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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Sep	48.8	Ordained Bishop	Vilson Dias de Oliveira, D.C.	Bishop of Limeira, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	60.2	Ordained Bishop	Francisco Mendoza de Leon	Titular Bishop of Boseta	Auxiliary Bishop of Antipolo, Philippines
	43.2	Ordained Bishop	Franz-Josef Overbeck	Titular Bishop of Mathara in Numidia	Auxiliary Bishop of Münster, Germany
	64.4	Installed	Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue
2 Sep	49.9	Ordained Bishop	Francisco Cerro Chaves	Bishop of Coria-Cáceres, Spain
	59.2	Ordained Bishop	Aloísio Alberto Dilli, O.F.M.	Bishop of Uruguaiana, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
	58.6	Ordained Bishop	Francisco Focardi Mazzocchi, O.F.M.	Titular Bishop of Cenculiana	Auxiliary Bishop of El Beni o Beni, Bolivia
	59.9	Ordained Bishop	Bernard Joseph Germain Marie Ginoux	Bishop of Montauban, France
3 Sep	63.0	Appointed	Edward Joseph Adams	Apostolic Nuncio to Philippines
	64.5	Appointed	Francesco Giovanni Brugnaro	Archbishop of Camerino-San Severino Marche, Italy
	56.9	Appointed	Tommaso Caputo	Titular Archbishop of Otriculum	Apostolic Nuncio to Malta
	56.9	Appointed	Tommaso Caputo	Apostolic Nuncio to Malta
	56.9	Appointed	Tommaso Caputo	Apostolic Nuncio to Libya	Apostolic Nuncio to Malta
	77.2	Retired	Franco Croci	Secretary of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See	Vice President of the Labour Office of the Apostolic See
	55.8	Appointed	Vincenzo Di Mauro	Titular Bishop of Arpi	Secretary of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See
	55.8	Appointed	Vincenzo Di Mauro	Secretary of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See
	64.4	Resigned	Angelo Fagiani	Archbishop of Camerino-San Severino Marche, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
	77.0	Retired	Paul Joseph Jean Poupard	President of the Pontifical Council for Culture	Cardinal, President Emeritus
	64.9	Appointed	Gianfranco Ravasi	Titular Archbishop of Villamagna in Proconsulari	President of the Pontifical Council for Culture
	64.9	Appointed	Gianfranco Ravasi	President of the Pontifical Council for Culture
	64.9	Appointed	Gianfranco Ravasi	President of the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church	President of the Pontifical Council for Culture
	64.9	Appointed	Gianfranco Ravasi	President of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology	President of the Pontifical Council for Culture
4 Sep	93.7	Died	Teresio Ferraroni †	Bishop Emeritus of Como, Italy
	74.9	Retired	Daniel Camille Victor Marie Labille	Bishop of Créteil, France	Bishop Emeritus
	95.5	Died	José Melgoza Osorio †	Bishop Emeritus of Netzahualcóyotl, México
	60.3	Appointed	Michel Léon Émile Santier	Bishop of Créteil, France
6 Sep	87.0	Died	Robert Bell Clune †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
	61.6	Ordained Bishop	Pietro Santoro	Bishop of Avezzano, Italy
8 Sep	67.6	Ordained Bishop	Venant Bacinoni	Bishop of Bururi, Burundi
	46.1	Ordained Bishop	Arturo Eduardo Fajardo Bustamante	Bishop of San José de Mayo, Uruguay
	65.4	Ordained Bishop	Vitus Huonder	Bishop of Chur, Switzerland
9 Sep	82.3	Died	Luigi Dossena †	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Slovakia
10 Sep	43.8	Ordained Bishop	Anton Bal	Titular Bishop of Tamalluma	Auxiliary Bishop of Kundiawa, Papua New Guinea
11 Sep	75.1	Retired	Hubert Marie Pierre Dominique Barbier	Archbishop of Bourges, France	Archbishop Emeritus
	64.2	Appointed	Armand Maillard	Archbishop of Bourges, France
