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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
May	58.3	Appointed	François Xavier Nguyên Van Sang	Apostolic Administrator of Thái Binh, Viet Nam	Bishop Emeritus
1 May	63.5	Installed	Maurice Couture, R.S.V.	Archbishop of Québec, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus
	49.8	Ordained Bishop	Petru Gherghel	Bishop of Iaşi, Romania
	47.3	Ordained Bishop	Pál Reizer †	Bishop of Satu Mare {Szatmár}, Romania
2 May	45.4	Installed	Joseph Paul Pierre Morissette	Bishop of Baie-Comeau, Québec, Canada	Bishop of Saint-Jérôme, Québec, Canada
4 May	84.7	Died	Sinforiano Lucas Rojo, O.M.I. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Pilcomayo, Paraguay
5 May	65.1	Died	Pedro G. Magugat, M.S.C. †	Bishop of Urdaneta, Philippines
	70.9	Resigned	Giovanni Mariani †	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Greece	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus
	61.1	Ordained Bishop	Natalino Pescarolo	Titular Bishop of Alexanum	Bishop Emeritus of Cuneo, Italy
8 May	75.3	Retired	Joseph Robert Crowley †	Auxiliary Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	89.0	Died	Jean-Marie Lesourd, M. Afr. †	Bishop Emeritus of Nouna, Burkina Faso
	47.4	Appointed	Robert William Muench	Auxiliary Bishop of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA	Bishop of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
	47.4	Appointed	Robert William Muench	Titular Bishop of Mactaris	Bishop of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
	66.5	Died	Tomás Ó Fiaich †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland
	71.3	Resigned	Bernard Joseph Wallace †	Bishop of Rockhampton, Australia	Bishop Emeritus
9 May	58.5	Appointed	Carlos Alberto Etchandy Gimeno Navarro †	Archbishop of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	76.0	Retired	José Gonçalves da Costa, C.SS.R. †	Archbishop of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
	31.0	Ordained Priest	José Trinidad Zapata Ortiz	Priest of San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz, México	Bishop
10 May	51.6	Died	Luis Miguel Cantón Marín †	Bishop of Tapachula, Chiapas, México
11 May	59.7	Resigned	Salvatore De Giorgi	Archbishop of Taranto, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Palermo, Italy
	54.7	Appointed	Benigno Luigi Papa, O.F.M. Cap.	Archbishop of Taranto, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
12 May	63.5	Succeeded	Alberto Johannes Först, O. Carm.	Bishop of Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	75.0	Retired	Teodardo Leitz, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
13 May	52.2	Ordained Bishop	José Doth de Oliveira	Coadjutor Bishop of Palmares, Pernambuco, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Iguatú, Ceara, Brazil
	52.1	Ordained Bishop	Elias James Manning, O.F.M. Conv.	Bishop of Valença, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	62.1	Ordained Bishop	Antonino Orrù	Bishop of Ales-Terralba, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
16 May	69.1	Died	Lorenzo Michele Joseph Graziano, O.F.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of San Miguel, El Salvador
	69.1	Resigned	John McCormack †	Bishop of Meath, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
	49.9	Succeeded	Michael Smith	Bishop of Meath, Ireland
	43.6	Appointed	Kyrillos Kamal William Samaan, O.F.M.	Bishop of Assiut {Lycopolis} (Coptic), Egypt
18 May	69.2	Died	Joseph-Marie Trinh van-Can †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Hà Nôi, Viet Nam
20 May	38.8	Incardinated	Gervas Rozario	Priest of Rajshahi, Bangladesh	Bishop
