The Year of Our Lord 1992

Bishop Events

January to February

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
unknown	64.9	Appointed	Paul Antaki †	Patriarchal Exarch of Egypt and Sudan (Melkite Greek)	Protosyncellus Emeritus of Egypt and Sudan (Melkite Greek)
	34.2	Incardinated	Francisco Cerro Chaves	Priest of Valladolid, Spain	Archbishop of Toledo, Spain
	20.6	Professed	Patrick Chilekwa Chisanga, O.F.M. Conv.	Member of Order of Friars Minor Conventual	Bishop of Mansa, Zambia
	70.3	Resigned	Maurizio Benvenuto Maria Contorni, O.S.B. †	Abbot of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Italy	Abbot Emeritus
	62.5	Resigned	Viktor Josef Dammertz, O.S.B. †	Abbot Primate of Order of Saint Benedict	Bishop Emeritus of Augsburg, Germany
	71.0	Selected	Louis Fan Luyi	Bishop of Baoding [Paoting, Ching-Yüan], China	Former Bishop-Elect
	55.0	Appointed	Nikólaos Foskolos	Apostolic Administrator of Rhodos {Rhodes}, Greece	Archbishop Emeritus of Athēnai {Athens}, Greece
	47.7	Converted	Alan Stephen Hopes	Bishop of East Anglia, England, Great Britain
	65.9	Confirmed	John Huo Cheng	Bishop	Bishop of Fenyang [Fenyang], China
	58.0	Appointed	Grégoire III (Loutfi) Laham, B.S.	Patriarchal Exarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme} (Melkite Greek), Palestine	Patriarch Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Melkite Greek), Syria
	53.6	Appointed	Iván Antonio Marín López	Secretary of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”	Archbishop Emeritus of Popayán, Colombia
	31.9	Incardinated	Joaquim Giovanni Mol Guimarães	Priest of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Auxiliary Bishop
	35.0	Solemn Vows	Donato Ogliari, O.S.B.	Priest of Order of Saint Benedict	Abbot of Montecassino, Italy
	87.1	Died	Antoni Sagrera Gayá, C.R. †	Superior General Emeritus of Congregation of Clerics Regular
	28.7	Perpetual Vows	Ducange Sylvain, S.D.B.	Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Auxiliary Bishop of Port-au-Prince, Haïti
	26.0	Ordained Priest	John Wang Xiaoxun	Priest	Coadjutor Bishop of Ankang [Hinganfu], China
	32.1	Incardinated	Alexis Touably Youlo	Priest of San Pedro-en-Côte d’Ivoire	Bishop of Agboville, Côte d’Ivoire
	35.2	Selected	John Zhang Qingtian	Auxiliary Bishop of Yixian [Yihsien], China	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	71.5	Selected	Thomas Zhao Feng Wu, S.V.D. †	Administrator of Yanzhou [Yenchow], China	Bishop
1 Jan	21.5	Entered	Juan Miguel Betancourt Torres, S.E.M.V.	Member of Other	Auxiliary Bishop of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
4 Jan	65.6	Appointed	Rafael Garcia González †	Bishop of León, Guanajuato, México
	48.3	Ordained Bishop	Juan Godayol Colom, S.D.B.	Prelate of Ayaviri, Peru	Prelate Emeritus
	75.5	Retired	Anselmo Zarza Bernal †	Bishop of León, Guanajuato, México	Bishop Emeritus
	50.0	Appointed	Alejo Zavala Castro	Bishop of Tlapa, Guerrero, México	Bishop Emeritus of Chilpancingo-Chilapa, Guerrero, México
5 Jan	46.8	Ordained Bishop	Carlos Jesús Patricio Baladrón Valdés	Titular Bishop of Cibaliana	Bishop Emeritus of Guantánamo-Baracoa, Cuba
6 Jan	51.4	Ordained Bishop	Benjamin David de Jesus, O.M.I. †	Titular Bishop of Bladia	Vicar Apostolic of Jolo, Philippines
	73.5	Ordained Bishop	Ernesto Maria Fiore †	Titular Archbishop of Novi	Dean Emeritus of the Roman Rota
	54.3	Ordained Bishop	Michael Louis Fitzgerald, M. Afr.	Titular Bishop of Nepte	Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Egypt, Arab Republic of
