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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
2 Mar	41.2	Installed	Felipe González González, O.F.M. Cap.	Vicar Apostolic of Tucupita, Venezuela
	53.3	Ordained Bishop	Pierre Jean Marie Marcel Molères	Coadjutor Bishop of Bayonne (-Lescar e Oloron), France	Bishop Emeritus
	60.7	Ordained Bishop	Altamiro Rossato, C.SS.R.	Bishop of Marabá, Para, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
6 Mar	97.8	Died	Emilio de Brigard Ortiz †	Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá, Colombia
	43.3	Appointed	Jorge Leonardo Gómez Serna, O.P.	Bishop of Socorro y San Gil, Colombia	Bishop of Magangué, Colombia
8 Mar	58.5	Ordained Bishop	Lino Esterino Garavaglia, O.F.M. Cap.	Coadjutor Bishop of Tivoli, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Cesena-Sarsina, Italy
	63.1	Appointed	Jorge María Mejía	Titular Archbishop of Apollonia	Cardinal, Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archives
	63.1	Appointed	Jorge María Mejía	Official of the Pontifical Commission of Justice and Peace	Cardinal, Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archives
	44.1	Appointed	Patrick Percival Power	Auxiliary Bishop of Canberra (and Goulburn), Australia	Auxiliary Bishop of Canberra-Goulburn, Australia
	44.1	Appointed	Patrick Percival Power	Titular Bishop of Oreto	Auxiliary Bishop of Canberra-Goulburn, Australia
	50.7	Ordained Bishop	Wilhelm Schraml	Titular Bishop of Munatiana	Bishop of Passau, Germany
	26.3	Ordained Deacon	András Veres	Deacon of Eger, Hungary	Bishop of Szombathely, Hungary
9 Mar	47.1	Ordained Bishop	Dermot Clifford	Coadjutor Archbishop of Cashel (-Emly), Ireland	Archbishop
	27.2	Ordained Priest	Samuel Kleda	Priest	Coadjutor Archbishop of Douala, Cameroon
	44.8	Ordained Bishop	Pablo Lizama Riquelme	Prelate of Illapel, Chile	Archbishop of Antofagasta, Chile
	55.0	Ordained Bishop	Jean Alix Verrier	Coadjutor Bishop of Les Cayes, Haïti	Bishop Emeritus
10 Mar	63.1	Appointed	Agustín Romualdo Alvarez Rodríguez, O.F.M. Cap.	Vicar Apostolic of Machiques, Venezuela	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
	63.1	Appointed	Agustín Romualdo Alvarez Rodríguez, O.F.M. Cap.	Titular Bishop of Nasbinca	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Machiques, Venezuela
	40.4	Appointed	Anthony Sablan Apuron, O.F.M. Cap.	Archbishop of Agaña, Guam, Pacific (Oceania)
	82.2	Retired	Miguel Saturnino Aurrecoechea Palacios, O.F.M. Cap. †	Vicar Apostolic of Machiques, Venezuela	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
	65.0	Appointed	Hippolytus Anthony Kunnunkal, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop of Jammu-Srinagar, India	Bishop Emeritus
	60.2	Appointed	Christophe Munzihirwa Mwene Ngabo, S.J. †	Coadjutor Bishop of Kasongo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Archbishop of Bukavu, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	49.6	Appointed	Edouard Mununu Kasiala, O.C.S.O.	Bishop of Kikwit, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	44.8	Appointed	Zithulele Patrick Mvemve	Auxiliary Bishop of Johannesburg, South Africa	Bishop of Klerksdorp, South Africa
	44.8	Appointed	Zithulele Patrick Mvemve	Titular Bishop of Luperciana	Bishop of Klerksdorp, South Africa
12 Mar	61.0	Appointed	Alejandro Figueroa Medina †	Auxiliary Bishop of Barinas, Venezuela	Bishop of Guanare, Venezuela
	61.0	Appointed	Alejandro Figueroa Medina †	Titular Bishop of Forconium	Bishop of Guanare, Venezuela
13 Mar	55.8	Appointed	Fernando Claudio Gamalero González †	Prelate of Escuintla, Guatemala	Bishop of Escuintla, Guatemala
	88.1	Died	José Vieira Alvernaz †	Archbishop Emeritus of Goa e Damão, India
14 Mar	71.5	Died	James Vincent Casey †	Archbishop of Denver, Colorado, USA
15 Mar	74.6	Died	Raymond Philip Etteldorf †	Official Emeritus of the Secretariat of State
	27.4	Ordained Priest	Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi, S.V.D.	Priest of Society of the Divine Word	Bishop of Niigata, Japan
