The Year of Our Lord 1998

Bishop Events

September

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

Sep 51.3 Appointed Heinz Wilhelm Steckling, O.M.I. Superior General of Oblates of Mary Immaculate Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay

1 Sep 75.0 Retired Lucien-Emile Bardonne † Bishop of Châlons, France Bishop Emeritus

69.3 Resigned Jacques André Marie Jullien † Archbishop of Rennes (-Dol-Saint-Malo), France Archbishop Emeritus

62.6 Succeeded François de Sales Marie Adrien Saint-Macary † Archbishop of Rennes (-Dol-Saint-Malo), France

2 Sep 75.8 Died Vincent de Paul Phạm Văn Dụ † Bishop of Lạng Sơn et Cao Bằng, Viet Nam

3 Sep 61.8 Installed Tod David Brown † Bishop of Orange in California, USA Bishop Emeritus

46.4 Installed Mario Antonio Cargnello Coadjutor Archbishop of Salta, Argentina Archbishop

4 Sep 87.4 Died Eldon Bernard Schuster † Bishop Emeritus of Great Falls, Montana, USA

62.0 Died Gerardo Eusebio Sueldo † Bishop of Santiago del Estero, Argentina

5 Sep 33.3 Ordained Priest Hieronymus Emusugut Joya, I.M.C. Priest of Consolata Missionaries Bishop of Maralal, Kenya

28.0 Ordained Priest Seyoum Franso Noel Priest of Meki, Ethiopia Vicar Apostolic of Hosanna, Ethiopia

80.1 Retired António dos Reis Rodrigues † Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa {Lisbon}, Portugal Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

6 Sep 60.1 Ordained Bishop Peter Celestine Elampassery, O.F.M. Cap. † Bishop of Jammu-Srinagar, India Bishop Emeritus

7 Sep 75.0 Retired Maximilian Ziegelbauer † Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg, Germany Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

8 Sep 65.6 Resigned Mario Cecchini † Bishop of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola, Italy Bishop Emeritus

27.9 Ordained Priest Elias Al-Debei Priest of Damas (Melkite Greek), Syria Archbishop of Bosra e Haūrān (Melkite Greek), Syria

23.5 First Vows Giordano Piccinotti, S.D.B. Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See

68.1 Succeeded Vittorio Tomassetti † Bishop of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola, Italy Bishop Emeritus

45.9 Ordained Bishop Sebastian Vadakel, M.S.T. Bishop of Ujjain (Syro-Malabar), India

10 Sep 67.5 Died Rafael Montiano Lim † Bishop of Boac, Philippines

73.3 Appointed Ignatius Paul Pinto † Archbishop of Bangalore, India Archbishop Emeritus

11 Sep 24.9 Ordained Priest Jaime Oswaldo Castillo Villacrés Priest of Loja, Ecuador Vicar Apostolic of Zamora en Ecuador

77.0 Retired Paulos Tzadua † Archbishop of Addis Abeba (Ethiopian), Ethiopia Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

12 Sep 62.3 Died Hendrik Joseph Alois Bomers, C.M. † Bishop of Haarlem, Netherlands

62.3 Ordained Bishop Adriano Caprioli Bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy Bishop Emeritus

59.4 Ordained Bishop Stefan Cichy Titular Bishop of Bonusta Bishop Emeritus of Legnica, Poland

47.0 Ordained Bishop Salvatore Rino Fisichella Titular Bishop of Vicohabentia Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization

48.3 Installed Sleiman Hajjar, B.S. † Bishop of Saint-Sauveur de Montréal (Melkite Greek), Canada

49.5 Ordained Bishop Luigi Moretti Titular Bishop of Mopta Archbishop Emeritus of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno, Italy

13 Sep 88.6 Died Alois Grillmeier, S.J. † Cardinal, Priest of Society of Jesus

62.0 Installed Roberto Rodríguez † Bishop of Villa María, Argentina Bishop Emeritus of La Rioja, Argentina

62.6 Ordained Bishop Ernesto Vecchi † Titular Bishop of Lemellefa Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bologna, Italy

