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Living Bishop Events

St. Andrew Kim Taegon, priest and martyr, St. Paul Chong Hasang and companions, martyrs (Memorial)

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1936		Lucas Kerketta, S.V.D.	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Sambalpur, India
1940		Emilio Layon Bataclan	Born		Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Cebu, Philippines
1940		Felipe Salazar Villagrana	Born		Bishop Emeritus of San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, México
1944		Ilija Janjić	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Kotor (Cattaro), Montenegro
1947		Carlos María Collazzi Irazábal, S.D.B.	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Mercedes, Uruguay
1953		Gerald John Mathias	Born		Bishop of Lucknow, India
1954		Hanna G. Alwan, M.L.	Born		Curial Bishop of Antiochia {Antioch} (Maronite), Lebanon
1957		Stanisław Dowlaszewicz Billman, O.F.M. Conv.	Born		Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
1958		Fortunato Morrone	Born		Archbishop of Reggio Calabria-Bova, Italy
1959	28.7	Frédéric Rubwejanga, O.C.S.O.	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Kibungo, Rwanda
1960		John Oliver Barres	Born		Bishop of Rockville Centre, New York, USA
1961		Stephen Eustace Victor Fernandes	Born		Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay, India
1961		Mark Steven Rivituso	Born		Archbishop of Mobile, Alabama, USA
1962		Paul Abdel Sater	Born		Archbishop of Beirut {Bairut} (Maronite), Lebanon
1962		Wilfried Theising	Born		Auxiliary Bishop of Münster, Germany
1963		Omar Alberto Sánchez Cubillos, O.P.	Born		Archbishop of Popayán, Colombia
1965		José Cobo Cano	Born		Cardinal, Archbishop of Madrid, Spain
1967		Jaime Alberto Cabrera Arcos	Born		Bishop of Garzón, Colombia
1968		Gian Franco Saba	Born		Archbishop of Italy, Military
1970		Beat Grögli	Born		Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
1970	24.4	Juan José Omella Omella	Ordained Priest	Priest of Zaragoza, Spain	Cardinal, Archbishop of Barcelona, Spain
1974	43.2	Richard Charles Patrick Hanifen	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Abercornia	Bishop Emeritus of Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
1975	25.7	Corrado Pizziolo	Ordained Priest	Priest of Treviso, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Vittorio Veneto, Italy
1975	25.4	Angelo Vincenzo Zani	Ordained Priest	Priest of Brescia, Italy	Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Apostolic Archive
1981	29.5	Dominique François Joseph Mamberti	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ajaccio, France	Cardinal, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura
1985	23.9	Ginés Ramón García Beltrán	Ordained Priest	Priest of Almería, Spain	Bishop of Getafe, Spain
1986	40.7	John Njue	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Embu, Kenya	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Nairobi, Kenya
1986	31.6	Jesús Sanz Montes, O.F.M.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor	Archbishop of Oviedo, Spain
1987	47.3	Claude Jean Pierre Dagens	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Vulturaria	Bishop Emeritus of Angoulême, France
1987	24.2	Dominique Joseph Mathieu, O.F.M. Conv.	Solemn Vows	Member of Order of Friars Minor Conventual	Cardinal, Archbishop of Teheran-Ispahan, Iran
1988	30.5	Juan Manuel Muñoz Curiel, O.F.M.	Solemn Vows	Member of Order of Friars Minor	Auxiliary Bishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
1991	43.3	José Antônio Aparecido Tosi Marques	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Lysinia	Archbishop Emeritus of Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil
1992	23.8	François-Xavier Bustillo, O.F.M. Conv.	Solemn Vows	Member of Order of Friars Minor Conventual	Cardinal, Bishop of Ajaccio, France
1992	27.4	Aurelio García Macías	Ordained Priest	Priest of Valladolid, Spain	Under Secretary of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
1997	32.8	Étienne Emmanuel Vetö, I.C.N.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Chemin Neuf Institute	Auxiliary Bishop of Reims, France
1998	54.0	Bernard-Nicolas Jean-Marie Aubertin, O. Cist.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Chartres, France	Archbishop Emeritus of Tours, France
	27.0	Giorgio Barbetta Manzocchi	Ordained Priest	Priest of Gubbio, Italy	Auxiliary Bishop of Huarí, Peru
	62.3	Adriano Caprioli	Installed	Bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	56.9	Cándido Cárdenas Villalba	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Benjamín Aceval, Paraguay	Bishop Emeritus
	27.9	Cleonir Paulo Dalbosco, O.F.M. Cap.	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin	Bishop of Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
	58.4	Pier Giorgio Debernardi	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Pinerolo, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	32.8	Mauro Maria Gambetti, O.F.M. Conv.	Solemn Vows	Member of Order of Friars Minor Conventual	Cardinal, President of the Fabric of St. Peter
	50.0	Giuseppe Petrocchi	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Latina-Terracina-Sezze-Priverno, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of L’Aquila, Italy
2003	50.3	Antonio Arcari	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Caeciri	Apostolic Nuncio
	33.5	Isidoro del Carmen Mora Ortega	Ordained Priest	Priest of Matagalpa, Nicaragua	Bishop of Siuna, Nicaragua
