4th day of April

Living Bishop Events

St. Isidore, bishop and doctor (Opt. Memorial)

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1923		Maximiano Tuazon Cruz	Born	Catbalogan	Bishop Emeritus of Calbayog, Philippines
1925		Miguel Fenelon Câmara Filho	Born	Quixeramobim	Archbishop Emeritus of Teresina, Piaui, Brazil
1928		Giacomo Barabino	Born	Livellato di Ceranesi	Bishop Emeritus of Ventimiglia-San Remo, Italy
1928		Joseph Kesenge Wandangakongu	Born	Molegbe	Bishop Emeritus of Molegbe, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
1932		Antonio Juan Baseotto, C.SS.R.	Born	Buenos Aires	Bishop Emeritus of Argentina, Military
1932		Hugolino Cerasuolo Stacey, O.F.M.	Born	Guayaquil	Bishop Emeritus of Loja, Ecuador
1935		Hans-Georg Koitz	Born	Striegau	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Hildesheim, Germany
1939		Manfred Grothe	Born	Warburg	Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn, Germany
1940		Irineu Danelón, S.D.B.	Born	Piracicaba	Bishop of Lins, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1941		Vittorio Lupi	Born	Ceriana	Bishop of Savona-Noli, Italy
1943		Jirí Padour, O.F.M. Cap.	Born	Vráclav	Bishop of České Budĕjovice {Budweis}, Czech Republic
1946		George Anthony Frendo, O.P.	Born	Qormi, Malta	Auxiliary Bishop of Tiranë-Durrës, Albania
1947		Janvier Kataka Luvete	Born	Ngunda	Bishop of Wamba, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
1953	24.0	Vicente García Bernal	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, México
	28.6	Nicolas M. Mondejar	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of San Carlos, Philippines
	25.1	Yves-Georges-René Ramousse, M.E.P.	Ordained Priest	Priest of La Société des Missions Etrangères	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Phnom-Penh, Cambodia
1956		Michael Odogwu Elue	Born	Ute-Ogbeje	Bishop of Issele-Uku, Nigeria
1957	23.6	José Fernández Arteaga	Ordained Priest	Priest of Tulancingo, Hidalgo, México	Archbishop Emeritus of Chihuahua, México
1961		José Bonello, O.F.M.	Born	Xaghra, Malta	Bishop of Juticalpa, Honduras
1962		Fernando Bascopé Müller, S.D.B.	Born	Santa Cruz de la Sierra	Auxiliary Bishop of El Alto, Bolivia
1962		Rafael Alfonso Escudero López-Brea	Born	Quintanar de la Orden, Spain	Prelate of Moyobamba, Peru
1964		Walter Jehowá Heras Segarra, O.F.M.	Born	Bulán	Vicar Apostolic of Zamora en Ecuador
1966		Sérgio de Deus Borges	Born	Alfredo Wagner	Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1967	36.3	Carmelo Dominador Flores Morelos	Appointed	Bishop of Butuan, Philippines	Archbishop Emeritus of Zamboanga, Philippines
1969	40.6	Antonio Montero Moreno	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain	Archbishop Emeritus of Mérida-Badajoz, Spain
1969	40.6	Antonio Montero Moreno	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Regiana	Archbishop Emeritus of Mérida-Badajoz, Spain
1970	44.2	Miguel Obando Bravo, S.D.B.	Installed	Archbishop of Managua, Nicaragua	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
1976	43.3	Giuseppe Costanzo	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Mazaca	Archbishop Emeritus of Siracusa, Italy
1976	44.0	António dos Santos	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tabbora	Bishop Emeritus of Guarda, Portugal
1978	48.7	Patrick Fernández Flores	Appointed	Bishop of El Paso, Texas, USA	Archbishop Emeritus of San Antonio, Texas, USA
1979	40.0	Theotonius Gomes, C.S.C.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Dinajpur, Bangladesh	Auxiliary Bishop of Dhaka, Bangladesh
1980	27.2	Tesfasellassie Medhin	Ordained Priest	Priest of Adigrat (Ethiopian), Ethiopia	Bishop
1981	50.6	Salvatore De Giorgi	Appointed	Archbishop of Foggia, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Palermo, Italy
	50.6	Salvatore De Giorgi	Appointed	Bishop of Bovino, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Palermo, Italy
	50.6	Salvatore De Giorgi	Appointed	Bishop of Troia, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Palermo, Italy
	29.2	Calogero La Piana, S.D.B.	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Archbishop of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela, Italy
	54.9	Maurice Taylor	Appointed	Bishop of Galloway, Scotland, Great Britain	Bishop Emeritus
