The Year of Our Lord 1850

Bishop Events

January to April

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
unknown	61.7	Resigned	László Bémer de Bezdéd et Kis-Báka †	Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad}, Romania	Bishop Emeritus
	47.8	Appointed	Giuseppe Cardoni †	President of Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, Roman Curia	Bishop Emeritus of Recanati e Loreto, Italy
	22.2	Ordained Priest	Jacinto María Cervera y Cervera †	Priest	Bishop of Mallorca y Ibiza, Spain
	25.6	Professed	Louis-Simon Faurie, M.E.P. †	Member of La Société des Missions Etrangères	Vicar Apostolic of Kuiceu, China
	70.9	Died	Giovanni Ferrini, O.F.M. Conv. †	Bishop Emeritus of Bagnoregio (Bagnorea), Italy
	23.0	Ordained Priest	Ignazio Filippo Harcus †	Priest	Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon
	54.3	Appointed	Paolo Maria Mondio †	Prelate of Santa Lucia del Mela, Italy
	37.7	Ordained Bishop	Joaquim Moreira Reis, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Angola e Congo, Angola	Bishop Emeritus
	27.1	Converted	James Laird Patterson †	Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain
	22.0	Ordained Priest	James David Ricards †	Priest	Vicar Apostolic of Cape of Good Hope, Eastern District {Capo de Buona Speranza, Distretto Orientale}, South Africa
	25.1	Ordained Priest	José de Jesús María Uriarte y Pérez †	Priest	Bishop of Sinaloa, México
	24.0	Ordained Priest	Thomas Zerpa †	Priest	Former Bishop-Elect of Mérida, Venezuela
1 Jan	52.2	Ordained Bishop	Crispino Agostinucci †	Bishop of Montefeltro, Italy
2 Jan		Born	Pasquale Trosksi †	Durrës	Archbishop Emeritus of Skopje, Macedonia
3 Jan		Born	Eugène-Jacques Grellier †	Joué-Etiau	Bishop of Laval, France
3 Jan		Born	Germano Mehakad †		Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Syria per i Melchiti
7 Jan	55.5	Appointed	Paolo Giovanni Bertolozzi †	Bishop of Montalcino, Italy
	64.5	Confirmed	Juan Nepomuceno Cascallana y Ordóñez †	Bishop of Astorga, Spain	Bishop of Málaga, Spain
	56.3	Appointed	Gaetano Maria Cattani †	Bishop of Carpi, Italy
	45.0	Confirmed	José Domingo Costa y Borrás †	Bishop of Barcelona, Spain	Archbishop of Tarragona, Spain
	38.6	Confirmed	Pierre-Simon-Louis-Marie de Dreux-Brézé †	Bishop of Moulins, France
	56.0	Confirmed	Anton Karner †	Bishop of Győr (Raab), Hungary
	69.8	Confirmed	Antonio Lao y Cuevas †	Bishop of Guadix, Spain
	56.0	Appointed	Diego Planeta †	Titular Archbishop of Tamiathis	Archbishop Emeritus of Brindisi, Italy
	43.6	Confirmed	János Ranolder †	Bishop of Veszprém, Hungary
	61.0	Confirmed	Salvador Sanz Grado †	Bishop of Salamanca, Spain
8 Jan	46.7	Appointed	Paul Cullen †	Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland	Cardinal, Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland
8 Jan		Born	Gaetano Müller †	Naples	Bishop of Nardò, Italy
11 Jan	48.8	Selected	Gregorio De Luca †	Archbishop of Conza e Campagna, Italy
	37.1	Selected	Francesco Petagna †	Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia, Italy
	42.8	Selected	Giuseppe Rotondo (Rotundo) †	Bishop of Brindisi, Italy	Archbishop of Taranto, Italy
