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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
2 Nov	48.9	Appointed	José Julio Aguilar García †	Bishop of Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala	Bishop Emeritus
3 Nov	52.1	Appointed	Jesús Mateo Calderón Barrueto, O.P.	Bishop of Puno, Peru	Bishop Emeritus
4 Nov	25.7	Ordained Priest	Jacob Manathodath	Priest of Ernakulam (Syro-Malabarese), India	Bishop of Palghat (Syro-Malabarese), India
	56.4	Ordained Bishop	Giulio Oggioni †	Bishop of Lodi, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Bergamo, Italy
5 Nov	41.8	Ordained Bishop	Peter Yariyok Jatau	Titular Archbishop of Velebusdus	Archbishop Emeritus of Kaduna, Nigeria
	28.6	Ordained Priest	Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun	Priest	Vicar Apostolic of Paksé, Laos
6 Nov	72.4	Died	Costantino Caminada †	Bishop of Ferentino, Italy
7 Nov	46.6	Appointed	Desiderio Elso Collino †	Bishop of Lomas de Zamora, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus
	58.5	Appointed	Gerard Louis Frey †	Bishop of Lafayette, Louisiana, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	77.2	Retired	Maurice Schexnayder †	Bishop of Lafayette, Louisiana, USA	Bishop Emeritus
8 Nov	49.2	Appointed	Joseph Lawson Howze	Auxiliary Bishop of Natchez-Jackson, Mississippi, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Biloxi, Mississippi, USA
	49.2	Appointed	Joseph Lawson Howze	Titular Bishop of Maxita	Bishop Emeritus of Biloxi, Mississippi, USA
9 Nov	59.3	Appointed	Luis Eduardo Henríquez Jiménez †	Bishop of Valencia en Venezuela	Archbishop Emeritus of Valencia en Venezuela
10 Nov	49.6	Appointed	Luís Gonzaga Ferreira da Silva, S.J.	Bishop of Vila Cabral, Mozambique	Bishop Emeritus of Lichinga, Mozambique
12 Nov	64.6	Ordained Bishop	Valerians Zondaks †	Titular Bishop of Tabaicara	Auxiliary Bishop of Riga, Latvia
14 Nov	27.7	Ordained Priest	Leo Cornelio, S.V.D.	Priest of Society of the Divine Word	Archbishop of Bhopal, India
15 Nov	68.4	Resigned	Paul-Marie-Maurice Perrin †	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Ethiopia	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus
	58.2	Appointed	Ippolito Rotoli †	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Ethiopia	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Japan
16 Nov	38.0	Appointed	Julius Babatunde Adelakun	Auxiliary Bishop of Oyo, Nigeria	Bishop
	38.0	Appointed	Julius Babatunde Adelakun	Titular Bishop of Thunigaba	Bishop of Oyo, Nigeria
	50.2	Appointed	Rudolph A. Akanlu †	Coadjutor Bishop of Navrongo, Ghana	Bishop Emeritus of Navrongo-Bolgatanga, Ghana
	50.2	Appointed	Rudolph A. Akanlu †	Titular Bishop of Fallaba	Bishop Emeritus of Navrongo-Bolgatanga, Ghana
	52.1	Appointed	Walmor Battú Wichrowski †	Titular Bishop of Phelbes	Bishop Emeritus of Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
	52.1	Resigned	Walmor Battú Wichrowski †	Bishop of Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	59.8	Appointed	John Thomas Durkin, M.S.C. †	Bishop of Louis Trichardt-Tzaneen, South Africa	Bishop Emeritus of Tzaneen, South Africa
	57.1	Appointed	John Anthony Kelly †	Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	57.1	Appointed	John Anthony Kelly †	Titular Bishop of Zucchabar	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Melbourne, Australia
	47.0	Appointed	Thomas Francis Little †	Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia	Archbishop Emeritus