	60.7	Resigned	Pius Alick Mvundla Ncube	Archbishop of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe	Archbishop Emeritus
12 Sep	91.2	Died	Giovanni Cogoni †	Bishop Emeritus of Iglesias, Italy
14 Sep	44.7	Ordained Bishop	Murray Chatlain	Coadjutor Bishop of Mackenzie-Fort Smith, Northwest Territory, Canada	Bishop
	54.7	Ordained Bishop	Peter Forsyth Christensen	Bishop of Superior, Wisconsin, USA
	76.3	Retired	Laurence Forristal	Bishop of Ossory, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
	63.6	Appointed	Séamus Freeman, S.A.C.	Bishop of Ossory, Ireland
	86.1	Died	Bernhard Huhn †	Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Görlitz, Germany
	69.5	Installed	Denis Kiwanuka Lote	Archbishop of Tororo, Uganda
	91.4	Died	José Manuel Santos Ascarza, O.C.D. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Concepción (Santissima Concezione), Chile
15 Sep	60.4	Ordained Bishop	Domenico Cancian, F.A.M.	Bishop of Città di Castello, Italy
	48.8	Installed	Vilson Dias de Oliveira, D.C.	Bishop of Limeira, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	60.0	Installed	Francesco Lambiasi	Bishop of Rimini, Italy
	56.9	Ordained Bishop	Domingo Oropesa Lorente	Bishop of Cienfuegos, Cuba
	61.6	Installed	Pietro Santoro	Bishop of Avezzano, Italy
16 Sep	62.5	Installed	Leo Cornelio, S.V.D.	Archbishop of Bhopal, India
	55.6	Ordained Bishop	Daniel Kozelinski Netto	Titular Bishop of Eminentiana	Auxiliary Bishop of São João Batista em Curitiba (Ukrainian), Brazil
18 Sep	51.1	Died	Benyamin Yosef Bria †	Bishop of Denpasar, Indonesia
19 Sep	52.0	Appointed	Francisco Carlos da Silva	Bishop of Ituiutaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil
20 Sep	67.1	Appointed	Bernardo Fabio D'Onorio, O.S.B.	Archbishop of Gaeta, Italy
	52.9	Appointed	César Daniel Fernández	Auxiliary Bishop of Paraná, Argentina
	52.9	Appointed	César Daniel Fernández	Titular Bishop of Caltadria	Auxiliary Bishop of Paraná, Argentina
	75.1	Retired	Pier Luigi Mazzoni	Archbishop of Gaeta, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
21 Sep	61.7	Appointed	Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz	Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev, Belarus
	45.6	Ordained Bishop	Michael Mulhall	Bishop of Pembroke, Ontario, Canada
	47.1	Appointed	Paolo Pezzi, F.S.C.B.	Archbishop of Madre di Dio a Mosca (Moscow), Russian Federation
	47.5	Ordained Bishop	Dominikus Saku	Bishop of Atambua, Indonesia
22 Sep	42.9	Ordained Bishop	Anthony Ademu Adaji, M.S.P.	Titular Bishop of Turuda	Auxiliary Bishop of Idah, Nigeria
	66.8	Ordained Bishop	Roberto Busti	Bishop of Mantova, Italy
	57.6	Ordained Bishop	Domenico Cornacchia	Bishop of Lucera-Troia, Italy
	53.4	Installed	Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez, S.J.	Bishop of Sololá-Chimaltenango, Guatemala
	75.3	Retired	Jan Stefan Gałecki	Auxiliary Bishop of Szczecin-Kamień, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	76.1	Retired	Tadeusz Werno	Auxiliary Bishop of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
23 Sep	58.2	Ordained Bishop	Franco Giulio Brambilla	Titular Bishop of Tullia	Auxiliary Bishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy
	60.5	Installed	Domenico Cancian, F.A.M.	Bishop of Città di Castello, Italy
	54.7	Installed	Peter Forsyth Christensen	Bishop of Superior, Wisconsin, USA
	56.2	Ordained Bishop	Mario Delpini	Titular Bishop of Stephaniacum	Auxiliary Bishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy
	55.4	Ordained Bishop	António José da Rocha Couto, S.M.P.	Titular Bishop of Azura	Auxiliary Bishop of Braga, Portugal
25 Sep	47.9	Ordained Bishop	Martin Su Yao-wen	Bishop of Taichung, Taiwan
