The Year of Our Lord 2022

Bishop Events

October

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Oct	66.0	Installed	John "Joy" Alappat	Bishop of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Chicago (Syro-Malabar), Illinois, USA
74.3	Resigned	Hans-Josef Becker	Archbishop of Paderborn, Germany	Archbishop Emeritus
69.5	Appointed	Francis Assisi Chullikatt	Apostolic Nuncio to Bosnia and Herzegovina
69.5	Appointed	Francis Assisi Chullikatt	Apostolic Nuncio to Montenegro	Apostolic Nuncio to Bosnia and Herzegovina
59.7	Ceased	Bruno Cosme, M.E.P.	Apostolic Administrator of Kompong-Cham, Cambodia	Apostolic Administrator Emeritus
45.7	Ordained Bishop	Eloy Ricardo Domínguez Martínez	Titular Bishop of Nisa in Lycia	Auxiliary Bishop of San Cristobal de la Habana, Cuba
65.3	Installed	José María Gil Tamayo	Coadjutor Archbishop of Granada, Spain	Archbishop
74.9	Retired	Bernard Joseph Germain Marie Ginoux	Bishop of Montauban, France	Bishop Emeritus
74.5	Appointed	Method Paul Kilaini	Apostolic Administrator of Bukoba, Tanzania	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
55.9	Appointed	Bertrand Didier Marie Joseph Lacombe	Apostolic Administrator of Montauban, France	Archbishop of Auch (-Condom-Lectoure-Lombez), France
59.3	Appointed	Domenico Pompili	Apostolic Administrator of Rieti (-S. Salvatore Maggiore), Italy	Bishop of Verona, Italy
59.3	Installed	Domenico Pompili	Bishop of Verona, Italy
59.8	Ordained Bishop	Félix María Ramírez Barajas	Bishop of Málaga-Soatá, Colombia
66.9	Ceased	Misael Vacca Ramirez	Apostolic Administrator of Málaga-Soatá, Colombia	Archbishop of Villavicencio, Colombia
75.3	Retired	Desiderius M. Rwoma	Bishop of Bukoba, Tanzania	Bishop Emeritus
50.4	Installed	Pierre Suon Hangly	Prefect of Kompong-Cham, Cambodia
2 Oct	58.0	Ordained Bishop	Christian Louis André Delarbre	Archbishop of Aix (-Arles), France
3 Oct	95.2	Died	Howard George Tripp †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Southwark, England, Great Britain
4 Oct	66.6	Ordained Bishop	Angelo Giurdanella	Bishop of Mazara del Vallo, Italy
80.0	Retired	Gregorio Rosa Chávez	Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador, El Salvador	Cardinal, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
5 Oct	75.1	Ordained Bishop	Antranig Ayvazian	Bishop of Kamichlié (Armenian), Syria
80.3	Appointed	Jesús García Burillo	Administrator of Ávila, Spain	Bishop Emeritus
6 Oct	80.2	Appointed	Arrigo Miglio	Apostolic Administrator of Iglesias, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Cagliari, Italy
75.0	Retired	Giovanni Paolo Zedda	Bishop of Iglesias, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
7 Oct	50.7	Appointed	Ivan Brient	Auxiliary Bishop of Rennes (-Dol-Saint-Malo), France	Former Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
50.7	Appointed	Ivan Brient	Titular Bishop of Vaison	Former Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Rennes (-Dol-Saint-Malo), France
55.2	Installed	Paulo Cezar Costa	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Bonifacio ed Alessio	Cardinal, Archbishop of Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
88.0	Died	Paul-Mounged El-Hachem †	Apostolic Nuncio
60.7	Appointed	Delfim Jorge Esteves Gomes	Auxiliary Bishop of Braga, Portugal
