23rd day of December

Living Bishop Events

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1926		Jorge Arturo Augustin Medina Estévez	Born	Santiago	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
1926		Francis Bible Schulte	Born	Philadelphia	Archbishop Emeritus of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
1929		Victorio Oliver Domingo	Born	Mezquita de Jarque	Bishop Emeritus of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain
1931		Cipriano García Fernández, O.S.A.	Born	Santibáñez de Tera, Spain	Prelate Emeritus of Cafayate, Argentina
1936		Stanisław Napierała	Born	Kalwy	Bishop Emeritus of Kalisz, Poland
1937		Timothy Anthony McDonnell	Born	New York	Bishop of Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
1939	22.6	Domenico Bartolucci	Ordained Priest	Priest of Firenze {Florence}, Italy	Cardinal, Official Emeritus of the Roman Curia - Other
1940		Gaspard Mudiso Mundla, S.V.D.	Born	Kenge	Bishop of Kenge, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
1943		Gianni Ambrosio	Born	Santhià	Bishop of Piacenza-Bobbio, Italy
1944		Patras Minj, S.J.	Born	Tapkara	Bishop of Ambikapur, India
1945		Victor Agbanou	Born	Lokossa	Bishop of Lokossa, Benin
1945		Matthew Vaniakizhakel, C.V.	Born	Kaithappara	Bishop of Satna (Syro-Malabarese), India
1947		Egidio Bisol	Born	Bassano del Grappa, Italy	Bishop of Afogados da Ingazeira, Pernambuco, Brazil
1947		John Michael Kudrick	Born	Lloydell, PA	Bishop of Parma (Ruthenian), Ohio, USA
1949		Jacek Jezierski	Born	Olsztyn	Auxiliary Bishop of Warmia, Poland
1949		Corrado Pizziolo	Born	Scandolara di Zero Branco	Bishop of Vittorio Veneto, Italy
1950	22.5	Giacomo Biffi	Ordained Priest	Priest of Milano {Milan}, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Bologna, Italy
	24.6	Dominik Hrušovský	Ordained Priest	Priest	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Belarus
	25.9	Štefan Vrablec	Ordained Priest	Priest of Trnava, Slovakia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bratislava, Slovakia
1951	27.1	Józef Pazdur	Ordained Priest	Priest	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Wrocław {Breslavia}, Poland
1951		Thomas Graham Rose	Born	Evander	Bishop of Dundee, South Africa
1956		James Maria Wainaina Kungu	Born	Ngenya	Bishop of Muranga, Kenya
1960		Edward Joseph Weisenburger	Born	Alton, IL	Bishop of Salina, Kansas, USA
1961	25.6	Hugo Barrantes Ureña	Ordained Priest	Priest of San Isidro de El General, Costa Rica	Archbishop of San José de Costa Rica
	27.3	Aloísio Sinésio Bohn	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
	29.1	Fernando Mario Chávez Ruvalcaba	Ordained Priest	Priest of Zacatecas, México	Bishop Emeritus
	25.2	Joseph Pierre Aimé Marie Doré, P.S.S.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of Priests of Saint Sulpice	Archbishop Emeritus of Strasbourg, France
	25.3	Dadeus Grings	Ordained Priest	Priest of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	Archbishop
	24.3	Oscar Páez Garcete	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
	25.4	Alfredo Petit Vergel	Ordained Priest	Priest of San Cristobal de la Habana, Cuba	Auxiliary Bishop
	25.1	Ernesto Antolin Salgado	Ordained Priest	Priest of Nueva Segovia, Philippines	Archbishop
	25.8	José Luis Serna Alzate, I.M.C.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Consolata Missionaries	Bishop Emeritus of Líbano-Honda, Colombia
	24.1	Enrique Troncoso Troncoso	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop of Melipilla, Chile
1962	25.8	Paciano Basilio Aniceto	Ordained Priest	Priest of San Fernando, Philippines	Archbishop of San Fernando, Philippines
1962	24.0	Josu Iriondo	Ordained Priest	Priest of San Sebastián, Spain	Auxiliary Bishop of New York, New York, USA
1963	21.5	Santiago Agrelo Martínez, O.F.M.	Professed	Member of Order of Friars Minor	Archbishop of Tanger, Morocco
1963	23.0	Deogracias S. Iñiguez, Jr.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Malolos, Philippines	Bishop Emeritus of Kalookan, Philippines
1965	30.3	Paul Ri Moun-hi	Ordained Priest	Priest of Daegu {Taegu}, Korea (South)	Archbishop Emeritus
1966	26.4	Camilo Lorenzo Iglesias	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop of Astorga, Spain