12 Jan		Born	Gennaro Costagliola, C.M. †	Napoli	Archbishop of Chieti, Italy
12 Jan	57.1	Died	Francesco Spalletti †	Bishop of Nepi e Sutri, Italy
13 Jan	43.3	Installed	Giulio Arrigoni, O.F.M. †	Archbishop of Lucca, Italy
	51.2	Ordained Bishop	Łukasz Baraniecki †	Archbishop of Lviv, Ukraine
		Born	Costanzo Castrale †	Usseglio, Italy	Titular Bishop of Gaza
14 Jan	43.8	Appointed	François-Xavier Danicourt, C.M. †	Vicar Apostolic of Chekiang {Ce-Kiam}, China
14 Jan	43.8	Appointed	François-Xavier Danicourt, C.M. †	Titular Bishop of Antiphellus	Vicar Apostolic of Chekiang {Ce-Kiam}, China
15 Jan	47.8	Died	Joannes van Breugel †	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Breda, Netherlands
15 Jan	32.7	Ordained Priest	Edgar Philip Prindle Wadhams †	Priest of Albany, New York, USA	Bishop of Ogdensburg, New York, USA
17 Jan		Born	Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti †	Cimbres	Cardinal, Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
21 Jan		Born	Biagio Pisani †	Serra San Bruno, Italy	Titular Archbishop of Naupactus
24 Jan		Born	Giuseppe Mori †	Loro Piceno	Cardinal, Secretary of the Congregation of the Council
25 Jan	46.4	Selected	Tomás Iglesias y Bárcones †	Bishop of Mondoñedo, Spain	Patriarch of West Indies, Spain
25 Jan		Born	Edward Joseph McCarthy †	Halifax	Archbishop of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
27 Jan	62.3	Ordained Bishop	Joaquim Pereira Ferraz, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Bragança e Miranda, Portugal	Bishop of Leiria, Portugal
Feb	57.0	Resigned	József Lonovics †	Bishop of Csanád, Hungary	Archbishop of Kalocsa, Hungary
10 Feb	27.9	Ordained Priest	Francisco Melitón Vargas y Gutiérrez †	Priest	Bishop of Tlaxcala, México
10 Feb		Born	Felice Del Sordo †	Nusco	Bishop of Alife, Italy
11 Feb	86.3	Died	Benedict Joseph Flaget, P.S.S. †	Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky, USA
11 Feb	39.7	Succeeded	Martin John Spalding †	Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky, USA	Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
12 Feb	26.7	Ordained Priest	Juan Nepomuceno Rueda Rueda †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Antioquía, Colombia
13 Feb		Born	Michael Kelly †	Waterford	Archbishop of Sydney, Australia
15 Feb	50.1	Appointed	Patrick Joseph Carew †	Vicar Apostolic of Western Bengal, India
	37.1	Appointed	Marc-Thomas Oliffe †	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Western Bengal, India
	37.1	Appointed	Marc-Thomas Oliffe †	Vicar Apostolic of Eastern Bengal, India	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Western Bengal, India
22 Feb	24.7	Ordained Priest	Manuel María León González y Sánchez †	Priest	Bishop of Jaén, Spain
23 Feb	24.3	Ordained Deacon	Prospero Curti †	Deacon	Bishop of Guastalla, Italy
	23.0	Ordained Priest	Édouard-Charles Fabre †	Priest	Archbishop of Montréal, Québec, Canada
	64.8	Selected	Miguel José Irigoyen †	Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada, Spain
	25.9	Ordained Deacon	Francesco Zunnui Casula †	Deacon of Galtelli-Nuoro (Galtelly Nori), Italy	Archbishop of Oristano, Italy
