The Year of Our Lord 1983

Bishop Events

November

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

1 Nov 73.1 Ordained Bishop Alfons Maria Stickler, S.D.B. † Titular Archbishop of Volsinium Cardinal, Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archive

3 Nov 47.1 Appointed Gonzalo Ramiro del Castillo Crespo, O.C.D. † Auxiliary Bishop of La Paz, Bolivia Bishop Emeritus of Bolivia, Military

47.1 Appointed Gonzalo Ramiro del Castillo Crespo, O.C.D. † Titular Bishop of Themisonium Bishop Emeritus of Bolivia, Military

48.3 Appointed Luis Morgan (Aloysius) Casey † Auxiliary Bishop of La Paz, Bolivia Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Pando, Bolivia

48.3 Appointed Luis Morgan (Aloysius) Casey † Titular Bishop of Mibiarca Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Pando, Bolivia

5 Nov 27.6 Ordained Priest Joseph Charles Bambera Priest of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA Bishop

28.3 Ordained Priest Simone Giusti Priest of Pisa, Italy Bishop of Livorno, Italy

6 Nov 50.8 Ordained Bishop Ernest Mesmin Lucien Cabo † Titular Bishop of Bocconia Bishop Emeritus of Basse-Terre (et Pointe-à-Pitre), Guadeloupe, Antilles

25.9 Ordained Deacon Franco Moscone, C.R.S. Deacon of Clerks Regular of Somasca Archbishop of Manfredonia-Vieste-San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy

7 Nov 50.5 Appointed Elmer Osmar Ramón Miani † Auxiliary Bishop of Córdoba, Argentina Bishop Emeritus of Catamarca, Argentina

50.5 Appointed Elmer Osmar Ramón Miani † Titular Bishop of Caeciri Bishop Emeritus of Catamarca, Argentina

79.3 Died Umberto Mozzoni † Cardinal, President of the Roman Curia - Other

8 Nov 53.6 Appointed Adam Joseph Maida Bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Detroit, Michigan, USA

64.0 Ordained Bishop Joseph Ma Zhongmu (Tegusbeleg) † Bishop of Yinchuan [Ningsia], China Bishop Emeritus

56.8 Appointed Adolfo Antonio Suárez Rivera † Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

51.0 Installed Joseph Keith Symons Bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida, USA Bishop Emeritus of Palm Beach, Florida, USA

75.6 Retired José de Jesús Tirado Pedraza † Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México Archbishop Emeritus

10 Nov 51.5 Installed Anthony Soter Fernandez † Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

52.4 Appointed Richard Charles Patrick Hanifen Bishop of Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA Bishop Emeritus

52.6 Appointed William Henry Keeler † Bishop of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Baltimore, Maryland, USA

