| Year | Age | Bishop | Event | Title | Current Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | Cornelius Elanjikal | Born | Karel | Archbishop Emeritus of Verapoly, India | |
| 1934 | Paul-Mounged El-Hachem | Born | Akoura | Apostolic Nuncio to Kuwait | |
| Luigi Paiaro | Born | Voltabarozza, Italy | Bishop of Nyahururu, Kenya | ||
| 1938 | Nestor Celestial Cariño | Born | Malinao | Bishop Emeritus of Legazpi, Philippines | |
| 1939 | Joseph Kunnath, C.M.I. | Born | Kodancherry | Bishop of Adilabad (Syro-Malabarese), India | |
| 1942 | Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo | Born | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Official of the Roman Curia - Other | |
| 1943 | Michael Joseph Bransfield | Born | Philadelphia | Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, USA | |
| John Vadakel, C.M.I. | Born | Beslehem | Bishop of Bijnor (Syro-Malabarese), India | ||
| 1945 | 20.7 | Georges Marcel Émile Nicolas Perron, O.F.M. Cap. | Professed | Member of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin | Bishop Emeritus of Djibouti |
| Vinko Puljic | Born | Prijecani | Cardinal, Archbishop of Vrhbosna {Sarajevo}, Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
| 1947 | Giovanni Paolo Zedda | Born | Ingurtosu | Bishop of Iglesias, Italy | |
| 1948 | Philip Naameh | Born | Nandom-Ko | Archbishop of Tamale, Ghana | |
| 1950 | 20.6 | Amédée (Antoine-Marie) Grab, O.S.B. | Professed | Member of Order of Saint Benedict | Bishop Emeritus of Chur, Switzerland |
| Carlos Verzeletti | Born | Trenzano, Italy | Bishop of Castanhal, Para, Brazil | ||
| 1956 | 23.9 | Denis Croteau, O.M.I. | Professed | Member of Oblates of Mary Immaculate | Bishop Emeritus of Mackenzie-Fort Smith, Northwest Territory, Canada |
| 1957 | 25.8 | Luis Gutiérrez Martín, C.M.F. | Ordained Priest | Priest of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary | Bishop Emeritus of Segovia, Spain |
| 1959 | 26.0 | Vartan Kechichian, C.A.M. | Ordained Priest | Priest of Congregazione Mechitarista di Venezia | Coadjutor Bishop Emeritus of Eastern Europe {Europa Orientale} (Armenian), Armenia |
| 22.7 | Alessandro Pagani, S.M.M. | Professed | Member of Missionaries of the Company of Mary | Bishop of Mangochi, Malawi | |
| 1961 | 30.0 | Felix Eugenio Mkhori | Ordained Priest | Priest | Bishop Emeritus of Lilongwe, Malawi |
| 26.2 | Blasius Pujoraharja | Ordained Priest | Priest | Bishop of Ketapang, Indonesia | |
| 39.7 | José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Tula, Hidalgo, México | Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, México | |
| 1962 | 29.1 | Jean-Marie Untaani Compaoré | Ordained Priest | Priest of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | Archbishop Emeritus |
| 27.8 | Wenceslas Compaoré | Ordained Priest | Priest | Bishop of Manga, Burkina Faso | |
| 29.7 | Gregory Ebolawola Kpiebaya | Ordained Priest | Priest of Wa, Ghana | Archbishop Emeritus of Tamale, Ghana | |
| 25.0 | Anselme Titianma Sanon | Ordained Priest | Priest of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso | Archbishop of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso | |
| 1963 | 19.3 | Yves Maria Monot, C.S.Sp. | Professed | Member of Congregation of the Holy Spirit | Bishop of Ouesso, Congo |
| 1966 | 40.1 | Julio Xavier Labayen, O.C.D. | Ordained Bishop | Titular Bishop of Sinnuara | Prelate Emeritus of Infanta, Philippines |
| 45.1 | John Bernard McDowell | Ordained Bishop | Titular Bishop of Tamazuca | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA | |
| 1970 | 27.8 | Henryk Hoser, S.A.C. | Professed | Member of Society of the Catholic Apostolate | Bishop of Warszawa-Praga, Poland |
| 48.5 | Norman Francis McFarland | Ordained Bishop | Titular Bishop of Bida | Bishop Emeritus of Orange in California, USA | |
