The Year of Our Lord 2021

Bishop Events

January to June

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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Jan	60.4	Installed	Erio Castellucci	Bishop of Carpi, Italy	Archbishop of Modena-Nonantola, Italy
	54.1	Ordained Bishop	John Lee Juo-Wang	Bishop of Tainan, Taiwan
	53.6	Appointed	Paul Martin, S.M.	Coadjutor Archbishop of Wellington, New Zealand
	52.4	Appointed	Khalid Rehmat, O.F.M. Cap.	Vicar Apostolic of Quetta, Pakistan
	54.4	Appointed	Kurian Mathew Vayalunkal	Apostolic Nuncio to Algeria
2 Jan	55.0	Ordained Bishop	Roberto José Ferrari	Titular Bishop of Pinhel	Auxiliary Bishop of Tucumán, Argentina
2 Jan	51.5	Installed	Moacir Silva Arantes	Bishop of Barreiras, Bahia, Brazil
3 Jan	59.3	Appointed	Ignace Bessi Dogbo	Archbishop of Korhogo, Côte d’Ivoire
	75.0	Retired	Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz	Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev, Belarus	Archbishop Emeritus
	71.6	Installed	Petrus Canisius Mandagi, M.S.C.	Archbishop of Merauke, Indonesia
	59.1	Installed	Anthony Poola	Archbishop of Hyderabad, India
	56.7	Ordained Bishop	Dorival Souza Barreto Júnior	Titular Bishop of Tyndaris	Auxiliary Bishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
	75.6	Appointed	Kazimierz Wielikosielec, O.P.	Apostolic Administrator of Minsk-Mohilev, Belarus	Auxiliary Bishop of Pinsk, Belarus
4 Jan	66.0	Appointed	David Kamau Ng’ang’a	Apostolic Administrator of Nairobi, Kenya	Auxiliary Bishop
	77.0	Retired	John Njue	Archbishop of Nairobi, Kenya	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	77.6	Died	Guillermo Rodríguez-Melgarejo †	Bishop Emeritus of San Martín, Argentina
	53.7	Appointed	Marek Solarczyk	Bishop of Radom, Poland
	85.2	Died	Antoni Stankiewicz †	Dean Emeritus of the Roman Rota
	75.0	Retired	Henryk Marian Tomasik	Bishop of Radom, Poland	Bishop Emeritus
	60.3	Appointed	Luc René Young Chen Yin, O.M.I.	Apostolic Administrator of Rodrigues, Mauritius
5 Jan	49.4	Appointed	Michael Miabesue Bibi	Bishop of Buéa, Cameroon
5 Jan	100.5	Died	Joseph Tsong Huaide (Zhong Huaide) †	Bishop Emeritus of Sanyuan [Sanyüan], China
6 Jan	59.9	Ordained Bishop	László Felföldi	Bishop of Pécs, Hungary
	50.8	Ordained Bishop	Simon Kim Ju-young	Bishop of Ch’unch’ŏn, Korea (South)
	60.6	Ceased	György Udvardy	Apostolic Administrator of Pécs, Hungary	Archbishop of Veszprém, Hungary
7 Jan	62.9	Installed	Raphy Manjaly	Archbishop of Agra, India
	91.3	Died	Rafael Morales Duque, O.F.M. †	Prefect Emeritus of Guapi, Colombia
	62.2	Appointed	Eugene Martin Nugent	Apostolic Nuncio to Kuwait
	62.2	Appointed	Eugene Martin Nugent	Apostolic Nuncio to Qatar	Apostolic Nuncio to Kuwait
	88.5	Died	Henri Schwery †	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland
8 Jan	69.2	Died	Cástor Oswaldo Azuaje Pérez, O.C.D. †	Bishop of Trujillo, Venezuela
	59.2	Ordained Bishop	François Achille Eyabi	Bishop of Eséka, Cameroon
	64.6	Appointed	Antonio Gómez Cantero	Coadjutor Bishop of Almería, Spain
	57.5	Appointed	Dominique Joseph Mathieu, O.F.M. Conv.	Archbishop of Teheran-Ispahan, Iran
	53.7	Installed	Marek Solarczyk	Bishop of Radom, Poland
9 Jan	54.9	Appointed	Dominique Marie Joseph Blanchet, Ist. del Prado	Bishop of Créteil, France