11 Nov 62.4 Resigned Arnold Ralph Cotey, S.D.S. † Bishop of Nachingwea, Tanzania Bishop Emeritus

60.9 Appointed Cecil DeSa † Archbishop of Agra, India Archbishop Emeritus

73.1 Resigned Robert Louis Hodapp, S.J. † Bishop of Belize Bishop Emeritus

56.7 Appointed Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol Bishop of Cheju, Korea (South) Bishop Emeritus

52.9 Appointed Osmond Peter Martin † Bishop of Belize Bishop Emeritus of Belize City-Belmopan, Belize, Antilles

51.8 Appointed Nicolas Okioh † Bishop of Natitingou, Benin Bishop Emeritus

39.2 Appointed Polycarp Pengo † Bishop of Nachingwea, Tanzania Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania

58.4 Resigned Patient Honoré Pierre Yvon Redois, S.M.A. † Bishop of Natitingou, Benin Bishop Emeritus

59.5 Appointed Matthew Shija † Bishop of Kahama, Tanzania Bishop Emeritus

12 Nov 24.8 Ordained Deacon Jean-Marc Noël Aveline Deacon of Marseille, France Cardinal, Archbishop

13 Nov 54.2 Ordained Bishop Josef Homeyer † Bishop of Hildesheim, Germany Bishop Emeritus

14 Nov 79.8 Died William Aloysius O’Connor † Bishop Emeritus of Springfield in Illinois, USA

17 Nov 53.9 Appointed John (Jack) Brewer † Coadjutor Bishop of Lancaster, England, Great Britain Bishop

43.4 Appointed Michael Smith Auxiliary Bishop of Meath, Ireland Bishop Emeritus

43.4 Appointed Michael Smith Titular Bishop of Leges Bishop Emeritus of Meath, Ireland

18 Nov 27.8 Ordained Priest Eduardo Horacio García Priest of Buenos Aires, Argentina Bishop of San Justo, Argentina

26.3 Ordained Priest Alfred Kipkoech Arap Rotich Priest of Nakuru, Kenya Bishop of Kericho, Kenya

29.5 Ordained Priest Jorge Martín Torres Carbonell Priest of Buenos Aires, Argentina Bishop of Gregorio de Laferrere, Argentina

19 Nov 27.1 Ordained Priest Stephen Brislin Priest of Kroonstad, South Africa Cardinal, Archbishop of Johannesburg, South Africa

39.3 Appointed Robert James Carlson Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Archbishop Emeritus of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

39.3 Appointed Robert James Carlson Titular Bishop of Avioccala Archbishop Emeritus of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

54.7 Appointed Luigi Conti † Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Iraq Apostolic Nuncio

54.7 Appointed Luigi Conti † Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Kuwait Apostolic Nuncio

53.3 Appointed Thadeu Gomes Canellas † Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Bishop Emeritus of Osório, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

53.3 Appointed Thadeu Gomes Canellas † Titular Bishop of Iunca in Byzacena Bishop Emeritus of Osório, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

20 Nov 52.2 Installed Lúcio Ignácio Baumgaertner † Bishop of Toledo, Parana, Brazil Archbishop Emeritus of Cascavel, Parana, Brazil

49.2 Ordained Bishop Ambrose Battista De Paoli † Titular Archbishop of Lares Apostolic Nuncio to Australia

22 Nov 63.7 Appointed Ivo Gugić † Bishop of Kotor (Cattaro), Montenegro Bishop Emeritus

61.4 Appointed Angelo Kim Nam-su † Bishop of Korea, Military Bishop Emeritus of Suwon, Korea (South)

53.1 Appointed Daniel Leo Ryan † Bishop of Springfield in Illinois, USA Bishop Emeritus

23 Nov 64.4 Appointed Gérard Dionne † Bishop of Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada Bishop Emeritus

55.3 Ordained Bishop James Hannigan † Bishop of Menevia, Wales, Great Britain Bishop of Wrexham, Wales, Great Britain

78.6 Died Pierre Louis Leclerc, M. Afr. † Bishop Emeritus of Ségou, Mali

47.9 Resigned Étienne Nguyễn Như Thể † Coadjutor Archbishop of Huế, Viet Nam Archbishop Emeritus

88.3 Died André-Maurice Parenty † Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer), France

78.8 Retired Bernardino Maria Dino Piccinelli, O.S.M. † Auxiliary Bishop of Ancona e Numana, Italy Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

25 Nov 91.6 Died James Patrick O’Collins † Bishop Emeritus of Ballarat, Australia

26 Nov 75.8 Retired Francisco Javier Gillmore Stock † Bishop of Chile, Military Bishop Emeritus

63.6 Resigned John Willem Nicolaysen Gran, O.C.S.O. † Bishop of Oslo, Norway Bishop Emeritus

54.4 Appointed José Manuel Lorenzo † Bishop of San Miguel, Argentina

60.6 Appointed José Joaquín Matte Varas † Bishop of Chile, Military Bishop Emeritus

60.6 Appointed José Joaquín Matte Varas † Titular Bishop of Alba Bishop Emeritus of Chile, Military

64.8 Appointed Fortunato Antonio Rossi † Archbishop of Corrientes, Argentina Archbishop Emeritus

45.1 Appointed Gerhard Schwenzer, SS.CC. Apostolic Administrator of Trondheim, Norway Bishop Emeritus of Oslo, Norway

45.1 Succeeded Gerhard Schwenzer, SS.CC. Bishop of Oslo, Norway Bishop Emeritus

27 Nov 54.0 Installed François-Marie-Christian Favreau † Bishop of Nanterre, France Bishop Emeritus

28 Nov 78.7 Died Adelmo Cavalcante Machado † Archbishop Emeritus of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil

29.8 Incardinated Angelo De Donatis Priest of Roma {Rome}, Italy Cardinal, Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary

29 Nov 58.0 Ordained Bishop Angelo (William Thomas) Acerra, O.S.B. † Titular Bishop of Lete Auxiliary Bishop of United States of America, Military

53.9 Appointed Stéphane Katchou † Archbishop (Personal Title) of Zaku (Chaldean), Iraq Bishop

73.5 Resigned Hanna Paulus Marcus † Bishop of Zaku (Chaldean), Iraq Bishop Emeritus

49.3 Appointed Yousif Thomas † Archbishop of Bassorah {Basra} (Chaldean), Iraq Bishop of Beirut {Bairut} (Chaldean), Lebanon

30 Nov 59.8 Succeeded René Fernández Apaza † Archbishop of Sucre, Bolivia Archbishop Emeritus of Cochabamba, Bolivia

83.7 Retired José Clemente Maurer, C.Ss.R. † Archbishop of Sucre, Bolivia Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

40.3 Appointed Thomas Meram Archbishop of Urmyā {Urmia, Rezayeh} (Chaldean), Iran Archbishop Emeritus

40.3 Appointed Thomas Meram Archbishop (Personal Title) of Salmas {Shahpour} (Chaldean), Iran Archbishop Emeritus of Urmyā {Urmia, Rezayeh} (Chaldean), Iran

