of Recanati e Loreto, Italy
	22.2	Ordained Priest	Jacinto María Cervera y Cervera †	Priest	Bishop of Mallorca y Ibiza, Spain
	25.5	Professed	Louis-Simon Faurie, M.E.P. †	Member of La Société des Missions Etrangères	Vicar Apostolic of Kuiceu (Kweichow), China
	70.8	Died	Giovanni Ferrini, O.F.M. Conv. †	Bishop Emeritus of Bagnoregio (Bagnorea), Italy
	46.5	Appointed	Giovanni Hagian †	Bishop of Cesarea di Cappadocia (Armenian), Turkey
	22.6	Ordained Priest	Ignazio Filippo Harcus †	Priest	Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon
	39.4	Appointed	Alexandre-Vincent Jandel †	Vicar General of Order of Friars Preachers	Master General
	52.0	Ordained Priest	Jerome-Simon Sindjari (Kacha, Tiktik) †	Priest	Archbishop Emeritus of Sehna (Chaldean), Iran
	54.3	Appointed	Paolo Maria Mondio †	Prelate of Santa Lucia del Mela, Italy
	43.3	Resigned	Charles Pius Montgomery, O.P. †	Bishop-Elect of Monterey, California, USA	Priest of Order of Friars Preachers
	37.6	Ordained Bishop	Joaquim Moreira Reis, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Angola e Congo	Bishop Emeritus
	27.1	Converted	James Laird Patterson †	Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain
		Resigned	Pierre Poncelet †	Prefect of Bourbon, Réunion	Prefect Emeritus
	21.9	Ordained Priest	James David Ricards †	Priest	Vicar Apostolic of Cape of Good Hope, Eastern District {Capo de Buona Speranza, Distretto Orientale}, South Africa
		Appointed	Elie Safaro †	Bishop of Aqrā {Akra} (Chaldean), Iraq
		Born	Francesco Tarnassi †		Apostolic Nuncio
	48.8	Resigned	Marie-Laurent Trioche †	Apostolic Delegate to Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Lesser Armenia, Iraq	Archbishop of Baghdad, Iraq
		Died	Etienne (Athanasius) Ubayd †	Bishop of Baalbek (Melkite Greek), Lebanon
	25.0	Ordained Priest	José de Jesús María Uriarte y Pérez †	Priest of Sonora, México	Bishop of Sinaloa, México
	26.8	Ordained Priest	Tomas Zerpa †	Priest
1 Jan	52.1	Ordained Bishop	Crispino Agostinucci †	Bishop of Montefeltro, Italy
2 Jan		Born	Pasquale Trosksi †		Archbishop Emeritus of Skopje, North Macedonia
3 Jan		Born	Eugène-Jacques Grellier †		Bishop of Laval, France
3 Jan		Born	Germanos (Ignace) Mouakkad (Mouaqqad) †		Bishop Emeritus of Baalbek (Melkite Greek), Lebanon
7 Jan	55.5	Appointed	Paolo Giovanni Bertolozzi †	Bishop of Montalcino, Italy
	64.4	Confirmed	Juan Nepomuceno Cascallana y Ordóñez †	Bishop of Astorga, Spain	Bishop of Málaga, Spain
	56.3	Appointed	Gaetano Maria Cattani †	Bishop of Carpi, Italy
	44.9	Confirmed	José Domingo Costa y Borrás †	Bishop of Barcelona, Spain	Archbishop of Tarragona, Spain
	38.5	Confirmed	Pierre-Simon-Louis-Marie de Dreux-Brézé †	Bishop of Moulins, France
	55.9	Confirmed	Anton Karner †	Bishop of Győr (Raab), Hungary
	69.8	Confirmed	Antonio Lao y Cuevas †	Bishop of Guadix, Spain
	55.9	Appointed	Diego Planeta †	Titular Archbishop of Tamiathis	Archbishop Emeritus of Brindisi, Italy
	43.6	Confirmed	János Ranolder †	Bishop of Veszprém, Hungary
	60.9	Confirmed	Salvador Sanz Grado †	Bishop of Salamanca, Spain
8 Jan	46.6	Appointed	Paul Cullen †	Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland	Cardinal, Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland
8 Jan		Born	Gaetano Müller †		Bishop of Nardò, Italy
11 Jan	48.8	Selected	Gregorio De Luca †	Archbishop of Conza e Campagna, Italy
	37.0	Selected	Francesco Saverio Petagna †	Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia, Italy
