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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Apr	80.5	Died	José Trinidad González Rodríguez †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
2 Apr	67.8	Resigned	José Antonio Eguren Anselmi, S.C.V.	Archbishop of Piura, Peru	Archbishop Emeritus
	70.3	Appointed	Guillermo Teodoro Elías Millares	Apostolic Administrator of Piura, Peru	Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru
3 Apr	41.1	Appointed	Robert (Krikor) Badichah, I.C.P.B.	Titular Bishop of Artvin degli Armeni	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Beirut {Bairut} (Armenian), Lebanon
	41.1	Confirmed	Robert (Krikor) Badichah, I.C.P.B.	Auxiliary Bishop of Beirut {Bairut} (Armenian), Lebanon	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	49.1	Appointed	Parsegh (Manuel) Baghdassarian, I.C.P.B.	Auxiliary Bishop of Our Lady of Nareg in Glendale (Armenian), California, USA	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	49.1	Appointed	Parsegh (Manuel) Baghdassarian, I.C.P.B.	Titular Bishop of Comana Armeniae	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Our Lady of Nareg in Glendale (Armenian), California, USA
	58.5	Succeeded	Carlos Alberto Breis Pereira, O.F.M.	Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
	60.7	Appointed	Víctor Carabés Chávez, M.N.M.	Bishop of Tenancingo, México, México	Bishop-Elect
	81.9	Died	Vitus Huonder †	Bishop Emeritus of Chur, Switzerland
	71.6	Resigned	Antônio Muniz Fernandes, O. Carm.	Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
4 Apr	75.9	Retired	Ilario Antoniazzi	Archbishop of Tunis, Tunisia	Archbishop Emeritus
	94.1	Died	Thomas John Gumbleton †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Detroit, Michigan, USA
	49.0	Appointed	Nicolas Pierre Jean Lhernould	Archbishop of Tunis, Tunisia
	55.4	Installed	Eduardo Muñoz Ochoa	Bishop of Autlán, Jalisco, México
	62.6	Ordained Bishop	Francis Tirkey	Bishop of Purnea, India
5 Apr	60.4	Appointed	Henry Joseph Balzan	Auxiliary Bishop of La Serena, Chile	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	60.4	Appointed	Henry Joseph Balzan	Titular Bishop of La Imperial	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of La Serena, Chile
	48.8	Appointed	Uladzimir Huljaj (Huliai)	Coadjutor Bishop of Grodno, Belarus	Coadjutor Bishop-Elect
	62.1	Ordained Bishop	Thomas Mathew Kuttimackal	Bishop of Indore, India
6 Apr	55.9	Ceased	Roberto Pío Álvarez	Apostolic Administrator of Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina	Bishop of Rawson, Argentina
	70.2	Appointed	Angelo De Donatis	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary
	56.2	Appointed	Simiao Purificaçao Fernandes	Auxiliary Bishop of Goa e Damão, India	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	56.2	Appointed	Simiao Purificaçao Fernandes	Titular Bishop of Saldae	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Goa e Damão, India
	61.3	Ordained Bishop	Simon Peter Kamomoe	Titular Bishop of Thubunae in Numidia	Auxiliary Bishop of Nairobi, Kenya
	70.8	Appointed	Daniele Libanori, S.J.	Official of the Roman Curia - Other
	47.5	Ordained Bishop	Danival Milagres Coelho	Titular Bishop of Vatarba	Auxiliary Bishop of Goiânia, Goias, Brazil
	51.0	Ordained Bishop	Wallace Ng’ang’a Gachihi	Titular Bishop of Thucca in Mauretania	Auxiliary Bishop of Nairobi, Kenya
	79.5	Retired	Mauro Piacenza	Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus
	60.6	Ordained Bishop	Bernard Lancy Pinto	Bishop of Aurangabad, India
	56.8	Ordained Bishop	Janusz Stanisław Urbańczyk	Titular Archbishop of Voli	Apostolic Nuncio to Zimbabwe
	57.2	Installed	Jorge Luis Wagner	Bishop of Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina
7 Apr	63.5	Ordained Bishop	Eugênio Barbosa Martins, S.S.S.	Bishop of São João da Boa Vista, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	69.7	Ceased	Moacir Silva	Apostolic Administrator of São João da Boa Vista, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Archbishop of Ribeirão Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
8 Apr	56.8	Ordained Bishop	Jesu Gaspar Valan Arasu	Bishop of Jabalpur, India
	78.0	Retired	Christo Proykov	Bishop of Saint John XXIII of Sofia (Bulgarian), Bulgaria	Bishop Emeritus
