31st day of August

Living Bishop Events

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1927		Raymond Ken’ichi Tanaka	Born	Uwajima	Bishop Emeritus of Kyoto, Japan
1930		Godefroid Mukeng’a Kalond, C.I.C.M.	Born	Tshibingu-Mukese	Archbishop Emeritus of Kananga, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
1931		Gregory Obinna Ochiagha	Born	Ibeme	Bishop Emeritus of Orlu, Nigeria
1934		Eusebius Joseph Beltran	Born	Ashley, PA	Archbishop Emeritus of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
1935		Jesús Ramón Martínez de Ezquerecocha Suso	Born	Jungaitu, Spain	Bishop Emeritus of Babahoyo, Ecuador
		Pietro Meloni	Born	Sassari	Bishop Emeritus of Nuoro, Italy
		Ramón Darío Molina Jaramillo, O.F.M.	Born	Envigado	Bishop Emeritus of Neiva, Colombia
1937		Ramón López Carrozas, O. de M.	Born	Sarría, Spain	Bishop of Bom Jesus do Gurguéia, Piaui, Brazil
1941		Giacinto Berloco	Born	Altamura, Italy	Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium
1943		Thierry Romain Camille Jordan	Born	Shanghai, China	Archbishop of Reims, France
1951		Lawrence Mukkuzhy	Born	Sullia	Bishop of Belthangady (Syro-Malabarese), India
1952		Matthew Hassan Kukah	Born	Kulu	Bishop of Sokoto, Nigeria
1956		Julius Sullan Tonel	Born	Davao City	Bishop of Ipil, Philippines
1958	25.9	Denis Croteau, O.M.I.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate	Bishop Emeritus of Mackenzie-Fort Smith, Northwest Territory, Canada
1958	28.2	Emmanuel Milingo	Ordained Priest	Priest	Archbishop Emeritus of Lusaka, Zambia
1962		Nicolas Jean René Brouwet	Born	Suresnes	Bishop of Tarbes et Lourdes, France
1962		Raymond Kingsley Wickramasinghe	Born	Uthuwankanda	Bishop of Galle, Sri Lanka
1968	34.6	Kassian (Otto) Lauterer, O. Cist.	Confirmed	Abbot of Wettingen-Mehrerau, Austria	Abbot Emeritus
1974	22.9	Cástor Oswaldo Azuaje Pérez, O.C.D.	Solemn Professed	Member of Order of Discalced Carmelites	Auxiliary Bishop of Maracaibo, Venezuela
1975	50.5	Alexandre do Nascimento	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Malanje, Angola	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Luanda, Angola
	24.2	Yousif Benham Habash	Ordained Priest	Priest of Mossul (Syrian), Iraq	Bishop of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark (Syrian), USA
	46.3	Bonifácio Piccinini, S.D.B.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Turres in Byzacena	Archbishop Emeritus of Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil
1976	44.9	Joseph Hubert Hart	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Thimida Regia	Bishop Emeritus of Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA
1979	47.9	William Benedict Friend	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Alexandria-Shreveport, Louisiana, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
	47.9	William Benedict Friend	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Pomaria	Bishop Emeritus of Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
	51.4	Paul-Werner Scheele	Appointed	Bishop of Würzburg, Germany	Bishop Emeritus
1985	55.3	Giuseppe Di Falco	Installed	Bishop of Valva e Sulmona, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Sulmona-Valva, Italy
	29.6	Vincent de Paul Kwanga Njubu	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kongolo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop of Manono, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	45.0	Agostino Marchetto	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Astigi	Secretary Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People
	45.0	Agostino Marchetto	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Madagascar	Secretary Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People
	45.0	Agostino Marchetto	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Mauritius	Secretary Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People
1988	45.0	João Nílton dos Santos Souza	Appointed	Bishop of Amargosa, Baia, Brazil
1988	58.7	José Geraldo Oliveira do Valle, C.S.S.	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Guaxupé, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
1990	46.4	François Charles Garnier	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Luçon, France	Archbishop of Cambrai, France
1991	45.3	Johannes Kreidler	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Edistiana	Auxiliary Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany
	59.5	Alexius Obabu Makozi	Appointed	Bishop of Port Harcourt, Nigeria	Bishop Emeritus
	43.8	Albert Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Cabarsussi	Cardinal, Archbishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka
	60.9	Christian Wiyghan Tumi	Appointed	Archbishop of Douala, Cameroon	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
1996	58.9	Marian Golebiewski	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg, Poland	Archbishop of Wrocław {Breslavia}, Poland
1996	53.4	Antonio Javellana Ledesma, S.J.	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Prelate of Ipil, Philippines	Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro, Philippines
1997	27.9	Vasile Bizău	Ordained Priest	Priest of Maramureş (Romanian), Romania	Bishop
1998	63.9	Tadeusz Pieronek	Resigned	Auxiliary Bishop of Sosnowiec, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
2000	59.3	Walter Mixa	Appointed	Bishop of Germany, Military	Bishop Emeritus of Augsburg, Germany
2001	40.9	Socrates Buenaventura Villegas	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Nona	Archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan, Philippines
2002	66.0	James Moriarty	Installed	Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
2003	60.2	Claude-Joseph Azéma	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Murcona	Auxiliary Bishop of Montpellier (-Lodève-Béziers-Agde-Saint-Pons-de-Thomières), France
2003	57.5	Amadeo Rodríguez Magro	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Plasencia, Spain
2006	45.1	Kamal Fahim Awad (Boutros) Hanna	Selected	Curial Bishop of Alexandria {Alessandria} (Coptic), Egypt
	55.3	Maximino Martínez Miranda	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero, México
	63.0	Paul Joseph Swain	Appointed	Bishop of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
2007	55.9	Cástor Oswaldo Azuaje Pérez, O.C.D.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Vertara	Auxiliary Bishop of Maracaibo, Venezuela
2008	44.9	Francisco de Assis Dantas de Lucena	Installed	Bishop of Guarabira, Paraiba, Brazil
2009	77.3	John Martin Dougherty	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
2009	63.3	Joseph Francis Martino	Resigned	Bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA	Bishop Emeritus
2011	49.0	Raymond Kingsley Wickramasinghe	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Galle, Sri Lanka