The Year of Our Lord 2006

Bishop Events

November

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

2 Nov 51.8 Appointed Armando Martín Gutiérrez, F.A.M. Bishop of Bacabal, Maranhão, Brazil

4 Nov 57.0 Appointed Mansueto Bianchi † Bishop of Pistoia, Italy Bishop Emeritus

72.9 Died Gerhard Ludwig Goebel, M.S.F. † Prelate of Tromsø, Norway

83.5 Died William Thomas Larkin † Bishop Emeritus of Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA

75.4 Retired Simone Alfiero Scatizzi † Bishop of Pistoia, Italy Bishop Emeritus

5 Nov 55.0 Installed Antônio Carlos Altieri, S.D.B. Bishop of Caraguatatuba, Sao Paulo, Brazil Archbishop Emeritus of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

6 Nov 75.1 Retired Vincent Michael Rizzotto † Auxiliary Bishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

10 Nov 88.6 Died Nivaldo Monte † Archbishop Emeritus of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

11 Nov 57.9 Appointed Michel Abrass, B.A. Titular Archbishop of Myra dei Greco-Melkiti Archbishop Emeritus of Tyr (Melkite Greek), Lebanon

54.3 Appointed Jean-Abdo Arbach, B.C. Titular Bishop of Palmyra dei Greco-Melkiti Archbishop of Homs (-Hama-Jabrud) (Melkite Greek), Syria

12 Nov 91.7 Died Custódio Alvim Pereira † Archbishop Emeritus of Lourenço Marques, Mozambique

13 Nov 61.6 Appointed José Alejandro Castaño Arbeláez, O.A.R. Auxiliary Bishop of Cali, Colombia Bishop Emeritus of Cartago, Colombia

61.6 Appointed José Alejandro Castaño Arbeláez, O.A.R. Titular Bishop of Castellum Tatroportus Bishop Emeritus of Cartago, Colombia

98.3 Died Auguste Delisle, C.S.Sp. † Bishop Emeritus of Lokoja, Nigeria

75.9 Retired Carmelo Dominador Flores Morelos † Archbishop of Zamboanga, Philippines Archbishop Emeritus

63.1 Appointed Sergio Lasam Utleg Bishop of Laoag, Philippines Archbishop Emeritus of Tuguegarao, Philippines

55.3 Appointed Romulo Geolina Valles Archbishop of Zamboanga, Philippines Archbishop of Davao, Philippines

14 Nov 54.1 Appointed Pedro María Laxague Auxiliary Bishop of Bahía Blanca, Argentina Bishop of Zárate-Campana, Argentina

54.1 Appointed Pedro María Laxague Titular Bishop of Castra Severiana Bishop of Zárate-Campana, Argentina

48.3 Appointed Luis Urbanč Coadjutor Bishop of Catamarca, Argentina Bishop

15 Nov 73.1 Appointed Raffaele Farina, S.D.B. Titular Bishop of Opitergium Cardinal, Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archive

69.5 Appointed Gianfranco Girotti, O.F.M. Conv. Titular Bishop of Meta Regent Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary

76.2 Retired Thadeu Gomes Canellas Bishop of Osório, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Bishop Emeritus

51.9 Appointed Jaime Pedro Kohl, P.S.D.P. Bishop of Osório, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

73.8 Resigned Tarcisio Giovanni Nazzaro, O.S.B. † Abbot of Montevergine, Italy Abbot Emeritus

71.1 Appointed Antoni Stankiewicz † Titular Bishop of Nova Petra Dean Emeritus of the Roman Rota

16 Nov 65.5 Installed Edward Ozorowski Archbishop of Białystok, Poland Archbishop Emeritus

73.9 Died Augusto José Zini Filho † Bishop of Limeira, Sao Paulo, Brazil

17 Nov 74.7 Died Joseph D’Silva † Bishop of Bellary, India

78.3 Died Jean Mansour, S.M.S.P. † Curial Bishop Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Melkite Greek), Syria

75.9 Died Manuel Duran Moreno † Bishop Emeritus of Tucson, Arizona, USA

18 Nov 54.8 Appointed Calogero La Piana, S.D.B. Archbishop of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela, Italy Archbishop Emeritus

