The Year of Our Lord 1993

Bishop Events

January to February

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
unknown	31.0	Professed	Timothée Bodika Mansiyai, P.S.S.	Priest of Society of Priests of Saint Sulpice	Auxiliary Bishop of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	53.0	Appointed	Diego Causero	Apostolic Nuncio to Central African Republic	Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland
	53.0	Appointed	Diego Causero	Apostolic Nuncio to Congo, Republic of	Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland
	27.5	Professed	Petro Herkulan Malchuk, O.F.M.	Priest of Order of Friars Minor	Bishop of Kyiv-Zhytomyr, Ukraine
	41.5	Incardinated	Adalberto Martínez Flores	Priest of Asunción, Paraguay	Bishop of Paraguay, Military
	48.9	Incardinated	Robert McGuckin	Priest of Parramatta, Australia	Bishop of Toowoomba, Australia
	58.3	Appointed	Franc Rodé, C.M.	Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
	61.4	Appointed	Thomas A. White	Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Fiji, Pacific (Oceania)
1 Jan	67.1	Appointed	Giovanni Coppa	Apostolic Nuncio to Czech Republic	Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus
1 Jan	67.1	Appointed	Giovanni Coppa	Apostolic Nuncio to Slovakia	Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Czech Republic
2 Jan	81.1	Died	Michel-Jules-Joseph-Marie Bernard, C.S.Sp. †	Bishop Emeritus of Nouakchott, Mauritania
	49.6	Ordained Bishop	Bosco Lin Chi-nan	Titular Bishop of Alexanum	Bishop of Tainan, Taiwan
	51.8	Appointed	Ramiro Moliner Inglés	Titular Archbishop of Sarda	Apostolic Nuncio to Albania
	51.8	Appointed	Ramiro Moliner Inglés	Apostolic Nuncio to Papua New Guinea	Apostolic Nuncio to Albania
	51.8	Appointed	Ramiro Moliner Inglés	Apostolic Nuncio to Solomon Islands	Apostolic Nuncio to Albania
3 Jan	57.9	Ordained Bishop	Luis Abilio Sebastiani Aguirre, S.M.	Bishop of Tarma, Peru	Archbishop Emeritus of Ayacucho o Huamanga, Peru
4 Jan	75.4	Died	Ernest Leo Unterkoefler †	Bishop Emeritus of Charleston, South Carolina, USA
6 Jan	53.0	Ordained Bishop	Diego Causero	Titular Archbishop of Meta	Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland
	45.1	Ordained Bishop	Jan Kopiec	Titular Bishop of Cemerinianus	Bishop of Gliwice, Poland
	55.2	Ordained Bishop	Henry Joseph Mansell	Titular Bishop of Marazanae	Archbishop of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
	42.6	Ordained Bishop	Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle	Bishop of Koforidua, Ghana	Archbishop of Accra, Ghana
	60.1	Ordained Bishop	Elmo Noel Joseph Perera	Titular Bishop of Gadiaufala	Bishop Emeritus of Galle, Sri Lanka
	64.6	Ordained Bishop	Elio Sgreccia	Titular Bishop of Zama Minor	Cardinal, President Emeritus of Life, Roman Curia
	71.8	Ordained Bishop	Luigi Sposito †	Titular Bishop of Tagaria	Secretary Emeritus of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See
	46.4	Ordained Bishop	Norbert Klemens Strotmann Hoppe, M.S.C.	Titular Bishop of Caere	Bishop of Chosica, Peru
	39.1	Ordained Bishop	Csaba Ternyák	Titular Archbishop of Eminentiana	Archbishop of Eger, Hungary
	47.0	Ordained Bishop	Henryk Marian Tomasik	Titular Bishop of Furnos Minor	Bishop of Radom, Poland
	48.0	Ordained Bishop	Alojzij Uran	Titular Bishop of Abula	Archbishop Emeritus of Ljubljana, Slovenia
8 Jan	50.0	Appointed	Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B.	Cardinal, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras
8 Jan	75.3	Retired	Héctor Enrique Santos Hernández, S.D.B. †	Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras	Archbishop Emeritus
