The Year of Our Lord 2009

Bishop Events

May

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

May 45.8 Appointed Peter Wu Junwei † Bishop of Xinjiang [Kiangchow], China

1 May 53.5 Ordained Bishop Francis Xavier Vira Arpondratana Bishop of Chiang Mai, Thailand Archbishop of Bangkok, Thailand

67.5 Succeeded Michael Gregory Campbell, O.S.A. Bishop of Lancaster, England, Great Britain Bishop Emeritus

45.3 Ordained Bishop Binay Kandulna Titular Bishop of Auzegera Bishop of Khunti, India

74.9 Retired Patrick O’Donoghue † Bishop of Lancaster, England, Great Britain Bishop Emeritus

2 May 76.8 Died George Marian Anathil, S.V.D. † Bishop Emeritus of Indore, India

50.5 Ordained Bishop Callistus Chukwuma Valentine Onaga Bishop of Enugu, Nigeria

58.9 Installed Ismael Rueda Sierra Archbishop of Bucaramanga, Colombia Archbishop Emeritus

3 May 56.2 Installed José Moreira Bastos Neto † Bishop of Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

4 May 59.7 Appointed Camillus Archibong Etokudoh Bishop of Port Harcourt, Nigeria Bishop Emeritus

77.2 Retired Alexius Obabu Makozi † Bishop of Port Harcourt, Nigeria Bishop Emeritus

5 May 52.9 Installed Salvatore Joseph Cordileone Bishop of Oakland, California, USA Archbishop of San Francisco, California, USA

41.5 Selected Paul III Amel (Shamon) Nona Archbishop of Mossul (Chaldean), Iraq Patriarch of Baghdad (Chaldean), Iraq

65.6 Appointed Leslie Rogers Tomlinson Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia Bishop Emeritus of Sandhurst, Australia

65.6 Appointed Leslie Rogers Tomlinson Titular Bishop of Sinitis Bishop Emeritus of Sandhurst, Australia

7 May 75.6 Retired Bernard Joseph Harrington † Bishop of Winona, Minnesota, USA Bishop Emeritus

43.6 Appointed Lawrence Subrata Howlader, C.S.C. Auxiliary Bishop of Chittagong, Bangladesh Archbishop of Chattogram, Bangladesh

43.6 Appointed Lawrence Subrata Howlader, C.S.C. Titular Bishop of Afufenia Archbishop of Chattogram, Bangladesh

61.5 Resigned Zacharias Cenita Jimenez † Auxiliary Bishop of Butuan, Philippines Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

63.8 Appointed Jesús Antonio Lerma Nolasco † Auxiliary Bishop of México, Federal District Bishop Emeritus of Iztapalapa, México, México

63.8 Appointed Jesús Antonio Lerma Nolasco † Titular Bishop of Aulon Bishop Emeritus of Iztapalapa, México, México

63.3 Succeeded John Michael Quinn Bishop of Winona, Minnesota, USA Bishop Emeritus of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, USA

44.0 Appointed Cyril Vasil’, S.J. Titular Archbishop of Ptolemais in Libya Bishop of Košice (Slovak), Slovakia

44.0 Appointed Cyril Vasil’, S.J. Secretary of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches Bishop of Košice (Slovak), Slovakia

8 May 69.9 Ceased Daniel Acharuparambil, O.C.D. † Apostolic Administrator of Cochin, India Archbishop of Verapoly, India

48.1 Appointed Marcelo Daniel Colombo Bishop of Orán, Argentina Archbishop of Mendoza, Argentina

60.3 Appointed Joseph Kariyil Bishop of Cochin, India Bishop Emeritus

89.5 Died Carlos José Boaventura Kloppenburg, O.F.M. † Bishop Emeritus of Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

50.3 Ordained Bishop Giovane Pereira de Melo Bishop of Tocantinópolis, Tocatins, Brazil Bishop of Araguaína, Tocatins, Brazil

52.7 Appointed Selvister Ponnumuthan Bishop of Punalur, India

51.1 Ordained Bishop José Slaby, C.Ss.R. Prelate of Esquel, Argentina

58.8 Resigned John Thattumkal, S.S.C. Bishop of Cochin, India Bishop Emeritus

9 May 48.4 Ordained Bishop Bernardo Johannes Bahlmann, O.F.M. Prelate of Óbidos, Para, Brazil Bishop of Óbidos, Para, Brazil

