The Year of Our Lord 1995

Bishop Events

April

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

1 Apr 44.5 Appointed Emilio Aranguren Echeverria Bishop of Cienfuegos, Cuba Bishop of Holguín, Cuba

52.7 Appointed Norbert Brunner Bishop of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland Bishop Emeritus

57.4 Appointed Edwin Colaço † Bishop of Amravati, India Bishop Emeritus of Aurangabad, India

58.5 Ordained Bishop Vincent Michael Concessao Titular Bishop of Mascula Archbishop Emeritus of Delhi, India

46.9 Appointed John Atcherley Dew Auxiliary Bishop of Wellington, New Zealand Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

46.9 Appointed John Atcherley Dew Titular Bishop of Privata Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Wellington, New Zealand

56.3 Appointed Murphy Nicholas Xavier Pakiam Auxiliary Bishop of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Archbishop Emeritus

56.3 Appointed Murphy Nicholas Xavier Pakiam Titular Bishop of Chunavia Archbishop Emeritus of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

67.4 Appointed Fernando Ramon Prego Casal † Bishop of Santa Clara, Cuba

49.2 Appointed Jozef Marianus Punt Auxiliary Bishop of Haarlem, Netherlands Bishop Emeritus of Haarlem-Amsterdam, Netherlands

49.2 Appointed Jozef Marianus Punt Titular Bishop of Nasai Bishop Emeritus of Haarlem-Amsterdam, Netherlands

49.2 Appointed Jozef Marianus Punt Apostolic Administrator of Netherlands, Military Bishop Emeritus of Haarlem-Amsterdam, Netherlands

79.8 Retired Joseph Albert Rosario, M.S.F.S. † Bishop of Amravati, India Bishop Emeritus

69.7 Ordained Bishop Charles Asa Schleck, C.S.C. † Titular Archbishop of Africa Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples

62.7 Resigned Henri Schwery † Bishop of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus

60.6 Appointed Charles Soreng, S.J. † Bishop of Hazaribag, India Bishop Emeritus

57.3 Appointed Stephen M. Tiru † Bishop of Khunti, India

49.0 Appointed Dieudonné Watio Bishop of Nkongsamba, Cameroon Bishop Emeritus of Bafoussam, Cameroon

2 Apr 52.5 Ordained Bishop Gonzalo Duarte García de Cortázar, SS.CC. Titular Bishop of Lamiggiga Bishop Emeritus of Valparaíso, Chile

3 Apr 69.0 Died Jeremiah Newman † Bishop of Limerick, Ireland

4 Apr 92.8 Died Johannes Maria Hoeck (Höck), O.S.B. † Superior General Emeritus of Order of Saint Benedict Superior General

51.2 Died Abraham Kattumana † Official of the Roman Curia - Other

62.7 Appointed James Michael Moynihan † Bishop of Syracuse, New York, USA Bishop Emeritus

76.0 Retired Joseph Thomas O’Keefe † Bishop of Syracuse, New York, USA Bishop Emeritus

90.9 Died Victor León Esteban San Miguel y Erce, O.C.D. † Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Kuwait

5 Apr 63.6 Died Paul Fan Yufei † Bishop of Zhouzhi [Chowchich], China

6 Apr 54.5 Appointed Lorenzo Baldisseri Apostolic Nuncio to Paraguay Cardinal, Secretary General Emeritus of the Synod of Bishops

8 Apr 76.0 Retired Alexis Phạm Văn Lộc † Bishop of Kontum, Viet Nam Bishop Emeritus

67.4 Succeeded Pierre Trần Thành Chung † Bishop of Kontum, Viet Nam Bishop Emeritus

59.4 Appointed Teofil Józef Wilski † Auxiliary Bishop of Kalisz, Poland Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

59.4 Appointed Teofil Józef Wilski † Titular Bishop of Castellum in Mauretania Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Kalisz, Poland