	90.2	Died	Miguel Darío Miranda y Gómez †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of México, Federal District
	54.7	Appointed	Pablo Puente Buces	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Cape Verde	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Great Britain
	54.7	Appointed	Pablo Puente Buces	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Sénégal	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Great Britain
	54.7	Appointed	Pablo Puente Buces	Apostolic Delegate to Guinea-Bissau	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Great Britain
	54.7	Appointed	Pablo Puente Buces	Apostolic Delegate to Mauritania	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Great Britain
16 Mar	53.1	Ordained Bishop	Mario Cecchini	Bishop of Fano, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola, Italy
	53.3	Ordained Bishop	Anton Tamarut †	Bishop of Šibenik (Knin), Croatia	Archbishop of Rijeka, Croatia
17 Mar	61.4	Appointed	Albert Jean Charles Ghislain Houssiau	Bishop of Liège, Belgium	Bishop Emeritus
	63.7	Appointed	Joseph-Marie-Henri Rabine †	Archbishop of Albi (-Castres-Lavaur), France
	76.2	Retired	Guillaume Marie van Zuylen †	Bishop of Liège, Belgium	Bishop Emeritus
19 Mar	56.3	Ordained Bishop	Norbert Mary Leonard James Dorsey, C.P.	Titular Bishop of Mactaris	Bishop Emeritus of Orlando, Florida, USA
	50.2	Appointed	Moacyr Grechi, O.S.M.	Bishop of Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil	Archbishop of Porto Velho, Rondonia, Brazil
	64.5	Died	Henry-Camille-Gustave-Marie L'Heureux †	Bishop Emeritus of Perpignan-Elne, France
20 Mar	49.7	Ordained Bishop	John Alexius Bathersby	Bishop of Cairns, Australia	Archbishop of Brisbane, Australia
	43.7	Appointed	Alfonso Delgado Evers	Bishop of Santo Tomé, Argentina	Archbishop of San Juan de Cuyo, Argentina
	78.5	Died	John Joseph Dougherty †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Newark, New Jersey, USA
	68.0	Appointed	Bernard Henri René Jacqueline †	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Morocco	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio Emeritus
	58.6	Appointed	Vigilio Mario Olmi	Auxiliary Bishop of Brescia, Italy	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	58.6	Appointed	Vigilio Mario Olmi	Titular Bishop of Gunugus	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Brescia, Italy
21 Mar	46.9	Appointed	Michael Gower Coleman	Bishop of Port Elizabeth, South Africa
	57.5	Appointed	John Adel Elya, B.S.	Auxiliary Bishop of Newton (Our Lady of the Annunciation in Boston) (Melkite), USA	Bishop Emeritus
	57.5	Appointed	John Adel Elya, B.S.	Titular Bishop of Abila Lysaniae	Bishop Emeritus of Newton (Our Lady of the Annunciation in Boston) (Melkite), USA
	42.9	Appointed	Erkolano Lodu Tombe	Bishop of Yei, Sudan
	51.3	Appointed	Mario Luis Bautista Maulión	Auxiliary Bishop of Rosario, Argentina	Archbishop of Paraná, Argentina
	51.3	Appointed	Mario Luis Bautista Maulión	Titular Bishop of Febiana	Archbishop of Paraná, Argentina
	54.6	Appointed	Amedeus Msarikie	Bishop of Moshi, Tanzania	Bishop Emeritus
	76.7	Retired	John Patrick Murphy †	Bishop of Port Elizabeth, South Africa	Bishop Emeritus
	33.1	Ordained Priest	Marcellino Taiji Tani	Priest of Urawa, Japan	Bishop of Saitama, Japan
22 Mar	76.0	Died	Denys Gaith, O.B.C. †	Archbishop of Homs (-Hama-Jabrud) (Melkite), Syria
	47.0	Appointed	Orlando Beltran Quevedo, O.M.I.	Archbishop of Nueva Segovia, Philippines	Archbishop of Cotabato, Philippines
	66.0	Resigned	José Tomás Sánchez	Archbishop of Nueva Segovia, Philippines	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Clergy
24 Mar	53.9	Appointed	Rubén Héctor di Monte	Bishop of Avellaneda, Argentina	Archbishop Emeritus of Mercedes-Luján, Argentina
25 Mar	59.8	Appointed	Hildebrando Mendes Costa	Bishop of Estância, Sergipe, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	60.2	Appointed	Joaquim Rufino do Rêgo	Bishop of Parnaíba, Piaui, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