75.7 Retired Giovanni Marra † Archbishop of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela, Italy Archbishop Emeritus

75.9 Retired Osmond Peter Martin † Bishop of Belize City-Belmopan, Belize, Antilles Bishop Emeritus

61.0 Appointed Dorick McGowan Wright † Bishop of Belize City-Belmopan, Belize, Antilles Bishop Emeritus

42.0 Ordained Bishop Marco Antonio Órdenes Fernández Bishop of Iquique, Chile

53.4 Ordained Bishop Raymond Sumlut Gam Bishop of Banmaw, Myanmar

19 Nov 74.9 Installed Nicholas Cheong Jin-Suk † Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Immacolata di Lourdes a Boccea Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Seoul, Korea (South)

20 Nov 64.9 Installed Martin John Amos Bishop of Davenport, Iowa, USA Bishop Emeritus

79.9 Died Paul Vincent Dudley † Bishop Emeritus of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA

21 Nov 75.0 Retired Patrick Ebosele Ekpu Archbishop of Benin City, Nigeria Archbishop Emeritus

62.4 Appointed Domenico Graziani Archbishop of Crotone-Santa Severina, Italy Archbishop Emeritus

39.4 Appointed Anton Leichtfried Auxiliary Bishop of Sankt Pölten, Austria

39.4 Appointed Anton Leichtfried Titular Bishop of Rufiniana Auxiliary Bishop of Sankt Pölten, Austria

22 Nov 85.5 Died Michel Hakim, B.S. † Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Sauveur de Montréal (Melkite Greek), Canada

61.0 Appointed Paulo Sérgio Machado Bishop of São Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brazil Bishop Emeritus

76.4 Retired José Carlos Melo, C.M. † Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil Archbishop Emeritus

54.2 Appointed Antônio Muniz Fernandes, O. Carm. Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil Archbishop Emeritus

23 Nov 42.1 Ordained Bishop Janusz Wiesław Kaleta Titular Bishop of Phelbes

24 Nov 64.6 Appointed Matthias Kobena Nketsiah Auxiliary Bishop of Cape Coast, Ghana Archbishop Emeritus

64.6 Appointed Matthias Kobena Nketsiah Titular Bishop of Abaradira Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Coast, Ghana

25 Nov 73.4 Appointed Pedro Aranda Díaz-Muñoz † Archbishop of Tulancingo, Hidalgo, México Archbishop Emeritus

55.8 Appointed Rogelio Cabrera López Archbishop of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México

60.7 Appointed Joseph Karikkassery Auxiliary Bishop of Verapoly, India Bishop Emeritus of Kottapuram, India

60.7 Appointed Joseph Karikkassery Titular Bishop of Buxentum Bishop Emeritus of Kottapuram, India

52.8 Appointed Peter Kihara Kariuki, I.M.C. Bishop of Marsabit, Kenya

64.5 Installed Giacomo Lanzetti Bishop of Alghero-Bosa, Italy Bishop Emeritus of Alba (Pompea), Italy

80.3 Died Santiago Martínez Acebes † Archbishop Emeritus of Burgos, Spain

71.1 Appointed José Guadalupe Martín Rábago Archbishop of León, Guanajuato, México Archbishop Emeritus

64.8 Appointed Evariste Ngoyagoye Archbishop of Bujumbura, Burundi Archbishop Emeritus

77.7 Retired Ambrogio Ravasi, I.M.C. † Bishop of Marsabit, Kenya Bishop Emeritus

66.0 Appointed Rafael Romo Muñoz Archbishop of Tijuana, Baja California Norte, México Archbishop Emeritus

58.8 Appointed Paul Runangaza Ruzoka Archbishop of Tabora, Tanzania Archbishop Emeritus

42.8 Ordained Bishop Johannes Harmannes Jozefus van den Hende Coadjutor Bishop of Breda, Netherlands Bishop of Rotterdam, Netherlands

