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Living Bishop Events

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1942		Roman Adam Marcinkowski	Born		Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Płock, Poland
1950		Carlos Gustavo Castillo Mattasoglio	Born		Cardinal, Archbishop of Lima, Peru
1952		Marek Szkudło	Born		Auxiliary Bishop of Katowice, Poland
1957		José Ronaldo Ribeiro	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Formosa, Goias, Brazil
1958		Philippe Maurice Marie Joseph Christory, Comm. l'Emm.	Born		Bishop of Chartres, France
1959		Ramón Alberto Rolón Güepsa	Born		Bishop of Chiquinquirá, Colombia
1960		Tulio Luis Ramírez Padilla	Born		Bishop of Guarenas, Venezuela
1964		Gustavo Óscar Zanchetta	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Orán, Argentina
1965		José Antonio Alarcón Gómez, O.F.M. Cap.	Born		Bishop of Huaraz, Peru
		Krzysztof Józef Nykiel	Born		Regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary
	17.4	Cletus Chandrasiri Perera, O.S.B.	Professed	Member of Order of Saint Benedict	Bishop Emeritus of Ratnapura, Sri Lanka
1966		Ján Kuboš	Born		Auxiliary Bishop of Spiš, Slovakia
1969	11.9	Ângelo Ademir Mezzari, R.C.J.	Entered	Member of Rogationists of the Heart of Jesus	Archbishop of Vitória, Espirito Santo, Brazil
1971	44.5	Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto	Installed	Archbishop of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
1978	43.0	Peter Anthony Rosazza	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Hartford, Connecticut, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	43.0	Peter Anthony Rosazza	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Oppidum Novum	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
	40.5	Philip Sulumeti	Appointed	Bishop of Kakamega, Kenya	Bishop Emeritus
1981	24.3	Carlos Alfonso Azpiroz Costa, O.P.	Professed	Member of Order of Friars Preachers	Archbishop of Bahía Blanca, Argentina
1981	39.9	Wilfrid Fox Napier, O.F.M.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kokstad, South Africa	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Durban, South Africa
1982	26.0	Józef Piotr Kupny	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Katowice, Poland	Archbishop of Wrocław {Breslavia}, Poland
1987	34.8	Pedro Carlos Cipolini	Incardinated	Priest of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop of Santo André, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1987	24.6	José Elías Rauda Gutiérrez, O.F.M.	Solemn Vows	Member of Order of Friars Minor	Bishop of San Vicente, El Salvador
1988	47.5	Emery Kabongo Kanundowi	Installed	Bishop of Luebo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop Emeritus
1988	46.9	Carlos Stetter	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Horrea	Bishop Emeritus of San Ignacio de Velasco, Bolivia
1989	48.7	Gilles Lussier	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Augurus	Bishop Emeritus of Joliette, Québec, Canada
1991	59.7	Blasco Francisco Collaço	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Madagascar	Apostolic Nuncio
1991	59.7	Blasco Francisco Collaço	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Mauritius	Apostolic Nuncio
1995	61.4	Bernardo Hombach Lütkermeier	Appointed	Bishop of Juigalpa, Nicaragua	Bishop Emeritus of Granada, Nicaragua
	43.8	William Edward Lori	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Washington, District of Columbia, USA	Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
	43.8	William Edward Lori	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Bulla	Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
1998	61.8	Mario Milano	Appointed	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Aversa, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
1999	67.0	Giulio Sanguineti	Installed	Bishop of Brescia, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
2004	58.2	Piero Coccia	Appointed	Archbishop of Pesaro, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
2004	50.6	Pavel Posád	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Litoměřice, Czechia	Auxiliary Bishop of České Budĕjovice {Budweis}, Czechia
2006	56.7	Daniel Nicholas DiNardo	Succeeded	Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
2006	62.2	John Hung Shan-chuan, S.V.D.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kiayi, Taiwan	Archbishop Emeritus of Taipei, Taiwan
2007	57.6	Esmeraldo Barreto de Farias, Ist. del Prado	Appointed	Bishop of Santarém, Para, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Araçuaí (Arassuaí), Minas Gerais, Brazil
	43.3	Shelton Joseph Fabre	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Pudentiana	Archbishop of Louisville, Kentucky, USA
	66.5	Gutemberg Freire Régis, C.Ss.R.	Resigned	Prelate of Coari, Amazonas, Brazil	Prelate Emeritus
	53.4	Joércio Gonçalves Pereira, C.Ss.R.	Succeeded	Prelate of Coari, Amazonas, Brazil	Prelate Emeritus
2008	50.2	Franco Moscone, C.R.S.	Appointed	Superior General of Clerks Regular of Somasca	Archbishop of Manfredonia-Vieste-San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
2009	58.3	Florencio Armando Colín Cruz	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Thimida Regia	Bishop of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, México
2009	71.0	Antonio Maria Vegliò	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
2010	60.2	Irineu Andreassa, O.F.M.	Installed	Bishop of Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Ituiutaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	49.3	Wolfgang Bischof	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Nebbi	Auxiliary Bishop of München und Freising {Munich}, Germany
	44.9	Edmar Perón	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Mattiana	Bishop Emeritus of Paranaguá, Parana, Brazil
2011	75.0	Victor Alejandro Corral Mantilla	Retired	Bishop of Riobamba, Ecuador	Bishop Emeritus
2013	78.2	Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Bertone, S.D.B.	Ceased	Secretary of State	Cardinal, Secretary Emeritus
	65.8	João Bráz de Aviz	Ceased	Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
	69.2	Jean-Louis Bruguès, O.P.	Ceased	Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archive	Archivist Emeritus
	69.2	Jean-Louis Bruguès, O.P.	Ceased	Librarian of the Vatican Library	Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archive
