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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 May	57.1	Ordained Bishop	Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru	Titular Bishop of Civitate	Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts
	67.1	Ordained Bishop	Frans Daneels, O. Praem.	Titular Bishop of Bita	Secretary of the Apostolic Signatura
	76.7	Retired	José Agustín Ganuza García, O.A.R.	Prelate of Bocas del Toro, Panama	Prelate Emeritus
	42.9	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Hii Teck Kwong	Titular Bishop of Castellum Medianum	Auxiliary Bishop of Sibu, Malaysia
	51.8	Ordained Bishop	Léon Kalenga Badikebele	Titular Archbishop of Magnetum	Apostolic Nuncio to Ghana
	59.6	Appointed	Gerardo Melgar Viciosa	Bishop of Osma-Soria, Spain
	50.3	Appointed	Anibal Saldaña Santamaría, O.A.R.	Prelate of Bocas del Toro, Panama
2 May	46.7	Appointed	Bryan Joseph Bayda, C.SS.R.	Bishop of Saskatoon (Ukrainian), Canada
	75.0	Retired	Harry Joseph Flynn	Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
	45.3	Appointed	Péter Fülöp Kocsis	Bishop of Hajdúdorog (Byzantine), Hungary
	45.3	Appointed	Péter Fülöp Kocsis	Apostolic Administrator of Miskolc (Byzantine), Hungary	Bishop of Hajdúdorog (Byzantine), Hungary
	61.1	Succeeded	John Clayton Nienstedt	Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
	76.0	Retired	Michael Wiwchar, C.SS.R.	Bishop of Saskatoon (Ukrainian), Canada	Bishop Emeritus
3 May	84.0	Died	Jorge Mario Avila del Aguila, C.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Jalapa, Guatemala
	42.8	Ordained Bishop	Petro Herkulan Malchuk, O.F.M.	Titular Bishop of Media	Auxiliary Bishop of Odessa-Simferopol, Ukraine
	48.0	Ordained Bishop	Sithembele Anton Sipuka	Bishop of Umtata, South Africa
7 May	85.0	Died	Donald William Montrose †	Bishop Emeritus of Stockton, California, USA
	52.2	Appointed	João Evangelista Pimentel Lavrador	Auxiliary Bishop of Porto, Portugal
	52.2	Appointed	João Evangelista Pimentel Lavrador	Titular Bishop of Luperciana	Auxiliary Bishop of Porto, Portugal
8 May	48.9	Appointed	Bernardito Cleopas Auza	Titular Archbishop of Suacia	Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti
	48.9	Appointed	Bernardito Cleopas Auza	Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti
	47.1	Ordained Bishop	Adam Bałabuch	Titular Bishop of Aurusuliana	Auxiliary Bishop of Świdnica, Poland
	52.5	Appointed	Ambrose Madtha	Titular Archbishop of Naissus	Apostolic Nuncio to Côte d’Ivoire
	52.5	Appointed	Ambrose Madtha	Apostolic Nuncio to Côte d’Ivoire
9 May	62.5	Ordained Bishop	Giuseppe Fiorini Morosini, O.M.	Bishop of Locri-Gerace (-Santa Maria di Polsi), Italy
	85.2	Died	Ignacio Prieto Vega, I.E.M.E. †	Bishop Emeritus of Hwange, Zimbabwe
10 May	73.4	Appointed	Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B.	Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati	Cardinal, Secretary of the Secretariat of State
	45.3	Succeeded	Murray Chatlain	Bishop of Mackenzie-Fort Smith, Northwest Territory, Canada
	75.5	Retired	Denis Croteau, O.M.I.	Bishop of Mackenzie-Fort Smith, Northwest Territory, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
	63.4	Installed	Oswald Gracias	Cardinal-Priest of S. Paolo della Croce a “Corviale”	Cardinal, Archbishop of Bombay, India
11 May	73.7	Installed	Paul Josef Cordes	Cardinal-Deacon of S. Lorenzo in Piscibus	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”
12 May	43.9	Ordained Bishop	Stephan Turnovszky	Titular Bishop of Ancusa	Auxiliary Bishop of Wien {Vienna}, Austria