1966	27.3	Tito Solari Capellari, S.D.B.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Archbishop of Cochabamba, Bolivia
1967	27.2	Antonio Angel Algora Hernando	Ordained Priest	Priest of Madrid, Spain	Bishop of Ciudad Real, Spain
1967	25.3	Yvon Ambroise	Ordained Priest	Priest of Pondicherry and Cuddalore, India	Bishop of Tuticorin, India
1971	24.2	Agustín Cortés Soriano	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop of Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Spain
1972	26.6	Michael August Blume, S.V.D.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of the Divine Word	Apostolic Nuncio to Uganda
	24.4	Nunzio Galantino	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ascoli Satriano e Cerignola, Italy	Bishop of Cassano all’Jonio, Italy
	24.5	Pierre Warin	Ordained Priest	Priest of Liège, Belgium	Auxiliary Bishop of Namur {Namen}, Belgium
1973	30.9	Cristián Caro Cordero	Ordained Priest	Priest of Santiago de Chile	Archbishop of Puerto Montt, Chile
1974	42.8	Władysław Bobowski	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Tarnów, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	42.8	Władysław Bobowski	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Abernethia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Tarnów, Poland
	50.8	Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, O.F.M.	Appointed	Archbishop of Lourenço Marques, Mozambique	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Maputo, Mozambique
1977	51.7	Sergio Otoniel Contreras Navia	Appointed	Bishop of Temuco, Chile	Bishop Emeritus
1977	32.9	Juan Navarro Castellanos	Ordained Priest	Priest of San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, México	Bishop of Tuxpan, Veracruz, México
1978	29.2	Javier Navarro Rodríguez	Ordained Priest	Priest of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México	Bishop of Zamora, Michoacán, México
1978	30.3	Martin Dada Abejide Olorunmolu	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lokoja, Nigeria	Bishop
1980	24.6	George Madathikandathil	Ordained Priest	Priest	Bishop of Kothamangalam (Syro-Malabarese), India
	48.4	Alessandro Plotti	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Roma {Rome}, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus of Pisa, Italy
	48.4	Alessandro Plotti	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Vannida	Archbishop Emeritus of Pisa, Italy
1983	45.8	Rodrigo Orlando Cabrera Cuéllar	Appointed	Bishop of Santiago de María, El Salvador
	25.7	Victor Hugo Palma Paúl	Ordained Priest	Priest of Guatemala	Bishop of Escuintla, Guatemala
	45.4	Juan Francisco Sarasti Jaramillo, C.I.M.	Appointed	Bishop of Barrancabermeja, Colombia	Archbishop Emeritus of Cali, Colombia
1986	62.9	William Jerome McCormack	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of New York, New York, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	62.9	William Jerome McCormack	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Nicives	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of New York, New York, USA
	43.7	Armando Xavier Ochoa	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, California, USA	Bishop of Fresno, California, USA
	43.7	Armando Xavier Ochoa	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Sitifis	Bishop of Fresno, California, USA
	56.3	Karl Reger	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Aachen, Germany	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	56.3	Karl Reger	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Árd Sratha	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Aachen, Germany
	57.0	Jean-Charles Thomas	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Versailles, France	Bishop Emeritus
1988	48.5	Gilles Lussier	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint-Jérôme, Québec, Canada	Bishop of Joliette, Québec, Canada
	48.5	Gilles Lussier	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Augurus	Bishop of Joliette, Québec, Canada
	47.9	Mihály Mayer	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Pécs, Hungary	Bishop Emeritus
	47.9	Mihály Mayer	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Giru Marcelli	Bishop Emeritus of Pécs, Hungary
