The Year of Our Lord 1857

Bishop Events

April to June

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

1 Apr Born Gustave-Lazare Garnier † Bishop of Luçon, France

3 Apr 60.8 Ceased Clément Bonnand, M.E.P. † Apostolic Administrator of Coimbatore, India Vicar Apostolic of Pondicherry, India

16.9 Solemn Vows Nicola Giuseppe (Nicolae Iosif) Camilli, O.F.M. Conv. † Member of Order of Friars Minor Conventual Bishop of Iaşi, Romania

Born Isidore-Marie-Victor Douceré, S.M. † Vicar Apostolic of New Hebrides {Isole Nouve Ebridi}, Vanuatu, Pacific (Oceania)

51.0 Appointed Joseph-Isidore Godelle, M.E.P. † Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Pondicherry, India Vicar Apostolic

51.0 Appointed Joseph-Isidore Godelle, M.E.P. † Titular Bishop of Thermopylae Vicar Apostolic of Pondicherry, India

5 Apr Born Richard Collins † Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, England, Great Britain

6 Apr 66.1 Died Josip Schrott † Bishop of Beograd (-Smederevo), Serbia

7 Apr 74.7 Died Santiago Rodríguez Gil, O.P. † Bishop of Lugo, Spain

8 Apr 46.3 Appointed Spyrydon Lytvynovyč (Litwinowicz) † Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv (Ukrainian), Ukraine Archbishop

46.3 Appointed Spyrydon Lytvynovyč (Litwinowicz) † Titular Bishop of Canatha Archbishop of Lviv (Ukrainian), Ukraine

57.0 Appointed Grzegorz Michał Szymonowicz † Coadjutor Archbishop of Lviv (Armenian), Ukraine Archbishop

57.0 Appointed Grzegorz Michał Szymonowicz † Titular Archbishop of Marcopolis Archbishop of Lviv (Armenian), Ukraine

9 Apr 81.5 Died Giovanni Pietro Aurelio Mutti, O.S.B. † Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy

11 Apr Born Francesco di Costanzo † Bishop Emeritus of Monopoli, Italy

23.9 Ordained Priest Francisco García y López † Priest of Valencia, Spain Auxiliary Bishop

Born Athanasius Klemens Götte, O.F.M. † Vicar Apostolic of Northern Shensi {Scen-Si Settentrionale}, China

26.4 Ordained Priest Narciso Martínez Izquierdo † Priest Bishop of Madrid, Spain

23.4 Ordained Priest Giovanni Battista Paolucci † Priest Bishop of Viterbo e Tuscania, Italy

23.6 Ordained Priest Francesco Vincenzo Pesci, O.F.M. Cap. † Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin Bishop of Allahabad, India

13 Apr 36.2 Appointed John Baptist Byrne † Coadjutor Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Priest of Baltimore, Maryland, USA

36.2 Appointed John Baptist Byrne † Titular Bishop of Rithymnia Priest of Baltimore, Maryland, USA

14 Apr Born Ferdinando Fiandaca † Bishop Emeritus of Patti, Italy

17 Apr Born Thomas Whiteside † Archbishop of Liverpool, England, Great Britain

25 Apr Born Giuseppe Gamba † Cardinal, Archbishop of Torino {Turin}, Italy

61.3 Installed François-Nicholas-Madeleine Morlot † Cardinal, Archbishop of Paris, France

26 Apr Born Giacomo Maria de Amicis † Auxiliary Bishop of Genova, Italy

Born Henri Doulcet, C.P. † Bishop Emeritus of Nicopoli, Bulgaria

47.6 Ordained Bishop Henry Damian Juncker † Bishop of Alton, Illinois, USA

43.9 Ordained Bishop James Frederick Bryan Wood † Titular Bishop of Antigonea Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

28 Apr 35.6 Appointed John Baptist Scandella † Vicar Apostolic of Gibraltar

35.6 Appointed John Baptist Scandella † Titular Bishop of Antinoë Vicar Apostolic of Gibraltar

30 Apr Born Pietro Pacifici, C.R.S. † Archbishop of Spoleto, Italy

Born Prospero Scaccia † Archbishop of Siena, Italy

May 50.6 Resigned John McCaffrey † Bishop-Elect of Charleston, South Carolina, USA Former Bishop-Elect

1 May 65.2 Died Jean-Paul-Hilaire-Michel Courvezy, M.E.P. † Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Malacca-Singapore

24.0 Ordained Priest Jean-Amand Lamaze, S.M. † Priest Vicar Apostolic of Central Oceania, Tonga

47.0 Ordained Bishop Pierre-Henri Gérault de Langalerie † Bishop of Belley, France Archbishop of Auch, France

3 May 53.2 Ordained Bishop Jacques-Léon Thomine-Desmazures, M.E.P. † Titular Bishop of Sinopoli Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Thibet, China

31.9 Ordained Bishop James Duggan † Titular Bishop of Gabala Bishop of Chicago, Illinois, USA

38.1 Ordained Bishop William Henry Elder † Bishop of Natchez, Mississippi, USA Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

47.2 Ordained Bishop Timothy Clement Smyth, O.C.S.O. † Titular Bishop of Thennesus Bishop of Dubuque, Iowa, USA

8 May 69.8 Died Rémi Gaulin † Bishop of Kingston, Ontario, Canada

62.2 Succeeded Patrick Phelan, P.S.S. † Bishop of Kingston, Ontario, Canada

10 May Born Jean-Pierre-Alexandre Marcou, M.E.P. † Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Phát Diêm, Viet Nam

69.9 Ordained Bishop Juan Gregorio Urbieta † Titular Bishop of Corycus Bishop of Paraguay (o Ssma Assunzione)

15 May 52.1 Appointed William Keane † Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland

50.9 Appointed Patrick Leahy † Archbishop of Cashel (-Emly), Ireland

16 May 61.8 Died Pierre Chatrousse † Bishop of Valence, France

17 May 46.4 Ordained Bishop Spyrydon Lytvynovyč (Litwinowicz) † Titular Bishop of Canatha Archbishop of Lviv (Ukrainian), Ukraine

19 May 53.2 Installed Georges-Claude-Louis-Pie Chalandon † Archbishop of Aix (-Arles-Embrun), France

23 May Born John Ward † Bishop of Leavenworth, Kansas, USA

24 May 41.8 Installed Pietro Maria Ferrè † Bishop of Crema, Italy Bishop of Casale Monferrato, Italy

28 May 22.8 Ordained Priest Louis Mary (Michael) Fink, O.S.B. † Priest of Order of Saint Benedict Bishop of Leavenworth, Kansas, USA

31 May 62.8 Ordained Bishop Louis Delcusy † Bishop of Viviers, France

38.1 Installed William Henry Elder † Bishop of Natchez, Mississippi, USA Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti † Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)

3 Jun 49.3 Died Vincenzo Massoni † Apostolic Internuncio to Brazil

4 Jun Born Augustin Dontenwill, O.M.I. † Archbishop Emeritus of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

41.4 Selected Djordje Smičiklas † Bishop of Križevci (Kreutz) (Križevci), Croatia

6 Jun 22.7 Ordained Priest Gaetano Blandini † Priest Bishop of Agrigento (Girgenti), Italy

25.9 Ordained Priest Tomás Costa y Fornaguera † Priest Archbishop of Tarragona, Spain

24.4 Ordained Priest George Michael Conroy † Priest of Dublin, Ireland Bishop of Ardagh (and Clonmacnois), Ireland

22.7 Ordained Priest Gaetano d’Alessandro † Priest Bishop Emeritus of Cefalù, Italy

24.8 Ordained Priest Marie-Joseph-Jean-Baptiste-André-Clément-Fulbert Petit † Priest of La Rochelle (-Saintes), France Archbishop of Besançon, France

24.0 Ordained Priest Édouard Gasnier, M.E.P. † Priest of La Société des Missions Etrangères Bishop of Malacca, Singapore

23.3 Ordained Priest Giuseppe Maria Graniello, B. † Priest of Clerics Regular of St. Paul Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quirico e Giulitta