48.1 Appointed Stefan Moskwa † Auxiliary Bishop of Przemyśl, Poland Auxiliary Bishop of Przemyśl, Poland

48.1 Appointed Stefan Moskwa † Titular Bishop of Giru Mons Auxiliary Bishop of Przemyśl, Poland

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Nov	73.1	Ordained Bishop	Alfons Maria Stickler, S.D.B. †	Titular Archbishop of Volsinium	Cardinal, Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archive
3 Nov	47.1	Appointed	Gonzalo Ramiro del Castillo Crespo, O.C.D. †	Auxiliary Bishop of La Paz, Bolivia	Bishop Emeritus of Bolivia, Military
47.1	Appointed	Gonzalo Ramiro del Castillo Crespo, O.C.D. †	Titular Bishop of Themisonium	Bishop Emeritus of Bolivia, Military
48.3	Appointed	Luis Morgan (Aloysius) Casey †	Auxiliary Bishop of La Paz, Bolivia	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Pando, Bolivia
48.3	Appointed	Luis Morgan (Aloysius) Casey †	Titular Bishop of Mibiarca	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Pando, Bolivia
5 Nov	27.6	Ordained Priest	Joseph Charles Bambera	Priest of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA	Bishop
28.3	Ordained Priest	Simone Giusti	Priest of Pisa, Italy	Bishop of Livorno, Italy
6 Nov	50.8	Ordained Bishop	Ernest Mesmin Lucien Cabo †	Titular Bishop of Bocconia	Bishop Emeritus of Basse-Terre (et Pointe-à-Pitre), Guadeloupe, Antilles
25.9	Ordained Deacon	Franco Moscone, C.R.S.	Deacon of Clerks Regular of Somasca	Archbishop of Manfredonia-Vieste-San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
7 Nov	50.5	Appointed	Elmer Osmar Ramón Miani †	Auxiliary Bishop of Córdoba, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus of Catamarca, Argentina
50.5	Appointed	Elmer Osmar Ramón Miani †	Titular Bishop of Caeciri	Bishop Emeritus of Catamarca, Argentina
79.3	Died	Umberto Mozzoni †	Cardinal, President of the Roman Curia - Other
8 Nov	53.6	Appointed	Adam Joseph Maida	Bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Detroit, Michigan, USA
64.0	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Ma Zhongmu (Tegusbeleg) †	Bishop of Yinchuan [Ningsia], China	Bishop Emeritus
56.8	Appointed	Adolfo Antonio Suárez Rivera †	Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
51.0	Installed	Joseph Keith Symons	Bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Palm Beach, Florida, USA
75.6	Retired	José de Jesús Tirado Pedraza †	Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México	Archbishop Emeritus
10 Nov	51.5	Installed	Anthony Soter Fernandez †	Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
52.4	Appointed	Richard Charles Patrick Hanifen	Bishop of Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA	Bishop Emeritus
52.6	Appointed	William Henry Keeler †	Bishop of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
11 Nov	62.4	Resigned	Arnold Ralph Cotey, S.D.S. †	Bishop of Nachingwea, Tanzania	Bishop Emeritus
60.9	Appointed	Cecil DeSa †	Archbishop of Agra, India	Archbishop Emeritus
73.1	Resigned	Robert Louis Hodapp, S.J. †	Bishop of Belize	Bishop Emeritus
56.7	Appointed	Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol	Bishop of Cheju, Korea (South)	Bishop Emeritus
52.9	Appointed	Osmond Peter Martin †	Bishop of Belize	Bishop Emeritus of Belize City-Belmopan, Belize, Antilles
51.8	Appointed	Nicolas Okioh †	Bishop of Natitingou, Benin	Bishop Emeritus
39.2	Appointed	Polycarp Pengo †	Bishop of Nachingwea, Tanzania	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
58.4	Resigned	Patient Honoré Pierre Yvon Redois, S.M.A. †	Bishop of Natitingou, Benin	Bishop Emeritus
59.5	Appointed	Matthew Shija †	Bishop of Kahama, Tanzania	Bishop Emeritus
12 Nov	24.8	Ordained Deacon	Jean-Marc Noël Aveline	Deacon of Marseille, France	Cardinal, Archbishop
13 Nov	54.2	Ordained Bishop	Josef Homeyer †	Bishop of Hildesheim, Germany	Bishop Emeritus
14 Nov	79.8	Died	William Aloysius O’Connor †	Bishop Emeritus of Springfield in Illinois, USA
17 Nov	53.9	Appointed	John (Jack) Brewer †	Coadjutor Bishop of Lancaster, England, Great Britain	Bishop
43.4	Appointed	Michael Smith	Auxiliary Bishop of Meath, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
43.4	Appointed	Michael Smith	Titular Bishop of Leges	Bishop Emeritus of Meath, Ireland
18 Nov	27.8	Ordained Priest	Eduardo Horacio García	Priest of Buenos Aires, Argentina	Bishop of San Justo, Argentina
26.3	Ordained Priest	Alfred Kipkoech Arap Rotich	Priest of Nakuru, Kenya	Bishop of Kericho, Kenya
29.5	Ordained Priest	Jorge Martín Torres Carbonell	Priest of Buenos Aires, Argentina	Bishop of Gregorio de Laferrere, Argentina
