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Living Bishop Events

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1934		Felipe Aguirre Franco	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Acapulco, Guerrero, México
1936		Gilbert Marie Michel Méranville	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Fort-de-France (e Saint Pierre), Martinique, Antilles
1937		Piergiuseppe Vacchelli	Born		Official Emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
1945		Maurice Marcel Gardès	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Auch (-Condom-Lectoure-Lombez), France
1945		George Kocherry	Born		Apostolic Nuncio
1946		Pietro Santoro	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Avezzano, Italy
1956	25.7	William Edwin Franklin	Ordained Priest	Priest of Dubuque, Iowa, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Davenport, Iowa, USA
1959		Lucius Hre Kung	Born		Bishop of Hakha, Myanmar
1960		George Cosmas Zumaire Lungu	Born		Bishop of Chipata, Zambia
1961		László Felföldi	Born		Bishop of Pécs, Hungary
1968		Georges Iskandar, B.S.	Born		Archbishop of Tyr (Melkite Greek), Lebanon
1971	22.6	Aloísio Alberto Dilli, O.F.M.	Professed	Member of Order of Friars Minor	Bishop Emeritus of Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
1971		Darío Rubén Quintana Muñiz, O.A.R.	Born		Prelate of Cafayate, Argentina
1972	40.4	José Agustín Ganuza García, O.A.R.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Pauzera	Prelate Emeritus of Bocas del Toro, Panama
1976	27.7	Emanuel Messias de Oliveira	Ordained Priest	Priest of Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Caratinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
1983	48.6	James Anthony Griffin	Appointed	Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, USA	Bishop Emeritus
1988	48.8	Héctor González Martínez	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Antequera, Oaxaca, México	Archbishop Emeritus of Durango, México
1989	24.0	Guido Marini	Ordained Priest	Priest of Genova-Bobbio, Italy	Bishop of Tortona, Italy
1990	20.6	Denilson Geraldo, S.A.C.	Professed	Member of Society of the Catholic Apostolate	Auxiliary Bishop of Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
1990	41.9	Boutros Marayati	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Alep [Beroea, Halab] (Armenian), Syria
1992	48.2	Leonardo Sandri	Appointed	Assessor of the Secretariat of State	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches
1998	45.4	Antônio Muniz Fernandes, O. Carm.	Appointed	Bishop of Guarabira, Paraiba, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
1999	49.3	Antony Pappusamy	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Zaba	Archbishop Emeritus of Madurai, India
2000	33.2	Pascal Chang-Soi, SS.CC.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary	Bishop of Taiohae o Tefenuaenata, French Polynesia, Pacific (Oceania)
2001	59.3	Diego Coletti	Installed	Bishop of Livorno, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Como, Italy
	51.9	Ruben Antonio González Medina, C.M.F.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Caguas, Puerto Rico	Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico
	58.2	Pier Giorgio Micchiardi	Installed	Bishop of Acqui, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
2002	44.8	Sebastian Adayanthrath	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabar), India	Bishop of Mandya (Syro-Malabar), India
2002	44.8	Sebastian Adayanthrath	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Macriana Maior	Bishop of Mandya (Syro-Malabar), India
2004	52.6	Antonio Santarsiero Rosa, O.S.I.	Appointed	Bishop of Huacho, Peru
	58.1	Ángel Francisco Simón Piorno	Appointed	Bishop of Chimbote, Peru	Bishop Emeritus
	56.4	José Eduardo Velásquez Tarazona	Appointed	Bishop of Huaraz, Peru	Bishop Emeritus
2005	51.4	Carlos Alberto de Pinho Moreira Azevedo	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa {Lisbon}, Portugal	Delegate of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences
2005	51.4	Carlos Alberto de Pinho Moreira Azevedo	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Belali	Delegate of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences
2006	50.6	John Barwa, S.V.D.	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Rourkela, India	Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, India
	48.8	Paulo Roberto Beloto	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Formosa, Goias, Brazil	Bishop of Franca, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	49.9	Józef Piotr Kupny	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Vanariona	Archbishop of Wrocław {Breslavia}, Poland
2007	52.1	Jaime Pedro Kohl, P.S.D.P.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Osório, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2007	54.4	Antônio Muniz Fernandes, O. Carm.	Installed	Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
2009	44.9	Grzegorz Kaszak	Appointed	Bishop of Sosnowiec, Poland	Bishop Emeritus
2010	58.3	Matthieu Nguyễn Văn Khôi	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Quy Nhơn (Qui Nhơn), Viet Nam	Bishop
2012	63.7	Froilán Tiberio Casas Ortíz	Appointed	Bishop of Neiva, Colombia	Bishop Emeritus
	55.5	Antonio De Luca, C.Ss.R.	Installed	Bishop of Teggiano-Policastro, Italy
	54.6	Donald Francis Lippert, O.F.M. Cap.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Mendi, Papua New Guinea
2015	53.9	Valdir José de Castro, S.S.P.	Elected	Superior General of Society of St. Paul	Bishop of Campo Limpo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2016	45.2	Wojciech Tomasz Osial	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Cediae	Bishop of Łowicz, Poland
2016	51.9	Jose Pulickal	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Lares	Bishop of Kanjirapally (Syro-Malabar), India
2017	65.6	Giuseppe Giuliano	Installed	Bishop of Lucera-Troia, Italy
	52.9	Juan Manuel González Sandoval, M.N.M.	Appointed	Bishop of Tarahumara, Chihuahua, México
	54.0	Dominique Banlène Guigbile	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Dapaong, Togo
	68.5	Maroun Elias Nimeh Lahham	Resigned	Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	48.5	Wellington de Queiroz Vieira	Ordained Bishop	Prelate of Cristalândia, Goias, Brazil	Bishop of Cristalândia, Goias, Brazil
	77.3	José Nelson Westrupp, S.C.I.	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Santo André, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2018	63.8	Julio Angkel	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Caroline Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Pacific (Oceania)	Bishop
	54.1	Michele Fusco	Installed	Bishop of Sulmona-Valva, Italy
	50.8	Gabriel Mendy, C.S.Sp.	Installed	Bishop of Banjul, Gambia
2019	58.9	Luigi Bianco	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Uganda	Apostolic Nuncio to Slovenia
	62.3	Robert John Byrne, C.O.	Appointed	Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, England, Great Britain	Bishop Emeritus
	76.5	Séamus Cunningham	Retired	Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, England, Great Britain	Bishop Emeritus
2020	51.7	Vicente Ribas Prats	Appointed	Administrator of Ibiza, Spain	Bishop
2022	68.0	William Nolan	Appointed	Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland, Great Britain
2023	65.4	Giovanni Checchinato	Installed	Archbishop of Cosenza-Bisignano, Italy
	52.9	Wilbert Marwein	Appointed	Bishop of Nongstoin, India
	76.7	Giuseppe Piemontese, O.F.M. Conv.	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Cosenza-Bisignano, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Terni-Narni-Amelia, Italy
	55.3	James Shekhar	Appointed	Bishop of Buxar, India
2024	58.3	José Cobo Cano	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Monserrato degli Spagnoli	Cardinal, Archbishop of Madrid, Spain
	51.2	Gélase Armel Kema	Installed	Archbishop of Owando, Congo
	62.4	Pietro Lagnese	Installed	Archbishop of Capua, Italy
	50.7	Raimundo Vanthuy Neto, Ist. del Prado	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas, Brazil

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