The Year of Our Lord 2009

Bishop Events

November

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

Nov 45.4 Selected Paul Ling Jiansen Bishop of Jiangmen [Kongmoon], China

1 Nov 88.5 Died Arturo Salazar Mejía, O.A.R. † Bishop Emeritus of Pasto, Colombia

4 Nov 75.0 Retired Julius Babatunde Adelakun † Bishop of Oyo, Nigeria Bishop Emeritus

48.3 Succeeded Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo Bishop of Oyo, Nigeria

85.9 Died Hubertus Brandenburg † Bishop Emeritus of Stockholm, Sweden

54.8 Elected Michael Brehl, C.Ss.R. Superior General of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer Bishop of Pembroke, Ontario, Canada

62.7 Succeeded Romualdo Matias Kujawski Bishop of Porto Nacional, Tocatins, Brazil Bishop Emeritus

49.7 Appointed Guido Iván Minda Chalá Auxiliary Bishop of Guayaquil, Ecuador Bishop of Santa Elena, Ecuador

49.7 Appointed Guido Iván Minda Chalá Titular Bishop of Nisa in Lycia Bishop of Santa Elena, Ecuador

60.6 Appointed Aníbal Nieto Guerra, O.C.D. Bishop of San Jacinto de Yaguachi, Ecuador Bishop Emeritus of San Jacinto, Ecuador

64.5 Installed Felipe Padilla Cardona Bishop of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, México Bishop Emeritus

57.5 Ceased Joseph William Tobin, C.Ss.R. Superior General of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer Cardinal, Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA

75.0 Retired Geraldo Vieira Gusmão Bishop of Porto Nacional, Tocatins, Brazil Bishop Emeritus

49.1 Installed Socrates Buenaventura Villegas Archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan, Philippines

5 Nov 75.2 Retired Carlos Amigo Vallejo, O.F.M. † Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

60.9 Appointed Eliseo Antonio Ariotti Apostolic Nuncio to Paraguay Apostolic Nuncio

64.0 Succeeded Juan José Asenjo Pelegrina Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain Archbishop Emeritus

52.5 Resigned Ján Čapla, S.D.B. Superior of Baku, Azerbaijan Superior Emeritus

96.5 Died Peter Chen Bolu (Chen Bailu) † Bishop Emeritus of Daming [Taming], China

54.2 Appointed Vladimír Fekete, S.D.B. Superior of Baku, Azerbaijan Prefect of Azerbaijan

6 Nov 69.7 Died Abraham Escudero Montoya † Bishop of Palmira, Colombia

53.1 Appointed William Terrence McGrattan Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Bishop of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

53.1 Appointed William Terrence McGrattan Titular Bishop of Furnos Minor Bishop of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

103.4 Died Antonio Rosario Mennonna † Bishop Emeritus of Nardò, Italy

43.4 Appointed Vincent Nguyễn Mạnh Hiếu Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

43.4 Appointed Vincent Nguyễn Mạnh Hiếu Titular Bishop of Ammaedara Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

90.5 Died Manuel Romero Arvizu, O.F.M. † Prelate Emeritus of Jesús María (del Nayar), Nayarit, México

63.1 Appointed Giuseppe Sandri, M.C.C.I. † Bishop of Witbank, South Africa

7 Nov 50.8 Appointed Hubertus Leteng † Bishop of Ruteng, Indonesia Bishop Emeritus

10 Nov 80.0 Died José Afonso Ribeiro, T.O.R. † Prelate Emeritus of Borba, Amazonas, Brazil

61.4 Appointed Felix Anthony Machado Archbishop (Personal Title) of Vasai, India Bishop Emeritus

11 Nov 59.9 Appointed Irineu Andreassa, O.F.M. Bishop of Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil Bishop Emeritus of Ituiutaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil

76.5 Retired João Oneres Marchiori † Bishop of Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil Bishop Emeritus

13 Nov 45.9 Appointed Alick Banda Coadjutor Bishop of Ndola, Zambia Archbishop of Lusaka, Zambia

42.0 Confirmed Paul III Amel (Shamon) Nona Archbishop of Mossul (Chaldean), Iraq Patriarch of Baghdad (Chaldean), Iraq

75.4 Retired Félix Ramananarivo, M.S. † Bishop of Antsirabé, Madagascar Bishop Emeritus

60.5 Appointed Philippe Ranaivomanana † Bishop of Antsirabé, Madagascar

14 Nov 54.4 Appointed Dominique Bulamatari Kizayakana † Bishop of Molegbe, Congo (Dem. Rep.) Bishop Emeritus

77.2 Retired John Michael D’Arcy † Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, USA Bishop Emeritus

62.1 Appointed Giovanni D’Ercole, F.D.P. Auxiliary Bishop of L’Aquila, Italy Bishop Emeritus of Ascoli Piceno, Italy

62.1 Appointed Giovanni D’Ercole, F.D.P. Titular Bishop of Dusa Bishop Emeritus of Ascoli Piceno, Italy

60.6 Appointed Jerome Edward Listecki Archbishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Archbishop Emeritus

76.8 Retired George Yod Phimphisan, C.Ss.R. † Bishop of Udon Thani, Thailand Bishop Emeritus

51.9 Appointed Kevin Carl Rhoades Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, USA

46.9 Appointed Joseph Luechai Thatwisai Bishop of Udon Thani, Thailand

63.8 Installed Henryk Marian Tomasik Bishop of Radom, Poland Bishop Emeritus

15 Nov 42.5 Ceased Andrew Jagaye Karnley Apostolic Administrator of Monrovia, Liberia Bishop of Cape Palmas, Liberia

84.3 Died Ambrose Mathalaimuthu † Bishop Emeritus of Coimbatore, India

16 Nov 73.2 Resigned Herbert Nikolaus Lenhof, S.A.C. † Bishop of Queenstown, South Africa Bishop Emeritus

17 Nov 79.1 Retired Peter Toshio Jinushi † Bishop of Sapporo, Japan Bishop Emeritus

50.8 Succeeded Samuel Kleda Archbishop of Douala, Cameroon

79.0 Retired Christian Wiyghan Tumi † Archbishop of Douala, Cameroon Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

18 Nov 49.2 Appointed Jean (John) Bosco Baremes, S.M. Bishop of Port-Vila, Vanuatu, Pacific (Oceania)

19 Nov 57.1 Installed Constancio Miranda Wechmann Archbishop of Chihuahua, México

20 Nov 84.9 Died Martino Gomiero † Bishop Emeritus of Adria-Rovigo, Italy

21 Nov 29.2 Ordained Priest Bernardo Andrés Álvarez Tapia Priest of Concepción (Santissima Concezione), Chile Auxiliary Bishop

31.6 Ordained Priest Pedro Bernardo Cannavó Priest of Buenos Aires, Argentina Auxiliary Bishop

54.8 Appointed Brian Joseph Dunn Bishop of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada Archbishop of Halifax-Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

58.6 Appointed Peter Liu Cheng-chung Archbishop (Personal Title) of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Bishop

63.9 Ceased Anthony Mancini Apostolic Administrator of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada Archbishop Emeritus of Halifax-Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

48.0 Appointed José Ignacio Munilla Aguirre Bishop of San Sebastián, Spain Bishop of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain

54.8 Appointed Jesús Sanz Montes, O.F.M. Archbishop of Oviedo, Spain

54.3 Ordained Bishop Stephen Tjephe † Titular Bishop of Nova Barbara Bishop of Loikaw, Myanmar

76.4 Retired Juan María Uriarte Goiricelaya † Bishop of San Sebastián, Spain Bishop Emeritus

25 Nov 47.0 Appointed Ricardo Ernesto Centellas Guzmán Bishop of Potosí, Bolivia Archbishop of Sucre, Bolivia

54.5 Appointed Aloísio Jorge Pena Vitral Bishop of Teófilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil Bishop Emeritus of Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, Brazil

73.0 Resigned Walter Pérez Villamonte † Bishop of Potosí, Bolivia Bishop Emeritus

75.3 Retired Diogo Johannes Antonius Reesink, O.F.M. † Bishop of Teófilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil Bishop Emeritus

