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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1934		Joseph Zhao Fengchang	Born		Bishop of Yanggu [Yangku], China
1937		John Baptist Thakur, S.J.	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Muzaffarpur, India
1941		José Luis Chávez Botello	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Antequera, Oaxaca, México
1942		Domenico Angelo Scotti	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Trivento, Italy
1943		Nicolas Sawaf	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Lattaquié {Laodicea} (Melkite Greek), Syria
1944		Brian Farrell, L.C.	Born		Secretary Emeritus of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity
1944		Jaume Pujol Balcells	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Tarragona, Spain
1945		Emiliano Antonio Cisneros Martínez, O.A.R.	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Chachapoyas, Peru
1948		Joseph Osei-Bonsu	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Konongo-Mampong, Ghana
1949		Jan Sergiusz Gajek, M.I.C.	Born		Apostolic Administrator of Belarus, Faithful of Byzantine Rite (Byzantine)
1950		Callistus Rubaramira	Born		Bishop of Kabale, Uganda
1955		Peter Sebastian Goveas	Born		Bishop of Bettiah, India
1956		Augustinus Kim Jong Soo	Born		Bishop of Daejeon {Taejon}, Korea (South)
1958		Peter Leslie Smith	Born		Auxiliary Bishop of Portland in Oregon, USA
1959		Nirmol Vincent Gomes, S.D.B.	Born		Bishop of Krishnagar, India
1959		Claudio Maniago	Born		Archbishop of Catanzaro-Squillace, Italy
1960		Habib Hormiz Jajou Al Nawfali	Born		Archbishop of Bassorah {Basra} (Chaldean), Iraq
1963		Emmanuel Kanon Rozario	Born		Bishop of Barishal, Bangladesh
1966		Joel Maria dos Santos	Born		Auxiliary Bishop of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
1970	29.7	Antoine Ntalou	Ordained Priest	Priest	Archbishop Emeritus of Garoua, Cameroon
1972	38.2	Libardo Ramírez Gómez	Appointed	Bishop of Armenia, Colombia	Bishop Emeritus of Garzón, Colombia
1972		Roberto Yenny García	Born		Bishop of Ciudad Valles, San Luís Potosí, México
1974		Domenico Beneventi	Born		Bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro, Italy
1975	42.5	Szilárd Keresztes	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Chunavia	Bishop Emeritus of Hajdúdorog (Hungarian), Hungary
1977	28.6	Dominic Lumon	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kohima, India	Archbishop Emeritus of Imphal, India
1981	26.3	Anil Joseph Thomas Couto	Ordained Priest	Priest	Archbishop of Delhi, India
1982	45.3	John Magee, S.P.S.	Appointed	Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations of the Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff	Bishop Emeritus of Cloyne, Ireland
1986	26.0	José Armando Álvarez Cano	Ordained Priest	Priest of Zamora, Michoacán, México	Bishop of Tampico, Tamaulipas, México
1990	49.6	Gustavo Girón Higuita, O.C.D.	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Tumaco, Colombia	Bishop Emeritus of Tumaco, Colombia
	49.6	Gustavo Girón Higuita, O.C.D.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Bisica	Bishop Emeritus of Tumaco, Colombia
	48.9	Vincent Ri Pyung-ho	Appointed	Bishop of Jeonju {Chonju, Jeon Ju}, Korea (South)	Bishop Emeritus
	49.8	Joseph Theodorus Suwatan, M.S.C.	Appointed	Bishop of Manado, Indonesia	Bishop Emeritus
	63.1	Emmanuel Wamala	Succeeded	Archbishop of Kampala, Uganda	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
1991	37.4	Sylvester Anthony John David, O.M.I.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate	Auxiliary Bishop of Cape Town {Kaapstad}, South Africa
1993	50.9	Paolo Mario Virgilio Atzei, O.F.M. Conv.	Appointed	Bishop of Tempio-Ampurias, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus of Sassari, Italy
1994	51.0	Thomas John Curry	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, California, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	51.0	Thomas John Curry	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Ceanannus Mór	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Los Angeles, California, USA
	66.6	Joseph Martin Sartoris	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, California, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	66.6	Joseph Martin Sartoris	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Oliva	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Los Angeles, California, USA
	42.4	Gabino Zavala	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, California, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	42.4	Gabino Zavala	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tamascani	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Los Angeles, California, USA
1996	46.0	Christopher Alan Saunders	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Broome, Australia	Bishop Emeritus
1997	71.3	Angelo Acerbi	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Netherlands	Apostolic Nuncio
	46.8	Thomas Elavanal, M.C.B.S.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kalyan (Syro-Malabar), India
	58.0	Jesús Moliné Labarte	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Chiclayo, Peru	Bishop Emeritus
1998	26.0	João Batista Alves do Nascimento, C.Ss.R.	Professed	Member of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer	Bishop of Barra (do Rio Grande), Bahia, Brazil
1998	58.2	John Buckley	Installed	Bishop of Cork and Ross, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
2001	54.4	Henryk Józef Nowacki	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Blera	Apostolic Nuncio
2001	54.4	Henryk Józef Nowacki	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Slovakia	Apostolic Nuncio
2002	64.8	Ad Abi Karam	Installed	Bishop of Saint Maron of Sydney (Maronite), Australia	Bishop Emeritus
