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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Mar	27.6	Ordained Priest	Leopoldo Corpuz Jaucian, S.V.D.	Priest of Society of the Divine Word	Bishop of Bangued, Philippines
2 Mar	76.6	Died	Jan Pietraszko †	Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków {Cracow}, Poland
	51.5	Installed	James Kendrick Williams	Bishop of Lexington, Kentucky, USA	Bishop Emeritus
3 Mar	77.8	Died	André-Georges Bontems †	Archbishop Emeritus of Chambéry (, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, et Tarentaise), France
	60.1	Died	Maurus Libaba †	Bishop of Lindi, Tanzania
	54.9	Appointed	Juan Sandoval Íñiguez	Coadjutor Bishop of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México	Cardinal, Archbishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
4 Mar	47.4	Appointed	José María Arancedo	Auxiliary Bishop of Lomas de Zamora, Argentina	Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, Argentina
	47.4	Appointed	José María Arancedo	Titular Bishop of Selemselae	Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, Argentina
	83.7	Died	James Peter Davis †	Archbishop Emeritus of Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
	75.9	Died	Costantino Trapani, O.F.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Mazara del Vallo, Italy
6 Mar	62.0	Ordained Bishop	Desmond Connell	Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	61.6	Ordained Bishop	Santiago Martínez Acebes †	Bishop of Plasencia, Spain	Archbishop Emeritus of Burgos, Spain
7 Mar	79.9	Died	Joël-André-Jean-Marie Bellec †	Bishop Emeritus of Perpignan-Elne, France
8 Mar	45.9	Ordained Bishop	Francis Xavier DiLorenzo	Titular Bishop of Tigias	Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA
	76.2	Retired	Stephen McGill, P.S.S. †	Bishop of Paisley, Scotland, Great Britain	Bishop Emeritus
	58.7	Appointed	John Aloysius Mone	Bishop of Paisley, Scotland, Great Britain	Bishop Emeritus
9 Mar	82.6	Died	José de Medeiros Delgado †	Archbishop Emeritus of Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil
10 Mar	50.9	Appointed	Julio Amílcar Bethancourt Fioravanti †	Bishop of Huehuetenango, Guatemala	Bishop of Santa Rosa de Lima, Guatemala
	56.4	Appointed	Louis Jean Dufaux	Coadjutor Bishop of Grenoble, France	Bishop Emeritus
	53.0	Appointed	Pierre Auguste Gratien Pican, S.D.B.	Coadjutor Bishop of Bayeux (-Lisieux), France	Bishop
11 Mar	66.9	Installed	José Trinidad Sepúlveda Ruiz-Velasco	Bishop of San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, México	Bishop Emeritus
12 Mar	52.8	Appointed	Luis María Estrada Paetau, O.P.	Vicar Apostolic of Izabal, Guatemala	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
	49.5	Appointed	Macram Max Gassis, M.C.C.I.	Bishop of El Obeid, Sudan
	52.0	Appointed	Nicodemus Kirima †	Bishop of Nyeri, Kenya	Archbishop of Nyeri, Kenya
	49.2	Appointed	Gabriel Mmole	Bishop of Mtwara, Tanzania
	53.5	Appointed	Zacarías Ortiz Rolón, S.D.B.	Vicar Apostolic of Chaco Paraguayo, Paraguay	Bishop of Concepción (Santissima Concezione) en Paraguay
	53.5	Appointed	Zacarías Ortiz Rolón, S.D.B.	Titular Bishop of Minora	Bishop of Concepción (Santissima Concezione) en Paraguay
	66.8	Died	Cesare Pagani †	Archbishop of Perugia-Città della Pieve, Italy
13 Mar	46.4	Ordained Bishop	Manual Pelino Domingues	Titular Bishop of Lemellefa	Bishop of Santarém, Portugal