	47.0	Appointed	Thomas Francis Little †	Titular Bishop of Temuniana	Archbishop Emeritus of Melbourne, Australia
	44.5	Appointed	Serapio Bwemi Magambo †	Bishop of Fort Portal, Uganda	Bishop Emeritus
	66.7	Resigned	Vincent Joseph McCauley, C.S.C. †	Bishop of Fort Portal, Uganda	Bishop Emeritus
	36.5	Appointed	Nei Paulo Moretto	Bishop of Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	Bishop of Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
	56.3	Appointed	Eric Gerard Perkins †	Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	56.3	Appointed	Eric Gerard Perkins †	Titular Bishop of Verrona	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Melbourne, Australia
17 Nov	55.8	Resigned	Venedictos Printesis	Archbishop of Athenai {Athens}, Greece	Archbishop Emeritus
	48.4	Died	Paul Sani Kleden, S.V.D. †	Bishop of Denpasar, Indonesia
19 Nov	27.6	Ordained Priest	George Alencherry	Priest	Bishop of Thuckalay (Syro-Malabarese), India
20 Nov	74.1	Appointed	Joseph Gennangi †	Titular Bishop of Adana degli Armeni	Bishop Emeritus of Kamichlié (Armenian), Syria
	74.1	Retired	Joseph Gennangi †	Bishop of Kamichlié (Armenian), Syria	Bishop Emeritus
21 Nov	44.6	Appointed	Joseph Louis Bernardin †	Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA	Cardinal, Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois, USA
	54.8	Appointed	Henri Légaré, O.M.I. †	Archbishop of Grouard-McLennan, Alberta, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus
	72.7	Resigned	Henri Routhier, O.M.I. †	Archbishop of Grouard-McLennan, Alberta, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus
23 Nov	69.1	Resigned	John Michael O'Neill †	Bishop of Grand Falls, Newfoundland, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
	48.2	Appointed	Alphonsus Liguori Penney	Bishop of Grand Falls, Newfoundland, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus of Saint John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
24 Nov	43.0	Appointed	François-Marie-Christian Favreau	Auxiliary Bishop of Bayonne (-Lescar e Oloron), France	Bishop Emeritus of Nanterre, France
	43.0	Appointed	François-Marie-Christian Favreau	Titular Bishop of Turres Ammeniae	Bishop Emeritus of Nanterre, France
	71.3	Died	Peter Gratian Grimm, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop of Tsinchow [Tianshui], China
25 Nov	29.5	Ordained Priest	Héctor Rubén Aguer	Priest of Buenos Aires, Argentina	Archbishop of La Plata, Argentina
	27.0	Ordained Priest	Piero Coccia	Priest of Ascoli Piceno, Italy	Archbishop of Pesaro, Italy
	26.1	Ordained Priest	Óscar Vicente Ojea Quintana	Priest of Buenos Aires, Argentina	Auxiliary Bishop
	61.6	Appointed	Ezequiel Perea Sánchez †	Bishop of San Luis Potosí, San Luís Potosí, México	Bishop Emeritus
26 Nov	25.6	Ordained Priest	João Bráz de Aviz	Priest of Apucarana, Parana, Brazil	Archbishop of Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
	59.1	Ordained Bishop	Patrick Kla Juwle †	Titular Bishop of Tigamibena	Vicar Apostolic of Cape Palmas, Liberia
27 Nov	52.2	Appointed	Léon Eugène Émile François Dixneuf †	Auxiliary Bishop of Rennes (, Dol, e Saint-Malo), France
	52.2	Appointed	Léon Eugène Émile François Dixneuf †	Titular Bishop of Vassinassa	Auxiliary Bishop of Rennes (, Dol, e Saint-Malo), France
29 Nov	25.7	Ordained Priest	José Roberto Ospina Leongómez	Priest of Bogotá, Colombia	Auxiliary Bishop