	47.2	Appointed	Lizardo Estrada Herrera, O.S.A.	Auxiliary Bishop of Cuzco, Peru
	47.2	Appointed	Lizardo Estrada Herrera, O.S.A.	Titular Bishop of Ausuccura	Auxiliary Bishop of Cuzco, Peru
	66.1	Ordained Bishop	Justo Rodríguez Gallego	Titular Bishop of Nomentum	Auxiliary Bishop of Zárate-Campana, Argentina
	73.6	Resigned	Michel Léon Émile Santier	Bishop of Créteil, France	Bishop Emeritus
10 Jan	88.1	Died	Adam Dyczkowski †	Bishop Emeritus of Zielona Góra-Gorzów, Poland
10 Jan	60.6	Installed	Jacques Léon Jean Marie Habert	Bishop of Bayeux (-Lisieux), France
11 Jan	75.0	Retired	Jean-Pierre Marie Cattenoz	Archbishop of Avignon, France	Archbishop Emeritus
	74.2	Died	Luis Adriano Piedrahíta Sandoval †	Bishop of Santa Marta, Colombia
	77.6	Appointed	Georges Paul Pontier	Apostolic Administrator of Avignon, France	Archbishop Emeritus of Marseille, France
	91.9	Died	Oscar Rizzato †	Almoner Emeritus of the Office of Papal Charities
	59.6	Appointed	Bernabé de Jesús Sagastume Lemus, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of San Marcos, Guatemala
12 Jan	58.9	Ordained Bishop	David Joseph Bonnar	Bishop of Youngstown, Ohio, USA
12 Jan	61.3	Died	Florentin Crihălmeanu †	Bishop of Cluj-Gherla (Romanian), Romania
13 Jan	87.9	Died	Mario Cecchini †	Bishop Emeritus of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola, Italy
	65.3	Appointed	Paulo Romeu Dantas Bastos	Bishop of Jequié, Bahia, Brazil
	53.6	Died	Moses Hamungole †	Bishop of Monze, Zambia
	63.2	Appointed	Joaquim Wladimir Lopes Dias	Bishop of Lorena, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	88.0	Died	Eusébio Oscar Scheid, S.C.I. †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	70.0	Died	Philip Tartaglia †	Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland, Great Britain
14 Jan	66.0	Appointed	Giovanni d’Aniello	Apostolic Nuncio to Uzbekistan	Apostolic Nuncio to Russian Federation
14 Jan	79.5	Died	Vincent Paul Logan †	Bishop Emeritus of Dunkeld, Scotland, Great Britain
15 Jan	77.0	Appointed	Gianni Ambrosio	Apostolic Administrator of Massa Carrara-Pontremoli, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Piacenza-Bobbio, Italy
	62.8	Installed	Michael William Fisher	Bishop of Buffalo, New York, USA
	71.6	Resigned	Giovanni Santucci	Bishop of Massa Carrara-Pontremoli, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	72.6	Ceased	Edward Bernard Scharfenberger	Apostolic Administrator of Buffalo, New York, USA	Bishop of Albany, New York, USA
16 Jan	52.9	Installed	Devair Araújo da Fonseca	Bishop of Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	57.5	Ordained Bishop	Tomás Alejo Concepción	Bishop of San Juan de la Maguana, Dominican Republic
	75.8	Retired	Joseph Đình Đúc Đao	Bishop of Xuân Lộc, Viet Nam	Bishop Emeritus
	67.6	Appointed	John Đo Văn Ngân	Bishop of Xuân Lộc, Viet Nam
17 Jan	65.8	Died	Abel Gabuza †	Coadjutor Archbishop of Durban, South Africa
	89.3	Died	Vincent Michael Rizzotto †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA
	47.4	Ordained Bishop	Rumen Ivanov Stanev	Titular Bishop of Simidicca	Auxiliary Bishop of Sofia e Plovdiv, Bulgaria
	70.2	Died	Philip Edward Wilson †	Archbishop Emeritus of Adelaide, Australia
18 Jan	76.7	Retired	Marcello Bartolucci	Secretary of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints	Secretary Emeritus