26 Nov 55.7 Appointed Raúl Gómez González Bishop of Tenancingo, México, México Archbishop of Toluca, México, México

27 Nov 45.7 Appointed Milton Luis Tróccoli Cebedio Auxiliary Bishop of Montevideo, Uruguay Bishop of Maldonado-Punta del Este-Minas, Uruguay

45.7 Appointed Milton Luis Tróccoli Cebedio Titular Bishop of Munatiana Bishop of Maldonado-Punta del Este-Minas, Uruguay

28 Nov 46.5 Ordained Bishop Andrzej Jeż Titular Bishop of Tigillava Bishop of Tarnów, Poland

49.7 Ordained Bishop Guido Iván Minda Chalá Titular Bishop of Nisa in Lycia Bishop of Santa Elena, Ecuador

66.9 Appointed Anton Stres, C.M. Archbishop of Ljubljana, Slovenia Archbishop Emeritus

47.4 Appointed Peter Štumpf, S.D.B. Bishop of Murska Sobota, Slovenia Bishop of Koper, Slovenia

54.3 Appointed Marjan Turnšek Coadjutor Archbishop of Maribor, Slovenia Archbishop Emeritus

64.8 Resigned Alojz Uran † Archbishop of Ljubljana, Slovenia Archbishop Emeritus

29 Nov 67.4 Ordained Bishop Henri Coudray, S.J. Titular Bishop of Silli Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Mongo, Chad

90.3 Died Gilbert-Antoine Duchêne † Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Claude, France

52.5 Ordained Bishop Luc Marie Daniel Ravel, C.R.S.V. Bishop of France, Military Archbishop Emeritus of Strasbourg, France

30 Nov 84.7 Died Emile Eid † Vice President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Code of Oriental Canon Law

