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Living Bishop Events

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1937		Toribio Sergio Porco Ticona	Born		Cardinal, Prelate Emeritus of Corocoro, Bolivia
1937		William Keith Weigand	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Sacramento, California, USA
1944		Domenico Graziani	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Crotone-Santa Severina, Italy
1946		Lucio Lemmo	Born		Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Napoli {Naples}, Italy
1948		Michael Joseph Fitzgerald	Born		Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1949		Daniel Nicholas DiNardo	Born		Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA
1951		Fulgence Rabemahafaly	Born		Archbishop of Fianarantsoa, Madagascar
1956		Guy Desrochers, C.Ss.R.	Born		Archbishop of Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
1959	35.9	René Henry Gracida	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Saint Benedict	Bishop Emeritus of Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
1962		José Avelino Bettencourt	Born		Apostolic Nuncio to Cameroun
1963	25.0	Aquilino Bocos Merino, C.M.F.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary	Cardinal, Superior General Emeritus
1964	27.6	Donald Lapointe	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Jérôme - Mont-Laurier, Québec, Canada
1964	23.0	Józef Michalik	Ordained Priest	Priest of Łomża, Poland	Archbishop Emeritus of Przemyśl, Poland
1966		Salvatore Rumeo	Born		Bishop of Noto, Italy
1968	27.6	Plácido Rodríguez, C.M.F.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary	Bishop Emeritus of Lubbock, Texas, USA
1970	25.8	Robert James Carlson	Ordained Priest	Priest of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA	Archbishop Emeritus of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
	31.7	Brian Vincent Finnigan	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ballarat, Australia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Brisbane, Australia
	24.4	Anthony Mancini	Ordained Priest	Priest of Montréal, Québec, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus of Halifax-Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
	27.1	Armando Xavier Ochoa	Ordained Priest	Priest of Los Angeles, California, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Fresno, California, USA
		Wojciech Skibicki	Born		Bishop of Elbląg, Poland
	27.0	Paul Terrio	Ordained Priest	Priest of Montréal, Québec, Canada	Bishop Emeritus of Saint Paul in Alberta, Canada
		Basel Salim Yaldo	Born		Curial Bishop of Baghdad (Chaldean), Iraq
1971	25.1	Christo Proykov	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sofia (Bulgarian), Bulgaria	Bishop Emeritus of Saint John XXIII of Sofia (Bulgarian), Bulgaria
1974		Giovani Edgar Arana	Born		Bishop of El Alto, Bolivia
1975	41.8	Augusto Alves da Rocha	Appointed	Bishop of Picos, Piaui, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Floriano, Piaui, Brazil
1981	52.9	Charles Louis Joseph Vandame, S.J.	Appointed	Archbishop of N’Djaména, Chad	Archbishop Emeritus
1982	30.4	Jacques André Blaquart	Ordained Priest	Priest of Angoulême, France	Bishop of Orléans, France
1982	25.8	Jorge Alberto Ossa Soto	Ordained Priest	Priest of Istmina, Colombia	Archbishop of Nueva Pamplona, Colombia
1983	28.6	Benoît Marie Pascal Rivière	Ordained Deacon	Deacon	Bishop of Autun (-Châlon-sur-Saône-Mâcon-Cluny), France
1987	26.1	Marek Mendyk	Ordained Priest	Priest of Wrocław {Breslavia}, Poland	Bishop of Świdnica, Poland
	30.9	William Charles Skurla	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor	Archbishop of Pittsburgh (Ruthenian), Pennsylvania, USA
	28.0	Richard William Smith	Ordained Priest	Priest of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada	Archbishop of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1988	44.4	Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga, Peru	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Lima, Peru
1988	44.4	Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Turuzi	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Lima, Peru
1991	41.6	Aleksander Kaszkiewicz	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Grodno, Belarus	Bishop Emeritus
1992	31.1	Jeffrey Scott Grob	Ordained Priest	Priest of Chicago, Illinois, USA	Archbishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
1992	26.3	Lawrence John Sullivan	Ordained Priest	Priest of Chicago, Illinois, USA	Auxiliary Bishop
1993	52.6	Woldetensaé Ghebreghiorghis, O.F.M. Cap.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Asuoremixta	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Harar, Ethiopia
1998	39.8	John Balthasar Brungardt	Ordained Priest	Priest of Wichita, Kansas, USA	Bishop of Dodge City, Kansas, USA
	57.5	Michele De Rosa	Appointed	Bishop of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de’ Goti, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	32.9	Stephen Douglas Parkes	Ordained Priest	Priest of Orlando, Florida, USA	Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, USA
	56.0	Antonio Sozzo	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Costa Rica	Apostolic Nuncio
1999	51.7	Francesco Lambiasi	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Anagni-Alatri, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Rimini, Italy
2000	61.4	Rainer Klug	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	61.4	Rainer Klug	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Ala Miliaria	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