24 Feb	46.0	Ordained Bishop	Johann Anton Friedrich Baudri †	Titular Bishop of Arethusa	Auxiliary Bishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
	24.1	Ordained Deacon	Julian Cáceres Negrón †	Deacon	Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru
	46.8	Ordained Bishop	Paul Cullen †	Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland	Cardinal, Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland
	50.2	Ordained Bishop	Motiejus Wołonczewscki †	Bishop of Žemaičiai (Samogizia o Tels; Żmudź), Lithuania
Mar	69.9	Resigned	Ioan Lemeni †	Bishop of Făgăraş (Romanian), Romania	Bishop Emeritus
2 Mar	55.7	Died	Giuseppe Menditto †	Bishop Emeritus of Noto, Italy
3 Mar	24.1	Ordained Priest	Julian Cáceres Negrón †	Priest	Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru
4 Mar		Born	Luigi Giuseppe Lasagna, S.D.B. †	Montemagno, Italy	Titular Bishop of Oëa
10 Mar	63.2	Ordained Bishop	Myles Murphy †	Bishop of Ferns, Ireland
12 Mar		Born	Pierre-Marie-François Lalouyer, M.E.P. †	Acigné, France	Vicar Apostolic of Northern Manchuria {Manciuria Settentrionale}, China
14 Mar	61.4	Resigned	Giuseppe von Rudnyánszki †	Bishop of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia	Bishop Emeritus
15 Mar	47.3	Appointed	Armand-Françios-Marie de Charbonnel, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
16 Mar	22.5	Ordained Priest	Giacomo Corna-Pellegrini †	Priest	Bishop of Brescia, Italy
	24.4	Ordained Priest	Prospero Curti †	Priest	Bishop of Guastalla, Italy
	22.7	Ordained Priest	Valerio Laspro †	Priest	Archbishop of Salerno (-Acerno), Italy
	23.7	Ordained Priest	Michel-Esther Le Turdu, M.E.P. †	Priest of La Société des Missions Etrangères	Vicar Apostolic of Malacca-Singapore
	23.5	Ordained Priest	John McLachlan †	Priest	Bishop of Galloway, Scotland, Great Britain
	24.2	Ordained Priest	Luigi Marcello Pellegrini †	Priest	Prelate of Altamura ed Acquaviva delle Fonti, Italy
	26.0	Ordained Priest	Francesco Zunnui Casula †	Priest of Galtelli-Nuoro (Galtelly Nori), Italy	Archbishop of Oristano, Italy
17 Mar		Born	Giovanni del Papa, O.S.B. †	Lecce dei Marsi	Abbot of San Paolo fuori le Mura, Italy
17 Mar		Born	Pierre-Philippe Giraudeau, M.E.P. †	Saint-Mars-de-Coutais, France	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Tatsienlu, China
20 Mar	26.9	Ordained Priest	Achille Apolloni †	Priest	Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of San Cesareo in Palatio
22 Mar	46.5	Appointed	Johannes van Genk †	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Breda, Netherlands	Bishop of Breda, Netherlands
22 Mar	46.5	Appointed	Johannes van Genk †	Titular Bishop of Adrana	Bishop of Breda, Netherlands
25 Mar	36.2	Appointed	Michelangelo (Pierre) Celesia, O.S.B. †	Abbot of Montecassino, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop of Palermo, Italy
30 Mar	36.1	Ordained Priest	Charles-Philippe Place †	Priest	Cardinal, Archbishop of Rennes (-Dol-Saint-Malo), France
	22.8	Ordained Priest	Vincenzo Serarcangeli †	Priest	Bishop of Foligno, Italy
	24.2	Ordained Priest	Flaviano Simoneschi †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Terracina, Priverno e Sezze, Italy
1 Apr		Born	Pasquale Giamgian †	Costantinopoli	Bishop of Bursa (Bostra, Prusa) (Armenian), Turkey