60.7	Appointed	Delfim Jorge Esteves Gomes	Titular Bishop of Dumium	Auxiliary Bishop of Braga, Portugal
75.4	Retired	Lino Fumagalli	Bishop of Viterbo, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
69.0	Appointed	Orazio Francesco Piazza	Bishop of Viterbo, Italy
42.4	Ceased	Yaacoub Camil Afram Antoine Semaan	Patriarchal Administrator of Le Caire {Cairo} (Syrian), Egypt	Patriarchal Exarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme} (Palestine and Jordan) (Syrian), Palestine
42.4	Ceased	Yaacoub Camil Afram Antoine Semaan	Patriarchal Administrator of Sudan and South Sudan (Syrian)	Patriarchal Exarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme} (Palestine and Jordan) (Syrian), Palestine
45.0	Installed	Ephrem Elie Joseph Warde	Bishop of Le Caire {Cairo} (Syrian), Egypt
45.0	Installed	Ephrem Elie Joseph Warde	Patriarchal Vicar of Sudan and South Sudan (Syrian)	Bishop of Le Caire {Cairo} (Syrian), Egypt
8 Oct	46.6	Succeeded	Paul Thabet Habib Yousif Al Mekko	Bishop of Alquoch (Chaldean), Iraq
54.6	Ordained Bishop	Georges Iskandar, B.S.	Archbishop of Tyr (Melkite Greek), Lebanon
73.5	Appointed	Mikha Pola Maqdassi	Auxiliary Bishop of Baghdad (Chaldean), Iraq	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
73.5	Appointed	Mikha Pola Maqdassi	Titular Bishop of Seert dei Caldei	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Baghdad (Chaldean), Iraq
86.2	Died	Luis Sáinz Hinojosa, O.F.M. †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Cochabamba, Bolivia
9 Oct	67.0	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Kollamparambil	Titular Bishop of Bencenna	Auxiliary Bishop of Shamshabad (Syro-Malabar), India
53.7	Ordained Bishop	Thomas Padiyath	Titular Bishop of Mibiarca	Auxiliary Bishop of Shamshabad (Syro-Malabar), India
183.2	Canonized	St. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini †	Bishop of Piacenza, Italy
50.7	Installed	Bruno Paul Marie Valentin	Coadjutor Bishop of Carcassonne et Narbonne, France	Bishop
10 Oct	63.4	Appointed	Enrique Benavent Vidal	Archbishop of Valencia, Spain
75.4	Retired	Terence John Gerard Brady	Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney, Australia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
76.9	Appointed	Antonio Cañizares Llovera	Apostolic Administrator of Valencia, Spain	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
76.9	Retired	Antonio Cañizares Llovera	Archbishop of Valencia, Spain	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
54.8	Ordained Bishop	Álvaro Chordi Miranda, Adsis	Titular Bishop of Regiana	Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de Chile
59.2	Resigned	Valerio Lazzeri	Bishop of Lugano, Switzerland	Bishop Emeritus
63.4	Appointed	Alain de Raemy	Apostolic Administrator of Lugano, Switzerland	Auxiliary Bishop of Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg (Freiburg), Switzerland
11 Oct	64.4	Appointed	Peter Gwilym Collins	Bishop of East Anglia, England, Great Britain
74.7	Retired	Ivan Devčić	Archbishop of Rijeka, Croatia	Archbishop Emeritus
78.5	Retired	Alan Stephen Hopes	Bishop of East Anglia, England, Great Britain	Bishop Emeritus
55.0	Succeeded	Mate Uzinić	Archbishop of Rijeka, Croatia