58.8 Appointed Nikola Eterović Titular Archbishop of Cibalae Apostolic Nuncio

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
Nov	45.4	Selected	Paul Ling Jiansen	Bishop of Jiangmen [Kongmoon], China
1 Nov	88.5	Died	Arturo Salazar Mejía, O.A.R. †	Bishop Emeritus of Pasto, Colombia
4 Nov	75.0	Retired	Julius Babatunde Adelakun †	Bishop of Oyo, Nigeria	Bishop Emeritus
48.3	Succeeded	Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo	Bishop of Oyo, Nigeria
85.9	Died	Hubertus Brandenburg †	Bishop Emeritus of Stockholm, Sweden
54.8	Elected	Michael Brehl, C.Ss.R.	Superior General of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer	Bishop of Pembroke, Ontario, Canada
62.7	Succeeded	Romualdo Matias Kujawski	Bishop of Porto Nacional, Tocatins, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
49.7	Appointed	Guido Iván Minda Chalá	Auxiliary Bishop of Guayaquil, Ecuador	Bishop of Santa Elena, Ecuador
49.7	Appointed	Guido Iván Minda Chalá	Titular Bishop of Nisa in Lycia	Bishop of Santa Elena, Ecuador
60.6	Appointed	Aníbal Nieto Guerra, O.C.D.	Bishop of San Jacinto de Yaguachi, Ecuador	Bishop Emeritus of San Jacinto, Ecuador
64.5	Installed	Felipe Padilla Cardona	Bishop of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, México	Bishop Emeritus
57.5	Ceased	Joseph William Tobin, C.Ss.R.	Superior General of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer	Cardinal, Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA
75.0	Retired	Geraldo Vieira Gusmão	Bishop of Porto Nacional, Tocatins, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
49.1	Installed	Socrates Buenaventura Villegas	Archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan, Philippines
5 Nov	75.2	Retired	Carlos Amigo Vallejo, O.F.M. †	Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
60.9	Appointed	Eliseo Antonio Ariotti	Apostolic Nuncio to Paraguay	Apostolic Nuncio
64.0	Succeeded	Juan José Asenjo Pelegrina	Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain	Archbishop Emeritus
52.5	Resigned	Ján Čapla, S.D.B.	Superior of Baku, Azerbaijan	Superior Emeritus
96.5	Died	Peter Chen Bolu (Chen Bailu) †	Bishop Emeritus of Daming [Taming], China
54.2	Appointed	Vladimír Fekete, S.D.B.	Superior of Baku, Azerbaijan	Prefect of Azerbaijan
6 Nov	69.7	Died	Abraham Escudero Montoya †	Bishop of Palmira, Colombia
53.1	Appointed	William Terrence McGrattan	Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Bishop of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
53.1	Appointed	William Terrence McGrattan	Titular Bishop of Furnos Minor	Bishop of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
103.4	Died	Antonio Rosario Mennonna †	Bishop Emeritus of Nardò, Italy
43.4	Appointed	Vincent Nguyễn Mạnh Hiếu	Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
43.4	Appointed	Vincent Nguyễn Mạnh Hiếu	Titular Bishop of Ammaedara	Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
90.5	Died	Manuel Romero Arvizu, O.F.M. †	Prelate Emeritus of Jesús María (del Nayar), Nayarit, México
63.1	Appointed	Giuseppe Sandri, M.C.C.I. †	Bishop of Witbank, South Africa
7 Nov	50.8	Appointed	Hubertus Leteng †	Bishop of Ruteng, Indonesia	Bishop Emeritus
10 Nov	80.0	Died	José Afonso Ribeiro, T.O.R. †	Prelate Emeritus of Borba, Amazonas, Brazil
61.4	Appointed	Felix Anthony Machado	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Vasai, India	Bishop Emeritus
11 Nov	59.9	Appointed	Irineu Andreassa, O.F.M.	Bishop of Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Ituiutaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil
76.5	Retired	João Oneres Marchiori †	Bishop of Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
13 Nov	45.9	Appointed	Alick Banda	Coadjutor Bishop of Ndola, Zambia	Archbishop of Lusaka, Zambia
42.0	Confirmed	Paul III Amel (Shamon) Nona	Archbishop of Mossul (Chaldean), Iraq	Patriarch of Baghdad (Chaldean), Iraq
75.4	Retired	Félix Ramananarivo, M.S. †	Bishop of Antsirabé, Madagascar	Bishop Emeritus
60.5	Appointed	Philippe Ranaivomanana †	Bishop of Antsirabé, Madagascar
14 Nov	54.4	Appointed	Dominique Bulamatari Kizayakana †	Bishop of Molegbe, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop Emeritus
77.2	Retired	John Michael D’Arcy †	Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, USA	Bishop Emeritus
62.1	Appointed	Giovanni D’Ercole, F.D.P.	Auxiliary Bishop of L’Aquila, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Ascoli Piceno, Italy
