The Year of Our Lord 2011

Bishop Events

September

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

2 Sep 91.4 Died José María Montes † Bishop Emeritus of Chascomús, Argentina

3 Sep 87.5 Died Andrzej Maria Deskur † Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications

47.9 Installed Omar Alberto Sánchez Cubillos, O.P. Bishop of Tibú, Colombia Archbishop of Popayán, Colombia

56.5 Appointed Giuseppe Sciacca Secretary General of the Governatorate of Vatican City State President of the Labour Office of the Apostolic See

56.5 Appointed Giuseppe Sciacca Titular Bishop of Victoriana President of the Labour Office of the Apostolic See

70.6 Resigned Carlo Maria Viganò Secretary General of the Governatorate of Vatican City State Apostolic Nuncio

4 Sep 57.2 Installed Severino Clasen, O.F.M. Bishop of Caçador, Santa Catarina, Brazil Archbishop of Maringá, Parana, Brazil

44.9 Ordained Bishop Dionísio Hisiilenapo Bishop of Namibe, Angola

53.5 Installed Ciro Miniero Bishop of Vallo della Lucania, Italy Archbishop of Taranto, Italy

5 Sep 81.7 Died Andrew Zolile T. Brook † Bishop Emeritus of Umtata, South Africa

82.0 Died Peter Thuruthikonam † Bishop Emeritus of Vijayapuram, India

6 Sep 50.8 Installed José Salmorin Bantolo Bishop of Masbate, Philippines

78.8 Died Raphaël Marie Ze † Bishop Emeritus of Sangmélima, Cameroon

7 Sep 90.4 Died Gabriel Bullet † Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg (Freiburg), Switzerland

8 Sep 66.9 Installed Charles Joseph Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Archbishop Emeritus

56.4 Appointed James Douglas Conley Apostolic Administrator of Denver, Colorado, USA Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

59.0 Ordained Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah Bishop of Sokoto, Nigeria

63.2 Ceased Dominic Lumon Apostolic Administrator of Kohima, India Archbishop Emeritus of Imphal, India

52.3 Ordained Bishop James Thoppil Bishop of Kohima, India

9 Sep 79.4 Died Ignace Matondo Kwa Nzambi, C.I.C.M. † Bishop Emeritus of Molegbe, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

10 Sep 69.0 Appointed Barthélemy Adoukonou Titular Bishop of Zama Minor Secretary Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Culture

40.9 Ordained Bishop Thomas Dowd Titular Bishop of Treba Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada

59.9 Ordained Bishop Christian Lépine Titular Bishop of Zabi Archbishop of Montréal, Québec, Canada

61.0 Ordained Bishop Eduards Pavlovskis Bishop of Jelgava, Latvia

58.1 Installed Štefan Sečka † Bishop of Spiš, Slovakia

67.2 Installed Julio César Vidal Ortiz Bishop of Cúcuta, Colombia Bishop Emeritus

11 Sep 65.3 Installed André Gazaille Bishop of Nicolet, Québec, Canada Bishop Emeritus

12 Sep 69.3 Installed Álvaro Corrada del Río, S.J. Bishop of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico Bishop Emeritus

14 Sep 69.4 Ordained Bishop Joseph Everard Harris, C.S.Sp. Coadjutor Archbishop of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Antilles Archbishop Emeritus

53.6 Ordained Bishop John Francis Sherrington Titular Bishop of Hilta Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain

15 Sep 78.9 Retired Boulos Nassif Borkhoche, S.M.S.P. † Archbishop of Bosra e Haūrān (Melkite Greek), Syria Archbishop Emeritus

90.9 Died Clemente Faccani † Apostolic Nuncio

75.2 Retired Piotr Krupa † Auxiliary Bishop of Pelplin, Poland Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

68.7 Appointed Giuseppe Leanza Apostolic Nuncio to Czech Republic Apostolic Nuncio

16 Sep 56.9 Ordained Bishop Hanna G. Alwan, M.L. Titular Bishop of Sarepta dei Maroniti Curial Bishop of Antiochia {Antioch} (Maronite), Lebanon

51.5 Ordained Bishop Robert Rabbat Bishop of Saint Michael’s of Sydney (Melkite Greek), Australia

17 Sep 57.3 Ceased Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez, S.J. Apostolic Administrator of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán, Guatemala Archbishop of Santiago de Guatemala

62.9 Installed Mario Alberto Molina Palma, O.A.R. Archbishop of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán, Guatemala