	45.5	Francesco Micciché	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Trapani, Italy
	45.5	Francesco Micciché	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Chusira	Bishop Emeritus of Trapani, Italy
	61.9	Jusztin Nándor Takács, O.C.D.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Székesfehérvár (Albareale), Hungary	Bishop Emeritus
	61.9	Jusztin Nándor Takács, O.C.D.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Carcabia	Bishop Emeritus of Székesfehérvár (Albareale), Hungary
	42.9	Imre Asztrik Várszegi, O.S.B.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Esztergom, Hungary	Abbot of Pannonhalma, Hungary
	42.9	Imre Asztrik Várszegi, O.S.B.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Culusi	Abbot of Pannonhalma, Hungary
1989	51.8	José Doth de Oliveira	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Palmares, Pernambuco, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Iguatú, Ceara, Brazil
	60.9	Oscar Rizzato	Appointed	Almoner of the Office of Papal Charities	Almoner Emeritus
	60.9	Oscar Rizzato	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Virunum	Almoner Emeritus of the Office of Papal Charities
1992	49.2	José Alberto Moura, C.S.S.	Succeeded	Bishop of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Archbishop of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil
1992	60.5	Ramón Ovidio Pérez Morales	Appointed	Archbishop of Maracaibo, Venezuela	Bishop Emeritus of Los Teques, Venezuela
1997	51.2	Gordon Dunlap Bennett, S.J.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Mandeville, Jamaica, Antilles
	51.2	Gordon Dunlap Bennett, S.J.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Nesqually	Bishop Emeritus of Mandeville, Jamaica, Antilles
	44.0	Vital Chitolina, S.C.I.	Appointed	Prelate of Paranatinga, Mato Grosso, Brazil	Bishop of Diamantino, Mato Grosso, Brazil
	63.2	Geraldo Vieira Gusmão	Appointed	Bishop of Porto Nacional, Tocatins, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	63.6	Francisco José Zugliani	Appointed	Bishop of Amparo, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
2000	56.0	Mathew Arackal	Appointed	Bishop of Kanjirapally (Syro-Malabarese), India
	63.8	Salvatore Di Cristina	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Palermo, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus of Monreale, Italy
	63.8	Salvatore Di Cristina	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Bilta	Archbishop Emeritus of Monreale, Italy
	62.8	Juan Horacio Suárez	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Gregorio de Laferrere, Argentina
	47.0	Adam Szal	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Lavellum	Auxiliary Bishop of Przemyśl, Poland
	60.2	Silvano Maria Tomasi, C.S.	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Djibouti	Apostolic Nuncio to Other
	70.8	Mathew Vattackuzhy	Resigned	Bishop of Kanjirapally (Syro-Malabarese), India	Bishop Emeritus
2002	42.9	George Cosmas Zumaire Lungu	Appointed	Bishop of Chipata, Zambia
2004	76.9	Pietro Bottaccioli	Retired	Bishop of Gubbio, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
2004	63.4	Mario Ceccobelli	Appointed	Bishop of Gubbio, Italy
2005	55.3	Randolph Roque Calvo	Appointed	Bishop of Reno, Nevada, USA
2005	58.2	José María Yanguas Sanz	Appointed	Bishop of Cuenca, Spain
2006	69.8	Salvatore Di Cristina	Installed	Archbishop of Monreale, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
2008	43.4	László Bőcskei	Appointed	Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad}, Romania
2008	77.7	József Tempfli	Retired	Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad}, Romania	Bishop Emeritus
2010	55.8	Abel Gabuza	Appointed	Bishop of Kimberley, South Africa
	60.2	Savio Hon Tai-Fai, S.D.B.	Appointed	Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
	60.2	Savio Hon Tai-Fai, S.D.B.	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Sila	Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
	67.3	William Slattery, O.F.M.	Appointed	Archbishop of Pretoria, South Africa
	67.3	William Slattery, O.F.M.	Appointed	Bishop of South Africa, Military	Archbishop of Pretoria, South Africa