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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Mar	85.6	Appointed	Lorenzo Antonetti †	Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Agnese in Agone	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See
	78.7	Appointed	Darío Castrillón Hoyos	Cardinal-Priest of Santissimo Nome di Maria al Foro Traiano	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”
	89.4	Appointed	Giovanni Cheli †	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Cosma e Damiano	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People
	73.6	Resigned	François Colímon, S.M.M.	Bishop of Port-de-Paix, Haïti	Bishop Emeritus
	76.5	Retired	Hubert Constant, O.M.I. †	Archbishop of Cap-Haïtien, Haïti	Archbishop Emeritus
	57.6	Died	Kevin John Dunn †	Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, England, Great Britain
	45.9	Ordained Bishop	Prasad Gallela	Bishop of Cuddapah, India
	51.6	Appointed	Léon Kalenga Badikebele	Apostolic Nuncio to Ghana	Apostolic Nuncio to El Salvador
	51.6	Appointed	Léon Kalenga Badikebele	Titular Archbishop of Magnetum	Apostolic Nuncio to El Salvador
	69.3	Appointed	Louis Kébreau, S.D.B.	Archbishop of Cap-Haïtien, Haïti
	80.1	Retired	François-Wolff Ligondé †	Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, Haïti	Archbishop Emeritus
	81.2	Appointed	Jorge Arturo Augustin Medina Estévez	Cardinal-Priest of San Saba	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
	61.3	Succeeded	Joseph Serge Miot †	Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, Haïti
	54.8	Installed	Francesco Moraglia	Bishop of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato, Italy	Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy
	63.9	Succeeded	Pierre-Antoine Paulo, O.M.I.	Bishop of Port-de-Paix, Haïti
	75.6	Appointed	James Francis Stafford	Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Montorio	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
2 Mar	50.7	Ordained Bishop	Jesús Tirso Blanco, S.D.B.	Bishop of Lwena, Angola
	79.8	Died	Urbanus Joseph Kioko †	Bishop Emeritus of Machakos, Kenya
	52.8	Ordained Bishop	Michael Akasius Toppo	Bishop of Tezpur, India
	47.6	Installed	Karl-Heinz Wiesemann	Bishop of Speyer, Germany
5 Mar	93.6	Died	Gastone Mojaisky-Perrelli †	Archbishop Emeritus of Nusco, Italy
6 Mar	89.8	Died	Peter Poreku Dery †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Tamale, Ghana
	76.4	Retired	Helmut Krätzl	Auxiliary Bishop of Wien {Vienna}, Austria	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	43.7	Appointed	Stephan Turnovszky	Auxiliary Bishop of Wien {Vienna}, Austria
	43.7	Appointed	Stephan Turnovszky	Titular Bishop of Ancusa	Auxiliary Bishop of Wien {Vienna}, Austria
7 Mar	59.1	Installed	Richard Anthony Burke, S.P.S.	Archbishop of Benin City, Nigeria	Archbishop Emeritus
8 Mar	45.2	Ordained Bishop	Gaspard Béby Gnéba	Bishop of Man, Côte d’Ivoire
	58.0	Ordained Bishop	John Doaninoel, S.M.	Titular Bishop of Girus Tarasii	Auxiliary Bishop of Honiara, Solomon Islands
	59.8	Ordained Bishop	Felix Anthony Machado	Bishop of Nashik, India	Bishop of Vasai, India
	65.3	Died	Paulos Faraj Rahho †	Archbishop of Mossul (Chaldean), Iraq
	49.3	Installed	Stanislav Zvolenský	Archbishop of Bratislava, Slovakia
9 Mar	44.8	Ordained Bishop	Nicodème Anani Barrigah-Benissan	Bishop of Atakpamé, Togo
	50.8	Installed	Jesús Tirso Blanco, S.D.B.	Bishop of Lwena, Angola
	69.5	Ordained Bishop	Mariano Anastasio Moreno García, O.S.A.	Prelate of Cafayate, Argentina