21 May	48.6	Appointed	Deogratias Muganwa Byabazaire	Coadjutor Bishop of Hoima, Uganda	Bishop
	46.6	Appointed	Patrick D’Rozario, C.S.C.	Bishop of Rajshahi, Bangladesh	Archbishop of Dhaka, Bangladesh
	50.6	Appointed	Stanislaus Fernandes, S.J.	Bishop of Ahmedabad, India	Archbishop of Gandhinagar, India
	79.7	Retired	Charles Gomes, S.J. †	Bishop of Ahmedabad, India	Bishop Emeritus
	54.2	Appointed	Nicodemus Kirima †	Archbishop of Nyeri, Kenya
	61.4	Appointed	John Njenga	Archbishop of Mombasa, Kenya	Archbishop Emeritus
	47.9	Appointed	Zacchaeus Okoth	Archbishop of Kisumu, Kenya
	38.4	Died	Alfonso Yepes Rojo †	Prefect of Leticia, Colombia
22 May	41.8	Succeeded	Wolfgang Haas	Bishop of Chur, Switzerland	Archbishop of Vaduz, Liechtenstein
	74.0	Retired	Johannes Vonderach †	Bishop of Chur, Switzerland	Bishop Emeritus
23 May	63.9	Succeeded	Janis Cakuls	Apostolic Administrator of Riga, Latvia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	63.9	Succeeded	Janis Cakuls	Apostolic Administrator of Liepāja, Latvia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Riga, Latvia
24 May	27.5	Ordained Priest	Joseph Luechai Thatwisai	Priest of Udon Thani, Thailand	Bishop
	94.8	Died	Julijans Vaivods †	Cardinal, Apostolic Administrator of Riga, Latvia
25 May	60.4	Installed	Norbert Mary Leonard James Dorsey, C.P. †	Bishop of Orlando, Florida, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	76.1	Died	Epifanio Surban Belmonte †	Bishop Emeritus of Dumaguete, Philippines
	47.7	Installed	Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino	Archbishop of Valencia en Venezuela	Cardinal, Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
26 May	65.9	Ordained Bishop	Nicola Comparone †	Coadjutor Bishop of Alife-Caiazzo, Italy	Bishop
	51.5	Appointed	Józef Zawitkowski	Auxiliary Bishop of Warszawa {Warsaw}, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop of Łowicz, Poland
	51.5	Appointed	Józef Zawitkowski	Titular Bishop of Ausana	Auxiliary Bishop of Łowicz, Poland
27 May	44.6	Ordained Bishop	Thomas Dabre	Titular Bishop of Arae in Numidia	Bishop of Poona, India
	82.4	Died	Francisco Xavier Gillmore Stock †	Bishop Emeritus of Chile, Military
	71.0	Ordained Bishop	Vasile Hossu †	Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino} (Romanian), Romania
	31.8	Ordained Priest	John Baptist Lee Keh-mien	Priest of Hsinchu, Taiwan	Bishop
	41.3	Ordained Bishop	Mario del Valle Moronta Rodríguez	Titular Bishop of Nova	Bishop of San Cristóbal de Venezuela
	59.0	Ordained Bishop	Lucian Mureşan	Bishop of Maramureş (Romanian), Romania	Cardinal, Major Archbishop of Făgăraş şi Alba Iulia (Romanian), Romania
	51.0	Ordained Bishop	Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez	Titular Bishop of Gisipa	Archbishop of Cumaná, Venezuela
	49.0	Ordained Bishop	Ubaldo Ramón Santana Sequera, F.M.I.	Titular Bishop of Caeciri	Archbishop of Maracaibo, Venezuela
	26.4	Ordained Priest	Vitaliy Skomarovskyi	Priest of Kyiv-Zhytomyr, Ukraine	Auxiliary Bishop
28 May	64.8	Appointed	Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Cyprus	Cardinal, Archpriest Emeritus of the Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura {Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls Basilica}
	50.8	Ordained Bishop	David Eugene Fellhauer	Bishop of Victoria in Texas, USA
30 May	78.5	Died	John Francis Hackett †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
	22.7	Ordained Priest	Josaphat Oleh Hovera	Priest of Ternopil-Zboriv (Ukrainian), Ukraine	Archiepiscopal Exarch of Lutsk (Ukrainian), Ukraine
31 May	48.4	Ordained Bishop	Stephen Edward Blaire	Titular Bishop of Lamzella	Bishop of Stockton, California, USA
