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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 May	26.7	Ordained Priest	Roger Louis Kaffer †	Priest of Joliet in Illinois, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	44.0	Ordained Bishop	Antoon Konings, S.M.A. †	Bishop of Keta, Ghana	Bishop Emeritus of Keta-Ho, Ghana
	38.1	Ordained Bishop	Eusebio Septimio Mari, O.F.M. Cap. †	Titular Bishop of Pachnemunis	Vicar Apostolic of Riohacha, Colombia
	50.8	Ordained Bishop	Francis Clement Van Hoeck, O.S.B. †	Titular Bishop of Cissita	Abbot Emeritus of Pietersburg, South Africa
2 May	23.0	Ordained Priest	Blasco Francisco Collaço	Priest of Goa e Damão, India	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to South Africa
	56.2	Ordained Bishop	Francesco Fasola †	Titular Bishop of Vartana	Archbishop Emeritus of Messina, Italy
	27.6	Ordained Priest	Rafael María Nze Abuy, C.M.F. †	Priest of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary	Archbishop of Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
	52.5	Ordained Bishop	Felix Romero Menjibar †	Bishop of Jaén, Spain	Archbishop of Valladolid, Spain
3 May	44.6	Ordained Bishop	Petro Arikata Kobayashi †	Bishop of Sendai, Japan	Bishop Emeritus
	35.4	Ordained Bishop	Alberto Uribe Urdaneta †	Titular Bishop of Abila in Palaestina	Archbishop Emeritus of Cali, Colombia
4 May		Born	Francisco Carlos Bach	Ponta Grossa	Bishop of São José dos Pinhais, Parana, Brazil
		Born	Pius Thomas D’Souza	Bantwal	Bishop of Ajmer, India
5 May	35.9	Ordained Priest	Juan Alfredo Arzube †	Priest of Los Angeles, California, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	37.3	Ordained Bishop	Wilhelmus Joannes (Guillaume Jean) Demarteau, M.S.F. †	Titular Bishop of Arsinoë in Cypro	Bishop Emeritus of Banjarmasin, Indonesia
	47.2	Appointed	François Xavier Arthur Florent Morilleau †	Coadjutor Bishop of La Rochelle (-Saintes), France	Bishop Emeritus
	47.2	Appointed	François Xavier Arthur Florent Morilleau †	Titular Bishop of Ancusa	Bishop Emeritus of La Rochelle (-Saintes), France
	50.5	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Maria Pernicone †	Titular Bishop of Hadrianopolis in Honoriade	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of New York, New York, USA
	23.5	Professed	Joseph Bernard Louis Willigers, M.H.M. †	Member of St. Joseph’s Missionary Society of Mill Hill	Bishop Emeritus of Jinja, Uganda
6 May	90.4	Died	Cyrille Riza (Rizq) †	Auxiliary Bishop of Damas (Syrian), Syria
7 May	64.4	Appointed	Robert Stephen Dehler, C. R. †	Prefect of Bermuda Islands, Antilles	Vicar Apostolic of Bermuda Islands, Antilles
9 May	83.9	Appointed	Quirinus Clement Bonefacic †	Titular Bishop of Ioannina	Bishop Emeritus of Split-Makarska (Spalato-Macarska), Croatia
	83.9	Retired	Quirinus Clement Bonefacic †	Bishop of Split-Makarska (Spalato-Macarska), Croatia	Bishop Emeritus
	54.8	Succeeded	Peter Thomas McKeefry †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Wellington, New Zealand
	25.4	Ordained Priest	Francis George Adeodatus Micallef, O.C.D.	Priest of Order of Discalced Carmelites	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Kuwait
	84.2	Died	Thomas O’Shea, S.M. †	Archbishop of Wellington, New Zealand
10 May	62.5	Appointed	Luis Concha Córdoba †	Archbishop of Manizales, Colombia	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Bogotá, Colombia
		Born	George Palliparampil (Palliparambil), S.D.B.	Thattarathatta	Bishop of Miao, India
	83.9	Died	Ivan Rafael Rodić, O.F.M. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Beograd (-Smederevo), Serbia