1 Apr		Born	Bernardo Agusto Thiel Hoffman, C.M. †	Elberfeld, Germany	Bishop of San José de Costa Rica
3 Apr	53.9	Appointed	Clément Bonnand, M.E.P. †	Vicar Apostolic of Pondicherry, India
	44.0	Appointed	Etienne-Louis Charbonnaux, M.E.P. †	Vicar Apostolic of Mysore, India
	36.3	Appointed	Melchior-Marie-Joseph de Marion-Brésillac, M.E.P. †	Vicar Apostolic of Coimbatore, India	Vicar Apostolic of Sierra Leone
	73.6	Died	Carlos de São José e Souza, O.C.D. †	Bishop of São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil
4 Apr	66.7	Died	Juan Cayetano José María Gómez de Portugal y Solis †	Bishop of Michoacán, México
4 Apr		Born	Matthew Makil †	Manjoor	Vicar Apostolic of Kottayam (Syro-Malabarese), India
6 Apr	58.0	Selected	Adalberto Bartakovics †	Archbishop of Eger, Hungary
	53.6	Selected	Stefano Kollárcsik †	Bishop of Rožňava, Slovakia
	59.8	Selected	Jozef Kunszt †	Bishop of Košice, Slovakia	Archbishop of Kalocsa, Hungary
		Born	Nicholas Chrysostom Matz †	Munster, France	Bishop of Denver, Colorado, USA
	56.8	Selected	Ladislav Záboyský †	Bishop of Spiš, Slovakia
7 Apr		Born	Hermann Joseph (Thomas) Esser, O.P. †	Aachen, Germany	Titular Bishop of Sinis
	61.7	Ordained Bishop	José Elías Puyana †	Titular Bishop of Corada	Bishop of Pasto, Colombia
		Born	Michele Zezza di Zapponeta †	Napoli	Archbishop Emeritus of Napoli {Naples}, Italy
11 Apr	55.4	Died	Ignazio Giovanni Cadolini †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Ferrara, Italy
11 Apr	78.6	Died	Antonio Da Arrabida, O.F.M. †	Titular Bishop of Anemurium
14 Apr	38.9	Ordained Bishop	Pierre-Simon-Louis-Marie de Dreux-Brézé †	Bishop of Moulins, France
14 Apr		Born	Peter Joseph O’Reilly †	Moynalty, Ireland	Auxiliary Bishop of Peoria, Illinois, USA
17 Apr	58.7	Died	Pierre Giraud †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Cambrai, France
21 Apr	55.8	Ordained Bishop	Paolo Giovanni Bertolozzi †	Bishop of Montalcino, Italy
	56.6	Ordained Bishop	Gaetano Maria Cattani †	Bishop of Carpi, Italy
	68.7	Died	Juan Francisco del Rosario Manfredo y Ballestas †	Bishop of Panamá
23 Apr		Born	Jorge Barlin Imperial †	Baao	Bishop of Nueva Caceres, Philippines
28 Apr	61.3	Ordained Bishop	Salvador Sanz Grado †	Bishop of Salamanca, Spain
28 Apr	85.6	Died	Placide-Bruno Valayer †	Bishop Emeritus of Verdun, France
30 Apr	39.0	Appointed	Giuseppe Arachial †	Bishop of Trabzon (Armenian), Turkey	Bishop of Ancira (Angora) (Armenian), Turkey
	57.3	Appointed	Timoteo Francis Astorgi †	Bishop of Artuin degli Armeni (Armenian), Turkey
	54.3	Appointed	Gregorio Bahadur †	Bishop of Bursa (Bostra, Prusa) (Armenian), Turkey
	65.3	Appointed	Joannes Derderian †	Bishop of Ispahan {Esfáan) (Armenian), Iran
	38.9	Installed	Pierre-Simon-Louis-Marie de Dreux-Brézé †	Bishop of Moulins, France
	49.3	Appointed	Josephus Gregorius Hagi †	Bishop of Garin (Erzerum) (Armenian)
	38.3	Appointed	Michael Monaghan †	Bishop of Roseau, Dominica, Antilles
	60.3	Appointed	Antonio Clemens Scisman †	Bishop of Ancira (Angora) (Armenian), Turkey
	48.1	Appointed	Richard Patrick Smith †	Archbishop of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Antilles