The Year of Our Lord 2026

Bishop Events

January to June

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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Jan	75.0	Retired	Salesius Mugambi	Bishop of Meru, Kenya	Bishop Emeritus
	55.7	Succeeded	Jackson Murugara, I.M.C.	Bishop of Meru, Kenya
	80.9	Died	Serafim Shyngo-Ya-Hombo, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop Emeritus of Mbanza Congo, Angola
	68.8	Appointed	Luis Gonzaga Silva Pepeu, O.F.M. Cap.	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Baturité, Ceara, Brazil	Bishop
2 Jan	58.1	Installed	Alexandre Ineichen, C.R.A.	Abbot of Saint-Maurice, Switzerland
2 Jan	29.1	Ceased	Simone Previte, C.R.A.	Administrator of Saint-Maurice, Switzerland	Priest
3 Jan	80.6	Retired	Álvaro Julio Beyra Luarca	Bishop of Santisimo Salvador de Bayamo y Manzanillo, Cuba	Bishop Emeritus
	64.2	Ordained Bishop	Stephen Eustace Victor Fernandes	Titular Bishop of Abbir Maius	Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay, India
	89.2	Died	Hernán Giraldo Jaramillo †	Bishop Emeritus of Buga, Colombia
	49.0	Appointed	Osmany Massó Cuesta	Bishop of Santisimo Salvador de Bayamo y Manzanillo, Cuba	Bishop-Elect
	56.8	Ordained Bishop	Jean-Pierre Tanoh Tiémélé	Bishop of Abengourou, Côte d’Ivoire
4 Jan	57.7	Appointed	Joseph Maluki Mwongela	Coadjutor Bishop of Machakos, Kenya
5 Jan	96.4	Died	Paolo Gillet †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Albano, Italy
6 Jan	92.0	Died	Raffaele Nogaro †	Bishop Emeritus of Caserta, Italy
7 Jan	76.4	Retired	Paul Bernard Bird, C.Ss.R.	Bishop of Ballarat, Australia	Bishop Emeritus
	60.8	Appointed	John Samuel Bonnici	Bishop of Rochester, New York, USA
	61.9	Resigned	Aparecido Donizete de Souza	Auxiliary Bishop of Cascavel, Parana, Brazil	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	66.3	Appointed	Mark William Freeman	Bishop of Ballarat, Australia	Bishop-Elect
	81.6	Died	Domenico Graziani †	Archbishop Emeritus of Crotone-Santa Severina, Italy
	79.3	Retired	Salvatore Ronald Matano	Bishop of Rochester, New York, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	52.3	Appointed	Rumen Ivanov Stanev	Bishop of Sofia e Plovdiv, Bulgaria
8 Jan	75.1	Retired	Adolfo Eduardo José Bittschi Mayer	Auxiliary Bishop of Sucre, Bolivia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	60.7	Appointed	José Roberto Fortes Palau	Archbishop of Sorocaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	62.2	Appointed	Marco Aurélio Gubiotti	Archbishop of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	61.3	Appointed	Prosper Balthazar Lyimo	Bishop of Bariadi, Tanzania
	75.2	Retired	Gil Antônio Moreira	Archbishop of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
9 Jan	59.5	Appointed	Domenico Basile	Bishop of Molfetta-Ruvo-Giovinazzo-Terlizzi, Italy	Bishop-Elect
	75.9	Retired	Domenico Cornacchia	Bishop of Molfetta-Ruvo-Giovinazzo-Terlizzi, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	65.7	Appointed	Sithembele Anton Sipuka	Archbishop of Cape Town {Kaapstad}, South Africa
	96.2	Died	Vincenzo Zarri †	Bishop Emeritus of Forli-Bertinoro, Italy
10 Jan	66.1	Appointed	Felice Accrocca	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino, Italy	Bishop
	66.1	Appointed	Felice Accrocca	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Foligno, Italy	Bishop of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino, Italy
	60.0	Appointed	Joseph Francis Badji	Coadjutor Bishop of Kolda, Senegal	Coadjutor Bishop-Elect
	77.6	Retired	Domenico Sorrentino	Bishop of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	77.6	Retired	Domenico Sorrentino	Bishop of Foligno, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino, Italy
	50.5	Ordained Bishop	Jesús Alberto Torres Ariza	Bishop of San José del Guaviare, Colombia