11 May	52.6	Appointed	Francis Joseph Grimshaw †	Archbishop of Birmingham, England, Great Britain
12 May	74.5	Retired	Mathias Leonardus Trudon Brans, O.F.M. Cap. †	Vicar Apostolic of Medan, Indonesia	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Medan, Indonesia
	66.1	Died	William Joseph Hafey †	Bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
13 May		Born	Jean-Claude Makaya Loembe	Pointe-Noire	Bishop Emeritus of Pointe-Noire, Congo
	55.1	Died	Tomás Juan Carlos Solari †	Archbishop of La Plata, Argentina
14 May	58.0	Appointed	Biagio d’Agostino †	Bishop of Gallipoli, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Vallo di Lucania, Italy
		Born	Derek Fernandes	Sirsi	Bishop of Karwar, India
19 May		Born	Paul Patrick Chomnycky, O.S.B.M.	Vancouver, Canada	Bishop of Stamford (Ukrainian), USA
	50.6	Ordained Bishop	Jean Baptiste Dieter, S.M. †	Titular Bishop of Ierafi	Vicar Apostolic of Archipelago of the Navigators {Arcipelago dei Navigatori}, American Samoa, Pacific (Oceania)
	62.8	Died	Johannes Joseph van der Velden †	Bishop of Aachen, Germany
21 May	46.2	Appointed	Leo Christopher Byrne †	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA	Coadjutor Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
	46.2	Appointed	Leo Christopher Byrne †	Titular Bishop of Sabadia	Coadjutor Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
	50.8	Appointed	Jeremiah Francis Minihan †	Auxiliary Bishop of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
	50.8	Appointed	Jeremiah Francis Minihan †	Titular Bishop of Paphus	Auxiliary Bishop of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
22 May	78.1	Appointed	Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini †	Cardinal, Chancellor of the Apostolic Chancery
	67.1	Died	Giovanni Giorgis †	Bishop of Susa, Italy
23 May	34.4	Ordained Priest	Donaldo Chávez Núñez †	Priest of Managua, Nicaragua	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	23.3	Ordained Priest	Domenico Tarcisio Cortese, O.F.M. †	Priest of Order of Friars Minor	Bishop Emeritus of Mileto-Nicotera-Tropea, Italy
	54.7	Ordained Bishop	Giuseppe Garneri †	Titular Bishop of Utica	Bishop Emeritus of Susa, Italy
25 May	47.0	Ordained Bishop	Clarence George Issenmann †	Titular Bishop of Phytea	Bishop Emeritus of Cleveland, Ohio, USA
	42.4	Appointed	Oscar de Oliveira †	Coadjutor Bishop of Pouso Alegre, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus of Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	42.4	Appointed	Oscar de Oliveira †	Titular Bishop of Irenopolis in Cilicia	Archbishop Emeritus of Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil
		Born	Yves-Marie Péan, C.S.C.	Pilate	Bishop of Les Gonaïves, Haïti
26 May		Born	Peter Machado	Honavar	Bishop of Belgaum, India
	44.3	Ordained Bishop	Leonidas Eduardo Proaño Villalba †	Bishop of Bolivar, Ecuador	Bishop Emeritus of Riobamba, Ecuador
27 May	49.8	Ordained Bishop	Lorenzo Bessone, I.M.C. †	Bishop of Meru, Kenya
	25.9	Ordained Priest	Bernard Francis Pappin †	Priest	Auxiliary Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada
	26.5	Ordained Priest	Adolphe E. Proulx †	Priest of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada	Bishop of Gatineau-Hull, Québec, Canada
	68.2	Appointed	Thomas Joseph Toolen †	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Mobile-Birmingham, Alabama, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Mobile, Alabama, USA
	22.5	Ordained Priest	Umberto Tramma †	Priest	Official of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts
28 May		Born	Paul-André Durocher	Windsor	Archbishop of Gatineau, Québec, Canada
29 May	23.3	Ordained Priest	Joseph Anthony Fiorenza	Priest of Galveston, Texas, USA	Archbishop Emeritus of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA
	26.5	Ordained Priest	Thomas Joseph Lobsinger, O.M.I. †	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate	Bishop of Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
	25.9	Ordained Priest	Charles James McDonnell	Priest of Newark, New Jersey, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	25.8	Ordained Priest	William Clifford Newman	Priest of Baltimore, Maryland, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	119.0	Canonized	St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
30 May		Born	Stephen Arthur Jensen	North Vancouver	Bishop of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
	26.0	Ordained Priest	Wolfgang Kirchgässner	Priest of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
31 May		Born	Władisław Blin	Swidwin	Bishop Emeritus of Vitebsk, Belarus
		Born	Sérgio Eduardo Castriani, C.S.Sp.	Regente Feijó	Archbishop of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
	38.7	Appointed	Manuel Pereira da Costa †	Auxiliary Bishop of Paraíba, Paraiba, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Campina Grande, Paraiba, Brazil
	38.7	Appointed	Manuel Pereira da Costa †	Titular Bishop of Tinum	Bishop Emeritus of Campina Grande, Paraiba, Brazil
	28.6	Ordained Priest	Joseph Trinh Chinh Truc †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Ban Mê Thuôt, Viet Nam
1 Jun	33.6	Appointed	Eugênio de Araújo Sales †	Auxiliary Bishop of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	33.6	Appointed	Eugênio de Araújo Sales †	Titular Bishop of Thibica	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2 Jun		Born	Blaise Nzeyimana	Butare	Bishop of Ruyigi, Burundi
3 Jun	68.8	Died	James Boyle †	Bishop of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
5 Jun		Born	Juan-José Aguirre Muñoz, M.C.C.I.	Córdoba, Spain	Bishop of Bangassou, Central African Republic
	25.3	Ordained Priest	Thomas Joseph Costello	Priest of Syracuse, New York, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
		Born	Flávio Giovenale, S.D.B.	Murello, Italy	Bishop of Santarém, Para, Brazil
	26.3	Ordained Priest	Hubert Patrick O’Connor, O.M.I. †	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate	Bishop Emeritus of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
	26.7	Ordained Priest	Edmund Casimir Szoka	Priest of Marquette, Michigan, USA	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Governatorate of Vatican City State
6 Jun	73.7	Appointed	John Henry King †	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Portsmouth, England, Great Britain	Bishop
	46.7	Ordained Bishop	Mario Longo Dorni †	Bishop of Pistoia, Italy
	28.7	Ordained Priest	Cândido Lorenzo González, O. de M.	Priest of Order of Our Lady of Mercy	Bishop Emeritus of São Raimundo Nonato, Piaui, Brazil
8 Jun		Born	Julius Marandi	Belatanr	Bishop of Dumka, India
	59.1	Appointed	Gerald Patrick Aloysius O’Hara †	Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain
9 Jun	79.4	Died	Ruggero Bovelli †	Archbishop of Ferrara, Italy
10 Jun		Born	Severino Clasen, O.F.M.	Indaiá	Bishop of Caçador, Santa Catarina, Brazil
	58.1	Appointed	Marcel-Marie-Joseph-Henri-Paul Dubois †	Archbishop of Besançon, France	Archbishop Emeritus
11 Jun	53.5	Ordained Bishop	Justin Joseph McCarthy †	Titular Bishop of Doberus	Bishop of Camden, New Jersey, USA
