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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
May	39.4	Incardinated	John Michael Kudrick	Priest of Pittsburgh (Ruthenian), Pennsylvania, USA	Bishop of Parma (Ruthenian), Ohio, USA
1 May	63.8	Died	Dominic Joseph Abreo †	Bishop of Aurangabad, India
2 May	48.0	Ordained Bishop	László Dankó †	Titular Bishop of Midila	Archbishop of Kalocsa-Kecskemét, Hungary
3 May	61.7	Appointed	Thomas Anthony Finnegan	Bishop of Killala, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
4 May	65.7	Died	Luis Clemente de la Vega Rodriguez †	Bishop of Tulcán, Ecuador
5 May	50.5	Ordained Bishop	Roger Francis Crispian Hollis	Titular Bishop of Cincari	Bishop of Portsmouth, England, Great Britain
	47.2	Appointed	Romeo Tovar Astorga, O.F.M.	Bishop of Zacatecoluca, El Salvador	Bishop of Santa Ana, El Salvador
6 May	43.6	Appointed	Brendan Michael O’Brien	Auxiliary Bishop of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada	Archbishop of Kingston, Ontario, Canada
	43.6	Appointed	Brendan Michael O’Brien	Titular Bishop of Numana	Archbishop of Kingston, Ontario, Canada
7 May	57.2	Appointed	Guy Étienne Germain Gaucher, O.C.D.	Auxiliary Bishop of Bayeux (-Lisieux), France	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	57.2	Appointed	Guy Étienne Germain Gaucher, O.C.D.	Titular Bishop of Rota	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bayeux (-Lisieux), France
	57.2	Resigned	Guy Étienne Germain Gaucher, O.C.D.	Bishop of Meaux, France	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bayeux (-Lisieux), France
	56.9	Appointed	Serafim de Sousa Ferreira e Silva	Coadjutor Bishop of Leiria-Fátima, Portugal	Bishop Emeritus
8 May	32.4	Ordained Priest	Martin David Holley	Priest of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida, USA	Auxiliary Bishop of Washington, District of Columbia, USA
	56.0	Ordained Bishop	Marian Kazimierz Zimałek	Titular Bishop of Isola	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Sandomierz, Poland
9 May	41.0	Ordained Bishop	Washington Cruz, C.P.	Bishop of São Luís de Montes Belos, Goias, Brazil	Archbishop of Goiânia, Goias, Brazil
	56.6	Appointed	Michele Giordano	Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	49.9	Appointed	José Roberto López Londoño	Bishop of Armenia, Colombia	Bishop of Jericó, Colombia
	74.9	Died	Richard Thomas McGrath †	Bishop Emeritus of Saint George’s, Newfoundland, Canada
	31.8	Ordained Priest	Anthonisamy Neethinathan	Priest of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor), India	Bishop of Chinglepet, India
	78.8	Retired	Corrado Ursi †	Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
10 May	136.7	Beatified	Bl. Andrea Carlo Ferrari †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy
	163.1	Beatified	Bl. Louis-Zéphirin Moreau †	Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
	38.7	Appointed	Amando Samo	Auxiliary Bishop of Carolines-Marshalls, Federated States of Micronesia, Pacific (Oceania)	Bishop of Caroline Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Pacific (Oceania)
	38.7	Appointed	Amando Samo	Titular Bishop of Libertina	Bishop of Caroline Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Pacific (Oceania)
11 May	63.8	Appointed	Félix María Torres Parra †	Archbishop of Barranquilla, Colombia	Archbishop Emeritus
	76.1	Retired	Germán Villa Gaviria, C.I.M. †	Archbishop of Barranquilla, Colombia	Archbishop Emeritus
13 May	41.0	Appointed	William Kenney, C.P.	Auxiliary Bishop of Stockholm, Sweden	Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham, England, Great Britain
	41.0	Appointed	William Kenney, C.P.	Titular Bishop of Midica	Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham, England, Great Britain
	54.4	Installed	Alfredo José Rodríguez Figueroa †	Bishop of Cumaná, Venezuela	Archbishop of Cumaná, Venezuela
	45.1	Ordained Bishop	Braulio Sáez Garcia, O.C.D.	Titular Bishop of Tacapae	Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
	47.8	Appointed	Serafino Faustino Spreafico, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Grajaú, Maranho, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	75.9	Retired	Eladio Vicuña Aránguiz †	Archbishop of Puerto Montt, Chile	Archbishop Emeritus
15 May	54.3	Appointed	Thomas Bhalerao, S.J.	Bishop of Nashik, India	Bishop Emeritus
	54.6	Appointed	Rodolfo Francisco Bobadilla Mata, C.M.	Vicar Apostolic of El Petén, Guatemala	Bishop of Huehuetenango, Guatemala
	54.6	Appointed	Rodolfo Francisco Bobadilla Mata, C.M.	Titular Bishop of Lari Castellum	Bishop of Huehuetenango, Guatemala
	24.3	Ordained Priest	Murray Chatlain	Priest of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada	Bishop of Mackenzie-Fort Smith, Northwest Territory, Canada
	53.1	Appointed	José Diéguez Reboredo	Bishop of Orense, Spain	Bishop of Tui-Vigo, Spain
	57.9	Appointed	José Gea Escolano	Bishop of Mondoñedo-Ferrol, Spain	Bishop Emeritus
	56.1	Appointed	Francis Anthony Gomes	Bishop of Mymensingh, Bangladesh	Bishop Emeritus
	54.8	Appointed	Anthony Leopold Raymond Peiris	Bishop of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka
	50.3	Appointed	Bosco Penha	Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay, India
	50.3	Appointed	Bosco Penha	Titular Bishop of Maxula Prates	Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay, India
	53.7	Appointed	Victor de la Peña Pérez, O.F.M.	Vicar Apostolic of Requena, Peru	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
	60.5	Appointed	Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
	51.5	Appointed	Reynald Rouleau, O.M.I.	Bishop of Churchill-Baie d’Hudson, Manitoba, Canada
	75.3	Retired	Odorico Leovigildo Sáiz Pérez, O.F.M.	Vicar Apostolic of Requena, Peru	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
	77.3	Retired	José Salazar López †	Archbishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	76.7	Retired	Angel Temiño Sáiz †	Bishop of Orense, Spain	Bishop Emeritus
16 May	28.1	Ordained Priest	Frank Joseph Caggiano	Priest of Brooklyn, New York, USA	Auxiliary Bishop
17 May	47.9	Ordained Bishop	Alphonsus F. D'Souza, S.J.	Bishop of Raiganj, India
18 May	54.1	Appointed	Mariano Vivanco Valiente †	Bishop of Matanzas, Cuba
19 May	51.0	Appointed	Joaquim Gonçalves	Coadjutor Bishop of Vila Real, Portugal	Bishop
	55.9	Appointed	Rudolf Müller	Auxiliary Bishop of Görlitz, Germany	Bishop Emeritus of Görlitz, Germany
	55.9	Appointed	Rudolf Müller	Titular Bishop of Nasai	Bishop Emeritus of Görlitz, Germany
	50.2	Appointed	John George Vlazny	Bishop of Winona, Minnesota, USA	Archbishop of Portland in Oregon, USA
20 May	51.8	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Victor Adamec	Bishop of Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
21 May	50.2	Ordained Bishop	Peter Joseph Connors	Titular Bishop of Temuniana	Bishop of Ballarat, Australia
	59.6	Appointed	Rafael Gallardo García, O.S.A.	Bishop of Tampico, Tamaulipas, México	Bishop Emeritus