| 1971 | 17.4 | Carlo Chenis, S.D.B. | Professed | Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco | Bishop of Civitavecchia-Tarquinia, Italy |
| 44.7 | Francis Thomas Hurley | Installed | Bishop of Juneau, Alaska, USA | Archbishop Emeritus of Anchorage, Alaska, USA | |
| 60.3 | Paul Augustin Mayer, O.S.B. | Appointed | Secretary of the Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes | Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” | |
| 23.7 | Marcello Semeraro | Ordained Priest | Priest of Lecce, Italy | Bishop of Albano, Italy | |
| 1972 | 42.8 | Ignacio José Gómez Aristizábal | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Ocaña, Colombia | Archbishop Emeritus of Santa Fe de Antioquia, Colombia |
| 29.7 | Valentin Reynoso Hidalgo, M.S.C. | Professed | Member of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus | Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic | |
| 1973 | 45.7 | Ottorino Pietro Alberti | Ordained Bishop | Archbishop of Spoleto, Italy | Archbishop Emeritus of Cagliari, Italy |
| 27.6 | Ottorino Assolari, C.S.F. | Ordained Priest | Priest | Bishop of Serrinha, Baia, Brazil | |
| 38.8 | Georg Weinhold | Ordained Bishop | Titular Bishop of Idicra | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Dresden-Meissen, Germany | |
| 1974 | 25.0 | Norbert Marshall Andradi, O.M.I. | Professed | Member of Oblates of Mary Immaculate | Bishop of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka |
| 51.8 | Paul Bassim, O.C.D. | Appointed | Vicar Apostolic of Beirut {Bairut}, Lebanon | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus | |
| 51.8 | Paul Bassim, O.C.D. | Appointed | Titular Bishop of Laodicea ad Libanum | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Beirut {Bairut}, Lebanon | |
| 25.2 | Adriano Ciocca Vasino | Ordained Priest | Priest of Novara, Italy | Bishop of Floresta, Pernambuco, Brazil | |
| 19.7 | Armando Martín Gutiérrez, F.A.M. | Professed | Member of Figli dell’Amore Misericordioso | Bishop of Bacabal, Maranho, Brazil | |
| 49.5 | Guy Alexis Herbulot | Ordained Bishop | Titular Bishop of Obbi | Bishop Emeritus of Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes, France | |
| 1975 | 51.8 | Augusto Lauro | Appointed | Auxiliary Bishop of Cosenza, Italy | Bishop Emeritus of San Marco Argentano-Scalea, Italy |
| 51.8 | Augusto Lauro | Appointed | Titular Bishop of Bigastro | Bishop Emeritus of San Marco Argentano-Scalea, Italy | |
| 1976 | 50.7 | João Alves | Appointed | Bishop of Coimbra, Portugal | Bishop Emeritus |
| 25.2 | Simon-Pierre Saint-Hillien, C.S.C. | Professed | Member of Congregation of Holy Cross | Bishop of Hinche, Haïti | |
| 1977 | 46.3 | Simone Scatizzi | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Fiesole, Italy | Bishop Emeritus of Pistoia, Italy |
| 1978 | 59.9 | Giovanni Cheli | Appointed | Titular Archbishop of Santa Giusta | Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People |
| 59.9 | Giovanni Cheli | Appointed | Official to United Nations | Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People | |
| 52.9 | Didier-Léon Marchand | Appointed | Bishop of Valence (, Die, e Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux), France | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 1979 | 30.0 | Anders Arborelius, O.C.D. | Ordained Priest | Priest of Order of Discalced Carmelites | Bishop of Stockholm, Sweden |
| 48.6 | Domenico Tarcisio Cortese, O.F.M. | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Mileto, Italy | Bishop Emeritus of Mileto-Nicotera-Tropea, Italy | |
| 25.9 | Ruy Rendón Leal | Ordained Priest | Priest of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México | Prelate of El Salto, Durango, México | |
| 1980 | 22.2 | Krzysztof Bialasik, S.V.D. | Professed | Member of Society of the Divine Word | Bishop of Oruro, Bolivia |
