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Seniority by Bishop Ordination

Most Senior


Ordained
Bishop
YearsNameCurrent Title
29 Jun 1944 Bishop Francis Hong Yong-hoBishop of P’yong-yang, Korea (North)
24 Aug 1951 Ján Chryzostom Cardinal Korec, S.J.Bishop Emeritus of Nitra, Slovakia
22 Apr 1953 Bishop Joseph Oliver Bowers, S.V.D.Bishop Emeritus of Saint John’s-Basseterre, Virgin Islands (British), Antilles
25 Mar 1954 Bishop Jan van Cauwelaert, C.I.C.M.Bishop Emeritus of Inongo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
5 May 1954 Bishop Wilhelmus Joannes (Guillaume Jean) Demarteau, M.S.F.Bishop Emeritus of Banjarmasin, Indonesia
15 Aug 1954 Eugênio Cardinal de Araújo SalesArchbishop Emeritus of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
28 Aug 1955 Archbishop José de Jesús Pimiento RodriguezArchbishop Emeritus of Manizales, Colombia
9 Sep 1955 Bishop Dominik Kalata, S.J.Titular Bishop of Semta
29 Jun 1956 Archbishop George Hamilton Pearce, S.M.Archbishop Emeritus of Suva, Fiji, Pacific (Oceania)
29 Jul 1956 Fiorenzo Cardinal AngeliniPresident Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers, Roman Curia
20 Jan 1957 Archbishop Jaime Luiz CoelhoArchbishop Emeritus of Maringá, Parana, Brazil
22 Sep 1957 Archbishop José Maria PiresArchbishop Emeritus of Paraíba, Paraiba, Brazil
29 Sep 1957 Bishop Felice LeonardoBishop Emeritus of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de’ Goti, Italy
6 Oct 1957 Archbishop André SanaArchbishop Emeritus of Kerkuk (Chaldean), Iraq
27 Apr 1958 Archbishop Bernardino Piñera CarvalloArchbishop Emeritus of La Serena, Chile
6 Jul 1958 Archbishop Alcides Mendoza CastroArchbishop Emeritus of Cuzco, Peru
10 Aug 1958 Bishop Caetano Antônio Lima dos Santos, O.F.M. Cap.Bishop Emeritus of Ilhéus, Baia, Brazil
7 Sep 1958 Bishop Pedro Reginaldo LiraBishop Emeritus of San Francisco, Argentina
14 Sep 1958 Bishop Antonio José Ramírez SalaverríaBishop Emeritus of Maturín, Venezuela
19 Mar 1959 Bishop John Jobst, S.A.C.Bishop Emeritus of Broome, Australia
7 May 1959 Serafim Cardinal Fernandes de AraújoArchbishop Emeritus of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
24 Apr 1960 Archbishop Moisés Julio BlanchoudArchbishop Emeritus of Salta, Argentina
21 Jun 1960 Archbishop Arturo Antonio Szymanski RamírezArchbishop Emeritus of San Luis Potosí, México
25 Jul 1960 Bishop Paul Ch’eng Shih-kuangBishop Emeritus of Tainan, Taiwan
25 Jul 1960 Bishop Eloy Tato Losada, I.E.M.E.Bishop Emeritus of Magangué, Colombia
28 Aug 1960 Archbishop Armando Círio, O.S.I.Archbishop Emeritus of Cascavel, Parana, Brazil
12 Oct 1960 Luis Cardinal Aponte MartínezArchbishop Emeritus of San Juan de Puerto Rico
18 Jan 1961 Bishop Paul-Émile CharbonneauBishop Emeritus of Hull, Québec, Canada
22 Jan 1961 Bishop Antoine Nguyên Van ThienBishop Emeritus of Vinh Long, Viêt Nam
16 Apr 1961 Bishop Mario Renato Cornejo RadaveroAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Lima, Peru
22 Apr 1961 Bishop Albert-Georges-Yves MalboisBishop Emeritus of Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes, France
14 May 1961 Archbishop Carlos Quintero ArceArchbishop Emeritus of Hermosillo, Sonora, México
21 May 1961 Bishop Angelo Cuniberti, I.M.C.Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Florencia, Colombia