30 Nov	75.4	Retired	Bertrand Lacaste †	Bishop of Oran, Algeria	Bishop Emeritus
	30.0	Ordained Priest	Emmanuel Okombo	Priest of Kisumu, Kenya	Bishop of Kericho, Kenya
	57.1	Appointed	Vittorio Ottaviani †	Bishop of Anagni, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Marsi, Italy
	37.2	Ordained Bishop	Paul Ri Moun-hi	Titular Bishop of Forconium	Archbishop Emeritus of Daegu {Taegu}, Korea (South)
	43.4	Appointed	Henri Antoine Marie Teissier	Bishop of Oran, Algeria	Archbishop Emeritus of Alger, Algeria
2 Dec	71.1	Died	Danio Bolognini †	Bishop of Cremona, Italy
	30.2	Ordained Priest	Camilo Fernando Castrellón Pizano, S.D.B.	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Bishop of Tibú, Colombia
3 Dec	25.5	Ordained Priest	Beniamino Pizziol	Priest of Venezia {Venice}, Italy	Auxiliary Bishop
5 Dec	47.9	Appointed	Marcial Augusto Ramírez Ponce †	Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela	Bishop Emeritus of Venezuela, Military
	47.9	Appointed	Marcial Augusto Ramírez Ponce †	Titular Bishop of Cariana	Bishop Emeritus of Venezuela, Military
6 Dec	60.4	Appointed	Krikor Ayvazian †	Bishop of Kamichlié (Armenian), Syria	Bishop Emeritus
	80.2	Died	Emilio Baroncelli †	Bishop Emeritus of Recanati, Italy
	76.2	Died	Henri-Charles Dupont †	Auxiliary Bishop of Lille, France	Auxiliary Bishop of Lille, France
	45.9	Appointed	Jean Pierre XVIII Kasparian, I.C.P.B.	Archbishop of Baghdad (Armenian), Iraq	Patriarch Emeritus of Cilicia (Armenian), Lebanon
	51.8	Appointed	Vartan Tekeyan, I.C.P.B. †	Bishop of Ispahan {Esfáan) (Armenian), Iran
7 Dec	24.1	Ordained Priest	Honesto F. Ongtioco	Priest of San Fernando, Philippines	Bishop of Cubao, Philippines
8 Dec	25.5	Ordained Priest	Romulo Tolentino de la Cruz	Priest of Cotabato, Philippines	Bishop of Kidapawan, Philippines
	27.9	Ordained Priest	Severino Batista de França, O.F.M. Cap.	Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin	Bishop of Nazaré, Pernambuco, Brazil
	24.3	Ordained Priest	António Francisco dos Santos	Priest of Lamego, Portugal	Bishop of Aveiro, Portugal
	23.8	Professed	Francisco Focardi Mazzocchi, O.F.M.	Member of Order of Friars Minor	Auxiliary Bishop of El Beni o Beni, Bolivia
	48.7	Ordained Bishop	Charles Joseph Henderson †	Titular Bishop of Trecalae	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Southwark, England, Great Britain
	26.4	Ordained Priest	Dionisio Lachovicz (Liakhovych), O.S.B.M.	Priest of Order of St. Basil the Great	Auxiliary Bishop of Kyiv-Halyc {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine
	30.0	Ordained Priest	Héctor Ignacio Salah Zuleta	Priest	Bishop of Riohacha, Colombia
9 Dec	83.3	Died	Antonino Catarella †	Bishop Emeritus of Piazza Armerina, Italy
	51.5	Succeeded	Antonio Lloren Mabutas †	Archbishop of Davao, Philippines	Archbishop Emeritus
	31.3	Ordained Priest	Gregory O'Kelly, S.J.	Priest of Society of Jesus	Auxiliary Bishop of Adelaide, Australia
	62.7	Resigned	Clovis Joseph Thibauld (Thibault), P.M.E. †	Archbishop of Davao, Philippines	Archbishop Emeritus
	43.8	Appointed	Gilberto Valbuena Sánchez	Prelate of La Paz en la Baja California Sur, México	Bishop Emeritus of Colima, Colima, México
	43.8	Appointed	Gilberto Valbuena Sánchez	Titular Bishop of Vazari-Didda	Bishop Emeritus of Colima, Colima, México
10 Dec	26.5	Ordained Priest	Francisco Javier Chavolla Ramos	Priest of Tijuana, Baja California Norte, México	Bishop of Toluca, México, México
