The Year of Our Lord 2025

Bishop Events

October

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

1 Oct 50.1 Died José Antonio Álvarez Sánchez † Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid, Spain

47.5 Appointed Ihor Rantsya Bishop of Saint Vladimir-Le-Grand de Paris (Ukrainian) Bishop-Elect

48.1 Appointed Jenrry Johel Velásquez Hernández Apostolic Administrator of Yoro, Honduras Bishop of La Ceiba, Honduras

2 Oct 100.0 Installed Angelo Acerbi Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Angeli Custodi a Città Giardino Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio

3 Oct 72.9 Installed Sebastian Vadakel, M.S.T. Archbishop of Ujjain (Syro-Malabar), India

4 Oct 54.0 Appointed Edwin Oracion Panergo Bishop of Boac, Philippines Bishop-Elect

60.8 Installed Andrzej Przybylski Archbishop of Katowice, Poland

73.6 Ceased Marek Szkudło Administrator of Katowice, Poland Auxiliary Bishop

5 Oct 62.7 Installed Domenico Battaglia Cardinal-Priest of San Marco in Agro Laurentino Cardinal, Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy

6 Oct 77.4 Retired Guy Harpigny Bishop of Tournai {Doornik}, Belgium Bishop Emeritus

51.9 Appointed Fabien Lejeusne, A.A. Bishop of Namur {Namen}, Belgium Bishop-Elect

51.7 Appointed Frédéric Pierre Rossignol, C.S.Sp. Bishop of Tournai {Doornik}, Belgium Bishop-Elect

77.3 Retired Pierre Warin Bishop of Namur {Namen}, Belgium Bishop Emeritus

7 Oct 76.8 Appointed Antonino Eugénio Fernandes Dias Apostolic Administrator of Portalegre-Castelo Branco, Portugal Bishop Emeritus

76.8 Retired Antonino Eugénio Fernandes Dias Bishop of Portalegre-Castelo Branco, Portugal Bishop Emeritus

56.2 Appointed Pedro Alexandre Simões Gouveia Fernandes, C.S.Sp. Bishop of Portalegre-Castelo Branco, Portugal Bishop-Elect

63.2 Appointed Luis Carlos Lerma Martínez Bishop of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, México Bishop-Elect

84.1 Ceased Bernard Blasius Moras Apostolic Administrator of Mysore, India Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore, India

66.1 Installed Francis Serrao, S.J. Bishop of Mysore, India

9 Oct 94.9 Died Victor Rafael de la Barra Tagle, S.V.D. † Prelate Emeritus of Illapel, Chile

66.9 Installed Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi, S.V.D. Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni Leonardi Cardinal, Archbishop of Tōkyō, Japan

10 Oct 63.5 Resigned José Antonio Canales Motiño Bishop of Danlí, Honduras Bishop Emeritus

62.4 Appointed Teodoro Gómez Rivera Apostolic Administrator of Danlí, Honduras Bishop of Choluteca, Honduras

11 Oct 60.8 Ordained Bishop Ronald Gerhardus Wilhelmus Cornelissen Bishop of Groningen-Leeuwarden, Netherlands

53.0 Installed Gilvan Pereira Rodrigues Auxiliary Bishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil

68.3 Installed Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle Cardinal-Bishop of Albano Cardinal, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization

12 Oct 56.4 Installed José Arturo Cepeda Escobedo Auxiliary Bishop of San Antonio, Texas, USA

13 Oct 90.4 Died Michael Patrick Olatunji Fagun † Bishop Emeritus of Ekiti, Nigeria

15 Oct 88.8 Died Edward Joseph Gilbert, C.Ss.R. † Archbishop Emeritus of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Antilles

