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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Jul	30.0	Ordained Priest	Hervé Gaschignard	Priest of Nantes, France	Auxiliary Bishop of Toulouse (-Saint Bertrand de Comminges-Rieux), France
	51.3	Appointed	Sam Gallip Jacobs	Bishop of Alexandria, Louisiana, USA	Bishop of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana, USA
	76.5	Retired	Carlo Maccari †	Archbishop of Ancona-Osimo, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
	43.6	Appointed	Paulo Sérgio Machado	Bishop of Ituiutaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop of São Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	51.7	Died	Stephen Naidoo, C.SS.R. †	Archbishop of Cape Town {Kaapstad}, South Africa
	62.2	Appointed	Donato Squicciarini †	Apostolic Nuncio to Austria	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus
	55.3	Appointed	Dionigi Tettamanzi	Archbishop of Ancona-Osimo, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy
2 Jul	27.4	Ordained Priest	Michael Mulhall	Priest of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada	Bishop of Pembroke, Ontario, Canada
3 Jul	57.8	Ordained Bishop	Vincent Malone	Titular Bishop of Abora	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Liverpool, England, Great Britain
4 Jul	39.5	Appointed	Joseph Effiong Ekuwem	Bishop of Uyo, Nigeria
	53.4	Appointed	Joseph Oyanga	Bishop of Lira, Uganda	Bishop Emeritus
5 Jul	49.2	Appointed	Antonio Mattiazzo	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Padova {Padua}, Italy	Bishop
6 Jul	84.6	Died	John Joseph Maguire †	Coadjutor Archbishop Emeritus of New York, New York, USA
	44.9	Ordained Bishop	Nicholas James Samra	Titular Bishop of Gerasa	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Newton (Our Lady of the Annunciation in Boston) (Melkite), USA
8 Jul	57.5	Appointed	Mariano De Nicolò	Bishop of Rimini, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	57.5	Appointed	Mariano De Nicolò	Bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Rimini, Italy
	53.4	Appointed	José Luis Serna Alzate, I.M.C.	Bishop of Líbano-Honda, Colombia	Bishop Emeritus
	60.4	Appointed	Gilberto Valbuena Sánchez	Bishop of Colima, Colima, México	Bishop Emeritus
	55.5	Appointed	Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga	Bishop of Ecuador, Military	Archbishop of Quito, Ecuador
	55.5	Appointed	Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga	Titular Bishop of Pauzera	Archbishop of Quito, Ecuador
9 Jul	51.0	Ordained Bishop	Martino Canessa	Titular Bishop of Tigisi in Mauretania	Bishop of Tortona, Italy
	66.7	Died	Pietro Salvatore Colombo, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Mogadiscio, Somalia
	27.3	Ordained Priest	Rafael Alfonso Escudero López-Brea	Priest of Toledo, Spain	Prelate of Moyobamba, Peru
	52.0	Ordained Bishop	Gérard Mulumba Kalemba	Bishop of Mweka, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
10 Jul	76.3	Died	Doroteo Fernández y Fernández †	Bishop Emeritus of Badajoz, Spain
11 Jul	76.2	Retired	Gilberto Baroni †	Bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	67.2	Appointed	Giovanni Paolo Gibertini, O.S.B.	Bishop of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	57.8	Appointed	Bassano Staffieri	Bishop of Carpi, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato, Italy
14 Jul	86.3	Died	José María García Lahiguera †	Archbishop Emeritus of Valencia, Spain
15 Jul	72.5	Resigned	Arcângelo Cerqua, P.I.M.E. †	Bishop of Parintins, Amazonas, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	36.8	Ordained Priest	Pedro María Laxague	Priest of Bahía Blanca, Argentina	Auxiliary Bishop
	65.7	Appointed	Giovanni Moretti	Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus
	65.7	Appointed	Giovanni Moretti	Apostolic Nuncio to Luxembourg	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Belgium
	46.6	Succeeded	Giovanni (João) Risatti, P.I.M.E. †	Bishop of Parintins, Amazonas, Brazil	Bishop of Macapá, Amapa, Brazil
	55.1	Appointed	Francesco Tommasiello †	Bishop of Teano-Calvi, Italy