31 Mar	82.5	Died	Paulus Rusch †	Bishop Emeritus of Innsbruck, Austria
1 Apr	60.6	Appointed	Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo	Apostolic Nuncio to Uruguay	Cardinal, Archpriest Emeritus of the Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura {Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls Basilica}
	60.2	Succeeded	Estanislao Esteban Karlic	Archbishop of Paraná, Argentina	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	60.1	Appointed	Enrique San Pedro, S.J. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA	Bishop of Brownsville, Texas, USA
	60.1	Appointed	Enrique San Pedro, S.J. †	Titular Bishop of Siccesi	Bishop of Brownsville, Texas, USA
	74.4	Retired	Adolfo Servando Tortolo †	Archbishop of Paraná, Argentina	Archbishop Emeritus
2 Apr	75.5	Retired	Antonio Giuseppe Angioni †	Bishop of Pavia, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	58.2	Appointed	Pietro Garlato	Bishop of Palestrina, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Tivoli, Italy
	70.4	Resigned	Arthur Joseph Gilbert †	Bishop of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
	51.4	Appointed	Alberto Jover Piamonte †	Archbishop of Jaro, Philippines
	78.7	Died	Manuel Sánchez Beguiristáin †	Archbishop Emeritus of Concepción (Santissima Concezione), Chile
	75.4	Retired	Renato Spallanzani †	Bishop of Palestrina, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	54.6	Succeeded	Joseph Edward Troy	Bishop of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
	58.1	Appointed	Giovanni Volta	Bishop of Pavia, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
3 Apr	78.5	Retired	Antoine Pierre Khoraiche †	Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Maronite), Lebanon	Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus
4 Apr	64.3	Appointed	Khalil Abi-Nader †	Archbishop of Beirut {Bairut} (Maronite), Lebanon	Archbishop Emeritus
	51.0	Appointed	Joseph Mohsen Béchara	Archbishop of Cipro (Maronite), Cyprus	Archbishop of Antélias (Maronite), Lebanon
	74.5	Died	Mario Cagna †	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Austria
	76.3	Retired	Elie Farah †	Archbishop of Cipro (Maronite), Cyprus	Archbishop Emeritus
	59.2	Appointed	Paolo Giglio	Titular Archbishop of Tyndaris	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Egypt, Arab Republic of
	59.2	Appointed	Paolo Giglio	Apostolic Nuncio to Nicaragua	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Egypt, Arab Republic of
	30.0	Ordained Priest	Edward Tamba Charles	Priest of Kenema, Sierra Leone	Archbishop of Freetown and Bo, Sierra Leone
	80.2	Retired	Ignace Ziadé †	Archbishop of Beirut {Bairut} (Maronite), Lebanon	Archbishop Emeritus
5 Apr	60.2	Succeeded	Henry Sebastian D'Souza	Archbishop of Calcutta, India	Archbishop Emeritus
	44.6	Succeeded	Eduardo Ernesto Fuentes Duarte †	Bishop of Sololá, Guatemala	Bishop of Sololá-Chimaltenango, Guatemala
	75.0	Retired	Angélico Melotto Mazzardo, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Sololá, Guatemala	Bishop Emeritus of Sololá-Chimaltenango, Guatemala
	69.7	Resigned	Lawrence Trevor Picachy, S.J. †	Archbishop of Calcutta, India	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	62.7	Installed	Antonio Quarracino †	Archbishop of La Plata, Argentina	Cardinal, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina
	52.0	Ordained Bishop	Francesco Sgalambro	Titular Bishop of Minturnae	Bishop Emeritus of Cefalù, Italy
	48.9	Appointed	Toribio Ticona Porco	Auxiliary Bishop of Potosí, Bolivia	Prelate of Corocoro, Bolivia
	48.9	Appointed	Toribio Ticona Porco	Titular Bishop of Timici	Prelate of Corocoro, Bolivia
6 Apr	52.9	Ordained Bishop	Antônio Felippe da Cunha, S.D.N. †	Bishop of Guanhães, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	27.0	Ordained Priest	Kiro Stojanov	Priest	Bishop of Skopje, Macedonia
8 Apr	57.3	Appointed	Bede Vincent Heather	Bishop of Parramatta, Australia	Bishop Emeritus
	65.4	Appointed	Patrick Laurence Murphy †	Bishop of Broken Bay, Australia	Bishop Emeritus