	61.8	Appointed	Fabio Fabene	Secretary of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
	65.2	Died	Francisco Daniel Rivera Sánchez, M.Sp.S. †	Auxiliary Bishop of México, Federal District
19 Jan	78.2	Died	William Regis Fey, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop Emeritus of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea
19 Jan	59.3	Appointed	Pietro Lagnese	Apostolic Administrator of Ischia, Italy	Bishop of Caserta, Italy
20 Jan	48.6	Ordained Bishop	Nicolás Renán Aguilera Arroyo	Bishop of Potosí, Bolivia
	70.2	Ceased	Tommaso Caputo	Apostolic Administrator of Caserta, Italy	Prelate of Pompei o Beatissima Vergine Maria del Santissimo Rosario, Italy
	77.8	Died	John Baptist Kaggwa †	Bishop Emeritus of Masaka, Uganda
	54.8	Appointed	Strahil Veselinov Kavalenov	Bishop of Nicopoli, Bulgaria	Bishop-Elect
	59.3	Installed	Pietro Lagnese	Bishop of Caserta, Italy
21 Jan	91.8	Died	José Crisologo Sorra †	Bishop Emeritus of Legazpi, Philippines
22 Jan		Appointed	Francesco Airoldi	Apostolic Administrator of Monze, Zambia
	94.0	Died	Jean Assaad Haddad †	Archbishop Emeritus of Tyr (Melkite Greek), Lebanon
	93.9	Died	Alfredo Magarotto †	Bishop Emeritus of Vittorio Veneto, Italy
23 Jan	47.3	Ordained Bishop	Jaime Oswaldo Castillo Villacrés	Vicar Apostolic of Zamora en Ecuador
	57.5	Ordained Bishop	Thomas Halim Habib	Bishop of Sohag (Coptic), Egypt
	47.9	Ordained Bishop	Valter Magno de Carvalho	Titular Bishop of Giufi	Auxiliary Bishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
	59.2	Ceased	Eugeniusz Mirosław Popowicz	Apostolic Administrator of Olsztyn-Gdańsk (Ukrainian), Poland	Archbishop of Przemyśl-Warszawa {-Warsaw} (Ukrainian), Poland
	57.2	Ordained Bishop	Francisco José Tigerino Dávila	Bishop of Bluefields, Nicaragua
	80.2	Installed	Silvano Maria Tomasi, C.S.	Cardinal-Deacon of San Nicola in Carcere	Cardinal, Permanent Observer Emeritus to United Nations Office and Specialized Agencies in Geneva
	48.0	Ordained Bishop	Arkadiusz Trochanowski	Bishop of Olsztyn-Gdańsk (Ukrainian), Poland
24 Jan	57.0	Ceased	Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla	Apostolic Administrator of Wau, South Sudan	Archbishop of Juba, South Sudan
	48.7	Ordained Bishop	Matthew Remijio Adam Gbitiku, M.C.C.I.	Bishop of Wau, South Sudan
	52.5	Installed	Gergely Kovács	Apostolic Administrator of Romania (Armenian)	Archbishop of Alba Iulia, Romania
	86.7	Died	Patrick O’Donoghue †	Bishop Emeritus of Lancaster, England, Great Britain
25 Jan	72.1	Resigned	Joseph Luc André Bouchard	Bishop of Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
	51.9	Appointed	Damian Bryl	Bishop of Kalisz, Poland
	51.7	Ordained Bishop	Ivan Philip Camilleri	Titular Bishop of Teglata in Numidia	Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
	49.3	Ordained Bishop	Stephanus Han Jung Hyun	Titular Bishop of Mozotcori	Auxiliary Bishop of Daejeon {Taejon}, Korea (South)
	50.9	Appointed	Josif Printezis	Archbishop of Naxos, Andros, Tinos e Mykonos, Greece	Archbishop-Elect
	50.9	Appointed	Josif Printezis	Apostolic Administrator of Chios (Scio), Greece	Archbishop-Elect of Naxos, Andros, Tinos e Mykonos, Greece
	79.9	Retired	Nikólaos Printezis	Archbishop of Naxos, Andros, Tinos e Mykonos, Greece	Archbishop Emeritus
