The Year of Our Lord 2026

Bishop Events

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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
Jan	49.9	Ordained Bishop	Jacob Aba, S.M.	Bishop of Auki, Solomon Islands	Bishop-Elect
1 Jan	75.0	Retired	Salesius Mugambi	Bishop of Meru, Kenya	Bishop Emeritus
	55.7	Succeeded	Jackson Murugara, I.M.C.	Bishop of Meru, Kenya
	80.9	Died	Serafim Shyngo-Ya-Hombo, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop Emeritus of Mbanza Congo, Angola
	68.8	Appointed	Luis Gonzaga Silva Pepeu, O.F.M. Cap.	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Baturité, Ceara, Brazil	Bishop
3 Jan	80.6	Retired	Álvaro Julio Beyra Luarca	Bishop of Santisimo Salvador de Bayamo y Manzanillo, Cuba	Bishop Emeritus
	64.2	Ordained Bishop	Stephen Eustace Victor Fernandes	Titular Bishop of Abbir Maius	Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay, India
	89.2	Died	Hernán Giraldo Jaramillo †	Bishop Emeritus of Buga, Colombia
	49.0	Appointed	Osmany Massó Cuesta	Bishop of Santisimo Salvador de Bayamo y Manzanillo, Cuba	Bishop-Elect
	56.8	Ordained Bishop	Jean-Pierre Tanoh Tiémélé	Bishop of Abengourou, Côte d’Ivoire
4 Jan	57.7	Appointed	Joseph Maluki Mwongela	Coadjutor Bishop of Machakos, Kenya
5 Jan	96.4	Died	Paolo Gillet †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Albano, Italy
6 Jan	92.0	Died	Raffaele Nogaro †	Bishop Emeritus of Caserta, Italy
7 Jan	76.4	Retired	Paul Bernard Bird, C.Ss.R.	Bishop of Ballarat, Australia	Bishop Emeritus
	60.8	Appointed	John Samuel Bonnici	Bishop of Rochester, New York, USA
	61.9	Resigned	Aparecido Donizete de Souza	Auxiliary Bishop of Cascavel, Parana, Brazil	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	66.3	Appointed	Mark William Freeman	Bishop of Ballarat, Australia	Bishop-Elect
	81.6	Died	Domenico Graziani †	Archbishop Emeritus of Crotone-Santa Severina, Italy
	79.3	Retired	Salvatore Ronald Matano	Bishop of Rochester, New York, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	52.3	Appointed	Rumen Ivanov Stanev	Bishop of Sofia e Plovdiv, Bulgaria
8 Jan	75.1	Retired	Adolfo Eduardo José Bittschi Mayer	Auxiliary Bishop of Sucre, Bolivia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	60.7	Appointed	José Roberto Fortes Palau	Archbishop of Sorocaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	62.2	Appointed	Marco Aurélio Gubiotti	Archbishop of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	61.3	Appointed	Prosper Balthazar Lyimo	Bishop of Bariadi, Tanzania
	75.2	Retired	Gil Antônio Moreira	Archbishop of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
9 Jan	59.5	Appointed	Domenico Basile	Bishop of Molfetta-Ruvo-Giovinazzo-Terlizzi, Italy	Bishop-Elect
	75.9	Retired	Domenico Cornacchia	Bishop of Molfetta-Ruvo-Giovinazzo-Terlizzi, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	65.7	Appointed	Sithembele Anton Sipuka	Archbishop of Cape Town {Kaapstad}, South Africa
	96.2	Died	Vincenzo Zarri †	Bishop Emeritus of Forli-Bertinoro, Italy
10 Jan	66.1	Appointed	Felice Accrocca	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino, Italy	Bishop
	66.1	Appointed	Felice Accrocca	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Foligno, Italy	Bishop of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino, Italy
	60.0	Appointed	Joseph Francis Badji	Coadjutor Bishop of Kolda, Senegal	Coadjutor Bishop-Elect
	77.6	Retired	Domenico Sorrentino	Bishop of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	77.6	Retired	Domenico Sorrentino	Bishop of Foligno, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino, Italy
	50.5	Ordained Bishop	Jesús Alberto Torres Ariza	Bishop of San José del Guaviare, Colombia	Bishop-Elect
The future events listed below have been publicly announced, but are subject to change.
14 Jan	74.9	Ceased	Rogelio Cabrera López	Apostolic Administrator of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, México	Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
14 Jan	63.4	Ordained Bishop	Luis Carlos Lerma Martínez	Bishop of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, México	Bishop-Elect
17 Jan	56.1	Ordained Bishop	Samuel Naceno Agcaracar, S.V.D.	Bishop of San Jose, Philippines	Bishop-Elect
	65.2	Ordained Bishop	Simon Almeida	Bishop of Poona, India	Bishop-Elect
	62.1	Installed	Benedito Araújo	Bishop of Campo Maior, Piaui, Brazil
	53.5	Ordained Bishop	Rabindra Kumar Ranasingh	Titular Bishop of Thuburbo Maius	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, India
21 Jan	61.0	Ordained Bishop	Edward Baretto	Coadjutor Bishop of Darjeeling, India	Coadjutor Bishop-Elect