12 Jun	23.6	Ordained Priest	Lino Bortolo Belotti	Priest of Bergamo, Italy	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	23.6	Ordained Priest	Rafael de la Barra Tagle, S.V.D.	Priest of Society of the Divine Word	Prelate Emeritus of Illapel, Chile
	25.0	Ordained Priest	James Leonard Doyle †	Priest of London, Ontario, Canada	Bishop Emeritus of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
	25.8	Ordained Priest	Joseph John Gerry, O.S.B.	Priest of Order of Saint Benedict	Bishop Emeritus of Portland, Maine, USA
	24.4	Ordained Priest	Amédée (Antoine-Marie) Grab, O.S.B.	Priest of Order of Saint Benedict	Bishop Emeritus of Chur, Switzerland
	24.0	Ordained Priest	David Every Konstant	Priest of Westminster, England, Great Britain	Bishop Emeritus of Leeds, England, Great Britain
	27.5	Ordained Priest	Jorge Arturo Augustin Medina Estévez	Priest of Santiago de Chile	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
	23.9	Ordained Priest	James Joseph O’Brien †	Priest of Westminster, England, Great Britain	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	25.1	Ordained Priest	Kevin O’Connor †	Priest of Liverpool, England, Great Britain	Auxiliary Bishop
	27.0	Ordained Priest	Varkey Vithayathil, C.SS.R. †	Priest of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer	Cardinal, Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabarese), India
13 Jun	41.6	Ordained Bishop	Laureano Castán Lacoma †	Titular Bishop of Dalisandus in Isauria	Bishop Emeritus of Sigüenza-Guadalajara, Spain
	67.6	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Gogué †	Archbishop of Bassorah {Basra} (Chaldean), Iraq
	65.4	Ordained Bishop	Ephrem Gogué †	Archbishop of Kerkūk (Chaldean), Iraq
	23.7	Ordained Priest	André Haddad, B.S.	Priest of Arrouhbaniat Albassiliat Almoukhalissiat (Melkite Greek)	Archbishop Emeritus of Zahleh e Furzol (Melkite Greek), Lebanon
		Born	Heiner Koch	Düsseldorf	Bishop of Dresden-Meißen (Meissen), Germany
	26.1	Ordained Priest	Georges Ibrahim Kwaïter, B.S. †	Priest of Arrouhbaniat Albassiliat Almoukhalissiat (Melkite Greek)	Archbishop Emeritus of Saïda (Sidone) (Melkite Greek), Lebanon
	67.7	Ordained Bishop	Souleyman Sayegh †	Titular Bishop of Palaeopolis in Asia	Auxiliary Bishop of Mossul (Chaldean), Iraq
		Born	Désiré Tsarahazana	Amboangibe	Archbishop of Toamasina, Madagascar
14 Jun		Born	Lawrence Pius Dorairaj	Chennai	Bishop of Dharmapuri, India
16 Jun	71.1	Appointed	Maurice Feltin †	Bishop of France, Faithful of Eastern Rites	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Paris, France
	73.4	Appointed	Albert Levame †	Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland
18 Jun		Born	Udumala Bala Showreddy	Ghanpur, Gudur	Bishop of Warangal, India
19 Jun	34.9	Ordained Priest	Samuel Emmanuel Carter, S.J. †	Priest of Society of Jesus	Archbishop Emeritus of Kingston in Jamaica, Antilles
	32.0	Ordained Priest	Federico O. Escaler, S.J.	Priest of Society of Jesus	Prelate Emeritus of Ipil, Philippines
20 Jun	24.3	Ordained Priest	István Konkoly	Priest of Szombathely, Hungary	Bishop Emeritus
	25.2	Ordained Priest	James McLoughlin †	Priest of Galway and Kilmacduagh, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
23 Jun	43.9	Appointed	José Vicente Távora †	Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Archbishop of Aracajú, Sergipe, Brazil
	43.9	Appointed	José Vicente Távora †	Titular Bishop of Prusias ad Hypium	Archbishop of Aracajú, Sergipe, Brazil
24 Jun	45.7	Ordained Bishop	Alphonse-Célestin-Basile Baud, O.F.M. Cap. †	Titular Bishop of Risinium	Bishop Emeritus of Berbérati, Central African Republic