	51.4	Ordained Bishop	Januário Torgal Mendes Ferreira	Titular Bishop of Gaudiaba	Bishop of Portugal, Military
	51.7	Appointed	Enrique Troncoso Troncoso	Bishop of Iquique, Chile	Bishop of Melipilla, Chile
19 Jul	64.6	Appointed	Sennen Corrà †	Bishop of Concordia-Pordenone, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	74.4	Retired	Luigi Dardani †	Bishop of Imola, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	62.6	Appointed	Giuseppe Fabiani	Bishop of Imola, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	76.1	Retired	Abramo Freschi †	Bishop of Concordia-Pordenone, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	60.9	Appointed	Antoine Hayek, B.C.	Archbishop of Baniyas {Cesarea di Filippo; Paneade} (Melkite), Lebanon	Archbishop Emeritus
20 Jul	50.1	Appointed	Ivan Martyniak	Auxiliary Bishop of Przemyśl (Ukrainian), Poland	Archbishop of Przemyśl-Warszawa {-Warsaw} (Ukrainian), Poland
	50.1	Appointed	Ivan Martyniak	Titular Bishop of Vardimissa	Archbishop of Przemyśl-Warszawa {-Warsaw} (Ukrainian), Poland
22 Jul	55.4	Ordained Bishop	José Gustavo Angel Ramírez, M.X.Y.	Titular Bishop of Vescera	Vicar Apostolic of Mitú, Colombia
	70.1	Appointed	Antonio Magnoni †	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Egypt, Arab Republic of	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio Emeritus
	47.5	Installed	Ignazio Zambito	Bishop of Patti, Italy
23 Jul	31.3	Ordained Priest	Salomon Lezoutié	Priest of Yopougon, Côte d’Ivoire	Bishop of Odienné, Côte d’Ivoire
	62.0	Died	Ignatius Phakoe, O.M.I. †	Bishop Emeritus of Leribe, Lesotho
24 Jul	65.3	Died	Patrick Webster, O.S.B. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Castries, Saint Lucia, Antilles
26 Jul	62.7	Appointed	Josef Koukl	Bishop of Litomĕrice, Czech Republic	Bishop Emeritus
	81.9	Died	Luigi Morstabilini †	Bishop Emeritus of Brescia, Italy
	55.8	Appointed	Ján Sokol	Archbishop of Trnava, Slovakia	Archbishop of Trnava, Slovakia
	53.1	Appointed	František Tondra	Bishop of Spiš, Slovakia
	73.1	Appointed	František Vanák †	Apostolic Administrator of Olomouc, Czech Republic	Archbishop
	73.1	Appointed	František Vanák †	Titular Bishop of Assuras	Archbishop of Olomouc, Czech Republic
27 Jul	49.8	Installed	Camilo Diaz Gregorio	Bishop of Bacolod, Philippines	Prelate of Batanes, Philippines
	84.2	Died	Luigi Punzolo †	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Syria
29 Jul	75.0	Retired	James Monaghan †	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
31 Jul	71.7	Appointed	Luciano Angeloni †	Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus
	58.1	Appointed	Pablo Puente Buces	Apostolic Nuncio to Lebanon	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Great Britain
2 Aug	26.6	Ordained Priest	Péter Fülöp Kocsis	Priest	Bishop of Hajdúdorog (Byzantine), Hungary
	49.0	Installed	Angel N. Lagdameo	Bishop of Dumaguete, Philippines	Archbishop of Jaro, Philippines
	55.0	Appointed	Diogo Reesink, O.F.M.	Bishop of Almenara, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop of Teófilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil
5 Aug	25.8	Ordained Priest	Shelton Joseph Fabre	Priest of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA	Auxiliary Bishop of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
	67.9	Died	Miguel Moncadas Noguera †	Bishop of Solsona, Spain
	83.6	Died	Charles Richard Mulrooney †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Brooklyn, New York, USA
6 Aug	75.8	Retired	Luis Alfredo Carvajal Rosales †	Bishop of Portoviejo (Porto Vecchio), Ecuador	Bishop Emeritus of Portoviejo, Ecuador
	50.4	Appointed	Luis Gabriel Cuara Méndez †	Bishop of Tuxpan, Veracruz, México	Bishop of Veracruz, Veracruz, México
	55.2	Appointed	Miguel Irizar Campos, C.P.	Coadjutor Bishop of Callao, Peru	Bishop
	27.2	Ordained Priest	Paulin Kouabénan N`Gnamé †	Priest of Bondoukou, Côte d’Ivoire	Bishop of San Pedro-en-Côte d’Ivoire
	59.0	Appointed	José Mario Ruiz Navas	Bishop of Portoviejo (Porto Vecchio), Ecuador	Archbishop Emeritus of Portoviejo, Ecuador