12 Jan	78.3	Died	José Eduardo Velásquez Tarazona †	Bishop Emeritus of Huaraz, Peru
14 Jan	63.4	Appointed	Mirosław Adamczyk	Apostolic Nuncio to Albania
	74.9	Ceased	Rogelio Cabrera López	Apostolic Administrator of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, México	Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
	63.4	Ordained Bishop	Luis Carlos Lerma Martínez	Bishop of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, México
15 Jan	58.7	Appointed	Luis Manuel Alí Herrera	Vicar Apostolic of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}
	85.6	Retired	Nicholas Han Jide, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Pingliang [Pingliang], China	Bishop Emeritus
	54.0	Succeeded	Anthony Li Hui	Bishop of Pingliang [Pingliang], China
16 Jan	101.1	Died	Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña, O.F.M. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Zamora en Ecuador
16 Jan	92.4	Died	Julio César Terán Dutari, S.J. †	Bishop Emeritus of Ibarra, Ecuador
17 Jan	56.1	Ordained Bishop	Samuel Naceno Agcaracar, S.V.D.	Bishop of San Jose, Philippines
	65.2	Ordained Bishop	Simon Almeida	Bishop of Poona, India
	62.1	Installed	Benedito Araújo	Bishop of Campo Maior, Piaui, Brazil
	53.5	Ordained Bishop	Rabindra Kumar Ranasingh	Titular Bishop of Thuburbo Maius	Auxiliary Bishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, India
18 Jan	78.8	Died	John Okeoghene Afareha †	Bishop Emeritus of Warri, Nigeria
19 Jan	65.9	Succeeded	José Armando Álvarez Cano	Archbishop of Morelia, Michoacán, México
	75.0	Retired	Carlos Garfias Merlos	Archbishop of Morelia, Michoacán, México	Archbishop Emeritus
	60.0	Appointed	Christophorus Tri Harsono	Apostolic Administrator of Bogor, Indonesia	Bishop of Purwokerto, Indonesia
	63.6	Resigned	Paskalis Bruno Syukur, O.F.M.	Bishop of Bogor, Indonesia	Bishop Emeritus
20 Jan	95.4	Died	Thadeu Gomes Canellas †	Bishop Emeritus of Osório, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
21 Jan	61.0	Ordained Bishop	Edward Baretto	Coadjutor Bishop of Darjeeling, India
22 Jan	76.3	Died	Pedro Pablo Elizondo Cárdenas, L.C. †	Bishop Emeritus of Cancún-Chetumal, Quintana Roo, México
	65.8	Appointed	Giorgio Lingua	Apostolic Nuncio to Israel
	65.8	Appointed	Giorgio Lingua	Apostolic Delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine	Apostolic Nuncio to Israel
	69.5	Appointed	Carlo Roberto Maria Redaelli	Secretary of the Dicastery for the Clergy
	70.8	Appointed	Gustavo Rodriguez Vega	Apostolic Administrator of Cancún-Chetumal, Quintana Roo, México	Archbishop of Yucatán, México
	77.9	Retired	Adolfo Tito Camacho Yllana	Apostolic Nuncio to Israel	Apostolic Nuncio
	77.9	Retired	Adolfo Tito Camacho Yllana	Apostolic Delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine	Apostolic Nuncio
23 Jan	56.0	Installed	Stephen Andrew Hero	Archbishop of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
23 Jan		Ceased	Paul Kavanagh	Administrator of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada	Priest
24 Jan	50.0	Ordained Bishop	Jacob Aba, S.M.	Bishop of Auki, Solomon Islands
	64.5	Ordained Bishop	José Camilo Arbeláez Montoya	Bishop of Vélez, Colombia
	62.9	Ordained Bishop	Josef Grünwidl	Archbishop of Wien {Vienna}, Austria
	58.2	Ordained Bishop	Márcio Antonio Vidal de Negreiros, O.S.A.	Titular Bishop of Catula	Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Brazil
	51.8	Appointed	Cyril Buhayan Villareal	Bishop of Kalibo, Philippines	Bishop-Elect
25 Jan	97.9	Died	Robert Joseph Banks †	Bishop Emeritus of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
	62.4	Installed	Niall Coll	Bishop of Raphoe, Ireland
	93.9	Died	Dominic Kokkat, C.S.T. †	Bishop Emeritus of Gorakhpur (Syro-Malabar), India