12 Oct	51.2	Ordained Bishop	François Elias Beyrouti	Bishop of Newton (Our Lady of the Annunciation in Boston) (Melkite Greek), USA
13 Oct	75.0	Retired	Pius Mlungisi Dlungwane	Bishop of Mariannhill, South Africa	Bishop Emeritus
56.1	Succeeded	Neil Augustine Frank, O.M.I.	Bishop of Mariannhill, South Africa
53.4	Installed	Daniel Lotfy Khella	Bishop of Assiut {Lycopolis} (Coptic), Egypt
15 Oct	79.7	Ceased	Ciriaco Benavente Mateos	Apostolic Administrator of Plasencia, Spain	Bishop Emeritus of Albacete, Spain
54.6	Ordained Bishop	Ernesto Jesús Brotóns Tena	Bishop of Plasencia, Spain
47.3	Appointed	Juan Fernando Franco Sánchez	Bishop of Caldas, Colombia
66.6	Installed	Angelo Giurdanella	Bishop of Mazara del Vallo, Italy
54.6	Appointed	Emmanuel Marie Anne Alain Gobilliard	Bishop of Digne (-Riez-Sisteron), France
55.6	Appointed	Eduardo Gonzalo Redondo Castanera, H.S.O.D.	Auxiliary Bishop of Quilmes, Argentina
55.6	Appointed	Eduardo Gonzalo Redondo Castanera, H.S.O.D.	Titular Bishop of Tingaria	Auxiliary Bishop of Quilmes, Argentina
55.6	Ordained Bishop	Víctor Emiliano Villegas Suclupe, O.A.R.	Prelate of Chota, Peru
16 Oct	93.2	Died	Malcolm Patrick Galt, C.S.Sp. †	Bishop Emeritus of Bridgetown, Barbados, Antilles
17 Oct	80.4	Ceased	Álvaro Corrada del Río, S.J.	Apostolic Administrator of Arecibo, Puerto Rico	Bishop Emeritus of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
61.1	Installed	Alberto Arturo Figueroa Morales	Bishop of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
50.7	Appointed	Ángel Maximiliano Ordoñez Sigcho	Auxiliary Bishop of Quito, Ecuador
50.7	Appointed	Ángel Maximiliano Ordoñez Sigcho	Titular Bishop of Phelbes	Auxiliary Bishop of Quito, Ecuador
85.2	Died	Franz Vorrath †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Essen, Germany
18 Oct	76.4	Retired	André Gazaille	Bishop of Nicolet, Québec, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
65.6	Appointed	Daniel Jodoin	Bishop of Nicolet, Québec, Canada
19 Oct	51.2	Installed	François Elias Beyrouti	Bishop of Newton (Our Lady of the Annunciation in Boston) (Melkite Greek), USA
88.7	Died	Kassian (Otto) Lauterer, O. Cist. †	Abbot Emeritus of Wettingen-Mehrerau, Austria
76.3	Retired	Antonino Migliore	Bishop of Coxim, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
64.7	Appointed	Ciro Miniero	Coadjutor Archbishop of Taranto, Italy	Archbishop
60.5	Appointed	Otair Nicoletti	Bishop of Coxim, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
60.9	Appointed	Geraldo de Paula Souza, C.SS.R.	Auxiliary Bishop of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
60.9	Appointed	Geraldo de Paula Souza, C.SS.R.	Titular Bishop of Tinista	Auxiliary Bishop of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
20 Oct	69.2	Appointed	Juan José Chaparro Stivanello, C.M.F.	Bishop of Merlo-Moreno, Argentina
22 Oct	88.2	Died	Patrick Coveney †	Apostolic Nuncio
65.9	Installed	Jean-Marc Eychenne	Bishop of Grenoble-Vienne, France
53.8	Appointed	Alessandro Giraudo	Auxiliary Bishop of Torino {Turin}, Italy
53.8	Appointed	Alessandro Giraudo	Titular Bishop of Castra Severiana	Auxiliary Bishop of Torino {Turin}, Italy
56.5	Ceased	Jean-Patrick Iba-Ba	Apostolic Administrator of Franceville, Gabon	Archbishop of Libreville, Gabon