	79.9	Retired	Nikólaos Printezis	Apostolic Administrator of Chios (Scio), Greece	Archbishop Emeritus of Naxos, Andros, Tinos e Mykonos, Greece
	60.3	Installed	Giuseppe Satriano	Archbishop of Bari-Bitonto, Italy
26 Jan	85.7	Died	Luc Julian Matthys †	Bishop Emeritus of Armidale, Australia
27 Jan	69.2	Appointed	Peter Abir Antonysamy	Apostolic Administrator of Pondicherry and Cuddalore, India	Bishop of Sultanpet, India
27 Jan	75.5	Retired	Antony Anandarayar	Archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore, India	Archbishop Emeritus
28 Jan	52.4	Appointed	Francisco José Prieto Fernández	Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	52.4	Appointed	Francisco José Prieto Fernández	Titular Bishop of Vergi	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
	73.2	Died	Juan del Río Martín †	Archbishop of Spain, Military
29 Jan	48.4	Appointed	Peter Beňo	Auxiliary Bishop of Nitra, Slovakia	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	48.4	Appointed	Peter Beňo	Titular Bishop of Amudarsa	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Nitra, Slovakia
	55.6	Installed	Hilario González García	Bishop of Saltillo, Coahuila, México
30 Jan	93.2	Died	Rafael Gallardo García, O.S.A. †	Bishop Emeritus of Tampico, Tamaulipas, México
	53.3	Appointed	José Libardo Garcés Monsalve	Apostolic Administrator of Cúcuta, Colombia	Bishop of Málaga-Soatá, Colombia
	58.2	Installed	Víctor Manuel Ochoa Cadavid	Bishop of Colombia, Military
	54.2	Ordained Bishop	Artur Ważny	Titular Bishop of Mazaca	Auxiliary Bishop of Tarnów, Poland
31 Jan	72.1	Removed	Michel Abrass, B.A.	Archbishop of Tyr (Melkite Greek), Lebanon	Archbishop Emeritus
31 Jan	61.0	Appointed	Elie Bechara Haddad, B.S.	Apostolic Administrator of Tyr (Melkite Greek), Lebanon	Archbishop of Saïdā (Sidone) (Melkite Greek), Lebanon
2 Feb	58.0	Installed	Domenico Battaglia	Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy
	80.6	Died	Héctor Epalza Quintero, P.S.S. †	Bishop Emeritus of Buenaventura, Colombia
	66.1	Installed	Dermot Pius Farrell	Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland
	64.2	Ordained Bishop	Martin Kmetec, O.F.M. Conv.	Archbishop of Izmir (Smirne), Turkey
	51.3	Appointed	Inácio Lucas Mwita	Bishop of Gurué, Mozambique	Bishop-Elect
	51.1	Appointed	Joaquim Nhanganga Tyombe	Bishop of Uije, Angola	Bishop-Elect
	63.3	Appointed	Novatus Rugambwa	Apostolic Nuncio to Cook Islands, Pacific (Oceania)	Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand
	59.9	Appointed	Titus Seo Sang-Bum	Bishop of Korea, Military	Bishop-Elect
	54.4	Appointed	Kurian Mathew Vayalunkal	Apostolic Nuncio to Tunisia	Apostolic Nuncio to Algeria
	75.8	Retired	Francis Xavier Yu Soo-il, O.F.M.	Bishop of Korea, Military	Bishop Emeritus
3 Feb	75.0	Retired	Ottorino Assolari, C.S.F.	Bishop of Serrinha, Bahia, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
3 Feb	53.2	Succeeded	Hélio Pereira dos Santos	Bishop of Serrinha, Bahia, Brazil
4 Feb	88.3	Died	Boulos Nassif Borkhoche, S.M.S.P. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Bosra e Haūrān (Melkite Greek), Syria
	94.7	Died	Franz Josef Kuhnle †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany
	76.8	Died	Pierre-Antoine Paulo, O.M.I. †	Bishop Emeritus of Port-de-Paix, Haïti
