The Year of Our Lord 2016

Bishop Events

September

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

Sep 75.0 Retired Giacinto Berloco Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium Apostolic Nuncio

75.0 Retired Giacinto Berloco Apostolic Nuncio to Luxembourg Apostolic Nuncio

1 Sep 62.4 Succeeded Guglielmo Borghetti Bishop of Albenga-Imperia, Italy

69.1 Ceased Josef Clemens Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity Secretary Emeritus of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life

80.5 Died Thomas George Doran † Bishop Emeritus of Rockford, Illinois, USA

73.0 Died Frederick Drandua † Bishop Emeritus of Arua, Uganda

42.6 Ordained Bishop Marek Forgáč Titular Bishop of Seleuciana Auxiliary Bishop of Košice, Slovakia

48.9 Ordained Bishop José Libardo Garcés Monsalve Bishop of Málaga-Soatá, Colombia Bishop of Cúcuta, Colombia

64.3 Ceased Jean Clément Marie Gérard Joseph Françoise Georges Laffitte, Comm. l'Emm. Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family Secretary Emeritus of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life

75.4 Retired Ramiro Moliner Inglés † Apostolic Nuncio to Albania Apostolic Nuncio

72.6 Resigned Mario Oliveri Bishop of Albenga-Imperia, Italy Bishop Emeritus

71.3 Ceased Vincenzo Paglia President of the Pontifical Council for the Family President of the Pontifical Academy for Life

71.1 Ceased Stanisław Ryłko President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity Cardinal, Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}

61.5 Appointed Giuseppe Sciacca Secretary of the Apostolic Signatura President of the Labour Office of the Apostolic See

3 Sep 53.6 Ordained Bishop Domenico Battaglia Bishop of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de’ Goti, Italy Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy

61.1 Ordained Bishop Henricus Pidyarto Gunawan, O. Carm. Bishop of Malang, Indonesia

49.6 Ordained Bishop Valentine Kalumba, O.M.I. Bishop of Livingstone, Zambia

63.2 Appointed Médard Léopold Ouédraogo Apostolic Administrator of Dédougou, Burkina Faso Bishop of Manga, Burkina Faso

52.2 Ordained Bishop Arturo Pablo Ros Murgadas Titular Bishop of Ursona Bishop of Santander, Spain

55.6 Installed Francesco Sirufo Archbishop of Acerenza, Italy

4 Sep 48.3 Installed Francisco de Sales Alencar Batista, O. Carm. Bishop of Cajazeiras, Paraiba, Brazil Bishop of Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

54.2 Ordained Bishop Didier Norman Raymond Berthet † Bishop of Saint-Dié, France

5 Sep 34.9 Appointed Anthony Onyemuche Ekpo Official of the Secretariat of State Under Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development

7 Sep 50.9 Succeeded Carlos Alberto Breis Pereira, O.F.M. Bishop of Juazeiro, Bahia, Brazil Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil

75.0 Retired José Geraldo da Cruz, A.A. † Bishop of Juazeiro, Bahia, Brazil Bishop Emeritus

52.9 Succeeded Peter Shao Zhumin Bishop of Yongjia/Wenzhou [Yungkia], China

88.7 Died Vincent Zhu Weifang † Bishop Emeritus of Yongjia/Wenzhou [Yungkia], China

8 Sep 59.9 Ordained Bishop Bhagyaiah Chinnabathini Bishop of Guntur, India

90.0 Died Antonio Nuzzi † Bishop Emeritus of Teramo-Atri, Italy

68.6 Appointed Javier Salinas Viñals Auxiliary Bishop of Valencia, Spain Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

68.6 Appointed Javier Salinas Viñals Titular Bishop of Forum Clodii Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Valencia, Spain

68.6 Appointed Sebastián Taltavull Anglada Apostolic Administrator of Mallorca, Spain Bishop

66.7 Ordained Bishop Carmel Zammit Bishop of Gibraltar

9 Sep 54.3 Ordained Bishop Denis Jean-Marie Jachiet Titular Bishop of Tigisi in Numidia Bishop of Belfort-Montbéliard, France

