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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Nov	25.5	Ordained Priest	Antônio Afonso de Miranda, S.D.N. †	Priest of Other	Bishop Emeritus of Taubaté, Sao Paulo, Brazil
		Born	Anthony Sablan Apuron, O.F.M. Cap.		Archbishop Emeritus of Agaña, Guam, Pacific (Oceania)
2 Nov	67.3	Succeeded	Edward Francis Hoban †	Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio, USA
	79.6	Died	Joseph Schrembs †	Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio, USA
3 Nov	56.7	Appointed	Giuseppe Beltrami †	Apostolic Nuncio to Colombia	Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio
	51.1	Appointed	Luis Pérez Hernández, C.I.M. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá, Colombia	Bishop of Cúcuta, Colombia
	51.1	Appointed	Luis Pérez Hernández, C.I.M. †	Titular Bishop of Aradus	Bishop of Cúcuta, Colombia
	51.2	Appointed	Victor-Jean Perrin †	Bishop of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer), France	Bishop Emeritus
	41.1	Appointed	Charles-Marie-Joseph-Henri de Provenchères †	Archbishop of Aix (-Arles-Embrun), France	Archbishop Emeritus
	48.6	Appointed	Louis-Sylvain Robin †	Bishop of Blois, France	Bishop Emeritus
	52.8	Appointed	Maurice-Paul-Jules Rousseau †	Bishop of Mende, France	Bishop Emeritus of Laval, France
4 Nov	23.6	Ordained Priest	José Eduardo Alvarez Ramírez, C.M. †	Priest of Congregation of the Mission	Bishop Emeritus of San Miguel, El Salvador
	24.4	Ordained Priest	Norbert Felix Gaughan †	Priest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Gary, Indiana, USA
		Born	Carlos López Hernández		Bishop Emeritus of Salamanca, Spain
	24.2	Ordained Priest	John Bernard McDowell †	Priest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
5 Nov		Born	Joseph Aind, S.D.B.		Bishop Emeritus of Dibrugarh, India
	55.2	Installed	John Patrick Treacy †	Coadjutor Bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA	Bishop
6 Nov		Born	Gabriel Enrique Montero Umaña, O.F.M. Conv.		Bishop Emeritus of San Isidro de El General, Costa Rica
	78.0	Died	Joseph Gabriel Pinten †	Bishop Emeritus of Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
		Born	Albert Privet Thévenot, M. Afr. †		Bishop Emeritus of Prince-Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada
8 Nov		Born	Sergio Alfredo Gualberti Calandrina		Archbishop Emeritus of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
		Born	Vincent Gerard Nichols		Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Westminster, England, Great Britain
	53.1	Appointed	Joseph-Paul Strebler, S.M.A. †	Vicar Apostolic of Lomé, Togo	Archbishop Emeritus of Lomé, Togo
	53.1	Appointed	Joseph-Paul Strebler, S.M.A. †	Titular Bishop of Curubis	Archbishop Emeritus of Lomé, Togo
12 Nov	80.8	Died	José Miguel Godoy Herrera †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Tarapacá, Chile
		Born	Stanislav Hočevar, S.D.B.		Archbishop Emeritus of Beograd (-Smederevo), Serbia
	41.3	Appointed	Leo Jozef Suenens †	Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen, Belgium	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}, Belgium
	41.3	Appointed	Leo Jozef Suenens †	Titular Bishop of Isinda	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}, Belgium
13 Nov	81.1	Died	Eduardo Brettoni †	Bishop of Reggio Emilia, Italy
	29.7	Ordained Priest	Michael Joseph Dudick †	Priest of United States of America (Ruthenian), Pennsylvania	Bishop Emeritus of Passaic (Ruthenian), New Jersey, USA
14 Nov		Born	John Raymond Manz †		Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Chicago, Illinois, USA
	63.8	Appointed	Raimundo María Julián Manguán-Martín y Delgado, O.P. †	Bishop of Verapaz, Cobán, Guatemala	Bishop Emeritus
15 Nov		Born	Martin Albert Happe, M. Afr.		Bishop Emeritus of Nouakchott, Mauritania
		Born	Dorick McGowan Wright †		Bishop Emeritus of Belize City-Belmopan, Belize, Antilles
16 Nov	45.8	Appointed	Charles-Joseph Lemaire, M.E.P. †	Superior General of La Société des Missions Etrangères	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Kirin [Jilin], China