	46.9	Ordained Bishop	Francis Joseph MacKiernan †	Bishop of Kilmore, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
	26.2	Ordained Priest	Manuel Parrado Carral	Priest of Santo André, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop of São Miguel Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	32.1	Ordained Priest	Diamantino Prata de Carvalho, O.F.M.	Priest of Order of Friars Minor	Bishop of Campanha, Minas Gerais, Brazil
11 Dec	52.6	Appointed	Alberto Zambrano Palacios, O.P. †	Bishop of Loja, Ecuador	Bishop Emeritus
	30.0	Ordained Priest	Décio Zandonade, S.D.B.	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Bishop of Colatina, Espirito Santo, Brazil
13 Dec	47.9	Appointed	Alfredo Battisti	Archbishop of Udine, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
	44.4	Appointed	Bernard James Ganter †	Bishop of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA	Bishop of Beaumont, Texas, USA
	97.1	Died	Jean-Marie Jan †	Bishop Emeritus of Cap-Haïtien, Haïti
	43.7	Appointed	John Raphael Quinn	Archbishop of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA	Archbishop Emeritus of San Francisco, California, USA
	47.1	Appointed	John Joseph Snyder	Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn, New York, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Saint Augustine, Florida, USA
	47.1	Appointed	John Joseph Snyder	Titular Bishop of Forum Popilii	Bishop Emeritus of Saint Augustine, Florida, USA
14 Dec	25.8	Ordained Priest	John Ha Tiong Hock	Priest of Kuching, Malaysia	Archbishop
	27.0	Ordained Priest	Aloysius Sudarso, S.C.I.	Priest of Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart	Archbishop of Palembang, Indonesia
15 Dec	46.7	Installed	Desiderio Elso Collino †	Bishop of Lomas de Zamora, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus
16 Dec	35.4	Ordained Priest	Malayappan Chinnappa, S.D.B.	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor), India
	29.2	Ordained Priest	Curtis John Guillory, S.V.D.	Priest of Society of the Divine Word	Bishop of Beaumont, Texas, USA
	29.4	Ordained Priest	Jesús Juárez Párraga, S.D.B.	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Bishop of El Alto, Bolivia
	65.6	Resigned	Émile André Jean-Marie Maury †	Archbishop of Reims, France	Archbishop Emeritus
17 Dec	26.0	Ordained Priest	Vicente Costa	Priest of Malta	Bishop of Umuarama, Parana, Brazil
	49.7	Ordained Bishop	Luís Gonzaga Ferreira da Silva, S.J.	Bishop of Vila Cabral, Mozambique	Bishop Emeritus of Lichinga, Mozambique
	52.3	Ordained Bishop	Jean Marcel Honoré	Bishop of Evreux, France	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Tours, France
	25.6	Ordained Priest	Telesphore George Mpundu	Priest	Archbishop of Lusaka, Zambia
18 Dec	40.5	Appointed	George Marian Anathil, S.V.D.	Bishop of Indore, India
	45.7	Appointed	Leo Rajendram Antony	Coadjutor Bishop of Trincomalee-Batticaloa, Sri Lanka	Bishop Emeritus
	28.1	Ordained Priest	Eugenio Arellano Fernández, M.C.C.I.	Priest of Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus	Vicar Apostolic of Esmeraldas, Ecuador
	47.7	Appointed	Antonio Eduardo Bösl, O.F.M. †	Vicar Apostolic of Ñuflo de Chávez, Bolivia
	47.7	Appointed	Antonio Eduardo Bösl, O.F.M. †	Titular Bishop of Thibuzabetum	Vicar Apostolic of Ñuflo de Chávez, Bolivia
	42.5	Appointed	Samuel Silverio Buitrago Trujillo, C.M. †	Bishop of Montería, Colombia	Archbishop of Popayán, Colombia