5 Feb	53.7	Appointed	Mark Gerard Miles	Apostolic Nuncio to Benin
5 Feb	53.7	Appointed	Mark Gerard Miles	Titular Archbishop of Città Ducale	Apostolic Nuncio to Benin
6 Feb	71.5	Installed	Esmeraldo Barreto de Farias, Ist. del Prado	Bishop of Araçuaí (Arassuaí), Minas Gerais, Brazil
	52.0	Appointed	Nathalie Becquart, Xavière	Under Secretary of the Synod of Bishops
	57.6	Ceased	José Carlos Brandão Cabral	Apostolic Administrator of Araçuaí (Arassuaí), Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop of Almenara, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	51.3	Ordained Bishop	Robert Józef Chrząszcz	Titular Bishop of Forconium	Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków {Cracow}, Poland
	62.7	Appointed	Lucien (Luc) Jacques Marie Joseph Crepy, C.I.M.	Bishop of Versailles, France
	78.6	Died	Afonso Fioreze, C.P. †	Bishop Emeritus of Luziânia, Goias, Brazil
	55.0	Installed	Miguel Fernando González Mariño	Bishop of Espinal, Colombia
	65.0	Installed	Victor Lyngdoh	Archbishop of Shillong, India
	59.4	Appointed	Luis Marín de San Martín, O.S.A.	Under Secretary of the Synod of Bishops
	59.4	Appointed	Luis Marín de San Martín, O.S.A.	Titular Bishop of Suliana	Under Secretary of the Synod of Bishops
	46.9	Ordained Bishop	François Abeli Muhoya Mutchapa	Bishop of Kindu, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	62.3	Ceased	Jaime Muñoz Pedroza	Apostolic Administrator of Espinal, Colombia	Bishop of Girardot, Colombia
	55.9	Ceased	Willy Ngumbi Ngengele, M. Afr.	Apostolic Administrator of Kindu, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop of Goma, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	60.9	Installed	Tulio Luis Ramírez Padilla	Bishop of Guarenas, Venezuela
	54.7	Appointed	Edouard Sinayobye	Bishop of Cyangugu, Rwanda	Bishop-Elect
7 Feb	47.3	Ordained Bishop	Georgios Altouvas	Archbishop of Corfù, Zante e Cefalonia, Greece
7 Feb	54.3	Installed	Juan Habib Chamieh, O.M.M.	Bishop of San Charbel en Buenos Aires (Maronite), Argentina
8 Feb	70.3	Resigned	Denis Theurillat	Auxiliary Bishop of Basel {Bâle, Basilea}, Switzerland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
8 Feb	56.5	Appointed	Gerald (Jerry) Lee Vincke	Apostolic Administrator of Dodge City, Kansas, USA	Bishop of Salina, Kansas, USA
9 Feb	79.9	Appointed	Wilfrid Fox Napier, O.F.M.	Apostolic Administrator of Eshowe, South Africa	Cardinal, Archbishop of Durban, South Africa
9 Feb	58.2	Ordained Bishop	Michael Cornelius Otieno Odiwa	Bishop of Homa Bay, Kenya
10 Feb	56.2	Appointed	Guillermo Antonio Cornejo Monzón	Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	56.2	Appointed	Guillermo Antonio Cornejo Monzón	Titular Bishop of Decoriana	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Lima, Peru
	57.7	Appointed	Pascual Limachi Ortiz	Prelate of Corocoro, Bolivia
	51.4	Appointed	Juan José Salaverry Villarreal, O.P.	Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	51.4	Appointed	Juan José Salaverry Villarreal, O.P.	Titular Bishop of Acelum	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Lima, Peru
11 Feb	75.1	Ceased	Roberto Bordi, O.F.M.	Apostolic Administrator of El Beni o Beni, Bolivia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	75.1	Retired	Roberto Bordi, O.F.M.	Auxiliary Bishop of El Beni o Beni, Bolivia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	52.0	Installed	Damian Bryl	Bishop of Kalisz, Poland