	57.5	Installed	Peter Rusnák	Bishop of Bratislava (Slovakian), Slovakia
	51.6	Ordained Bishop	Enrico Solmi	Bishop of Parma (-Fontevivo), Italy
10 Mar	91.4	Died	Romeu Brigenti †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
11 Mar	53.7	Appointed	Xolelo Thaddaeus Kumalo	Bishop of Eshowe, South Africa
	55.2	Appointed	Eusebio Ramos Morales	Bishop of Fajardo-Humacao, Puerto Rico
	67.5	Appointed	Felipe Salazar Villagrana	Bishop of San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, México
12 Mar	61.6	Appointed	Fernando José Monteiro Guimarães, C.SS.R.	Bishop of Garanhuns, Pernambuco, Brazil
	54.0	Appointed	Guido Zendron	Bishop of Paulo Afonso, Baia, Brazil
13 Mar	91.7	Died	Denis Martin Tapsoba, M. Afr. †	Bishop Emeritus of Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso
	55.5	Installed	José María de la Torre Martín	Bishop of Aguascalientes, México
14 Mar	88.0	Died	Pierre Mamie †	Bishop Emeritus of Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg (Freiburg), Switzerland
15 Mar	58.5	Appointed	Henry D’Souza	Bishop of Bellary, India
	57.2	Installed	Tomáš Galis	Bishop of Žilina, Slovakia
	66.2	Appointed	Mario Giordana	Apostolic Nuncio to Slovakia
	58.2	Appointed	Martín Pablo Pérez Scremini	Bishop of Florida, Uruguay
	76.9	Retired	Raúl Horacio Scarrone Carrero	Bishop of Florida, Uruguay	Bishop Emeritus
	51.9	Appointed	Edward Tamba Charles	Archbishop of Freetown and Bo, Sierra Leone	Archbishop of Freetown, Sierra Leone
18 Mar	75.0	Retired	Helmut Bauer	Auxiliary Bishop of Würzburg, Germany	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	48.9	Appointed	Etienne Ung’eyowun Bediwegi	Bishop of Bondo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
19 Mar	46.9	Appointed	Adam Bałabuch	Auxiliary Bishop of Świdnica, Poland
	46.9	Appointed	Adam Bałabuch	Titular Bishop of Aurusuliana	Auxiliary Bishop of Świdnica, Poland
	68.8	Resigned	José Jovêncio Balestieri, S.D.B.	Bishop of Rio do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	65.6	Appointed	Oswaldo Brenes Álvarez †	Bishop of Ciudad Quesada, Costa Rica	Bishop Emeritus
	52.8	Appointed	Dominic Ryōji Miyahara	Bishop of Fukuoka, Japan
	69.6	Succeeded	Augustinho Petry	Bishop of Rio do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil
20 Mar	62.3	Appointed	Giuseppe Fiorini Morosini, O.M.	Bishop of Locri-Gerace (-Santa Maria di Polsi), Italy
	88.0	Died	John Willem Nicolaysen Gran, O.C.S.O. †	Bishop Emeritus of Oslo, Norway
	47.8	Appointed	John Namanzah Niyiring, O.S.A.	Bishop of Kano, Nigeria
	75.8	Retired	Patrick Francis Sheehan, O.S.A. †	Bishop of Kano, Nigeria	Bishop Emeritus
21 Mar	65.9	Died	Leonardus Dobbelaar, C.M. †	Vicar Apostolic of Nekemte, Ethiopia
	45.9	Died	Paulin Kouabénan N`Gnamé †	Bishop of San Pedro-en-Côte d’Ivoire
22 Mar	81.2	Died	Adolfo Antonio Suárez Rivera †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
25 Mar	76.6	Retired	Gregory Obinna Ochiagha	Bishop of Orlu, Nigeria	Bishop Emeritus
	80.3	Died	Wolfgang Rolly †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Mainz, Germany
	54.6	Appointed	Augustine Tochukwu Ukwuoma	Bishop of Orlu, Nigeria
26 Mar	75.0	Retired	Brian James Barnes, O.F.M.	Archbishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea	Archbishop Emeritus
	51.8	Appointed	Ramón Alfredo Dus	Bishop of Reconquista, Argentina	Archbishop of Resistencia, Argentina
	73.1	Appointed	Thomas Kwaku Mensah	Archbishop of Kumasi, Ghana	Archbishop Emeritus
	51.1	Succeeded	John Ribat, M.S.C.	Archbishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