14 Mar	66.1	Died	John Michael Beahen †	Auxiliary Bishop of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
	53.8	Appointed	Eugene Antonio Marino, S.S.J. †	Archbishop of Atlanta, Georgia, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
15 Mar	71.8	Died	James Timothy Kieran Cotter, O.S.A. †	Bishop of Maiduguri, Nigeria
	74.1	Died	Marcel Evariste Van Rengen, C.I. †	Bishop of Mweka, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
16 Mar	40.7	Ordained Bishop	Romulo Tolentino de la Cruz	Coadjutor Bishop of Isabela, Philippines	Bishop of Kidapawan, Philippines
	96.8	Died	Patrick Joseph Dunne †	Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin, Ireland
	57.9	Appointed	Adélio Giuseppe (José) Tomasin, P.S.D.P.	Bishop of Quixadá, Ceara, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	71.3	Died	Guilford Clyde Young †	Archbishop of Hobart, Australia
17 Mar	44.9	Appointed	Franziskus Eisenbach	Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz, Germany	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	44.9	Appointed	Franziskus Eisenbach	Titular Bishop of Sigus	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Mainz, Germany
	55.9	Appointed	Clément Joseph Marie Raymond Guillon, C.I.M.	Coadjutor Bishop of Quimper [Cornouailles](-Léon), France	Bishop Emeritus
	74.2	Died	Thomas Mongo †	Bishop Emeritus of Douala, Cameroon
	47.4	Appointed	Andrea Mugione	Bishop of Cassano all’Jonio, Italy	Archbishop of Benevento, Italy
	43.7	Died	Horacio Olave Velandia †	Prelate of Tibú, Colombia
18 Mar	45.4	Appointed	Gerard Bernacki	Auxiliary Bishop of Katowice, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop of Katowice, Poland
	45.4	Appointed	Gerard Bernacki	Titular Bishop of Oppidum Consilinum	Auxiliary Bishop of Katowice, Poland
	51.0	Appointed	Josef Voss	Auxiliary Bishop of Münster, Germany
	51.0	Appointed	Josef Voss	Titular Bishop of Thisiduo	Auxiliary Bishop of Münster, Germany
19 Mar	39.0	Ordained Bishop	Leopoldo José Brenes Solórzano	Titular Bishop of Maturba	Archbishop of Managua, Nicaragua
	35.6	Ordained Bishop	Max Takuira Matthew Mariu, S. M. †	Titular Bishop of Decoriana	Auxiliary Bishop of Hamilton in New Zealand
	41.7	Ordained Bishop	Juan Abelardo Mata Guevara, S.D.B.	Titular Bishop of Coeliana	Bishop of Esteli, Nicaragua
	69.3	Ordained Bishop	Franciscus van Roessel, C.I.C.M. †	Archbishop of Ujung Pandang, Indonesia	Archbishop Emeritus
20 Mar	53.4	Ordained Bishop	Francis Lagan	Titular Bishop of Sidnacestre	Auxiliary Bishop of Derry, Ireland
	44.9	Ordained Bishop	Georges Paul Pontier	Bishop of Digne (-Riez-Sisteron), France	Archbishop of Marseille, France
21 Mar	72.9	Died	Ernest Arthur Green †	Bishop Emeritus of Port Elizabeth, South Africa
	59.1	Appointed	Gilberto Valbuena Sánchez	Bishop of La Paz en la Baja California Sur, México	Bishop Emeritus of Colima, Colima, México
	40.1	Appointed	Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, S.D.B.	Apostolic Administrator of Díli, Timor-Leste	Apostolic Administrator Emeritus
	40.1	Appointed	Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, S.D.B.	Titular Bishop of Lorium	Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Díli, Timor-Leste
23 Mar	63.7	Appointed	Edward Idris Cassidy	Official of the Secretariat of State	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
25 Mar	56.1	Ordained Bishop	Raymond James Boland	Bishop of Birmingham, Alabama, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
	49.4	Ordained Bishop	Ramón Calderón Batres	Bishop of Linares, Nuevo León, México
	52.7	Ordained Bishop	Antonio Ceballos Atienza	Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain	Bishop of Cádiz y Ceuta, Spain
	75.5	Retired	Henri Clément Victor Donze †	Bishop of Tarbes et Lourdes, France	Bishop Emeritus
	39.6	Appointed	Wolfgang Haas	Coadjutor Bishop of Chur, Switzerland	Archbishop of Vaduz, Liechtenstein
	60.6	Appointed	Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín †	Coadjutor Archbishop of Guayaquil, Ecuador	Archbishop Emeritus
	64.5	Died	Thomas William Lyons †	Auxiliary Bishop of Washington, District of Columbia, USA
	64.4	Succeeded	Jean Yves Marie Sahuquet †	Bishop of Tarbes et Lourdes, France	Bishop Emeritus
	51.4	Ordained Bishop	Rocco Talucci	Bishop of Tursi-Lagonegro, Italy	Archbishop of Brindisi-Ostuni, Italy
	47.4	Installed	Donald William Wuerl	Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA	Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia, USA
26 Mar	86.7	Died	Baltasar Alvarez Restrepo †	Bishop Emeritus of Pereira, Colombia
	39.6	Ordained Bishop	Rigoberto Corredor Bermúdez	Titular Bishop of Rusguniae	Bishop of Garzón, Colombia
	82.6	Died	Pedro Paulo Koop, M.S.C. †	Bishop Emeritus of Lins, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	57.9	Ordained Bishop	Adélio Giuseppe (José) Tomasin, P.S.D.P.	Bishop of Quixadá, Ceara, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
30 Mar	51.5	Appointed	Roger Ébacher	Bishop of Gatineau-Hull, Québec, Canada	Archbishop of Gatineau, Québec, Canada
	59.0	Appointed	Vicente García Bernal	Bishop of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, México	Bishop Emeritus
	67.6	Died	Imre Timkó †	Bishop of Hajdúdorog (Byzantine), Hungary
31 Mar	55.3	Appointed	Franz Grave	Auxiliary Bishop of Essen, Germany	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	55.3	Appointed	Franz Grave	Titular Bishop of Tingaria	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Essen, Germany
	74.5	Died	Vincent Madeley Harris †	Bishop Emeritus of Austin, Texas, USA
5 Apr	69.9	Died	Anthony Joseph Emery †	Bishop of Portsmouth, England, Great Britain
	49.0	Installed	Héctor González Martínez	Coadjutor Archbishop of Antequera, Oaxaca, México	Archbishop of Durango, Durango, México
6 Apr	46.9	Ordained Bishop	Alfredo Banluta Baquial †	Titular Bishop of Bavagaliana	Auxiliary Bishop of Davao, Philippines
	71.8	Appointed	Alair Vilar Fernandes de Melo †	Archbishop of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
	57.5	Appointed	Luciano Pedro Mendes de Almeida, S.J. †	Archbishop of Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	70.1	Retired	Nivaldo Monte †	Archbishop of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
	76.2	Retired	Oscar de Oliveira †	Archbishop of Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
7 Apr	60.7	Appointed	François Gayot, S.M.M.	Archbishop of Cap-Haïtien, Haïti	Archbishop Emeritus
8 Apr	46.0	Appointed	Ricardo Blázquez Pérez	Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain	Bishop of Bilbao, Spain
	46.0	Appointed	Ricardo Blázquez Pérez	Titular Bishop of Germa in Galatia	Bishop of Bilbao, Spain
	58.3	Appointed	Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, C.M.F.	Coadjutor Archbishop of Granada, Spain	Archbishop Emeritus of Pamplona y Tudela, Spain
9 Apr	72.0	Resigned	Jean-Jacques Claudius Angénor †	Bishop of Les Cayes, Haïti	Bishop Emeritus