24.2 Ordained Priest Constant-Ludovic-Marie Guillois † Priest Bishop Emeritus of Le Puy-en-Velay, France

26.8 Ordained Deacon Antônio de Macedo Costa † Deacon Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil

62.3 Died Patrick Phelan, P.S.S. † Bishop of Kingston, Ontario, Canada

22.5 Ordained Priest Domenico Riccardi † Priest Bishop of Sarsina, Italy

24.5 Ordained Priest Fortunato Vinelli † Priest Bishop of Chiavari, Italy

7 Jun 63.9 Installed Piotr Pawel Beniamin Szymański, O.F.M. Cap. † Bishop of Janów Podlaski (Podlaska o Janów), Poland

11 Jun 46.5 Ordained Bishop Armand-René Maupoint † Bishop of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion

12 Jun Born John Menacherry † Vicar Apostolic of Trichur (Syro-Malabar), India

14 Jun 55.4 Ordained Bishop Elías Rodríguez Ortiz † Titular Archbishop of Flaviopolis Coadjutor Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

16 Jun 66.5 Died Pier Grisologo Basetti (Bassetti) † Bishop of Borgo San Donnino, Italy

19 Jun 53.2 Appointed Marino Marini † Titular Archbishop of Palmyra Bishop Emeritus of Orvieto, Italy

20 Jun 20.7 Professed Remigio Guido Barbieri, O.S.B. † Member of Order of Saint Benedict Vicar Apostolic of Gibraltar

52.4 Selected José Domingo Costa y Borrás † Archbishop of Tarragona, Spain

75.9 Selected Cirilo de Alameda y Brea, O.F.M. Obs. † Cardinal, Archbishop of Toledo, Spain

53.5 Selected Luis de la Lastra y Cuesta † Archbishop of Valladolid, Spain Cardinal, Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain

75.2 Selected Manuel Joaquín Tarancón y Morón † Cardinal, Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain

71.0 Died František Vilém Tippmann † Auxiliary Bishop of Praha {Prague}, Czechia

21 Jun 26.5 Ordained Priest Giustino Adami † Priest Titular Archbishop of Caesarea Ponti

27 Jun 67.8 Died Antonio Peteani (Petrani) † Bishop of Poreč i Pula, Croatia

29 Jun 51.0 Ordained Bishop Patrick Leahy † Archbishop of Cashel (-Emly), Ireland

43.8 Ordained Bishop János Simor † Bishop of Győr (Raab), Hungary Cardinal, Archbishop of Esztergom, Hungary

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Apr		Born	Gustave-Lazare Garnier †		Bishop of Luçon, France
3 Apr	60.8	Ceased	Clément Bonnand, M.E.P. †	Apostolic Administrator of Coimbatore, India	Vicar Apostolic of Pondicherry, India
16.9	Solemn Vows	Nicola Giuseppe (Nicolae Iosif) Camilli, O.F.M. Conv. †	Member of Order of Friars Minor Conventual	Bishop of Iaşi, Romania
	Born	Isidore-Marie-Victor Douceré, S.M. †		Vicar Apostolic of New Hebrides {Isole Nouve Ebridi}, Vanuatu, Pacific (Oceania)
51.0	Appointed	Joseph-Isidore Godelle, M.E.P. †	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Pondicherry, India	Vicar Apostolic
51.0	Appointed	Joseph-Isidore Godelle, M.E.P. †	Titular Bishop of Thermopylae	Vicar Apostolic of Pondicherry, India
5 Apr		Born	Richard Collins †		Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, England, Great Britain
6 Apr	66.1	Died	Josip Schrott †	Bishop of Beograd (-Smederevo), Serbia
7 Apr	74.7	Died	Santiago Rodríguez Gil, O.P. †	Bishop of Lugo, Spain
8 Apr	46.3	Appointed	Spyrydon Lytvynovyč (Litwinowicz) †	Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv (Ukrainian), Ukraine	Archbishop
46.3	Appointed	Spyrydon Lytvynovyč (Litwinowicz) †	Titular Bishop of Canatha	Archbishop of Lviv (Ukrainian), Ukraine
57.0	Appointed	Grzegorz Michał Szymonowicz †	Coadjutor Archbishop of Lviv (Armenian), Ukraine	Archbishop
57.0	Appointed	Grzegorz Michał Szymonowicz †	Titular Archbishop of Marcopolis	Archbishop of Lviv (Armenian), Ukraine
9 Apr	81.5	Died	Giovanni Pietro Aurelio Mutti, O.S.B. †	Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy
11 Apr		Born	Francesco di Costanzo †		Bishop Emeritus of Monopoli, Italy
23.9	Ordained Priest	Francisco García y López †	Priest of Valencia, Spain	Auxiliary Bishop
	Born	Athanasius Klemens Götte, O.F.M. †		Vicar Apostolic of Northern Shensi {Scen-Si Settentrionale}, China
26.4	Ordained Priest	Narciso Martínez Izquierdo †	Priest	Bishop of Madrid, Spain
23.4	Ordained Priest	Giovanni Battista Paolucci †	Priest	Bishop of Viterbo e Tuscania, Italy
23.6	Ordained Priest	Francesco Vincenzo Pesci, O.F.M. Cap. †	Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin	Bishop of Allahabad, India
13 Apr	36.2	Appointed	John Baptist Byrne †	Coadjutor Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA	Priest of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
36.2	Appointed	John Baptist Byrne †	Titular Bishop of Rithymnia	Priest of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
14 Apr		Born	Ferdinando Fiandaca †		Bishop Emeritus of Patti, Italy
17 Apr		Born	Thomas Whiteside †		Archbishop of Liverpool, England, Great Britain
25 Apr		Born	Giuseppe Gamba †		Cardinal, Archbishop of Torino {Turin}, Italy
61.3	Installed	François-Nicholas-Madeleine Morlot †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Paris, France
26 Apr		Born	Giacomo Maria de Amicis †		Auxiliary Bishop of Genova, Italy
	Born	Henri Doulcet, C.P. †		Bishop Emeritus of Nicopoli, Bulgaria
47.6	Ordained Bishop	Henry Damian Juncker †	Bishop of Alton, Illinois, USA
43.9	Ordained Bishop	James Frederick Bryan Wood †	Titular Bishop of Antigonea	Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
28 Apr	35.6	Appointed	John Baptist Scandella †	Vicar Apostolic of Gibraltar
35.6	Appointed	John Baptist Scandella †	Titular Bishop of Antinoë	Vicar Apostolic of Gibraltar
30 Apr		Born	Pietro Pacifici, C.R.S. †		Archbishop of Spoleto, Italy
	Born	Prospero Scaccia †		Archbishop of Siena, Italy
May	50.6	Resigned	John McCaffrey †	Bishop-Elect of Charleston, South Carolina, USA	Former Bishop-Elect
1 May	65.2	Died	Jean-Paul-Hilaire-Michel Courvezy, M.E.P. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Malacca-Singapore
24.0	Ordained Priest	Jean-Amand Lamaze, S.M. †	Priest	Vicar Apostolic of Central Oceania, Tonga
47.0	Ordained Bishop	Pierre-Henri Gérault de Langalerie †	Bishop of Belley, France	Archbishop of Auch, France
3 May	53.2	Ordained Bishop	Jacques-Léon Thomine-Desmazures, M.E.P. †	Titular Bishop of Sinopoli	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Thibet, China
31.9	Ordained Bishop	James Duggan †	Titular Bishop of Gabala	Bishop of Chicago, Illinois, USA
38.1	Ordained Bishop	William Henry Elder †	Bishop of Natchez, Mississippi, USA	Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