14 Sep 54.7 Ceased Martin William Currie Apostolic Administrator of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Archbishop Emeritus of Saint John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

53.3 Resigned Peter Wilfred Novecosky, O.S.B. † Abbot of Saint Peter-Muenster, Saskatchewan, Canada Abbot Emeritus

54.5 Installed Terrence Thomas Prendergast, S.J. Archbishop of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Archbishop Emeritus of Ottawa-Cornwall, Ontario, Canada

59.2 Appointed Raymond Olir Roussin, S. M. † Coadjutor Bishop of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Archbishop Emeritus of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

15 Sep 52.6 Appointed Jozef Marianus Punt Apostolic Administrator of Haarlem, Netherlands Bishop Emeritus of Haarlem-Amsterdam, Netherlands

16 Sep 56.9 Appointed Pedro Ercílio Simon † Coadjutor Bishop of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Archbishop Emeritus of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

68.1 Died José Vittorio Tommasí † Bishop of Nueve de Julio, Argentina

17 Sep 72.7 Died Marcel Bam’ba Gongoa † Bishop Emeritus of Bondo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

53.2 Installed Patrick Joseph McGrath † Coadjutor Bishop of San Jose in California, USA Bishop Emeritus

18 Sep 73.4 Resigned Paul Verschuren, S.C.I. † Bishop of Helsinki, Finland Bishop Emeritus

47.8 Ordained Bishop John Charles Wester Titular Bishop of Lamiggiga Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

19 Sep 50.9 Ordained Bishop Freddy Antonio de Jesús Bretón Martínez Bishop of Baní, Dominican Republic Archbishop Emeritus of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic

51.7 Ordained Bishop Vicente Costa Titular Bishop of Aquae Flaviae Bishop Emeritus of Jundiaí, Sao Paulo, Brazil

56.3 Ordained Bishop Jesús García Burillo Titular Bishop of Basti Bishop Emeritus of Ávila, Spain

59.7 Ordained Bishop Zef Gashi, S.D.B. Archbishop of Bar (Antivari), Montenegro Archbishop Emeritus

26.4 Ordained Priest Rufino Coronel Sescon Jr. Priest of Manila, Philippines Bishop-Elect of Balanga, Philippines

28.9 Ordained Priest Vinzenz (Rudolf) Wohlwend, O. Cist. Priest of Order of Cistercians Abbot of Wettingen-Mehrerau, Austria

20 Sep 54.0 Ordained Bishop Bernard-Nicolas Jean-Marie Aubertin, O. Cist. Bishop of Chartres, France Archbishop Emeritus of Tours, France

27.0 Ordained Priest Giorgio Barbetta Manzocchi Priest of Gubbio, Italy Auxiliary Bishop of Huarí, Peru

62.3 Installed Adriano Caprioli Bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy Bishop Emeritus

56.9 Ordained Bishop Cándido Cárdenas Villalba Bishop of Benjamín Aceval, Paraguay Bishop Emeritus

58.4 Ordained Bishop Pier Giorgio Debernardi Bishop of Pinerolo, Italy Bishop Emeritus

32.8 Solemn Vows Mauro Maria Gambetti, O.F.M. Conv. Member of Order of Friars Minor Conventual Cardinal, President of the Fabric of St. Peter

50.0 Ordained Bishop Giuseppe Petrocchi Bishop of Latina-Terracina-Sezze-Priverno, Italy Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of L’Aquila, Italy

21 Sep 49.5 Ordained Bishop Blase Joseph Cupich Bishop of Rapid City, South Dakota, USA Cardinal, Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois, USA

86.4 Died Clarence James Duhart, C.Ss.R. † Bishop Emeritus of Udon Thani, Thailand

93.1 Died Domenico Ferrara, F.S.C.J. † Prefect Emeritus of Mupoi, Sudan

22 Sep 69.5 Died Vitalis Djebarus, S.V.D. † Bishop of Denpasar, Indonesia

63.1 Installed John Brendan McCormack † Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire, USA Bishop Emeritus

24 Sep 78.4 Appointed Karel Otčenášek † Archbishop (Personal Title) of Hradec Králové, Czechia Bishop Emeritus

25 Sep 32.8 Incardinated Diego Giovanni Ravelli Priest of Velletri-Segni, Italy Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations of the Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff

26 Sep 55.4 Ordained Bishop Dominik Jaroslav Duka, O.P. Bishop of Hradec Králové, Czechia Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Praha {Prague}, Czechia

44.0 Ordained Bishop Philip Huang Chao-ming Titular Bishop of Lamphua Bishop of Hwalien, Taiwan

54.5 Appointed Juliusz Janusz Apostolic Nuncio to Mozambique Apostolic Nuncio

69.9 Ordained Bishop Giuseppe Pittau, S.J. † Titular Archbishop of Castro di Sardegna Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Institutes of Study)

28.9 Ordained Priest Valentinus Saeng, C.P. Priest of Congregation of the Passion Bishop of Sanggau, Indonesia

73.2 Died Giovanni Maria Sartori † Archbishop of Trento, Italy

27 Sep 29.0 Perpetual Vows Fernando Prado Ayuso, C.M.F. Member of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Bishop of San Sebastián, Spain

51.9 Ordained Bishop Louis Albert Joseph Roger Sankalé Bishop of Cayenne (Cajenna), French Guyana, Antilles Bishop Emeritus of Nice, France

28 Sep 83.9 Died Aurelio Sorrentino † Archbishop Emeritus of Reggio Calabria-Bova, Italy

29 Sep 38.7 Ordained Bishop Antoni Dziemianko Titular Bishop of Lesvi Bishop of Pinsk, Belarus

50.7 Ordained Bishop Marcello Semeraro Bishop of Oria, Italy Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints

30 Sep 59.8 Appointed Januariusz Mikołaj Bolonek † Official of the Secretariat of State Apostolic Nuncio

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
Sep	51.3	Appointed	Heinz Wilhelm Steckling, O.M.I.	Superior General of Oblates of Mary Immaculate	Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
1 Sep	75.0	Retired	Lucien-Emile Bardonne †	Bishop of Châlons, France	Bishop Emeritus
69.3	Resigned	Jacques André Marie Jullien †	Archbishop of Rennes (-Dol-Saint-Malo), France	Archbishop Emeritus
62.6	Succeeded	François de Sales Marie Adrien Saint-Macary †	Archbishop of Rennes (-Dol-Saint-Malo), France
2 Sep	75.8	Died	Vincent de Paul Phạm Văn Dụ †	Bishop of Lạng Sơn et Cao Bằng, Viet Nam
3 Sep	61.8	Installed	Tod David Brown †	Bishop of Orange in California, USA	Bishop Emeritus
46.4	Installed	Mario Antonio Cargnello	Coadjutor Archbishop of Salta, Argentina	Archbishop
4 Sep	87.4	Died	Eldon Bernard Schuster †	Bishop Emeritus of Great Falls, Montana, USA
62.0	Died	Gerardo Eusebio Sueldo †	Bishop of Santiago del Estero, Argentina
5 Sep	33.3	Ordained Priest	Hieronymus Emusugut Joya, I.M.C.	Priest of Consolata Missionaries	Bishop of Maralal, Kenya
28.0	Ordained Priest	Seyoum Franso Noel	Priest of Meki, Ethiopia	Vicar Apostolic of Hosanna, Ethiopia
80.1	Retired	António dos Reis Rodrigues †	Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa {Lisbon}, Portugal	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
6 Sep	60.1	Ordained Bishop	Peter Celestine Elampassery, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop of Jammu-Srinagar, India	Bishop Emeritus
7 Sep	75.0	Retired	Maximilian Ziegelbauer †	Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg, Germany	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
8 Sep	65.6	Resigned	Mario Cecchini †	Bishop of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
27.9	Ordained Priest	Elias Al-Debei	Priest of Damas (Melkite Greek), Syria	Archbishop of Bosra e Haūrān (Melkite Greek), Syria
23.5	First Vows	Giordano Piccinotti, S.D.B.	Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See