13 May	86.0	Died	Bernardin Gantin †	Cardinal, Dean Emeritus of the College of Cardinals
	59.1	Appointed	Pierre Nguyên Van Tot	Apostolic Nuncio to Costa Rica
	47.9	Ordained Bishop	John Namanzah Niyiring, O.S.A.	Bishop of Kano, Nigeria
14 May	60.9	Appointed	Romulo Tolentino de la Cruz	Bishop of Kidapawan, Philippines
	67.7	Ordained Bishop	Felipe Salazar Villagrana	Bishop of San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, México
	52.1	Ordained Bishop	Edward Tamba Charles	Archbishop of Freetown and Bo, Sierra Leone
15 May	57.5	Appointed	Adolfo Eduardo José Bittschi Mayer	Auxiliary Bishop of Sucre, Bolivia
	57.5	Appointed	Adolfo Eduardo José Bittschi Mayer	Titular Bishop of Nigizubi	Auxiliary Bishop of Sucre, Bolivia
	75.4	Retired	Ernest Mesmin Lucien Cabo	Bishop of Basse-Terre (et Pointe-à-Pitre), Guadeloupe, Antilles	Bishop Emeritus
	66.0	Appointed	Alceste Catella	Bishop of Casale Monferrato, Italy
17 May	47.9	Ordained Bishop	Adair José Guimarães	Bishop of Rubiataba-Mozarlândia, Goias, Brazil
	62.0	Installed	Francesco Montenegro	Archbishop of Agrigento, Italy
	58.4	Appointed	Johannes Maria Trilaksyanta Pujasumarta	Bishop of Bandung, Indonesia
	46.9	Ordained Bishop	Juarez Sousa Da Silva	Bishop of Oeiras, Piaui, Brazil
	54.2	Ordained Bishop	Guido Zendron	Bishop of Paulo Afonso, Baia, Brazil
18 May	74.8	Installed	Augusto Alves da Rocha	Bishop of Floriano, Piaui, Brazil
19 May	71.3	Resigned	Prospero Nale Arellano	Prelate of Libmanan, Philippines	Prelate Emeritus
	56.0	Ordained Bishop	Michael Gerard Duca	Bishop of Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
	52.5	Appointed	Miguel Maury Buendía	Titular Archbishop of Italica	Apostolic Nuncio to Kazakhstan
	52.5	Appointed	Miguel Maury Buendía	Apostolic Nuncio to Kazakhstan
	51.8	Appointed	José Rojas Rojas, Jr.	Prelate of Libmanan, Philippines	Bishop of Libmanan, Philippines
20 May	60.5	Appointed	Christophe Dufour	Coadjutor Archbishop of Aix (-Arles), France
	60.2	Appointed	Neil Tiedemann, C.P.	Bishop of Mandeville, Jamaica, Antilles
21 May	53.1	Appointed	Jorge Alves Bezerra, S.S.S.	Bishop of Jardim, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
	45.4	Appointed	Philip E. R. Dickmans	Bishop of Miracema do Tocantins, Tocatins, Brazil
	50.2	Appointed	Renauld Marie François de Dinechin	Auxiliary Bishop of Paris, France
	50.2	Appointed	Renauld Marie François de Dinechin	Titular Bishop of Macriana Minor	Auxiliary Bishop of Paris, France
	98.6	Died	John Aloysius Morgan †	Bishop Emeritus of Australia, Military
	46.3	Appointed	Éric Marie de Moulins d'Amieu de Beaufort	Auxiliary Bishop of Paris, France
	46.3	Appointed	Éric Marie de Moulins d'Amieu de Beaufort	Titular Bishop of Cresima	Auxiliary Bishop of Paris, France
	49.3	Appointed	Thierry Marie Scherrer	Bishop of Laval, France
22 May	84.1	Died	Luca Milesi, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop Emeritus of Barentu, Eritrea
	47.9	Appointed	Taras Senkiv, O.M.	Titular Bishop of Siccenna	Auxiliary Bishop of Stryj (Ukrainian), Ukraine
	47.9	Confirmed	Taras Senkiv, O.M.	Auxiliary Bishop of Stryj (Ukrainian), Ukraine
23 May	74.6	Appointed	John Lee Hiong Fun-Yit Yaw	Archbishop of Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
24 May	56.8	Appointed	Ghaleb Moussa Abdalla Bader	Archbishop of Alger, Algeria
	69.5	Appointed	Janusz Bolonek	Apostolic Nuncio to Bulgaria
	65.8	Ordained Bishop	Oswaldo Brenes Álvarez	Bishop of Ciudad Quesada, Costa Rica
	64.7	Installed	Angelo Comastri	Cardinal-Deacon of S. Salvatore in Lauro	Cardinal, President of the Fabric of St. Peter