69.2 Succeeded Francisco Mendoza de Leon Bishop of Antipolo, Philippines Bishop Emeritus

75.0 Retired Gabriel Villaruz Reyes Bishop of Antipolo, Philippines Bishop Emeritus

50.8 Ordained Bishop Thibault Verny Titular Bishop of Lamzella Archbishop of Chambéry (-Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne-Tarentaise), France

10 Sep 58.7 Installed Christopher Michael Cardone, O.P. Archbishop of Honiara, Solomon Islands

77.9 Appointed Rafael Leónidas Felipe y Núñez Apostolic Administrator of San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic Bishop Emeritus of Barahona, Dominican Republic

64.9 Installed Francisco Ozoria Acosta Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

51.3 Ordained Bishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, O.F.M. Titular Archbishop of Verbe Cardinal, Patriarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine

11 Sep 50.7 Ordained Bishop Gianmarco Busca Bishop of Mantova, Italy

48.5 Ordained Bishop Emmanuel Marie Anne Alain Gobilliard Titular Bishop of Carpentras Bishop of Digne (-Riez-Sisteron), France

12 Sep 74.7 Resigned Gerard Joseph Hanna Bishop of Wagga Wagga, Australia Bishop Emeritus

64.7 Ordained Bishop Robert Michael Kasun, C.S.B. Titular Bishop of Lavellum Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

62.8 Appointed Christopher Charles Prowse Apostolic Administrator of Wagga Wagga, Australia Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn, Australia

92.1 Died Arquimínio Rodrigues da Costa † Bishop Emeritus of Macau, China

16 Sep 69.3 Installed Gaétan Proulx, O.S.M. Bishop of Gaspé, Québec, Canada Bishop Emeritus

97.4 Died Hovhannes Tcholakian † Archbishop Emeritus of Istanbul (Armenian), Turkey

17 Sep 85.7 Died Carmelo Dominador Flores Morelos † Archbishop Emeritus of Zamboanga, Philippines

18 Sep 55.4 Ordained Bishop Georg Bätzing Bishop of Limburg, Germany

77.4 Ceased Manfred Grothe Apostolic Administrator of Limburg, Germany Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Paderborn, Germany

19 Sep 56.0 Appointed Oscar Eduardo Miñarro Auxiliary Bishop of Merlo-Moreno, Argentina

56.0 Appointed Oscar Eduardo Miñarro Titular Bishop of Antium Auxiliary Bishop of Merlo-Moreno, Argentina

54.3 Ordained Bishop Alexis Mitsuru Shirahama, P.S.S. Bishop of Hiroshima, Japan

20 Sep 95.7 Died Jean-Berchmans-Marcel-Yves-Marie-Bernard Chabbert, O.F.M. † Bishop Emeritus of Perpignan-Elne, France

104.1 Died Peter Leo Gerety † Archbishop Emeritus of Newark, New Jersey, USA

57.8 Appointed François Michel Pierre Kalist Archbishop of Clermont, France

21 Sep 75.0 Retired Héctor Sabatino Cardelli † Bishop of San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Argentina Bishop Emeritus

62.4 Appointed Hugo Norberto Santiago Bishop of San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Argentina

66.0 Appointed David Prescott Talley Coadjutor Bishop of Alexandria, Louisiana, USA Bishop of Memphis, Tennessee, USA

50.1 Appointed Kurian Mathew Vayalunkal Apostolic Nuncio to Solomon Islands Apostolic Nuncio to Algeria

22 Sep 58.2 Died Georges Fonghoro † Bishop of Mopti, Mali

51.1 Appointed Eugenio Andrés Lira Rugarcía Bishop of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, México Bishop of Matamoros-Reynosa, Tamaulipas, México