10 Apr 60.2 Resigned Noël Delaquis Bishop of Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan, Canada Bishop Emeritus

55.8 Appointed Raymond Olir Roussin, S. M. † Bishop of Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan, Canada Archbishop Emeritus of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

12 Apr 38.7 Appointed Juan de la Cruz Barros Madrid Auxiliary Bishop of Valparaíso, Chile Bishop Emeritus of Osorno, Chile

38.7 Appointed Juan de la Cruz Barros Madrid Titular Bishop of Bilta Bishop Emeritus of Osorno, Chile

13 Apr 62.5 Appointed Stanisław Padewski, O.F.M. Cap. † Auxiliary Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Ukraine Bishop Emeritus of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia, Ukraine

62.5 Appointed Stanisław Padewski, O.F.M. Cap. † Titular Bishop of Tigias Bishop Emeritus of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia, Ukraine

50.2 Appointed Christoph Schönborn, O.P. Coadjutor Archbishop of Wien {Vienna}, Austria Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

16 Apr 72.0 Died [Anthony Wang Zicheng (Huang Zichem)] † Bishop of Lixian [Lichow], China

18 Apr 59.9 Ordained Bishop John Kevin Boland Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, USA Bishop Emeritus

75.7 Retired Edward Dennis Head † Bishop of Buffalo, New York, USA Bishop Emeritus

57.5 Appointed Henry Joseph Mansell Bishop of Buffalo, New York, USA Archbishop Emeritus of Hartford, Connecticut, USA

19 Apr 75.7 Retired José Gabriel Calderón Contreras † Bishop of Cartago, Colombia Bishop Emeritus

72.4 Resigned Jean-Paul Labrie † Auxiliary Bishop of Québec, Canada Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

48.4 Appointed Luis Madrid Merlano Bishop of Cartago, Colombia Archbishop Emeritus of Nueva Pamplona, Colombia

85.4 Died Alojz Turk † Archbishop Emeritus of Beograd (-Smederevo), Serbia

20 Apr 76.5 Retired Giovanni Canestri † Archbishop of Genova {Genoa}, Italy Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

75.1 Died José Capmany Casamitjana † Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Barcelona, Spain

43.9 Ordained Bishop William Edward Lori Titular Bishop of Bulla Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA

61.0 Appointed Dionigi Tettamanzi † Archbishop of Genova {Genoa}, Italy Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Milano {Milan}, Italy

21 Apr 51.5 Installed Patrick D’Rozario, C.S.C. Bishop of Chittagong, Bangladesh Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Dhaka, Bangladesh

22 Apr 28.9 Ordained Priest José Eudes Campos do Nascimento Priest of Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil Bishop of São João del Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil

74.4 Retired Robert-Joseph Coffy † Archbishop of Marseille, France Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

70.3 Appointed Francesco Colasuonno † Apostolic Nuncio to San Marino Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio

61.6 Ordained Bishop Bernardo Hombach Lütkermeier Bishop of Juigalpa, Nicaragua Bishop Emeritus of Granada, Nicaragua

95.2 Died Charles-Joseph Lemaire, M.E.P. † Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Kirin [Jilin], China

40.9 Ordained Bishop Jean-Claude Makaya Loembe Bishop of Pointe-Noire, Congo Bishop Emeritus

40.8 Ordained Priest Giovanni Nerbini Priest of Fiesole, Italy Bishop of Prato, Italy

64.2 Succeeded Bernard Louis Auguste Paul Panafieu † Archbishop of Marseille, France Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

62.4 Appointed Fernando Sáenz Lacalle † Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador Archbishop Emeritus

23 Apr 49.4 Ordained Bishop Gilles Côté, S.M.M. Titular Bishop of Cissa Bishop Emeritus of Daru-Kiunga, Papua New Guinea

59.4 Resigned Anthony Hampden Dickson † Bishop of Bridgetown, Barbados, Antilles Bishop Emeritus

65.7 Appointed Malcolm Patrick Galt, C.S.Sp. † Bishop of Bridgetown, Barbados, Antilles Bishop Emeritus

36.7 Ordained Bishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama Bishop of Jalingo, Nigeria Archbishop of Abuja, Nigeria