	65.4	Ordained Bishop	John Joseph Glynn †	Titular Bishop of Monteverde	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of United States of America, Military
	42.6	Ordained Bishop	Juan Matogo Oyana, C.M.F.	Bishop of Ebebiyin, Equatorial Guinea	Bishop of Bata, Equatorial Guinea
	53.8	Ordained Bishop	Philippe Nkiere Keana, C.I.C.M.	Coadjutor Bishop of Bondo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop Emeritus of Inongo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	47.7	Ordained Bishop	Rino Passigato	Titular Archbishop of Nova Caesaris	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Portugal
	65.0	Ordained Bishop	Henri Salina, C.R.A. †	Titular Bishop of Mons in Mauretania	Abbot Emeritus of Saint-Maurice, Switzerland
	54.7	Ordained Bishop	Gastone Simoni	Bishop of Prato, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	43.5	Ordained Bishop	Petar Šolic †	Titular Bishop of Mauriana	Auxiliary Bishop of Split-Makarska, Croatia
	59.5	Ordained Bishop	Iñaki Mallona Txertudi, C.P.	Bishop of Arecibo, Puerto Rico	Bishop Emeritus
7 Jan	53.9	Appointed	Marko Culej †	Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb, Croatia	Bishop of Varaždin, Croatia
7 Jan	53.9	Appointed	Marko Culej †	Titular Bishop of Limata	Bishop of Varaždin, Croatia
8 Jan	52.1	Appointed	João Bosco Oliver de Faria	Bishop of Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	70.7	Died	Miguel Roca Cabanellas †	Archbishop of Valencia, Spain
	75.4	Retired	Jorge Scarso, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop of Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
9 Jan	76.0	Died	Constantino Maradei Donato †	Bishop Emeritus of Barcelona, Venezuela
	48.0	Appointed	Christian Werner	Coadjutor Bishop of Austria, Military	Bishop Emeritus
	48.0	Appointed	Christian Werner	Titular Bishop of Aeca	Bishop Emeritus of Austria, Military
10 Jan	70.4	Died	Edward Thomas O’Meara †	Archbishop of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
11 Jan	34.3	Appointed	Milan Chautur, C.SS.R.	Auxiliary Bishop of Prešov (Prjašev, Eperjes) (Slovakian), Slovakia	Bishop of Košice (Slovakian), Slovakia
	34.3	Appointed	Milan Chautur, C.SS.R.	Titular Bishop of Cresima	Bishop of Košice (Slovakian), Slovakia
	30.9	Ordained Priest	Peter Loy Chong	Priest of Suva, Fiji, Pacific (Oceania)	Archbishop
	63.1	Appointed	Michael Ambrose Griffiths, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, England, Great Britain	Bishop Emeritus
	64.5	Resigned	Hugh Lindsay †	Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, England, Great Britain	Bishop Emeritus
	75.0	Retired	Michel Louis Marie Joseph Mondésert †	Auxiliary Bishop of Grenoble, France	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
12 Jan	55.4	Ordained Bishop	Alfredo Víctor Petit Vergel	Titular Bishop of Buslacena	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of San Cristobal de la Habana, Cuba
14 Jan	38.6	Ordained Priest	John Đo Văn Ngân	Priest of Xuân Lộc, Viet Nam	Auxiliary Bishop
15 Jan	51.2	Appointed	Lorenzo Baldisseri	Titular Archbishop of Diocletiana	Cardinal, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops
	51.2	Appointed	Lorenzo Baldisseri	Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti	Cardinal, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops
	44.8	Appointed	Juan Vargas Aruquipa	Auxiliary Bishop of Coroico, Bolivia	Bishop