	72.6	Died	José d’Angelo Neto †	Archbishop of Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	56.6	Ordained Bishop	Thomas Ludger Dupré	Titular Bishop of Hodelm	Bishop Emeritus of Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
	59.7	Ordained Bishop	Sylvester Donovan Ryan	Titular Bishop of Remesiana	Bishop Emeritus of Monterey in California, USA
1 Jun	29.6	Ordained Priest	Alexander King Sample	Priest of Marquette, Michigan, USA	Archbishop of Portland in Oregon, USA
2 Jun	57.3	Ordained Bishop	Roberto Amadei †	Bishop of Savona-Noli, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Bergamo, Italy
	39.9	Ordained Bishop	Cornelius Kipng’eno Arap Korir	Bishop of Eldoret, Kenya
	48.1	Appointed	Vincenzo D’Addario †	Archbishop of Manfredonia-Vieste, Italy	Bishop of Teramo-Atri, Italy
	74.9	Retired	Michael Joseph Murphy †	Bishop of Erie, Pennsylvania, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	58.4	Appointed	Michael Angelo Saltarelli †	Auxiliary Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Wilmington, Delaware, USA
	58.4	Appointed	Michael Angelo Saltarelli †	Titular Bishop of Mesarfelta	Bishop Emeritus of Wilmington, Delaware, USA
	53.9	Appointed	Donald Walter Trautman	Bishop of Erie, Pennsylvania, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	75.9	Retired	Valentino Vailati †	Archbishop of Manfredonia-Vieste, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
3 Jun	48.1	Ordained Bishop	Germano Grachane, C.M.	Titular Bishop of Thunusuda	Bishop of Nacala, Mozambique
	44.2	Ordained Bishop	Giulio Mencuccini, C.P.	Bishop of Sanggau, Indonesia
	43.7	Ordained Bishop	Kyrillos Kamal William Samaan, O.F.M.	Bishop of Assiut {Lycopolis} (Coptic), Egypt
7 Jun	85.1	Died	Timotheus (Franz Xaver) Bitterli, O.S.B. †	Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Tŏkwon {Tokugen}, Korea (North)
	77.5	Died	José María Mestres †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Paraná, Argentina
9 Jun	54.8	Ordained Bishop	Joaquín Carmelo Borobia Isasa	Titular Bishop of Elo	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Toledo, Spain
	67.9	Appointed	Pierre Callaos †	Archbishop of Alep [Beroea, Halab] (Maronite), Syria
	70.1	Appointed	Philippe Boutros Chebaya †	Bishop of Baalbek-Deir El-Ahmar (Maronite), Lebanon	Bishop Emeritus
	76.3	Retired	João (Jean) Chedid, O.M.M. †	Bishop of Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo (Maronite), Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	50.3	Appointed	Giovanni Giudici	Auxiliary Bishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy	Bishop of Pavia, Italy
	50.3	Appointed	Giovanni Giudici	Titular Bishop of Usula	Bishop of Pavia, Italy
	30.6	Ordained Priest	James Vann Johnston, Jr.	Priest of Knoxville, Tennessee, USA	Bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA
	58.3	Appointed	Joseph Mahfouz, O.L.M. †	Bishop of Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo (Maronite), Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	60.7	Appointed	Angelo Mascheroni	Auxiliary Bishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	60.7	Appointed	Angelo Mascheroni	Titular Bishop of Forum Flaminii	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Milano {Milan}, Italy
	36.5	Ordained Priest	Joseph Nguyen Nang	Priest of Xuân Lôc, Viet Nam	Bishop of Phát Diêm, Viet Nam
	54.9	Appointed	Guy-Paul Noujaim	Auxiliary Bishop of Joubbé, Sarba e Jounieh (Maronite), Lebanon	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	54.9	Appointed	Guy-Paul Noujaim	Titular Bishop of Caesarea Philippi	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Joubbé, Sarba e Jounieh (Maronite), Lebanon
	50.4	Ordained Bishop	Ivan Prendja †	Coadjutor Archbishop of Zadar (Zara), Croatia	Archbishop
	50.3	Appointed	Béchara Boutros Raï, O.M.M.	Bishop of Jbeil {Byblos} (Maronite), Lebanon	Cardinal, Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Maronite), Lebanon
	75.5	Retired	Joseph Salamé †	Archbishop of Alep [Beroea, Halab] (Maronite), Syria	Archbishop Emeritus
	63.1	Appointed	Georges Scandar	Bishop of Zahleh (Maronite), Lebanon	Bishop Emeritus
	51.5	Ordained Bishop	Józef Zawitkowski	Titular Bishop of Ausana	Auxiliary Bishop of Łowicz, Poland
11 Jun	47.6	Appointed	Charles Kambale Mbogha, A.A. †	Bishop of Wamba, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Archbishop of Bukavu, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	57.2	Appointed	Bernard Mohlalisi, O.M.I.	Archbishop of Maseru, Lesotho	Archbishop Emeritus
	48.4	Appointed	Matthias N’Gartéri Mayadi	Bishop of Moundou, Chad	Archbishop of N’Djaména, Chad
	63.1	Resigned	Gustave Olombe Atelumbu Musilamu †	Bishop of Wamba, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop Emeritus
	63.4	Appointed	Emmanuel Otteh †	Auxiliary Bishop of Onitsha, Nigeria	Bishop Emeritus of Issele-Uku, Nigeria
	63.4	Appointed	Emmanuel Otteh †	Titular Bishop of Cova	Bishop Emeritus of Issele-Uku, Nigeria
	60.7	Appointed	Tarcisius Resto Phanrang, S.D.B. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Shillong-Gauhati, India	Archbishop of Shillong, India
	60.7	Appointed	Tarcisius Resto Phanrang, S.D.B. †	Titular Bishop of Corniculana	Archbishop of Shillong, India
12 Jun	68.7	Resigned	Odore Joseph Gendron	Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	60.2	Installed	Adam Joseph Maida	Archbishop of Detroit, Michigan, USA	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	62.4	Succeeded	Leo Edward O’Neil †	Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
	57.7	Appointed	Joseph Keith Symons	Bishop of Palm Beach, Florida, USA	Bishop Emeritus
13 Jun	63.8	Appointed	Agostino Cacciavillan	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to United States of America	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See
15 Jun	74.8	Retired	Jerome Ferdinand Weber, O.S.B. †	Abbot of Saint Peter-Muenster, Saskatchewan, Canada	Abbot Emeritus
17 Jun	55.1	Ordained Bishop	Bellino Giusto Ghirard	Coadjutor Bishop of Rodez (-Vabres), France	Bishop Emeritus
	66.2	Ordained Bishop	Gheorghe Guţiu †	Bishop of Cluj-Gherla (Romanian), Romania	Bishop Emeritus
18 Jun	63.8	Appointed	Raúl Holguer López Mayorga	Bishop of Latacunga, Ecuador	Bishop Emeritus
19 Jun	26.0	Ordained Priest	Anthony Wieslaw Krótki, O.M.I.	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate	Bishop of Churchill-Baie d’Hudson, Manitoba, Canada
	57.0	Appointed	Kevin Lawrence Rafferty †	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain
	57.0	Appointed	Kevin Lawrence Rafferty †	Titular Bishop of Ausuaga	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain
20 Jun	57.1	Appointed	Heriberto Hermes, O.S.B.	Prelate of Cristalândia, Goias, Brazil	Prelate Emeritus
	59.5	Succeeded	Emmanuel Lê Phong Thuân †	Bishop of Cân Tho, Viet Nam
	80.9	Died	Jacques Nguyên Ngoc Quang †	Bishop of Cân Tho, Viet Nam
22 Jun	53.5	Appointed	Jacques Jean Joseph Jules Perrier	Coadjutor Bishop of Chartres, France	Bishop Emeritus of Tarbes et Lourdes, France
	53.0	Appointed	Manuel Antonio Valarezo Luzuriaga, O.F.M.	Prefect of Galápagos, Ecuador	Vicar Apostolic of Galápagos, Ecuador
23 Jun	78.9	Died	Orazio Ferrucio Ceól, O.F.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Qichun [Kichow], China
	57.9	Appointed	Armando Dini	Bishop of Avezzano, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus of Campobasso-Boiano, Italy