46.1 Appointed Paul Kariuki Njiru Bishop of Embu, Kenya Bishop Emeritus of Wote, Kenya

10 May 52.1 Installed Pascal Michel Ghislain Delannoy Bishop of Saint-Denis, France Archbishop of Strasbourg, France

11 May 52.0 Appointed Alangaram Arockia Sebastian Durairaj, S.V.D. Bishop of Khandwa, India Archbishop of Bhopal, India

57.4 Appointed Devprasad John Ganawa, S.V.D. Bishop of Jhabua, India Bishop of Udaipur, India

12 May 52.4 Ordained Bishop Vincent Nguyễn Văn Bản Bishop of Ban Mê Thuột, Viet Nam Bishop of Hải Phòng, Viet Nam

13 May 75.7 Retired Jean-Marie Untaani Compaoré † Archbishop of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Archbishop Emeritus

63.3 Appointed Philippe Nakellentuba Ouédraogo Archbishop of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

14 May 80.3 Retired Michael Michai Kitbunchu Archbishop of Bangkok, Thailand Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

59.8 Appointed Francis Xavier Kriengsak Kovithavanij Archbishop of Bangkok, Thailand Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

76.7 Retired Anthony Leopold Raymond Peiris † Bishop of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka Bishop Emeritus

57.9 Appointed Harold Anthony Perera Bishop of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka

15 May 45.7 Ordained Bishop Rodolfo Luís Weber Prelate of Cristalândia, Tocatins, Brazil Archbishop of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

16 May 56.1 Installed Marian Buczek Bishop of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia, Ukraine Bishop Emeritus

76.3 Retired Vincent Mojwok Nyiker † Bishop of Malakal, South Sudan Bishop Emeritus

75.2 Retired Ignatius Wang Chung Chang Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco, California, USA Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

52.8 Resigned François-Xavier Yombandje Bishop of Bossangoa, Central African Republic Bishop Emeritus

17 May 50.5 Ordained Bishop François Michel Pierre Kalist Bishop of Limoges, France Archbishop of Clermont, France

46.0 Ordained Bishop Marcellin Randriamamonjy Bishop of Fenoarivo Atsinanana, Madagascar Bishop of Farafangana, Madagascar

20 May 60.0 Appointed Joseph Robert Cistone † Bishop of Saginaw, Michigan, USA

21 May 60.9 Appointed Salvador Giménez Valls Bishop of Menorca, Spain Bishop Emeritus of Lleida, Spain

45.1 Ordained Bishop Walter Jehová Heras Segarra, O.F.M. Titular Bishop of Vazari Bishop of Loja, Ecuador

63.5 Installed Vincent Gerard Nichols Archbishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

22 May 63.0 Appointed William (Leonard) Kenney, C.P. Administrator of Birmingham, England, Great Britain Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

23 May 48.4 Installed Bernardo Johannes Bahlmann, O.F.M. Prelate of Óbidos, Para, Brazil Bishop of Óbidos, Para, Brazil

80.6 Died Joseph Marie Louis Duval † Archbishop Emeritus of Rouen, France

33.4 Ordained Priest John Jairo Gomez Priest of Tyler, Texas, USA Bishop-Elect of Laredo, Texas, USA

24 May 46.1 Installed Stephan Ackermann Bishop of Trier, Germany

51.8 Ordained Bishop Gérald Cyprien Lacroix, I.S.P.X. Titular Bishop of Hilta Cardinal, Archbishop of Québec, Canada

65.1 Ordained Bishop Paul Lortie Titular Bishop of Hierpiniana Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Jérôme - Mont-Laurier, Québec, Canada

50.3 Installed Giovane Pereira de Melo Bishop of Tocantinópolis, Tocatins, Brazil Bishop of Araguaína, Tocatins, Brazil

56.3 Ordained Bishop Georges Varkey Puthiyakulangara, M.E.P. Coadjutor Bishop of Port-Bergé, Madagascar Bishop

50.0 Ordained Bishop Joseph Spiteri Titular Archbishop of Serta Apostolic Nuncio to México

61.2 Ordained Bishop Edson Tasquetto (Taschetto) Damian Bishop of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas, Brazil Bishop Emeritus