57.5	Ordained Bishop	Hieronymus Emusugut Joya, I.M.C.	Bishop of Maralal, Kenya
48.1	Ceased	Loïc Philippe Lagadec	Administrator of Grenoble-Vienne, France	Auxiliary Bishop of Lyon, France
49.6	Ordained Bishop	Ephrem Ndjoni	Bishop of Franceville, Gabon
61.6	Appointed	Szymon Stułkowski	Bishop of Płock, Poland
23 Oct	53.7	Installed	Maurício da Silva Jardim	Bishop of Rondonópolis - Guiratinga, Mato Grosso, Brazil
61.7	Ceased	Alain Jean Louis Guellec	Administrator of Montpellier (-Lodève-Béziers-Agde-Saint-Pons-de-Thomières), France	Bishop of Montauban, France
68.1	Installed	Norbert José Henri Turini	Archbishop of Montpellier (-Lodève-Béziers-Agde-Saint-Pons-de-Thomières), France
24 Oct	72.0	Appointed	Savio Hon Tai-Fai, S.D.B.	Apostolic Nuncio to Malta
55.6	Appointed	Emile Mushosho Matabaro	Bishop of Doruma-Dungu, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop of Dungu-Doruma, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
25 Oct	52.4	Appointed	Dominic Eibu, M.C.C.I.	Bishop of Kotido, Uganda
77.6	Retired	Giuseppe Filippi, M.C.C.I.	Bishop of Kotido, Uganda	Bishop Emeritus
56.7	Appointed	John-Nhàn Trần	Auxiliary Bishop of Atlanta, Georgia, USA
56.7	Appointed	John-Nhàn Trần	Titular Bishop of Tullia	Auxiliary Bishop of Atlanta, Georgia, USA
26 Oct	56.9	Appointed	Luigi Roberto Cona	Apostolic Nuncio to El Salvador
56.9	Appointed	Luigi Roberto Cona	Titular Archbishop of Oppidum Consilinum	Apostolic Nuncio to El Salvador
58.8	Appointed	Moïse Messan Touho	Bishop of Atakpamé, Togo
27 Oct	93.3	Died	Pedro Nicolás Bermúdez Villamizar, C.I.M. †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
40.4	Appointed	Mykola Semenyshyn	Titular Bishop of Iunca in Mauretania	Auxiliary Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk [Stanislaviv] (Ukrainian), Ukraine
40.4	Confirmed	Mykola Semenyshyn	Auxiliary Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk [Stanislaviv] (Ukrainian), Ukraine
28 Oct	59.1	Appointed	Niall Coll	Bishop of Ossory, Ireland
54.7	Installed	Georges Iskandar, B.S.	Archbishop of Tyr (Melkite Greek), Lebanon
29 Oct	60.2	Appointed	Dominic Ðặng Văn Cầu	Bishop of Thái Bình, Viet Nam
61.7	Appointed	Alain Jean Louis Guellec	Bishop of Montauban, France
78.9	Retired	Leo Laba Ladjar, O.F.M.	Bishop of Jayapura, Indonesia	Bishop Emeritus
61.8	Appointed	Yanuarius Teofilus Matopai You	Bishop of Jayapura, Indonesia
45.9	Appointed	Waldemar Musioł	Auxiliary Bishop of Opole, Poland
45.9	Appointed	Waldemar Musioł	Titular Bishop of Bagis	Auxiliary Bishop of Opole, Poland
76.7	Retired	Pierre Nguyễn Văn Ðệ, S.D.B.	Bishop of Thái Bình, Viet Nam	Bishop Emeritus
60.9	Appointed	Anthony Poola	Apostolic Administrator of Nalgonda, India	Cardinal, Archbishop of Hyderabad, India
48.7	Ordained Bishop	Dariusz Zalewski	Titular Bishop of Hólar	Auxiliary Bishop of Ełk, Poland
31 Oct	82.1	Died	Gentil Delázari †	Bishop Emeritus of Sinop, Mato Grosso, Brazil
73.4	Died	José Nambi †	Bishop of Kwito-Bié, Angola
53.1	Appointed	Fernando Prado Ayuso, C.M.F.	Bishop of San Sebastián, Spain
53.8	Ceased	Wiesław Andrzej Śmigiel	Apostolic Administrator of Płock, Poland	Archbishop of Szczecin-Kamień, Poland
61.6	Installed	Szymon Stułkowski	Bishop of Płock, Poland

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