	58.2	Appointed	Petko Valov	Bishop of Saint John XXIII of Sofia (Bulgarian), Bulgaria	Bishop-Elect
9 Apr	54.5	Ordained Bishop	Duming Dias	Bishop of Karwar, India
	71.8	Resigned	Ángel Fernández Collado	Bishop of Albacete, Spain	Bishop Emeritus
	69.9	Ceased	Derek Fernandes	Apostolic Administrator of Karwar, India	Bishop of Belgaum, India
	67.0	Resigned	Peter Joseph Jugis	Bishop of Charlotte, North Carolina, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	62.3	Appointed	Michael Thomas Martin, O.F.M. Conv.	Bishop of Charlotte, North Carolina, USA	Bishop-Elect
	69.8	Ceased	Udumala Bala Showreddy	Apostolic Administrator of Khammam, India	Bishop of Warangal, India
	67.2	Ordained Bishop	Prakash Sagili	Bishop of Khammam, India
10 Apr	59.8	Died	Martin James Chambers †	Bishop-Elect of Dunkeld, Scotland, Great Britain
	52.9	Appointed	Paul Dempsey	Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin, Ireland
	52.9	Appointed	Paul Dempsey	Titular Bishop of Sita	Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin, Ireland
	70.7	Appointed	Kevin Peter Doran	Apostolic Administrator of Achonry, Ireland	Bishop of Elphin, Ireland
	65.9	Appointed	Francis Duffy	Apostolic Administrator of Killala, Ireland	Archbishop of Tuam, Ireland
	76.1	Retired	John Fleming	Bishop of Killala, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
11 Apr	63.4	Ordained Bishop	Paul Kyung Sang Lee	Titular Bishop of Germania in Numidia	Auxiliary Bishop of Seoul, Korea (South)
13 Apr	57.7	Installed	Josef Nuzík	Archbishop of Olomouc, Czechia
14 Apr	67.1	Installed	Hervé Jean Robert Giraud	Bishop of Viviers, France
	71.1	Installed	Alexander Aloysius (Alan) McGuckian, S.J.	Bishop of Down and Connor, Ireland
	51.0	Ordained Bishop	Victor Ndione	Bishop of Nouakchott, Mauritania
	48.9	Ordained Bishop	Jean Désiré Razafinirina	Bishop of Morombe, Madagascar
15 Apr	51.3	Appointed	Martin Banga Ayanyaki, O.S.A.	Bishop of Buta, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop-Elect
	45.7	Appointed	Filippo Ciampanelli	Under Secretary of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches
	91.5	Died	Pedro Rubiano Sàenz †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Bogotá, Colombia
16 Apr	55.2	Appointed	Henryk Mieczysław Jagodziński	Apostolic Nuncio to South Africa
	55.2	Appointed	Henryk Mieczysław Jagodziński	Apostolic Nuncio to Lesotho	Apostolic Nuncio to South Africa
	54.2	Appointed	Mitja Leskovar	Apostolic Nuncio to Congo, Democratic Republic of
18 Apr	77.1	Retired	Giuseppe Betori	Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	54.8	Appointed	Gherardo Gambelli	Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}, Italy	Archbishop-Elect
19 Apr	60.4	Appointed	Ramiro Alejandro Herrera Herrera	Auxiliary Bishop of Portoviejo, Ecuador	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	60.4	Appointed	Ramiro Alejandro Herrera Herrera	Titular Bishop of Medeli	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Portoviejo, Ecuador
	67.4	Appointed	Martin Krebs	Apostolic Nuncio to Monaco	Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland
20 Apr	50.1	Ordained Bishop	Domenico Beneventi	Bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro, Italy
	61.5	Appointed	Reynaldo B. Bersabal	Auxiliary Bishop of Sacramento, California, USA	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	61.5	Appointed	Reynaldo B. Bersabal	Titular Bishop of Balecium	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Sacramento, California, USA
	55.4	Installed	François-Xavier Bustillo, O.F.M. Conv.	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Immacolata di Lourdes a Boccea	Cardinal, Bishop of Ajaccio, France
	63.6	Ordained Bishop	Ángel Fernández Artime, S.D.B.	Titular Archbishop of Ursona	Cardinal, Rector Major of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
	63.6	Resigned	Ángel Fernández Artime, S.D.B.	Titular Archbishop of Ursona	Cardinal, Rector Major of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
	49.1	Ordained Bishop	Giordano Piccinotti, S.D.B.	Titular Archbishop of Gradisca	President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See
21 Apr	67.5	Ceased	Philippe Gabriel Marie Augustin Ballot	Apostolic Administrator of Strasbourg, France	Bishop of Metz, France
	67.0	Installed	Pascal Michel Ghislain Delannoy	Archbishop of Strasbourg, France