	66.9	Appointed	Gerard Nash	Apostolic Administrator of Ossory, Ireland	Bishop of Ferns, Ireland
	75.1	Retired	Lajos Varga	Auxiliary Bishop of Vác, Hungary	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
26 Jan	63.0	Ceased	Murray Chatlain	Apostolic Administrator of Keewatin-Le Pas, Manitoba, Canada	Archbishop of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
26 Jan	54.6	Ordained Bishop	Susai Jesu, O.M.I.	Archbishop of Keewatin-Le Pas, Manitoba, Canada
28 Jan	56.3	Installed	Mario Alberto Avilés Campos, C.O.	Bishop of Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
	66.5	Resigned	Bernard Marie Fansaka Biniama	Bishop of Popokabaka, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop Emeritus
		Elected	Maurice Fiolleau	Administrator of Prince-Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada
	64.7	Appointed	Dominic Kimengich	Coadjutor Archbishop of Mombasa, Kenya
	60.2	Appointed	Trinidad Antonio Márquez Guerrero	Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, México	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	60.2	Appointed	Trinidad Antonio Márquez Guerrero	Titular Bishop of Melzi	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, México
	53.8	Appointed	Relwendé Kisito Ouédraogo	Apostolic Nuncio to Congo, Republic of
	53.8	Appointed	Relwendé Kisito Ouédraogo	Titular Archbishop of Hilta	Apostolic Nuncio to Congo, Republic of
29 Jan	64.6	Installed	José Camilo Arbeláez Montoya	Bishop of Vélez, Colombia
30 Jan	94.3	Died	Flavien Joseph Melki †	Curial Bishop Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon
31 Jan	93.0	Died	Maximilian Aichern, O.S.B. †	Bishop Emeritus of Linz, Austria
	75.0	Retired	Miguel Angel Alba Díaz †	Bishop of La Paz en la Baja California Sur, México	Bishop Emeritus
	63.4	Appointed	Leslie Clifford D’Souza	Bishop of Udupi, India	Bishop-Elect
	59.7	Succeeded	Miguel Ángel Espinoza Garza	Bishop of La Paz en la Baja California Sur, México
	61.0	Appointed	Andrzej Józwowicz	Apostolic Nuncio to Sri Lanka
	45.0	Ordained Bishop	Marko Kovač	Titular Bishop of Sarda	Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb, Croatia
	76.2	Retired	Gerald Isaac Lobo	Bishop of Udupi, India	Bishop Emeritus
	69.4	Appointed	Manuel Nin Güell, O.S.B.	Apostolic Exarch of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata (Italo-Albanese), Italy
	65.1	Ordained Bishop	Vlado Razum	Titular Bishop of Stagnum	Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb, Croatia
1 Feb	56.4	Ordained Bishop	Celso Alexandre	Titular Bishop of Capsa	Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Brazil
2 Feb	75.0	Died	Miguel Angel Alba Díaz †	Bishop Emeritus of La Paz en la Baja California Sur, México
	62.7	Succeeded	Felice Ba Htoo	Bishop of Pekhon, Myanmar
	65.2	Ordained Bishop	Gerard Francis Bradley	Titular Bishop of Beverlacum	Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark, England, Great Britain
	61.5	Installed	Józef Andrzej Dąbrowski, C.S.M.A.	Bishop of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
	53.1	Ordained Bishop	Antônio Carlos do Nascimento	Titular Bishop of Cibaliana	Auxiliary Bishop of Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil
	77.4	Retired	Jan Bosco Graubner	Archbishop of Praha {Prague}, Czechia	Archbishop Emeritus
	74.0	Resigned	Peter Hla	Bishop of Pekhon, Myanmar	Bishop Emeritus
	75.2	Retired	Savio Hon Tai-Fai, S.D.B.	Apostolic Nuncio to Malta	Apostolic Nuncio
	75.2	Retired	Savio Hon Tai-Fai, S.D.B.	Apostolic Nuncio to Libya	Apostolic Nuncio
	64.9	Appointed	Luis Dario Martín	Bishop of Santa Rosa, Argentina
	57.6	Appointed	Nelson Abordo Po	Auxiliary Bishop of Perth, Australia	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	57.6	Appointed	Nelson Abordo Po	Titular Bishop of Aguntum	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Perth, Australia