	42.7	Selected	Giuseppe Rotondo (Rotundo) †	Bishop of Brindisi, Italy	Archbishop of Taranto, Italy
12 Jan		Born	Gennaro Costagliola, C.M. †		Archbishop of Chieti, Italy
12 Jan	57.1	Died	Francesco Spalletti †	Bishop of Nepi e Sutri, Italy
13 Jan	43.3	Installed	Giulio Arrigoni, O.F.M. Ref. †	Archbishop of Lucca, Italy
	51.2	Ordained Bishop	Łukasz Baraniecki †	Archbishop of Lviv, Ukraine
	36.1	Ordained Bishop	Giuseppe Maria Bravi, O.S.B. †	Titular Bishop of Tipasa in Mauretania	Vicar Apostolic of Colombo, Sri Lanka
		Born	Costanzo Castrale †		Auxiliary Bishop of Torino {Turin}, Italy
14 Jan	51.2	Installed	Łukasz Baraniecki †	Archbishop of Lviv, Ukraine
	43.8	Appointed	François-Xavier-Timothée Danicourt, C.M. †	Vicar Apostolic of Chekiang {Ce-Kiam}, China
	43.8	Appointed	François-Xavier-Timothée Danicourt, C.M. †	Titular Bishop of Antiphellus	Vicar Apostolic of Chekiang {Ce-Kiam}, China
15 Jan	47.7	Died	Joannes van Breugel †	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Breda, Netherlands
15 Jan	32.6	Ordained Priest	Edgar Philip Prindle Wadhams †	Priest of Albany, New York, USA	Bishop of Ogdensburg, New York, USA
17 Jan		Born	Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti †		Cardinal, Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
21 Jan		Born	Biagio Pisani †		Titular Archbishop of Naupactus
24 Jan		Born	Giuseppe Mori †		Cardinal, Secretary of the Congregation of the Council
25 Jan	46.4	Selected	Tomás Iglesias y Bárcones †	Bishop of Mondoñedo, Spain	Patriarch of West Indies, Spain
25 Jan		Born	Edward Joseph McCarthy †		Archbishop of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
28 Jan		Born	Alphonse Daignault, S.J. †		Superior Emeritus of Zambese, Zimbabwe
Feb	57.0	Resigned	József Lonovics †	Bishop of Csanád, Hungary	Archbishop of Kalocsa, Hungary
3 Feb	62.3	Ordained Bishop	Joaquim Pereira Ferraz, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Bragança e Miranda, Portugal	Bishop of Leiria, Portugal
10 Feb	27.9	Ordained Priest	Francisco Melitón Vargas y Gutiérrez †	Priest	Bishop of Tlaxcala (Puebla de los Angeles), México
10 Feb		Born	Felice del Sordo †		Bishop of Alife, Italy
11 Feb	86.2	Died	Benedict Joseph Flaget, P.S.S. †	Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky, USA
11 Feb	39.7	Succeeded	Martin John Spalding †	Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky, USA	Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
12 Feb	26.7	Ordained Priest	Juan Nepomuceno Rueda Rueda †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Antioquía, Colombia
13 Feb		Born	Michael Kelly †		Archbishop of Sydney, Australia
15 Feb	50.1	Appointed	Patrick Joseph Carew †	Vicar Apostolic of Western Bengal, India
	37.1	Appointed	Thomas Olliffe †	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Western Bengal, India
	37.1	Appointed	Thomas Olliffe †	Vicar Apostolic of Eastern Bengal, India	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Western Bengal, India
22 Feb	24.6	Ordained Priest	Manuel María León González y Sánchez †	Priest	Bishop of Jaén, Spain
23 Feb	24.3	Ordained Deacon	Prospero Curti †	Deacon	Bishop of Guastalla, Italy
	22.9	Ordained Priest	Édouard-Charles Fabre †	Priest of Montréal, Québec, Canada	Archbishop of Montréal, Québec, Canada
	64.8	Selected	Miguel José Irigoyen †	Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada, Spain
	25.9	Ordained Deacon	Francesco Zunnui Casula †	Deacon of Galtelli-Nuoro (Galtelly Nori), Italy	Archbishop of Oristano, Italy