	45.8	Resigned	Charles-Joseph Lemaire, M.E.P. †	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Kirin [Jilin], China	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
17 Nov	72.8	Appointed	Ersilio Menzani †	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Piacenza, Italy	Bishop
	47.6	Appointed	Lawrence Joseph Shehan †	Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore-Washington, Maryland, USA	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
	47.6	Appointed	Lawrence Joseph Shehan †	Titular Bishop of Lydda	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
18 Nov		Born	Timoteo Hikmat Beylouni †		Apostolic Exarch of Venezuela (Syrian)
	58.2	Appointed	Egidio Bignamini †	Archbishop of Ancona e Numana, Italy
	51.4	Appointed	Dominic Senyemon Fukahori †	Apostolic Administrator of Miyazaki, Japan	Bishop Emeritus of Fukuoka, Japan
		Born	João Carlos Petrini		Bishop Emeritus of Camaçari, Bahia, Brazil
21 Nov	52.2	Ordained Bishop	François Charrière †	Bishop of Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg (Freiburg), Switzerland	Bishop Emeritus
		Born	Fulgence Rabeony, S.J.		Archbishop Emeritus of Toliara, Madagascar
	49.8	Confirmed	Ildefonso (Matteo Renato) Rea, O.S.B. †	Abbot of Montecassino, Italy	Abbot Emeritus
22 Nov		Born	Paulo Sérgio Machado †		Bishop Emeritus of São Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
23 Nov	71.7	Died	Flaminio Belotti, P.I.M.E. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Nanyang [Nanyang], China
	39.7	Appointed	Raymond Henri Martín, C.S.Sp. †	Prefect of Iles Saint-Pierre et Miquelon	Prefect Emeritus
24 Nov	42.7	Appointed	Ramón José Castellano †	Auxiliary Bishop of Córdoba, Argentina	Archbishop Emeritus
	42.7	Appointed	Ramón José Castellano †	Titular Bishop of Flavias	Archbishop Emeritus of Córdoba, Argentina
		Born	Gilles Côté, S.M.M.		Bishop Emeritus of Daru-Kiunga, Papua New Guinea
	60.5	Appointed	José Maria Diosomito Cuenco †	Bishop of Jaro o Santa Elisabetta, Philippines	Archbishop of Jaro, Philippines
		Born	Carl Anthony Fisher, S.S.J. †		Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, California, USA
	81.3	Appointed	Antoni Wladyslaw Szlagowski †	Titular Archbishop of Cotyaeum	Auxiliary Bishop of Warszawa {Warsaw}, Poland
25 Nov	41.2	Appointed	José María Bueno y Monreal †	Bishop of Jaca, Spain	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain
	38.5	Appointed	Vicente Enrique y Tarancón †	Bishop of Solsona, Spain	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Madrid, Spain
		Born	Joseph Francis Kweku Essien		Bishop Emeritus of Wiawso, Ghana
		Born	Luiz Antônio Guedes		Bishop Emeritus of Campo Limpo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	45.8	Appointed	Fernando Quiroga y Palacios †	Bishop of Mondoñedo, Spain	Cardinal, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
	48.3	Appointed	Máximo Yurramendi Alcáin †	Apostolic Administrator of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain
	48.3	Appointed	Máximo Yurramendi Alcáin †	Titular Bishop of Messene	Apostolic Administrator of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain
27 Nov		Born	Giuseppe Fiorini Morosini, O.M.		Archbishop Emeritus of Reggio Calabria-Bova, Italy
		Born	Anthony Mancini		Archbishop Emeritus of Halifax-Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
30 Nov	24.2	Ordained Priest	Paulo Evaristo Arns, O.F.M. †	Priest of Order of Friars Minor	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of São Paulo, Brazil
		Born	Telesphore Richard Mkude		Bishop Emeritus of Morogoro, Tanzania
1 Dec	24.7	Ordained Priest	Terence James Cooke †	Priest of New York, New York, USA	Cardinal, Archbishop
		Born	Rubén Oscar Frassia		Bishop Emeritus of Avellaneda-Lanús, Argentina
2 Dec	58.2	Ordained Bishop	Egidio Bignamini †	Archbishop of Ancona e Numana, Italy
3 Dec		Born	Ángel Francisco Simón Piorno		Bishop Emeritus of Chimbote, Peru
4 Dec		Born	Piero Coccia		Archbishop Emeritus of Pesaro, Italy
7 Dec		Born	Francis Xavier Ahn Myong-ok		Bishop Emeritus of Masan, Korea (South)
8 Dec	22.4	Ordained Priest	Angelo Campagna †	Priest of Salerno (-Acerno), Italy	Bishop of Alife-Caiazzo, Italy