19 Nov	27.1	Ordained Priest	Stephen Brislin	Priest of Kroonstad, South Africa	Cardinal, Archbishop of Johannesburg, South Africa
39.3	Appointed	Robert James Carlson	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA	Archbishop Emeritus of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
39.3	Appointed	Robert James Carlson	Titular Bishop of Avioccala	Archbishop Emeritus of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
54.7	Appointed	Luigi Conti †	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Iraq	Apostolic Nuncio
54.7	Appointed	Luigi Conti †	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Kuwait	Apostolic Nuncio
53.3	Appointed	Thadeu Gomes Canellas †	Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Osório, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
53.3	Appointed	Thadeu Gomes Canellas †	Titular Bishop of Iunca in Byzacena	Bishop Emeritus of Osório, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
20 Nov	52.2	Installed	Lúcio Ignácio Baumgaertner †	Bishop of Toledo, Parana, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus of Cascavel, Parana, Brazil
49.2	Ordained Bishop	Ambrose Battista De Paoli †	Titular Archbishop of Lares	Apostolic Nuncio to Australia
22 Nov	63.7	Appointed	Ivo Gugić †	Bishop of Kotor (Cattaro), Montenegro	Bishop Emeritus
61.4	Appointed	Angelo Kim Nam-su †	Bishop of Korea, Military	Bishop Emeritus of Suwon, Korea (South)
53.1	Appointed	Daniel Leo Ryan †	Bishop of Springfield in Illinois, USA	Bishop Emeritus
23 Nov	64.4	Appointed	Gérard Dionne †	Bishop of Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
55.3	Ordained Bishop	James Hannigan †	Bishop of Menevia, Wales, Great Britain	Bishop of Wrexham, Wales, Great Britain
78.6	Died	Pierre Louis Leclerc, M. Afr. †	Bishop Emeritus of Ségou, Mali
47.9	Resigned	Étienne Nguyễn Như Thể †	Coadjutor Archbishop of Huế, Viet Nam	Archbishop Emeritus
88.3	Died	André-Maurice Parenty †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer), France
78.8	Retired	Bernardino Maria Dino Piccinelli, O.S.M. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Ancona e Numana, Italy	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
25 Nov	91.6	Died	James Patrick O’Collins †	Bishop Emeritus of Ballarat, Australia
26 Nov	75.8	Retired	Francisco Javier Gillmore Stock †	Bishop of Chile, Military	Bishop Emeritus
63.6	Resigned	John Willem Nicolaysen Gran, O.C.S.O. †	Bishop of Oslo, Norway	Bishop Emeritus
54.4	Appointed	José Manuel Lorenzo †	Bishop of San Miguel, Argentina
60.6	Appointed	José Joaquín Matte Varas †	Bishop of Chile, Military	Bishop Emeritus
60.6	Appointed	José Joaquín Matte Varas †	Titular Bishop of Alba	Bishop Emeritus of Chile, Military
64.8	Appointed	Fortunato Antonio Rossi †	Archbishop of Corrientes, Argentina	Archbishop Emeritus
45.1	Appointed	Gerhard Schwenzer, SS.CC.	Apostolic Administrator of Trondheim, Norway	Bishop Emeritus of Oslo, Norway
45.1	Succeeded	Gerhard Schwenzer, SS.CC.	Bishop of Oslo, Norway	Bishop Emeritus
27 Nov	54.0	Installed	François-Marie-Christian Favreau †	Bishop of Nanterre, France	Bishop Emeritus
28 Nov	78.7	Died	Adelmo Cavalcante Machado †	Archbishop Emeritus of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
29.8	Incardinated	Angelo De Donatis	Priest of Roma {Rome}, Italy	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary
29 Nov	58.0	Ordained Bishop	Angelo (William Thomas) Acerra, O.S.B. †	Titular Bishop of Lete	Auxiliary Bishop of United States of America, Military
53.9	Appointed	Stéphane Katchou †	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Zaku (Chaldean), Iraq	Bishop
73.5	Resigned	Hanna Paulus Marcus †	Bishop of Zaku (Chaldean), Iraq	Bishop Emeritus
49.3	Appointed	Yousif Thomas †	Archbishop of Bassorah {Basra} (Chaldean), Iraq	Bishop of Beirut {Bairut} (Chaldean), Lebanon
30 Nov	59.8	Succeeded	René Fernández Apaza †	Archbishop of Sucre, Bolivia	Archbishop Emeritus of Cochabamba, Bolivia
83.7	Retired	José Clemente Maurer, C.Ss.R. †	Archbishop of Sucre, Bolivia	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
40.3	Appointed	Thomas Meram	Archbishop of Urmyā {Urmia, Rezayeh} (Chaldean), Iran	Archbishop Emeritus
40.3	Appointed	Thomas Meram	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Salmas {Shahpour} (Chaldean), Iran	Archbishop Emeritus of Urmyā {Urmia, Rezayeh} (Chaldean), Iran
48.1	Appointed	Stefan Moskwa †	Auxiliary Bishop of Przemyśl, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop of Przemyśl, Poland
48.1	Appointed	Stefan Moskwa †	Titular Bishop of Giru Mons	Auxiliary Bishop of Przemyśl, Poland

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