	58.6	Died	Giovanni Francesco Pala †	Bishop of Cassano all’Jonio, Italy
	46.0	Ordained Bishop	George Pell	Titular Bishop of Scala	Cardinal, Archbishop of Sydney, Australia
23 May	75.7	Died	Gellért Belon †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Pécs, Hungary
	54.4	Appointed	Jesus Castro Galang †	Auxiliary Bishop of San Fernando, Philippines	Bishop of Urdaneta, Philippines
	54.4	Appointed	Jesus Castro Galang †	Titular Bishop of Thibiuca	Bishop of Urdaneta, Philippines
	31.0	Ordained Priest	William Charles Skurla	Priest of Other	Bishop of Passaic (Ruthenian), New Jersey, USA
	28.1	Ordained Priest	Richard William Smith	Priest of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada	Archbishop of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
24 May	24.4	Ordained Priest	Wiesław Lechowicz	Priest of Tarnów, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop
25 May	53.0	Appointed	Marcel Paul Herriot	Bishop of Verdun, France	Bishop Emeritus of Soissons (, Laon, e Saint-Quentin), France
26 May	59.1	Appointed	Domingos Lam Ka Tseung	Coadjutor Bishop of Macau, China	Bishop Emeritus
	54.6	Appointed	Thomas Joseph Murphy †	Coadjutor Archbishop of Seattle, Washington, USA	Archbishop
	82.8	Died	Giovanni Battista Pardini †	Bishop Emeritus of Jesi, Italy
	46.5	Resigned	Donald William Wuerl	Auxiliary Bishop of Seattle, Washington, USA	Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia, USA
27 May	83.2	Died	Miguel Angel Arce Vivas †	Archbishop Emeritus of Popayán, Colombia
	50.8	Appointed	Jose Ricare Manguiran	Bishop of Dipolog, Philippines
	62.0	Ordained Bishop	Francis Michaelappa †	Bishop of Mysore, India
28 May	50.1	Ordained Bishop	José María Arancibia	Titular Bishop of Pumentum	Archbishop of Mendoza, Argentina
	47.5	Ordained Bishop	Martin Gächter	Titular Bishop of Betagbarar	Auxiliary Bishop of Basel, Switzerland
29 May	56.0	Appointed	Pablo Puente Buces	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Guinea-Bissau	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Great Britain
30 May	25.8	Ordained Priest	Bryan Joseph Bayda, C.SS.R.	Priest of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer	Bishop of Saskatoon (Ukrainian), Canada
2 Jun	62.2	Resigned	Edmond-Marie-Henri Abelé	Bishop of Digne (-Riez-Sisteron), France	Bishop Emeritus
	78.7	Died	Antonio María Aguirre †	Bishop Emeritus of San Isidro, Argentina
3 Jun	57.5	Ordained Bishop	John Basil Meeking	Bishop of Christchurch, New Zealand	Bishop Emeritus
5 Jun	48.1	Appointed	László Dankó †	Archbishop of Kalocsa, Hungary	Archbishop of Kalocsa-Kecskemét, Hungary
	56.7	Appointed	Endre Gyulay	Bishop of Szeged-Csanád, Hungary	Bishop Emeritus
	85.6	Retired	József Ijjas †	Archbishop of Kalocsa, Hungary	Archbishop Emeritus
	57.3	Appointed	István Konkoly	Bishop of Szombathely, Hungary	Bishop Emeritus
	56.2	Appointed	István Seregély	Archbishop of Eger, Hungary	Archbishop Emeritus
	75.1	Retired	László Tóth †	Auxiliary Bishop of Veszprém, Hungary	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	76.3	Retired	József Udvardy †	Bishop of Szeged-Csanád, Hungary	Bishop Emeritus
6 Jun	57.2	Appointed	Francesco Cuccarese	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Caserta, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus of Pescara-Penne, Italy
	75.7	Retired	Vito Roberti †	Bishop of Caserta, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
7 Jun	61.5	Ordained Bishop	José María Izuzquiza Herranz, S.J.	Titular Bishop of Cubda	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Jaén en Peru o San Francisco Javier