	54.2	Appointed	Stanislav Přibyl, C.Ss.R.	Archbishop of Praha {Prague}, Czechia
	54.2	Appointed	Stanislav Přibyl, C.Ss.R.	Apostolic Administrator of Litoměřice, Czechia	Archbishop of Praha {Prague}, Czechia
	65.4	Appointed	Krzysztof Zadarko	Bishop of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg, Poland
	80.0	Retired	Mario Zenari	Apostolic Nuncio to Syria	Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio
3 Feb	56.0	Appointed	César Luis Caro Puértolas	Apostolic Administrator of San José del Amazonas, Peru
3 Feb	73.9	Resigned	José Javier Travieso Martín, C.M.F.	Vicar Apostolic of San José del Amazonas, Peru	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
4 Feb	61.6	Appointed	Aldemiro Sena dos Santos	Bishop of Teixeira de Freitas-Caravelas, Bahia, Brazil
4 Feb	99.0	Died	Julian Andrzej Antoni Wojtkowski †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Warmia, Poland
5 Feb	86.6	Died	Antonio Arregui Yarza †	Archbishop Emeritus of Guayaquil, Ecuador
6 Feb	56.1	Ordained Bishop	Jânison de Sá Santos	Titular Bishop of Cillium	Auxiliary Bishop of Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil
	94.8	Died	Pietro Gabrielli, S.D.B. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Méndez, Ecuador
	58.5	Installed	Ronald Aldon Hicks	Archbishop of New York, New York, USA
	67.9	Appointed	Margarito Salazar Cárdenas	Bishop of Tampico, Tamaulipas, México
	57.9	Appointed	Dennis Edward Spies	Apostolic Administrator of Joliet in Illinois, USA	Auxiliary Bishop
7 Feb	75.3	Retired	Samuel Joseph Aquila	Archbishop of Denver, Colorado, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
	51.7	Ordained Bishop	Evandro Campos Maria	Titular Bishop of Cilibia	Auxiliary Bishop of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	59.3	Appointed	James Robert Golka	Archbishop of Denver, Colorado, USA
	52.4	Installed	Rumen Ivanov Stanev	Bishop of Sofia e Plovdiv, Bulgaria
8 Feb	80.7	Died	Kazimierz Wielikosielec, O.P. †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Pinsk, Belarus
9 Feb	82.2	Appointed	Sarkis Davidian, I.C.P.B.	Apostolic Administrator of Ispahan {Esfáan} (Armenian), Iran	Bishop Emeritus
	82.2	Resigned	Sarkis Davidian, I.C.P.B.	Bishop of Ispahan {Esfáan} (Armenian), Iran	Bishop Emeritus
	79.0	Died	Riccardo Fontana †	Bishop Emeritus of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, Italy
10 Feb	53.8	Appointed	Relwendé Kisito Ouédraogo	Apostolic Nuncio to Gabon	Apostolic Nuncio to Congo, Republic of
11 Feb	76.2	Retired	Gregory Michael Aymond	Archbishop of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
	63.3	Appointed	Adolfo Miguel Castaño Fonseca	Bishop of Atlacomulco, México, México
	59.8	Succeeded	James Francis Checchio	Archbishop of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
	58.1	Appointed	José Alberto González Juárez	Bishop of Campeche, México
	54.8	Ordained Bishop	Yohanes Hans Monteiro	Bishop of Larantuka, Indonesia
	61.1	Ordained Bishop	Germanus Kwak Jin-sang	Titular Bishop of Forma	Auxiliary Bishop of Suwon, Korea (South)
	61.1	Appointed	Martin Laliberté, P.M.E.	Coadjutor Bishop of Saint-Jean-Longueuil, Québec, Canada
	69.1	Appointed	Jude Thaddeus Okolo	Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti
	92.4	Died	Alfio Rapisarda †	Apostolic Nuncio
12 Feb	55.1	Appointed	José Silvio de Brito	Auxiliary Bishop of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
12 Feb	55.1	Appointed	José Silvio de Brito	Titular Bishop of Menefessi	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
13 Feb	76.7	Appointed	Daniel Nicholas DiNardo	Apostolic Administrator of Amarillo, Texas, USA	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA
	48.3	Resigned	Matthew Choi Kwang-hee	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Seoul, Korea (South)	Priest