68.1	Succeeded	Vittorio Tomassetti †	Bishop of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
45.9	Ordained Bishop	Sebastian Vadakel, M.S.T.	Bishop of Ujjain (Syro-Malabar), India
10 Sep	67.5	Died	Rafael Montiano Lim †	Bishop of Boac, Philippines
73.3	Appointed	Ignatius Paul Pinto †	Archbishop of Bangalore, India	Archbishop Emeritus
11 Sep	24.9	Ordained Priest	Jaime Oswaldo Castillo Villacrés	Priest of Loja, Ecuador	Vicar Apostolic of Zamora en Ecuador
77.0	Retired	Paulos Tzadua †	Archbishop of Addis Abeba (Ethiopian), Ethiopia	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
12 Sep	62.3	Died	Hendrik Joseph Alois Bomers, C.M. †	Bishop of Haarlem, Netherlands
62.3	Ordained Bishop	Adriano Caprioli	Bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
59.4	Ordained Bishop	Stefan Cichy	Titular Bishop of Bonusta	Bishop Emeritus of Legnica, Poland
47.0	Ordained Bishop	Salvatore Rino Fisichella	Titular Bishop of Vicohabentia	Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization
48.3	Installed	Sleiman Hajjar, B.S. †	Bishop of Saint-Sauveur de Montréal (Melkite Greek), Canada
49.5	Ordained Bishop	Luigi Moretti	Titular Bishop of Mopta	Archbishop Emeritus of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno, Italy
13 Sep	88.6	Died	Alois Grillmeier, S.J. †	Cardinal, Priest of Society of Jesus
62.0	Installed	Roberto Rodríguez †	Bishop of Villa María, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus of La Rioja, Argentina
62.6	Ordained Bishop	Ernesto Vecchi †	Titular Bishop of Lemellefa	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bologna, Italy
14 Sep	54.7	Ceased	Martin William Currie	Apostolic Administrator of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus of Saint John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
53.3	Resigned	Peter Wilfred Novecosky, O.S.B. †	Abbot of Saint Peter-Muenster, Saskatchewan, Canada	Abbot Emeritus
54.5	Installed	Terrence Thomas Prendergast, S.J.	Archbishop of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus of Ottawa-Cornwall, Ontario, Canada
59.2	Appointed	Raymond Olir Roussin, S. M. †	Coadjutor Bishop of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
15 Sep	52.6	Appointed	Jozef Marianus Punt	Apostolic Administrator of Haarlem, Netherlands	Bishop Emeritus of Haarlem-Amsterdam, Netherlands
16 Sep	56.9	Appointed	Pedro Ercílio Simon †	Coadjutor Bishop of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
68.1	Died	José Vittorio Tommasí †	Bishop of Nueve de Julio, Argentina
17 Sep	72.7	Died	Marcel Bam’ba Gongoa †	Bishop Emeritus of Bondo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
53.2	Installed	Patrick Joseph McGrath †	Coadjutor Bishop of San Jose in California, USA	Bishop Emeritus
18 Sep	73.4	Resigned	Paul Verschuren, S.C.I. †	Bishop of Helsinki, Finland	Bishop Emeritus
47.8	Ordained Bishop	John Charles Wester	Titular Bishop of Lamiggiga	Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
19 Sep	50.9	Ordained Bishop	Freddy Antonio de Jesús Bretón Martínez	Bishop of Baní, Dominican Republic	Archbishop Emeritus of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
51.7	Ordained Bishop	Vicente Costa	Titular Bishop of Aquae Flaviae	Bishop Emeritus of Jundiaí, Sao Paulo, Brazil
56.3	Ordained Bishop	Jesús García Burillo	Titular Bishop of Basti	Bishop Emeritus of Ávila, Spain
59.7	Ordained Bishop	Zef Gashi, S.D.B.	Archbishop of Bar (Antivari), Montenegro	Archbishop Emeritus
26.4	Ordained Priest	Rufino Coronel Sescon Jr.	Priest of Manila, Philippines	Bishop-Elect of Balanga, Philippines
28.9	Ordained Priest	Vinzenz (Rudolf) Wohlwend, O. Cist.	Priest of Order of Cistercians	Abbot of Wettingen-Mehrerau, Austria
20 Sep	54.0	Ordained Bishop	Bernard-Nicolas Jean-Marie Aubertin, O. Cist.	Bishop of Chartres, France	Archbishop Emeritus of Tours, France
27.0	Ordained Priest	Giorgio Barbetta Manzocchi	Priest of Gubbio, Italy	Auxiliary Bishop of Huarí, Peru
62.3	Installed	Adriano Caprioli	Bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
56.9	Ordained Bishop	Cándido Cárdenas Villalba	Bishop of Benjamín Aceval, Paraguay	Bishop Emeritus
58.4	Ordained Bishop	Pier Giorgio Debernardi	Bishop of Pinerolo, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
32.8	Solemn Vows	Mauro Maria Gambetti, O.F.M. Conv.	Member of Order of Friars Minor Conventual	Cardinal, President of the Fabric of St. Peter
50.0	Ordained Bishop	Giuseppe Petrocchi	Bishop of Latina-Terracina-Sezze-Priverno, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of L’Aquila, Italy
21 Sep	49.5	Ordained Bishop	Blase Joseph Cupich	Bishop of Rapid City, South Dakota, USA	Cardinal, Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois, USA
86.4	Died	Clarence James Duhart, C.Ss.R. †	Bishop Emeritus of Udon Thani, Thailand
93.1	Died	Domenico Ferrara, F.S.C.J. †	Prefect Emeritus of Mupoi, Sudan
22 Sep	69.5	Died	Vitalis Djebarus, S.V.D. †	Bishop of Denpasar, Indonesia
63.1	Installed	John Brendan McCormack †	Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire, USA	Bishop Emeritus
24 Sep	78.4	Appointed	Karel Otčenášek †	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Hradec Králové, Czechia	Bishop Emeritus
25 Sep	32.8	Incardinated	Diego Giovanni Ravelli	Priest of Velletri-Segni, Italy	Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations of the Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff
26 Sep	55.4	Ordained Bishop	Dominik Jaroslav Duka, O.P.	Bishop of Hradec Králové, Czechia	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Praha {Prague}, Czechia
44.0	Ordained Bishop	Philip Huang Chao-ming	Titular Bishop of Lamphua	Bishop of Hwalien, Taiwan
54.5	Appointed	Juliusz Janusz	Apostolic Nuncio to Mozambique	Apostolic Nuncio
69.9	Ordained Bishop	Giuseppe Pittau, S.J. †	Titular Archbishop of Castro di Sardegna	Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Institutes of Study)
28.9	Ordained Priest	Valentinus Saeng, C.P.	Priest of Congregation of the Passion	Bishop of Sanggau, Indonesia
73.2	Died	Giovanni Maria Sartori †	Archbishop of Trento, Italy
27 Sep	29.0	Perpetual Vows	Fernando Prado Ayuso, C.M.F.	Member of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary	Bishop of San Sebastián, Spain
51.9	Ordained Bishop	Louis Albert Joseph Roger Sankalé	Bishop of Cayenne (Cajenna), French Guyana, Antilles	Bishop Emeritus of Nice, France
28 Sep	83.9	Died	Aurelio Sorrentino †	Archbishop Emeritus of Reggio Calabria-Bova, Italy
29 Sep	38.7	Ordained Bishop	Antoni Dziemianko	Titular Bishop of Lesvi	Bishop of Pinsk, Belarus
50.7	Ordained Bishop	Marcello Semeraro	Bishop of Oria, Italy	Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints
30 Sep	59.8	Appointed	Januariusz Mikołaj Bolonek †	Official of the Secretariat of State	Apostolic Nuncio

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