21 May 1961 Bishop Placidus Gervasius Nkalanga, O.S.B.Bishop Emeritus of Bukoba, Tanzania
9 Jul 1961 Bishop Louis Nganga a NdzandoBishop Emeritus of Lisala, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
16 Jul 1961 Nasrallah Pierre Cardinal SfeirPatriarch Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Maronite), Lebanon
25 Jul 1961 Bishop Pedro Bantigue y NatividadBishop Emeritus of San Pablo, Philippines
30 Jul 1961 Giovanni Cardinal CanestriArchbishop Emeritus of Genova {Genoa}, Italy
24 Aug 1961 Bishop William John McNaughton, M.M.Bishop Emeritus of Incheon {Inch’on}, Korea (South)
8 Sep 1961 Bishop José de Jesús Sahagún de la ParraBishop Emeritus of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, México
15 Oct 1961 Bishop Andrés Sapelak, S.D.B.Bishop Emeritus of Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires (Ukrainian), Argentina
29 Oct 1961 Archbishop Antônio Ribeiro de OliveiraArchbishop Emeritus of Goiânia, Goias, Brazil
27 Dec 1961 Bishop Johannes Willem Maria BluijssenBishop Emeritus of ’s Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), Netherlands
6 Jan 1962 Bishop José Mauro Ramalho de Alarcón SantiagoBishop Emeritus of Iguatú, Ceara, Brazil
11 Feb 1962 Bishop Gregorio Garavito Jiménez, S.M.M.Bishop Emeritus of Villavicencio, Colombia
19 Mar 1962 Bishop Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres GonzálezBishop Emeritus of Melo, Uruguay
10 Jun 1962 Archbishop Robert-Casimir Tonyui Messan Dosseh-AnyronArchbishop Emeritus of Lomé, Togo
25 Jul 1962 Bishop Jacques LandriaultBishop Emeritus of Timmins, Ontario, Canada
22 Aug 1962 Duraisamy Simon Cardinal LourdusamyPrefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, Roman Curia
22 Aug 1962 Bishop Anselmo Zarza BernalBishop Emeritus of León, Guanajuato, México
30 Aug 1962 Archbishop Raymond Gerhardt HunthausenArchbishop Emeritus of Seattle, Washington, USA
12 Sep 1962 Bishop Myles McKeonBishop Emeritus of Bunbury, Australia
14 Dec 1962 Bishop Remi Joseph De RooBishop Emeritus of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
24 Feb 1963 Bishop Yves-Georges-René Ramousse, M.E.P.Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Phnom-Penh, Cambodia
19 Mar 1963 Bishop José Guadalupe Padilla LozanoBishop Emeritus of Veracruz, México
19 Apr 1963 Emmanuel III (Emmanuel-Karim) Cardinal DellyPatriarch of Babylon {Babilonia} (Chaldean), Iraq
21 Apr 1963 Bishop Salvatore NicolosiBishop Emeritus of Noto, Italy
9 May 1963 Bishop Géry-Jacques-Charles LeulietBishop Emeritus of Amiens, France
2 Aug 1963 Bishop José de Jesús Garcia AyalaBishop Emeritus of Campeche, México
29 Aug 1963 Bishop Laurent NoëlBishop Emeritus of Trois Rivières, Québec, Canada
4 Oct 1963 Bishop Luigi BettazziBishop Emeritus of Ivrea, Italy
20 Oct 1963 Archbishop Victorinus Youn Kong-hiArchbishop Emeritus of Kwangju, Korea (South)
30 Jan 1964 Bishop Victor Garaygordóbil BerrizbeitiaPrelate Emeritus of Babahoyo, Ecuador
5 Feb 1964 Archbishop Alphonsus MathiasArchbishop Emeritus of Bangalore, India
13 Feb 1964 Archbishop Savino Bernardo Maria Cazzaro Bertollo, O.S.M.Archbishop Emeritus of Puerto Montt, Chile
25 Feb 1964 Bishop Andreas Peter Cornelius Sol, M.S.C.Bishop Emeritus of Amboina, Indonesia
3 Mar 1964 Bishop José Gabriel Diaz CuevaBishop Emeritus of Azogues, Ecuador
