Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
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Mar | Born | Joseph Li Shan | Bishop of Beijing [Peking], China | ||
1 Mar | 57.2 | Died | Gabriel Abou-Saada † | Patriarchal Vicar of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme} (Melkite Greek), Palestine | |
85.2 | Died | Joseph-Eugène Limoges † | Bishop of Mont-Laurier, Québec, Canada | ||
2 Mar | 59.2 | Ordained Bishop | Rafael Grovas Felix † | Bishop of Caguas, Puerto Rico | |
3 Mar | Born | Fulgence Aloysius Tigga | Bishop of Raiganj, India | ||
4 Mar | Born | Edmar Perón | Bishop of Paranaguá, Parana, Brazil | ||
5 Mar | Born | Lucio Adrian Ruiz | Secretary of the Dicastery for Communication | ||
8 Mar | 38.2 | Appointed | James Edward Charles Burke, O.P. † | Prelate of Chimbote, Peru | Prelate Emeritus |
10 Mar | 62.4 | Appointed | Rafael Alvarez Lara † | Bishop of Mallorca, Spain | Bishop Emeritus |
11 Mar | 85.2 | Died | Dionysios Kfoury † | Patriarchal Vicar Emeritus of Egypt and Sudan (Melkite Greek) | |
85.2 | Died | Clemente Micara † | Cardinal, Vicar General of Roma {Rome}, Italy | ||
12 Mar | Born | Georges Bizimana | Bishop of Ngozi, Burundi | ||
52.0 | Appointed | Jean-Baptiste Brunon, P.S.S. † | Auxiliary Bishop of Toulouse (-Narbonne-Saint Bertrand de Comminges-Rieux), France | Bishop Emeritus of Tulle, France | |
52.0 | Appointed | Jean-Baptiste Brunon, P.S.S. † | Titular Bishop of Vagal | Bishop Emeritus of Tulle, France | |
13 Mar | 24.5 | Ordained Priest | Anthony J. Farquhar † | Priest of Down and Connor, Ireland | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus |
24.5 | Ordained Priest | Enrico Feroci | Priest of Roma {Rome}, Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria del Divino Amore a Castel di Leva | |
28.1 | Ordained Priest | Alessandro Pagani, S.M.M. | Priest of Missionaries of the Company of Mary | Bishop Emeritus of Mangochi, Malawi | |
14 Mar | 18.3 | Entered | Cristián Enrique Contreras Molina, O. de M. | Member of Order of Our Lady of Mercy | Bishop Emeritus of San Felipe, Chile |
Born | José Francisco Falcão de Barros | Auxiliary Bishop of Brazil, Military | |||
16 Mar | Born | Giuseppe Mengoli | Bishop of San Severo, Italy | ||
83.3 | Died | Thomas Asagoro Wakida (Wakita) † | Bishop Emeritus of Yokohama, Japan | ||
17 Mar | Born | Thomas John Kiangio | Bishop of Tanga, Tanzania | ||
43.5 | Appointed | Luis Clemente de la Vega Rodriguez † | Bishop of Tulcán, Ecuador | ||
18 Mar | Born | Roberto José da Silva | Bishop of Janaúba, Minas Gerais, Brazil | ||
31.2 | Ordained Priest | John Jocelyn Madden, S.D.B. † | Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco | Prefect Emeritus of Lashio, Myanmar | |
55.1 | Appointed | Martin Legarra Tellechea, O.A.R. † | Titular Bishop of Luperciana | Bishop Emeritus of Santiago de Veraguas, Panama | |
Born | Eduardo Vieira dos Santos | Bishop of Ourinhos, Sao Paulo, Brazil | |||
19 Mar | 23.6 | Ordained Priest | Claudio Maria Celli | Priest of Rimini, Italy | President Emeritus of the Dicastery for Communication |
24.0 | Ordained Priest | Ramiro Moliner Inglés | Priest | Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Albania | |
50.8 | Ordained Bishop | Angel Morta Figuls † | Titular Bishop of Gubaliana | Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid, Spain | |
20 Mar | 28.8 | Ordained Deacon | François Jacques Bussini † | Deacon of Besançon, France | Bishop Emeritus of Amiens, France |