	78.2	Installed	Christophe Louis Yves Georges Pierre	Cardinal-Deacon of San Benedetto fuori Porta San Paolo	Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio to United States of America
	55.6	Ordained Bishop	Edilson de Souza Silva	Titular Bishop of Badiae	Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Brazil
	62.3	Ordained Bishop	Octavi Vilà Mayo, O. Cist.	Bishop of Girona, Spain
22 Apr	63.8	Appointed	Paul James Curry	Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	63.8	Appointed	Paul James Curry	Titular Bishop of Ramsbiria	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Westminster, England, Great Britain
23 Apr	48.7	Appointed	José Antonio Álvarez Sánchez	Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid, Spain	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	48.7	Appointed	José Antonio Álvarez Sánchez	Titular Bishop of Vergi	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Madrid, Spain
	54.6	Appointed	Vicente Martín Muñoz	Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid, Spain	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	54.6	Appointed	Vicente Martín Muñoz	Titular Bishop of Valliposita	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Madrid, Spain
	57.5	Appointed	Artur Ważny	Bishop of Sosnowiec, Poland
24 Apr	75.2	Retired	Francisco Canindé Palhano	Bishop of Petrolina, Pernambuco, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	62.4	Appointed	Antônio Carlos Cruz Santos, M.S.C.	Bishop of Petrolina, Pernambuco, Brazil
	50.1	Ordained Bishop	Johannes Gorantla, O.C.D.	Bishop of Kurnool, India
25 Apr	53.7	Appointed	Timothy Francis Menezes	Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham, England, Great Britain	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	53.7	Appointed	Timothy Francis Menezes	Titular Bishop of Thugga	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Birmingham, England, Great Britain
	63.5	Appointed	Richard Adrian Walker	Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham, England, Great Britain	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	63.5	Appointed	Richard Adrian Walker	Titular Bishop of Murthlacum	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Birmingham, England, Great Britain
The future events listed below have been publicly announced, but are subject to change.
27 Apr	59.8	Ordained Bishop	Martin James Chambers †	Bishop of Dunkeld, Scotland, Great Britain	Bishop-Elect
	64.7	Ordained Bishop	Reynaldo Bunyi Getalado, M.S.P.	Coadjutor Bishop of Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Pacific (Oceania)	Coadjutor Bishop-Elect
	58.1	Ordained Bishop	Luis Enrique Saldaña Guerra, O.F.M.	Bishop of David, Panama	Bishop-Elect
	46.3	Ordained Bishop	Moïse Tinguiano	Bishop of Boké, Guinea	Bishop-Elect
	56.1	Ceased	Rafael Valdivieso Miranda	Apostolic Administrator of David, Panama	Bishop of Chitré, Panama
28 Apr	46.3	Installed	Moïse Tinguiano	Bishop of Boké, Guinea	Bishop-Elect
30 Apr	60.4	Ordained Bishop	Karnam Dhaman Kumar, M.S.F.S.	Bishop of Nalgonda, India	Bishop-Elect
	62.4	Ceased	Anthony Poola	Apostolic Administrator of Nalgonda, India	Cardinal, Archbishop of Hyderabad, India
1 May	51.7	Ordained Bishop	Carlos Henrique Silva Oliveira	Bishop of Tocantinópolis, Tocatins, Brazil	Bishop-Elect
	52.2	Ordained Bishop	Vicente de Paula Tavares	Titular Bishop of Gergis	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
2 May	53.7	Installed	Rex Andrew Clement Alarcon	Archbishop of Caceres (Nueva Caceres), Philippines
4 May	57.3	Ordained Bishop	Davide Carbonaro, O.M.D.	Archbishop of Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo, Italy	Archbishop-Elect
	49.9	Ordained Bishop	Alejandro Díaz García	Titular Bishop of Iomnium	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Bogotá, Colombia
	65.6	Ordained Bishop	Gabriel Blamo Snosio Jubwe	Archbishop of Monrovia, Liberia	Archbishop-Elect
	46.7	Ordained Bishop	Flavio Pace	Titular Archbishop of Dolia	Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity
5 May	67.4	Installed	Riccardo Lamba	Archbishop of Udine, Italy
7 May	56.3	Ordained Bishop	James Thomas Ruggieri	Bishop of Portland, Maine, USA	Bishop-Elect
8 May	60.7	Ordained Bishop	John Bosco MacDonald	Bishop of Clifton, England, Great Britain	Bishop-Elect
9 May	55.0	Ordained Bishop	Hironimus Pakaenoni	Archbishop of Kupang, Indonesia	Archbishop-Elect