9 Aug	47.3	Appointed	Michel Marie Jacques Dubost, C.I.M.	Ordinary of France, Military	Bishop of Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes, France
	47.3	Appointed	Michel Marie Jacques Dubost, C.I.M.	Titular Bishop of Oëa	Bishop of Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes, France
	52.1	Ordained Bishop	André Richard, C.S.C.	Bishop of Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada	Archbishop of Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
12 Aug	26.2	Solemn Professed	Jorge Herbas Balderrama, O.F.M.	Member of Order of Friars Minor	Coadjutor Prelate of Aiquile, Bolivia
	58.4	Appointed	Attila Miklósházy, S.J.	Titular Bishop of Castellum Minus
	51.8	Ordained Bishop	Enrique Troncoso Troncoso	Bishop of Iquique, Chile	Bishop of Melipilla, Chile
13 Aug	62.7	Ordained Bishop	Aldo Maria Lazzarín Stella, O.S.M.	Titular Bishop of Tigisi in Numidia	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Aysén, Chile
	48.7	Ordained Bishop	Fortunatus M. Lukanima	Bishop of Arusha, Tanzania	Bishop Emeritus of Arusha, Tanzania
14 Aug	84.5	Died	Lucien Bernard Lacoste †	Bishop Emeritus of Tali [Dali], China
15 Aug	26.0	Ordained Priest	Lucjan Avgustini	Priest of Skopje-Prizren, Macedonia	Bishop of Sapë, Albania
	39.6	Ordained Bishop	Irynej Bilyk, O.S.B.M.	Auxiliary Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk [Stanislaviv] (Ukrainian), Ukraine	Bishop Emeritus of Buchach {Bučač} (Ukrainian), Ukraine
	26.6	Ordained Priest	Dodë Gjergji	Priest of Skopje-Prizren, Macedonia	Apostolic Administrator of Prizren, Serbia
	37.4	Solemn Professed	Hugo Manuel Salaberry Goyeneche, S.J.	Priest of Society of Jesus	Bishop of Azul, Argentina
	82.4	Died	Antoine Henri van den Hurk, O.F.M. Cap. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Medan, Indonesia
16 Aug	29.6	Ordained Priest	Vasyl Ivasiuk	Priest	Exarch of Odessa-Krym (Ukrainian), Ukraine
	69.4	Died	Alphonse Daniel Nsabi †	Bishop of Kigoma, Tanzania
19 Aug	81.2	Died	Lionel Audet †	Auxiliary Bishop of Québec, Québec, Canada
	31.3	Ordained Priest	Kenneth Anthony Adam Nowakowski	Priest of Saskatoon (Ukrainian), Canada	Bishop of New Westminster (Ukrainian), Canada
21 Aug	53.3	Appointed	Joseph Arnaouti, I.C.P.B.	Bishop of Kamichlié (Armenian), Syria	Auxiliary Bishop of Cilicia (Armenian), Lebanon
	41.5	Appointed	Boutros Marayati	Archbishop of Alep (Armenian), Syria
	49.6	Appointed	Nerses Bedros XIX (Boutros) Tarmouni	Bishop of Iskanderiya {Alexandria} (Armenian), Egypt	Patriarch of Cilicia (Armenian), Lebanon
22 Aug	83.8	Died	George Bernard Flahiff, C.S.B. †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
	84.9	Died	Arturo Vélez Martínez †	Bishop Emeritus of Toluca, México, México
23 Aug	74.8	Died	Jan Michalski †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Gniezno, Poland
24 Aug	51.5	Ordained Bishop	Sam Gallip Jacobs	Bishop of Alexandria, Louisiana, USA	Bishop of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana, USA
26 Aug	61.3	Appointed	Giovanni De Andrea	Vice President of the Labour Office of the Apostolic See	Vice President Emeritus
	56.3	Appointed	Edmond Y. Farhat	Titular Archbishop of Byblus	Apostolic Nuncio to Austria
	56.3	Appointed	Edmond Y. Farhat	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Algeria	Apostolic Nuncio to Austria
	56.3	Appointed	Edmond Y. Farhat	Apostolic Delegate to Libya	Apostolic Nuncio to Austria
	56.3	Appointed	Edmond Y. Farhat	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Tunisia	Apostolic Nuncio to Austria
	51.0	Appointed	Józef Kowalczyk	Titular Archbishop of Heraclea	Apostolic Nuncio to Poland
	51.0	Appointed	Józef Kowalczyk	Apostolic Nuncio to Poland
	73.2	Ordained Bishop	František Vanák †	Titular Bishop of Assuras	Archbishop of Olomouc, Czech Republic
27 Aug	62.8	Ordained Bishop	Josef Koukl	Bishop of Litomĕrice, Czech Republic	Bishop Emeritus
30 Aug	59.5	Installed	Robert John Rose	Bishop of Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA	Bishop Emeritus
31 Aug	75.2	Died	Jozsef Kacziba †	Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Győr, Hungary

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