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Living Bishop Events

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1926		Armando Bortolaso, S.D.B.	Born	Villaganzerla di Castegnero	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Alep, Syria
1928		Bernard William Schmitt	Born	Wheeling	Bishop Emeritus of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, USA
1937		Michael Louis Fitzgerald, M. Afr.	Born	Walsall, Great Britain	Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt, Arab Republic of
1937		Paul Henry Walsh	Born	Brooklyn	Auxiliary Bishop of Rockville Centre, New York, USA
1941		Luigi Stucchi	Born	Sulbiate	Auxiliary Bishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy
1945		Norbert Wendelin Mtega	Born	Kinyika	Archbishop of Songea, Tanzania
1948		Patrick James Zurek	Born	Wallis	Bishop of Amarillo, Texas, USA
1950		Janis Bulis	Born	Brigi	Bishop of Rēzekne-Aglona, Latvia
1953		Pedro Luiz Stringhini	Born	Laranjal Paulista	Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1957	24.2	Godfried Danneels	Ordained Priest	Priest of Brugge {Bruges}, Belgium	Cardinal, Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}, Belgium
1958	28.7	Ignacio José Gómez Aristizábal	Ordained Priest	Priest	Archbishop Emeritus of Santa Fe de Antioquia, Colombia
		Leon Maly	Born	Bar	Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv, Ukraine
	29.6	Anton Pain Ratu, S.V.D.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of the Divine Word	Bishop Emeritus of Atambua, Indonesia
1960	26.0	Carlos Amigo Vallejo, O.F.M.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor	Cardinal, Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain
1961		Ignace Bessi Dogbo	Born	Niangon-Adjamé	Bishop of Katiola, Côte d’Ivoire
1961		Clemens Pickel	Born	Colditz	Bishop of San Clemente a Saratov, Russian Federation
1969	29.2	Denis Wiehe, C.S.Sp.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Holy Spirit	Bishop of Port Victoria o Seychelles
	42.5	Julian Andrzej Wojtkowski	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Warmia, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Warmia, Poland
	42.5	Julian Andrzej Wojtkowski	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Murustaga	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Warmia, Poland
1970	44.2	Francis John Spence	Appointed	Bishop of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus of Kingston, Ontario, Canada
1974	25.9	Ramón José Aponte Fernández	Ordained Priest	Priest of Trujillo, Venezuela	Bishop of Valle de la Pascua, Venezuela
1975	43.4	Joachim Mbadu Kikhela Kupika	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Zica	Bishop Emeritus of Boma, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
1977	53.7	Luis Alberto Luna Tobar, O.C.D.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Quito, Ecuador	Archbishop Emeritus of Cuenca, Ecuador
	53.7	Luis Alberto Luna Tobar, O.C.D.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Mulli	Archbishop Emeritus of Cuenca, Ecuador
	45.0	Alfons Nossol	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Opole, Poland
1979	49.8	François-Marie-Christian Favreau	Succeeded	Bishop of La Rochelle (-Saintes), France	Bishop Emeritus of Nanterre, France
	41.0	Enrique Manuel Hernández Rivera	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Vamalla	Bishop Emeritus of Caguas, Puerto Rico
	46.3	Héctor Manuel Rivera Pérez	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Thubunae in Numidia	Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico
1980	30.1	Samir Nassar	Ordained Priest	Priest of Damas (Maronite), Syria	Archbishop
1982	45.9	Ricardo Ramirez, C.S.B.	Appointed	Bishop of Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
1983	57.0	Lawrence Donald Soens	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sioux City, Iowa, USA	Bishop Emeritus
1984	48.4	Felice Cece	Appointed	Bishop of Calvi e Teano, Italy	Archbishop of Sorrento-Castellammare di Stabia, Italy
1985	47.4	Florentino Ferrer Cinense	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Tarlac, Philippines	Bishop
	31.4	Horacio del Carmen Valenzuela Abarca	Ordained Priest	Priest of Santiago de Chile	Bishop of Talca, Chile
	46.4	Ramon B. Villena	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Bayombong, Philippines	Bishop
1986	52.3	Juan Luis Martin Buisson, P.M.E.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Aquae in Numidia	Vicar Apostolic of Pucallpa, Peru
1988	63.4	João Evangelista Martins Terra, S.J.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Olinda e Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
	63.4	João Evangelista Martins Terra, S.J.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Bagis	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
	56.7	Hilário Moser, S.D.B.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Olinda e Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil
	56.7	Hilário Moser, S.D.B.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Casae Calanae	Bishop Emeritus of Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil
1991	46.9	Agustín Roberto Radrizzani, S.D.B.	Installed	Bishop of Neuquén, Argentina	Archbishop of Mercedes-Luján, Argentina
1993	54.1	Michael Jarboe Sheehan	Appointed	Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
1995	61.6	José Ignacio Alemany Grau, C.SS.R.	Appointed	Bishop of Chachapoyas, Peru	Bishop Emeritus
	61.3	Miguel Irizar Campos, C.P.	Succeeded	Bishop of Callao, Peru
	59.2	William Joseph Levada	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of San Francisco, California, USA	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
1996	57.3	Carmo João Rhoden, S.C.J.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Taubaté, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	55.8	Silvano Maria Tomasi, C.S.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Cercina	Apostolic Nuncio to Other
	53.6	Daniel Thomas Turley Murphy, O.S.A.	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Chulucanas, Peru	Bishop
1999	62.6	Albert-Marie Joseph Cyrille de Monléon, O.P.	Appointed	Bishop of Meaux, France
2001	49.6	Joseph Vu Duy Thong	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tortibulum	Auxiliary Bishop of Thành-Phô Hô Chí Minh, Viêt Nam
2002	62.3	Timothy Joseph Carroll, S.M.A.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tipasa in Mauretania	Vicar Apostolic of Kontagora, Nigeria
2002	64.0	Juan Francisco Sarasti Jaramillo, C.I.M.	Appointed	Archbishop of Cali, Colombia
2003	41.4	Ibrahim Michael Ibrahim, B.S.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Saint-Sauveur de Montréal (Melkite), Canada
2006	57.9	Mark Benedict Coleridge	Installed	Archbishop of Canberra-Goulburn, Australia
	56.2	James Patrick Green	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Altinum	Apostolic Nuncio to South Africa
	56.2	James Patrick Green	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to South Africa
	56.2	James Patrick Green	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Nambia	Apostolic Nuncio to South Africa
	56.2	James Patrick Green	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Botswana	Apostolic Nuncio to South Africa
2008	50.2	Benedito Gonçalves dos Santos	Installed	Bishop of Presidente Prudente, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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