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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
2 May	83.6	Died	Teopisto Valderrama Alberto †	Archbishop Emeritus of Caceres (Nueva Caceres), Philippines
	56.3	Appointed	Gianni Danzi †	Titular Bishop of Castello	Prelate of Loreto, Italy
	56.3	Appointed	Gianni Danzi †	Secretary of the Governatorate of Vatican City State	Prelate of Loreto, Italy
3 May	74.7	Died	Maurizio Benvenuto Maria Contorni, O.S.B. †	Abbot Emeritus of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Italy
	84.5	Died	Maxim Hermaniuk, C.SS.R. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Winnipeg (Ukrainian), Manitoba, Canada
	58.0	Ordained Bishop	James Vernon Weisgerber	Bishop of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada	Archbishop of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
4 May	58.9	Appointed	Félix del Blanco Prieto	Apostolic Nuncio to Cameroun	Almoner of the Office of Papal Charities
	57.0	Ordained Bishop	José Angel Divassón Cilveti, S.D.B.	Titular Bishop of Bamaccora	Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Ayacucho, Venezuela
	52.2	Ordained Bishop	Hippolyte Louis Jean Simon	Bishop of Clermont, France	Archbishop of Clermont, France
	75.7	Retired	Vincentas Sladkevicius, M.I.C. †	Archbishop of Kaunas, Lithuania	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	57.5	Appointed	Sigitas Tamkevicius, S.J.	Archbishop of Kaunas, Lithuania
	49.3	Appointed	Emil Paul Tscherrig	Titular Archbishop of Voli	Apostolic Nuncio to Sweden
	49.3	Appointed	Emil Paul Tscherrig	Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi	Apostolic Nuncio to Sweden
5 May	55.3	Ordained Bishop	Luigi Ferrando	Bishop of Bragança do Pará, Para, Brazil
	57.8	Ordained Bishop	Djibrail Kassab	Archbishop of Bassorah {Basra} (Chaldean), Iraq	Bishop of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Sydney (Chaldean), Australia
6 May	91.8	Died	Leo Jozef Suenens †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}, Belgium
7 May	65.9	Appointed	Emile Marcus, P.S.S.	Coadjutor Archbishop of Toulouse (-Narbonne-Saint Bertrand de Comminges-Rieux), France	Archbishop Emeritus of Toulouse (-Saint Bertrand de Comminges-Rieux), France
	75.6	Retired	John James Ward	Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, California, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
9 May	78.4	Died	Luciano Angeloni †	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Portugal
10 May	63.1	Appointed	Clément Fecteau	Bishop of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Québec, Canada
11 May	46.4	Ordained Bishop	Jesús Esteban Catalá Ibáñez	Titular Bishop of Urusi	Bishop of Alcalá de Henares, Spain
	51.0	Ordained Bishop	Issam John Darwich (Darwish), B.S.	Bishop of Saint Michael’s of Sydney (Melkite), Australia
	46.5	Ordained Bishop	Mario Espinosa Contreras	Bishop of Tehuacán, Puebla, México	Bishop of Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México
	50.1	Ordained Bishop	Jesús Murgui Soriano	Titular Bishop of Lete	Bishop of Mallorca, Spain
12 May	72.5	Ordained Bishop	Sofron Stefan Mudry, O.S.B.M.	Coadjutor Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk [Stanislaviv] (Ukrainian), Ukraine	Bishop Emeritus
	116.3	Beatified	Bl. Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, O.S.B. †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy
14 May	53.6	Ordained Bishop	Francis Joseph Christian	Titular Bishop of Quincy	Auxiliary Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
	47.4	Appointed	César Augusto Franco Martínez	Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid, Spain
	47.4	Appointed	César Augusto Franco Martínez	Titular Bishop of Ursona	Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid, Spain
	51.8	Appointed	Fidel Herráez Vegas	Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid, Spain
	51.8	Appointed	Fidel Herráez Vegas	Titular Bishop of Cediae	Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid, Spain
	77.4	Died	Hanna Kaldany †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Gerusalemme {Jerusalem}, Palestine
15 May	54.9	Ordained Bishop	Aloysius Paul D'Souza	Titular Bishop of Dura	Bishop of Mangalore, India