	44.8	Appointed	Juan Vargas Aruquipa	Titular Bishop of Bita	Bishop of Coroico, Bolivia
16 Jan	36.7	Ordained Priest	Joseph Trân Văn Toàn	Priest of Long Xuyên, Viet Nam	Bishop
17 Jan	49.0	Appointed	Ciriaco Benavente Mateos	Bishop of Coria-Cáceres, Spain	Bishop Emeritus of Albacete, Spain
18 Jan	46.0	Appointed	Antoine Audo, S.J.	Bishop of Alep [Beroea, Halab] (Chaldean), Syria
	62.6	Appointed	Osório Bebber, O.F.M. Cap.	Prelate of Coxim, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Joaçaba, Santa Catarina, Brazil
	67.0	Resigned	Cesar Castro Raval, S.V.D. †	Bishop of Bangued, Philippines	Bishop Emeritus
19 Jan	29.8	Ordained Priest	José Ionilton Lisboa de Oliveira, S.D.V.	Priest of Society of Divine Vocations	Prelate of Itacoatiara, Amazonas, Brazil
19 Jan	76.0	Died	[Philip Xu Lizhi] †	Auxiliary Bishop of Xiwanzi-Chongli [Siwantze], China
21 Jan	75.6	Retired	Jean Jérôme Hamer, O.P. †	Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
21 Jan	64.8	Appointed	Eduardo Martínez Somalo	Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life	Cardinal, Chamberlain Emeritus of the Apostolic Chamber
23 Jan	51.7	Appointed	Antoine Ntalou	Archbishop of Garoua, Cameroon	Archbishop Emeritus
	49.3	Appointed	Jean-Berchmans Nterere †	Coadjutor Bishop of Muyinga, Burundi	Bishop
	58.6	Appointed	Joseph James Potocnak, S.C.I.	Bishop of De Aar, South Africa	Bishop Emeritus
	65.7	Appointed	Andrew Tsien Chih-ch’un (Tsien Zhichun) †	Bishop of Hwalien, Taiwan	Bishop Emeritus
	59.2	Appointed	Raphaël Marie Ze †	Bishop of Sangmélima, Cameroon	Bishop Emeritus
24 Jan	70.9	Appointed	Antonio María Javierre Ortas, S.D.B. †	Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	46.2	Ordained Bishop	Vincent Gerard Nichols	Titular Bishop of Othona	Cardinal, Archbishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain
	68.1	Appointed	Wolodymyr Walter Paska †	Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia (Ukrainian), Pennsylvania, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	68.1	Appointed	Wolodymyr Walter Paska †	Titular Bishop of Tigillava	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Philadelphia (Ukrainian), Pennsylvania, USA
25 Jan	30.4	Perpetual Vows	Peter Chung Soon-taek, O.C.D.	Member of Order of Discalced Carmelites	Auxiliary Bishop of Seoul, Korea (South)
	51.8	Ordained Bishop	Dante Lafranconi	Bishop of Savona-Noli, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Cremona, Italy
	30.4	Ordained Priest	Jacques Danka Longa	Priest of Sokodé, Togo	Bishop of Kara, Togo
	59.5	Installed	Iñaki Mallona Txertudi, C.P.	Bishop of Arecibo, Puerto Rico	Bishop Emeritus
26 Jan	58.9	Installed	Roberto Amadei †	Bishop of Bergamo, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
26 Jan	63.7	Ordained Bishop	François Gourguillon †	Titular Bishop of Suas	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Reims, France
28 Jan	46.5	Appointed	Gerald Richard Barnes	Auxiliary Bishop of San Bernardino, California, USA	Bishop
	46.5	Appointed	Gerald Richard Barnes	Titular Bishop of Mons Faliscus	Bishop of San Bernardino, California, USA
	64.2	Installed	Daniel Anthony Cronin	Archbishop of Hartford, Connecticut, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
	70.8	Died	Dominic Ðinh Huy Quang †	Auxiliary Bishop of Bắc Ninh, Viet Nam
	24.0	Professed	Jorge Enrique Izaguirre Rafael, C.S.C.	Member of Congregation of Holy Cross	Prelate of Chuquibamba, Peru