	56.8	Appointed	Luis del Castillo Estrada, S.J.	Auxiliary Bishop of Montevideo, Uruguay	Bishop of Melo, Uruguay
	56.8	Appointed	Luis del Castillo Estrada, S.J.	Titular Bishop of Tarasa in Numidia	Bishop of Melo, Uruguay
	49.4	Ordained Bishop	John Kirby	Bishop of Clonfert, Ireland
	35.5	Ordained Priest	Thomas Ignatius MacWan	Priest of Ahmedabad, India	Bishop
	28.0	Ordained Priest	Santo Marcianò	Priest of Reggio Calabria-Bova, Italy	Archbishop of Rossano-Cariati, Italy
	61.0	Ordained Bishop	Pietro Giacomo Nonis	Bishop of Vicenza, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	75.6	Retired	Giovanni Proni †	Bishop of Forli-Bertinoro, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	57.1	Succeeded	Jean Alix Verrier	Bishop of Les Cayes, Haïti
	58.5	Appointed	Vincenzo Zarri	Bishop of Forli-Bertinoro, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
10 Apr	56.0	Ordained Bishop	Clément Joseph Marie Raymond Guillon, C.I.M.	Coadjutor Bishop of Quimper [Cornouailles](-Léon), France	Bishop Emeritus
	57.9	Died	Anthony Hitchen †	Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool, England, Great Britain
11 Apr	43.5	Appointed	Charles Joseph Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Rapid City, South Dakota, USA	Archbishop of Denver, Colorado, USA
	62.3	Ordained Bishop	John Robert Gorman	Titular Bishop of Catula	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Chicago, Illinois, USA
	64.0	Ordained Bishop	Thaddeus Joseph Jakubowski	Titular Bishop of Plestia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Chicago, Illinois, USA
12 Apr	63.4	Resigned	Georges Biard, M. Afr. †	Bishop of Mopti, Mali	Bishop Emeritus
	47.6	Ordained Bishop	Paul Stephen Loverde	Titular Bishop of Octabia	Bishop of Arlington, Virginia, USA
15 Apr	54.8	Appointed	Marcel Germain Perrier	Auxiliary Bishop of Chambéry (, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, et Tarentaise), France	Bishop Emeritus of Pamiers, France
	54.8	Appointed	Marcel Germain Perrier	Titular Bishop of Diana	Bishop Emeritus of Pamiers, France
16 Apr	45.5	Ordained Bishop	Gerard Bernacki	Titular Bishop of Oppidum Consilinum	Auxiliary Bishop of Katowice, Poland
	64.3	Appointed	René Fernández Apaza	Archbishop of Cochabamba, Bolivia	Archbishop Emeritus
	44.7	Appointed	Jesús Juárez Párraga, S.D.B.	Auxiliary Bishop of La Paz, Bolivia	Bishop of El Alto, Bolivia
	44.7	Appointed	Jesús Juárez Párraga, S.D.B.	Titular Bishop of Gummi in Proconsulari	Bishop of El Alto, Bolivia
	49.3	Appointed	Nino Marzoli, C. R. †	Auxiliary Bishop of La Paz, Bolivia	Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
	49.3	Appointed	Nino Marzoli, C. R. †	Titular Bishop of Nara	Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
17 Apr	53.1	Ordained Bishop	Pierre Auguste Gratien Pican, S.D.B.	Coadjutor Bishop of Bayeux (-Lisieux), France	Bishop
19 Apr	84.4	Retired	Léon-Etienne Duval †	Archbishop of Alger, Algeria	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	86.5	Retired	Gabriel-Marie Garrone †	President of the Pontifical Council for Culture	Cardinal, President Emeritus
	57.6	Appointed	Paul Joseph Jean Poupard	President of the Pontifical Council for Culture	Cardinal, President Emeritus
	58.7	Succeeded	Henri Antoine Marie Teissier	Archbishop of Alger, Algeria	Archbishop Emeritus
20 Apr	78.1	Died	Evelio Domínguez Recinos †	Auxiliary Bishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras
	68.4	Died	Lodewijk Antoon Jansen, S.M.M. †	Bishop of Isangi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	57.8	Appointed	Pierre Jacques Joatton, Ist. del Prado	Bishop of Saint-Etienne, France	Bishop Emeritus
21 Apr	66.7	Resigned	Ernesto Gonçalves da Costa, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Faro {Algarve}, Portugal	Bishop Emeritus
	52.3	Appointed	Manuel Madureira Dias	Bishop of Faro {Algarve}, Portugal	Bishop Emeritus
22 Apr	44.4	Appointed	Alfonso Cabezas Aristizábal, C.M.	Auxiliary Bishop of Cali, Colombia	Bishop Emeritus of Villavicencio, Colombia
	44.4	Appointed	Alfonso Cabezas Aristizábal, C.M.	Titular Bishop of Zama Minor	Bishop Emeritus of Villavicencio, Colombia
23 Apr	75.4	Appointed	Jean Hengen †	Archbishop of Luxembourg	Archbishop Emeritus
24 Apr	45.0	Ordained Bishop	Franziskus Eisenbach	Titular Bishop of Sigus	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Mainz, Germany
	51.1	Ordained Bishop	Josef Voss	Titular Bishop of Thisiduo	Auxiliary Bishop of Münster, Germany
	75.7	Died	Ireneus Wien Dud †	Archbishop Emeritus of Juba, Sudan
25 Apr	52.1	Installed	Raymond Saint-Gelais	Coadjutor Bishop of Nicolet, Québec, Canada	Bishop
26 Apr	42.4	Ordained Bishop	Telesphore Mkude	Bishop of Tanga, Tanzania	Bishop of Morogoro, Tanzania
27 Apr	50.2	Ordained Bishop	John Gabriel †	Titular Bishop of Arae in Numidia	Bishop of Pathein, Myanmar
	65.2	Ordained Bishop	Michael Kuchmiak, C.SS.R.	Titular Bishop of Agathopolis	Bishop Emeritus of Great Britain, Faithful of Eastern Rite (Ukrainian)
	77.7	Retired	Liudas Povilonis, M.I.C. †	Apostolic Administrator of Kaunas, Lithuania	Apostolic Administrator Emeritus
	77.7	Retired	Liudas Povilonis, M.I.C. †	Apostolic Administrator of Vilkaviškis, Lithuania	Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Kaunas, Lithuania
	61.4	Appointed	Juozas Preikšas	Apostolic Administrator of Kaunas, Lithuania	Bishop Emeritus of Panevėžys, Lithuania
	61.4	Appointed	Juozas Preikšas	Apostolic Administrator of Vilkaviškis, Lithuania	Bishop Emeritus of Panevėžys, Lithuania
28 Apr	54.2	Appointed	Felipe Aguirre Franco	Bishop of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México	Archbishop of Acapulco, Guerrero, México
	59.3	Appointed	Manuel Mireles Vaquera	Coadjutor Prelate of El Salto, Durango, México	Prelate Emeritus
	47.5	Ordained Bishop	Andrea Mugione	Bishop of Cassano all’Jonio, Italy	Archbishop of Benevento, Italy
	59.1	Appointed	Francisco Javier Prado Aránguiz, SS.CC.	Auxiliary Bishop of Valparaíso, Chile	Bishop Emeritus of Rancagua, Chile
	47.9	Appointed	Jesús Humberto Velázquez Garay	Bishop of Celaya, Guanajuato, México	Bishop Emeritus
29 Apr	28.7	Professed	Darwin Rudy Andino Ramírez, C.R.S.	Member of Orden de los Padres Somascos	Auxiliary Bishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras
30 Apr	54.2	Appointed	Paul Chittilapilly	Bishop of Kalyan (Syro-Malabarese), India	Bishop of Thamarasserry (Syro-Malabarese), India
	60.2	Appointed	Geevarghese Timotheos Chundevalel	Bishop of Tiruvalla (Malankarese), India	Bishop Emeritus
	55.1	Ordained Bishop	Juan Sandoval Íñiguez	Coadjutor Bishop of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México	Cardinal, Archbishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
	59.6	Appointed	Michele Scandiffio	Archbishop of Acerenza, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus

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