62.1	Appointed	Giovanni D’Ercole, F.D.P.	Titular Bishop of Dusa	Bishop Emeritus of Ascoli Piceno, Italy
60.6	Appointed	Jerome Edward Listecki	Archbishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
76.8	Retired	George Yod Phimphisan, C.Ss.R. †	Bishop of Udon Thani, Thailand	Bishop Emeritus
51.9	Appointed	Kevin Carl Rhoades	Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, USA
46.9	Appointed	Joseph Luechai Thatwisai	Bishop of Udon Thani, Thailand
63.8	Installed	Henryk Marian Tomasik	Bishop of Radom, Poland	Bishop Emeritus
15 Nov	42.5	Ceased	Andrew Jagaye Karnley	Apostolic Administrator of Monrovia, Liberia	Bishop of Cape Palmas, Liberia
84.3	Died	Ambrose Mathalaimuthu †	Bishop Emeritus of Coimbatore, India
16 Nov	73.2	Resigned	Herbert Nikolaus Lenhof, S.A.C. †	Bishop of Queenstown, South Africa	Bishop Emeritus
17 Nov	79.1	Retired	Peter Toshio Jinushi †	Bishop of Sapporo, Japan	Bishop Emeritus
50.8	Succeeded	Samuel Kleda	Archbishop of Douala, Cameroon
79.0	Retired	Christian Wiyghan Tumi †	Archbishop of Douala, Cameroon	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
18 Nov	49.2	Appointed	Jean (John) Bosco Baremes, S.M.	Bishop of Port-Vila, Vanuatu, Pacific (Oceania)
19 Nov	57.1	Installed	Constancio Miranda Wechmann	Archbishop of Chihuahua, México
20 Nov	84.9	Died	Martino Gomiero †	Bishop Emeritus of Adria-Rovigo, Italy
21 Nov	29.2	Ordained Priest	Bernardo Andrés Álvarez Tapia	Priest of Concepción (Santissima Concezione), Chile	Auxiliary Bishop
31.6	Ordained Priest	Pedro Bernardo Cannavó	Priest of Buenos Aires, Argentina	Auxiliary Bishop
54.8	Appointed	Brian Joseph Dunn	Bishop of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada	Archbishop of Halifax-Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
58.6	Appointed	Peter Liu Cheng-chung	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Kaohsiung, Taiwan	Bishop
63.9	Ceased	Anthony Mancini	Apostolic Administrator of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus of Halifax-Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
48.0	Appointed	José Ignacio Munilla Aguirre	Bishop of San Sebastián, Spain	Bishop of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain
54.8	Appointed	Jesús Sanz Montes, O.F.M.	Archbishop of Oviedo, Spain
54.3	Ordained Bishop	Stephen Tjephe †	Titular Bishop of Nova Barbara	Bishop of Loikaw, Myanmar
76.4	Retired	Juan María Uriarte Goiricelaya †	Bishop of San Sebastián, Spain	Bishop Emeritus
25 Nov	47.0	Appointed	Ricardo Ernesto Centellas Guzmán	Bishop of Potosí, Bolivia	Archbishop of Sucre, Bolivia
54.5	Appointed	Aloísio Jorge Pena Vitral	Bishop of Teófilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
73.0	Resigned	Walter Pérez Villamonte †	Bishop of Potosí, Bolivia	Bishop Emeritus
75.3	Retired	Diogo Johannes Antonius Reesink, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Teófilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
26 Nov	55.7	Appointed	Raúl Gómez González	Bishop of Tenancingo, México, México	Archbishop of Toluca, México, México
27 Nov	45.7	Appointed	Milton Luis Tróccoli Cebedio	Auxiliary Bishop of Montevideo, Uruguay	Bishop of Maldonado-Punta del Este-Minas, Uruguay
45.7	Appointed	Milton Luis Tróccoli Cebedio	Titular Bishop of Munatiana	Bishop of Maldonado-Punta del Este-Minas, Uruguay
28 Nov	46.5	Ordained Bishop	Andrzej Jeż	Titular Bishop of Tigillava	Bishop of Tarnów, Poland
49.7	Ordained Bishop	Guido Iván Minda Chalá	Titular Bishop of Nisa in Lycia	Bishop of Santa Elena, Ecuador
66.9	Appointed	Anton Stres, C.M.	Archbishop of Ljubljana, Slovenia	Archbishop Emeritus
47.4	Appointed	Peter Štumpf, S.D.B.	Bishop of Murska Sobota, Slovenia	Bishop of Koper, Slovenia
54.3	Appointed	Marjan Turnšek	Coadjutor Archbishop of Maribor, Slovenia	Archbishop Emeritus
64.8	Resigned	Alojz Uran †	Archbishop of Ljubljana, Slovenia	Archbishop Emeritus
29 Nov	67.4	Ordained Bishop	Henri Coudray, S.J.	Titular Bishop of Silli	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Mongo, Chad
90.3	Died	Gilbert-Antoine Duchêne †	Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Claude, France
52.5	Ordained Bishop	Luc Marie Daniel Ravel, C.R.S.V.	Bishop of France, Military	Archbishop Emeritus of Strasbourg, France
30 Nov	84.7	Died	Emile Eid †	Vice President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Code of Oriental Canon Law
58.8	Appointed	Nikola Eterović	Titular Archbishop of Cibalae	Apostolic Nuncio

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