1st day of January

Living Bishop Events

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1922		José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra	Born	Cotija	Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, México
1925		Paulius Antanas Baltakis, O.F.M.	Born	Troškunai, Lithuania	Titular Bishop of Egara
1926		José Manuel Estepa Llaurens	Born	Andújar	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Spain, Military
1928		Joseph Abangite Gasi	Born	Mupoi	Bishop Emeritus of Tombura-Yambio, Sudan
1930		Andrea Maria Erba, B.	Born	Biassono	Bishop Emeritus of Velletri-Segni, Italy
1933		Jeremiah Joseph Coffey	Born	Cork, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus of Sale, Australia
1934		Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga	Born	Riobamba	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Quito, Ecuador
1941		Evaristo Marc Chengula, I.M.C.	Born	Mdabulo	Bishop of Mbeya, Tanzania
1942		Jérôme Gapangwa Nteziryayo	Born	Kalongi	Bishop Emeritus of Uvira, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
1944		Franco Agostinelli	Born	Arezzo	Bishop of Prato, Italy
1945		Vincent Boi-Nai, S.V.D.	Born	Labadi	Bishop of Yendi, Ghana
1946		Fernando Panico, M.S.C.	Born	Tricase	Bishop of Crato, Ceara, Brazil
1947		Vicente Costa	Born	Birkirkara, Malta	Bishop of Jundiaí, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1948		Ivan Devcic	Born	Krasno Polje	Archbishop of Rijeka, Croatia
1949		Francisco Canindé Palhano	Born	São José de Mipibu	Bishop of Bonfim, Baia, Brazil
1950		Timothée Modibo-Nzockena	Born	Mbomo	Bishop of Franceville, Gabon
1951		Carlos Garfias Merlos	Born	Tuxpan	Archbishop of Acapulco, Guerrero, México
	24.5	Ján Eugen Kočiš	Ordained Priest	Priest of Prešov (Prjašev) (Slovakian), Slovakia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Czech Republic (Ruthenian)
		José Benedito Simão	Born	Caçapava	Bishop of Assis, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1955		Mark Leonard Bartchak	Born	Cleveland, OH	Bishop of Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
1956		Dmytro (Bohdan) Hryhorak, O.S.B.M.	Born	Ivano-Frankivsk	Bishop of Buchach {Bučač} (Ukrainian), Ukraine
1956		Almachius Vincent Rweyongeza	Born	Bushagara-Kamachumu	Bishop of Kayanga, Tanzania
1959		Michael Didi Adgum Mangoria	Born	Engoth	Coadjutor Bishop of El Obeid, Sudan
1959		Hubertus Leteng	Born	Taga	Bishop of Ruteng, Indonesia
1960		Antoni Dziemianko	Born	Zabrodzie-Derevno	Bishop of Pinsk, Belarus
1960	22.7	Gastone Simoni	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Prato, Italy
1961		Antônio Braz Benevente	Born	Itápolis	Bishop of Jacarezinho, Parana, Brazil
		Ettore Dotti, C.S.F.	Born	Palosco, Italy	Bishop of Naviraí, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
	26.1	Frederick D’Souza	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Jhansi, India
1962		Timothée Bodika Mansiyai, P.S.S.	Born	Kinshasa	Auxiliary Bishop of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
1965	48.2	Servílio Conti, I.M.C.	Appointed	Prelate of Roraima, Roraima, Brazil	Prelate Emeritus of Roraima, Roraima, Brazil
1965	26.7	Genival Saraiva de França	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop of Palmares, Pernambuco, Brazil
1967		Djalwana Laurent Lompo	Born	Koulbou	Auxiliary Bishop of Niamey, Niger
1976	47.2	Silas Silvius Njiru	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Maturba	Bishop Emeritus of Meru, Kenya
1977	28.5	Aloísio Alberto Dilli, O.F.M.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor	Bishop of Uruguaiana, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
1981	52.0	Lucas Liu Hsien-tang	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Hsinchu, Taiwan	Bishop Emeritus
1983	65.0	John Mackey	Resigned	Bishop of Auckland, New Zealand	Bishop Emeritus
1987	25.6	Tomé Ferreira da Silva	Ordained Priest	Priest of Campanha, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop of São José do Rio Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1988	25.9	Meron Mazur, O.S.B.M.	Professed	Member of Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat (Order of St. Basil the Great)	Auxiliary Bishop of São João Batista em Curitiba (Ukrainian), Brazil
1993	67.1	Giovanni Coppa	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Czech Republic	Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus
1993	67.1	Giovanni Coppa	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Slovakia	Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Czech Republic
2002	57.9	Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimeno, S.J.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Acufida	Archbishop of Huancayo, Peru
2010	79.5	Franco Croci	Resigned	Vice President of the Labour Office of the Apostolic See	Vice President Emeritus
2011	60.8	Kurt Koch	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore	Cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
2011	58.7	Keith Newton	Converted	Ordinary of Our Lady of Walsingham, England, Great Britain
2012	59.8	Jeffrey Neil Steenson	Appointed	Ordinary of The Chair of Saint Peter, USA