	51.0	Salvatore Pennacchio	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Thailand	President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
	51.0	Salvatore Pennacchio	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Singapore	President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
	51.0	Salvatore Pennacchio	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Cambodia	President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
	51.0	Salvatore Pennacchio	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Myanmar	President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
	51.0	Salvatore Pennacchio	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Laos	President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
	51.0	Salvatore Pennacchio	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Malaysia	President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
	51.0	Salvatore Pennacchio	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Brunei Darussalam	President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
2004	45.8	Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi, S.V.D.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Niigata, Japan	Cardinal, Archbishop of Tōkyō, Japan
2005	53.5	George Antonysamy	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Sierra Leone	Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor), India
2005	64.9	Rutilio Juan del Riego Jáñez, H.S.O.D.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Daimlaig	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of San Bernardino, California, USA
2006	45.4	Joseph Pandarasseril (Pandarassery)	Confirmed	Auxiliary Bishop of Kottayam (Syro-Malabar), India
2006	45.4	Joseph Pandarasseril (Pandarassery)	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Castellum Ripae	Auxiliary Bishop of Kottayam (Syro-Malabar), India
2007	67.0	Bernardo Fabio D’Onorio, O.S.B.	Appointed	Archbishop of Gaeta, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
	52.9	César Daniel Fernández	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Paraná, Argentina	Bishop of Jujuy, Argentina
	52.9	César Daniel Fernández	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Caltadria	Bishop of Jujuy, Argentina
2008	47.2	Mauro Parmeggiani	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tivoli, Italy
2009	53.4	Manuel da Silva Rodrigues Linda	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Casae Medianae	Bishop of Porto, Portugal
2013	68.8	Donald Joseph Kettler	Appointed	Bishop of Saint Cloud, Minnesota, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	70.3	Stephen Joseph Reichert, O.F.M. Cap.	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Wewak, Papua New Guinea	Archbishop Emeritus of Madang, Papua New Guinea
	73.2	Roger Lawrence Schwietz, O.M.I.	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Fairbanks, Alaska, USA	Archbishop Emeritus of Anchorage, Alaska, USA
2014	65.5	Blase Joseph Cupich	Appointed	Cardinal, Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois, USA
	47.9	Héctor David García Osorio	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Yoro, Honduras	Bishop of Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras
	47.5	Riccardo Luca Guariglia, O.S.B.	Appointed	Abbot of Montevergine, Italy
	48.1	Stefan Heße (Hesse)	Ceased	Administrator of Köln {Cologne}, Germany	Archbishop of Hamburg, Germany
	44.1	Paolo Rudelli	Appointed	Permanent Observer to Council of Europe	Substitute (Sostituto) of the Secretariat of State
	58.0	Rainer Maria Woelki	Installed	Cardinal, Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
2015	48.5	Udo Markus Bentz	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Sita	Archbishop of Paderborn, Germany
2015	67.3	Salvador Giménez Valls	Installed	Bishop of Lleida, Spain	Bishop Emeritus
2016	57.8	François Michel Pierre Kalist	Appointed	Archbishop of Clermont, France
2017	49.2	Zenildo Luiz Pereira da Silva, C.Ss.R.	Succeeded	Prelate of Borba, Amazonas, Brazil	Bishop of Borba, Amazonas, Brazil
	62.4	Aloísio Jorge Pena Vitral	Appointed	Bishop of Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	75.6	Guilherme Porto	Retired	Bishop of Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	75.0	Elói Róggia, S.A.C.	Retired	Prelate of Borba, Amazonas, Brazil	Prelate Emeritus
2018	79.1	Agnelo Rufino Gracias	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator, Sede Plena of Jullundur, India	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bombay, India
2020	60.9	Martin Hayes	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kilmore, Ireland
2020	59.0	Laurent Jean Lucien Marie Percerou	Installed	Bishop of Nantes, France
2021	64.1	Andrzej Siemieniewski	Installed	Bishop of Legnica, Poland
2023	62.9	Benno Elbs	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Vaduz, Liechtenstein	Bishop of Feldkirch, Austria
	58.0	Odair Miguel Gonsalves dos Santos, C.M.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
	58.0	Odair Miguel Gonsalves dos Santos, C.M.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Cenae	Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
	75.1	Wolfgang Haas	Retired	Archbishop of Vaduz, Liechtenstein	Archbishop Emeritus
2025	75.0	Thomas D’Souza	Retired	Archbishop of Calcutta, India	Archbishop Emeritus
	63.0	Elias Frank	Succeeded	Archbishop of Calcutta, India
	48.9	Andrés Amauri Rosario Henriquez	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Autenti	Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic

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