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Living Bishop Events

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1937		Antonio Franco	Born		Apostolic Nuncio
1938		Vittorino Girardi Stellin, M.C.C.I.	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Tilarán-Liberia, Costa Rica
1938		Michel Malo, Ist. del Prado	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Antsiranana, Madagascar
1940		François Marie Joseph Pascal Louis Blondel	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Viviers, France
1943		Nestor Ngoy Katahwa	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Kolwezi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
1947		Marin Barišić	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Split-Makarska, Croatia
1947		Simon-Victor Tonyé Bakot	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Yaoundé, Cameroon
1950		Angelo Vincenzo Zani	Born		Archivist of the Vatican Apostolic Archive
1953		Francesca Di Giovanni	Born		Secretary Emeritus of the Secretariat of State
1956		Gabriel Edoe Kumordji, S.V.D.	Born		Bishop of Keta-Akatsi, Ghana
1961		Shyamal Bose	Born		Bishop of Baruipur, India
1962		Carmelo Cuttitta	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Ragusa, Italy
1964		Neri José Tondello	Born		Bishop of Juína, Mato Grosso, Brazil
1965		Jean-Bertin Nadonye Ndongo, O.F.M. Cap.	Born		Bishop of Lolo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
1967		René Leigue Cesari	Born		Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
1968	27.1	Carlo Maria Viganò	Ordained Priest	Priest of Pavia, Italy	Apostolic Nuncio
1969		Jean Pascal Andriantsoavina	Born		Bishop of Antsirabé, Madagascar
1972		Algirdas Jurevičius	Born		Bishop of Telšiai (-Klaipeda), Lithuania
1974	23.3	Alessandro D’Errico	Ordained Priest	Priest of Aversa, Italy	Apostolic Nuncio
	24.9	Pierre Nguyễn Văn Tốt	Ordained Priest	Priest of Phú Cường, Viet Nam	Apostolic Nuncio
	27.8	Simon Ntamwana	Ordained Priest	Priest	Archbishop Emeritus of Gitega, Burundi
	27.0	Želimir Puljić	Ordained Priest	Priest of Mostar-Duvno (-Trebinje e Mrkan), Bosnia and Herzegovina	Archbishop Emeritus of Zadar (Zara), Croatia
	23.8	Elie (Yéghia) Yéghiayan, I.C.P.B.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Institut du Clergé Patriarcal de Bzommar	Bishop of Sainte-Croix-de-Paris (Armenian), France
1977		Krzysztof Marcjanowicz	Born		Under Secretary of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
1979	25.4	Francisco Eduardo Cervantes Merino	Ordained Priest	Priest of Tuxpan, Veracruz, México	Bishop of Orizaba, Veracruz, México
		Jose Maria Garcia Maldonado	Born		Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Chicago, Illinois, USA
	24.3	Johannes Willibrordus Maria Hendriks	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Rotterdam, Netherlands	Bishop of Haarlem-Amsterdam, Netherlands
	27.5	Laurent Bernard Marie Ulrich	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Dijon, France	Archbishop of Paris, France
1982	42.9	Héctor González Martínez	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Campeche, México	Archbishop Emeritus of Durango, México
1984	27.3	Ignacio Francisco Ducasse Medina	Ordained Priest	Priest of Santiago de Chile	Archbishop of Antofagasta, Chile
1984	24.4	Rubens Sevilha, O.C.D.	Perpetual Vows	Member of Order of Discalced Carmelites	Bishop of Bauru, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1985	28.0	Hervé Jean Robert Giraud	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Viviers, France	Bishop
1990	61.0	Leopold Nowak	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Cissa	Bishop Emeritus of Magdeburg, Germany
	31.1	Giovane Pereira de Melo	Ordained Priest	Priest of Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso, Brazil	Bishop of Araguaína, Tocatins, Brazil
	24.3	José Bolivar Piedra Aguirre	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cuenca, Ecuador	Bishop of Riobamba, Ecuador
	29.9	Ernesto José Romero Rivas, O.F.M. Cap.	Perpetual Vows	Member of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin	Vicar Apostolic of Tucupita, Venezuela
	52.7	Marin Srakić	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Cercina	Archbishop Emeritus of Ðakovo-Osijek, Croatia
	27.4	Mylo Hubert Claudio Vergara	Ordained Priest	Priest of Manila, Philippines	Bishop of Pasig, Philippines
1992	56.5	Fabian Wendelin Bruskewitz	Appointed	Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA	Bishop Emeritus
1992	58.1	Edmond Carmody	Appointed	Bishop of Tyler, Texas, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
1993	52.8	James Terry Steib, S.V.D.	Appointed	Bishop of Memphis, Tennessee, USA	Bishop Emeritus
1999	48.7	Orani João Tempesta, O. Cist.	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Claraval, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Cardinal, Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1999	50.8	José Antônio Aparecido Tosi Marques	Installed	Archbishop of Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
2000	66.9	Alvaro Efrén Rincón Rojas, C.Ss.R.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Bettonium	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Puerto Carreño, Colombia
2000	59.7	Roger Lawrence Schwietz, O.M.I.	Installed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Anchorage, Alaska, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
2001	38.2	Donatien Bafuidinsoni Maloko-Mana, S.J.	Solemn Vows	Priest of Society of Jesus	Bishop of Inongo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	66.0	Mario Busquets Jordá	Ordained Bishop	Prelate of Chuquibamba, Peru	Prelate Emeritus
	54.4	Gustavo Arturo Help	Installed	Bishop of Venado Tuerto, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus
2004	69.3	Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Bertone, S.D.B.	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Auxiliatrice in via Tuscolana	Cardinal, Secretary Emeritus of the Secretariat of State
	75.1	Adalberto Paulo da Silva, O.F.M. Cap.	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	58.8	Hélio Adelar Rubert	Appointed	Bishop of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2005	62.7	Domenico Sigalini	Appointed	Bishop of Palestrina, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
2006	59.9	Georges Michel Bakar, Ist. del Prado	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Pelusium dei Greco-Melkiti	Protosyncellus Emeritus of Egypt, Sudan, and South Sudan (Melkite Greek)
	60.4	Antonio Cañizares Llovera	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Valencia, Spain
	60.4	Antonio Cañizares Llovera	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Valencia, Spain
	66.9	Stanisław Dziwisz	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Kraków {Cracow}, Poland
	66.9	Stanisław Dziwisz	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Kraków {Cracow}, Poland
	61.7	Seán Patrick O’Malley, O.F.M. Cap.	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
	61.7	Seán Patrick O’Malley, O.F.M. Cap.	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Vittoria	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
	61.4	Jean-Pierre Bernard Ricard	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Bordeaux (-Bazas), France
	61.4	Jean-Pierre Bernard Ricard	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Agostino	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Bordeaux (-Bazas), France
	71.5	Franc Rodé, C.M.	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
	71.5	Franc Rodé, C.M.	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Francesco Saverio alla Garbatella	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
	73.6	Gaudencio Borbon Rosales	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Manila, Philippines
	73.6	Gaudencio Borbon Rosales	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santissimo Nome di Maria in Via Latina	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Manila, Philippines
	65.9	Agostino Vallini	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Vicar General Emeritus of Roma {Rome}, Italy
	65.9	Agostino Vallini	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Pier Damiani ai Monti di San Paolo	Cardinal, Vicar General Emeritus of Roma {Rome}, Italy
	74.1	Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, S.D.B.	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong [Xianggang], China
	74.1	Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, S.D.B.	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Madre del Redentore a Tor Bella Monaca	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong [Xianggang], China
2007	47.1	Elie Bechara Haddad, B.S.	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Saïdā (Sidone) (Melkite Greek), Lebanon
	43.8	Jorge Herbas Balderrama, O.F.M.	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Prelate of Aiquile, Bolivia	Prelate
	59.9	Domenico Mogavero	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Mazara del Vallo, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	45.1	David Motiuk	Installed	Bishop of Edmonton (Ukrainian), Alberta, Canada
2010	73.5	John Magee, S.P.S.	Resigned	Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
2011	54.5	Giuseppe Giudice	Appointed	Bishop of Nocera Inferiore-Sarno, Italy
2011	71.0	Béchara Boutros Raï, O.M.M.	Confirmed	Cardinal, Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Maronite), Lebanon
2012	63.8	Froilán Tiberio Casas Ortíz	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Neiva, Colombia	Bishop Emeritus
	50.6	Santo Rocco Gangemi	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Papua New Guinea	Apostolic Nuncio to Serbia
	49.5	Vincent Harolimana	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ruhengeri, Rwanda
	50.8	Joseph Ndembu Mbatia	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Nyahururu, Kenya
	43.2	Wiesław Andrzej Śmigiel	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Pelplin, Poland	Archbishop of Szczecin-Kamień, Poland
	43.2	Wiesław Andrzej Śmigiel	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Beatia	Archbishop of Szczecin-Kamień, Poland
2015	60.0	Bertram Víctor Wick Enzler	Appointed	Bishop of Santo Domingo en Ecuador
2016	56.5	Bernard Anthony Hebda	Appointed	Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
2018	65.5	Gervais Banshimiyubusa	Appointed	Archbishop of Bujumbura, Burundi
	65.5	Gervais Banshimiyubusa	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Ngozi, Burundi	Archbishop of Bujumbura, Burundi
	56.5	Julio Murat	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Cameroun	Apostolic Nuncio to Sweden
	76.2	Evariste Ngoyagoye	Retired	Archbishop of Bujumbura, Burundi	Archbishop Emeritus
2019	54.2	Susitino Sionepoe, S.M.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Wallis et Futuna, Wallis and Futuna, Pacific (Oceania)
2020	57.7	Gabriel Ángel Villa Vahos	Installed	Archbishop of Tunja, Colombia
2021	46.3	Alessandra Smerilli, F.M.A.	Appointed	Under Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development	Secretary

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