	32.3	Ordained Priest	Castor Paul Msemwa	Priest of Njombe, Tanzania	Bishop of Tunduru-Masasi, Tanzania
	59.1	Ordained Bishop	Edoardo Ricci	Bishop of San Miniato, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	75.0	Died	Giovanni Stamati †	Bishop of Lungro degli Italo-Albanesi, Italy
9 Jun	49.7	Appointed	Daniel Francis Walsh	Bishop of Reno-Las Vegas, Nevada, USA	Bishop of Santa Rosa in California, USA
10 Jun	67.6	Appointed	Jerzy Karol Ablewicz †	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Tarnów, Poland	Bishop
	45.6	Appointed	Leo Murphy Drona, S.D.B.	Bishop of San Jose, Philippines	Bishop of San Pablo, Philippines
11 Jun	57.0	Ordained Bishop	John Baptist Sequeira	Bishop of Chikmagalur, India	Bishop Emeritus
12 Jun	42.6	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Paul Pierre Morissette	Titular Bishop of Mesarfelta	Bishop of Saint-Jérôme, Québec, Canada
13 Jun	44.1	Ordained Bishop	Francesco Cacucci	Titular Bishop of Castellum Medianum	Archbishop of Bari-Bitonto, Italy
	71.1	Died	Altivo Pacheco Ribeiro †	Bishop Emeritus of Araçuaí (Arassuaí), Minas Gerais, Brazil
14 Jun	93.7	Beatified	Bl. Michaël Kozal †	Auxiliary Bishop of Włocławek, Poland
15 Jun	56.2	Appointed	Raúl Horacio Scarrone Carrero	Bishop of Florida, Uruguay	Bishop Emeritus
16 Jun	74.8	Retired	Francis James Harrison †	Bishop of Syracuse, New York, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	68.3	Appointed	Joseph Thomas O'Keefe †	Bishop of Syracuse, New York, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	81.1	Died	Pedro José Rivera Mejía †	Bishop Emeritus of Socorro y San Gil, Colombia
	36.8	Ordained Priest	Peter Rusnák	Priest of Prešov (Prjašev) (Byzantine), Slovakia	Bishop of Bratislava (Byzantine), Slovakia
	75.0	Retired	Humberto Tonna Zanotta †	Bishop of Florida, Uruguay
	71.6	Died	Albert van Overbeke, C.I.C.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Bayombong, Philippines
17 Jun	57.0	Died	Walter Bini, S.D.B. †	Bishop of Lins, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	59.1	Ordained Bishop	Henri Goudreault, O.M.I. †	Bishop of Labrador City-Schefferville, Québec, Canada	Archbishop of Grouard-McLennan, Alberta, Canada
	57.1	Appointed	René Pierre Louis Joseph Séjourné	Official of the Roman Curia - Other	Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Flour, France
	57.1	Appointed	René Pierre Louis Joseph Séjourné	Titular Bishop of Labicum	Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Flour, France
18 Jun	33.6	Incardinated	Ján Babjak, S.J.	Priest of Society of Jesus	Archbishop of Prešov (Prjašev) (Byzantine), Slovakia
	55.3	Died	Raymond Rodly Caesar, S.V.D. †	Bishop of Goroka, Papua New Guinea
19 Jun	62.3	Appointed	Jean-Georges Deledicque †	Auxiliary Bishop of Lille, France	Auxiliary Bishop of Lille, France
	62.3	Appointed	Jean-Georges Deledicque †	Titular Bishop of Hierpiniana	Auxiliary Bishop of Lille, France
20 Jun	25.2	Ordained Priest	Joseph Befe Ateba	Priest of Yaoundé, Cameroon	Bishop of Kribi, Cameroon
	28.1	Ordained Priest	Jean-Marie Benoît Balla	Priest of Yaoundé, Cameroon	Bishop of Bafia, Cameroon
	51.2	Appointed	Ivan Dias	Apostolic Nuncio to Korea	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
	53.1	Appointed	Francesco Monterisi	Official of the Roman Curia - Other	Secretary of the Congregation for Bishops
21 Jun	78.6	Retired	Adolf Fürstenberg, M. Afr. †	Bishop of Mbala, Zambia	Bishop Emeritus