26 Nov 55.4 Ordained Bishop Juan Pedro Juárez Meléndez Bishop of Tula, Hidalgo, México

50.6 Ordained Bishop Edgar Amine Madi Bishop of Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo (Maronite), Brazil

56.3 Ordained Bishop Samir Nassar Archbishop of Damas (Maronite), Syria

28.9 Ordained Priest Moïse Tinguiano Priest of Conakry {Konakry}, Guinea Bishop-Elect of Boké, Guinea

27 Nov 76.3 Retired Joseph Das † Bishop of Berhampur, India Bishop Emeritus

49.4 Appointed Sarat Chandra Nayak Bishop of Berhampur, India

28 Nov 66.4 Appointed Bernard Marie Fernand Housset Bishop of La Rochelle (-Saintes), France Bishop Emeritus

29 Nov 64.3 Succeeded Caetano Ferrari, O.F.M. Bishop of Franca, Sao Paulo, Brazil Bishop Emeritus of Bauru, Sao Paulo, Brazil

45.2 Ordained Bishop Daniel Ernest Flores Titular Bishop of Cozyla Bishop of Brownsville, Texas, USA

75.1 Retired Diógenes da Silva Matthes † Bishop of Franca, Sao Paulo, Brazil Bishop Emeritus

30 Nov 76.5 Retired Pius Suh Awa † Bishop of Buéa, Cameroon Bishop Emeritus

62.3 Appointed Emmanuel Bushu Bishop of Buéa, Cameroon Bishop Emeritus

75.5 Retired Arthé Guimond † Archbishop of Grouard-McLennan, Alberta, Canada Archbishop Emeritus

77.3 Retired Joachim Phayao Manisap † Bishop of Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand Bishop Emeritus

56.2 Appointed Gérard Pettipas, C.SS.R. Archbishop of Grouard-McLennan, Alberta, Canada

50.7 Appointed Joseph Chusak Sirisut Bishop of Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand

36.4 Ordained Bishop John Wang Renlei Coadjutor Bishop of Xuzhou [Süchow], China Bishop

45.4 Appointed Christophe Zoa Auxiliary Bishop of Yaoundé, Cameroon Bishop of Sangmélima, Cameroon

45.4 Appointed Christophe Zoa Titular Bishop of Hilta Bishop of Sangmélima, Cameroon

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
2 Nov	51.8	Appointed	Armando Martín Gutiérrez, F.A.M.	Bishop of Bacabal, Maranhão, Brazil
4 Nov	57.0	Appointed	Mansueto Bianchi †	Bishop of Pistoia, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
72.9	Died	Gerhard Ludwig Goebel, M.S.F. †	Prelate of Tromsø, Norway
83.5	Died	William Thomas Larkin †	Bishop Emeritus of Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA
75.4	Retired	Simone Alfiero Scatizzi †	Bishop of Pistoia, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
5 Nov	55.0	Installed	Antônio Carlos Altieri, S.D.B.	Bishop of Caraguatatuba, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
6 Nov	75.1	Retired	Vincent Michael Rizzotto †	Auxiliary Bishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
10 Nov	88.6	Died	Nivaldo Monte †	Archbishop Emeritus of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
11 Nov	57.9	Appointed	Michel Abrass, B.A.	Titular Archbishop of Myra dei Greco-Melkiti	Archbishop Emeritus of Tyr (Melkite Greek), Lebanon
54.3	Appointed	Jean-Abdo Arbach, B.C.	Titular Bishop of Palmyra dei Greco-Melkiti	Archbishop of Homs (-Hama-Jabrud) (Melkite Greek), Syria
12 Nov	91.7	Died	Custódio Alvim Pereira †	Archbishop Emeritus of Lourenço Marques, Mozambique
13 Nov	61.6	Appointed	José Alejandro Castaño Arbeláez, O.A.R.	Auxiliary Bishop of Cali, Colombia	Bishop Emeritus of Cartago, Colombia
61.6	Appointed	José Alejandro Castaño Arbeláez, O.A.R.	Titular Bishop of Castellum Tatroportus	Bishop Emeritus of Cartago, Colombia
98.3	Died	Auguste Delisle, C.S.Sp. †	Bishop Emeritus of Lokoja, Nigeria
75.9	Retired	Carmelo Dominador Flores Morelos †	Archbishop of Zamboanga, Philippines	Archbishop Emeritus