24 Jan	64.5	Ordained Bishop	José Camilo Arbeláez Montoya	Bishop of Vélez, Colombia	Bishop-Elect
	62.9	Ordained Bishop	Josef Grünwidl	Archbishop of Wien {Vienna}, Austria	Archbishop-Elect
	58.2	Ordained Bishop	Márcio Antonio Vidal de Negreiros, O.S.A.	Titular Bishop of Catula	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of São Paulo, Brazil
25 Jan	62.4	Installed	Niall Coll	Bishop of Raphoe, Ireland
26 Jan	63.0	Ceased	Murray Chatlain	Apostolic Administrator of Keewatin-Le Pas, Manitoba, Canada	Archbishop of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
26 Jan	54.6	Ordained Bishop	Susai Jesu, O.M.I.	Archbishop of Keewatin-Le Pas, Manitoba, Canada	Archbishop-Elect
28 Jan	56.3	Installed	Mario Alberto Avilés Campos, C.O.	Bishop of Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
29 Jan	64.6	Installed	José Camilo Arbeláez Montoya	Bishop of Vélez, Colombia	Bishop-Elect
31 Jan	45.0	Ordained Bishop	Marko Kovač	Titular Bishop of Sarda	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Zagreb, Croatia
31 Jan	65.1	Ordained Bishop	Vlado Razum	Titular Bishop of Stagnum	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Zagreb, Croatia
1 Feb	56.4	Ordained Bishop	Celso Alexandre	Titular Bishop of Capsa	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of São Paulo, Brazil
2 Feb	65.2	Ordained Bishop	Gerard Bradley	Titular Bishop of Beverlacum	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Southwark, England, Great Britain
	61.5	Installed	Józef Andrzej Dąbrowski, C.S.M.A.	Bishop of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
	53.1	Ordained Bishop	Antônio Carlos do Nascimento	Titular Bishop of Cibaliana	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil
6 Feb	56.1	Ordained Bishop	Jânison de Sá Santos	Titular Bishop of Cillium	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil
6 Feb	58.5	Installed	Ronald Aldon Hicks	Archbishop of New York, New York, USA
7 Feb	51.7	Ordained Bishop	Evandro Campos Maria	Titular Bishop of Cilibia	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
11 Feb	54.8	Ordained Bishop	Yohanes Hans Monteiro	Bishop of Larantuka, Indonesia	Bishop-Elect
14 Feb	67.5	Installed	Charles Phillip Richard Moth	Archbishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain
14 Feb	60.6	Ordained Bishop	Miro Relota, O.F.M.	Bishop of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Military	Bishop-Elect
15 Feb	48.3	Ordained Bishop	François Halyday Mbouangui	Coadjutor Bishop of Nkayi, Congo	Coadjutor Bishop-Elect
17 Feb	56.0	Ordained Bishop	Peter Dai Bui	Titular Bishop of Ausafa	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Phoenix, Arizona, USA
20 Feb	55.6	Ordained Bishop	James Albert Misko	Bishop of Tucson, Arizona, USA	Bishop-Elect
21 Feb	72.2	Ceased	Guillermo Teodoro Elías Millares	Apostolic Administrator of Piura, Peru	Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru
	68.7	Ordained Bishop	Luciano Maza Huamán	Archbishop of Piura, Peru	Archbishop-Elect
	50.4	Ordained Bishop	Eliéser Antonio Rivero Barrios	Bishop of San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela	Bishop-Elect
22 Feb	66.3	Installed	Lucio Andrice Muandula	Bishop of Chimoio, Mozambique
24 Feb	59.7	Ordained Bishop	John Mario Mesa Palacio	Vicar Apostolic of Leticia, Colombia
24 Feb	52.1	Ordained Bishop	Manuel de Jesus Rodriguez	Bishop of Palm Beach, Florida, USA	Bishop-Elect
27 Feb	54.1	Installed	Salvador González Morales	Bishop of Cancún-Chetumal, Quintana Roo, México
27 Feb	47.7	Ordained Bishop	Vincent Ouma Odundo	Titular Bishop of Giru Marcelli	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Kisumu, Kenya
28 Feb	48.7	Ordained Bishop	Martin Marahrens	Titular Bishop of Cercina	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Hildesheim, Germany
Mar	66.4	Ordained Bishop	Mark William Freeman	Bishop of Ballarat, Australia	Bishop-Elect
4 Mar	59.7	Installed	John Mario Mesa Palacio	Vicar Apostolic of Leticia, Colombia
15 Mar	48.8	Ordained Bishop	Joshy George Pottackal, O. Carm.	Titular Bishop of Ceramussa	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Mainz, Germany
19 Mar	61.0	Installed	John Samuel Bonnici	Bishop of Rochester, New York, USA
20 Mar	56.1	Ordained Bishop	Sergio Roberto Bosco	Titular Bishop of Cissi	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Villa de la Concepción del Río Cuarto, Argentina
21 Mar	65.8	Ordained Bishop	Milton Zonta, S.D.S.	Coadjutor Bishop of Criciúma, Santa Catarina, Brazil	Coadjutor Bishop-Elect

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