57.3 Ordained Bishop Maurice Konan Kouassi Bishop of Odienné, Côte d’Ivoire Bishop Emeritus of Daloa, Côte d’Ivoire

25 Apr 51.1 Ordained Bishop Terrence Thomas Prendergast, S.J. Titular Bishop of Slebte Archbishop Emeritus of Ottawa-Cornwall, Ontario, Canada

27 Apr 71.0 Died Bienvenido Mercado Lopez † Auxiliary Bishop of Manila, Philippines

29 Apr 55.4 Installed Emilio Carlos Berlie Belaunzarán Archbishop of Yucatán, México Archbishop Emeritus

69.0 Appointed Sergio Otoniel Contreras Navia † Apostolic Administrator of Valdivia, Chile Bishop Emeritus of Temuco, Chile

71.3 Ordained Bishop Hovhannes Tertsakian, C.A.M. † Titular Bishop of Trapezus degli Armeni Apostolic Exarch Emeritus of United States of America and Canada (Armenian), New York

50.3 Ordained Bishop Luigi Ventura Titular Archbishop of Equilium Apostolic Nuncio

30 Apr 55.0 Ordained Bishop Jacyr Francisco Braido, C.S. Coadjutor Bishop of Santos, Sao Paulo, Brazil Bishop Emeritus

26.7 Ordained Priest Philippe Curbelié Priest of Toulouse (-Narbonne-Saint Bertrand de Comminges-Rieux), France Under Secretary of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith

218.0 Beatified Bl. Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleitheim † Bishop of Trento, Italy

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Apr	44.5	Appointed	Emilio Aranguren Echeverria	Bishop of Cienfuegos, Cuba	Bishop of Holguín, Cuba
52.7	Appointed	Norbert Brunner	Bishop of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland	Bishop Emeritus
57.4	Appointed	Edwin Colaço †	Bishop of Amravati, India	Bishop Emeritus of Aurangabad, India
58.5	Ordained Bishop	Vincent Michael Concessao	Titular Bishop of Mascula	Archbishop Emeritus of Delhi, India
46.9	Appointed	John Atcherley Dew	Auxiliary Bishop of Wellington, New Zealand	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
46.9	Appointed	John Atcherley Dew	Titular Bishop of Privata	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Wellington, New Zealand
56.3	Appointed	Murphy Nicholas Xavier Pakiam	Auxiliary Bishop of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Archbishop Emeritus
56.3	Appointed	Murphy Nicholas Xavier Pakiam	Titular Bishop of Chunavia	Archbishop Emeritus of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
67.4	Appointed	Fernando Ramon Prego Casal †	Bishop of Santa Clara, Cuba
49.2	Appointed	Jozef Marianus Punt	Auxiliary Bishop of Haarlem, Netherlands	Bishop Emeritus of Haarlem-Amsterdam, Netherlands
49.2	Appointed	Jozef Marianus Punt	Titular Bishop of Nasai	Bishop Emeritus of Haarlem-Amsterdam, Netherlands
49.2	Appointed	Jozef Marianus Punt	Apostolic Administrator of Netherlands, Military	Bishop Emeritus of Haarlem-Amsterdam, Netherlands
79.8	Retired	Joseph Albert Rosario, M.S.F.S. †	Bishop of Amravati, India	Bishop Emeritus
69.7	Ordained Bishop	Charles Asa Schleck, C.S.C. †	Titular Archbishop of Africa	Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
62.7	Resigned	Henri Schwery †	Bishop of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus
60.6	Appointed	Charles Soreng, S.J. †	Bishop of Hazaribag, India	Bishop Emeritus
57.3	Appointed	Stephen M. Tiru †	Bishop of Khunti, India
49.0	Appointed	Dieudonné Watio	Bishop of Nkongsamba, Cameroon	Bishop Emeritus of Bafoussam, Cameroon
2 Apr	52.5	Ordained Bishop	Gonzalo Duarte García de Cortázar, SS.CC.	Titular Bishop of Lamiggiga	Bishop Emeritus of Valparaíso, Chile
3 Apr	69.0	Died	Jeremiah Newman †	Bishop of Limerick, Ireland
4 Apr	92.8	Died	Johannes Maria Hoeck (Höck), O.S.B. †	Superior General Emeritus of Order of Saint Benedict	Superior General
51.2	Died	Abraham Kattumana †	Official of the Roman Curia - Other
62.7	Appointed	James Michael Moynihan †	Bishop of Syracuse, New York, USA	Bishop Emeritus
76.0	Retired	Joseph Thomas O’Keefe †	Bishop of Syracuse, New York, USA	Bishop Emeritus
90.9	Died	Victor León Esteban San Miguel y Erce, O.C.D. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Kuwait
5 Apr	63.6	Died	Paul Fan Yufei †	Bishop of Zhouzhi [Chowchich], China
6 Apr	54.5	Appointed	Lorenzo Baldisseri	Apostolic Nuncio to Paraguay	Cardinal, Secretary General Emeritus of the Synod of Bishops
8 Apr	76.0	Retired	Alexis Phạm Văn Lộc †	Bishop of Kontum, Viet Nam	Bishop Emeritus
67.4	Succeeded	Pierre Trần Thành Chung †	Bishop of Kontum, Viet Nam	Bishop Emeritus
59.4	Appointed	Teofil Józef Wilski †	Auxiliary Bishop of Kalisz, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
59.4	Appointed	Teofil Józef Wilski †	Titular Bishop of Castellum in Mauretania	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Kalisz, Poland
10 Apr	60.2	Resigned	Noël Delaquis	Bishop of Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
55.8	Appointed	Raymond Olir Roussin, S. M. †	Bishop of Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
12 Apr	38.7	Appointed	Juan de la Cruz Barros Madrid	Auxiliary Bishop of Valparaíso, Chile	Bishop Emeritus of Osorno, Chile
38.7	Appointed	Juan de la Cruz Barros Madrid	Titular Bishop of Bilta	Bishop Emeritus of Osorno, Chile
13 Apr	62.5	Appointed	Stanisław Padewski, O.F.M. Cap. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Ukraine	Bishop Emeritus of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia, Ukraine
62.5	Appointed	Stanisław Padewski, O.F.M. Cap. †	Titular Bishop of Tigias	Bishop Emeritus of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia, Ukraine
50.2	Appointed	Christoph Schönborn, O.P.	Coadjutor Archbishop of Wien {Vienna}, Austria	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