	40.1	Ordained Bishop	Telesphore George Mpundu	Bishop of Mbala, Zambia	Archbishop of Lusaka, Zambia
22 Jun	84.0	Appointed	Corrado Bafile †	Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Portico	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
	77.7	Appointed	Mario Luigi Ciappi, O.P. †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of S. Cuore di Gesù agonizzante a Vitinia
	66.6	Appointed	Eduardo Francisco Pironio †	Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Cosma e Damiano	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Laity
	77.1	Appointed	Opilio Rossi †	Cardinal-Priest of S. Lorenzo in Lucina	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses
	80.1	Appointed	Giuseppe Maria Sensi †	Cardinal-Priest of Regina Apostolorum	Cardinal, Official of the Roman Curia - Other
23 Jun	28.0	Ordained Priest	Isabelo Caiban Abarquez	Priest of Cebu, Philippines	Bishop of Calbayog, Philippines
24 Jun	59.5	Appointed	José Vicente Henriquez Andueza, S.D.B. †	Bishop of Maracay, Venezuela	Bishop Emeritus
	29.3	Ordained Priest	Jan Niemiec	Priest of Przemyśl, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Ukraine
25 Jun	59.8	Succeeded	Lino Esterino Garavaglia, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Tivoli, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Cesena-Sarsina, Italy
	72.9	Resigned	Guglielmo Giaquinta †	Bishop of Tivoli, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	61.6	Appointed	Luís Herbst, C.S.Sp.	Coadjutor Bishop of Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	29.5	Ordained Priest	Jacob Venance Koda	Priest of Same, Tanzania	Bishop
	74.5	Appointed	Heinrich Rüth, C.S.Sp. †	Bishop of Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
26 Jun	53.7	Ordained Bishop	John Lee Hiong Fun-Yit Yaw	Bishop of Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia	Archbishop of Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
	56.3	Died	Bienvenido Solon Tudtud †	Prelate of Marawi, Philippines
27 Jun	54.7	Ordained Bishop	Rodolfo Francisco Bobadilla Mata, C.M.	Titular Bishop of Lari Castellum	Bishop of Huehuetenango, Guatemala
	27.5	Ordained Priest	Pascal Jean Marcel Wintzer	Priest of Rouen, France	Auxiliary Bishop of Poitiers, France
28 Jun	51.5	Ordained Bishop	Longinus Atundo †	Bishop of Bungoma, Kenya
	31.8	Ordained Priest	Vincent Matthew Darius, O.P.	Priest of Order of Friars Preachers	Bishop of Saint George’s in Grenada, Grenada, Antilles
	53.1	Ordained Bishop	Marcel Paul Herriot	Bishop of Verdun, France	Bishop Emeritus of Soissons (, Laon, e Saint-Quentin), France
	116.2	Beatified	Bl. Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevicius, M.I.C. †	Bishop Emeritus of Vilnius, Lithuania
29 Jun	65.4	Ordained Bishop	Francis Leo Braganza, S.J.	Bishop of Baroda, India	Bishop Emeritus
	25.9	Ordained Priest	Anton Jamnik	Priest of Ljubljana, Slovenia	Auxiliary Bishop
	43.8	Ordained Bishop	Brendan Michael O’Brien	Titular Bishop of Numana	Archbishop of Kingston, Ontario, Canada
	54.2	Ordained Bishop	Mariano Vivanco Valiente †	Bishop of Matanzas, Cuba
30 Jun	59.9	Installed	Anthony Gerard Bosco	Bishop of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	95.2	Died	João Batista Cavati, C.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Caratinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	53.2	Ordained Bishop	Olívio Teodoro Obalhe, O.F.M. †	Coadjutor Prelate of Cristalândia, Goias, Brazil	Prelate

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