	75.5	Retired	Joseph Coutts	Archbishop of Karachi, Pakistan	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	53.6	Ordained Bishop	Nivaldo dos Santos Ferreira	Titular Bishop of Thiava	Auxiliary Bishop of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	52.8	Appointed	António Juliasse Ferreira Sandramo	Apostolic Administrator of Pemba, Mozambique	Auxiliary Bishop of Maputo, Mozambique
	54.9	Ordained Bishop	Larry James Kulick	Bishop of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA
	65.1	Appointed	Luiz Fernando Lisboa, C.P.	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Cachoeiro do Itapemirim, Espirito Santo, Brazil	Bishop
	62.3	Appointed	Eugene Martin Nugent	Apostolic Nuncio to Bahrain	Apostolic Nuncio to Kuwait
	58.3	Installed	Aurelio Pesoa Ribera, O.F.M.	Vicar Apostolic of El Beni o Beni, Bolivia
	57.0	Ceased	Grzegorz Ryś	Apostolic Administrator of Kalisz, Poland	Archbishop of Łódź, Poland
	54.2	Appointed	Benny Mario Travas	Archbishop of Karachi, Pakistan
12 Feb	78.1	Died	Bernard Nsayi †	Bishop Emeritus of Nkayi, Congo
13 Feb	84.0	Ceased	Benedito Beni dos Santos	Apostolic Administrator of Lorena, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	48.8	Ordained Bishop	Júlio César Gomes Moreira	Titular Bishop of Thisiduo	Auxiliary Bishop of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	63.3	Installed	Joaquim Wladimir Lopes Dias	Bishop of Lorena, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	58.1	Ordained Bishop	Carlos Silva, O.F.M. Cap.	Titular Bishop of Summula	Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Brazil
14 Feb	47.3	Installed	Georgios Altouvas	Archbishop of Corfù, Zante e Cefalonia, Greece
	59.4	Installed	Ignace Bessi Dogbo	Archbishop of Korhogo, Côte d’Ivoire
	51.2	Ordained Bishop	Jean-Luc Gérard Garin	Bishop of Saint-Claude, France
	52.0	Ordained Bishop	Noel Saw Naw Aye	Titular Bishop of Methamaucum	Auxiliary Bishop of Yangon, Myanmar
15 Feb	75.2	Retired	Joseph Aind, S.D.B.	Bishop of Dibrugarh, India	Bishop Emeritus
	72.5	Appointed	Joseph Maria Bonnemain, Opus Dei	Bishop of Chur, Switzerland	Bishop-Elect
	65.8	Resigned	Marian Eleganti, O.S.B.	Auxiliary Bishop of Chur, Switzerland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	51.9	Succeeded	Albert Hemrom	Bishop of Dibrugarh, India
	58.8	Appointed	Gary Wayne Janak	Auxiliary Bishop of San Antonio, Texas, USA	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	58.8	Appointed	Gary Wayne Janak	Titular Bishop of Dionysiana	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of San Antonio, Texas, USA
	88.8	Died	Nechan Karakéhéyan, I.C.P.B. †	Ordinary Emeritus of Eastern Europe {Europa Orientale} (Armenian)	Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Greece (Armenian)
	53.4	Appointed	Joseph-Bernard Likolo Bokal’Etumba	Bishop of Lisala, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop-Elect
16 Feb	57.6	Ordained Bishop	Dominique Joseph Mathieu, O.F.M. Conv.	Archbishop of Teheran-Ispahan, Iran
17 Feb	90.9	Died	Joseph Pastor Neelankavil, C.M.I. †	Bishop Emeritus of Sagar (Syro-Malabar), India
18 Feb	54.6	Appointed	Tibor Berta	Bishop of Hungary, Military	Bishop-Elect