9 Jan	54.5	Resigned	Francesco Gioia, O.F.M. Cap.	Archbishop of Camerino-San Severino Marche, Italy	Secretary Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People
10 Jan	62.9	Ordained Bishop	Jean Marie Louis Bonfils, S.M.A.	Bishop of Viviers, France	Bishop Emeritus of Nice, France
12 Jan	51.4	Installed	Gabriel Villaruz Reyes	Bishop of Kalibo, Philippines	Bishop of Antipolo, Philippines
16 Jan	72.8	Died	Jan Gurda †	Auxiliary Bishop of Kielce, Poland
16 Jan	83.0	Died	Benvenuto Matteucci †	Archbishop Emeritus of Pisa, Italy
18 Jan	68.3	Died	Herberto Celso Angelo †	Auxiliary Bishop of Mercedes-Luján, Argentina
19 Jan	67.6	Appointed	Ennio Appignanesi	Archbishop of Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
19 Jan	76.0	Retired	Giuseppe Vairo †	Archbishop of Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
20 Jan	50.1	Appointed	Giovanni (João) Risatti, P.I.M.E. †	Bishop of Macapá, Amapa, Brazil
22 Jan	58.4	Installed	Eusebius Joseph Beltran	Archbishop of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
23 Jan	60.3	Resigned	Joannes Baptist Matthijs Gijsen	Bishop of Roermond, Netherlands	Bishop Emeritus of Reykjavik, Iceland
24 Jan	58.0	Ordained Bishop	Paul Iby	Bishop of Eisenstadt, Austria	Bishop Emeritus
26 Jan	75.5	Retired	James Louis Schad †	Auxiliary Bishop of Camden, New Jersey, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	43.3	Appointed	James Anthony Tamayo	Auxiliary Bishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA	Bishop of Laredo, Texas, USA
	43.3	Appointed	James Anthony Tamayo	Titular Bishop of Ita	Bishop of Laredo, Texas, USA
29 Jan	28.3	Ordained Priest	John Baptist Jung Shin-chul	Priest of Incheon {Inch’on}, Korea (South)	Auxiliary Bishop
29 Jan	43.5	Ordained Bishop	Youhannes Ezzat Zakaria Badir	Bishop of Ismayliah (Coptic), Egypt	Bishop of Luqsor {Tebe} (Coptic), Egypt
30 Jan	24.1	Ordained Priest	Juan Carlos Barreto Barreto	Priest of Espinal, Colombia	Bishop of Quibdó, Colombia
	42.2	Ordained Bishop	Bernard Bober	Titular Bishop of Vissalsa	Archbishop of Košice, Slovakia
	63.6	Ordained Bishop	Viktor Josef Dammertz, O.S.B.	Bishop of Augsburg, Germany	Bishop Emeritus
	52.3	Appointed	Juan Carlos Maccarone	Auxiliary Bishop of Lomas de Zamora, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus of Santiago del Estero, Argentina
	52.3	Appointed	Juan Carlos Maccarone	Titular Bishop of Mauriana	Bishop Emeritus of Santiago del Estero, Argentina
	64.6	Appointed	Pedro Luis Ronchino, S.D.B.	Bishop of Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus
31 Jan	21.6	Professed	Gabriel Narciso Escobar Ayala, S.D.B.	Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Vicar Apostolic of Chaco Paraguayo, Paraguay
	27.7	Ordained Priest	Juan Espinoza Jiménez	Priest of Morelia, Michoacán, México	Auxiliary Bishop
	80.0	Died	Jaime Antônio Schuck, O.F.M. †	Prelate Emeritus of Cristalândia, Goias, Brazil
	50.5	Ordained Bishop	Jean-Pierre Tafunga Mbayo, S.D.B.	Bishop of Kilwa-Kasenga, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Archbishop of Lubumbashi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
1 Feb	90.1	Died	William Brasseur, C.I.C.M. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Mountain Provinces (Montagnosa), Philippines
2 Feb	76.3	Retired	Alberto Cosme do Amaral †	Bishop of Leiria-Fátima, Portugal	Bishop Emeritus
	62.6	Succeeded	Serafim de Sousa Ferreira e Silva	Bishop of Leiria-Fátima, Portugal	Bishop Emeritus
	50.3	Ordained Bishop	Francisco Ovidio Vera Intriago	Titular Bishop of Autenti	Auxiliary Bishop of Portoviejo, Ecuador
4 Feb	84.5	Died	Bernardo Arango Henao, S.J. †	Bishop Emeritus of Barrancabermeja, Colombia