64.4 Ordained Bishop Giovanni Tani Archbishop of Urbino-Urbania-Sant’Angelo in Vado, Italy Archbishop Emeritus

61.9 Installed Alfredo Horacio Zecca † Archbishop of Tucumán, Argentina Titular Archbishop of Volsinium

18 Sep 44.9 Installed Dionísio Hisiilenapo Bishop of Namibe, Angola

55.7 Ordained Bishop Dmytro (Bohdan) Hryhorak, O.S.B.M. Bishop of Buchach {Bučač} (Ukrainian), Ukraine

68.0 Died Marcelino Palentini, S.C.I. † Bishop of Jujuy, Argentina

19 Sep 59.8 Appointed Peter Anthony Libasci Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire, USA

76.1 Retired John Brendan McCormack † Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire, USA Bishop Emeritus

21 Sep 73.4 Resigned Daniel Mark (Marcus George) Buechlein, O.S.B. † Archbishop of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Archbishop Emeritus

53.2 Appointed Christopher James Coyne Apostolic Administrator of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Archbishop of Hartford, Connecticut, USA

52.5 Ordained Bishop Charles Jason Gordon Bishop of Bridgetown, Barbados, Antilles Archbishop of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Antilles

76.0 Retired Velasio De Paolis, C.S. † President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See Cardinal, President Emeritus

65.2 Ceased Robert Rivas, O.P. Apostolic Administrator of Bridgetown, Barbados, Antilles Archbishop Emeritus of Castries, Saint Lucia, Antilles

67.2 Appointed Eugène Lambert Adrian Rixen Apostolic Administrator of São Félix, Mato Grosso, Brazil Bishop Emeritus of Goiás, Brazil

60.8 Appointed Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, O.F.M. Auxiliary Bishop of Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil Cardinal, Archbishop of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

60.8 Appointed Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, O.F.M. Titular Bishop of Thisiduo Cardinal, Archbishop of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

50.2 Appointed Lucio Ángel Vallejo Balda Secretary of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See Secretary Emeritus

68.1 Appointed Giuseppe Versaldi President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Dicastery for Culture and Education

68.1 Appointed Giuseppe Versaldi Archbishop (Personal Title) Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Dicastery for Culture and Education

23 Sep 81.6 Appointed Jean Marie Louis Bonfils, S.M.A. Apostolic Administrator of Ajaccio, France Bishop Emeritus of Nice, France

80.0 Died Hubert Constant, O.M.I. † Archbishop Emeritus of Cap-Haïtien, Haïti

52.5 Installed Charles Jason Gordon Bishop of Kingstown, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Antilles Archbishop of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Antilles

62.5 Ordained Bishop Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda Bishop of Hiroshima, Japan Cardinal, Archbishop of Osaka-Takamatsu, Japan

65.2 Ceased Robert Rivas, O.P. Apostolic Administrator of Kingstown, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Antilles Archbishop Emeritus of Castries, Saint Lucia, Antilles

85.9 Died Joseph Trịnh Chính Trực † Bishop Emeritus of Ban Mê Thuột, Viet Nam

67.5 Ordained Bishop Camille Zaidan † Titular Bishop of Ptolemais in Phoenicia dei Maroniti Archbishop of Antélias (Maronite), Lebanon

24 Sep 45.0 Ordained Bishop Gilson Andrade da Silva Titular Bishop of Noba Bishop of Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

25 Sep 69.8 Installed Angelo Scola Archbishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

26 Sep 59.4 Appointed Stanisław Budzik Archbishop of Lublin, Poland

28 Sep 94.3 Installed Domenico Bartolucci † Cardinal-Deacon of Santissimi Nome di Gesù e Maria in Via Lata Cardinal, Official Emeritus of the Roman Curia - Other

65.8 Appointed Sergio Alfredo Gualberti Calandrina Coadjutor Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia Archbishop Emeritus

60.2 Appointed Wilson Tadeu Jönck, S.C.I. Archbishop of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

44.0 Ordained Bishop Damian Andrzej Muskus, O.F.M. Titular Bishop of Amaia Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków {Cracow}, Poland