	52.7	Ordained Bishop	Paul Reder	Titular Bishop of Petina	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Würzburg, Germany
11 May	49.0	Ordained Bishop	Edmar José da Silva	Titular Bishop of Garriana	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	58.6	Ordained Bishop	Mauro Lalli	Titular Archbishop of Pausulae	Apostolic Nuncio to Papua New Guinea
	49.8	Ordained Bishop	Adenis Roberto de Oliveira, S.d.P.	Titular Bishop of Hermiana	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
12 May	52.6	Ordained Bishop	Jean Claude Rakotoarisoa	Bishop of Miarinarivo, Madagascar	Bishop-Elect
18 May	50.2	Installed	Domenico Beneventi	Bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro, Italy
	57.3	Installed	Davide Carbonaro, O.M.D.	Archbishop of Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo, Italy	Archbishop-Elect
	65.0	Ordained Bishop	Juan Manuel Toro Vallejo	Bishop of Girardota, Colombia	Bishop-Elect
20 May	64.0	Installed	Gerard William Battersby	Bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
25 May	55.9	Ceased	Vítor Agnaldo de Menezes	Apostolic Administrator of Aracajú, Sergipe, Brazil	Bishop of Propriá, Sergipe, Brazil
	54.5	Installed	Cristián Castro Toovey	Bishop of Santa Maria de Los Ángeles, Chile
	61.8	Ceased	Jorge Alberto Cavazos Arizpe	Apostolic Administrator of San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, México	Archbishop of San Luis Potosí, México
	69.2	Installed	José Leopoldo González González	Bishop of San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, México
	65.3	Installed	Josafá Menezes da Silva	Archbishop of Aracajú, Sergipe, Brazil
	65.0	Installed	Juan Manuel Toro Vallejo	Bishop of Girardota, Colombia	Bishop-Elect
26 May	41.3	Ordained Bishop	Robert (Krikor) Badichah, I.C.P.B.	Titular Bishop of Artvin degli Armeni	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Beirut {Bairut} (Armenian), Lebanon
	66.1	Ordained Bishop	Donal Roche	Titular Bishop of Cell Ausaille	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Dublin, Ireland
29 May	62.4	Ordained Bishop	Michael Thomas Martin, O.F.M. Conv.	Bishop of Charlotte, North Carolina, USA	Bishop-Elect
31 May	61.6	Ordained Bishop	Reynaldo B. Bersabal	Titular Bishop of Balecium	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Sacramento, California, USA
1 Jun	56.5	Ordained Bishop	Peter Antony Wyman Croos	Bishop of Ratnapura, Sri Lanka	Bishop-Elect
	51.7	Ordained Bishop	Lucio Nicoletto	Prelate of São Félix, Mato Grosso, Brazil
	46.6	Ordained Bishop	Mirko Štefković	Bishop of Zrenjanin, Serbia	Bishop-Elect
2 Jun	48.2	Ordained Bishop	Grégoire Drouot	Bishop of Nevers, France	Bishop-Elect
	69.7	Ceased	Benoît Marie Pascal Rivière	Apostolic Administrator of Nevers, France	Bishop of Autun (-Châlon-sur-Saône-Mâcon-Cluny), France
3 Jun	56.5	Installed	Peter Antony Wyman Croos	Bishop of Ratnapura, Sri Lanka	Bishop-Elect
7 Jun	66.8	Ordained Bishop	John Opoku-Agyemang	Bishop of Konongo-Mampong, Ghana	Bishop-Elect
8 Jun	57.7	Ordained Bishop	Michel Jalakh, O.A.M.	Titular Archbishop of Nisibis dei Maroniti	Secretary of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches
	58.9	Ordained Bishop	Ivo Martinović, T.O.R.	Bishop of Požega, Croatia	Bishop-Elect
9 Jun	62.0	Ordained Bishop	Aurelio Gazzera, O.C.D.	Coadjutor Bishop of Bangassou, Central African Republic	Coadjutor Bishop-Elect
15 Jun	49.3	Ordained Bishop	Parsegh (Manuel) Baghdassarian, I.C.P.B.	Titular Bishop of Comana Armeniae	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Our Lady of Nareg in Glendale (Armenian), California, USA
21 Jun	60.6	Ordained Bishop	Ramiro Alejandro Herrera Herrera	Titular Bishop of Medeli	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Portoviejo, Ecuador
	53.0	Ordained Bishop	Luisito Audal Occiano	Bishop of Virac, Philippines	Bishop-Elect
23 Jun	59.6	Ordained Bishop	Vicente Sanombo	Bishop of Kwito-Bié, Angola	Bishop-Elect
24 Jun	55.0	Ordained Bishop	Gherardo Gambelli	Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}, Italy	Archbishop-Elect
26 Jun	53.0	Installed	Luisito Audal Occiano	Bishop of Virac, Philippines	Bishop-Elect
29 Jun	62.5	Installed	Antônio Carlos Cruz Santos, M.S.C.	Bishop of Petrolina, Pernambuco, Brazil

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