	70.4	Succeeded	Lélis Lara, C.SS.R.	Bishop of Itabira-Fabriciano, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	74.6	Retired	Mário Teixeira Gurgel, S.D.S. †	Bishop of Itabira-Fabriciano, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	45.7	Appointed	Carlos Verzeletti	Auxiliary Bishop of Belém do Pará, Para, Brazil	Bishop of Castanhal, Para, Brazil
	45.7	Appointed	Carlos Verzeletti	Titular Bishop of Tepelta	Bishop of Castanhal, Para, Brazil
16 May	68.0	Died	Francesco Tarcisio Bertozzi †	Bishop of Faenza-Modigliana, Italy
17 May	56.0	Appointed	Bernard Housset	Bishop of Montauban, France	Bishop of La Rochelle (-Saintes), France
18 May	57.5	Ordained Bishop	Pedro D. Arigo	Titular Bishop of Mactaris	Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Princesa, Philippines
	69.2	Resigned	Raffaele Castielli	Bishop of Lucera-Troia, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
21 May	57.5	Appointed	Patrick Altham Kelly	Archbishop of Liverpool, England, Great Britain
22 May	76.1	Retired	Antônio Afonso de Miranda, S.D.N.	Bishop of Taubaté, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	57.0	Appointed	Carmo João Rhoden, S.C.J.	Bishop of Taubaté, Sao Paulo, Brazil
24 May	60.8	Appointed	Joaquín Carmelo Borobia Isasa	Bishop of Tarazona, Spain	Auxiliary Bishop of Toledo, Spain
	56.3	Ordained Bishop	Gianni Danzi †	Titular Bishop of Castello	Prelate of Loreto, Italy
	63.6	Appointed	Joannes Baptist Matthijs Gijsen	Bishop of Reykjavik, Iceland	Bishop Emeritus
	64.4	Appointed	Teodor Majkowicz †	Bishop of Wrocław-Gdańsk (Ukrainian), Poland
	56.9	Appointed	Ivan Martyniak	Archbishop of Przemyśl-Warszawa {-Warsaw} (Ukrainian), Poland
25 May	64.6	Appointed	Flavien Joseph Melki	Titular Archbishop of Dara dei Siri	Auxiliary Bishop of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon
	55.2	Appointed	Gregorios Elias Tabé	Titular Bishop of Mardin dei Siri	Archbishop of Damas (Syrian), Syria
	53.3	Appointed	Daniel Thomas Turley Murphy, O.S.A.	Coadjutor Bishop of Chulucanas, Peru	Bishop
26 May	44.3	Ordained Bishop	Lumen Monteiro, C.S.C.	Bishop of Agartala, India
	43.4	Ordained Bishop	Anastase Mutabazi	Bishop of Kabgayi, Rwanda	Bishop Emeritus
	48.9	Ordained Bishop	John Baptist Odama	Bishop of Nebbi, Uganda	Archbishop of Gulu, Uganda
27 May	59.4	Installed	Francis Eugene George, O.M.I.	Archbishop of Portland in Oregon, USA	Cardinal, Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 May	57.2	Ordained Bishop	Peter Fernando	Coadjutor Bishop of Tuticorin, India	Archbishop of Madurai, India
	61.8	Appointed	Cláudio Hummes, O.F.M.	Archbishop of Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy
30 May	45.3	Ordained Bishop	Rogelio Cabrera López	Bishop of Tacámbaro, Michoacán, México	Archbishop of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México
	92.6	Died	Léon-Etienne Duval †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Alger, Algeria
	48.4	Appointed	František V. Lobkowicz, O. Praem.	Bishop of Ostrava-Opava, Czech Republic
31 May	60.3	Appointed	Pablo Cedano Cedano	Auxiliary Bishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
	60.3	Appointed	Pablo Cedano Cedano	Titular Bishop of Vita	Auxiliary Bishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
	58.2	Appointed	Amancio Escapa Aparicio, O.C.D.	Auxiliary Bishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
	58.2	Appointed	Amancio Escapa Aparicio, O.C.D.	Titular Bishop of Cenae	Auxiliary Bishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
	65.0	Died	Jesús Arturo Roldán †	Bishop of San Rafael, Argentina
1 Jun	75.0	Retired	Norbert Felix Gaughan †	Bishop of Gary, Indiana, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	55.9	Ordained Bishop	Francisco Gil Hellín	Titular Bishop of Citium	Archbishop of Burgos, Spain
	57.6	Succeeded	Dale Joseph Melczek	Bishop of Gary, Indiana, USA
2 Jun	51.1	Installed	Issam John Darwich (Darwish), B.S.	Bishop of Saint Michael’s of Sydney (Melkite), Australia
	53.1	Ordained Bishop	Servilien Nzakamwita	Bishop of Byumba, Rwanda
3 Jun	76.3	Died	Ivo Gugic †	Bishop Emeritus of Kotor (Cattaro), Montenegro
4 Jun	69.2	Died	Castor Sekwa †	Bishop of Shinyanga, Tanzania
7 Jun	75.8	Retired	José Cerviño Cerviño	Bishop of Tui-Vigo, Spain	Bishop Emeritus