23 Sep 54.3 Appointed Helmut Karl Dieser Bishop of Aachen, Germany

77.4 Died Herman Joseph Sahadat Pandoyoputro, O. Carm. † Bishop Emeritus of Malang, Indonesia

24 Sep 63.5 Ceased Ralph Heskett, C.Ss.R. Apostolic Administrator of Gibraltar Bishop of Hallam, England, Great Britain

53.3 Ordained Bishop Roger Houngbédji, O.P. Archbishop of Cotonou, Benin

66.7 Installed Carmel Zammit Bishop of Gibraltar

25 Sep 49.6 Ordained Bishop Fintan Monahan Bishop of Killaloe, Ireland

81.4 Died Anthony Xu Jiwei † Bishop of Linhai [Taichow], China Bishop Emeritus

27 Sep 62.3 Appointed Robert Milner Coerver Bishop of Lubbock, Texas, USA

75.9 Retired Plácido Rodríguez, C.M.F. Bishop of Lubbock, Texas, USA Bishop Emeritus

47.3 Appointed Nersès (Joseph) Zabarian (Zabbara) Administrator of Baghdad (Armenian), Iraq Archbishop

28 Sep 75.5 Retired David Dias Pimentel † Bishop of São João da Boa Vista, Sao Paulo, Brazil Bishop Emeritus

58.8 Appointed Antônio Emídio Vilar, S.D.B. Bishop of São João da Boa Vista, Sao Paulo, Brazil Bishop of São José do Rio Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil

29 Sep 40.1 Appointed Hugh David Renwick Turnbull Allan, O. Praem. Apostolic Administrator of Falkland Islands o Malvinas Apostolic Administrator Emeritus

40.1 Appointed Hugh David Renwick Turnbull Allan, O. Praem. Superior of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Falkland Islands o Malvinas

77.0 Retired Michael Bernard McPartland, S.M.A. † Prefect of Falkland Islands o Malvinas Prefect Emeritus

77.0 Retired Michael Bernard McPartland, S.M.A. † Superior of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Prefect Emeritus of Falkland Islands o Malvinas