	48.3	Resigned	Matthew Choi Kwang-hee	Titular Bishop-Elect of Elephantaria in Mauretania	Priest of Seoul, Korea (South)
	50.1	Appointed	John Berinyuy Tatah	Auxiliary Bishop of Bamenda, Cameroon	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	50.1	Appointed	John Berinyuy Tatah	Titular Bishop of Casae Nigrae	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Bamenda, Cameroon
	77.4	Retired	Patrick James Zurek	Bishop of Amarillo, Texas, USA	Bishop Emeritus
14 Feb	59.4	Appointed	Rubén Darío Jaramillo Montoya	Bishop of Montería, Colombia
	67.5	Installed	Charles Phillip Richard Moth	Archbishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain
	53.6	Appointed	Francisco Antonio Agnelo Jacinto Pinheiro	Bishop of Sindhudurg, India	Bishop-Elect
	60.6	Ordained Bishop	Miro Relota, O.F.M.	Bishop of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Military
15 Feb	48.3	Ordained Bishop	François Halyday Mbouangui	Coadjutor Bishop of Nkayi, Congo
16 Feb	76.2	Retired	Arlindo Gomes Furtado	Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus
	57.7	Appointed	Javier Herrera Corona	Apostolic Nuncio to Tunisia	Apostolic Nuncio to Algeria
	62.1	Appointed	Teodoro Mendes Tavares, C.S.Sp.	Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde
17 Feb	56.0	Ordained Bishop	Peter Dai Bui	Titular Bishop of Ausafa	Auxiliary Bishop of Phoenix, Arizona, USA
	47.9	Appointed	Amos Mabuti Masemola	Bishop of Kroonstad, South Africa	Bishop-Elect
	68.6	Died	Richard Frank Stika †	Bishop Emeritus of Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
18 Feb	89.9	Died	Eugène Tremblay †	Bishop Emeritus of Amos, Québec, Canada
19 Feb	63.1	Appointed	Gaspard Béby Gnéba	Auxiliary Bishop of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
	63.1	Appointed	Gaspard Béby Gnéba	Titular Bishop of Putia in Numidia	Auxiliary Bishop of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
	56.5	Installed	Ramón Bejarano	Bishop of Monterey in California, USA
	81.5	Died	Polycarp Pengo †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
	51.7	Ceased	Sławomir Stanisław Szkredka	Apostolic Administrator of Monterey in California, USA	Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, California, USA
20 Feb	94.4	Died	José Agustín Ganuza García, O.A.R. †	Prelate Emeritus of Bocas del Toro, Panama
	84.5	Ceased	Gerald Frederick Kicanas	Apostolic Administrator of Tucson, Arizona, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	55.6	Ordained Bishop	James Albert Misko	Bishop of Tucson, Arizona, USA
21 Feb	72.2	Ceased	Guillermo Teodoro Elías Millares	Apostolic Administrator of Piura, Peru	Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru
	75.6	Retired	Alain Harel	Bishop of Port Victoria o Seychelles	Bishop Emeritus
	68.7	Ordained Bishop	Luciano Maza Huamán	Archbishop of Piura, Peru
	69.5	Installed	Manuel Nin Güell, O.S.B.	Apostolic Exarch of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata (Italo-Albanese), Italy
	53.7	Appointed	Landry Philippe Rasamison, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Port Victoria o Seychelles	Bishop-Elect
	50.4	Ordained Bishop	Eliéser Antonio Rivero Barrios	Bishop of San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela
	78.1	Ceased	Marcello Semeraro	Apostolic Administrator of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata (Italo-Albanese), Italy	Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints
	66.3	Appointed	Francesco Antonio Soddu	Archbishop of Sassari, Italy
	70.6	Retired	Jean-Marie Antoine Joseph Speich	Apostolic Nuncio to Netherlands	Apostolic Nuncio
22 Feb	78.2	Appointed	Francisco Chimoio, O.F.M. Cap.	Apostolic Administrator of Xai-Xai, Mozambique	Archbishop Emeritus of Maputo, Mozambique
22 Feb	66.3	Installed	Lucio Andrice Muandula	Bishop of Chimoio, Mozambique