26 Sep	86.7	Died	Marco Petta, O.S.B.I. †	Abbot Emeritus of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata, Italy
27 Sep	76.7	Retired	Domingo Salvador Castagna	Archbishop of Corrientes, Argentina	Archbishop Emeritus
	57.8	Appointed	Andrés Stanovnik, O.F.M. Cap.	Archbishop of Corrientes, Argentina
28 Sep	76.0	Retired	Victor Herman Balke	Bishop of Crookston, Minnesota, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	67.6	Installed	Vincent Cadieux, O.M.I.	Bishop of Hearst, Ontario, Canada	Bishop of Moosonee, Ontario, Canada
	57.6	Appointed	Timothy Michael Dolan	Apostolic Administrator of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA	Archbishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
	58.3	Appointed	Michael Joseph Hoeppner	Bishop of Crookston, Minnesota, USA
	96.5	Died	Adam Kozłowiecki, S.J. †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Lusaka, Zambia
	58.1	Installed	David Allen Zubik	Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
29 Sep	64.5	Ordained Bishop	Francesco Giovanni Brugnaro	Archbishop of Camerino-San Severino Marche, Italy
	56.9	Ordained Bishop	Tommaso Caputo	Titular Archbishop of Otriculum	Apostolic Nuncio to Malta
	55.8	Ordained Bishop	Vincenzo Di Mauro	Titular Bishop of Arpi	Secretary of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See
	46.5	Ordained Bishop	Mieczysław Mokrzycki	Coadjutor Archbishop of Lviv, Ukraine
	58.9	Ordained Bishop	Sergio Pagano, B.	Titular Bishop of Celene	Prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives
	64.9	Ordained Bishop	Gianfranco Ravasi	Titular Archbishop of Villamagna in Proconsulari	President of the Pontifical Council for Culture
30 Sep	59.3	Installed	Aloísio Alberto Dilli, O.F.M.	Bishop of Uruguaiana, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
1 Oct	61.6	Appointed	William D'Souza, S.J.	Archbishop of Patna, India
	65.7	Appointed	Piero Marini	President of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses
	65.7	Appointed	Carlo Mazza	Bishop of Fidenza, Italy
	68.5	Installed	Edwin Frederick O’Brien	Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
	76.1	Retired	Benedict John Osta, S.J.	Archbishop of Patna, India	Archbishop Emeritus
	83.6	Retired	Jozef Tomko	President of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses	Cardinal, President Emeritus
2 Oct	63.3	Installed	Robert Joseph Baker	Bishop of Birmingham, Alabama, USA
	67.7	Died	Gianni Danzi †	Prelate of Loreto, Italy
3 Oct	45.7	Appointed	Zanoni Demettino Castro	Bishop of São Mateus, Espirito Santo, Brazil
	76.4	Retired	Aldo Gerna, M.C.C.I.	Bishop of São Mateus, Espirito Santo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
4 Oct	60.5	Appointed	Terence John Gerard Brady	Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney, Australia
	60.5	Appointed	Terence John Gerard Brady	Titular Bishop of Talaptula	Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney, Australia
	55.1	Appointed	Antonio Di Donna	Auxiliary Bishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy
	55.1	Appointed	Antonio Di Donna	Titular Bishop of Castellum in Numidia	Auxiliary Bishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy
	45.8	Ordained Bishop	Soane Patita Paini Mafi	Coadjutor Bishop of Tonga, Pacific (Oceania)	Bishop
6 Oct	54.6	Ordained Bishop	Mariano Crociata	Bishop of Noto, Italy
	44.8	Ordained Bishop	Emmanuele Kanyama	Bishop of Dedza, Malawi
	75.8	Retired	Raphael S. Ndingi Mwana'a Nzeki	Archbishop of Nairobi, Kenya	Archbishop Emeritus
	63.8	Appointed	John Njue	Cardinal, Archbishop of Nairobi, Kenya
	55.0	Ordained Bishop	Emmanuel Obbo, A.J.	Bishop of Soroti, Uganda