	70.2	Resigned	László Bíró	Bishop of Hungary, Military	Bishop Emeritus
	53.9	Appointed	Bohdan Dzyurakh, C.SS.R.	Apostolic Exarch of Deutschland und Skandinavien {Germany and Scandinavia} (Ukrainian)
	75.8	Retired	Piotr Kryk	Apostolic Exarch of Deutschland und Skandinavien {Germany and Scandinavia} (Ukrainian)	Apostolic Exarch Emeritus
19 Feb	55.4	Appointed	Lawrence Subrata Howlader, C.S.C.	Archbishop of Chattogram, Bangladesh
19 Feb	92.8	Died	Joseph Kesenge Wandangakongu †	Bishop Emeritus of Molegbe, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
20 Feb	77.4	Retired	Angelo Comastri	President of the Fabric of St. Peter	Cardinal, President Emeritus
	77.4	Retired	Angelo Comastri	Archpriest of the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano {Saint Peter Basilica}	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Fabric of St. Peter
	55.3	Appointed	Mauro Maria Gambetti, O.F.M. Conv.	Cardinal, President of the Fabric of St. Peter
	55.3	Appointed	Mauro Maria Gambetti, O.F.M. Conv.	Archpriest of the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano {Saint Peter Basilica}	Cardinal, President of the Fabric of St. Peter
	55.5	Ordained Bishop	Luka Sylvester Gopep	Titular Bishop of Muzuca in Byzacena	Auxiliary Bishop of Minna, Nigeria
	75.6	Retired	Robert Sarah	Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
22 Feb	57.1	Ordained Bishop	Manuel González Villaseñor	Titular Bishop of Ploaghe	Auxiliary Bishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
	86.6	Died	Laurindo Guizzardi, C.S. †	Bishop Emeritus of Foz do Iguaçu, Parana, Brazil
	52.3	Ordained Bishop	Eduardo Muñoz Ochoa	Titular Bishop of Satafi	Auxiliary Bishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
24 Feb	71.8	Resigned	Edson de Castro Homem	Bishop of Iguatu, Ceara, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
24 Feb	47.4	Ordained Bishop	Lizardo Estrada Herrera, O.S.A.	Titular Bishop of Ausuccura	Auxiliary Bishop of Cuzco, Peru
25 Feb	92.2	Died	Bede Vincent Heather †	Bishop Emeritus of Parramatta, Australia
25 Feb	82.5	Died	Juan Francisco Sarasti Jaramillo, C.I.M. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Cali, Colombia
26 Feb	68.4	Appointed	Giacomo Cirulli	Bishop of Alife-Caiazzo, Italy	Bishop of Teano-Calvi, Italy
	47.9	Ordained Bishop	Raúl Pizarro	Titular Bishop of Ausana	Auxiliary Bishop of San Isidro, Argentina
	93.0	Died	Yves-Marie Georges René Ramousse, M.E.P. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Phnom-Penh, Cambodia
	71.9	Died	György Snell †	Auxiliary Bishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary
27 Feb	58.7	Ordained Bishop	Philippe Abbo Chen	Vicar Apostolic of Mongo, Chad
	60.6	Ordained Bishop	Norbert Hans Christoph Foerster, S.V.D.	Bishop of Ji-Paraná, Rondonia, Brazil
	99.4	Died	Linus Nirmal Gomes, S.J. †	Bishop Emeritus of Baruipur, India
	53.2	Appointed	Roberto Madrigal Gallegos	Bishop of Tuxpan, Veracruz, México	Bishop-Elect
	48.9	Ordained Bishop	Robert Mogapi Mphiwe	Bishop of Rustenburg, South Africa
	76.0	Retired	Juan Navarro Castellanos	Bishop of Tuxpan, Veracruz, México	Bishop Emeritus
	55.3	Appointed	Luis Gabriel Ramírez Díaz	Bishop of Ocaña, Colombia
28 Feb	55.0	Installed	Dominique Marie Joseph Blanchet, Ist. del Prado	Bishop of Créteil, France