47.6 Ordained Bishop Grzegorz Wojciech Ryś Titular Bishop of Arcavica Cardinal, Archbishop of Łódź, Poland

29 Sep 57.8 Installed Luc Cyr Archbishop of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

98.3 Died Philip Matthew Hannan † Archbishop Emeritus of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

30 Sep 92.0 Died João d’Avila Moreira Lima † Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

55.6 Installed Bejoy Nicephorus D’Cruze, O.M.I. Bishop of Sylhet, Bangladesh Archbishop of Dhaka, Bangladesh

76.6 Died Gilberto Fernández del Villar † Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Miami, Florida, USA

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
2 Sep	91.4	Died	José María Montes †	Bishop Emeritus of Chascomús, Argentina
3 Sep	87.5	Died	Andrzej Maria Deskur †	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications
47.9	Installed	Omar Alberto Sánchez Cubillos, O.P.	Bishop of Tibú, Colombia	Archbishop of Popayán, Colombia
56.5	Appointed	Giuseppe Sciacca	Secretary General of the Governatorate of Vatican City State	President of the Labour Office of the Apostolic See
56.5	Appointed	Giuseppe Sciacca	Titular Bishop of Victoriana	President of the Labour Office of the Apostolic See
70.6	Resigned	Carlo Maria Viganò	Secretary General of the Governatorate of Vatican City State	Apostolic Nuncio
4 Sep	57.2	Installed	Severino Clasen, O.F.M.	Bishop of Caçador, Santa Catarina, Brazil	Archbishop of Maringá, Parana, Brazil
44.9	Ordained Bishop	Dionísio Hisiilenapo	Bishop of Namibe, Angola
53.5	Installed	Ciro Miniero	Bishop of Vallo della Lucania, Italy	Archbishop of Taranto, Italy
5 Sep	81.7	Died	Andrew Zolile T. Brook †	Bishop Emeritus of Umtata, South Africa
82.0	Died	Peter Thuruthikonam †	Bishop Emeritus of Vijayapuram, India
6 Sep	50.8	Installed	José Salmorin Bantolo	Bishop of Masbate, Philippines
78.8	Died	Raphaël Marie Ze †	Bishop Emeritus of Sangmélima, Cameroon
7 Sep	90.4	Died	Gabriel Bullet †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg (Freiburg), Switzerland
8 Sep	66.9	Installed	Charles Joseph Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.	Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
56.4	Appointed	James Douglas Conley	Apostolic Administrator of Denver, Colorado, USA	Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
59.0	Ordained Bishop	Matthew Hassan Kukah	Bishop of Sokoto, Nigeria
63.2	Ceased	Dominic Lumon	Apostolic Administrator of Kohima, India	Archbishop Emeritus of Imphal, India
52.3	Ordained Bishop	James Thoppil	Bishop of Kohima, India
9 Sep	79.4	Died	Ignace Matondo Kwa Nzambi, C.I.C.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Molegbe, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
10 Sep	69.0	Appointed	Barthélemy Adoukonou	Titular Bishop of Zama Minor	Secretary Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Culture
40.9	Ordained Bishop	Thomas Dowd	Titular Bishop of Treba	Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada
59.9	Ordained Bishop	Christian Lépine	Titular Bishop of Zabi	Archbishop of Montréal, Québec, Canada
61.0	Ordained Bishop	Eduards Pavlovskis	Bishop of Jelgava, Latvia
58.1	Installed	Štefan Sečka †	Bishop of Spiš, Slovakia
67.2	Installed	Julio César Vidal Ortiz	Bishop of Cúcuta, Colombia	Bishop Emeritus
11 Sep	65.3	Installed	André Gazaille	Bishop of Nicolet, Québec, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
12 Sep	69.3	Installed	Álvaro Corrada del Río, S.J.	Bishop of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico	Bishop Emeritus
14 Sep	69.4	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Everard Harris, C.S.Sp.	Coadjutor Archbishop of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Antilles	Archbishop Emeritus
53.6	Ordained Bishop	John Francis Sherrington	Titular Bishop of Hilta	Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain
15 Sep	78.9	Retired	Boulos Nassif Borkhoche, S.M.S.P. †	Archbishop of Bosra e Haūrān (Melkite Greek), Syria	Archbishop Emeritus
90.9	Died	Clemente Faccani †	Apostolic Nuncio
75.2	Retired	Piotr Krupa †	Auxiliary Bishop of Pelplin, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
68.7	Appointed	Giuseppe Leanza	Apostolic Nuncio to Czech Republic	Apostolic Nuncio
16 Sep	56.9	Ordained Bishop	Hanna G. Alwan, M.L.	Titular Bishop of Sarepta dei Maroniti	Curial Bishop of Antiochia {Antioch} (Maronite), Lebanon
51.5	Ordained Bishop	Robert Rabbat	Bishop of Saint Michael’s of Sydney (Melkite Greek), Australia
17 Sep	57.3	Ceased	Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez, S.J.	Apostolic Administrator of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán, Guatemala	Archbishop of Santiago de Guatemala
62.9	Installed	Mario Alberto Molina Palma, O.A.R.	Archbishop of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán, Guatemala
64.4	Ordained Bishop	Giovanni Tani	Archbishop of Urbino-Urbania-Sant’Angelo in Vado, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