	75.8	Retired	Albert Henry Ottenweller †	Bishop of Steubenville, Ohio, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	61.4	Appointed	Sylvester Donovan Ryan	Bishop of Monterey in California, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	65.3	Appointed	Gilbert Ignatius Sheldon	Bishop of Steubenville, Ohio, USA	Bishop Emeritus
29 Jan	69.7	Died	Gerald Thomas Mahon, M.H.M. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain
30 Jan	55.5	Installed	John Alexius Bathersby †	Archbishop of Brisbane, Australia	Archbishop Emeritus
30 Jan	29.4	Ordained Priest	Timothy Yu Gyoung-chon	Priest of Seoul, Korea (South)	Auxiliary Bishop
31 Jan	59.3	Appointed	Rinaldo Fidel Brédice †	Bishop of Santa Rosa, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus
	80.3	Died	Ioan Chertes †	Titular Archbishop of Cantanus
	88.3	Died	Rudolf Graber †	Bishop Emeritus of Regensburg, Germany
1 Feb	77.9	Died	Giuseppe Boeris, C.R.S. †	Superior General Emeritus of Clerks Regular of Somasca
	78.0	Died	Maurice John Dingman †	Bishop Emeritus of Des Moines, Iowa, USA
	62.5	Appointed	Czeslaw Domin †	Bishop of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg, Poland
	42.2	Appointed	Stanisław Gądecki	Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno, Poland	Archbishop of Poznań, Poland
	42.2	Appointed	Stanisław Gądecki	Titular Bishop of Rubicon	Archbishop of Poznań, Poland
	77.5	Retired	Ignacy Ludwik Jeż †	Bishop of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg, Poland	Bishop Emeritus
	69.7	Died	James Joseph Komba †	Archbishop of Songea, Tanzania
	77.1	Retired	Władysław Miziołek †	Auxiliary Bishop of Warszawa {Warsaw}, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	77.0	Retired	Franciszek Musiel †	Auxiliary Bishop of Częstochowa, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	76.9	Retired	Waclaw Skomorucha †	Auxiliary Bishop of Siedlce, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	76.7	Retired	Stanislaw Smolenski †	Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków {Cracow}, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
2 Feb	24.3	Professed	Waldo Rubén Barrionuevo Ramírez, C.SS.R.	Member of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer	Vicar Apostolic of Reyes, Bolivia
	39.2	Ordained Bishop	Goetbé Edmond Djitangar	Bishop of Sarh, Chad	Archbishop of N’Djaména, Chad
	43.1	Ordained Bishop	Johannes Liku Ada’	Titular Bishop of Amantia	Archbishop of Makassar, Indonesia
	64.6	Installed	Hubert Luthe †	Bishop of Essen, Germany	Bishop Emeritus
	48.0	Ordained Bishop	Christian Werner	Titular Bishop of Aeca	Bishop Emeritus of Austria, Military
5 Feb	72.2	Died	Joseph Khoury †	Archbishop of Tyr (Maronite), Lebanon
6 Feb	84.2	Died	Sergio Méndez Arceo †	Bishop Emeritus of Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
7 Feb	55.7	Ordained Bishop	Luiz Gonzaga Bergonzini †	Bishop of Guarulhos, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
9 Feb	51.9	Ordained Bishop	Mario Eusebio Mestril Vega	Titular Bishop of Cediae	Bishop Emeritus of Ciego de Ávila, Cuba
11 Feb	74.5	Retired	Manuel Augusto Cárdenas †	Auxiliary Bishop of Argentina, Faithful of the Eastern Rites	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	65.7	Appointed	Jorge Maria Hourton Poisson †	Auxiliary Bishop of Temuco, Chile	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	63.9	Appointed	Ferenc Keszthelyi, O. Cist. †	Bishop of Vác, Hungary	Bishop Emeritus
	75.8	Retired	Izidor István Marosi †	Bishop of Vác, Hungary	Bishop Emeritus