9 Apr	61.3	Appointed	Francesco Colasuonno †	Apostolic Nuncio to Poland	Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Italy
10 Apr	52.8	Appointed	Francesco De Nittis	Apostolic Nuncio to Honduras	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Uruguay
12 Apr	63.2	Ordained Bishop	Jorge María Mejía	Titular Archbishop of Apollonia	Cardinal, Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archives
	83.8	Died	Sidney Matthew Metzger †	Bishop Emeritus of El Paso, Texas, USA
	44.3	Ordained Bishop	Matthias N'Gartéri Mayadi	Titular Bishop of Thuburnica	Archbishop of N’Djaména, Chad
13 Apr	58.2	Ordained Bishop	Mathias Kappil †	Bishop of Punalur, India	Bishop Emeritus
14 Apr	71.4	Died	Luigi Maria Carli †	Archbishop of Gaeta, Italy
15 Apr	66.3	Resigned	Mark Joseph Hurley †	Bishop of Santa Rosa in California, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	51.1	Appointed	Luis Gabriel Romero Franco	Bishop of Facatativá, Colombia
17 Apr	43.9	Appointed	Vincenzo D'Addario †	Coadjutor Bishop of Ascoli Satriano e Cerignola, Italy	Bishop of Teramo-Atri, Italy
18 Apr	43.0	Appointed	Frederick Bernard Henry	Auxiliary Bishop of London, Ontario, Canada	Bishop of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
	43.0	Appointed	Frederick Bernard Henry	Titular Bishop of Carinola	Bishop of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
	52.0	Appointed	Juan Luis Martin Buisson, P.M.E.	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Pucallpa, Peru	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
	52.0	Appointed	Juan Luis Martin Buisson, P.M.E.	Titular Bishop of Aquae in Numidia	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Pucallpa, Peru
	44.2	Ordained Bishop	Patrick Percival Power	Titular Bishop of Oreto	Auxiliary Bishop of Canberra-Goulburn, Australia
	48.4	Appointed	Stephen M. Tiru	Bishop of Dumka, India	Bishop of Khunti, India
19 Apr	74.9	Retired	Romolo Carboni †	Apostolic Nuncio to Italy	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus
	53.0	Appointed	Harry Joseph Flynn	Coadjutor Bishop of Lafayette, Louisiana, USA	Archbishop Emeritus of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
	58.3	Ordained Bishop	Pietro Garlato	Bishop of Palestrina, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Tivoli, Italy
	68.4	Appointed	Luigi Poggi	Apostolic Nuncio to Italy	Cardinal, Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archives
	65.9	Appointed	Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir	Cardinal, Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Maronite), Lebanon
20 Apr	48.9	Ordained Bishop	Engelbert Siebler	Titular Bishop of Tela	Auxiliary Bishop of München und Freising {Munich}, Germany
21 Apr	57.6	Ordained Bishop	Joseph John Gerry, O.S.B.	Titular Bishop of Praecausa	Bishop Emeritus of Portland, Maine, USA
22 Apr	58.8	Appointed	Antonio Moreno Casamitjana	Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de Chile	Archbishop Emeritus of Concepción (Santissima Concezione), Chile
	58.8	Appointed	Antonio Moreno Casamitjana	Titular Bishop of Mades	Archbishop Emeritus of Concepción (Santissima Concezione), Chile
24 Apr	63.3	Resigned	Clément Cailleau, C.S.Sp.	Prefect of Tambacounda, Senegal	Prefect Emeritus
25 Apr	43.8	Ordained Bishop	Alfonso Delgado Evers	Bishop of Santo Tomé, Argentina	Archbishop of San Juan de Cuyo, Argentina
	44.6	Ordained Bishop	Girulfus Kherubim Pareira, S.V.D.	Bishop of Weetebula, Indonesia	Bishop of Maumere, Indonesia
	75.0	Retired	Ezequiel Perea Sánchez †	Bishop of San Luis Potosí, San Luís Potosí, México	Bishop Emeritus
28 Apr	55.1	Appointed	Edmund John Patrick Collins, M.S.C.	Bishop of Darwin, Australia	Bishop Emeritus
	62.5	Appointed	Demetrius Martin Greschuk †	Bishop of Edmonton (Ukrainian), Canada
	57.1	Appointed	Sebastian Mankuzhikary †	Bishop of Thamarasserry (Syro-Malabarese), India
29 Apr	26.7	Ordained Priest	Gerardo Alimane Alminaza	Priest of Bacolod, Philippines	Auxiliary Bishop of Jaro, Philippines

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