	23.6	Perpetual Vows	Luis Dalle, SS.CC. †	Member of Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary	Apostolic Administrator of Ayaviri, Peru
	27.0	Ordained Priest	Belchior Joaquim da Silva Neto, C.M. †	Priest of Congregation of the Mission	Bishop Emeritus of Luz, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	30.4	Ordained Priest	Miguel d’Aversa, S.D.B. †	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Bishop Emeritus of Humaitá, Amazonas, Brazil
	24.0	Ordained Priest	Georges F. Garmou †	Priest of Mossul (Chaldean), Iraq	Archbishop of Mossul (Chaldean), Iraq
	59.0	Died	Giuseppe Mazzoli †	Apostolic Delegate to Bulgaria
	73.5	Died	Felipe Joaquín Oláiz y Zabalza, O.F.M. Cap. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Guam, Pacific (Oceania)
	49.9	Installed	Ildefonso (Matteo Renato) Rea, O.S.B. †	Abbot of Montecassino, Italy	Abbot Emeritus
	57.8	Ordained Bishop	Ernesto Ruffini †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Palermo, Italy
	25.3	Ordained Priest	Imre Timkó †	Priest of Hajdúdorog (Hungarian), Hungary	Bishop of Hajdúdorog (Hungarian), Hungary
9 Dec	24.7	Ordained Priest	Bernard Patrick Devlin †	Priest of Gibraltar	Bishop Emeritus
		Born	Andrej Bazil Mária Fogaš †		Bishop
10 Dec		Born	Wiesław Alojzy Mering		Bishop Emeritus of Włocławek (Kujawy, Kalisze), Poland
		Born	Ibrahim Salameh, S.M.S.P.		Apostolic Exarch Emeritus of Argentina (Melkite Greek)
12 Dec	16.6	Professed	Hermenegildo Ramírez Sánchez, M.J. †	Member of Missionari di S. Giuseppe nel Messico	Prelate Emeritus of Huautla, Oaxaca, México
	47.7	Ordained Bishop	Lawrence Joseph Shehan †	Titular Bishop of Lydda	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
		Born	Aloysius Sudarso, S.C.I.		Archbishop Emeritus of Palembang, Indonesia
13 Dec	57.6	Appointed	Giovanni Maria Emilio Castellani, O.F.M. †	Apostolic Nuncio to Guatemala	Official of the Secretariat of State
	57.6	Appointed	Giovanni Maria Emilio Castellani, O.F.M. †	Apostolic Nuncio to El Salvador	Official of the Secretariat of State
	45.8	Appointed	Paul Yoshiyuki Furuya †	Prefect of Kyoto, Japan	Bishop Emeritus of Kyōto, Japan
	58.7	Appointed	Peter Magoshiro Matsuoka †	Prefect of Nagoya, Japan	Bishop Emeritus of Nagoya, Japan
		Appointed	Paul Sakuzo Uchino †	Prefect of Urawa, Japan	Prefect Emeritus
14 Dec	43.9	Appointed	Thomas Benjamin Cooray, O.M.I. †	Coadjutor Archbishop of Colombo in Ceylon, Sri Lanka	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Colombo, Sri Lanka
	43.9	Appointed	Thomas Benjamin Cooray, O.M.I. †	Titular Archbishop of Preslavus	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Colombo, Sri Lanka
	49.9	Appointed	Antonius Deutsch, SS.CC. †	Prefect of Central Norway {Norvegia Centrale} [Mellom-Norge]	Prefect Emeritus
15 Dec	59.3	Appointed	Juvéncio de Brito †	Bishop of Garanhuns, Pernambuco, Brazil
	83.0	Appointed	Alfonso Carinci †	Titular Archbishop of Seleucia in Isauria	Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation of (Sacred) Rites
	45.7	Appointed	Kenneth Grant †	Bishop of Argyll and The Isles, Scotland, Great Britain
	21.2	Ordained Deacon	Marcos Antônio Noronha †	Deacon of Guaxupé, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Itabira, Brazil
	25.9	Ordained Priest	John Joseph O’Connor †	Priest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA	Cardinal, Archbishop of New York, New York, USA
	54.8	Appointed	Patrick O’Neill †	Bishop of Limerick, Ireland
16 Dec	63.4	Appointed	Juan Gualberto Guevara y de la Cuba †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Lima, Peru
	41.4	Ordained Bishop	Leo Jozef Suenens †	Titular Bishop of Isinda	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}, Belgium
17 Dec		Born	Jean-Pierre Marie Cattenoz		Archbishop Emeritus of Avignon, France
	67.0	Died	Mathurin-Marie Le Mailloux, C.S.Sp. †	Vicar Apostolic of Douala, Cameroon
		Born	John Michael Quinn		Bishop Emeritus of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, USA
18 Dec	79.7	Died	Marian Leon Fulman †	Bishop of Lublin, Poland
19 Dec	24.8	Ordained Priest	Antony Padiyara †	Priest of Coimbatore, India	Cardinal, Major Archbishop Emeritus of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabar), India