74.5 | Appointed | Antônio Mazzarotto † | Titular Bishop of Octabia | Bishop Emeritus of Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brazil | |
74.5 | Retired | Antônio Mazzarotto † | Bishop of Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus | |
48.5 | Succeeded | Geraldo Claudio Luiz Micheletto Pellanda, C.P. † | Bishop of Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brazil | ||
21 Mar | 25.1 | Ordained Priest | Gerald Nicholas Dino † | Priest of Passaic (Ruthenian), New Jersey, USA | Bishop Emeritus of Holy Protection of Mary of Phoenix (Ruthenian), Arizona, USA |
Born | Mario Iceta Gavicagogeascoa | Archbishop of Burgos, Spain | |||
54.7 | Ordained Bishop | Giustino Giulio Pastorino, O.F.M. † | Titular Bishop of Babra | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Benghazi, Libya | |
43.1 | Succeeded | Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez † | Bishop of San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz, México | Archbishop Emeritus of San Luis Potosí, México | |
22 Mar | 49.8 | Appointed | Anthony de Saram † | Bishop of Galle, Sri Lanka | |
38.8 | Appointed | Basil Salvadore D’Souza † | Bishop of Mangalore, India | ||
63.4 | Died | Francis Edward Joseph Grimshaw † | Archbishop of Birmingham, England, Great Britain | ||
41.6 | Appointed | Peter Hoang Min Syeng † | Bishop of Daejeon {Taejon}, Korea (South) | ||
37.6 | Appointed | Hans Ludvig Martensen, S.J. † | Bishop of København {Copenhagen}, Denmark | Bishop Emeritus | |
67.1 | Appointed | Sisto Mazzoldi, F.S.C.J. † | Apostolic Administrator of Moroto, Uganda | Bishop Emeritus | |
55.6 | Appointed | Jacques Nguyễn Ngọc Quang † | Bishop of Cần Thơ, Viet Nam | ||
51.7 | Resigned | José Thurler † | Coadjutor Bishop of Sorocaba, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus of Chapecó, Santa Catarina, Brazil | |
43.5 | Appointed | Daniel Tji Hak Soun † | Bishop of Wonju, Korea (South) | ||
44.1 | Appointed | Alain Sauveur Ferdinand van Gaver, M.E.P. † | Vicar Apostolic of Nakhorn-Rajasima, Thailand | Bishop Emeritus of Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand | |
44.1 | Appointed | Alain Sauveur Ferdinand van Gaver, M.E.P. † | Titular Bishop of Capra | Bishop Emeritus of Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand | |
55.0 | Appointed | Eugen Joseph Frans Vroemen, S.M.M. † | Bishop of Chikwawa, Malawi | Bishop Emeritus | |
23 Mar | 84.5 | Died | John Henry King † | Bishop of Portsmouth, England, Great Britain | |
24 Mar | Born | Jean-Bertin Nadonye Ndongo, O.F.M. Cap. | Bishop of Lolo, Congo (Dem. Rep.) | ||
25 Mar | 60.6 | Installed | John Joseph Carberry † | Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, USA | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA |
60.8 | Appointed | Félix César da Cunha Vasconcellos, O.F.M. † | Archbishop of Ribeirão Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil | ||
26.5 | Ordained Priest | Rafael Leónidas Felipe y Núñez | Priest | Bishop Emeritus of Barahona, Dominican Republic | |
57.7 | Ordained Bishop | Michael Foylan † | Bishop of Aberdeen, Scotland, Great Britain | ||
54.6 | Ceased | Gordon Joseph Gray † | Apostolic Administrator of Aberdeen, Scotland, Great Britain | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain | |
37.5 | Ordained Bishop | Eduardo Herrera Riera † | Titular Bishop of Sesta | Bishop Emeritus of Carora, Venezuela | |