1982	30.0	Peter Louis Cakü	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kengtung, Myanmar	Bishop
	31.9	François Joseph Marie Jacolin, M.D.P.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bourges, France	Bishop of Mende, France
	45.4	Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez	Appointed	Bishop of Dominican Republic, Military	Cardinal, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1984	48.6	Brendan Oliver Comiskey, SS.CC.	Appointed	Bishop of Ferns, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
1985	46.9	Angel Gelmi Bertocchi	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Cochabamba, Bolivia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	46.9	Angel Gelmi Bertocchi	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Forum Clodii	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Cochabamba, Bolivia
	59.8	Manuel Revollo Crespo, C.M.F.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Cochabamba, Bolivia	Coadjutor Bishop Emeritus of Bolivia, Military
	59.8	Manuel Revollo Crespo, C.M.F.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Casae in Numidia	Coadjutor Bishop Emeritus of Bolivia, Military
1986	51.0	Joseph Mohsen Béchara	Appointed	Archbishop of Cipro (Maronite), Cyprus	Archbishop Emeritus of Antélias (Maronite), Lebanon
	59.2	Paolo Giglio	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Tyndaris	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Egypt, Arab Republic of
	59.2	Paolo Giglio	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Nicaragua	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Egypt, Arab Republic of
	30.0	Edward Tamba Charles	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kenema, Sierra Leone	Archbishop of Freetown, Sierra Leone
1987	57.0	Victor Hugo Martínez Contreras	Appointed	Bishop of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos, Guatemala	Archbishop Emeritus of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán, Guatemala
1989	54.2	Mario de Gasperín Gasperín	Appointed	Bishop of Querétaro, México	Bishop Emeritus
1990	27.3	Philip E. R. Dickmans	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Hasselt, Belgium	Bishop of Miracema do Tocantins, Tocatins, Brazil
	57.1	Rafael Llano Cifuentes	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	57.1	Rafael Llano Cifuentes	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Mades	Bishop Emeritus of Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	41.2	Mario del Valle Moronta Rodríguez	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela	Bishop of San Cristóbal de Venezuela
	41.2	Mario del Valle Moronta Rodríguez	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Nova	Bishop of San Cristóbal de Venezuela
	50.9	Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela	Archbishop of Cumaná, Venezuela
	50.9	Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Gisipa	Archbishop of Cumaná, Venezuela
	42.3	José Antonio Pérez Sánchez, O.F.M.	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Prelate of Jesús María (del Nayar), Nayarit, México	Prelate Emeritus
	57.9	Antonio Racelis Rañola	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Claternae	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Cebu, Philippines
	48.9	Ubaldo Ramón Santana Sequera, F.M.I.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela	Archbishop of Maracaibo, Venezuela
	48.9	Ubaldo Ramón Santana Sequera, F.M.I.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Caeciri	Archbishop of Maracaibo, Venezuela
1991	49.8	Pablo Lizama Riquelme	Appointed	Bishop of Melipilla, Chile	Archbishop of Antofagasta, Chile
1991	32.5	Joseph Nguyen Tan Tuoc	Ordained Priest	Priest of Phú Cuong, Viet Nam	Bishop
1992	48.9	Héctor Rubén Aguer	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Lamdia	Archbishop of La Plata, Argentina
	50.9	Gérard Antoine Léopold Daucourt	Succeeded	Bishop of Troyes, France	Bishop of Nanterre, France
	46.3	Rubén Oscar Frassia	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Caeciri	Bishop of Avellaneda-Lanús, Argentina
	52.6	Luigi Travaglino	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Litterae	Apostolic Nuncio to Monaco
	52.6	Luigi Travaglino	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Gambia	Apostolic Nuncio to Monaco