	47.3	Patrick Le Gal	Appointed	Bishop of France, Military	Auxiliary Bishop of Lyon, France
2001	76.4	Gaetano Bonicelli	Retired	Archbishop of Siena-Colle di Val d’Elsa-Montalcino, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
	57.4	Antonio Buoncristiani	Appointed	Archbishop of Siena-Colle di Val d’Elsa-Montalcino, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
	52.0	Protógenes José Luft, S.d.C.	Succeeded	Bishop of Barra do Garças, Mato Grosso, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	51.3	Juan Manuel Mancilla Sánchez	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Texcoco, México, México	Bishop Emeritus
	51.3	Juan Manuel Mancilla Sánchez	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Reperi	Bishop Emeritus of Texcoco, México, México
2003	47.0	Philip Arnold Subira Anyolo	Installed	Bishop of Homa Bay, Kenya	Archbishop of Nairobi, Kenya
2006	58.6	Óscar Armando Campos Contreras	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Antequera, Oaxaca, México	Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, México
	58.6	Óscar Armando Campos Contreras	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Summa	Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, México
	52.6	Francisco Montecillo Padilla	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Nebbio	Apostolic Nuncio to Guatemala
2008	74.6	John Lee Hiong Fun-Yit Yaw	Appointed	Archbishop of Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia	Archbishop Emeritus
2009	48.4	Bernardo Johannes Bahlmann, O.F.M.	Installed	Prelate of Óbidos, Para, Brazil	Bishop of Óbidos, Para, Brazil
2011	51.7	Dabula Anthony Mpako	Appointed	Bishop of Queenstown, South Africa	Archbishop of Pretoria, South Africa
2013	53.3	Vasyl Ivasyuk	Appointed	Archiepiscopal Administrator of Kolomyia-Chernivtsi (Ukrainian), Ukraine	Bishop of Kolomyia (Ukrainian), Ukraine
2013	58.9	Udumala Bala Showreddy	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Warangal, India	Archbishop of Visakhapatnam, India
2015	63.8	Ghaleb Moussa Abdalla Bader	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Pakistan	Apostolic Nuncio
	63.8	Ghaleb Moussa Abdalla Bader	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Mathara in Numidia	Apostolic Nuncio
	71.0	Paul Jacques Marie Desfarges, S.J.	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Alger, Algeria	Archbishop Emeritus
	50.8	Augusto Paolo Lojudice	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Alba Maritima	Cardinal, Archbishop of Siena-Colle di Val d’Elsa-Montalcino, Italy
	59.5	Sergio Melillo	Appointed	Bishop of Ariano Irpino-Lacedonia, Italy
	81.7	Julio César Terán Dutari, S.J.	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Santo Domingo en Ecuador	Bishop Emeritus of Ibarra, Ecuador
	60.2	Bertram Víctor Wick Enzler	Installed	Bishop of Santo Domingo en Ecuador
2016	76.6	Stanislaus Fernandes, S.J.	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Baroda, India	Archbishop Emeritus of Gandhinagar, India
2018	51.7	Sérgio de Deus Borges	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo (Melkite Greek), Brazil	Bishop of Foz do Iguaçu, Parana, Brazil
2019	46.3	Stephen Nyodho Ador Majwok	Appointed	Bishop of Malakal, South Sudan
2020	76.4	Edmundo Luis Flavio Abastoflor Montero	Retired	Archbishop of La Paz, Bolivia	Archbishop Emeritus
	67.7	Thomas Chung An-zu	Appointed	Archbishop of Taipei, Taiwan
	67.7	Thomas Chung An-zu	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Kinmen or Quemoy Islands and Matzu, Taiwan	Archbishop of Taipei, Taiwan
	54.7	Percy Lorenzo Galvan Flores	Appointed	Archbishop of La Paz, Bolivia
	76.5	John Hung Shan-chuan, S.V.D.	Retired	Archbishop of Taipei, Taiwan	Archbishop Emeritus
	76.5	John Hung Shan-chuan, S.V.D.	Retired	Apostolic Administrator of Kinmen or Quemoy Islands and Matzu, Taiwan	Archbishop Emeritus of Taipei, Taiwan
2021	75.4	Gilles Côté, S.M.M.	Retired	Bishop of Daru-Kiunga, Papua New Guinea	Bishop Emeritus
	75.4	Gilles Côté, S.M.M.	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Daru-Kiunga, Papua New Guinea	Bishop Emeritus
	53.1	Joseph Tarife Durero, S.V.D.	Appointed	Bishop of Daru-Kiunga, Papua New Guinea
	51.2	Josif Printezis	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Naxos, Andros, Tinos e Mykonos, Greece
2022	79.0	Georges Paul Pontier	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Paris, France	Archbishop Emeritus of Marseille, France
	79.0	Georges Paul Pontier	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of France, Faithful of Eastern Rites	Archbishop Emeritus of Marseille, France
	63.0	Paul Fitzpatrick Russell	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit, Michigan, USA
	70.7	Laurent Bernard Marie Ulrich	Installed	Archbishop of Paris, France
2023	77.5	Paul Joseph Bradley	Retired	Bishop of Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA	Bishop Emeritus
2023	61.5	Edward Mark Lohse	Appointed	Bishop of Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
2025		Paul Kavanagh	Appointed	Administrator of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
	61.9	Dominique Joseph Mathieu, O.F.M. Conv.	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Giovanna Antida Thouret	Cardinal, Archbishop of Teheran-Ispahan, Iran
	71.8	Ivo Scapolo	Retired	Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal	Apostolic Nuncio
	66.0	Richard William Smith	Installed	Archbishop of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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