1 Mar	75.0	Retired	Esteban Escudero Torres	Auxiliary Bishop of Valencia, Spain	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	60.1	Died	Emmanuel Félémou †	Bishop of Kankan, Guinea
	55.4	Appointed	Neil Sebastian Scantlebury	Apostolic Administrator of Bridgetown, Barbados, Antilles	Bishop-Elect
2 Mar	65.4	Appointed	Jerome Feudjio	Bishop of Saint Thomas, American Virgin Islands, USA	Bishop-Elect
	53.8	Appointed	Mark Gerard Miles	Apostolic Nuncio to Togo	Apostolic Nuncio to Benin
	64.0	Appointed	Tadeusz Wojda, S.A.C.	Archbishop of Gdańsk, Poland
3 Mar	53.5	Confirmed	Antoine Farès Bou Najem	Archbishop of Antélias (Maronite), Lebanon	Archbishop-Elect
	67.7	Installed	John Đo Văn Ngân	Bishop of Xuân Lộc, Viet Nam
	64.3	Appointed	Martin Krebs	Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland
	64.3	Appointed	Martin Krebs	Apostolic Nuncio to Liechtenstein	Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland
	56.8	Appointed	Duncan Theodore Tsoke	Bishop of Kimberley, South Africa
	65.7	Appointed	Paul Siphiwo Vanqa, S.A.C.	Bishop of Queenstown, South Africa	Bishop-Elect
The future events listed below have been publicly announced, but are subject to change.
7 Mar	51.2	Ordained Bishop	Joaquim Nhanganga Tyombe	Bishop of Uije, Angola	Bishop-Elect
10 Mar	51.0	Ordained Bishop	Josif Printezis	Archbishop of Naxos, Andros, Tinos e Mykonos, Greece	Archbishop-Elect
13 Mar	194.8	Beatified	Mamerto Esquiú y Medina, O.F.M. Obs. †	Bishop of Córdoba (Tucumán), Argentina
19 Mar	72.6	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Maria Bonnemain, Opus Dei	Bishop of Chur, Switzerland	Bishop-Elect
	65.5	Installed	Paulo Romeu Dantas Bastos	Bishop of Jequié, Bahia, Brazil
	54.9	Ordained Bishop	Strahil Veselinov Kavalenov	Bishop of Nicopoli, Bulgaria	Bishop-Elect
	62.9	Ordained Bishop	Wilybard Lagho	Bishop of Malindi, Kenya	Bishop-Elect
	51.7	Ordained Bishop	Mauricio Urrea Carrillo	Bishop of Parral, Chihuahua, México	Bishop-Elect
20 Mar	65.2	Installed	Luiz Fernando Lisboa, C.P.	Bishop of Cachoeiro do Itapemirim, Espirito Santo, Brazil
21 Mar	51.5	Ordained Bishop	Inácio Lucas Mwita	Bishop of Gurué, Mozambique	Bishop-Elect
21 Mar	51.3	Installed	Joaquim Nhanganga Tyombe	Bishop of Uije, Angola	Bishop-Elect
25 Mar	52.6	Ordained Bishop	Khalid Rehmat, O.F.M. Cap.	Vicar Apostolic of Quetta, Pakistan
7 Apr	60.1	Ceased	Rrok Gjonlleshaj	Apostolic Administrator of Kotor (Cattaro), Montenegro	Archbishop of Bar (Antivari), Montenegro
7 Apr	60.9	Ordained Bishop	Ivan Štironja	Bishop of Kotor (Cattaro), Montenegro	Bishop-Elect
9 Apr	60.1	Ordained Bishop	Titus Seo Sang-Bum	Bishop of Korea, Military	Bishop-Elect
10 Apr	52.6	Ordained Bishop	Francisco José Prieto Fernández	Titular Bishop of Vergi	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
11 Apr	62.9	Installed	Lucien (Luc) Jacques Marie Joseph Crepy, C.I.M.	Bishop of Versailles, France
20 Apr	59.0	Ordained Bishop	Gary Wayne Janak	Titular Bishop of Dionysiana	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of San Antonio, Texas, USA
29 Jun	54.5	Ordained Bishop	Wayne Lawrence Lobsinger	Titular Bishop of Gemellae in Numidia	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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