	34.7	Ordained Priest	Hyacinth Oroko Egbebo, M.S.P.N.	Priest of Missionary Society of Saint Paul of Nigeria (Melkite Greek)	Vicar Apostolic of Bomadi, Nigeria
	55.7	Appointed	Miguel Mykycej, F.D.P.	Auxiliary Bishop of Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires (Ukrainian), Argentina	Bishop Emeritus
	55.7	Appointed	Miguel Mykycej, F.D.P.	Titular Bishop of Nazianzus	Bishop Emeritus of Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires (Ukrainian), Argentina
	76.3	Retired	Biagio Vittorio Terrinoni, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop of Avezzano, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	58.6	Appointed	Umberto Tramma †	Bishop of Nola, Italy	Official of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts
24 Jun	25.0	Ordained Priest	László Bőcskei	Priest of Timişoara, Romania	Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad}, Romania
	25.8	Ordained Priest	Vincent Dollmann	Priest of Strasbourg, France	Auxiliary Bishop
	60.7	Ordained Bishop	Angelo Mascheroni	Titular Bishop of Forum Flaminii	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Milano {Milan}, Italy
	45.4	Ordained Bishop	Serafim Shyngo-Ya-Hombo, O.F.M. Cap.	Titular Bishop of Aquae in Dacia	Bishop Emeritus of Mbanza Congo, Angola
	74.7	Died	José Varani †	Bishop Emeritus of Jaboticabal, Sao Paulo, Brazil
25 Jun	57.0	Appointed	Francesco De Nittis	Apostolic Nuncio to Uruguay	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus
26 Jun	52.2	Appointed	Osvino José Both	Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	Archbishop of Brazil, Military
	52.2	Appointed	Osvino José Both	Titular Bishop of Cluentum	Archbishop of Brazil, Military
27 Jun	87.4	Died	Lambert Anthony Hoch †	Bishop Emeritus of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
	90.3	Died	José Clemente Maurer, C.SS.R. †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Sucre, Bolivia
	54.0	Succeeded	Luis Morales Reyes	Bishop of Torreón, Coahuila, México	Archbishop Emeritus of San Luis Potosí, México
	75.0	Retired	Fernando Romo Gutiérrez †	Bishop of Torreón, Coahuila, México	Bishop Emeritus
28 Jun	63.8	Appointed	Luciano Storero †	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Greece	Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland
29 Jun	50.3	Ordained Bishop	Giovanni Giudici	Titular Bishop of Usula	Bishop of Pavia, Italy
	43.4	Ordained Bishop	Jean-Anatole Kalala Kaseba	Bishop of Kamina, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	57.4	Ordained Bishop	Rafael Llano Cifuentes	Titular Bishop of Mades	Bishop Emeritus of Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	62.1	Ordained Bishop	Pierre Mouallem, S.M.S.P.	Bishop of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo (Melkite Greek), Sao Paulo, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus of Akka [San Giovanni d’Acri; Tolemaide] (Melkite Greek), Israel
	47.5	Ordained Bishop	Robert William Muench	Titular Bishop of Mactaris	Bishop of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
	32.3	Ordained Priest	Franz Scharl	Priest of Wien {Vienna}, Austria	Auxiliary Bishop
	28.0	Ordained Priest	Peter Štumpf, S.D.B.	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Bishop of Murska Sobota, Slovenia
	50.2	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Theodorus Suwatan, M.S.C.	Bishop of Manado, Indonesia
	59.1	Ordained Bishop	José Vieira de Lima, T.O.R.	Bishop of Marabá, Para, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of São Luíz de Cáceres, Mato Grosso, Brazil
30 Jun	64.6	Appointed	Giovanni Coppa	Apostolic Nuncio to Czechoslovakia	Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Czech Republic