61.9	Installed	Alfredo Horacio Zecca †	Archbishop of Tucumán, Argentina	Titular Archbishop of Volsinium
18 Sep	44.9	Installed	Dionísio Hisiilenapo	Bishop of Namibe, Angola
55.7	Ordained Bishop	Dmytro (Bohdan) Hryhorak, O.S.B.M.	Bishop of Buchach {Bučač} (Ukrainian), Ukraine
68.0	Died	Marcelino Palentini, S.C.I. †	Bishop of Jujuy, Argentina
19 Sep	59.8	Appointed	Peter Anthony Libasci	Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
76.1	Retired	John Brendan McCormack †	Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire, USA	Bishop Emeritus
21 Sep	73.4	Resigned	Daniel Mark (Marcus George) Buechlein, O.S.B. †	Archbishop of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
53.2	Appointed	Christopher James Coyne	Apostolic Administrator of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA	Archbishop of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
52.5	Ordained Bishop	Charles Jason Gordon	Bishop of Bridgetown, Barbados, Antilles	Archbishop of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Antilles
76.0	Retired	Velasio De Paolis, C.S. †	President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See	Cardinal, President Emeritus
65.2	Ceased	Robert Rivas, O.P.	Apostolic Administrator of Bridgetown, Barbados, Antilles	Archbishop Emeritus of Castries, Saint Lucia, Antilles
67.2	Appointed	Eugène Lambert Adrian Rixen	Apostolic Administrator of São Félix, Mato Grosso, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Goiás, Brazil
60.8	Appointed	Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, O.F.M.	Auxiliary Bishop of Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil	Cardinal, Archbishop of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
60.8	Appointed	Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, O.F.M.	Titular Bishop of Thisiduo	Cardinal, Archbishop of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
50.2	Appointed	Lucio Ángel Vallejo Balda	Secretary of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See	Secretary Emeritus
68.1	Appointed	Giuseppe Versaldi	President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Dicastery for Culture and Education
68.1	Appointed	Giuseppe Versaldi	Archbishop (Personal Title)	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Dicastery for Culture and Education
23 Sep	81.6	Appointed	Jean Marie Louis Bonfils, S.M.A.	Apostolic Administrator of Ajaccio, France	Bishop Emeritus of Nice, France
80.0	Died	Hubert Constant, O.M.I. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Cap-Haïtien, Haïti
52.5	Installed	Charles Jason Gordon	Bishop of Kingstown, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Antilles	Archbishop of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Antilles
62.5	Ordained Bishop	Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda	Bishop of Hiroshima, Japan	Cardinal, Archbishop of Osaka-Takamatsu, Japan
65.2	Ceased	Robert Rivas, O.P.	Apostolic Administrator of Kingstown, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Antilles	Archbishop Emeritus of Castries, Saint Lucia, Antilles
85.9	Died	Joseph Trịnh Chính Trực †	Bishop Emeritus of Ban Mê Thuột, Viet Nam
67.5	Ordained Bishop	Camille Zaidan †	Titular Bishop of Ptolemais in Phoenicia dei Maroniti	Archbishop of Antélias (Maronite), Lebanon
24 Sep	45.0	Ordained Bishop	Gilson Andrade da Silva	Titular Bishop of Noba	Bishop of Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
25 Sep	69.8	Installed	Angelo Scola	Archbishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
26 Sep	59.4	Appointed	Stanisław Budzik	Archbishop of Lublin, Poland
28 Sep	94.3	Installed	Domenico Bartolucci †	Cardinal-Deacon of Santissimi Nome di Gesù e Maria in Via Lata	Cardinal, Official Emeritus of the Roman Curia - Other
65.8	Appointed	Sergio Alfredo Gualberti Calandrina	Coadjutor Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia	Archbishop Emeritus
60.2	Appointed	Wilson Tadeu Jönck, S.C.I.	Archbishop of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
44.0	Ordained Bishop	Damian Andrzej Muskus, O.F.M.	Titular Bishop of Amaia	Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków {Cracow}, Poland
47.6	Ordained Bishop	Grzegorz Wojciech Ryś	Titular Bishop of Arcavica	Cardinal, Archbishop of Łódź, Poland
29 Sep	57.8	Installed	Luc Cyr	Archbishop of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
98.3	Died	Philip Matthew Hannan †	Archbishop Emeritus of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
30 Sep	92.0	Died	João d’Avila Moreira Lima †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
55.6	Installed	Bejoy Nicephorus D’Cruze, O.M.I.	Bishop of Sylhet, Bangladesh	Archbishop of Dhaka, Bangladesh
76.6	Died	Gilberto Fernández del Villar †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Miami, Florida, USA

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