	62.1	Appointed	José Diéguez Reboredo	Bishop of Tui-Vigo, Spain
	90.9	Died	Richard Lester Guilly, S.J. †	Bishop Emeritus of Georgetown, Guyana, Antilles
	61.3	Resigned	Dermot Patrick O'Mahony	Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin, Ireland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	59.2	Ordained Bishop	Jose Paala Salazar, O.P. †	Prelate of Batanes and the Babuyan Islands, Philippines	Auxiliary Bishop of Lipa, Philippines
8 Jun	74.5	Retired	Khalil Abi-Nader	Archbishop of Beirut {Bairut} (Maronite), Lebanon	Archbishop Emeritus
	64.3	Appointed	Flavio Roberto Carraro, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Verona, Italy
	76.4	Retired	Giovanni D'Ascenzi	Bishop of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	66.1	Appointed	Tanios El Khoury	Bishop of Saïda (Maronite), Lebanon	Bishop Emeritus
	55.4	Appointed	Paul Youssef Matar	Archbishop of Beirut {Bairut} (Maronite), Lebanon
	56.5	Appointed	Paul Nabil Sayah	Archbishop of Haifa e Terra Santa (Maronite), Israel
9 Jun	61.6	Installed	Benito Cocchi	Archbishop of Modena-Nonantola, Italy
	65.8	Died	Joachim J. Rozario, C.S.C. †	Bishop Emeritus of Chittagong, Bangladesh
11 Jun	64.5	Ordained Bishop	Eugene Jerome Cooney	Bishop of Nelson, British Columbia, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
	66.4	Died	Peter Kurongku †	Archbishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
12 Jun	62.2	Appointed	Luiz Vicente Bernetti, O.A.D.	Auxiliary Bishop of Palmas-Francisco Beltrão, Parana, Brazil	Bishop of Apucarana, Parana, Brazil
	62.2	Appointed	Luiz Vicente Bernetti, O.A.D.	Titular Bishop of Rufiniana	Bishop of Apucarana, Parana, Brazil
	49.2	Appointed	John Clayton Nienstedt	Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit, Michigan, USA	Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
	49.2	Appointed	John Clayton Nienstedt	Titular Bishop of Alton	Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
	43.6	Appointed	José Edson Santana de Oliveira	Bishop of Eunápolis, Baia, Brazil
	47.6	Appointed	Allen Henry Vigneron	Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit, Michigan, USA	Bishop of Oakland, California, USA
	47.6	Appointed	Allen Henry Vigneron	Titular Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie in Michigan	Bishop of Oakland, California, USA
13 Jun	64.5	Installed	Eugene Jerome Cooney	Bishop of Nelson, British Columbia, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
	57.7	Appointed	Nicolás Cotugno Fanizzi, S.D.B.	Bishop of Melo, Uruguay	Archbishop of Montevideo, Uruguay
	53.2	Appointed	Antonio Javellana Ledesma, S.J.	Coadjutor Prelate of Ipil, Philippines	Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro, Philippines
	80.7	Died	Federico G. Limon, S.V.D. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Lingayen-Dagupan, Philippines
	44.6	Ordained Bishop	Stephen Soroka	Titular Bishop of Acarassus	Archbishop of Philadelphia (Ukrainian), Pennsylvania, USA
14 Jun	57.1	Appointed	Daniel Acharuparambil, O.C.D.	Archbishop of Verapoly, India
	77.8	Retired	Cornelius Elanjikal	Archbishop of Verapoly, India	Archbishop Emeritus
	56.5	Appointed	Thomas Kozhimala †	Bishop of Bhagalpur, India
	64.5	Appointed	Raphael S. Ndingi Mwana'a Nzeki	Coadjutor Archbishop of Nairobi, Kenya	Archbishop Emeritus
	45.8	Appointed	Vincent Samuel	Bishop of Neyyattinkara, India
15 Jun	53.8	Appointed	Adriano Bernardini	Apostolic Nuncio to Madagascar	Apostolic Nuncio to Argentina
	53.8	Appointed	Adriano Bernardini	Apostolic Nuncio to Mauritius	Apostolic Nuncio to Argentina
	53.8	Appointed	Adriano Bernardini	Apostolic Nuncio to Seychelles	Apostolic Nuncio to Argentina
	66.9	Appointed	Darío Castrillón Hoyos	Pro-Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”
	66.9	Resigned	Darío Castrillón Hoyos	Archbishop of Bucaramanga, Colombia	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”
	47.3	Appointed	Francisco Robles Ortega	Bishop of Toluca, México, México	Cardinal, Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
	76.2	Retired	José Tomás Sánchez	Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	75.7	Appointed	John James Ward	Titular Bishop of California	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Los Angeles, California, USA