	49.3	Appointed	Rubén Salazar Gómez	Bishop of Cúcuta, Colombia	Cardinal, Archbishop of Bogotá, Colombia
13 Feb	66.3	Resigned	Robert-Casimir Tonyui Messan Dosseh-Anyron †	Archbishop of Lomé, Togo	Archbishop Emeritus
15 Feb	51.5	Installed	Benjamin David de Jesus, O.M.I. †	Vicar Apostolic of Jolo, Philippines
	53.9	Ordained Bishop	José Foralosso, S.D.B. †	Bishop of Guiratinga, Mato Grosso, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Marabá, Para, Brazil
	46.7	Appointed	Felipe Padilla Cardona	Bishop of Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, México	Bishop of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, México
18 Feb	58.6	Appointed	Savarinathan Michael Augustine †	Archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore, India	Archbishop Emeritus
	63.8	Installed	John Aloysius Marshall †	Bishop of Springfield in Massachusetts, USA
	78.6	Retired	Venmani S. Selvanather †	Archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore, India	Archbishop Emeritus
20 Feb	30.2	Ordained Priest	Anthony Poola	Priest of Cuddapah, India	Bishop of Kurnool, India
22 Feb	54.0	Ordained Bishop	Marko Culej †	Titular Bishop of Limata	Bishop of Varaždin, Croatia
	54.0	Succeeded	John Gabriel †	Bishop of Pathein, Myanmar
	73.3	Ordained Bishop	James David Lin Xili †	Bishop of Yongjia/Wenzhou [Yungkia], China
	52.3	Installed	João Bosco Oliver de Faria	Bishop of Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	75.0	Retired	Joseph Valerius Sequeira †	Bishop of Pathein, Myanmar	Bishop Emeritus
	28.2	Ordained Priest	Herman Willebrordus Woorts	Priest of Utrecht, Netherlands	Auxiliary Bishop
23 Feb	54.8	Installed	Gastone Simoni	Bishop of Prato, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
24 Feb	74.4	Ordained Bishop	Michael Liu Xianru †	Bishop of Chengdu [Chengtu], China
25 Feb	67.4	Appointed	Leonard James Wall †	Archbishop of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus
26 Feb	48.7	Appointed	Héctor Rubén Aguer	Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina	Archbishop Emeritus of La Plata, Argentina
	48.7	Appointed	Héctor Rubén Aguer	Titular Bishop of Lamdia	Archbishop Emeritus of La Plata, Argentina
	46.2	Appointed	Rubén Oscar Frassia	Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina	Bishop of Avellaneda-Lanús, Argentina
	46.2	Appointed	Rubén Oscar Frassia	Titular Bishop of Caeciri	Bishop of Avellaneda-Lanús, Argentina
	66.5	Died	José Alberto Llaguno Farias, S.J. †	Vicar Apostolic of Tarahumara, Chihuahua, México
27 Feb	90.4	Died	Jerome M. Fernandez †	Bishop Emeritus of Quilon, India
27 Feb	62.6	Died	Charles McDonald Renfrew †	Auxiliary Bishop of Glasgow, Scotland, Great Britain
29 Feb	51.8	Ordained Bishop	José Luis Astigarraga Lizarralde, C.P. †	Titular Bishop of Buleliana	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Yurimaguas, Peru
	79.2	Died	Joseph A. Carroll †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Dublin, Ireland
	34.4	Ordained Bishop	Milan Chautur, C.SS.R.	Titular Bishop of Cresima	Bishop of Košice (Slovakian), Slovakia
	64.0	Appointed	Giulio Einaudi †	Apostolic Nuncio to Croatia	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus
	76.6	Retired	Tomás Enrique Márquez Gómez †	Bishop of San Felipe, Venezuela	Bishop Emeritus
	47.7	Appointed	Nelson Antonio Martinez Rust	Bishop of San Felipe, Venezuela	Bishop Emeritus
	71.6	Died	Felix Paz Perez †	Bishop of Imus, Philippines

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