67.8 Installed Filippo Iannone, O. Carm. Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops

67.8 Installed Filippo Iannone, O. Carm. President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops

55.7 Ordained Bishop Ignatius Wu Jianlin Auxiliary Bishop of Shanghai [Shanghai], China

16 Oct 61.2 Appointed Sylvain Jean-Luc Bataille, S.J.M.V. Archbishop of Bourges, France

17 Oct 91.6 Died Alfred Gonti Pius Datubara, O.F.M. Cap. † Archbishop Emeritus of Medan, Indonesia

62.7 Appointed Josef Grünwidl Archbishop of Wien {Vienna}, Austria Archbishop-Elect

18 Oct 70.0 Installed Luis Gerardo Cabrera Herrera, O.F.M. Cardinal-Priest of Sacra Famiglia di Nazareth a Centocelle Cardinal, Archbishop of Guayaquil, Ecuador

68.6 Installed Fernando Natalio Chomalí Garib Cardinal-Priest of San Mauro Abate Cardinal, Archbishop of Santiago de Chile

63.7 Succeeded Selvarajan Dasan Bishop of Neyyattinkara, India

64.3 Ordained Bishop Michel Jean-Paul Guillaud Bishop of Constantine (-Hippone), Algeria Bishop-Elect

55.9 Appointed Carlos Tomás Morel Diplán Coadjutor Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

64.1 Ordained Bishop Pedro Cesário Palma, O.F.M. Cap. Bishop of Jardim, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

60.9 Ordained Bishop Pavol Šajgalík, O.F.M. Cap. Bishop of Slovakia, Military

75.1 Retired Vincent Samuel Bishop of Neyyattinkara, India Bishop Emeritus

55.4 Installed Wojciech Skibicki Bishop of Elbląg, Poland

19 Oct 59.5 Installed Pierre-Antoine Étienne Marie Bozo Coadjutor Bishop of La Rochelle (-Saintes), France

75.4 Ceased François Joseph Marie Jacolin, M.D.P. Apostolic Administrator of La Rochelle (-Saintes), France Bishop Emeritus of Luçon, France

156.5 Canonized St. Ignatius (Choukrallah) Maloyan, I.C.P.B. † Archbishop of Mardin (Armenian), Turkey

66.6 Installed Pablo Virgilio Siongco David Cardinal-Priest of Trasfigurazione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo Cardinal, Bishop of Kalookan, Philippines

58.5 Installed Sebastian Vaniyapurackal Archbishop of Kalyan (Syro-Malabar), India

20 Oct 86.0 Died Edoardo Menichelli † Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Ancona-Osimo, Italy

61.3 Appointed Mark William O’Connell Bishop of Albany, New York, USA

77.3 Retired Edward Bernard Scharfenberger Bishop of Albany, New York, USA Bishop Emeritus

21 Oct 81.7 Died Warlito Itucas Cajandig † Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Calapan, Philippines

66.6 Appointed Nicholas Gilbert Erskine Hudson Bishop of Plymouth, England, Great Britain

97.0 Died István Katona † Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Eger, Hungary

22 Oct 63.3 Resigned George Bugeja, O.F.M. Vicar Apostolic of Tripoli, Libya Vicar Apostolic Emeritus

53.7 Appointed Magdi Helmy Ibrahim Mansour, O.F.M. Apostolic Administrator of Tripoli, Libya

56.6 Appointed Jean-Pierre Tanoh Tiémélé Bishop of Abengourou, Côte d’Ivoire Bishop-Elect

72.1 Died Charles Martin Wamika † Bishop of Jinja, Uganda

65.9 Appointed Alexis Youlo Touabli Bishop of San Pedro-en-Côte d’Ivoire

65.9 Appointed Alexis Youlo Touabli Apostolic Administrator of Agboville, Côte d’Ivoire Bishop of San Pedro-en-Côte d’Ivoire