6 Feb	26.8	Ordained Priest	Sérgio de Deus Borges	Priest of Cornélio Procópio, Parana, Brazil	Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
6 Feb	38.8	Professed	Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez, S.J.	Priest of Society of Jesus	Bishop of Sololá-Chimaltenango, Guatemala
7 Feb	46.5	Ordained Bishop	Julián Barrio Barrio	Titular Bishop of Sasabe	Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
	54.7	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Augustine Charanakunnel	Bishop of Raipur, India	Archbishop of Raipur, India
	47.5	Ordained Bishop	Albert D’Souza	Bishop of Lucknow, India	Archbishop of Agra, India
8 Feb	51.0	Appointed	Paolo Mario Virgilio Atzei, O.F.M. Conv.	Bishop of Tempio-Ampurias, Italy	Archbishop of Sassari, Italy
10 Feb	63.8	Appointed	James McLoughlin †	Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
10 Feb	49.3	Ordained Bishop	William Martin Morris	Bishop of Toowoomba, Australia	Bishop Emeritus
11 Feb	62.2	Ordained Bishop	Dominic Carmon, S.V.D.	Titular Bishop of Rusicade	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
11 Feb	63.9	Appointed	Pier Giacomo De Nicolò	Apostolic Nuncio to Syria	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Switzerland
12 Feb	81.4	Died	Miguel Peinado Peinado †	Bishop Emeritus of Jaén, Spain
13 Feb	55.8	Appointed	José María Arancibia	Coadjutor Archbishop of Mendoza, Argentina	Archbishop Emeritus
15 Feb	77.0	Retired	Jean Margéot †	Bishop of Port-Louis, Mauritius	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus
15 Feb	51.6	Succeeded	Maurice Piat, C.S.Sp.	Bishop of Port-Louis, Mauritius
16 Feb	49.0	Appointed	Flavio Calle Zapata	Bishop of Sonsón-Rionegro, Colombia	Archbishop of Ibagué, Colombia
	66.6	Appointed	Giulio Nicolini †	Bishop of Cremona, Italy
	79.0	Retired	Alfonso Uribe Jaramillo †	Bishop of Sonsón-Rionegro, Colombia	Bishop Emeritus
18 Feb	75.5	Retired	Luigi Accogli †	Apostolic Nuncio to Syria	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus
	76.8	Retired	Giovanni Pes †	Bishop of Alghero-Bosa, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	58.5	Appointed	Antonio Vacca	Bishop of Alghero-Bosa, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
19 Feb	40.2	Ordained Bishop	Daniel Marco Kur Adwok	Titular Bishop of Moxori	Auxiliary Bishop of Khartoum, Sudan
20 Feb	64.6	Appointed	Antonio Forte, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Avellino, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
20 Feb	88.5	Died	Bernhard Stein †	Bishop Emeritus of Trier, Germany
22 Feb	51.9	Ordained Bishop	Ramiro Moliner Inglés	Titular Archbishop of Sarda	Apostolic Nuncio to Albania
22 Feb	55.7	Ordained Bishop	Gerald William Wiesner, O.M.I.	Bishop of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
25 Feb	68.9	Appointed	Manuel C. Sobreviñas	Bishop of Imus, Philippines	Bishop Emeritus
26 Feb	76.7	Died	Giulio Oggioni †	Bishop Emeritus of Bergamo, Italy
27 Feb	75.3	Retired	Bronisław Dąbrowski, F.D.P. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Warszawa {Warsaw}, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	75.7	Retired	Albin Małysiak, C.M. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków {Cracow}, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	55.1	Died	Vilhelms Nukšs †	Auxiliary Bishop of Riga, Latvia
	75.4	Retired	Boleslaw Lukasz Taborski †	Auxiliary Bishop of Przemyśl, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
28 Feb	95.5	Died	Athanase Ach-Chaer, B.C. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Bāniyās {Cesarea di Filippo; Paneade} (Melkite Greek), Lebanon