The Year of Our Lord 1964

Bishop Events

December

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Dec	27.2	Ordained Priest	Thomas Chakiath	Priest of Ernakulam (Syro-Malabar), India	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabar), India
	Born	Ivan Ćurić		Auxiliary Bishop of Ðakovo-Osijek, Croatia
29.1	Ordained Priest	Simon Stock Palathara, C.M.I. †	Priest of Carmelites of Mary Immaculate	Bishop Emeritus of Jagdalpur (Syro-Malabar), India
32.3	Ordained Priest	Emmanuel Mani Giles Pothanamuzhy, C.M.I. †	Priest of Carmelites of Mary Immaculate	Bishop of Mananthavady (Syro-Malabar), India
2 Dec	31.3	Ordained Priest	Abraham Alangimattathil, S.D.B. †	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Bishop Emeritus of Kohima, India
27.1	Ordained Priest	Edwin Colaço †	Priest of Bombay, India	Bishop Emeritus of Aurangabad, India
28.4	Ordained Priest	Anthony Fernandes †	Priest of Benares-Gorakhpur, India	Bishop Emeritus of Bareilly, India
24.6	Ordained Priest	Thomas Anthony Vazhapilly	Priest of Chikmagalur, India	Bishop Emeritus of Mysore, India
3 Dec	34.8	Ordained Bishop	Leobard D’Souza †	Titular Bishop of Caput Cilla	Archbishop Emeritus of Nagpur, India
57.3	Ordained Bishop	Lawrence Patrick Moran †	Titular Bishop of Caesarea Philippi	Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia
45.8	Ordained Bishop	Bernard Oguki-Atakpah †	Bishop of Atakpamé, Togo	Bishop Emeritus
39.2	Ordained Bishop	Bernard Charles Ratsimamotoana, M.S. †	Bishop of Morondava, Madagascar	Bishop Emeritus
50.7	Ordained Bishop	Marcel Evariste Van Rengen, C.J. †	Bishop of Mweka, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
44.5	Ordained Bishop	Alberto Zambrano Palacios, O.P. †	Titular Bishop of Casae in Numidia	Bishop Emeritus of Loja, Ecuador
5 Dec		Born	Oscar Ngoy wa Mpanga, C.S.Sp.		Bishop of Kongolo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
6 Dec	41.7	Ordained Bishop	Eurico Dias Nogueira †	Bishop of Vila Cabral, Mozambique	Archbishop Emeritus of Braga, Portugal
	Born	Peter Hka Awng Tu		Priest of Myitkyina, Myanmar
	Born	Richard Kazadi Kamba		Bishop of Kolwezi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
23.6	Ordained Priest	Wilfredo Dasco Manlapaz	Priest of Caceres (Nueva Caceres), Philippines	Bishop Emeritus of Tagum, Philippines
7 Dec		Born	Peter Wu Yishun		Bishop of Shaowu [Shaowu], China
8 Dec	52.2	Appointed	Joseph Francis Cleary †	Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham, England, Great Britain
52.2	Appointed	Joseph Francis Cleary †	Titular Bishop of Cresima	Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham, England, Great Britain
57.4	Appointed	Michael Foylan †	Bishop of Aberdeen, Scotland, Great Britain
26.5	Ordained Priest	Iván Antonio Marín López	Priest of Jericó, Colombia	Archbishop Emeritus of Popayán, Colombia
47.5	Appointed	Francis Alexander Spalding Warden Thomson †	Bishop of Motherwell, Scotland, Great Britain	Bishop Emeritus
9 Dec		Born	Damase Zinga Atangana		Bishop of Kribi, Cameroon
21.1	Professed	José Alberto Moura, C.S.S.	Member of Congregation of the Sacred Stigmata	Archbishop Emeritus of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil
10 Dec		Born	Joseph Kallarackal		Bishop of Jaipur, India
70.3	Died	Mariano Rossell y Arellano †	Archbishop of Guatemala
65.8	Died	Antoon van Oorschoot, M. Afr. †	Bishop of Mbeya, Tanzania	Bishop of Mbeya, Tanzania
12 Dec	55.8	Succeeded	Mario Casariego y Acevedo, C.R.S. †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Guatemala
	Born	Ronald Gerhardus Wilhelmus Cornelissen		Bishop of Groningen-Leeuwarden, Netherlands
67.9	Appointed	Edgar Aristide Maranta, O.F.M. Cap. †	Apostolic Administrator of Zanzibar e Pemba, Tanzania	Archbishop Emeritus of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
33.8	Ordained Priest	Francis Xavier Mugadzi †	Priest of Gweru, Zimbabwe	Bishop
47.3	Appointed	Ernest Leo Unterkoefler †	Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina, USA	Bishop Emeritus
13 Dec	26.7	Ordained Priest	José Doth de Oliveira †	Priest of Iguatu, Ceara, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	Born	Martin Laliberté, P.M.E.		Bishop of Saint-Jean-Longueuil, Québec, Canada
	Born	Ildo Augusto dos Santos Lopes Fortes		Bishop of Mindelo, Cape Verde
47.0	Ordained Bishop	Giuseppe Marafini †	Bishop of Veroli-Frosinone, Italy
23.4	Ordained Priest	Eduardo Benes de Sales Rodrigues	Priest of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus of Sorocaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil
42.6	Ordained Bishop	Jean-Félix-Albert-Marie Vilnet †	Bishop of Saint-Dié, France	Bishop Emeritus of Lille, France
15 Dec		Born	Emilio Elpidio Biosca Agüero, O.F.M. Cap.		Bishop of Venice, Florida, USA
	Born	Edson Batista de Mello		Bishop of Cachoeira do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
39.9	Died	Gabriel Kihimbare †	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Kitega, Burundi
	Born	Michael Kalu Ukpong		Bishop of Umuahia, Nigeria
16 Dec	25.8	Ordained Priest	George William Coleman †	Priest of Fall River, Massachusetts, USA	Bishop Emeritus
26.1	Ordained Priest	Walter James Edyvean †	Priest of Boston, Massachusetts, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
25.2	Ordained Priest	Patrick Joseph Harrington, S.M.A.	Priest of Society of African Missions	Bishop Emeritus of Lodwar, Kenya
76.1	Died	Alain-Sébastien Le Breton, S.M.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Tamatave, Madagascar
24.5	Ordained Priest	William Francis Murphy †	Priest of Boston, Massachusetts, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Rockville Centre, New York, USA
19 Dec	25.5	Ordained Priest	Joseph Sunday Ajomo †	Priest	Bishop of Lokoja, Nigeria
26.2	Ordained Priest	Evaristus Thatho Bitsoane †	Priest of Qacha’s Nek, Lesotho	Bishop
31.6	Ordained Priest	George Francis Daniel	Priest of Pretoria, South Africa	Archbishop Emeritus
25.6	Ordained Priest	Bali Gali	Priest of Guntur, India	Bishop Emeritus
34.4	Ordained Priest	Daniel Gil Zorrilla, S.J. †	Priest of Society of Jesus	Bishop Emeritus of Salto, Uruguay
25.6	Ordained Priest	Theotonius Gomes, C.S.C.	Priest of Congregation of Holy Cross	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Dhaka, Bangladesh
27.0	Ordained Priest	Anthony Ekezia Ilonu †	Priest of Umuahia, Nigeria	Bishop Emeritus of Okigwe, Nigeria
23.7	Ordained Priest	Sarhad Yawsip Hermiz Jammo †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Saint Peter the Apostle of San Diego (Chaldean), USA
	Born	John Keenan		Bishop of Paisley, Scotland, Great Britain
28.1	Ordained Priest	Joseph Khoury †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Maron de Montréal (Maronite), Canada
24.3	Ordained Priest	Angel Nacorda Lagdameo †	Priest of Lucena, Philippines	Archbishop Emeritus of Jaro, Philippines
26.6	Ordained Priest	Jorge Enrique Lozano Zafra	Priest of Bucaramanga, Colombia	Bishop Emeritus of Ocaña, Colombia
24.5	Ordained Priest	Gilles Lussier	Priest of Montréal, Québec, Canada	Bishop Emeritus of Joliette, Québec, Canada
33.5	Ordained Priest	Lucian Mureşan †	Priest of Maramureş (Romanian), Romania	Cardinal, Major Archbishop of Făgăraş şi Alba Iulia (Romanian), Romania