	65.5	Appointed	Henryk Hoser, S.A.C.	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Warszawa-Praga, Poland	Bishop
	71.3	Appointed	Paolo De Nicolò	Titular Bishop of Mariana in Corsica	Official of the Prefecture of the Papal Household
	62.0	Appointed	Anselmo Guido Pecorari	Apostolic Nuncio to Uruguay
	55.6	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Ponniah	Titular Bishop of Mons in Mauretania	Auxiliary Bishop of Trincomalee-Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
	75.9	Died	Pierre Sagna, C.S.Sp. †	Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Louis du Sénégal
	69.0	Ordained Bishop	Dimitrios Salachas	Titular Bishop of Carcabia	Exarch of Greece, Faithful of Eastern Rite (Byzantine)
	78.8	Retired	Henri Antoine Marie Teissier	Archbishop of Alger, Algeria	Archbishop Emeritus
	67.2	Installed	Fausto Gabriel Trávez Trávez, O.F.M.	Bishop of Babahoyo, Ecuador
	71.3	Appointed	Piergiuseppe Vacchelli	Official of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
	71.3	Appointed	Piergiuseppe Vacchelli	Titular Archbishop of Minturnae	Official of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
25 May	75.8	Installed	James Francis Stafford	Cardinal-Priest of S. Pietro in Montorio	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
	54.2	Installed	Guido Zendron	Bishop of Paulo Afonso, Baia, Brazil
26 May	75.7	Retired	Blaise-Ernest Morand	Bishop of Prince-Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
	62.6	Appointed	Albert Privet Thévenot, M. Afr.	Bishop of Prince-Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada
27 May	84.4	Died	Angelo Cella, M.S.C. †	Bishop Emeritus of Frosinone-Veroli-Ferentino, Italy
28 May	44.6	Appointed	Francisco de Assis Dantas de Lucena	Bishop of Guarabira, Paraiba, Brazil
	65.5	Appointed	Irineu Gassen, O.F.M.	Bishop of Vacaria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
	66.1	Ordained Bishop	William Joseph Justice	Titular Bishop of Mathara in Proconsulari	Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco, California, USA
	53.7	Installed	Francisco Moreno Barrón	Bishop of Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala, México
29 May	48.8	Appointed	Gerardo Alimane Alminaza	Auxiliary Bishop of Jaro, Philippines
	48.8	Appointed	Gerardo Alimane Alminaza	Titular Bishop of Maximiana in Byzacena	Auxiliary Bishop of Jaro, Philippines
	65.3	Installed	Richard Edmund Pates	Bishop of Des Moines, Iowa, USA
30 May	53.2	Ordained Bishop	James Douglas Conley	Titular Bishop of Cissa	Auxiliary Bishop of Denver, Colorado, USA
	62.9	Installed	Stanisław Ryłko	Cardinal-Deacon of Sacro Cuore di Cristo Re	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity
31 May	62.1	Appointed	Francis Antonysamy	Bishop of Kumbakonam, India
	55.5	Ordained Bishop	Eusebio Ramos Morales	Bishop of Fajardo-Humacao, Puerto Rico
	44.3	Appointed	Barthélemy Yaouda Hourgo	Bishop of Yagoua, Cameroon
1 Jun	71.5	Died	Maurizio Galli †	Bishop Emeritus of Fidenza, Italy
2 Jun	41.5	Ordained Bishop	Oscar Cantú	Titular Bishop of Dardanus	Auxiliary Bishop of San Antonio, Texas, USA
3 Jun	96.4	Died	John A. Choi Jae-seon †	Bishop Emeritus of Pusan, Korea (South)
4 Jun	74.9	Retired	Pedro Aranda Díaz-Muñoz	Archbishop of Tulancingo, Hidalgo, México	Archbishop Emeritus
	59.8	Appointed	Domingo Díaz Martínez	Archbishop of Tulancingo, Hidalgo, México
	51.9	Appointed	Paul Ssemogerere	Bishop of Kasana-Luweero, Uganda
5 Jun	62.2	Ordained Bishop	Julio Parrilla Díaz	Bishop of Loja, Ecuador