	54.1	Mario Aurelio Poli	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	54.1	Mario Aurelio Poli	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Abidda	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2003	57.4	José Benjamín Castillo Plascencia	Appointed	Bishop of Tabasco, México	Bishop Emeritus of Celaya, Guanajuato, México
	49.5	Pedro López Quintana	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to India	Apostolic Nuncio to Austria
	49.5	Pedro López Quintana	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Nepal	Apostolic Nuncio to Austria
	56.8	Gianfranco Todisco, P.O.C.R.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
2004	43.3	Gustavo Bombín Espino, O.SS.T.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tsiroanomandidy, Madagascar	Archbishop of Toliara, Madagascar
	47.4	Robert Brahm	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Mimiana	Auxiliary Bishop of Trier, Germany
	54.5	Musie Ghebreghiorghis, O.F.M. Cap.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Emdeber (Ethiopian), Ethiopia	Bishop Emeritus
	33.0	Paul Ma Cunguo	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Shuoxian [Shohchow], China	Bishop
	43.8	Jörg Michael Peters	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Forum Traiani	Auxiliary Bishop of Trier, Germany
2006	50.5	Dominique Marie Jean Denis You	Appointed	Bishop of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia, Brazil
2007	47.6	Baselios Cleemis (Isaac) Thottunkal	Selected	Cardinal, Major Archbishop of Trivandrum (Syro-Malankara), India
2008	46.2	Anthony Poola	Appointed	Bishop of Kurnool, India	Cardinal, Archbishop of Hyderabad, India
2008	47.7	Sithembele Anton Sipuka	Appointed	Bishop of Umtata, South Africa
2009	51.2	Francis Kalist	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Meerut, India	Archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore, India
2011	53.8	Sanctus Lino Wanok	Appointed	Bishop of Nebbi, Uganda	Bishop of Lira, Uganda
2012	54.3	Gabriel Malzaire	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Saint John’s-Basseterre, Virgin Islands (British), Antilles	Archbishop of Castries, Saint Lucia, Antilles
2012	53.4	Kenneth David Oswin Richards	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Saint John’s-Basseterre, Virgin Islands (British), Antilles	Archbishop of Kingston in Jamaica, Antilles
2013	75.8	Salvatore Di Cristina	Retired	Archbishop of Monreale, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
	66.2	Michele Pennisi	Appointed	Archbishop of Monreale, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
	42.8	Joseph Yang Yongqiang	Succeeded	Bishop of Zhoucun [Chowtsun], China	Bishop of Hangzhou [Hangchow], China
2014	51.2	Raúl Biord Castillo, S.D.B.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of La Guaira, Venezuela	Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
	54.9	Fabio Fabene	Appointed	Under Secretary of the Synod of Bishops	Secretary of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints
	58.3	Jesús Fernández González	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Rotdon	Bishop of Astorga, Spain
	49.1	John Keenan	Appointed	Bishop of Paisley, Scotland, Great Britain
	52.0	Thomas Luke Msusa, S.M.M.	Installed	Archbishop of Blantyre, Malawi
	56.5	Giovanni Battista Piccioli	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Patara	Bishop Emeritus of Daule, Ecuador
2015	53.7	Nicolò Anselmi	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Utica	Bishop of Rimini, Italy
	52.7	Atanasio Amisse Canira	Appointed	Bishop of Lichinga, Mozambique
	76.2	Elio Giovanni Greselin, S.C.I.	Retired	Bishop of Lichinga, Mozambique	Bishop Emeritus
	62.5	Kieran O’Reilly, S.M.A.	Installed	Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, Ireland
2016	50.1	Shorot Francis Gomes	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Dhaka, Bangladesh	Bishop of Sylhet, Bangladesh
2016	50.1	Shorot Francis Gomes	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Forma	Bishop of Sylhet, Bangladesh
2017	56.3	Gustavo Bombín Espino, O.SS.T.	Appointed	Bishop of Maintirano, Madagascar	Archbishop of Toliara, Madagascar
2017	54.2	Timothy James Harris	Appointed	Bishop of Townsville, Australia
2020	67.6	Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, M.C.C.I.	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Girolamo della Carità a Via Giulia	Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue
	61.4	Luis Augusto Campos Flórez	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Socorro y San Gil, Colombia
	44.8	Nicolas Pierre Jean Lhernould	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Constantine (-Hippone), Algeria	Archbishop of Tunis, Tunisia
2021	70.3	Denis Theurillat	Resigned	Auxiliary Bishop of Basel {Bâle, Basilea}, Switzerland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
2021	56.5	Gerald (Jerry) Lee Vincke	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Dodge City, Kansas, USA	Bishop of Salina, Kansas, USA
2022	58.2	Shelton Joseph Fabre	Appointed	Archbishop of Louisville, Kentucky, USA
	75.4	Joseph Edward Kurtz	Retired	Archbishop of Louisville, Kentucky, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
	64.0	Jorge Carlos Patrón Wong	Installed	Archbishop of Jalapa (Xalapa), Veracruz, México
	62.7	José Trinidad Zapata Ortiz	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Jalapa (Xalapa), Veracruz, México	Bishop of Papantla, Puebla, México
2023	50.7	Anthony Cerdan Celino	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of El Paso, Texas, USA
	50.7	Anthony Cerdan Celino	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Maronana	Auxiliary Bishop of El Paso, Texas, USA
	59.7	Peter Bryan Wells	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Thailand
	59.7	Peter Bryan Wells	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Cambodia	Apostolic Nuncio to Thailand
	59.7	Peter Bryan Wells	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Laos	Apostolic Nuncio to Thailand

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