75.8 Retired Gbaya Boniface Ziri Bishop of Abengourou, Côte d’Ivoire Bishop Emeritus

23 Oct 93.0 Died Bertrand Blanchet † Archbishop Emeritus of Rimouski, Québec, Canada

57.9 Appointed Franklin Misael Betancourt Bishop of Tumaco, Colombia Bishop-Elect

24 Oct 90.9 Died Julius Babatunde Adelakun † Bishop Emeritus of Oyo, Nigeria

25 Oct 52.8 Appointed George Luís Amaral Muniz Bishop of Propriá, Sergipe, Brazil Bishop-Elect

75.0 Retired Horst Eberlein Auxiliary Bishop of Hamburg, Germany Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

64.0 Appointed Stephen Eustace Victor Fernandes Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay, India Auxiliary Bishop-Elect

64.0 Appointed Stephen Eustace Victor Fernandes Titular Bishop of Abbir Maius Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Bombay, India

55.0 Appointed Antony Kattiparambil Bishop of Cochin, India Bishop-Elect

49.4 Ceased Antony Prince Panengaden Archiepiscopal Administrator of Adilabad (Syro-Malabar), India Archbishop of Shamshabad (Syro-Malabar), India

52.7 Appointed Jean Nicolas Rakotojaona Coadjutor Archbishop of Fianarantsoa, Madagascar

56.6 Ordained Bishop Joseph Lukose Thachaparambath, C.M.I. Bishop of Adilabad (Syro-Malabar), India

The future events listed below have been publicly announced, but are subject to change.

26 Oct 49.4 Installed Antony Prince Panengaden Archbishop of Shamshabad (Syro-Malabar), India

55.4 Ordained Bishop Mirosław Stanisław Wachowski Titular Archbishop of Villamagna in Proconsulari Apostolic Nuncio to Iraq