| 57.8 | Manuel Franco da Costa de Oliveira Falcão | Succeeded | Bishop of Beja, Portugal | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 1981 | 29.6 | Calogero La Piana, S.D.B. | Ordained Priest | Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco | Archbishop of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela, Italy |
| 1982 | 52.2 | Geraldo Majela (João José) de Castro, O. Praem. | Ordained Bishop | Coadjutor Bishop of Montes Claros, Brazil | Archbishop Emeritus of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| 47.3 | William Joseph Kurtz, S.V.D. | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Kundiawa, Papua New Guinea | Archbishop of Madang, Papua New Guinea | |
| 26.0 | László Német, S.V.D. | Professed | Member of Society of the Divine Word | Bishop of Zrenjanin, Serbia | |
| 1983 | 53.0 | António Baltasar Marcelino | Appointed | Coadjutor Bishop of Aveiro, Portugal | Bishop Emeritus |
| 53.8 | François-Marie-Christian Favreau | Appointed | Bishop of Nanterre, France | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 60.0 | Andrea Veggio | Ordained Bishop | Titular Bishop of Velia | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Verona, Italy | |
| 1984 | 55.3 | Pedro Lisímaco de Jesús Vílchez Vílchez | Ordained Bishop | Prelate of Jinotega, Nicaragua | Bishop Emeritus of Jinotega, Nicaragua |
| 1985 | 31.6 | Timothy Costelloe, S.D.B. | Professed | Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco | Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia |
| 49.2 | Jesús Gervasio Pérez Rodríguez, O.F.M. | Ordained Bishop | Titular Bishop of Lilybaeum | Archbishop of Sucre, Bolivia | |
| 1987 | 54.8 | Marco Ferrari | Appointed | Auxiliary Bishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus |
| 54.8 | Marco Ferrari | Appointed | Titular Bishop of Mazaca | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Milano {Milan}, Italy | |
| 56.4 | Francis Anthony Gomes | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Mymensingh, Bangladesh | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 1988 | 50.3 | Anthony Joseph O’Connell | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Knoxville, Tennessee, USA | Bishop Emeritus of Palm Beach, Florida, USA |
| 1989 | 47.4 | Michel Marie Jacques Dubost, C.I.M. | Ordained Bishop | Titular Bishop of Oëa | Bishop of Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes, France |
| 61.2 | Alojzy Orszulik, S.A.C. | Appointed | Auxiliary Bishop of Siedlce, Poland | Bishop Emeritus of Łowicz, Poland | |
| 61.2 | Alojzy Orszulik, S.A.C. | Appointed | Titular Bishop of Vissalsa | Bishop Emeritus of Łowicz, Poland | |
| 65.6 | Paulino Reale Chirina | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Venado Tuerto, Argentina | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 1990 | 28.6 | Meron Mazur, O.S.B.M. | Ordained Priest | Priest of Order of St. Basil the Great | Auxiliary Bishop of São João Batista em Curitiba (Ukrainian), Brazil |
| 1991 | 43.2 | Felipe Bacarreza Rodríguez | Ordained Bishop | Titular Bishop of Nepeta | Bishop of Santa Maria de Los Angeles, Chile |
| 51.7 | Eugeniusz Juretzko, O.M.I. | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Yokadouma, Cameroon | ||
| 1992 | 59.2 | John Bulaitis | Appointed | Apostolic Nuncio to Mongolia | Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Albania |
| 45.9 | Edgar de Jesús Garcia Gil | Ordained Bishop | Titular Bishop of Forum Traiani | Bishop of Montelibano, Colombia | |
| 1993 | 62.1 | James Patrick Keleher | Installed | Archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas, USA | Archbishop Emeritus |
| 1994 | 52.4 | Gualtiero Bassetti | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Massa Marittima-Piombino, Italy | Archbishop of Perugia-Città della Pieve, Italy |
| 36.7 | Virgil Bercea | Ordained Bishop | Titular Bishop of Pupiana | Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino} (Romanian), Romania | |