	64.6	Raymond Leo Burke	Ceased	Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	70.0	Domenico Calcagno	Ceased	President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See	Cardinal, President Emeritus
	67.3	Antonio Cañizares Llovera	Ceased	Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Valencia, Spain
	46.2	Oscar Cantú	Installed	Bishop of Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA	Bishop of San Jose in California, USA
	71.6	Claudio Maria Celli	Ceased	President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications	President Emeritus of the Dicastery for Communication
	74.9	Francesco Coccopalmerio	Ceased	President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts	Cardinal, President Emeritus
	69.4	Angelo Comastri	Ceased	President of the Fabric of St. Peter	Cardinal, President Emeritus
	67.9	Joseph Đình Đúc Đao	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Xuân Lộc, Viet Nam	Bishop Emeritus
	67.9	Joseph Đình Đúc Đao	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Gadiaufala	Bishop Emeritus of Xuân Lộc, Viet Nam
	66.8	Fernando Filoni	Ceased	Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples	Cardinal, Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
	61.5	Salvatore Rino Fisichella	Ceased	President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization	Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization
	55.7	Samuel Jofré Giraudo	Appointed	Bishop of Villa María, Argentina
	62.9	Kurt Koch	Ceased	President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity	Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity
	65.1	Gerhard Ludwig Müller	Ceased	Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	65.1	Gerhard Ludwig Müller	Ceased	President of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
	65.1	Gerhard Ludwig Müller	Ceased	President of the International Theological Commission	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
	65.1	Gerhard Ludwig Müller	Ceased	President of the Pontifical Biblical Commission	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
	68.7	Marc Armand Ouellet, P.S.S.	Ceased	Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Dicastery for Bishops
	67.8	Vincenzo Paglia	Ceased	President of the Pontifical Council for the Family	President Emeritus of the Pontifical Academy for Life
	68.4	Mauro Piacenza	Ceased	Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
	70.3	Gianfranco Ravasi	Ceased	President of the Pontifical Council for Culture	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology
	70.3	Gianfranco Ravasi	Ceased	President of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology	Cardinal, President Emeritus
	67.6	Stanisław Marian Ryłko	Ceased	President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity	Cardinal, Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}
	69.2	Leonardo Sandri	Ceased	Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches
	67.7	Robert Sarah	Ceased	President of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
	64.3	Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson	Ceased	President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace	Cardinal, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
	75.0	Antonio Maria Vegliò	Ceased	President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
	69.5	Giuseppe Versaldi	Ceased	President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Dicastery for Culture and Education
2014	47.5	Stefan Heße (Hesse)	Appointed	Administrator of Köln {Cologne}, Germany	Archbishop of Hamburg, Germany
2015	56.1	José María Baliña	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Theudalis	Auxiliary Bishop of Chascomús, Argentina
	66.5	Nunzio Galantino	Resigned	Bishop of Cassano all’Jonio, Italy	President Emeritus of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See
	46.0	Marek Grzegorz Marczak	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Łódź, Poland
	46.0	Marek Grzegorz Marczak	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Leontium	Auxiliary Bishop of Łódź, Poland
	60.2	Francesco Savino	Appointed	Bishop of Cassano all’Jonio, Italy
2016	60.4	Vincent Kirabo Amooti	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Hoima, Uganda
2016	50.7	François Marie Pierre Touvet	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Châlons, France	Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon, France
2017	57.9	Fabio Fabene	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Mons Faliscus	Secretary of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints
2018	60.1	Simon T. Faddoul	Appointed	Bishop of Our Lady of the Annunciation at Ibadan (Annunciazione) (Maronite), Nigeria
	42.5	Makariy Bohdan Leniv, O.S.B.M.	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Krym (Ukrainian), Ukraine
	75.6	Joseph Anthony Pepe	Retired	Bishop of Las Vegas, Nevada, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	67.7	George Leo Thomas	Appointed	Bishop of Las Vegas, Nevada, USA	Archbishop of Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
2021	55.0	Dominique Marie Joseph Blanchet, Ist. del Prado	Installed	Bishop of Créteil, France
2022	60.7	William Raymond McFadden	Appointed	Administrator of Galloway, Scotland, Great Britain	Priest
	54.5	Papias Musengamana	Appointed	Bishop of Byumba, Rwanda
	78.8	Servilien Nzakamwita	Retired	Bishop of Byumba, Rwanda	Bishop Emeritus
2023	66.5	Georg Gänswein	Ceased	Prefect of the Prefecture of the Papal Household	Apostolic Nuncio to Lithuania
2024	66.9	Pascal Michel Ghislain Delannoy	Appointed	Archbishop of Strasbourg, France
	65.4	Gabriel Blamo Snosio Jubwe	Appointed	Archbishop of Monrovia, Liberia
	49.6	Adenis Roberto de Oliveira, S.d.P.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
	49.6	Adenis Roberto de Oliveira, S.d.P.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Hermiana	Auxiliary Bishop of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
2025	77.5	Augustinus Tumaole Bane, O.M.I.	Retired	Bishop of Leribe, Lesotho	Bishop Emeritus
	70.2	Vitalis Sekhonyana Marole, O.M.I.	Appointed	Bishop of Leribe, Lesotho
	51.6	Iyad Akram Twal	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Siminina	Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine

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