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
Sep	75.0	Retired	Giacinto Berloco	Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium	Apostolic Nuncio
75.0	Retired	Giacinto Berloco	Apostolic Nuncio to Luxembourg	Apostolic Nuncio
1 Sep	62.4	Succeeded	Guglielmo Borghetti	Bishop of Albenga-Imperia, Italy
69.1	Ceased	Josef Clemens	Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity	Secretary Emeritus of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life
80.5	Died	Thomas George Doran †	Bishop Emeritus of Rockford, Illinois, USA
73.0	Died	Frederick Drandua †	Bishop Emeritus of Arua, Uganda
42.6	Ordained Bishop	Marek Forgáč	Titular Bishop of Seleuciana	Auxiliary Bishop of Košice, Slovakia
48.9	Ordained Bishop	José Libardo Garcés Monsalve	Bishop of Málaga-Soatá, Colombia	Bishop of Cúcuta, Colombia
64.3	Ceased	Jean Clément Marie Gérard Joseph Françoise Georges Laffitte, Comm. l'Emm.	Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family	Secretary Emeritus of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life
75.4	Retired	Ramiro Moliner Inglés †	Apostolic Nuncio to Albania	Apostolic Nuncio
72.6	Resigned	Mario Oliveri	Bishop of Albenga-Imperia, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
71.3	Ceased	Vincenzo Paglia	President of the Pontifical Council for the Family	President of the Pontifical Academy for Life
71.1	Ceased	Stanisław Ryłko	President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity	Cardinal, Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}
61.5	Appointed	Giuseppe Sciacca	Secretary of the Apostolic Signatura	President of the Labour Office of the Apostolic See
3 Sep	53.6	Ordained Bishop	Domenico Battaglia	Bishop of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de’ Goti, Italy	Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy
61.1	Ordained Bishop	Henricus Pidyarto Gunawan, O. Carm.	Bishop of Malang, Indonesia
49.6	Ordained Bishop	Valentine Kalumba, O.M.I.	Bishop of Livingstone, Zambia
63.2	Appointed	Médard Léopold Ouédraogo	Apostolic Administrator of Dédougou, Burkina Faso	Bishop of Manga, Burkina Faso
52.2	Ordained Bishop	Arturo Pablo Ros Murgadas	Titular Bishop of Ursona	Bishop of Santander, Spain
55.6	Installed	Francesco Sirufo	Archbishop of Acerenza, Italy
4 Sep	48.3	Installed	Francisco de Sales Alencar Batista, O. Carm.	Bishop of Cajazeiras, Paraiba, Brazil	Bishop of Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
54.2	Ordained Bishop	Didier Norman Raymond Berthet †	Bishop of Saint-Dié, France
5 Sep	34.9	Appointed	Anthony Onyemuche Ekpo	Official of the Secretariat of State	Under Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
7 Sep	50.9	Succeeded	Carlos Alberto Breis Pereira, O.F.M.	Bishop of Juazeiro, Bahia, Brazil	Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
75.0	Retired	José Geraldo da Cruz, A.A. †	Bishop of Juazeiro, Bahia, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
52.9	Succeeded	Peter Shao Zhumin	Bishop of Yongjia/Wenzhou [Yungkia], China
88.7	Died	Vincent Zhu Weifang †	Bishop Emeritus of Yongjia/Wenzhou [Yungkia], China
8 Sep	59.9	Ordained Bishop	Bhagyaiah Chinnabathini	Bishop of Guntur, India
90.0	Died	Antonio Nuzzi †	Bishop Emeritus of Teramo-Atri, Italy
68.6	Appointed	Javier Salinas Viñals	Auxiliary Bishop of Valencia, Spain	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
68.6	Appointed	Javier Salinas Viñals	Titular Bishop of Forum Clodii	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Valencia, Spain
68.6	Appointed	Sebastián Taltavull Anglada	Apostolic Administrator of Mallorca, Spain	Bishop
66.7	Ordained Bishop	Carmel Zammit	Bishop of Gibraltar
9 Sep	54.3	Ordained Bishop	Denis Jean-Marie Jachiet	Titular Bishop of Tigisi in Numidia	Bishop of Belfort-Montbéliard, France
69.2	Succeeded	Francisco Mendoza de Leon	Bishop of Antipolo, Philippines	Bishop Emeritus
75.0	Retired	Gabriel Villaruz Reyes	Bishop of Antipolo, Philippines	Bishop Emeritus
50.8	Ordained Bishop	Thibault Verny	Titular Bishop of Lamzella	Archbishop of Chambéry (-Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne-Tarentaise), France
10 Sep	58.7	Installed	Christopher Michael Cardone, O.P.	Archbishop of Honiara, Solomon Islands
77.9	Appointed	Rafael Leónidas Felipe y Núñez	Apostolic Administrator of San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic	Bishop Emeritus of Barahona, Dominican Republic
64.9	Installed	Francisco Ozoria Acosta	Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
51.3	Ordained Bishop	Pierbattista Pizzaballa, O.F.M.	Titular Archbishop of Verbe	Cardinal, Patriarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine
11 Sep	50.7	Ordained Bishop	Gianmarco Busca	Bishop of Mantova, Italy
48.5	Ordained Bishop	Emmanuel Marie Anne Alain Gobilliard	Titular Bishop of Carpentras	Bishop of Digne (-Riez-Sisteron), France
12 Sep	74.7	Resigned	Gerard Joseph Hanna	Bishop of Wagga Wagga, Australia	Bishop Emeritus
64.7	Ordained Bishop	Robert Michael Kasun, C.S.B.	Titular Bishop of Lavellum	Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
62.8	Appointed	Christopher Charles Prowse	Apostolic Administrator of Wagga Wagga, Australia	Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn, Australia
92.1	Died	Arquimínio Rodrigues da Costa †	Bishop Emeritus of Macau, China
16 Sep	69.3	Installed	Gaétan Proulx, O.S.M.	Bishop of Gaspé, Québec, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
97.4	Died	Hovhannes Tcholakian †	Archbishop Emeritus of Istanbul (Armenian), Turkey
17 Sep	85.7	Died	Carmelo Dominador Flores Morelos †	Archbishop Emeritus of Zamboanga, Philippines
18 Sep	55.4	Ordained Bishop	Georg Bätzing	Bishop of Limburg, Germany
77.4	Ceased	Manfred Grothe	Apostolic Administrator of Limburg, Germany	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Paderborn, Germany
19 Sep	56.0	Appointed	Oscar Eduardo Miñarro	Auxiliary Bishop of Merlo-Moreno, Argentina
56.0	Appointed	Oscar Eduardo Miñarro	Titular Bishop of Antium	Auxiliary Bishop of Merlo-Moreno, Argentina
54.3	Ordained Bishop	Alexis Mitsuru Shirahama, P.S.S.	Bishop of Hiroshima, Japan
20 Sep	95.7	Died	Jean-Berchmans-Marcel-Yves-Marie-Bernard Chabbert, O.F.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Perpignan-Elne, France
104.1	Died	Peter Leo Gerety †	Archbishop Emeritus of Newark, New Jersey, USA
57.8	Appointed	François Michel Pierre Kalist	Archbishop of Clermont, France
21 Sep	75.0	Retired	Héctor Sabatino Cardelli †	Bishop of San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus
62.4	Appointed	Hugo Norberto Santiago	Bishop of San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Argentina
66.0	Appointed	David Prescott Talley	Coadjutor Bishop of Alexandria, Louisiana, USA	Bishop of Memphis, Tennessee, USA
50.1	Appointed	Kurian Mathew Vayalunkal	Apostolic Nuncio to Solomon Islands	Apostolic Nuncio to Algeria
22 Sep	58.2	Died	Georges Fonghoro †	Bishop of Mopti, Mali
51.1	Appointed	Eugenio Andrés Lira Rugarcía	Bishop of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, México	Bishop of Matamoros-Reynosa, Tamaulipas, México
23 Sep	54.3	Appointed	Helmut Karl Dieser	Bishop of Aachen, Germany
77.4	Died	Herman Joseph Sahadat Pandoyoputro, O. Carm. †	Bishop Emeritus of Malang, Indonesia
24 Sep	63.5	Ceased	Ralph Heskett, C.Ss.R.	Apostolic Administrator of Gibraltar	Bishop of Hallam, England, Great Britain
53.3	Ordained Bishop	Roger Houngbédji, O.P.	Archbishop of Cotonou, Benin
66.7	Installed	Carmel Zammit	Bishop of Gibraltar
25 Sep	49.6	Ordained Bishop	Fintan Monahan	Bishop of Killaloe, Ireland
81.4	Died	Anthony Xu Jiwei †	Bishop of Linhai [Taichow], China	Bishop Emeritus
27 Sep	62.3	Appointed	Robert Milner Coerver	Bishop of Lubbock, Texas, USA
75.9	Retired	Plácido Rodríguez, C.M.F.	Bishop of Lubbock, Texas, USA	Bishop Emeritus
47.3	Appointed	Nersès (Joseph) Zabarian (Zabbara)	Administrator of Baghdad (Armenian), Iraq	Archbishop
28 Sep	75.5	Retired	David Dias Pimentel †	Bishop of São João da Boa Vista, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
58.8	Appointed	Antônio Emídio Vilar, S.D.B.	Bishop of São João da Boa Vista, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop of São José do Rio Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
29 Sep	40.1	Appointed	Hugh David Renwick Turnbull Allan, O. Praem.	Apostolic Administrator of Falkland Islands o Malvinas	Apostolic Administrator Emeritus
40.1	Appointed	Hugh David Renwick Turnbull Allan, O. Praem.	Superior of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Falkland Islands o Malvinas
77.0	Retired	Michael Bernard McPartland, S.M.A. †	Prefect of Falkland Islands o Malvinas	Prefect Emeritus
77.0	Retired	Michael Bernard McPartland, S.M.A. †	Superior of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	Prefect Emeritus of Falkland Islands o Malvinas

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