	52.6	Luigi Travaglino	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Guinea	Apostolic Nuncio to Monaco
	52.6	Luigi Travaglino	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Liberia	Apostolic Nuncio to Monaco
1994	43.1	Hansjörg Vogel	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Basel, Switzerland	Bishop Emeritus
1995	62.7	James Michael Moynihan	Appointed	Bishop of Syracuse, New York, USA	Bishop Emeritus
1996	65.6	Salvatore De Giorgi	Appointed	Archbishop of Palermo, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
1998	61.9	Mario Milano	Installed	Bishop of Aversa, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	45.5	Sebastian Vadakel, M.S.T.A.	Appointed	Bishop of Ujjain (Syro-Malabarese), India
	57.2	Carlo Maria Viganò	Appointed	Official of the Secretariat of State	Apostolic Nuncio to United States of America
	46.5	João Casimiro Wilk, O.F.M. Conv.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Formosa, Goias, Brazil	Bishop of Anápolis, Goias, Brazil
2000	44.9	Manuel Felipe Díaz Sánchez	Appointed	Bishop of Carúpano, Venezuela	Archbishop of Calabozo, Venezuela
2002	56.4	Dorick McGowan Wright	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Thimida Regia	Bishop of Belize City-Belmopan, Belize, Antilles
2003	53.1	Felix Genn	Appointed	Bishop of Essen, Germany	Bishop of Münster, Germany
	49.4	Christopher Charles Prowse	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia	Bishop of Sale, Australia
	49.4	Christopher Charles Prowse	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Bahanna	Bishop of Sale, Australia
	52.4	Antal Spányi	Appointed	Bishop of Székesfehérvár (Albareale), Hungary
	76.2	Jusztin Nándor Takács, O.C.D.	Retired	Bishop of Székesfehérvár (Albareale), Hungary	Bishop Emeritus
2005	51.0	Michael Owen Jackels	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Wichita, Kansas, USA	Archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa, USA
2006	59.0	Richard Gerard Lennon	Appointed	Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2006	73.4	Anthony Michael Pilla	Resigned	Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio, USA	Bishop Emeritus
2007	77.0	Benjamin J. Almoneda	Retired	Bishop of Daet, Philippines	Bishop Emeritus
	72.3	Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Bertone, S.D.B.	Appointed	Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber	Cardinal, Secretary of the Secretariat of State
	48.2	Gilbert Armea Garcera	Appointed	Bishop of Daet, Philippines
	58.7	Stanislas Marie Georges Jude Lalanne	Appointed	Bishop of Coutances (-Avranches), France	Bishop of Pontoise, France
	80.0	Eduardo Martínez Somalo	Retired	Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber	Cardinal, Chamberlain Emeritus
	63.7	Giuseppe Versaldi	Appointed	Bishop of Alessandria (della Paglia), Italy	Cardinal, President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See
2009	63.4	Thomas Dabre	Appointed	Bishop of Poona, India
	75.5	Valerian D’Souza	Retired	Bishop of Poona, India	Bishop Emeritus
	56.3	Andrzej Dzięga	Installed	Archbishop of Szczecin-Kamień, Poland
	53.4	Hyacinth Oroko Egbebo, M.S.P.N.	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Bomadi, Nigeria
	49.3	Silvio Siripong Charatsri	Appointed	Bishop of Chanthaburi, Thailand
	77.4	Lawrence Thienchai Samanchit	Retired	Bishop of Chanthaburi, Thailand	Bishop Emeritus
	52.3	James Maria Wainaina Kungu	Appointed	Bishop of Muranga, Kenya
	58.4	Edmund Woga, C.SS.R.	Appointed	Bishop of Weetebula, Indonesia
2011	71.4	Michael John Malone	Resigned	Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Australia	Bishop Emeritus
2011	58.4	William Joseph Wright	Appointed	Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Australia
2012	52.5	Oscar Omar Aparicio Céspedes	Appointed	Bishop of Bolivia, Military
	75.5	Gonzalo Ramiro del Castillo Crespo, O.C.D.	Retired	Bishop of Bolivia, Military	Bishop Emeritus
	63.7	Francesco Milito	Appointed	Bishop of Oppido Mamertina-Palmi, Italy
	52.1	Tulio Luis Ramírez Padilla	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
	52.1	Tulio Luis Ramírez Padilla	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Ausuccura	Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela