9th day of April

Living Bishop Events

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1931		József Tempfli	Born	Csanálos-Urziceni	Bishop Emeritus of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad}, Romania
1931		Patrick Joseph Walsh	Born	Cobh	Bishop Emeritus of Down and Connor, Ireland
1937		Gastone Simoni	Born	Castelfranco di Sopra	Bishop Emeritus of Prato, Italy
1939		Theotonius Gomes, C.S.C.	Born	Madbortek	Auxiliary Bishop of Dhaka, Bangladesh
1939		Antoine Scopelliti, O.SS.T.	Born	Gallico Superiore	Bishop of Ambatondrazaka, Madagascar
1942		Giuseppe Franzelli, M.C.C.I.	Born	Roccafranca, Italy	Bishop of Lira, Uganda
1943		Armando Xavier Ochoa	Born	Oxnard	Bishop of Fresno, California, USA
1944		Marcello Bartolucci	Born	Bastia Umbra	Secretary of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
1955	23.2	Mariano De Nicolò	Ordained Priest	Priest of Rimini, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	25.4	Paul-Marie Joseph André Guillaume	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Dié, France
	25.0	Silvio Padoin	Ordained Priest	Priest of Vittorio Veneto, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Pozzuoli, Italy
		Marian Rojek	Born	Rzeszów	Bishop of Zamość-Lubaczów, Poland
		José Manuel Romero Barrios	Born	Pariaguán	Auxiliary Bishop of Barcelona, Venezuela
1957		Paulo Roberto Beloto	Born	Adamantina	Bishop of Formosa, Goias, Brazil
1959		Jean-Marie Charles André Le Vert	Born	Papeete, Pacific (Oceania)	Bishop of Quimper [Cornouailles](-Léon), France
1959		Kiro Stojanov	Born	Radovo	Bishop of Skopje, Macedonia
1961	29.1	Joseph Henry Ganda	Ordained Priest	Priest of Freetown and Bo, Sierra Leone	Archbishop Emeritus of Freetown and Bo, Sierra Leone
1961	25.1	Félix Lázaro Martinez, Sch. P.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of the Pious Schools	Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico
1962		Juan María Huerta Muro, O.F.M.	Born	Guadalajara	Prelate of El Salto, Durango, México
1968	35.3	Oswald Thomas Colman Gomis	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo in Ceylon, Sri Lanka	Archbishop Emeritus of Colombo, Sri Lanka
1968	35.3	Oswald Thomas Colman Gomis	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Mulia	Archbishop Emeritus of Colombo, Sri Lanka
1969	45.0	Joseph Neil MacNeil	Appointed	Bishop of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1972	25.8	Anthony John Valentine Obinna	Ordained Priest	Priest of Owerri, Nigeria	Archbishop of Owerri, Nigeria
1974	41.9	Gilbert Espinosa Chávez	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of San Diego, California, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
1974	41.9	Gilbert Espinosa Chávez	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Magarmel	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of San Diego, California, USA
1976	27.4	Charles Maung Bo, S.D.B.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar
1978	47.0	Clóvis Frainer, O.F.M. Cap.	Ordained Bishop	Prelate of Coxim, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	25.2	Cyprian Kizito Lwanga	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kampala, Uganda	Archbishop
	47.9	Serafino Sprovieri	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Themisonium	Archbishop Emeritus of Benevento, Italy
1979	44.3	Paul Dacoury-Tabley	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire	Bishop Emeritus of Grand-Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire
	44.3	Paul Dacoury-Tabley	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Castra Severiana	Bishop Emeritus of Grand-Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire
	28.8	Jose Corazon Tumbagahan Tala-oc	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kalibo, Philippines	Bishop
	26.5	Sebastian Vadakel, M.S.T.A.	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop of Ujjain (Syro-Malabarese), India
1981	24.9	Antonieto Dumagan Cabajog	Ordained Priest	Priest of Tagbilaran, Philippines	Bishop of Surigao, Philippines
1981	42.5	Miguel Patiño Velázquez, M. S. F.	Appointed	Bishop of Apatzingán, Michoacán, México
1983	54.5	Giuseppe Germano Bernardini, O.F.M. Cap.	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Izmir (Smirne), Turkey	Archbishop Emeritus