	75.1	Retired	Peter Kwasi Sarpong	Archbishop of Kumasi, Ghana	Archbishop Emeritus
	47.8	Appointed	Gabriel Justice Yaw Anokye	Bishop of Obuasi, Ghana	Archbishop of Kumasi, Ghana
27 Mar	68.2	Ordained Bishop	Gerald Nicholas Dino	Bishop of Van Nuys (Ruthenian), California, USA	Bishop of Holy Protection of Mary of Phoenix (Ruthenian), Arizona, USA
	72.6	Resigned	Jesús Ramón Martínez de Ezquerecocha Suso †	Bishop of Babahoyo, Ecuador	Bishop Emeritus
	67.0	Appointed	Fausto Gabriel Trávez Trávez, O.F.M.	Bishop of Babahoyo, Ecuador	Archbishop of Quito, Ecuador
28 Mar	47.9	Ordained Bishop	Edmilson Amador Caetano, O. Cist.	Bishop of Barretos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	75.1	Retired	Reinhard Lettmann †	Bishop of Münster, Germany	Bishop Emeritus
	53.5	Appointed	Francisco Moreno Barrón	Bishop of Tlaxcala, México
29 Mar	46.8	Ordained Bishop	Fabio Reynaldo Colindres Abarca	Bishop of El Salvador, Military
	59.3	Ordained Bishop	Enemésio Ângelo Lazzaris, F.D.P.	Bishop of Balsas, Maranho, Brazil
	42.7	Appointed	Petro Herkulan Malchuk, O.F.M.	Auxiliary Bishop of Odessa-Simferopol, Ukraine	Bishop of Kyiv-Zhytomyr, Ukraine
	42.7	Appointed	Petro Herkulan Malchuk, O.F.M.	Titular Bishop of Media	Bishop of Kyiv-Zhytomyr, Ukraine
	55.2	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Salvador Marino	Titular Archbishop of Natchitoches	Apostolic Nuncio to Malaysia
	41.7	Ordained Bishop	Ivan Šaško	Titular Bishop of Rotaria	Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb, Croatia
	54.3	Ordained Bishop	Dominic Nyarko Yeboah	Bishop of Techiman, Ghana
30 Mar	60.0	Ordained Bishop	Joaquim Augusto da Silva Mendes, S.D.B.	Titular Bishop of Caliabria	Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa {Lisbon}, Portugal
	49.8	Installed	Hilário da Cruz Massinga, O.F.M.	Bishop of Quelimane, Mozambique
	51.7	Installed	Enrico Solmi	Bishop of Parma (-Fontevivo), Italy
	56.6	Appointed	Laurent Bernard Marie Ulrich	Archbishop of Lille, France
31 Mar	66.5	Ordained Bishop	Michael Gregory Campbell, O.S.A.	Coadjutor Bishop of Lancaster, England, Great Britain	Bishop
	48.5	Ordained Bishop	James Vann Johnston, Jr.	Bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA
	61.7	Ordained Bishop	Fernando José Monteiro Guimarães, C.SS.R.	Bishop of Garanhuns, Pernambuco, Brazil
1 Apr	55.8	Appointed	Michael Gerard Duca	Bishop of Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
2 Apr	61.0	Appointed	Ivo Baldi Gaburri	Bishop of Huarí, Peru
	76.5	Retired	Oscar Hugh Lipscomb	Archbishop of Mobile, Alabama, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
	59.0	Appointed	Thomas John Rodi	Archbishop of Mobile, Alabama, USA
5 Apr	51.6	Ordained Bishop	Valter Dario Maggi	Titular Bishop of Bossa	Bishop of Ibarra, Ecuador
	74.5	Installed	Raffaele Farina, S.D.B.	Cardinal-Deacon of San Giovanni della Pigna	Cardinal, Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archives
	77.1	Installed	Agustín García-Gasco y Vicente †	Cardinal-Priest of San Marcello	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Valencia, Spain
6 Apr	58.5	Installed	Giovanni Paolo Benotto	Archbishop of Pisa, Italy
	71.4	Installed	Théodore-Adrien Sarr	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Lucia a Piazza d’Armi	Cardinal, Archbishop of Dakar, Senegal
7 Apr	40.6	Ordained Bishop	Josaphat Oleh Hovera	Titular Bishop of Caesariana	Archiepiscopal Exarch of Lutsk (Ukrainian), Ukraine
	82.4	Died	Thomas Francis Little †	Archbishop Emeritus of Melbourne, Australia
10 Apr	41.3	Appointed	Oscar Cantú	Auxiliary Bishop of San Antonio, Texas, USA	Bishop of Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
	41.3	Appointed	Oscar Cantú	Titular Bishop of Dardanus	Bishop of Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
	53.1	Appointed	James Douglas Conley	Auxiliary Bishop of Denver, Colorado, USA	Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
	53.1	Appointed	James Douglas Conley	Titular Bishop of Cissa	Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
	88.8	Died	Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of México, Federal District
	86.8	Died	Peter Dubovský, S.J. †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
	42.1	Ordained Bishop	José Francisco González González	Titular Bishop of Feradi Maius	Auxiliary Bishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
	66.8	Ordained Bishop	Juan Humberto Gutiérrez Valencia	Titular Bishop of Iunca in Byzacena	Auxiliary Bishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
	65.9	Appointed	William Joseph Justice	Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco, California, USA
	65.9	Appointed	William Joseph Justice	Titular Bishop of Mathara in Proconsulari	Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco, California, USA
	65.2	Appointed	Richard Edmund Pates	Bishop of Des Moines, Iowa, USA
	54.0	Appointed	Anthony Basil Taylor	Bishop of Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
11 Apr	45.6	Appointed	Nicolas Jean René Brouwet	Auxiliary Bishop of Nanterre, France	Bishop of Tarbes et Lourdes, France
	45.6	Appointed	Nicolas Jean René Brouwet	Titular Bishop of Simidicca	Bishop of Tarbes et Lourdes, France
	69.7	Installed	Ricardo Watty Urquidi, M.Sp.S. †	Bishop of Tepic, Nayarit, México
12 Apr	57.0	Appointed	Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru	Titular Bishop of Civitate	Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts
	75.5	Retired	Lawrence Aloysius Burke, S.J. †	Archbishop of Kingston in Jamaica, Antilles	Archbishop Emeritus
	67.0	Appointed	Frans Daneels, O. Praem.	Titular Bishop of Bita	Secretary of the Apostolic Signatura
	67.0	Appointed	Frans Daneels, O. Praem.	Secretary of the Apostolic Signatura
	43.1	Ordained Bishop	Mario Iceta Gavicagogeascoa	Titular Bishop of Alava	Bishop of Bilbao, Spain
	65.7	Appointed	Osvaldo Padilla	Apostolic Nuncio to Korea
	72.6	Appointed	Velasio De Paolis, C.S.	Titular Archbishop of Thelepte	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See
	72.6	Appointed	Velasio De Paolis, C.S.	President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See	Cardinal, President Emeritus
	74.0	Succeeded	Donald James Reece	Archbishop of Kingston in Jamaica, Antilles	Archbishop Emeritus
	77.0	Retired	Sergio Sebastiani	President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See	Cardinal, President Emeritus
13 Apr	47.9	Ordained Bishop	Protase Rugambwa	Bishop of Kigoma, Tanzania	Official of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
14 Apr	57.9	Appointed	Alain Castet	Bishop of Luçon, France
15 Apr	77.1	Retired	Pietro Gabrielli, S.D.B.	Vicar Apostolic of Méndez, Ecuador	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
	51.0	Appointed	Néstor Montesdeoca Becerra, S.D.B.	Vicar Apostolic of Méndez, Ecuador
	51.0	Appointed	Néstor Montesdeoca Becerra, S.D.B.	Titular Bishop of Cellae in Mauretania	Vicar Apostolic of Méndez, Ecuador
16 Apr	45.9	Appointed	Felix Femi Ajakaye	Coadjutor Bishop of Ekiti, Nigeria	Bishop
	76.4	Retired	José María Libório Camino Saracho	Bishop of Presidente Prudente, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	49.8	Appointed	Benedito Gonçalves dos Santos	Bishop of Presidente Prudente, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	45.5	Appointed	Charles M. Hammawa	Bishop of Jalingo, Nigeria
17 Apr	62.7	Appointed	Sławoj Leszek Głódź	Archbishop of Gdańsk, Poland
	76.6	Retired	Tadeusz Gocłowski, C.M.	Archbishop of Gdańsk, Poland	Archbishop Emeritus
18 Apr	75.0	Retired	Soane Lilo Foliaki, S.M.	Bishop of Tonga, Pacific (Oceania)	Bishop Emeritus
	46.3	Succeeded	Soane Patita Paini Mafi	Bishop of Tonga, Pacific (Oceania)
	62.1	Appointed	Julio Parrilla Díaz	Bishop of Loja, Ecuador	Bishop of Riobamba, Ecuador
	48.1	Appointed	Roger Victor Rakotondrajao	Coadjutor Bishop of Mahajanga, Madagascar	Bishop
19 Apr	57.9	Appointed	Hubert Berenbrinker	Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn, Germany
	57.9	Appointed	Hubert Berenbrinker	Titular Bishop of Panatoria	Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn, Germany
	80.3	Retired	Joseph Abangite Gasi	Bishop of Tombura-Yambio, Sudan	Bishop Emeritus
	66.9	Appointed	Peter J. Kairo	Archbishop of Nyeri, Kenya
	44.1	Appointed	Edward Hiiboro Kussala	Bishop of Tombura-Yambio, Sudan
	72.4	Died	Alfonso López Trujillo †	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family
	46.4	Ordained Bishop	Anthony Poola	Bishop of Kurnool, India
	45.7	Ordained Bishop	José Elías Rauda Gutiérrez, O.F.M.	Titular Bishop of Foratiana	Bishop of San Vicente, El Salvador
	57.6	Ordained Bishop	Tarcísio Scaramussa, S.D.B.	Titular Bishop of Segia	Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
20 Apr	48.0	Installed	Edmilson Amador Caetano, O. Cist.	Bishop of Barretos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
21 Apr	84.0	Died	Alphonsus Maria Henricus Antonius Castermans †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Roermond, Netherlands
22 Apr	57.4	Appointed	Hugo Nicolás Barbaro	Bishop of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, Argentina
	61.9	Installed	Marcelino Hernández Rodríguez	Bishop of Orizaba, Veracruz, México
	75.9	Retired	José Lorenzo Sartori	Bishop of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus
23 Apr	46.7	Appointed	Jacques Danka Longa	Coadjutor Bishop of Kara, Togo	Bishop
	51.6	Appointed	László Német, S.V.D.	Bishop of Zrenjanin, Serbia
	70.7	Retired	Anárghyros Printesis †	Apostolic Exarch of Greece (Greek)	Apostolic Exarch Emeritus
	68.9	Appointed	Dimitrios Salachas	Apostolic Exarch of Greece (Greek)
	68.9	Appointed	Dimitrios Salachas	Titular Bishop of Carcabia	Apostolic Exarch of Greece (Greek)
25 Apr	66.6	Installed	Gerulfus Kherubim Pareira, S.V.D.	Bishop of Maumere, Indonesia
26 Apr	64.8	Installed	Rafael Ramón Conde Alfonzo	Bishop of Maracay, Venezuela
	62.7	Installed	Sławoj Leszek Głódź	Archbishop of Gdańsk, Poland
	65.7	Appointed	Osvaldo Padilla	Apostolic Nuncio to Mongolia	Apostolic Nuncio to Korea
	51.3	Ordained Bishop	Luciano Suriani	Titular Archbishop of Amiternum	Official of the Secretariat of State
27 Apr	81.9	Died	Lucien Monsi-Agboka †	Bishop Emeritus of Abomey, Benin
	65.5	Installed	André Armand Vingt-Trois	Cardinal-Priest of San Luigi dei Francesi	Cardinal, Archbishop of Paris, France
29 Apr	57.1	Installed	Earl Alfred Boyea, Jr.	Bishop of Lansing, Michigan, USA
30 Apr	85.7	Died	Benedito Domingos Vito Coscia, O.F.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Jataí, Goias, Brazil
	63.0	Resigned	Donald Edmond Pelotte, S.S.S. †	Bishop of Gallup, New Mexico, USA	Bishop Emeritus