63.1	Appointed	Sergio Lasam Utleg	Bishop of Laoag, Philippines	Archbishop Emeritus of Tuguegarao, Philippines
55.3	Appointed	Romulo Geolina Valles	Archbishop of Zamboanga, Philippines	Archbishop of Davao, Philippines
14 Nov	54.1	Appointed	Pedro María Laxague	Auxiliary Bishop of Bahía Blanca, Argentina	Bishop of Zárate-Campana, Argentina
54.1	Appointed	Pedro María Laxague	Titular Bishop of Castra Severiana	Bishop of Zárate-Campana, Argentina
48.3	Appointed	Luis Urbanč	Coadjutor Bishop of Catamarca, Argentina	Bishop
15 Nov	73.1	Appointed	Raffaele Farina, S.D.B.	Titular Bishop of Opitergium	Cardinal, Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archive
69.5	Appointed	Gianfranco Girotti, O.F.M. Conv.	Titular Bishop of Meta	Regent Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
76.2	Retired	Thadeu Gomes Canellas	Bishop of Osório, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
51.9	Appointed	Jaime Pedro Kohl, P.S.D.P.	Bishop of Osório, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
73.8	Resigned	Tarcisio Giovanni Nazzaro, O.S.B. †	Abbot of Montevergine, Italy	Abbot Emeritus
71.1	Appointed	Antoni Stankiewicz †	Titular Bishop of Nova Petra	Dean Emeritus of the Roman Rota
16 Nov	65.5	Installed	Edward Ozorowski	Archbishop of Białystok, Poland	Archbishop Emeritus
73.9	Died	Augusto José Zini Filho †	Bishop of Limeira, Sao Paulo, Brazil
17 Nov	74.7	Died	Joseph D’Silva †	Bishop of Bellary, India
78.3	Died	Jean Mansour, S.M.S.P. †	Curial Bishop Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Melkite Greek), Syria
75.9	Died	Manuel Duran Moreno †	Bishop Emeritus of Tucson, Arizona, USA
18 Nov	54.8	Appointed	Calogero La Piana, S.D.B.	Archbishop of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
75.7	Retired	Giovanni Marra †	Archbishop of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
75.9	Retired	Osmond Peter Martin †	Bishop of Belize City-Belmopan, Belize, Antilles	Bishop Emeritus
61.0	Appointed	Dorick McGowan Wright †	Bishop of Belize City-Belmopan, Belize, Antilles	Bishop Emeritus
42.0	Ordained Bishop	Marco Antonio Órdenes Fernández	Bishop of Iquique, Chile
53.4	Ordained Bishop	Raymond Sumlut Gam	Bishop of Banmaw, Myanmar
19 Nov	74.9	Installed	Nicholas Cheong Jin-Suk †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Immacolata di Lourdes a Boccea	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Seoul, Korea (South)
20 Nov	64.9	Installed	Martin John Amos	Bishop of Davenport, Iowa, USA	Bishop Emeritus
79.9	Died	Paul Vincent Dudley †	Bishop Emeritus of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
21 Nov	75.0	Retired	Patrick Ebosele Ekpu	Archbishop of Benin City, Nigeria	Archbishop Emeritus
62.4	Appointed	Domenico Graziani	Archbishop of Crotone-Santa Severina, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
39.4	Appointed	Anton Leichtfried	Auxiliary Bishop of Sankt Pölten, Austria
39.4	Appointed	Anton Leichtfried	Titular Bishop of Rufiniana	Auxiliary Bishop of Sankt Pölten, Austria
22 Nov	85.5	Died	Michel Hakim, B.S. †	Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Sauveur de Montréal (Melkite Greek), Canada
61.0	Appointed	Paulo Sérgio Machado	Bishop of São Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
76.4	Retired	José Carlos Melo, C.M. †	Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
54.2	Appointed	Antônio Muniz Fernandes, O. Carm.	Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
23 Nov	42.1	Ordained Bishop	Janusz Wiesław Kaleta	Titular Bishop of Phelbes