32.4 | Ordained Priest | Michael Minj, S.J. † | Priest of Society of Jesus | Bishop of Gumla, India | |
32.8 | Ordained Priest | Fabio Mamerto Rivas Santos, S.D.B. † | Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco | Bishop Emeritus of Barahona, Dominican Republic | |
26 Mar | 69.6 | Resigned | Jean-Louis-Antoine-Joseph Coudert, O.M.I. † | Vicar Apostolic of Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus |
Born | José Manuel Garita Herrera | Bishop of Ciudad Quesada, Costa Rica | |||
50.5 | Appointed | Youhanna Nueir, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Assiut {Lycopolis} (Coptic), Egypt | Bishop Emeritus | |
27 Mar | 51.9 | Appointed | Gilberto Baroni † | Bishop of Reggio Emilia, Italy | Bishop Emeritus of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy |
32.1 | Ordained Priest | Thomas Bhalerao, S.J. † | Priest of Society of Jesus | Bishop Emeritus of Nashik, India | |
Born | Simona Brambilla, M. C. | Secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life | |||
52.1 | Appointed | Joseph Louis André Ouellette † | Bishop of Mont-Laurier, Québec, Canada | Bishop Emeritus | |
50.0 | Appointed | Aristide Pirovano, P.I.M.E. † | Superior General of Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions | Prelate Emeritus of Macapá, Amapa, Brazil | |
50.0 | Resigned | Aristide Pirovano, P.I.M.E. † | Prelate of Macapá, Amapa, Brazil | Prelate Emeritus of Macapá, Amapa, Brazil | |
27.0 | Ordained Priest | Paul Zingtung Grawng † | Priest of Myitkyina, Myanmar | Archbishop Emeritus of Mandalay, Myanmar | |
28 Mar | 41.2 | Ordained Bishop | James Chiona † | Titular Bishop of Bacanaria | Archbishop Emeritus of Blantyre, Malawi |
Born | Aurelio García Macías | Under Secretary of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments | |||
78.2 | Installed | Ángel Herrera Oria † | Cardinal-Priest of Sacro Cuore di Maria | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Málaga, Spain | |
26.1 | Ordained Priest | Jesús Moliné Labarte | Priest of Piura, Peru | Bishop Emeritus of Chiclayo, Peru | |
29 Mar | 23.9 | Ordained Priest | Leon Augustine Tharmaraj † | Priest of Kottar, India | Bishop |
30 Mar | 88.8 | Died | Maurilio Fossati, O.Ss.G.C.N. † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Torino {Turin}, Italy | |
69.9 | Appointed | Luigi Traglia † | Vicar General of Roma {Rome}, Italy | Cardinal, Dean of the College of Cardinals | |
31 Mar | 44.1 | Ordained Bishop | James Patrick Shannon † | Titular Bishop of Lacubaza | |
Apr | 72.4 | Ceased | Renato Ziggiotti, S.D.B. † | Rector Major of Salesians of Saint John Bosco | Rector Major Emeritus |
1 Apr | 57.0 | Appointed | José de Jesús Tirado Pedraza † | Bishop of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México | Archbishop Emeritus of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México |
2 Apr | Born | Wilfred Chikpa Anagbe, C.M.F. | Bishop of Makurdi, Nigeria | ||
3 Apr | 52.2 | Ordained Bishop | Romeo Roy Blanchette † | Titular Bishop of Maxita | Bishop Emeritus of Joliet in Illinois, USA |
23.8 | Ordained Priest | Beniamino Depalma, C.M. | Priest of Congregation of the Mission | Bishop Emeritus of Nola, Italy | |
27.0 | Ordained Priest | Keith Michael Patrick O’Brien † | Priest of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus | |
47.3 | Appointed | Luigi Poggi † | Titular Archbishop of Forontoniana | Cardinal, Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archive | |
47.3 | Appointed | Luigi Poggi † | Apostolic Delegate to Central Africa | Cardinal, Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archive | |
Born | Sandro Salvucci | Archbishop of Pesaro, Italy | |||
23.4 | Ordained Priest | Jesús Esteban Sádaba Pérez, O.F.M. Cap. | Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Aguarico, Ecuador | |
Born | Petru Sescu | Auxiliary Bishop of Iaşi, Romania | |||
4 Apr | Born | Alain Faubert | Auxiliary Bishop of Montréal, Québec, Canada | ||
26.0 | Ordained Deacon | Giuseppe Orlandoni | Deacon of Recanati, Italy | Bishop Emeritus of Senigallia, Italy | |
31.3 | Ordained Priest | George Riashi, B.C. † | Priest of Basilian Chouerite Order of Saint John the Baptist (Melkite Greek) | Archbishop Emeritus of Tripoli del Libano {Tarabulus} (Melkite Greek) | |
5 Apr | Born | Víctor Alejandro Aguilar Ledesma | Bishop of Celaya, Guanajuato, México | ||
87.3 | Died | Johann Evangelist Erich Müller † | Bishop Emeritus of Stockholm, Sweden | ||
6 Apr | 52.5 | Succeeded | Teopisto Valderrama Alberto † | Archbishop of Caceres (Nueva Caceres), Philippines | Archbishop Emeritus |
59.6 | Appointed | Franz König † | President of the Secretariat for Non-Believers | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Wien {Vienna}, Austria | |
75.7 | Died | Pedro Paulo Santos Songco † | Archbishop of Caceres (Nueva Caceres), Philippines | ||
7 Apr | 70.9 | Resigned | Gregório Alonso Aparicio, O.A.R. † | Prelate of Marajó, Para, Brazil | Prelate Emeritus |
61.0 | Appointed | Miguel Ángel Arce Vivas † | Archbishop of Popayán, Colombia | Archbishop Emeritus | |
85.7 | Died | Giovanni Capobianco † | Bishop of Urbania e Sant’Angelo in Vado, Italy | ||
50.9 | Appointed | Angelo Pedroni † | Titular Archbishop of Novica | Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Belgium | |
9 Apr | Born | José Roberto Fortes Palau | Bishop of Limeira, Sao Paulo, Brazil | ||
62.0 | Died | Albert Gregory Meyer † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois, USA | ||
10 Apr | 93.6 | Died | James Duhig † | Archbishop of Brisbane, Australia | |
68.1 | Succeeded | Patrick Mary O’Donnell † | Archbishop of Brisbane, Australia | Archbishop Emeritus | |
50.9 | Appointed | Angelo Pedroni † | Apostolic Delegate to Thailand, Laos and the Malacca Peninsula | Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Belgium | |
Born | Cyril Vasil’, S.J. | Bishop of Košice (Slovak), Slovakia | |||
11 Apr | 47.1 | Ordained Bishop | Michel Callens, M. Afr. † | Titular Archbishop of Moxori | Prelate of Tunis, Tunisia |
24.0 | Ordained Priest | Juan José Larrañeta Olleta, O.P. | Priest of Order of Friars Preachers | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Puerto Maldonado, Peru | |
13 Apr | Born | Jean-Philippe Paul Nault, S.J.M.V. | Bishop of Nice, France | ||
14 Apr | 58.3 | Died | Ubaldo Evaristo Cibrián Fernández, C.P. † | Prelate of Corocoro, Bolivia | |
57.3 | Appointed | Frank Henry Greteman † | Auxiliary Bishop of Sioux City, Iowa, USA | Bishop Emeritus | |
57.3 | Appointed | Frank Henry Greteman † | Titular Bishop of Vissalsa | Bishop Emeritus of Sioux City, Iowa, USA | |
60.2 | Appointed | Cyril John Vogel † | Bishop of Salina, Kansas, USA | ||
15 Apr | Born | Michael Router | Auxiliary Bishop of Armagh, Ireland | ||
17 Apr | 91.8 | Died | Włodzimierz Bronisław Jasiński † | Bishop Emeritus of Łódź, Poland | |
Born | Hieronymus Emusugut Joya, I.M.C. | Bishop of Maralal, Kenya | |||
19 Apr | Born | René Sócrates Sándigo Jirón | Bishop of León en Nicaragua | ||
24.3 | Solemn Vows | Albert Vanbuel, S.D.B. | Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco | Bishop Emeritus of Kaga-Bandoro, Central African Republic | |
20 Apr | 25.1 | Ordained Priest | Venant Bacinoni † | Priest of Bururi, Burundi | Bishop Emeritus |
40.8 | Ordained Bishop | James Martin Hayes † | Titular Bishop of Reperi | Archbishop Emeritus of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada | |
29.5 | Ordained Priest | Joseph Anthony Irudayaraj, S.D.B. † | Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco | Bishop Emeritus of Dharmapuri, India | |
69.5 | Died | Paul Kiredjian † | Archbishop of Istanbul (Armenian), Turkey | ||
21 Apr | 47.0 | Appointed | Edward Anthony McCarthy † | Auxiliary Bishop of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA | Archbishop Emeritus of Miami, Florida, USA |
47.0 | Appointed | Edward Anthony McCarthy † | Titular Bishop of Tamascani | Archbishop Emeritus of Miami, Florida, USA | |
Born | Pierbattista Pizzaballa, O.F.M. | Cardinal, Patriarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine | |||
22 Apr | Born | Joseph Ma Yinglin | Archbishop of Kunming [Kunming], China | ||
23 Apr | 81.7 | Appointed | Fernando Cento † | Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri | Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary |
79.7 | Died | Gerardo Faustino Herrero Garrote, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Changde [Changteh], China | ||
66.0 | Died | Pierre-Marie Gustave Lacointe † | Bishop of Beauvais (-Noyon-Senlis), France | ||
24 Apr | 48.6 | Installed | Geraldo Claudio Luiz Micheletto Pellanda, C.P. † | Bishop of Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brazil | |
25 Apr | 58.6 | Resigned | Angelo Prinetto † | Vicar Apostolic of Loreto, Italy | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus |
27.8 | Ordained Priest | Joseph Edra Ukpo † | Priest of Ogoja, Nigeria | Archbishop Emeritus of Calabar, Nigeria | |
26 Apr | 63.8 | Appointed | Anacleto Cazzaniga † | Apostolic Administrator of Urbania e Sant’Angelo in Vado, Italy | Archbishop Emeritus of Urbino, Italy |
27 Apr | 50.4 | Resigned | Bogdan Stefanov Dobranov † | Apostolic Administrator of Sofia e Plovdiv, Bulgaria | Bishop of Sofia e Plovdiv, Bulgaria |
68.2 | Appointed | Simeon Kokov (Kokoff), O.F.M. Cap. † | Apostolic Administrator of Sofia e Plovdiv, Bulgaria | ||
63.9 | Appointed | Luigi Ricceri, S.D.B. † | Rector Major of Salesians of Saint John Bosco | Rector Major Emeritus | |
28 Apr | 29.6 | Ordained Priest | Mauro Morelli † | Priest | Bishop Emeritus of Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
29 Apr | 76.7 | Died | Louis-August Chorin, M.E.P. † | Vicar Apostolic of Bangkok, Thailand | |
25.4 | Ordained Priest | Paul Nguyễn Thanh Hoan † | Priest | Bishop Emeritus of Phan Thiết, Viet Nam | |
56.9 | Succeeded | Joseph Khiamsun Nittayo † | Vicar Apostolic of Bangkok, Thailand | Archbishop Emeritus of Bangkok, Thailand | |
40.4 | Appointed | Angelo Maria Rivato, S.J. † | Prelate of Ponta de Pedras, Para, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus of Ponta de Pedras, Para, Brazil | |
28.1 | Ordained Priest | Pierre Trần Ðình Tứ | Priest | Bishop Emeritus of Phú Cường, Viet Nam |
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