27.0	Ordained Priest	Augustinus Jun-ichi Nomura	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Nagoya, Japan
24.1	Ordained Priest	Nereo Page Odchimar †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Tandag, Philippines
25.2	Ordained Priest	Sebelio Peralta Alvarez †	Priest of Villarrica, Paraguay	Bishop of San Lorenzo, Paraguay
	Born	Wojciech Polak		Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland
27.5	Ordained Priest	Faustino Sainz Muñoz †	Priest of Madrid, Spain	Apostolic Nuncio
24.2	Ordained Priest	Youssef Ibrahim Sarraf †	Priest of Le Caire {Cairo} (Chaldean), Egypt	Bishop
24.2	Ordained Priest	José Francisco Ulloa Rojas	Priest of San José de Costa Rica	Bishop Emeritus of Cartago, Costa Rica
26.9	Ordained Priest	Vital Komenan Yao †	Priest of Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire	Archbishop of Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire
20 Dec	50.6	Ordained Bishop	Marcel Pierre Marie Chauvin, C.Ss.R. †	Bishop of Fada N’Gourma, Burkina Faso	Bishop Emeritus
	Born	Germanus Kwak Jin-sang		Auxiliary Bishop of Suwon, Korea (South)
25.4	Ordained Deacon	François-Xavier Jacques Marie Loizeau	Deacon of Luçon, France	Bishop Emeritus of Digne (-Riez-Sisteron), France
25.3	Ordained Priest	François Paul Marie Maupu	Priest of Orléans, France	Bishop Emeritus of Verdun, France
30.6	Ordained Priest	Olívio Teodoro Obalhe, O.F.M. †	Priest of Order of Friars Minor	Prelate of Cristalândia, Tocatins, Brazil
23.1	Ordained Deacon	Luciano Pacomio	Deacon of Casale Monferrato, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Mondovi, Italy
27.4	Ordained Priest	Victor Antonio Tamayo Betancourt	Priest of Barranquilla, Colombia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
31.2	Ordained Priest	Kidane-Mariam Teklehaimanot †	Priest of Adigrat (Ethiopian), Ethiopia	Bishop Emeritus
21 Dec	27.5	Ordained Priest	Michael David Pfeifer, O.M.I.	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate	Bishop Emeritus of San Angelo, Texas, USA
39.1	Ordained Bishop	Juan Fremiot Torres Oliver †	Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico	Bishop Emeritus
22 Dec	49.8	Appointed	Pranciškaus Brazys, M.I.C. †	Titular Bishop of Zella
24 Dec		Born	Rui Manuel Sousa Valério, S.M.M.		Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}, Portugal
25 Dec		Born	José de Jesús González Hernández, O.F.M.		Bishop of Chilpancingo-Chilapa, Guerrero, México
	Born	Wacław Grądalski		Auxiliary Bishop of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg, Poland
26 Dec		Born	Sosthène Léopold Bayemi Matjei		Bishop of Obala, Cameroon
27 Dec	60.8	Ordained Bishop	Miguel Ángel Arce Vivas †	Bishop of Ipiales, Colombia	Archbishop Emeritus of Popayán, Colombia
31.2	Ordained Priest	John Lee Hiong Fun-Yit Yaw	Priest of Jesselton, Malaysia	Archbishop Emeritus of Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
26.4	Ordained Priest	José María Pinheiro	Priest of São Paulo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Bragança Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil
28 Dec		Born	Antoine Aoukar, O.A.M.		Curial Bishop of Antiochia {Antioch} (Maronite), Lebanon
67.7	Died	Benedikt (Johannes) Reetz, O.S.B. †	Abbot of Order of Saint Benedict
29 Dec		Born	Thomas Jessayyan Netto		Archbishop of Trivandrum, India
69.7	Died	Alexandros Habib Scandar †	Bishop of Assiut {Lycopolis} (Coptic), Egypt
30 Dec	28.9	Ordained Priest	Longinus Atundo †	Priest	Bishop of Bungoma, Kenya
51.3	Appointed	Frederick William Freking †	Bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA	Bishop Emeritus

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