47.2	Ordained Bishop	Timothy Clement Smyth, O.C.S.O. †	Titular Bishop of Thennesus	Bishop of Dubuque, Iowa, USA
8 May	69.8	Died	Rémi Gaulin †	Bishop of Kingston, Ontario, Canada
62.2	Succeeded	Patrick Phelan, P.S.S. †	Bishop of Kingston, Ontario, Canada
10 May		Born	Jean-Pierre-Alexandre Marcou, M.E.P. †		Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Phát Diêm, Viet Nam
69.9	Ordained Bishop	Juan Gregorio Urbieta †	Titular Bishop of Corycus	Bishop of Paraguay (o Ssma Assunzione)
15 May	52.1	Appointed	William Keane †	Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland
50.9	Appointed	Patrick Leahy †	Archbishop of Cashel (-Emly), Ireland
16 May	61.8	Died	Pierre Chatrousse †	Bishop of Valence, France
17 May	46.4	Ordained Bishop	Spyrydon Lytvynovyč (Litwinowicz) †	Titular Bishop of Canatha	Archbishop of Lviv (Ukrainian), Ukraine
19 May	53.2	Installed	Georges-Claude-Louis-Pie Chalandon †	Archbishop of Aix (-Arles-Embrun), France
23 May		Born	John Ward †		Bishop of Leavenworth, Kansas, USA
24 May	41.8	Installed	Pietro Maria Ferrè †	Bishop of Crema, Italy	Bishop of Casale Monferrato, Italy
28 May	22.8	Ordained Priest	Louis Mary (Michael) Fink, O.S.B. †	Priest of Order of Saint Benedict	Bishop of Leavenworth, Kansas, USA
31 May	62.8	Ordained Bishop	Louis Delcusy †	Bishop of Viviers, France
38.1	Installed	William Henry Elder †	Bishop of Natchez, Mississippi, USA	Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
	Born	Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti †		Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
3 Jun	49.3	Died	Vincenzo Massoni †	Apostolic Internuncio to Brazil
4 Jun		Born	Augustin Dontenwill, O.M.I. †		Archbishop Emeritus of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
41.4	Selected	Djordje Smičiklas †	Bishop of Križevci (Kreutz) (Križevci), Croatia
6 Jun	22.7	Ordained Priest	Gaetano Blandini †	Priest	Bishop of Agrigento (Girgenti), Italy
25.9	Ordained Priest	Tomás Costa y Fornaguera †	Priest	Archbishop of Tarragona, Spain
24.4	Ordained Priest	George Michael Conroy †	Priest of Dublin, Ireland	Bishop of Ardagh (and Clonmacnois), Ireland
22.7	Ordained Priest	Gaetano d’Alessandro †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Cefalù, Italy
24.8	Ordained Priest	Marie-Joseph-Jean-Baptiste-André-Clément-Fulbert Petit †	Priest of La Rochelle (-Saintes), France	Archbishop of Besançon, France
24.0	Ordained Priest	Édouard Gasnier, M.E.P. †	Priest of La Société des Missions Etrangères	Bishop of Malacca, Singapore
23.3	Ordained Priest	Giuseppe Maria Graniello, B. †	Priest of Clerics Regular of St. Paul	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quirico e Giulitta
24.2	Ordained Priest	Constant-Ludovic-Marie Guillois †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Le Puy-en-Velay, France
26.8	Ordained Deacon	Antônio de Macedo Costa †	Deacon	Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
62.3	Died	Patrick Phelan, P.S.S. †	Bishop of Kingston, Ontario, Canada
22.5	Ordained Priest	Domenico Riccardi †	Priest	Bishop of Sarsina, Italy
24.5	Ordained Priest	Fortunato Vinelli †	Priest	Bishop of Chiavari, Italy
7 Jun	63.9	Installed	Piotr Pawel Beniamin Szymański, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop of Janów Podlaski (Podlaska o Janów), Poland
11 Jun	46.5	Ordained Bishop	Armand-René Maupoint †	Bishop of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion
12 Jun		Born	John Menacherry †		Vicar Apostolic of Trichur (Syro-Malabar), India
14 Jun	55.4	Ordained Bishop	Elías Rodríguez Ortiz †	Titular Archbishop of Flaviopolis	Coadjutor Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
16 Jun	66.5	Died	Pier Grisologo Basetti (Bassetti) †	Bishop of Borgo San Donnino, Italy
19 Jun	53.2	Appointed	Marino Marini †	Titular Archbishop of Palmyra	Bishop Emeritus of Orvieto, Italy
20 Jun	20.7	Professed	Remigio Guido Barbieri, O.S.B. †	Member of Order of Saint Benedict	Vicar Apostolic of Gibraltar
52.4	Selected	José Domingo Costa y Borrás †	Archbishop of Tarragona, Spain
75.9	Selected	Cirilo de Alameda y Brea, O.F.M. Obs. †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Toledo, Spain
53.5	Selected	Luis de la Lastra y Cuesta †	Archbishop of Valladolid, Spain	Cardinal, Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain
75.2	Selected	Manuel Joaquín Tarancón y Morón †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain
71.0	Died	František Vilém Tippmann †	Auxiliary Bishop of Praha {Prague}, Czechia
21 Jun	26.5	Ordained Priest	Giustino Adami †	Priest	Titular Archbishop of Caesarea Ponti
27 Jun	67.8	Died	Antonio Peteani (Petrani) †	Bishop of Poreč i Pula, Croatia
29 Jun	51.0	Ordained Bishop	Patrick Leahy †	Archbishop of Cashel (-Emly), Ireland
43.8	Ordained Bishop	János Simor †	Bishop of Győr (Raab), Hungary	Cardinal, Archbishop of Esztergom, Hungary

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