16 Jun	85.7	Died	Hendrik Theodorus Edmund Beel †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Roermond, Netherlands
	32.4	Ordained Deacon	Barthélemy Yaouda	Deacon of Maroua-Mokolo, Cameroon	Bishop of Yagoua, Cameroon
21 Jun	60.4	Appointed	Gervasio Gestori	Bishop of San Benedetto del Tronto-Ripatransone-Montalto, Italy
	75.3	Retired	Antonio María Javierre Ortas, S.D.B. †	Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	69.5	Appointed	Jorge Arturo Augustin Medina Estévez	Pro-Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	69.5	Resigned	Jorge Arturo Augustin Medina Estévez	Bishop of Valparaíso, Chile	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
22 Jun	79.6	Died	José Joaquín Flórez Hernández †	Archbishop Emeritus of Ibagué, Colombia
	41.1	Ordained Priest	Jerzy Maculewicz, O.F.M. Conv.	Priest of Order of Friars Minor Conventual	Apostolic Administrator of Uzbekistan
23 Jun	59.0	Ordained Bishop	Manuel Antonio Valarezo Luzuriaga, O.F.M.	Titular Bishop of Quaestoriana	Vicar Apostolic of Galápagos, Ecuador
24 Jun	45.5	Appointed	Carlos Garfias Merlos	Bishop of Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero, México	Bishop of Netzahualcóyotl, México
25 Jun	89.4	Died	François Xavier Arthur Florent Morilleau †	Bishop Emeritus of La Rochelle (-Saintes), France
26 Jun	51.7	Appointed	Francisco Cases Andreu	Bishop of Albacete, Spain	Bishop of Islas Canarias {Canary Islands}, Spain
	61.9	Appointed	Waldemar Chaves de Araújo	Bishop of São João del Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	64.5	Appointed	Apparecido José Dias, S.V.D. †	Bishop of Roraima, Roraima, Brazil
	75.8	Retired	José Guerra Campos †	Bishop of Cuenca, Spain	Bishop Emeritus
	55.8	Appointed	Ramón del Hoyo López	Bishop of Cuenca, Spain	Bishop of Jaén, Spain
	72.7	Resigned	Antônio Carlos Mesquita †	Bishop of São João del Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	76.7	Retired	Aldo Mongiano, I.M.C.	Bishop of Roraima, Roraima, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	53.2	Installed	Armando Xavier Ochoa	Bishop of El Paso, Texas, USA
27 Jun	55.7	Appointed	Silvano Maria Tomasi, C.S.	Titular Archbishop of Cercina	Apostolic Nuncio to Other
	55.7	Appointed	Silvano Maria Tomasi, C.S.	Apostolic Nuncio to Ethiopia	Apostolic Nuncio to Other
	55.7	Appointed	Silvano Maria Tomasi, C.S.	Apostolic Nuncio to Eritrea	Apostolic Nuncio to Other
	49.4	Ordained Bishop	Emil Paul Tscherrig	Titular Archbishop of Voli	Apostolic Nuncio to Sweden
28 Jun	55.1	Appointed	Luigi Conti	Bishop of Macerata-Tolentino-Recanati-Cingoli-Treia, Italy	Archbishop of Fermo, Italy
	59.0	Appointed	Félix del Blanco Prieto	Apostolic Nuncio to Equatorial Guinea	Almoner of the Office of Papal Charities
	59.7	Appointed	Manuel Gerardo Donoso Donoso, SS.CC.	Auxiliary Bishop of La Serena, Chile	Archbishop
	59.7	Appointed	Manuel Gerardo Donoso Donoso, SS.CC.	Titular Bishop of Elo	Archbishop of La Serena, Chile
	54.5	Appointed	Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, S.D.B.	Bishop of Valdivia, Chile	Archbishop of Concepción (Santissima Concezione), Chile
	79.9	Retired	Jacques Georges Habib Hafouri	Archbishop of Hassaké-Nisibi (Syrian), Syria	Archbishop Emeritus
29 Jun	66.0	Appointed	Ignace Pierre VIII (Grégoire) Abdel-Ahad	Auxiliary Bishop of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon	Patriarch Emeritus
	66.0	Appointed	Ignace Pierre VIII (Grégoire) Abdel-Ahad	Titular Bishop of Batnae dei Siri	Patriarch Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon
	28.1	Ordained Priest	Emigdio Duarte Figueroa	Priest of Culiacán, Sinaloa, México	Auxiliary Bishop
	47.5	Ordained Bishop	César Augusto Franco Martínez	Titular Bishop of Ursona	Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid, Spain
	51.9	Ordained Bishop	Fidel Herráez Vegas	Titular Bishop of Cediae	Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid, Spain
	54.9	Appointed	Jacques Behnan Hindo	Archbishop of Hassaké-Nisibi (Syrian), Syria
	48.0	Ordained Bishop	Filippo Santoro	Titular Bishop of Tuscamia	Bishop of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
30 Jun	55.3	Ordained Bishop	António de Sousa Braga, S.C.I.	Bishop of Angra, Portugal

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