Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
2 Apr | 63.5 | Appointed | Mark Benedict Coleridge | Archbishop of Brisbane, Australia |
74.3 | Ceased | Geoffrey Hylton Jarrett | Apostolic Administrator of Brisbane, Australia | Bishop Emeritus of Lismore, Australia |
3 Apr | 60.4 | Appointed | Cástor Oswaldo Azuaje Pérez, O.C.D. † | Bishop of Trujillo, Venezuela |
79.2 | Died | Arduino Bertoldo † | Bishop Emeritus of Foligno, Italy |
81.7 | Died | Michael Bzdel, C.SS.R. † | Archbishop Emeritus of Winnipeg (Ukrainian), Manitoba, Canada |
65.9 | Appointed | Jesús Carlos Cabrero Romero | Archbishop of San Luis Potosí, México |
76.7 | Retired | Vicente Ramón Hernández Peña † | Bishop of Trujillo, Venezuela | Bishop Emeritus |
83.3 | Died | Efraím Basílio Krevey (Krevei), O.S.B.M. † | Bishop Emeritus of São João Batista em Curitiba (Ukrainian), Brazil |
75.7 | Retired | Luis Morales Reyes | Archbishop of San Luis Potosí, México | Archbishop Emeritus |
4 Apr | 52.5 | Appointed | Oscar Omar Aparicio Céspedes | Bishop of Bolivia, Military | Archbishop of Cochabamba, Bolivia |
75.5 | Retired | Gonzalo Ramiro del Castillo Crespo, O.C.D. † | Bishop of Bolivia, Military | Bishop Emeritus |
63.7 | Appointed | Francesco Milito | Bishop of Oppido Mamertina-Palmi, Italy |
52.1 | Appointed | Tulio Luis Ramírez Padilla | Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela | Bishop of Guarenas, Venezuela |
52.1 | Appointed | Tulio Luis Ramírez Padilla | Titular Bishop of Ausuccura | Bishop of Guarenas, Venezuela |
6 Apr | 76.6 | Died | Felipe Fernández García † | Bishop Emeritus of San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife, Spain |
7 Apr | 81.5 | Died | Ignace Moussa I (Basile) Daoud † | Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon |
10 Apr | 89.6 | Died | Luis Aponte Martínez † | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of San Juan de Puerto Rico |
79.2 | Died | Leonardo Mario Bernacchi, O.F.M. † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Camiri, Bolivia |
11 Apr | 55.2 | Appointed | Natale Paganelli, S.X. | Apostolic Administrator of Makeni, Sierra Leone |
83.9 | Died | Agustín Alejo (Aleido) Román Rodríguez † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Miami, Florida, USA |
13 Apr | 86.1 | Died | Mario Rizzi † | Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Bulgaria |
14 Apr | 51.5 | Ordained Bishop | Olivier Jacques Marie de Germay de Cirfontaine | Bishop of Ajaccio, France | Archbishop of Lyon, France |
56.5 | Ordained Bishop | Lorenzo Leuzzi | Titular Bishop of Aemona | Bishop of Teramo-Atri, Italy |
53.6 | Ordained Bishop | John Oballa Owaa | Bishop of Ngong, Kenya |
57.0 | Ordained Bishop | José Manuel Romero Barrios | Titular Bishop of Materiana | Bishop of El Tigre, Venezuela |
50.1 | Ordained Bishop | Luis José Rueda Aparicio | Bishop of Montelibano, Colombia | Archbishop of Bogotá, Colombia |
48.8 | Ordained Bishop | Luciano Russo | Titular Archbishop of Monteverde | Apostolic Nuncio to Panama |
51.0 | Appointed | Marek Solczyński | Apostolic Nuncio to Azerbaijan | Apostolic Nuncio to Tanzania |
38.8 | Ordained Bishop | Linas (Genadijus) Vodopjanovas, O.F.M. | Titular Bishop of Quiza | Bishop of Panevėžys, Lithuania |
56.5 | Ordained Bishop | Matteo Maria Zuppi | Titular Bishop of Villa Nova | Cardinal, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy |
15 Apr | 50.2 | Ordained Bishop | Timothée Bodika Mansiyai, P.S.S. | Titular Bishop of Naiera | Bishop of Kikwit, Congo (Dem. Rep.) |
55.8 | Installed | Airton José dos Santos | Archbishop of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil | Archbishop of Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
53.9 | Ordained Bishop | Sébastien-Joseph Muyengo Mulombe | Titular Bishop of Strathernia | Bishop of Uvira, Congo (Dem. Rep.) |
61.3 | Converted | Carl Leonard Reid | Ordinary of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, Australia |
16 Apr | 82.2 | Died | Antoine Hamid Mourany † | Archbishop Emeritus of Damas (Maronite), Syria |
18 Apr | 91.6 | Died | José Cerviño Cerviño † | Bishop Emeritus of Tui-Vigo, Spain |
53.0 | Appointed | Miguel Ángel D’Annibale † | Apostolic Administrator of Río Gallegos, Argentina | Bishop of San Martín, Argentina |
69.7 | Installed | Arrigo Miglio | Archbishop of Cagliari, Italy | Archbishop Emeritus |
57.4 | Resigned | Juan Carlos Romanin, S.D.B. | Bishop of Río Gallegos, Argentina | Bishop Emeritus |
55.8 | Installed | William Charles Skurla | Archbishop of Pittsburgh (Ruthenian), Pennsylvania, USA |
19 Apr | 47.5 | Ordained Bishop | Joseph Chen Gong’ ao | Bishop of Nanchong [Shunking], China |
21 Apr | 78.9 | Died | Ramón Búa Otero † | Bishop Emeritus of Calahorra y La Calzada-Logroño, Spain |
63.9 | Installed | Froilán Tiberio Casas Ortíz | Bishop of Neiva, Colombia |
86.3 | Installed | Prospero (Stanley) Grech, O.S.A. † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria Goretti |
51.3 | Ordained Bishop | Paul Abel Mamba Diatta | Bishop of Ziguinchor, Senegal |
43.2 | Ordained Bishop | Wiesław Śmigiel | Titular Bishop of Beatia | Bishop of Toruń, Poland |
22 Apr | 84.0 | Installed | Karl Josef Becker, S.J. † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of San Giuliano Martire |
74.0 | Installed | Manuel Monteiro de Castro | Cardinal-Deacon of San Domenico di Guzman | Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary |
72.7 | Installed | John Tong Hon | Cardinal-Priest of Regina Apostolorum | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong [Xianggang], China |
25 Apr | 74.1 | Resigned | José Foralosso, S.D.B. † | Bishop of Marabá, Para, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus |
51.3 | Ordained Bishop | Methodius Qu Ailin | Bishop of Changsha [Changsha], China |
71.9 | Died | Jan Bernard Szlaga † | Bishop of Pelplin, Poland |
26 Apr | 74.1 | Installed | Francesco Coccopalmerio | Cardinal-Deacon of San Giuseppe dei Falegnami | Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts |
28 Apr | 55.8 | Installed | Francesco Alfano | Archbishop of Sorrento-Castellammare di Stabia, Italy |
62.4 | Appointed | Michael Dixon Bhasera | Apostolic Administrator of Gweru, Zimbabwe | Bishop of Masvingo, Zimbabwe |
49.8 | Appointed | Tadeusz Lityński | Auxiliary Bishop of Zielona Góra-Gorzów, Poland | Bishop |
49.8 | Appointed | Tadeusz Lityński | Titular Bishop of Cemerinianus | Bishop of Zielona Góra-Gorzów, Poland |
56.3 | Resigned | Martin Munyanyi | Bishop of Gweru, Zimbabwe | Bishop Emeritus |
50.1 | Installed | Luis José Rueda Aparicio | Bishop of Montelibano, Colombia | Archbishop of Bogotá, Colombia |