	46.4	Appointed	James Chan Soon Cheong	Bishop of Malacca-Johor, Malaysia	Bishop Emeritus of Melaka-Johor, Malaysia
	55.7	Appointed	Jacob Bastiampillai Deogupillai †	Bishop of Jaffna, Sri Lanka	Bishop Emeritus
	52.0	Appointed	Peter Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Naha, Japan	Bishop Emeritus
	43.9	Appointed	Michael Michai Kitbunchu	Cardinal, Archbishop of Bangkok, Thailand
	44.9	Appointed	Maurus Libaba †	Bishop of Mtwara, Tanzania	Bishop of Lindi, Tanzania
	55.1	Appointed	Leo Nanayakkara, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Badulla, Sri Lanka
	64.6	Resigned	Joseph Khiamsun Nittayo †	Archbishop of Bangkok, Thailand	Archbishop Emeritus
	54.9	Appointed	Giovanni Décimo Pellegrini, O.F.M. †	Vicar Apostolic of Cuevo, Bolivia
	54.9	Appointed	Giovanni Décimo Pellegrini, O.F.M. †	Titular Bishop of Tatilti	Vicar Apostolic of Cuevo, Bolivia
	56.0	Appointed	Nicolas Ravitarivao †	Auxiliary Bishop of Tananarive, Madagascar
	56.0	Appointed	Nicolas Ravitarivao †	Titular Bishop of Arsennaria	Auxiliary Bishop of Tananarive, Madagascar
	69.5	Died	Francesco Rossi †	Bishop Emeritus of Tortona, Italy
	27.0	Ordained Priest	Matthew Vaniakizhakel, C.V.	Priest of Other	Bishop of Satna (Syro-Malabarese), India
	63.3	Appointed	Dominic Vendargon †	Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Archbishop Emeritus
	51.5	Died	Raúl Zambrano Camader †	Bishop of Facatativá, Colombia
19 Dec	44.7	Installed	Joseph Louis Bernardin †	Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA	Cardinal, Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois, USA
	67.1	Resigned	Ettore Cunial †	Auxiliary Bishop of Roma {Rome}, Italy	Vice-Chamberlain Emeritus of the Apostolic Chamber
22 Dec	51.1	Appointed	André Charles Collini †	Coadjutor Archbishop of Toulouse (-Narbonne-Saint Bertrand de Comminges-Rieux), France	Archbishop Emeritus
	51.1	Appointed	André Charles Collini †	Titular Archbishop of Salapia	Archbishop Emeritus of Toulouse (-Narbonne-Saint Bertrand de Comminges-Rieux), France
23 Dec	26.6	Ordained Priest	Michael August Blume, S.V.D.	Priest of Society of the Divine Word	Apostolic Nuncio to Benin
	65.1	Died	Antônio de Mendonça Monteiro †	Bishop of Bonfim, Baia, Brazil
	53.3	Appointed	Magín Camerino Torreblanca Reyes †	Auxiliary Bishop of Texcoco, México, México	Bishop Emeritus
	53.3	Appointed	Magín Camerino Torreblanca Reyes †	Titular Bishop of Assava	Bishop Emeritus of Texcoco, México, México
	24.5	Ordained Priest	Pierre Warin	Priest of Liège, Belgium	Auxiliary Bishop of Namur {Namen}, Belgium
24 Dec	79.5	Died	Sándor Kovács †	Bishop Emeritus of Szombathely, Hungary
26 Dec	64.0	Appointed	Karl Berg †	Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria	Archbishop Emeritus
27 Dec	41.2	Succeeded	Frank Marcus Fernando	Bishop of Chilaw, Sri Lanka	Bishop Emeritus
	75.0	Resigned	Edmund Peiris, O.M.I. †	Bishop of Chilaw, Sri Lanka	Bishop Emeritus
29 Dec	26.2	Ordained Priest	Gustavo Arturo Help	Priest of Lomas de Zamora, Argentina	Bishop of Venado Tuerto, Argentina
30 Dec	27.5	Ordained Priest	Jean-Gabriel Diarra	Priest of San, Mali	Bishop
	28.4	Ordained Priest	Oswald Lewis	Priest	Bishop of Jaipur, India
	26.1	Ordained Priest	Carlos Suárez Cázares	Priest of Morelia, Michoacán, México	Bishop Emeritus of Zamora, Michoacán, México
31 Dec	71.8	Died	Robert Dermot O'Flanagan †	Bishop Emeritus of Juneau, Alaska, USA

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