	54.1	Ordained Bishop	Anthony Basil Taylor	Bishop of Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
6 Jun	59.2	Installed	Thomas John Rodi	Archbishop of Mobile, Alabama, USA
7 Jun	71.6	Appointed	Ennio Antonelli	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family
	53.9	Ordained Bishop	Xolelo Thaddaeus Kumalo	Bishop of Eshowe, South Africa
8 Jun	49.2	Ordained Bishop	Etienne Ung'eyowun Bediwegi	Bishop of Bondo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
9 Jun	54.5	Appointed	Manuel Aurelio Cruz	Auxiliary Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA
	54.5	Appointed	Manuel Aurelio Cruz	Titular Bishop of Gaguari	Auxiliary Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA
10 Jun	86.3	Died	Elmar Maria Kredel †	Archbishop Emeritus of Bamberg, Germany
	63.4	Appointed	Joseph Amangi Nacua, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Ilagan, Philippines
11 Jun	55.3	Appointed	Antônio Carlos Rossi Keller	Bishop of Frederico Westphalen, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
	51.3	Appointed	Luis Gonzaga Silva Pepeu, O.F.M. Cap.	Archbishop of Vitória da Conquista, Baia, Brazil
12 Jun	58.8	Ordained Bishop	Henry D'Souza	Bishop of Bellary, India
	61.1	Died	Victor Kindo †	Bishop of Jashpur, India
	52.6	Ordained Bishop	Miguel Maury Buendía	Titular Archbishop of Italica	Apostolic Nuncio to Kazakhstan
	71.4	Ordained Bishop	Paolo De Nicolò	Titular Bishop of Mariana in Corsica	Official of the Prefecture of the Papal Household
13 Jun	56.5	Appointed	Thomas Graham Rose	Bishop of Dundee, South Africa
14 Jun	94.7	Died	Charles Albert Buswell †	Bishop Emeritus of Pueblo, Colorado, USA
	67.1	Installed	Peter J. Kairo	Archbishop of Nyeri, Kenya
	64.0	Appointed	Yves Maria Monot, C.S.Sp.	Bishop of Ouesso, Congo
	76.6	Retired	Fransiskus Xaverius Rocharjanta Prajasuta, M.S.F.	Bishop of Banjarmasin, Indonesia	Bishop Emeritus
	76.2	Retired	Alexander James Quinn	Auxiliary Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	60.9	Appointed	Petrus Boddeng Timang	Bishop of Banjarmasin, Indonesia
15 Jun	58.0	Ordained Bishop	Hubert Berenbrinker	Titular Bishop of Panatoria	Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn, Germany
17 Jun	53.5	Appointed	Emmanuel Luc Jean-Marie Delmas	Bishop of Angers, France
	56.8	Appointed	Salvatore Fisichella	President of the Roman Curia - Other
	56.8	Appointed	Salvatore Fisichella	Titular Archbishop of Vicohabentia	President of the Roman Curia - Other
	80.0	Retired	Elio Sgreccia	President of the Roman Curia - Other	President Emeritus
18 Jun	53.0	Appointed	Gerard Johannes Nicolaus de Korte	Bishop of Groningen-Leeuwarden, Netherlands
	57.0	Appointed	Djuro Gašparović	Bishop of Srijem, Serbia
	70.9	Appointed	Marin Srakić	Archbishop of Djakovo-Osijek, Croatia
19 Jun	46.2	Appointed	Joseph Befe Ateba	Bishop of Kribi, Cameroon
	61.0	Installed	Romulo Tolentino de la Cruz	Bishop of Kidapawan, Philippines
	52.3	Appointed	Luis Mariano Montemayor	Titular Archbishop of Illici	Apostolic Nuncio to Sénégal
	52.3	Appointed	Luis Mariano Montemayor	Apostolic Nuncio to Sénégal
	52.3	Appointed	Luis Mariano Montemayor	Apostolic Nuncio to Cape Verde	Apostolic Nuncio to Sénégal
	52.3	Appointed	Luis Mariano Montemayor	Apostolic Delegate to Mauritania	Apostolic Nuncio to Sénégal
21 Jun	92.0	Died	Adalberto Almeida y Merino †	Archbishop Emeritus of Chihuahua, Chihuahua, México
	51.1	Ordained Bishop	Néstor Montesdeoca Becerra, S.D.B.	Titular Bishop of Cellae in Mauretania	Vicar Apostolic of Méndez, Ecuador
	75.3	Retired	Michel Sabbah	Patriarch of Gerusalemme {Jerusalem}, Palestine	Patriarch Emeritus
	50.4	Ordained Bishop	Anibal Saldaña Santamaría, O.A.R.	Prelate of Bocas del Toro, Panama
	67.7	Succeeded	Fouad Twal	Patriarch of Gerusalemme {Jerusalem}, Palestine
	54.8	Ordained Bishop	Augustine Tochukwu Ukwuoma	Bishop of Orlu, Nigeria
24 Jun	75.8	Retired	Rinaldo Fidel Brédice	Bishop of Santa Rosa, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus
	75.5	Retired	Omar Félix Colomé	Bishop of Cruz del Eje, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus
	49.5	Appointed	Santiago Olivera	Bishop of Cruz del Eje, Argentina
	75.0	Retired	Marcel Germain Perrier	Bishop of Pamiers, France	Bishop Emeritus
	60.6	Appointed	Mario Aurelio Poli	Bishop of Santa Rosa, Argentina
25 Jun	86.3	Died	Louis Kuehn †	Bishop Emeritus of Meaux, France
27 Jun	46.8	Ordained Bishop	Bryan Joseph Bayda, C.SS.R.	Bishop of Saskatoon (Ukrainian), Canada
	60.0	Appointed	Raymond Leo Burke	Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura
	75.6	Retired	Franz Grave	Auxiliary Bishop of Essen, Germany	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	77.4	Retired	Camillo Ruini	Vicar General of Roma {Rome}, Italy	Cardinal, Vicar General Emeritus
	77.4	Retired	Camillo Ruini	Archpriest of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano {Saint John Lateran Basilica}	Cardinal, Vicar General Emeritus of Roma {Rome}, Italy
	55.2	Appointed	Ludger Schepers	Auxiliary Bishop of Essen, Germany
	55.2	Appointed	Ludger Schepers	Titular Bishop of Neapolis in Proconsulari	Auxiliary Bishop of Essen, Germany
	68.2	Appointed	Agostino Vallini	Cardinal, Vicar General of Roma {Rome}, Italy
	68.2	Appointed	Agostino Vallini	Archpriest of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano {Saint John Lateran Basilica}	Cardinal, Vicar General of Roma {Rome}, Italy
28 Jun	51.9	Appointed	Basilio Athai	Auxiliary Bishop of Taunggyi, Myanmar
	51.9	Appointed	Basilio Athai	Titular Bishop of Tasaccora	Auxiliary Bishop of Taunggyi, Myanmar
	65.6	Installed	Henryk Hoser, S.A.C.	Bishop of Warszawa-Praga, Poland
	45.1	Appointed	Anthony Muheria	Bishop of Kitui, Kenya
	55.7	Appointed	Józef Wróbel, S.C.I.	Auxiliary Bishop of Lublin, Poland
	55.7	Appointed	Józef Wróbel, S.C.I.	Titular Bishop of Suas	Auxiliary Bishop of Lublin, Poland
	83.1	Died	Gregory Yong Sooi Ngean †	Archbishop Emeritus of Singapore
29 Jun	45.8	Ordained Bishop	Nicolas Jean René Brouwet	Titular Bishop of Simidicca	Auxiliary Bishop of Nanterre, France
	58.1	Ordained Bishop	Alain Castet	Bishop of Luçon, France
	66.1	Ordained Bishop	Alceste Catella	Bishop of Casale Monferrato, Italy
	73.5	Professed	Noël Delaquis, O.C.S.O.	Member of Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance	Bishop Emeritus of Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan, Canada
	44.3	Ordained Bishop	Edward Hiiboro Kussala	Bishop of Tombura-Yambio, Sudan
	52.4	Ordained Bishop	João Evangelista Pimentel Lavrador	Titular Bishop of Luperciana	Auxiliary Bishop of Porto, Portugal
	57.5	Ordained Bishop	Noël Treanor	Bishop of Down and Connor, Ireland
	97.1	Died	Eladio Vicuña Aránguiz †	Archbishop Emeritus of Puerto Montt, Chile
30 Jun	45.5	Ordained Bishop	Péter Fülöp Kocsis	Bishop of Hajdúdorog (Byzantine), Hungary
	59.1	Laicized	Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez, S.V.D.
	53.0	Succeeded	Arnold Orowae	Bishop of Wabag, Papua New Guinea
	74.2	Retired	Hermann Raich, S.V.D. †	Bishop of Wabag, Papua New Guinea	Bishop Emeritus
	60.7	Appointed	Juan del Río Martín	Archbishop of Spain, Military

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