	46.4	Ordained Bishop	Bernabé de Jesús Sagastume Lemus, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Santa Rosa de Lima, Guatemala
7 Oct	66.9	Installed	Roberto Busti	Bishop of Mantova, Italy
	59.6	Ordained Bishop	Armando Trasarti	Bishop of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola, Italy
10 Oct	73.1	Died	Ambrose Battista De Paoli †	Apostolic Nuncio to Australia
	64.4	Appointed	Jean-Paul Aimé Gobel	Apostolic Nuncio to Iran
11 Oct	83.7	Died	Ignatius D'Cunha †	Bishop Emeritus of Aurangabad, India
	51.8	Appointed	Jaime Soto	Coadjutor Bishop of Sacramento, California, USA
12 Oct	50.3	Appointed	Joseph Dang Duc Ngan	Bishop of Lang Són et Cao Bang, Viêt Nam
	63.3	Appointed	Abraham Youlios Kackanatt	Bishop of Muvattupuzha (Malankarese), India
	73.5	Appointed	Donald James Reece	Coadjutor Archbishop of Kingston in Jamaica, Antilles	Archbishop
13 Oct	51.9	Ordained Bishop	Yasser Ayyash	Archbishop of Petra e Filadelfia (Melkite), Jordan
	77.3	Appointed	Franco Croci	Vice President of the Labour Office of the Apostolic See
	79.5	Retired	Giovanni De Andrea	Vice President of the Labour Office of the Apostolic See	Vice President Emeritus
	75.4	Retired	Justo Mullor García	President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy	President Emeritus
	66.2	Appointed	Beniamino Stella	President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
14 Oct	57.7	Installed	Domenico Cornacchia	Bishop of Lucera-Troia, Italy
	43.9	Installed	António Francisco Jaca, S.V.D.	Bishop of Caxito, Angola
	64.3	Installed	Armand Maillard	Archbishop of Bourges, France
	65.5	Installed	Luciano Monari	Bishop of Brescia, Italy
15 Oct	50.0	Ordained Bishop	Julius Dusin Gitom	Bishop of Sandakan, Malaysia
	70.1	Resigned	Erwin Josef Ender	Apostolic Nuncio to Germany	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus
	46.8	Appointed	Jesús González de Zárate Salas	Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
	46.8	Appointed	Jesús González de Zárate Salas	Titular Bishop of Suava	Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
	68.5	Appointed	Jean-Claude Périsset	Apostolic Nuncio to Germany
16 Oct	85.1	Died	Rosalio José Castillo Lara, S.D.B. †	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State
	93.2	Died	Ignacy Ludwik Jeż †	Bishop Emeritus of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg, Poland
17 Oct	48.8	Appointed	João Carlos Seneme, C.S.S.	Auxiliary Bishop of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
	48.8	Appointed	João Carlos Seneme, C.S.S.	Titular Bishop of Albulae	Auxiliary Bishop of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
18 Oct	60.2	Resigned	Claude Champagne, O.M.I.	Apostolic Administrator of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada	Auxiliary Bishop
	60.2	Resigned	Claude Champagne, O.M.I.	Apostolic Administrator of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada	Auxiliary Bishop of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
	63.9	Appointed	Martin William Currie	Archbishop of Saint John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
	52.3	Appointed	Simone Giusti	Bishop of Livorno, Italy
	61.9	Appointed	Anthony Mancini	Archbishop of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
	61.9	Appointed	Anthony Mancini	Apostolic Administrator of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada	Archbishop of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
	91.2	Died	Juan Nicolasora Nilmar †	Bishop Emeritus of Kalibo, Philippines
	65.9	Appointed	Giovanni Tonucci	Prelate of Loreto, Italy
	46.9	Ordained Bishop	Crispin Barrete Varquez	Bishop of Borongan, Philippines
20 Oct	46.3	Ordained Bishop	Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo	Coadjutor Bishop of Oyo, Nigeria
21 Oct	60.0	Ordained Bishop	Luciano Capelli, S.D.B.	Bishop of Gizo, Solomon Islands
	59.7	Installed	Armando Trasarti	Bishop of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola, Italy
22 Oct	64.8	Appointed	Valentin Reynoso Hidalgo, M.S.C.	Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
	64.8	Appointed	Valentin Reynoso Hidalgo, M.S.C.	Titular Bishop of Mades	Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
24 Oct	50.4	Appointed	Pablo Emiro Salas Anteliz	Bishop of Espinal, Colombia
25 Oct	47.5	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Erumachadath, M.C.B.S.	Bishop of Bhadravathi (Syro-Malabarese), India
	45.3	Appointed	Pietro Vittorelli, O.S.B.	Abbot of Montecassino, Italy
27 Oct	38.0	Appointed	Vasile Bizău	Titular Bishop of Appiaria	Auxiliary Bishop of Făgăraş şi Alba Iulia (Romanian), Romania
	38.0	Confirmed	Vasile Bizău	Auxiliary Bishop of Făgăraş şi Alba Iulia (Romanian), Romania
	36.9	Appointed	Mihai Cătălin Frăţilă	Titular Bishop of Novae	Auxiliary Bishop of Făgăraş şi Alba Iulia (Romanian), Romania
	36.9	Confirmed	Mihai Cătălin Frăţilă	Auxiliary Bishop of Făgăraş şi Alba Iulia (Romanian), Romania
	47.2	Ordained Bishop	Paolo Pezzi, F.S.C.B.	Archbishop of Madre di Dio a Mosca (Moscow), Russian Federation
	83.8	Died	Antónios Varthalítis, A.A. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Corfù, Zante e Cefalonia, Greece
28 Oct	64.6	Installed	Francesco Giovanni Brugnaro	Archbishop of Camerino-San Severino Marche, Italy
	125.0	Beatified	Bl. Narciso de Esténaga y Echevarría †	Prelate of Ciudad Real, Spain
	132.5	Beatified	Bl. Cruz Laplana y Laguna †	Bishop of Cuenca, Spain
	54.4	Ordained Bishop	Vito Rallo	Titular Archbishop of Alba	Apostolic Nuncio to Burkina Faso
29 Oct	61.0	Appointed	Aldo Cavalli	Apostolic Nuncio to Colombia
30 Oct	61.9	Appointed	Pierre Bürcher	Bishop of Reykjavik, Iceland
	57.4	Appointed	William Patrick Callahan, O.F.M. Conv.	Auxiliary Bishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
	57.4	Appointed	William Patrick Callahan, O.F.M. Conv.	Titular Bishop of Lares	Auxiliary Bishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
	48.4	Appointed	Hervé Gaschignard	Auxiliary Bishop of Toulouse (-Saint Bertrand de Comminges-Rieux), France
	48.4	Appointed	Hervé Gaschignard	Titular Bishop of Bisuldino	Auxiliary Bishop of Toulouse (-Saint Bertrand de Comminges-Rieux), France
	75.1	Retired	Joannes Baptist Matthijs Gijsen	Bishop of Reykjavik, Iceland	Bishop Emeritus
	50.2	Ordained Bishop	Otto Separy	Titular Bishop of Pupiana	Auxiliary Bishop of Aitape, Papua New Guinea
	41.4	Appointed	Hermenegildo José Torres Asanza	Auxiliary Bishop of Machala, Ecuador
	41.4	Appointed	Hermenegildo José Torres Asanza	Titular Bishop of Centenaria	Auxiliary Bishop of Machala, Ecuador
31 Oct	76.2	Retired	Lúcio Ignácio Baumgaertner	Archbishop of Cascavel, Parana, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
	76.3	Retired	Guido Breña López, O.P.	Bishop of Ica, Peru	Bishop Emeritus
	53.0	Appointed	Mauro Aparecido dos Santos	Archbishop of Cascavel, Parana, Brazil
	48.9	Appointed	Miguel Ângelo Freitas Ribeiro	Bishop of Oliveira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	71.9	Resigned	Martinus Petrus Maria Muskens	Bishop of Breda, Netherlands	Bishop Emeritus
	43.8	Succeeded	Johannes Harmannes Jozefus van den Hende	Bishop of Breda, Netherlands
	45.7	Appointed	Héctor Eduardo Vera Colona	Bishop of Ica, Peru

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