1983	50.6	Blaise-Ernest Morand	Succeeded	Bishop of Prince-Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
1984	46.3	Anthony Francis Sharma, S.J.	Appointed	Superior of Nepal	Vicar Apostolic of Nepal
1986	25.2	Charles Allieu Matthew Campbell	Ordained Priest	Priest of Freetown and Bo, Sierra Leone	Bishop of Bo, Sierra Leone
1988	56.8	Luis del Castillo Estrada, S.J.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Montevideo, Uruguay	Bishop Emeritus of Melo, Uruguay
	56.8	Luis del Castillo Estrada, S.J.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tarasa in Numidia	Bishop Emeritus of Melo, Uruguay
	49.4	John Kirby	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Clonfert, Ireland
	35.5	Thomas Ignatius MacWan	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ahmedabad, India	Bishop
	28.0	Santo Marcianò	Ordained Priest	Priest of Reggio Calabria-Bova, Italy	Archbishop of Rossano-Cariati, Italy
	61.0	Pietro Giacomo Nonis	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Vicenza, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	57.1	Jean Alix Verrier	Succeeded	Bishop of Les Cayes, Haïti	Bishop Emeritus
	58.5	Vincenzo Zarri	Appointed	Bishop of Forli-Bertinoro, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
1990	62.0	Antonino Orrù	Appointed	Bishop of Ales-Terralba, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
1992	34.8	Linus Lee Seong-hyo	Ordained Priest	Priest of Suwon, Korea (South)	Auxiliary Bishop
1996	50.9	Issam John Darwish (Darwich), B.S.	Appointed	Bishop of Saint Michael’s of Sydney (Melkite Greek), Australia	Archbishop of Zahleh e Furzol (Melkite Greek), Lebanon
1996	55.1	António de Sousa Braga, S.C.I.	Appointed	Bishop of Angra, Portugal
1998	76.6	Paulo Evaristo Arns, O.F.M.	Retired	Archbishop of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
2000	58.0	John Stephen Knight	Resigned	Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	46.6	Gerald John Mathias	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Simla and Chandigarh, India	Bishop of Lucknow, India
	41.2	Miguel Romano Gómez	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Vagal	Auxiliary Bishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
2001	54.2	Orlando Antonio Corrales García	Appointed	Bishop of Palmira, Colombia	Archbishop of Santa Fe de Antioquia, Colombia
	57.9	Crescenzio Sepe	Appointed	Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples	Cardinal, Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy
	77.1	Jozef Tomko	Retired	Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses
2003	67.6	Santos Abril y Castelló	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Slovenia	Cardinal, Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}
	67.6	Santos Abril y Castelló	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Bosnia-Herzegovina	Cardinal, Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}
	73.8	Osório Bebber, O.F.M. Cap.	Resigned	Bishop of Joaçaba, Santa Catarina, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	59.1	Juliusz Janusz	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Hungary	Apostolic Nuncio to Slovenia
	65.0	Walmir Alberto Valle, I.M.C.	Succeeded	Bishop of Joaçaba, Santa Catarina, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
2009	50.9	Silvio José Báez Ortega, O.C.D.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Managua, Nicaragua
2009	50.9	Silvio José Báez Ortega, O.C.D.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Zica	Auxiliary Bishop of Managua, Nicaragua
2011	53.4	Cecilio Raúl Berzosa Martínez	Installed	Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain
	76.6	Ramiro Díaz Sánchez, O.M.I.	Retired	Vicar Apostolic of Machiques, Venezuela	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
	60.2	Jesús Alfonso Guerrero Contreras, O.F.M. Cap.	Appointed	Bishop of Machiques, Venezuela
	59.3	John Moolachira	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Guwahati, India	Archbishop
	51.8	Benjamin S. Phiri	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Nachingwea	Auxiliary Bishop of Chipata, Zambia
	50.9	György Udvardy	Appointed	Bishop of Pécs, Hungary
	51.4	András Veres	Resigned	Apostolic Administrator of Pécs, Hungary	Bishop of Szombathely, Hungary