23 Feb	67.8	Appointed	Francis Duffy	Bishop of Killala, Ireland	Archbishop of Tuam, Ireland
24 Feb	67.5	Appointed	Luis Augusto Campos Flórez	Archbishop of Bucaramanga, Colombia
	59.7	Ordained Bishop	John Mario Mesa Palacio	Vicar Apostolic of Leticia, Colombia
	52.1	Ordained Bishop	Manuel de Jesus Rodriguez	Bishop of Palm Beach, Florida, USA
	75.7	Retired	Ismael Rueda Sierra	Archbishop of Bucaramanga, Colombia	Archbishop Emeritus
25 Feb	54.8	Appointed	Andrea Carlevale	Auxiliary Bishop of Roma {Rome}, Italy	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	54.8	Appointed	Andrea Carlevale	Titular Bishop of Atella	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Roma {Rome}, Italy
	69.5	Appointed	Stefano Sparapani	Auxiliary Bishop of Roma {Rome}, Italy	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	69.5	Appointed	Stefano Sparapani	Titular Bishop of Bisenzio	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Roma {Rome}, Italy
	64.9	Appointed	Marco Valenti	Auxiliary Bishop of Roma {Rome}, Italy	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	64.9	Appointed	Marco Valenti	Titular Bishop of Arpi	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Roma {Rome}, Italy
	56.2	Appointed	Alessandro Zenobbi	Auxiliary Bishop of Roma {Rome}, Italy	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	56.2	Appointed	Alessandro Zenobbi	Titular Bishop of Biccari	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Roma {Rome}, Italy
27 Feb	57.8	Appointed	Darius Assandé Ekou	Bishop of Agboville, Côte d’Ivoire	Bishop-Elect
	54.1	Installed	Salvador González Morales	Bishop of Cancún-Chetumal, Quintana Roo, México
	47.7	Ordained Bishop	Vincent Ouma Odundo	Titular Bishop of Giru Marcelli	Auxiliary Bishop of Kisumu, Kenya
	70.9	Ceased	Gustavo Rodriguez Vega	Apostolic Administrator of Cancún-Chetumal, Quintana Roo, México	Archbishop of Yucatán, México
28 Feb	72.9	Resigned	Vincent Coulibaly	Archbishop of Conakry {Konakry}, Guinea	Archbishop Emeritus
	60.8	Installed	José Roberto Fortes Palau	Archbishop of Sorocaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	55.6	Ordained Bishop	Mohottige Don Nishantha Sagara Jayamanne, S.S.S.	Bishop of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
	48.7	Ordained Bishop	Martin Marahrens	Titular Bishop of Cercina	Auxiliary Bishop of Hildesheim, Germany
	53.8	Succeeded	François Sylla	Archbishop of Conakry {Konakry}, Guinea
	65.4	Installed	Krzysztof Zadarko	Bishop of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg, Poland
	65.8	Appointed	Wojciech Załuski	Apostolic Nuncio to Malta
The future events listed below have been publicly announced, but are subject to change.
4 Mar	59.7	Installed	John Mario Mesa Palacio	Vicar Apostolic of Leticia, Colombia
7 Mar	62.3	Installed	Marco Aurélio Gubiotti	Archbishop of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
7 Mar	53.9	Ordained Bishop	Relwendé Kisito Ouédraogo	Titular Archbishop of Hilta	Apostolic Nuncio to Congo, Republic of
14 Mar	69.4	Ceased	Stephen Brislin	Apostolic Administrator of Cape Town {Kaapstad}, South Africa	Cardinal, Archbishop of Johannesburg, South Africa
	51.7	Ceased	Farly Yovany Gil Betancur	Apostolic Administrator, Sede Vacante of Montería, Colombia	Bishop of Montelibano, Colombia
	59.5	Installed	Rubén Darío Jaramillo Montoya	Bishop of Montería, Colombia
	49.2	Ordained Bishop	Osmany Massó Cuesta	Bishop of Santisimo Salvador de Bayamo y Manzanillo, Cuba	Bishop-Elect
	65.8	Installed	Sithembele Anton Sipuka	Archbishop of Cape Town {Kaapstad}, South Africa
15 Mar	48.8	Ordained Bishop	Joshy George Pottackal, O. Carm.	Titular Bishop of Ceramussa	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Mainz, Germany
19 Mar	61.0	Installed	John Samuel Bonnici	Bishop of Rochester, New York, USA
	66.5	Ordained Bishop	Mark William Freeman	Bishop of Ballarat, Australia	Bishop-Elect
	52.3	Ordained Bishop	José Eugenio Ramos Delgado	Titular Bishop of Mattiana	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
	50.2	Ordained Bishop	John Berinyuy Tatah	Titular Bishop of Casae Nigrae	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Bamenda, Cameroon
20 Mar	56.1	Ordained Bishop	Sergio Roberto Bosco	Titular Bishop of Cissi	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Villa de la Concepción del Río Cuarto, Argentina
21 Mar	65.8	Ordained Bishop	Milton Zonta, S.D.S.	Coadjutor Bishop of Criciúma, Santa Catarina, Brazil	Coadjutor Bishop-Elect
25 Mar	66.3	Installed	Felice Accrocca	Bishop of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino, Italy
25 Mar	59.5	Installed	James Robert Golka	Archbishop of Denver, Colorado, USA
28 Mar	66.3	Installed	Felice Accrocca	Bishop of Foligno, Italy	Bishop of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino, Italy
9 Apr	68.1	Installed	Margarito Salazar Cárdenas	Bishop of Tampico, Tamaulipas, México
9 Apr	52.5	Ceased	Oscar Efraín Tamez Villarreal	Apostolic Administrator of Tampico, Tamaulipas, México	Bishop of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México
11 Apr	61.7	Ordained Bishop	Simon Kofi Appiah	Bishop of Jasikan, Ghana	Bishop-Elect
	60.2	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Francis Badji	Coadjutor Bishop of Kolda, Senegal	Coadjutor Bishop-Elect
	59.8	Ordained Bishop	Domenico Basile	Bishop of Molfetta-Ruvo-Giovinazzo-Terlizzi, Italy	Bishop-Elect
13 Apr	63.5	Installed	Adolfo Miguel Castaño Fonseca	Bishop of Atlacomulco, México, México
13 Apr	74.7	Ceased	Juan Pedro Juárez Meléndez	Apostolic Administrator of Atlacomulco, México, México	Bishop of Tula, Hidalgo, México
16 Apr	53.7	Ordained Bishop	Francisco Antonio Agnelo Jacinto Pinheiro	Bishop of Sindhudurg, India	Bishop-Elect
18 Apr	57.9	Ordained Bishop	Darius Assandé Ekou	Bishop of Agboville, Côte d’Ivoire	Bishop-Elect
18 Apr	66.4	Ceased	Alexis Youlo Touabli	Apostolic Administrator of Agboville, Côte d’Ivoire	Bishop of San Pedro-en-Côte d’Ivoire
20 Apr	63.6	Ordained Bishop	Leslie Clifford D’Souza	Bishop of Udupi, India	Bishop-Elect
22 Apr	59.8	Installed	Domenico Basile	Bishop of Molfetta-Ruvo-Giovinazzo-Terlizzi, Italy	Bishop-Elect
23 Apr	52.1	Ordained Bishop	Cyril Buhayan Villareal	Bishop of Kalibo, Philippines	Bishop-Elect
25 Apr	56.5	Ordained Bishop	Alberto Valentín Castillo García	Bishop of Los Teques, Venezuela	Bishop-Elect
25 Apr	54.4	Installed	Stanislav Přibyl, C.Ss.R.	Archbishop of Praha {Prague}, Czechia
26 Apr	56.5	Installed	Alberto Valentín Castillo García	Bishop of Los Teques, Venezuela	Bishop-Elect
1 May	55.3	Ordained Bishop	José Silvio de Brito	Titular Bishop of Menefessi	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
2 May	55.0	Ordained Bishop	Andrea Carlevale	Titular Bishop of Atella	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Roma {Rome}, Italy
	69.7	Ordained Bishop	Stefano Sparapani	Titular Bishop of Bisenzio	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Roma {Rome}, Italy
	65.1	Ordained Bishop	Marco Valenti	Titular Bishop of Arpi	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Roma {Rome}, Italy
	56.4	Ordained Bishop	Alessandro Zenobbi	Titular Bishop of Biccari	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Roma {Rome}, Italy
8 May	60.4	Ordained Bishop	Trinidad Antonio Márquez Guerrero	Titular Bishop of Melzi	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, México
16 May	48.1	Ordained Bishop	Amos Mabuti Masemola	Bishop of Kroonstad, South Africa	Bishop-Elect
16 May		Ceased	Molahlehi Michael Rasello	Administrator of Kroonstad, South Africa

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