28 Oct 66.1 Ceased Robert Alan Kurwicki Administrator of Jefferson City, Missouri, USA

56.1 Ordained Bishop Ralph Bernard O’Donnell Bishop of Jefferson City, Missouri, USA Bishop-Elect

31 Oct 59.6 Installed Engelberto Polino Sánchez Bishop of Tepic, Nayarit, México

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Oct	50.1	Died	José Antonio Álvarez Sánchez †	Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid, Spain
47.5	Appointed	Ihor Rantsya	Bishop of Saint Vladimir-Le-Grand de Paris (Ukrainian)	Bishop-Elect
48.1	Appointed	Jenrry Johel Velásquez Hernández	Apostolic Administrator of Yoro, Honduras	Bishop of La Ceiba, Honduras
2 Oct	100.0	Installed	Angelo Acerbi	Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Angeli Custodi a Città Giardino	Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio
3 Oct	72.9	Installed	Sebastian Vadakel, M.S.T.	Archbishop of Ujjain (Syro-Malabar), India
4 Oct	54.0	Appointed	Edwin Oracion Panergo	Bishop of Boac, Philippines	Bishop-Elect
60.8	Installed	Andrzej Przybylski	Archbishop of Katowice, Poland
73.6	Ceased	Marek Szkudło	Administrator of Katowice, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop
5 Oct	62.7	Installed	Domenico Battaglia	Cardinal-Priest of San Marco in Agro Laurentino	Cardinal, Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy
6 Oct	77.4	Retired	Guy Harpigny	Bishop of Tournai {Doornik}, Belgium	Bishop Emeritus
51.9	Appointed	Fabien Lejeusne, A.A.	Bishop of Namur {Namen}, Belgium	Bishop-Elect
51.7	Appointed	Frédéric Pierre Rossignol, C.S.Sp.	Bishop of Tournai {Doornik}, Belgium	Bishop-Elect
77.3	Retired	Pierre Warin	Bishop of Namur {Namen}, Belgium	Bishop Emeritus
7 Oct	76.8	Appointed	Antonino Eugénio Fernandes Dias	Apostolic Administrator of Portalegre-Castelo Branco, Portugal	Bishop Emeritus
76.8	Retired	Antonino Eugénio Fernandes Dias	Bishop of Portalegre-Castelo Branco, Portugal	Bishop Emeritus
56.2	Appointed	Pedro Alexandre Simões Gouveia Fernandes, C.S.Sp.	Bishop of Portalegre-Castelo Branco, Portugal	Bishop-Elect
63.2	Appointed	Luis Carlos Lerma Martínez	Bishop of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, México	Bishop-Elect
84.1	Ceased	Bernard Blasius Moras	Apostolic Administrator of Mysore, India	Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore, India
66.1	Installed	Francis Serrao, S.J.	Bishop of Mysore, India
9 Oct	94.9	Died	Victor Rafael de la Barra Tagle, S.V.D. †	Prelate Emeritus of Illapel, Chile
66.9	Installed	Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi, S.V.D.	Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni Leonardi	Cardinal, Archbishop of Tōkyō, Japan
10 Oct	63.5	Resigned	José Antonio Canales Motiño	Bishop of Danlí, Honduras	Bishop Emeritus
62.4	Appointed	Teodoro Gómez Rivera	Apostolic Administrator of Danlí, Honduras	Bishop of Choluteca, Honduras
11 Oct	60.8	Ordained Bishop	Ronald Gerhardus Wilhelmus Cornelissen	Bishop of Groningen-Leeuwarden, Netherlands
53.0	Installed	Gilvan Pereira Rodrigues	Auxiliary Bishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
68.3	Installed	Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle	Cardinal-Bishop of Albano	Cardinal, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization
12 Oct	56.4	Installed	José Arturo Cepeda Escobedo	Auxiliary Bishop of San Antonio, Texas, USA
13 Oct	90.4	Died	Michael Patrick Olatunji Fagun †	Bishop Emeritus of Ekiti, Nigeria
15 Oct	88.8	Died	Edward Joseph Gilbert, C.Ss.R. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Antilles
67.8	Installed	Filippo Iannone, O. Carm.	Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops
67.8	Installed	Filippo Iannone, O. Carm.	President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America	Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops
55.7	Ordained Bishop	Ignatius Wu Jianlin	Auxiliary Bishop of Shanghai [Shanghai], China
16 Oct	61.2	Appointed	Sylvain Jean-Luc Bataille, S.J.M.V.	Archbishop of Bourges, France
17 Oct	91.6	Died	Alfred Gonti Pius Datubara, O.F.M. Cap. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Medan, Indonesia
62.7	Appointed	Josef Grünwidl	Archbishop of Wien {Vienna}, Austria	Archbishop-Elect
18 Oct	70.0	Installed	Luis Gerardo Cabrera Herrera, O.F.M.	Cardinal-Priest of Sacra Famiglia di Nazareth a Centocelle	Cardinal, Archbishop of Guayaquil, Ecuador
68.6	Installed	Fernando Natalio Chomalí Garib	Cardinal-Priest of San Mauro Abate	Cardinal, Archbishop of Santiago de Chile