	27.1	Ordained Priest	Joseph Rajappa †	Priest	Bishop of Khammam, India
	69.7	Died	Sebastião Thomás, O.P. †	Prelate of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia, Brazil
20 Dec		Born	Pierre Bürcher		Bishop Emeritus of Reykjavik, Iceland
21 Dec	81.4	Died	Adolfo Pérez y Muñoz †	Bishop of Córdoba, Spain
22 Dec	22.7	Ordained Priest	Eurico Dias Nogueira †	Priest of Coimbra, Portugal	Archbishop Emeritus of Braga, Portugal
	40.2	Appointed	Benedetto Falcucci †	Auxiliary Bishop of Chieti, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Penne e Pescara, Italy
	40.2	Appointed	Benedetto Falcucci †	Titular Bishop of Dioclea	Bishop Emeritus of Penne e Pescara, Italy
	24.9	Ordained Priest	Pedro Filipak †	Priest	Bishop of Jacarezinho, Parana, Brazil
	31.1	Incardinated	Jerome Joseph Hastrich †	Priest of Madison, Wisconsin, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Gallup, New Mexico, USA
		Born	Jean-Pierre Kutwa		Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
	52.3	Appointed	Napoléon-Alexandre Labrie, C.I.M. †	Bishop of Golfe St-Laurent, Québec, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
	25.6	Ordained Priest	Alejandro Labaca Ugarte, O.F.M. Cap. †	Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin	Vicar Apostolic of Aguarico, Ecuador
	51.6	Appointed	Albini LeBlanc †	Bishop of Gaspé, Québec, Canada
	24.5	Ordained Priest	Abel Alonso Núñez, O. de M. †	Priest of Order of Our Lady of Mercy	Bishop Emeritus of Campo Maior, Piaui, Brazil
	22.3	Ordained Priest	Antonio Quarracino †	Priest of Mercedes-Luján, Argentina	Cardinal, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina
23 Dec		Born	Victor Agbanou		Bishop Emeritus of Lokossa, Benin
	25.1	Ordained Priest	Walmor Battú Wichrowski †	Priest of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
		Born	Matthew Vaniakizhakel, C.V.		Bishop Emeritus of Satna (Syro-Malabar), India
24 Dec	24.7	Ordained Priest	Dominic Ðinh Huy Quang †	Priest of Bac Ninh, Viet Nam	Auxiliary Bishop of Bắc Ninh, Viet Nam
	85.2	Died	Mariano Emilio Holguin y Maldonado, O.F.M. †	Archbishop of Arequipa, Peru
	78.1	Died	Antal Papp †	Apostolic Exarch of Miskolc (Hungarian), Hungary	Apostolic Exarch of Miskolc (Hungarian), Hungary
25 Dec		Born	Nicolas Antiba, B.A.		Patriarchal Vicar of Damas (Melkite Greek), Syria
	25.4	Ordained Priest	Joseph Basmadjan, I.C.P.B. †	Priest of Institut du Clergé Patriarcal de Bzommar	Archbishop of Alep [Beroea, Halab] (Armenian), Syria
	25.8	Ordained Priest	André Bedoglouyan, I.C.P.B. †	Priest of Institut du Clergé Patriarcal de Bzommar	Patriarchal Exarch Emeritus of Jerusalem and Amman {Gerusalemme e Amman} (Armenian), Palestine
	23.7	Ordained Priest	Georges Layek †	Priest	Archbishop of Alep [Beroea, Halab] (Armenian), Syria
26 Dec	62.9	Died	Lucien-Louis-Claude Martin †	Bishop of Amiens, France
27 Dec	52.7	Ordained Bishop	Jozef Willem Maria Baeten †	Titular Bishop of Dorylaëum	Bishop Emeritus of Breda, Netherlands
28 Dec	78.7	Died	Bl. Hryhoriy (Grigorij) Khomyshyn (Chomyszyn) †	Bishop of Stanislaviv (Ukrainian), Ukraine	Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk [Stanisławów] (Ukrainian), Ukraine
	49.9	Succeeded	Bl. Ivan Sleziuk †	Bishop of Stanislaviv (Ukrainian), Ukraine
29 Dec	62.6	Appointed	Armand Coupel †	Coadjutor Bishop of Saint-Brieuc (-Tréguier), France	Bishop Emeritus
	62.6	Appointed	Armand Coupel †	Titular Bishop of Orcistus	Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Brieuc (-Tréguier), France
	48.5	Appointed	Bertrand Lacaste †	Bishop of Oran, Algeria	Bishop Emeritus
	46.8	Appointed	René-Joseph Piérard †	Coadjutor Bishop of Châlons, France	Bishop Emeritus
	46.8	Appointed	René-Joseph Piérard †	Titular Bishop of Iuliopolis	Bishop Emeritus of Châlons, France
30 Dec	48.9	Ordained Bishop	Oleksandr Khira (Chira) †	Auxiliary Bishop of Mukachevo (Munkács) (Ruthenian), Ukraine
		Born	Robert Eric Guglielmone		Bishop Emeritus of Charleston, South Carolina, USA
31 Dec		Born	Philippe Nakellentuba Ouédraogo		Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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