6th day of January

Living Bishop Events

1979 and Earlier

Epiphany (Solemnity)

See Also: 1980 and Later | Diocese Events

Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1924		John C. O’Riordan, C.S.Sp.	Born	Effin, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus of Kenema, Sierra Leone
1925		Dante Frasnelli Tarter, O.S.I.	Born	Dardine, Italy	Prelate Emeritus of Huarí, Peru
1932		José Saraiva Martins, C.M.F.	Born	Gagos de Jarmelo, Portugal	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
1939		Francesco Pio Tamburrino, O.S.B.	Born	Oppido Lucano	Archbishop of Foggia-Bovino, Italy
1942		Guire Poulard	Born	Delatte	Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, Haïti
1949		Edward Gabriel Risi, O.M.I.	Born	Johannesburg	Bishop of Keimoes-Upington, South Africa
1950	22.4	Alberto Tricarico	Ordained Priest	Priest	Official Emeritus of the Secretariat of State
1951		Maroun Nasser Gemayel	Born	Aïn-Kharroubé	Bishop of Notre-Dame du Liban de Paris (Maronite), France
1952		Jesús María Cizaurre Berdonces, O.A.R.	Born	Valtierra-Navarra, Spain	Bishop of Cametá, Para, Brazil
		John Douglas Deshotel	Born	Basile, LA	Auxiliary Bishop of Dallas, Texas, USA
		Denis Moutel	Born	Ancenis	Bishop of Saint-Brieuc (-Tréguier), France
1954	39.7	Jan van Cauwelaert, C.I.C.M.	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Inongo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop Emeritus of Inongo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
1954	39.7	Jan van Cauwelaert, C.I.C.M.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Metropolis in Asia	Bishop Emeritus of Inongo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
1957		Juan Antonio Menéndez Fernández	Born	Villamarín de Salcedo	Auxiliary Bishop of Oviedo, Spain
1958	28.3	George Edward Rueger	Ordained Priest	Priest of Worcester, Massachusetts, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
1960	24.7	Medardo Luis Luzardo Romero	Ordained Priest	Priest	Archbishop Emeritus of Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela
		Joaquim Giovanni Mol Guimarães	Born	Ponte Nova	Auxiliary Bishop of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	24.2	Carlos José Ruiseco Vieira	Ordained Priest	Priest	Archbishop Emeritus of Cartagena, Colombia
1962	23.8	Rodrigo Orlando Cabrera Cuéllar	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop of Santiago de María, El Salvador
		Max Leroy Mésidor	Born	Saint-Marc	Bishop of Fort-Liberté, Haïti
	26.1	Etienne Nguyên Nhu Thê	Ordained Priest	Priest of Huê, Viet Nam	Archbishop Emeritus
	36.6	José Mauro Ramalho de Alarcón Santiago	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Iguatú, Ceara, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
1963		Gaspard Béby Gnéba	Born	Tehiri Guitry	Bishop of Man, Côte d’Ivoire
1963	22.9	Edward Nowak	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Przemyśl, Poland	Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
1966	31.6	Edward Robert Adams	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Oudtshoorn, South Africa
	25.0	Marcel Honorat Léon Agboton	Ordained Priest	Priest of Porto Novo, Benin	Archbishop Emeritus of Cotonou, Benin
	28.0	Joseph Bolangi Egwanga Ediba Tasame	Ordained Priest	Priest of Budjala, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop Emeritus
	24.0	Evariste Ngoyagoye	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bujumbura, Burundi	Archbishop of Bujumbura, Burundi
	27.6	Max John Rodrigues	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop of Hyderabad in Pakistan
	28.4	Philip Sulumeti	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kisumu, Kenya	Bishop of Kakamega, Kenya
	26.4	John Tong Hon	Ordained Priest	Priest of Hong Kong [Xianggang], China	Cardinal, Bishop
1967		André Gueye	Born	Pallo-Youga	Bishop of Thiès, Senegal
1967	26.6	James Terry Steib, S.V.D.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of the Divine Word	Bishop of Memphis, Tennessee, USA
1968	33.9	Paulo Mandlate, S.S.S.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament	Bishop Emeritus of Tete, Mozambique
	38.2	José Ramiro Pellecer Samayoa	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Teglata in Proconsulari	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Guatemala
	34.0	Evarist Pinto	Ordained Priest	Priest of Karachi, Pakistan	Archbishop Emeritus
1969	48.6	Abel Costas Montaño	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Novi	Bishop Emeritus of Tarija, Bolivia
	25.7	Dominik Jaroslav Duka, O.P.	Professed	Member of Order of Friars Preachers	Cardinal, Archbishop of Praha {Prague}, Czech Republic
	39.7	Adhemar Esquivel Kohenque	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Caere	Bishop Emeritus of Tarija, Bolivia
	56.1	Bernard Joseph McLaughlin	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Motula	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Buffalo, New York, USA
1971	23.4	Augustinus Tumaole Bane, O.M.I.	Professed	Member of Oblates of Mary Immaculate	Bishop of Leribe, Lesotho
1973	24.6	Fidelis Lionel Emmanuel Fernando	Ordained Priest	Priest of Colombo, Sri Lanka	Auxiliary Bishop
	26.7	Augustine Kasujja	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kampala, Uganda	Apostolic Nuncio to Nigeria
	29.6	Bosco Lin Chi-nan	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop of Tainan, Taiwan
	41.5	Alonso Llano Ruiz	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Istmina-Tadó, Colombia
	29.0	John Njue	Ordained Priest	Priest of Embu, Kenya	Cardinal, Archbishop of Nairobi, Kenya
1975	40.2	Benito Cocchi	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Zaraï	Archbishop Emeritus of Modena-Nonantola, Italy
1977	60.4	Fiorenzo Angelini	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Roma {Rome}, Italy	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers
1979	53.5	Marco Cé	Installed	Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy	Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus
	27.1	Czeslaw Kozon	Ordained Priest	Priest of København {Copenhagen}, Denmark	Bishop
	51.6	Franciszek Macharski	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Kraków {Cracow}, Poland	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus