The Year of Our Lord 1996

Bishop Events

January

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
unknown	19.4	Converted	Hugh David Renwick Turnbull Allan, O. Praem.	Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Falkland Islands o Malvinas
	29.2	Selected	Joseph Cai Bingrui	Administrator of Xiamen [Hsiamen, Amoy], China	Bishop of Fuzhou [Foochow], China
	49.2	Appointed	Aldo Cavalli	Apostolic Delegate to Angola	Apostolic Visitor (Visitator)
	17.7	Entered	Eduard Kava, O.F.M. Conv.	Member of Order of Friars Minor Conventual	Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Ukraine
	69.4	Selected	Josaphat Li Hongguang †	Coadjutor Bishop of Xinjiang [Kiangchow], China	Bishop
	25.6	Entered	Raymond Tapiwa Mupandasekwa, C.Ss.R.	Member of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer	Bishop of Masvingo, Zimbabwe
	32.5	Incardinated	Gerardo Miguel Nieves Loja	Priest of Riobamba, Ecuador	Auxiliary Bishop of Guayaquil, Ecuador
	25.3	Perpetual Vows	Félicien Ntambue Kasembe, C.I.C.M.	Member of Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary	Archbishop of Kananga, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	55.0	Ceased	Thomas Oliha Attiyah, A.J.	Superior General of Apostles of Jesus Missionaries	Priest
	21.4	Professed	Adenis Roberto de Oliveira, S.d.P.	Member of Missionary Servants of the Poor	Auxiliary Bishop of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
	28.2	Incardinated	Carlos José de Oliveira	Priest of Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop of Apucarana, Parana, Brazil
	69.8	Resigned	Mario Rizzi †	Apostolic Nuncio to Bulgaria	Apostolic Nuncio
	88.8	Retired	Volodymyr Sterniuk, C.Ss.R. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv (Ukrainian), Ukraine	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	56.8	Appointed	Edgar Hernando Tirado Mazo, M.X.Y.	Superior General of Misioneros Javerianos de Yarumal	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Tierradentro, Colombia
	50.2	Resigned	[Bernard Tissier de Mallerais], S.S.P.X. †	Secretary General of [Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX)]	Bishop
	81.0	Died	[Mathew Wang Wei-ming] †	Bishop Emeritus of Jilin [Kirin], China
1 Jan	64.2	Resigned	Isak Doera †	Bishop of Sintang, Indonesia	Bishop Emeritus
2 Jan	62.0	Appointed	Pietro Brollo †	Bishop of Belluno-Feltre, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus of Udine, Italy
	66.0	Appointed	Paul Fouad Naïm Tabet †	Apostolic Nuncio to Greece	Apostolic Nuncio
	29.5	Ordained Deacon	Zdenek Wasserbauer	Deacon of Praha {Prague}, Czechia	Auxiliary Bishop
5 Jan	49.3	Appointed	Julián Barrio Barrio	Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain	Archbishop Emeritus
	32.4	Entered	João Batista de Oliveira, S.V.D.	Member of Society of the Divine Word	Bishop of Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
	36.4	Solemn Vows	Antonio Luca Fallica, O.S.B.	Member of Order of Saint Benedict	Abbot of Montecassino, Italy
	53.0	Appointed	Robert William Muench	Bishop of Covington, Kentucky, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
	76.3	Retired	Phocas Nikwigize †	Bishop of Ruhengeri, Rwanda	Bishop Emeritus
	46.3	Appointed	José de Jesús Quintero Díaz	Prelate of Tibú, Colombia	Vicar Apostolic of Leticia, Colombia
	48.1	Installed	Albert Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don	Bishop of Ratnapura, Sri Lanka	Cardinal, Archbishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka
	49.1	Appointed	Atilano Vicente Rodríguez Martínez	Auxiliary Bishop of Oviedo, Spain	Bishop Emeritus of Sigüenza-Guadalajara, Spain
	49.1	Appointed	Atilano Vicente Rodríguez Martínez	Titular Bishop of Horaea	Bishop Emeritus of Sigüenza-Guadalajara, Spain
6 Jan	69.8	Ordained Bishop	Ārvaldis Andrejs Brumanis †	Bishop of Liepāja, Latvia	Bishop Emeritus
	46.8	Ordained Bishop	Richard Anthony Burke, S.P.S.	Coadjutor Bishop of Warri, Nigeria	Archbishop Emeritus of Benin City, Nigeria
	54.4	Ordained Bishop	Claudio Maria Celli	Titular Archbishop of Cluentum	President Emeritus of the Dicastery for Communication
	52.4	Ordained Bishop	Rafael Ramón Conde Alfonzo †	Titular Bishop of Bapara	Bishop Emeritus of Maracay, Venezuela
	48.9	Ordained Bishop	Riccardo Fontana	Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, Italy
	64.1	Ordained Bishop	Antons Justs †	Bishop of Jelgava, Latvia	Bishop Emeritus
	45.8	Ordained Bishop	Kurt Koch	Bishop of Basel {Bâle, Basilea}, Switzerland	Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity
	44.1	Ordained Bishop	Antal Majnek, O.F.M.	Titular Bishop of Febiana	Bishop Emeritus of Mukachevo (Munkács), Ukraine
	48.9	Ordained Bishop	Francisco Pérez González	Bishop of Osma-Soria, Spain	Archbishop Emeritus of Pamplona y Tudela, Spain
	51.2	Ordained Bishop	José Paulino Ríos Reynoso	Archbishop of Huancayo, Peru	Archbishop Emeritus of Arequipa, Peru
	67.1	Ordained Bishop	Riccardo Ruotolo †	Titular Bishop of Castulo	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Manfredonia-Vieste-San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
	50.5	Ordained Bishop	Stanisław Marian Ryłko	Titular Bishop of Novica	Cardinal, Archpriest Emeritus of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}
	35.1	Ordained Priest	Carlos Alberto Salcedo Ojeda, O.M.I.	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate	Bishop of Huancavélica, Peru
	57.8	Ordained Bishop	Marko Sopi †	Titular Bishop of Celerina	Apostolic Administrator of Prizren-Prishtina, Kosovo
	48.7	Ordained Bishop	Jaime Vieira Rocha	Bishop of Caicó, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
	64.8	Ordained Bishop	Peter Zhang Zhiyong	Coadjutor Bishop of Fengxiang [Fengsiang], China	Coadjutor Bishop Emeritus
7 Jan	86.4	Died	Joseph Bernard Brunini †	Bishop Emeritus of Jackson, Mississippi, USA
	60.0	Ordained Bishop	Roberto Gomes Guimarães †	Bishop of Campos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	54.8	Ordained Bishop	Gregorios Elias Tabé †	Titular Bishop of Batnae dei Siri	Archbishop Emeritus of Damas (Syrian), Syria
	58.4	Ordained Bishop	Franz Vorrath †	Titular Bishop of Vicus Aterii	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Essen, Germany
	51.1	Ordained Bishop	Ignace Joseph III (Ephrem) Younan	Bishop of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark (Syrian), USA	Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon
8 Jan	68.5	Died	Guy Gérard Deroubaix †	Bishop of Saint-Denis, France
8 Jan	85.4	Died	Alberto Frederico Etges †	Bishop Emeritus of Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
9 Jan	59.4	Appointed	Rafael Palmero Ramos †	Bishop of Palencia, Spain	Bishop Emeritus of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain
9 Jan	68.5	Resigned	Joseph Robert Rodericks, S.J. †	Bishop of Jamshedpur, India	Bishop Emeritus
10 Jan	91.9	Died	Laurenz Böggering †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Münster, Germany
11 Jan	47.9	Appointed	Paul Choi Deok-ki	Coadjutor Bishop of Suwon, Korea (South)	Bishop Emeritus
	59.2	Appointed	Paulinus Costa †	Bishop of Rajshahi, Bangladesh	Archbishop Emeritus of Dhaka, Bangladesh
	61.0	Appointed	Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja, S.J.	Archbishop of Jakarta, Indonesia	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	54.5	Appointed	Aloysius Paul D’Souza	Auxiliary Bishop of Mangalore, India	Bishop Emeritus
	54.5	Appointed	Aloysius Paul D’Souza	Titular Bishop of Dura	Bishop Emeritus of Mangalore, India
	68.9	Appointed	Robert-Marie Gay, M. Afr. †	Bishop of Kabale, Uganda	Bishop Emeritus
	43.9	Appointed	Lumen Monteiro, C.S.C.	Bishop of Agartala, India
12 Jan	77.7	Retired	Francisco Maria Aguilera González †	Auxiliary Bishop of México, Federal District	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
13 Jan	48.9	Installed	Riccardo Fontana	Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, Italy
	28.6	Ordained Priest	Darley José Kummer	Priest of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	Auxiliary Bishop
	55.1	Appointed	Rafael Romo Muñoz	Bishop of Tijuana, Baja California Norte, México	Archbishop Emeritus of Tijuana, Baja California Norte, México
14 Jan	76.1	Died	Myron Michael Daciuk, O.S.B.M. †	Bishop of Edmonton (Ukrainian), Alberta, Canada
	28.0	Solemn Vows	Jorge Enrique Izaguirre Rafael, C.S.C.	Member of Congregation of Holy Cross	Bishop of Chosica, Peru
	57.4	Installed	Georges Kahhalé Zouhaïraty, B.A.	Apostolic Exarch of Venezuela (Melkite Greek)	Apostolic Exarch Emeritus
16 Jan	75.0	Retired	Jean-Berchmans-Marcel-Yves-Marie-Bernard Chabbert, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Perpignan-Elne, France	Bishop Emeritus
16 Jan	60.3	Succeeded	André Louis Fort †	Bishop of Perpignan-Elne, France	Bishop Emeritus of Orléans, France
17 Jan	94.5	Died	Anacleto Cazzaniga †	Archbishop Emeritus of Urbino, Italy
	70.9	Died	Mario Miglietta †	Bishop Emeritus of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca, Italy
	54.4	Appointed	José Moreira de Melo †	Bishop of Itapeva, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	68.8	Ordained Bishop	Cornelius John Pasichny, O.S.B.M. †	Bishop of Saskatoon (Ukrainian), Canada	Bishop Emeritus of Toronto (Ukrainian), Canada
18 Jan	95.9	Died	João Crisóstomo Gomes de Almeida †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Viseu, Portugal
	56.4	Incardinated	Pavel Hájek †	Priest of Czech Republic (Ruthenian)	Bishop
	72.7	Appointed	Ivan Ljavinec †	Apostolic Exarch of Czech Republic (Ruthenian)	Apostolic Exarch Emeritus
	72.7	Appointed	Ivan Ljavinec †	Titular Bishop of Acalissus	Apostolic Exarch Emeritus of Czech Republic (Ruthenian)
20 Jan	65.0	Resigned	Cirilo Reyes Almario †	Bishop of Malolos, Philippines	Bishop Emeritus
	28.8	Ordained Priest	Fernando Barbosa dos Santos, C.M.	Priest of Congregation of the Mission	Bishop of Palmares, Pernambuco, Brazil
	60.3	Ordained Bishop	Jacinto Tomás de Carvalho Botelho	Titular Bishop of Tacia Montana	Bishop Emeritus of Lamego, Portugal
	44.9	Ordained Bishop	Jesús Alfonso Guerrero Contreras, O.F.M. Cap.	Titular Bishop of Leptiminus	Bishop of Barinas, Venezuela
21 Jan	35.0	Ordained Priest	Gerard Maximin County, C.S.Sp.	Priest of Congregation of the Holy Spirit	Bishop of Kingstown, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Antilles
23 Jan	50.1	Appointed	John Raymond Manz †	Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, Illinois, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	50.1	Appointed	John Raymond Manz †	Titular Bishop of Mulia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Chicago, Illinois, USA
	64.0	Installed	Michael Angelo Saltarelli †	Bishop of Wilmington, Delaware, USA	Bishop Emeritus
24 Jan	62.0	Appointed	Robert Patrick Maginnis †	Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	62.0	Appointed	Robert Patrick Maginnis †	Titular Bishop of Siminina	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
	49.7	Appointed	Joseph Francis Martino	Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
	49.7	Appointed	Joseph Francis Martino	Titular Bishop of Cellae in Mauretania	Bishop Emeritus of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
25 Jan	65.2	Ordained Bishop	Carl Frederick Mengeling †	Bishop of Lansing, Michigan, USA	Bishop Emeritus
26 Jan	90.8	Died	Thomas Joseph Brosnahan, C.S.Sp. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Freetown and Bo, Sierra Leone
26 Jan	54.6	Ordained Bishop	Robert Nugent Lynch	Bishop of Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA	Bishop Emeritus
27 Jan	31.1	Ordained Deacon	Ronald Gerhardus Wilhelmus Cornelissen	Deacon of Utrecht, Netherlands	Bishop of Groningen-Leeuwarden, Netherlands
	28.6	Ordained Priest	Samuel Ferreira de Lima, O.F.M.	Priest of Order of Friars Minor	Auxiliary Bishop of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
	50.9	Ordained Bishop	Dionisio Guillermo García Ibáñez	Bishop of Santisimo Salvador de Bayamo y Manzanillo, Cuba	Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba
	32.7	Ordained Priest	Teodoro Gómez Rivera	Priest of Choluteca, Honduras	Bishop
28 Jan	62.7	Installed	Giuseppe Chiaretti †	Archbishop of Perugia-Città della Pieve, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
29 Jan	63.2	Appointed	Francis Arinze	Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni della Pigna	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
	73.4	Appointed	Rosalio José Castillo Lara, S.D.B. †	Cardinal-Priest of Nostra Signora di Coromoto in San Giovanni di Dio	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State
	71.9	Appointed	Andrzej Maria Deskur †	Cardinal-Priest of San Cesareo in Palatio	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications
	78.0	Appointed	Édouard Gagnon, P.S.S. †	Cardinal-Priest of San Marcello	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Family
	79.6	Appointed	Jean Jérôme Hamer, O.P. †	Cardinal-Priest of San Saba	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
	80.4	Appointed	Antonio Innocenti †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Aquiro	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Clergy
	71.9	Appointed	Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria delle Grazie alle Fornaci fuori Porta Cavalleggeri	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
	84.6	Appointed	Paul Augustin Mayer, O.S.B. †	Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Anselmo all’Aventino	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”
	65.4	Appointed	Paul Joseph Jean Poupard	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Culture
	85.4	Appointed	Alfons Maria Stickler, S.D.B. †	Cardinal-Priest of San Giorgio in Velabro	Cardinal, Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archive
	71.8	Appointed	Jozef Tomko †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Sabina	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses
30 Jan	84.6	Died	Pierre-Francis-Lucien-Anatole Boillon †	Bishop Emeritus of Verdun, France
31 Jan	59.6	Appointed	Giuseppe Mani	Archbishop of Italy, Military	Archbishop Emeritus of Cagliari, Italy
	59.6	Appointed	Giuseppe Mani	Titular Archbishop of Zaba	Archbishop Emeritus of Cagliari, Italy
	64.9	Resigned	Giovanni Marra †	Archbishop of Italy, Military	Archbishop Emeritus of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela, Italy

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