63.7	Succeeded	Selvarajan Dasan	Bishop of Neyyattinkara, India
64.3	Ordained Bishop	Michel Jean-Paul Guillaud	Bishop of Constantine (-Hippone), Algeria	Bishop-Elect
55.9	Appointed	Carlos Tomás Morel Diplán	Coadjutor Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
64.1	Ordained Bishop	Pedro Cesário Palma, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Jardim, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
60.9	Ordained Bishop	Pavol Šajgalík, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Slovakia, Military
75.1	Retired	Vincent Samuel	Bishop of Neyyattinkara, India	Bishop Emeritus
55.4	Installed	Wojciech Skibicki	Bishop of Elbląg, Poland
19 Oct	59.5	Installed	Pierre-Antoine Étienne Marie Bozo	Coadjutor Bishop of La Rochelle (-Saintes), France
75.4	Ceased	François Joseph Marie Jacolin, M.D.P.	Apostolic Administrator of La Rochelle (-Saintes), France	Bishop Emeritus of Luçon, France
156.5	Canonized	St. Ignatius (Choukrallah) Maloyan, I.C.P.B. †	Archbishop of Mardin (Armenian), Turkey
66.6	Installed	Pablo Virgilio Siongco David	Cardinal-Priest of Trasfigurazione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo	Cardinal, Bishop of Kalookan, Philippines
58.5	Installed	Sebastian Vaniyapurackal	Archbishop of Kalyan (Syro-Malabar), India
20 Oct	86.0	Died	Edoardo Menichelli †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Ancona-Osimo, Italy
61.3	Appointed	Mark William O’Connell	Bishop of Albany, New York, USA
77.3	Retired	Edward Bernard Scharfenberger	Bishop of Albany, New York, USA	Bishop Emeritus
21 Oct	81.7	Died	Warlito Itucas Cajandig †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Calapan, Philippines
66.6	Appointed	Nicholas Gilbert Erskine Hudson	Bishop of Plymouth, England, Great Britain
97.0	Died	István Katona †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Eger, Hungary
22 Oct	63.3	Resigned	George Bugeja, O.F.M.	Vicar Apostolic of Tripoli, Libya	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
53.7	Appointed	Magdi Helmy Ibrahim Mansour, O.F.M.	Apostolic Administrator of Tripoli, Libya
56.6	Appointed	Jean-Pierre Tanoh Tiémélé	Bishop of Abengourou, Côte d’Ivoire	Bishop-Elect
72.1	Died	Charles Martin Wamika †	Bishop of Jinja, Uganda
65.9	Appointed	Alexis Youlo Touabli	Bishop of San Pedro-en-Côte d’Ivoire
65.9	Appointed	Alexis Youlo Touabli	Apostolic Administrator of Agboville, Côte d’Ivoire	Bishop of San Pedro-en-Côte d’Ivoire
75.8	Retired	Gbaya Boniface Ziri	Bishop of Abengourou, Côte d’Ivoire	Bishop Emeritus
23 Oct	93.0	Died	Bertrand Blanchet †	Archbishop Emeritus of Rimouski, Québec, Canada
57.9	Appointed	Franklin Misael Betancourt	Bishop of Tumaco, Colombia	Bishop-Elect
24 Oct	90.9	Died	Julius Babatunde Adelakun †	Bishop Emeritus of Oyo, Nigeria
25 Oct	52.8	Appointed	George Luís Amaral Muniz	Bishop of Propriá, Sergipe, Brazil	Bishop-Elect
75.0	Retired	Horst Eberlein	Auxiliary Bishop of Hamburg, Germany	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
64.0	Appointed	Stephen Eustace Victor Fernandes	Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay, India	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
64.0	Appointed	Stephen Eustace Victor Fernandes	Titular Bishop of Abbir Maius	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Bombay, India
55.0	Appointed	Antony Kattiparambil	Bishop of Cochin, India	Bishop-Elect
49.4	Ceased	Antony Prince Panengaden	Archiepiscopal Administrator of Adilabad (Syro-Malabar), India	Archbishop of Shamshabad (Syro-Malabar), India
52.7	Appointed	Jean Nicolas Rakotojaona	Coadjutor Archbishop of Fianarantsoa, Madagascar
56.6	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Lukose Thachaparambath, C.M.I.	Bishop of Adilabad (Syro-Malabar), India
The future events listed below have been publicly announced, but are subject to change.
26 Oct	49.4	Installed	Antony Prince Panengaden	Archbishop of Shamshabad (Syro-Malabar), India
55.4	Ordained Bishop	Mirosław Stanisław Wachowski	Titular Archbishop of Villamagna in Proconsulari	Apostolic Nuncio to Iraq
28 Oct	66.1	Ceased	Robert Alan Kurwicki	Administrator of Jefferson City, Missouri, USA
56.1	Ordained Bishop	Ralph Bernard O’Donnell	Bishop of Jefferson City, Missouri, USA	Bishop-Elect
31 Oct	59.6	Installed	Engelberto Polino Sánchez	Bishop of Tepic, Nayarit, México

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