16 Apr	72.0	Died	[Anthony Wang Zicheng (Huang Zichem)] †	Bishop of Lixian [Lichow], China
18 Apr	59.9	Ordained Bishop	John Kevin Boland	Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, USA	Bishop Emeritus
75.7	Retired	Edward Dennis Head †	Bishop of Buffalo, New York, USA	Bishop Emeritus
57.5	Appointed	Henry Joseph Mansell	Bishop of Buffalo, New York, USA	Archbishop Emeritus of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
19 Apr	75.7	Retired	José Gabriel Calderón Contreras †	Bishop of Cartago, Colombia	Bishop Emeritus
72.4	Resigned	Jean-Paul Labrie †	Auxiliary Bishop of Québec, Canada	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
48.4	Appointed	Luis Madrid Merlano	Bishop of Cartago, Colombia	Archbishop Emeritus of Nueva Pamplona, Colombia
85.4	Died	Alojz Turk †	Archbishop Emeritus of Beograd (-Smederevo), Serbia
20 Apr	76.5	Retired	Giovanni Canestri †	Archbishop of Genova {Genoa}, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
75.1	Died	José Capmany Casamitjana †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Barcelona, Spain
43.9	Ordained Bishop	William Edward Lori	Titular Bishop of Bulla	Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
61.0	Appointed	Dionigi Tettamanzi †	Archbishop of Genova {Genoa}, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Milano {Milan}, Italy
21 Apr	51.5	Installed	Patrick D’Rozario, C.S.C.	Bishop of Chittagong, Bangladesh	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Dhaka, Bangladesh
22 Apr	28.9	Ordained Priest	José Eudes Campos do Nascimento	Priest of Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop of São João del Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil
74.4	Retired	Robert-Joseph Coffy †	Archbishop of Marseille, France	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
70.3	Appointed	Francesco Colasuonno †	Apostolic Nuncio to San Marino	Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio
61.6	Ordained Bishop	Bernardo Hombach Lütkermeier	Bishop of Juigalpa, Nicaragua	Bishop Emeritus of Granada, Nicaragua
95.2	Died	Charles-Joseph Lemaire, M.E.P. †	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Kirin [Jilin], China
40.9	Ordained Bishop	Jean-Claude Makaya Loembe	Bishop of Pointe-Noire, Congo	Bishop Emeritus
40.8	Ordained Priest	Giovanni Nerbini	Priest of Fiesole, Italy	Bishop of Prato, Italy
64.2	Succeeded	Bernard Louis Auguste Paul Panafieu †	Archbishop of Marseille, France	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
62.4	Appointed	Fernando Sáenz Lacalle †	Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador	Archbishop Emeritus
23 Apr	49.4	Ordained Bishop	Gilles Côté, S.M.M.	Titular Bishop of Cissa	Bishop Emeritus of Daru-Kiunga, Papua New Guinea
59.4	Resigned	Anthony Hampden Dickson †	Bishop of Bridgetown, Barbados, Antilles	Bishop Emeritus
65.7	Appointed	Malcolm Patrick Galt, C.S.Sp. †	Bishop of Bridgetown, Barbados, Antilles	Bishop Emeritus
36.7	Ordained Bishop	Ignatius Ayau Kaigama	Bishop of Jalingo, Nigeria	Archbishop of Abuja, Nigeria
57.3	Ordained Bishop	Maurice Konan Kouassi	Bishop of Odienné, Côte d’Ivoire	Bishop Emeritus of Daloa, Côte d’Ivoire
25 Apr	51.1	Ordained Bishop	Terrence Thomas Prendergast, S.J.	Titular Bishop of Slebte	Archbishop Emeritus of Ottawa-Cornwall, Ontario, Canada
27 Apr	71.0	Died	Bienvenido Mercado Lopez †	Auxiliary Bishop of Manila, Philippines
29 Apr	55.4	Installed	Emilio Carlos Berlie Belaunzarán	Archbishop of Yucatán, México	Archbishop Emeritus
69.0	Appointed	Sergio Otoniel Contreras Navia †	Apostolic Administrator of Valdivia, Chile	Bishop Emeritus of Temuco, Chile
71.3	Ordained Bishop	Hovhannes Tertsakian, C.A.M. †	Titular Bishop of Trapezus degli Armeni	Apostolic Exarch Emeritus of United States of America and Canada (Armenian), New York
50.3	Ordained Bishop	Luigi Ventura	Titular Archbishop of Equilium	Apostolic Nuncio
30 Apr	55.0	Ordained Bishop	Jacyr Francisco Braido, C.S.	Coadjutor Bishop of Santos, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
26.7	Ordained Priest	Philippe Curbelié	Priest of Toulouse (-Narbonne-Saint Bertrand de Comminges-Rieux), France	Under Secretary of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
218.0	Beatified	Bl. Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleitheim †	Bishop of Trento, Italy

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