	47.4	Ordained Bishop	François Xavier Arthur Florent Morilleau †	Titular Bishop of Ancusa	Bishop Emeritus of La Rochelle (-Saintes), France
25 Jun	57.3	Died	Pablo Mariaselvam, S.D.B. †	Bishop of Vellore, India
	67.8	Appointed	Herman Joseph Meysing, O.M.I. †	Titular Archbishop of Dercos (Dercus)	Archbishop Emeritus of Bloemfontein, South Africa
	67.8	Resigned	Herman Joseph Meysing, O.M.I. †	Archbishop of Bloemfontein, South Africa	Archbishop Emeritus
26 Jun		Born	Matthias Heinrich	Berlin	Auxiliary Bishop of Berlin, Germany
		Born	Rodolfo Valenzuela Núñez	Quetzaltenango	Bishop of Verapaz, Cobán, Guatemala
27 Jun	49.9	Appointed	Joseph-Marie-Eugène Bretault, M. Afr. †	Vicar Apostolic of Koudougou, Burkina Faso	Bishop Emeritus of Koudougou, Burkina Faso
	49.9	Appointed	Joseph-Marie-Eugène Bretault, M. Afr. †	Titular Bishop of Sufetula	Bishop Emeritus of Koudougou, Burkina Faso
	28.5	Ordained Priest	José Manuel Estepa Llaurens	Priest of Madrid, Spain	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Spain, Military
	22.8	Ordained Priest	José Agustín Ganuza García, O.A.R.	Priest of Order of Augustinian Recollects	Prelate Emeritus of Bocas del Toro, Panama
	25.9	Ordained Priest	James Hannigan †	Priest of Menevia, Wales, Great Britain	Bishop of Wrexham, Wales, Great Britain
	24.5	Ordained Priest	Victorio Oliver Domingo	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain
	76.5	Died	Alfredo Verzosa y Florentin †	Bishop Emeritus of Lipa, Philippines
29 Jun	44.6	Ordained Bishop	José de Jesús Clemens Alba Palacios †	Titular Bishop of Amisus	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Antequera, Oaxaca, México
	26.8	Ordained Priest	Domenico Amoroso, S.D.B. †	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Bishop of Trapani, Italy
	41.7	Ordained Bishop	Pablo Barrachina Estevan †	Bishop of Orihuela, Spain	Bishop Emeritus of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain
	46.3	Ordained Bishop	Leo Christopher Byrne †	Titular Bishop of Sabadia	Coadjutor Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
	22.2	Ordained Priest	Hugolino Cerasuolo Stacey, O.F.M.	Priest of Order of Friars Minor	Bishop Emeritus of Loja, Ecuador
	30.1	Ordained Priest	Michel-Gaspard Coppenrath †	Priest of Tahiti {Isole Tahiti}, French Polynesia, Pacific (Oceania)	Archbishop Emeritus of Papeete, French Polynesia, Pacific (Oceania)
	28.7	Ordained Priest	Franz Xaver Eder	Priest of Passau, Germany	Bishop Emeritus
	25.1	Ordained Priest	Heinrich Fasching	Priest	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Sankt Pölten, Austria
		Born	Pedro Joaquin Hernández Cantarero, C.M.F.	Jinotepe, Nicaragua	Vicar Apostolic of Darién, Panama
	22.7	Ordained Priest	Helmut Krätzl	Priest of Wien {Vienna}, Austria	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
		Born	Joseph Mairura Okemwa	Nyabururu	Bishop of Kisii, Kenya
	23.8	Professed	Norberto Eugenio Conrado Martina, O.F.M. †	Member of Order of Friars Minor	Bishop of Argentina, Military
	72.8	Appointed	Edwin Vincent O’Hara †	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Kansas City, Missouri, USA	Bishop of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
	44.0	Ordained Bishop	John J. Reddington, S.M.A. †	Bishop of Jos, Nigeria	Bishop Emeritus
	23.1	Ordained Priest	Simone Scatizzi †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Pistoia, Italy
	59.3	Appointed	Nersès Tayroyan †	Archbishop of Baghdad (Armenian), Iraq	Archbishop Emeritus
30 Jun		Born	Paulin Pomodimo	Ziendi	Archbishop Emeritus of Bangui, Central African Republic