24 Nov	64.6	Appointed	Matthias Kobena Nketsiah	Auxiliary Bishop of Cape Coast, Ghana	Archbishop Emeritus
64.6	Appointed	Matthias Kobena Nketsiah	Titular Bishop of Abaradira	Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Coast, Ghana
25 Nov	73.4	Appointed	Pedro Aranda Díaz-Muñoz †	Archbishop of Tulancingo, Hidalgo, México	Archbishop Emeritus
55.8	Appointed	Rogelio Cabrera López	Archbishop of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México	Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
60.7	Appointed	Joseph Karikkassery	Auxiliary Bishop of Verapoly, India	Bishop Emeritus of Kottapuram, India
60.7	Appointed	Joseph Karikkassery	Titular Bishop of Buxentum	Bishop Emeritus of Kottapuram, India
52.8	Appointed	Peter Kihara Kariuki, I.M.C.	Bishop of Marsabit, Kenya
64.5	Installed	Giacomo Lanzetti	Bishop of Alghero-Bosa, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Alba (Pompea), Italy
80.3	Died	Santiago Martínez Acebes †	Archbishop Emeritus of Burgos, Spain
71.1	Appointed	José Guadalupe Martín Rábago	Archbishop of León, Guanajuato, México	Archbishop Emeritus
64.8	Appointed	Evariste Ngoyagoye	Archbishop of Bujumbura, Burundi	Archbishop Emeritus
77.7	Retired	Ambrogio Ravasi, I.M.C. †	Bishop of Marsabit, Kenya	Bishop Emeritus
66.0	Appointed	Rafael Romo Muñoz	Archbishop of Tijuana, Baja California Norte, México	Archbishop Emeritus
58.8	Appointed	Paul Runangaza Ruzoka	Archbishop of Tabora, Tanzania	Archbishop Emeritus
42.8	Ordained Bishop	Johannes Harmannes Jozefus van den Hende	Coadjutor Bishop of Breda, Netherlands	Bishop of Rotterdam, Netherlands
26 Nov	55.4	Ordained Bishop	Juan Pedro Juárez Meléndez	Bishop of Tula, Hidalgo, México
50.6	Ordained Bishop	Edgar Amine Madi	Bishop of Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo (Maronite), Brazil
56.3	Ordained Bishop	Samir Nassar	Archbishop of Damas (Maronite), Syria
28.9	Ordained Priest	Moïse Tinguiano	Priest of Conakry {Konakry}, Guinea	Bishop-Elect of Boké, Guinea
27 Nov	76.3	Retired	Joseph Das †	Bishop of Berhampur, India	Bishop Emeritus
49.4	Appointed	Sarat Chandra Nayak	Bishop of Berhampur, India
28 Nov	66.4	Appointed	Bernard Marie Fernand Housset	Bishop of La Rochelle (-Saintes), France	Bishop Emeritus
29 Nov	64.3	Succeeded	Caetano Ferrari, O.F.M.	Bishop of Franca, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Bauru, Sao Paulo, Brazil
45.2	Ordained Bishop	Daniel Ernest Flores	Titular Bishop of Cozyla	Bishop of Brownsville, Texas, USA
75.1	Retired	Diógenes da Silva Matthes †	Bishop of Franca, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
30 Nov	76.5	Retired	Pius Suh Awa †	Bishop of Buéa, Cameroon	Bishop Emeritus
62.3	Appointed	Emmanuel Bushu	Bishop of Buéa, Cameroon	Bishop Emeritus
75.5	Retired	Arthé Guimond †	Archbishop of Grouard-McLennan, Alberta, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus
77.3	Retired	Joachim Phayao Manisap †	Bishop of Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand	Bishop Emeritus
56.2	Appointed	Gérard Pettipas, C.SS.R.	Archbishop of Grouard-McLennan, Alberta, Canada
50.7	Appointed	Joseph Chusak Sirisut	Bishop of Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
36.4	Ordained Bishop	John Wang Renlei	Coadjutor Bishop of Xuzhou [Süchow], China	Bishop
45.4	Appointed	Christophe Zoa	Auxiliary Bishop of Yaoundé, Cameroon	Bishop of Sangmélima, Cameroon
45.4	Appointed	Christophe Zoa	Titular Bishop of Hilta	Bishop of Sangmélima, Cameroon

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