1 May 1964 Bishop Waldyr Calheiros Novaes (de Novais)Bishop Emeritus of Barra do Piraí-Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1 May 1964 Bishop Georges-Hilaire Dupont, O.M.I.Bishop Emeritus of Pala, Chad
14 Jun 1964 Archbishop Albert Joseph TsiahoanaArchbishop Emeritus of Antsiranana, Madagascar
27 Jul 1964 Bishop Douglas Joseph WarrenBishop Emeritus of Wilcannia-Forbes, Australia
26 Aug 1964 Archbishop Joseph-Aurèle PlourdeArchbishop Emeritus of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
6 Dec 1964 Archbishop Eurico Dias NogueiraArchbishop Emeritus of Braga, Portugal
13 Dec 1964 Bishop Jean-Félix-Albert-Marie VilnetBishop Emeritus of Lille, France
2 Feb 1965 Archbishop Gabriel Thohey Mahn-GabyArchbishop Emeritus of Yangon, Myanmar
16 Feb 1965 Archbishop James OdongoArchbishop Emeritus of Tororo, Uganda
25 Mar 1965 Bishop Eduardo Herrera RieraBishop Emeritus of Carora, Venezuela
20 Apr 1965 Archbishop James Martin HayesArchbishop Emeritus of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
16 May 1965 Bishop Hans Ludvig Martensen, S.J.Bishop Emeritus of København {Copenhagen}, Denmark
25 Jul 1965 Bishop José Trinidad Sepúlveda Ruiz-VelascoBishop Emeritus of San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, México
22 Aug 1965 Archbishop Gabino Díaz MerchánArchbishop Emeritus of Oviedo, Spain
29 Aug 1965 Francis Cardinal ArinzePrefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Roman Curia
5 Sep 1965 Archbishop Hilarion Capucci, B.A.Auxiliary Bishop of Antiochia {Antioch} (Melkite Greek), Syria
5 Sep 1965 Archbishop Grégoire HaddadArchbishop Emeritus of Beirut and Jbeil {Bairut e Gibail} (Melkite Greek), Lebanon
6 Feb 1966 Archbishop Ignacy TokarczukArchbishop Emeritus of Przemyśl, Poland
6 Mar 1966 Bishop Paul-Marie François Rousset, Ist. del PradoBishop Emeritus of Saint-Etienne, France
29 May 1966 Archbishop Boleslaw PylakArchbishop Emeritus of Lublin, Poland
1 Jun 1966 Archbishop Peter Leo GeretyArchbishop Emeritus of Newark, New Jersey, USA
12 Jun 1966 Archbishop Juan Antonio Flores SantanaArchbishop Emeritus of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
3 Jul 1966 Paulo Evaristo Cardinal Arns, O.F.M.Archbishop Emeritus of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
25 Jul 1966 Bishop Ernest Bertrand Boland, O.P.Bishop Emeritus of Multan, Pakistan
28 Aug 1966 Archbishop Pedro Antônio Marchetti FedaltoArchbishop Emeritus of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
4 Sep 1966 Bishop Jesús Agustín López de Lama, C.P.Prelate Emeritus of Corocoro, Bolivia
8 Sep 1966 Bishop Julio Xavier Labayen, O.C.D.Prelate Emeritus of Infanta, Philippines
2 Oct 1966 Archbishop Luciano José Cabral DuarteArchbishop Emeritus of Aracajú, Sergipe, Brazil
7 Oct 1966 Bishop Gerardo Humberto Flores ReyesBishop Emeritus of Verapaz, Cobán, Guatemala
28 Oct 1966 Archbishop François-Wolff LigondéArchbishop Emeritus of Port-au-Prince, Haïti
6 Nov 1966 Bishop Manuel Edmilson da CruzBishop Emeritus of Limoeiro do Norte, Ceara, Brazil
11 Dec 1966 Bishop Albert Onyembo Lomandjo, C.S.Sp.Bishop Emeritus of Kindu, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
18 Dec 1966 Archbishop Gilberto Pereira LopesArchbishop Emeritus of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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