24 Feb	46.0	Ordained Bishop	Johann Anton Friedrich Baudri †	Titular Bishop of Arethusa	Auxiliary Bishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
	24.0	Ordained Deacon	Julian Cáceres Negrón †	Deacon	Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru
	46.8	Ordained Bishop	Paul Cullen †	Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland	Cardinal, Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland
	50.1	Ordained Bishop	Motiejus Wołonczewscki †	Bishop of Žemaičiai (Samogizia o Tels; Żmudź), Lithuania
Mar	69.8	Resigned	Ioan Lemeni †	Bishop of Făgăraş (Romanian), Romania	Bishop Emeritus
2 Mar	55.6	Died	Giuseppe Menditto †	Bishop Emeritus of Noto, Italy
3 Mar	24.0	Ordained Priest	Julian Cáceres Negrón †	Priest	Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru
4 Mar		Born	Luigi Giuseppe Lasagna, S.D.B. †		Titular Bishop of Oëa
10 Mar	62.5	Ordained Bishop	Myles Murphy †	Bishop of Ferns, Ireland
12 Mar		Born	Pierre-Marie-François Lalouyer, M.E.P. †		Vicar Apostolic of Northern Manchuria {Manciuria Settentrionale}, China
14 Mar	61.3	Resigned	Jozef von Rudnyánszki †	Bishop of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia	Bishop Emeritus
15 Mar	47.2	Appointed	Armand-Françios-Marie de Charbonnel, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
16 Mar	22.5	Ordained Priest	Giacomo Corna-Pellegrini †	Priest	Bishop of Brescia, Italy
	24.4	Ordained Priest	Prospero Curti †	Priest	Bishop of Guastalla, Italy
	22.6	Ordained Priest	Valerio Laspro †	Priest	Archbishop of Salerno (-Acerno), Italy
	23.6	Ordained Priest	Michel-Esther Leturdu, M.E.P. †	Priest of La Société des Missions Etrangères	Vicar Apostolic of Malacca-Singapore
	23.5	Ordained Priest	John McLachlan †	Priest of Western District, Scotland, Great Britain	Bishop of Galloway, Scotland, Great Britain
	24.2	Ordained Priest	Luigi Marcello Pellegrini †	Priest	Prelate of Altamura ed Acquaviva delle Fonti, Italy
	25.9	Ordained Priest	Francesco Zunnui Casula †	Priest of Galtelli-Nuoro (Galtelly Nori), Italy	Archbishop of Oristano, Italy
17 Mar		Born	Giovanni del Papa, O.S.B. †		Abbot of San Paolo fuori le Mura, Italy
17 Mar		Born	Pierre-Philippe Giraudeau, M.E.P. †		Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Tatsienlu, China
19 Mar	21.9	Professed	Ambroise Emonet, C.S.Sp. †	Member of Congregation of the Holy Spirit	Superior General
20 Mar	26.8	Ordained Priest	Achille Apolloni †	Priest	Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of San Cesareo in Palatio
22 Mar	46.5	Appointed	Johannes van Genk †	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Breda, Netherlands	Bishop of Breda, Netherlands
22 Mar	46.5	Appointed	Johannes van Genk †	Titular Bishop of Adrana	Bishop of Breda, Netherlands
25 Mar	36.1	Appointed	Michelangelo (Pietro Geremia) Celesia, O.S.B. †	Abbot of Montecassino, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop of Palermo, Italy
25 Mar	23.9	Ordained Priest	Fulgencije Czarev, O.F.M. Obs. †	Priest of Order of Observant Friars Minor	Bishop of Hvar (-Brac e Vis), Croatia
30 Mar	36.1	Ordained Priest	Charles-Philippe Place †	Priest	Cardinal, Archbishop of Rennes (-Dol-Saint-Malo), France
	22.7	Ordained Priest	Vincenzo Serarcangeli †	Priest	Bishop of Foligno, Italy
	24.1	Ordained Priest	Flaviano Simoneschi †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Terracina, Priverno e Sezze, Italy

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