| 46.6 | John Thomas Kattrukudiyil | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Diphu, India | Bishop of Itanagar, India | |
| 57.6 | Alexandru Mesian | Ordained Bishop | Coadjutor Bishop of Lugoj (Romanian), Romania | Bishop | |
| 1995 | 55.5 | Miguel José Asurmendi Aramendia, S.D.B. | Appointed | Bishop of Vitoria, Spain | |
| 53.4 | Ricardo Blázquez Pérez | Appointed | Bishop of Bilbao, Spain | ||
| 57.3 | Carlo Caffarra | Appointed | Archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio, Italy | Cardinal, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy | |
| 62.3 | Harry Joseph Flynn | Succeeded | Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA | Archbishop Emeritus | |
| 53.5 | Antonio Lucibello | Appointed | Titular Archbishop of Thurio | Apostolic Nuncio to Turkey | |
| 53.5 | Antonio Lucibello | Appointed | Apostolic Nuncio to Gambia | Apostolic Nuncio to Turkey | |
| 53.5 | Antonio Lucibello | Appointed | Apostolic Nuncio to Guinea | Apostolic Nuncio to Turkey | |
| 53.5 | Antonio Lucibello | Appointed | Apostolic Nuncio to Liberia | Apostolic Nuncio to Turkey | |
| 57.0 | Giuseppe Merisi | Appointed | Auxiliary Bishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy | Bishop of Lodi, Italy | |
| 57.0 | Giuseppe Merisi | Appointed | Titular Bishop of Drusiliana | Bishop of Lodi, Italy | |
| 1996 | 70.4 | Sergio Otoniel Contreras Navia | Resigned | Apostolic Administrator of Valdivia, Chile | Bishop Emeritus of Temuco, Chile |
| 54.7 | Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, S.D.B. | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Valdivia, Chile | Archbishop of Concepción (Santissima Concezione), Chile | |
| 43.8 | José Edson Santana de Oliveira | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Eunápolis, Baia, Brazil | ||
| 1997 | 46.3 | Michele Seccia | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of San Severo, Italy | Bishop of Teramo-Atri, Italy |
| 1998 | 65.6 | Mario Cecchini | Resigned | Bishop of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
| 45.9 | Sebastian Vadakel, M.S.T.A. | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Ujjain (Syro-Malabarese), India | ||
| 1999 | 56.4 | Francesco Cacucci | Installed | Archbishop of Bari-Bitonto, Italy | |
| 54.5 | Leo Cornelio, S.V.D. | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Khandwa, India | Archbishop of Bhopal, India | |
| 52.9 | Luis Adriano Piedrahíta Sandoval | Ordained Bishop | Titular Bishop of Centenaria | Bishop of Apartadó, Colombia | |
| 60.8 | José Soleibe Arbeláez | Ordained Bishop | Titular Bishop of Sullectum | Bishop of Caldas, Colombia | |
| 2000 | 56.4 | Arthur Joseph Serratelli | Ordained Bishop | Titular Bishop of Enera | Bishop of Paterson, New Jersey, USA |
| 58.7 | Julianus Kemo Sunarko, S.J. | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Purwokerto, Indonesia | ||
| 2001 | 49.4 | Jose F. Advincula | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of San Carlos, Philippines | |
| 52.8 | Joseph Luc André Bouchard | Appointed | Bishop of Saint Paul in Alberta, Canada | ||
| 54.6 | Thomas Christopher Collins | Resigned | Apostolic Administrator of Saint Paul in Alberta, Canada | Archbishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada | |
| 76.8 | Jean Gratton | Retired | Bishop of Mont-Laurier, Québec, Canada | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 61.5 | Dante Lafranconi | Appointed | Bishop of Cremona, Italy | ||
| 64.7 | Vital Massé | Appointed | Bishop of Mont-Laurier, Québec, Canada | ||
| 61.4 | Massoud Massoud | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Lattaquié {Laodicea} (Maronite), Syria | ||
| 58.8 | Francesco Panfilo, S.D.B. | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Alotau-Sideia, Papua New Guinea | ||
| 78.0 | Andrea Veggio | Retired | Auxiliary Bishop of Verona, Italy | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | |
| 2002 | 55.3 | Leopoldo Hermes Garin Bruzzone | Ordained Bishop | Titular Bishop of Benepota | Auxiliary Bishop of Canelones, Uruguay |
| 42.1 | Karl-Heinz Wiesemann | Ordained Bishop | Titular Bishop of Macriana Minor | Bishop of Speyer, Germany | |
| 2003 | 54.4 | Luis Artemio Flores Calzada | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Valle de Chalco, México | |
| 44.6 | Claudio Maniago | Ordained Bishop | Titular Bishop of Satafi | Auxiliary Bishop of Firenze {Florence}, Italy | |
| 2004 | 68.5 | Francesco Canalini | Appointed | Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland | |
| 68.5 | Francesco Canalini | Appointed | Apostolic Nuncio to Liechtenstein | Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland | |
| 61.0 | Mario Roberto Cassari | Appointed | Apostolic Nuncio to Niger | Apostolic Nuncio to Croatia | |
| 55.1 | Bruno Forte | Ordained Bishop | Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto, Italy | ||
| 75.5 | Pier Giacomo De Nicolò | Retired | Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland | Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus | |
| 75.5 | Pier Giacomo De Nicolò | Retired | Apostolic Nuncio to Liechtenstein | Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Switzerland | |
| 2005 | 57.1 | Maroun Elias Nimeh Lahham | Appointed | Bishop of Tunis, Tunisia | |
| 64.9 | Fouad Twal | Appointed | Coadjutor Archbishop of Gerusalemme {Jerusalem}, Palestine | Patriarch | |
| 2006 | 48.7 | Jérôme Daniel Beau | Ordained Bishop | Titular Bishop of Privata | Auxiliary Bishop of Paris, France |
| 53.4 | Elenito de los Reyes Galido | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Iligan, Philippines | ||
| 62.9 | Mosè Marcia | Ordained Bishop | Titular Bishop of Vardimissa | Auxiliary Bishop of Cagliari, Italy | |
| 49.0 | Jean-Yves André Michel Nahmias | Ordained Bishop | Titular Bishop of Termae Himerae | Auxiliary Bishop of Paris, France | |
| 53.5 | George Nkuo | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Kumbo, Cameroon | ||
| 55.3 | Michele Seccia | Installed | Bishop of Teramo-Atri, Italy | ||
| 2007 | 67.6 | Venant Bacinoni | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Bururi, Burundi | |
| 46.1 | Arturo Eduardo Fajardo Bustamante | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of San José de Mayo, Uruguay | ||
| 65.4 | Vitus Huonder | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Chur, Switzerland | ||
| 2008 | 56.6 | George Antonysamy | Resigned | Apostolic Nuncio to Guinea | Apostolic Nuncio to Liberia |
| 61.5 | Giuseppe Betori | Appointed | Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}, Italy | ||
| 54.8 | Manuel Aurelio Cruz | Ordained Bishop | Titular Bishop of Gaguari | Auxiliary Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA | |
| 59.7 | Antonino Eugénio Fernandes Dias | Appointed | Bishop of Portalegre-Castelo Branco, Portugal | ||
| 68.0 | Gaetano Galbusera Fumagalli, S.D.B. | Succeeded | Vicar Apostolic of Pucallpa, Peru | ||
| 51.8 | Martin Krebs | Appointed | Titular Archbishop of Taborenta | Apostolic Nuncio to Guinea | |
| 51.8 | Martin Krebs | Appointed | Apostolic Nuncio to Guinea | ||
| 51.8 | Martin Krebs | Appointed | Apostolic Nuncio to Mali | Apostolic Nuncio to Guinea | |
| 74.4 | Juan Luis Martin Buisson, P.M.E. | Retired | Vicar Apostolic of Pucallpa, Peru | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus | |
| 64.6 | William Francis Malooly | Installed | Bishop of Wilmington, Delaware, USA | ||
| 2009 | 74.8 | Oscar V. Cruz | Retired | Archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan, Philippines | Archbishop Emeritus |
| 55.8 | Joseph Nguyen Nang | Ordained Bishop | Bishop of Phát Diêm, Viêt Nam | ||
| 48.9 | Socrates Buenaventura Villegas | Appointed | Archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan, Philippines | ||
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