25 May 66.3 Appointed Nikola Nino Kekić Bishop of Križevci (Kreutz) (Križevci), Croatia Bishop Emeritus

75.0 Retired Slavomir Miklovš † Bishop of Križevci (Kreutz) (Križevci), Croatia Bishop Emeritus

39.9 Selected Bashar Matti Warda, C.Ss.R. Archbishop of Arbil {Erbil} (Chaldean), Iraq

26 May 65.9 Installed Robert Joseph Cunningham Bishop of Syracuse, New York, USA Bishop Emeritus

50.8 Appointed José Moko Ekanga, P.S.S. Bishop of Idiofa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

42.1 Appointed Dieudonné Nzapalainga, C.S.Sp. Apostolic Administrator of Bangui, Central African Republic Cardinal, Archbishop

54.9 Resigned Paulin Pomodimo Archbishop of Bangui, Central African Republic Archbishop Emeritus

27 May 48.6 Appointed John Oliver Barres Bishop of Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA Bishop of Rockville Centre, New York, USA

76.1 Retired Edward Peter Cullen † Bishop of Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA Bishop Emeritus

91.1 Died Luis María de Larrea y Legarreta † Bishop Emeritus of Bilbao, Spain

51.0 Appointed Lee Anthony Piché Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

51.0 Appointed Lee Anthony Piché Titular Bishop of Tamata Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

28 May 81.7 Died Roger Louis Kaffer † Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Joliet in Illinois, USA

30 May 51.0 Ordained Bishop Silvio José Báez Ortega, O.C.D. Titular Bishop of Zica Auxiliary Bishop of Managua, Nicaragua

31 May 66.7 Ordained Bishop Giovanni Migliorati, M.C.C.I. † Titular Bishop of Ambia Vicar Apostolic of Awasa, Ethiopia

45.7 Installed Rodolfo Luís Weber Prelate of Cristalândia, Tocatins, Brazil Archbishop of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
May	45.8	Appointed	Peter Wu Junwei †	Bishop of Xinjiang [Kiangchow], China
1 May	53.5	Ordained Bishop	Francis Xavier Vira Arpondratana	Bishop of Chiang Mai, Thailand	Archbishop of Bangkok, Thailand
67.5	Succeeded	Michael Gregory Campbell, O.S.A.	Bishop of Lancaster, England, Great Britain	Bishop Emeritus
45.3	Ordained Bishop	Binay Kandulna	Titular Bishop of Auzegera	Bishop of Khunti, India
74.9	Retired	Patrick O’Donoghue †	Bishop of Lancaster, England, Great Britain	Bishop Emeritus
2 May	76.8	Died	George Marian Anathil, S.V.D. †	Bishop Emeritus of Indore, India
50.5	Ordained Bishop	Callistus Chukwuma Valentine Onaga	Bishop of Enugu, Nigeria
58.9	Installed	Ismael Rueda Sierra	Archbishop of Bucaramanga, Colombia	Archbishop Emeritus
3 May	56.2	Installed	José Moreira Bastos Neto †	Bishop of Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
4 May	59.7	Appointed	Camillus Archibong Etokudoh	Bishop of Port Harcourt, Nigeria	Bishop Emeritus
77.2	Retired	Alexius Obabu Makozi †	Bishop of Port Harcourt, Nigeria	Bishop Emeritus
5 May	52.9	Installed	Salvatore Joseph Cordileone	Bishop of Oakland, California, USA	Archbishop of San Francisco, California, USA
41.5	Selected	Paul III Amel (Shamon) Nona	Archbishop of Mossul (Chaldean), Iraq	Patriarch of Baghdad (Chaldean), Iraq
65.6	Appointed	Leslie Rogers Tomlinson	Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia	Bishop Emeritus of Sandhurst, Australia
65.6	Appointed	Leslie Rogers Tomlinson	Titular Bishop of Sinitis	Bishop Emeritus of Sandhurst, Australia
7 May	75.6	Retired	Bernard Joseph Harrington †	Bishop of Winona, Minnesota, USA	Bishop Emeritus
43.6	Appointed	Lawrence Subrata Howlader, C.S.C.	Auxiliary Bishop of Chittagong, Bangladesh	Archbishop of Chattogram, Bangladesh
43.6	Appointed	Lawrence Subrata Howlader, C.S.C.	Titular Bishop of Afufenia	Archbishop of Chattogram, Bangladesh
61.5	Resigned	Zacharias Cenita Jimenez †	Auxiliary Bishop of Butuan, Philippines	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
63.8	Appointed	Jesús Antonio Lerma Nolasco †	Auxiliary Bishop of México, Federal District	Bishop Emeritus of Iztapalapa, México, México
63.8	Appointed	Jesús Antonio Lerma Nolasco †	Titular Bishop of Aulon	Bishop Emeritus of Iztapalapa, México, México
63.3	Succeeded	John Michael Quinn	Bishop of Winona, Minnesota, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, USA
44.0	Appointed	Cyril Vasil’, S.J.	Titular Archbishop of Ptolemais in Libya	Bishop of Košice (Slovak), Slovakia
44.0	Appointed	Cyril Vasil’, S.J.	Secretary of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches	Bishop of Košice (Slovak), Slovakia
8 May	69.9	Ceased	Daniel Acharuparambil, O.C.D. †	Apostolic Administrator of Cochin, India	Archbishop of Verapoly, India
48.1	Appointed	Marcelo Daniel Colombo	Bishop of Orán, Argentina	Archbishop of Mendoza, Argentina
60.3	Appointed	Joseph Kariyil	Bishop of Cochin, India	Bishop Emeritus
89.5	Died	Carlos José Boaventura Kloppenburg, O.F.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
50.3	Ordained Bishop	Giovane Pereira de Melo	Bishop of Tocantinópolis, Tocatins, Brazil	Bishop of Araguaína, Tocatins, Brazil
52.7	Appointed	Selvister Ponnumuthan	Bishop of Punalur, India
51.1	Ordained Bishop	José Slaby, C.Ss.R.	Prelate of Esquel, Argentina
58.8	Resigned	John Thattumkal, S.S.C.	Bishop of Cochin, India	Bishop Emeritus
9 May	48.4	Ordained Bishop	Bernardo Johannes Bahlmann, O.F.M.	Prelate of Óbidos, Para, Brazil	Bishop of Óbidos, Para, Brazil
46.1	Appointed	Paul Kariuki Njiru	Bishop of Embu, Kenya	Bishop Emeritus of Wote, Kenya
10 May	52.1	Installed	Pascal Michel Ghislain Delannoy	Bishop of Saint-Denis, France	Archbishop of Strasbourg, France
11 May	52.0	Appointed	Alangaram Arockia Sebastian Durairaj, S.V.D.	Bishop of Khandwa, India	Archbishop of Bhopal, India
57.4	Appointed	Devprasad John Ganawa, S.V.D.	Bishop of Jhabua, India	Bishop of Udaipur, India
12 May	52.4	Ordained Bishop	Vincent Nguyễn Văn Bản	Bishop of Ban Mê Thuột, Viet Nam	Bishop of Hải Phòng, Viet Nam
13 May	75.7	Retired	Jean-Marie Untaani Compaoré †	Archbishop of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso	Archbishop Emeritus
63.3	Appointed	Philippe Nakellentuba Ouédraogo	Archbishop of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
14 May	80.3	Retired	Michael Michai Kitbunchu	Archbishop of Bangkok, Thailand	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
59.8	Appointed	Francis Xavier Kriengsak Kovithavanij	Archbishop of Bangkok, Thailand	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
76.7	Retired	Anthony Leopold Raymond Peiris †	Bishop of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka	Bishop Emeritus
57.9	Appointed	Harold Anthony Perera	Bishop of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka
15 May	45.7	Ordained Bishop	Rodolfo Luís Weber	Prelate of Cristalândia, Tocatins, Brazil	Archbishop of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
16 May	56.1	Installed	Marian Buczek	Bishop of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia, Ukraine	Bishop Emeritus
76.3	Retired	Vincent Mojwok Nyiker †	Bishop of Malakal, South Sudan	Bishop Emeritus
75.2	Retired	Ignatius Wang Chung Chang	Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco, California, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
52.8	Resigned	François-Xavier Yombandje	Bishop of Bossangoa, Central African Republic	Bishop Emeritus
17 May	50.5	Ordained Bishop	François Michel Pierre Kalist	Bishop of Limoges, France	Archbishop of Clermont, France
46.0	Ordained Bishop	Marcellin Randriamamonjy	Bishop of Fenoarivo Atsinanana, Madagascar	Bishop of Farafangana, Madagascar
20 May	60.0	Appointed	Joseph Robert Cistone †	Bishop of Saginaw, Michigan, USA
21 May	60.9	Appointed	Salvador Giménez Valls	Bishop of Menorca, Spain	Bishop Emeritus of Lleida, Spain
45.1	Ordained Bishop	Walter Jehová Heras Segarra, O.F.M.	Titular Bishop of Vazari	Bishop of Loja, Ecuador
63.5	Installed	Vincent Gerard Nichols	Archbishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
22 May	63.0	Appointed	William (Leonard) Kenney, C.P.	Administrator of Birmingham, England, Great Britain	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
23 May	48.4	Installed	Bernardo Johannes Bahlmann, O.F.M.	Prelate of Óbidos, Para, Brazil	Bishop of Óbidos, Para, Brazil
80.6	Died	Joseph Marie Louis Duval †	Archbishop Emeritus of Rouen, France
33.4	Ordained Priest	John Jairo Gomez	Priest of Tyler, Texas, USA	Bishop-Elect of Laredo, Texas, USA
24 May	46.1	Installed	Stephan Ackermann	Bishop of Trier, Germany
51.8	Ordained Bishop	Gérald Cyprien Lacroix, I.S.P.X.	Titular Bishop of Hilta	Cardinal, Archbishop of Québec, Canada
65.1	Ordained Bishop	Paul Lortie	Titular Bishop of Hierpiniana	Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Jérôme - Mont-Laurier, Québec, Canada
50.3	Installed	Giovane Pereira de Melo	Bishop of Tocantinópolis, Tocatins, Brazil	Bishop of Araguaína, Tocatins, Brazil
56.3	Ordained Bishop	Georges Varkey Puthiyakulangara, M.E.P.	Coadjutor Bishop of Port-Bergé, Madagascar	Bishop
50.0	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Spiteri	Titular Archbishop of Serta	Apostolic Nuncio to México
61.2	Ordained Bishop	Edson Tasquetto (Taschetto) Damian	Bishop of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
25 May	66.3	Appointed	Nikola Nino Kekić	Bishop of Križevci (Kreutz) (Križevci), Croatia	Bishop Emeritus
75.0	Retired	Slavomir Miklovš †	Bishop of Križevci (Kreutz) (Križevci), Croatia	Bishop Emeritus
39.9	Selected	Bashar Matti Warda, C.Ss.R.	Archbishop of Arbil {Erbil} (Chaldean), Iraq
26 May	65.9	Installed	Robert Joseph Cunningham	Bishop of Syracuse, New York, USA	Bishop Emeritus
50.8	Appointed	José Moko Ekanga, P.S.S.	Bishop of Idiofa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
42.1	Appointed	Dieudonné Nzapalainga, C.S.Sp.	Apostolic Administrator of Bangui, Central African Republic	Cardinal, Archbishop
54.9	Resigned	Paulin Pomodimo	Archbishop of Bangui, Central African Republic	Archbishop Emeritus
27 May	48.6	Appointed	John Oliver Barres	Bishop of Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA	Bishop of Rockville Centre, New York, USA
76.1	Retired	Edward Peter Cullen †	Bishop of Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA	Bishop Emeritus
91.1	Died	Luis María de Larrea y Legarreta †	Bishop Emeritus of Bilbao, Spain
51.0	Appointed	Lee Anthony Piché	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
51.0	Appointed	Lee Anthony Piché	Titular Bishop of Tamata	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
28 May	81.7	Died	Roger Louis Kaffer †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Joliet in Illinois, USA
30 May	51.0	Ordained Bishop	Silvio José Báez Ortega, O.C.D.	Titular Bishop of Zica	Auxiliary Bishop of Managua, Nicaragua
31 May	66.7	Ordained Bishop	Giovanni Migliorati, M.C.C.I. †	Titular Bishop of Ambia	Vicar Apostolic of Awasa, Ethiopia
45.7	Installed	Rodolfo Luís Weber	Prelate of Cristalândia, Tocatins, Brazil	Archbishop of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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