21st day of September

Living Bishop Events

1980 and Later

St. Matthew, apostle and evangelist (Feast)

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1980	29.6	Jean-Luc Brunin	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Lille, France	Bishop of Le Havre, France
1983	29.6	Luis Francisco Miranda Rivera, O. Carm.	Solemn Vows	Member of Order of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel	Bishop of Fajardo-Humacao, Puerto Rico
1985	25.4	Stanisław Jan Dziuba, O.S.P.P.E.	Perpetual Vows	Member of Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit	Bishop of Umzimkulu, South Africa
1985	24.0	Pietro Lagnese	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Capua, Italy	Archbishop
1986	25.5	Hovsep Joseph Bezazian (Bezouzou)	Ordained Priest	Priest	Apostolic Administrator of Greece (Armenian)
1986	32.9	Pedro Ignacio Wolcan Olano	Ordained Priest	Priest of Mercedes, Uruguay	Bishop of Tacuarembó, Uruguay
1991	29.3	John Alphonse Asiedu, S.V.D.	First Vows	Member of Society of the Divine Word	Vicar Apostolic of Donkorkrom, Ghana
	27.0	Gian Luca Perici	Ordained Priest	Priest of Velletri-Segni, Italy	Apostolic Nuncio to Zambia
	29.7	Jean Claude Randrianarisoa	Ordained Priest	Priest of Antananarivo, Madagascar	Bishop Emeritus of Miarinarivo, Madagascar
	49.8	Angelo Scola	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Grosseto, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Milano {Milan}, Italy
1992	36.7	Dmytro (Bohdan) Hryhorak, O.S.B.M.	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat (Order of St. Basil the Great)	Bishop of Buchach {Bučač} (Ukrainian), Ukraine
1993	31.3	César Essayan, O.F.M. Conv.	Perpetual Vows	Priest of Order of Friars Minor Conventual	Vicar Apostolic of Beirut {Bairut}, Lebanon
1993	25.3	Javier Herrera Corona	Ordained Priest	Priest of Autlán, Jalisco, México	Apostolic Nuncio to Congo, Republic of
1996	53.5	Heinz Josef Algermissen	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Labicum	Bishop Emeritus of Fulda, Germany
1996	43.0	Reinhard Marx	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Petina	Cardinal, Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}, Germany
1997	53.3	Raymond W. Field	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Árd Mór	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Dublin, Ireland
	30.7	Djalwana Laurent Lompo	Ordained Priest	Priest of Niamey, Niger	Archbishop of Niamey, Niger
	38.4	Pascal N’Koué	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Natitingou, Benin	Archbishop of Parakou, Benin
	31.8	Thibault Verny	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Paris, France	Archbishop of Chambéry (-Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne-Tarentaise), France
1998	49.5	Blase Joseph Cupich	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Rapid City, South Dakota, USA	Cardinal, Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois, USA
2001	66.3	Manuel Camilo Vial Risopatrón, P. Schönstatt	Appointed	Bishop of Temuco, Chile	Bishop Emeritus
2002	64.4	Vittorino Girardi Stellin, M.C.C.I.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tilarán, Costa Rica	Bishop Emeritus of Tilarán-Liberia, Costa Rica
2002	63.0	Paolino Schiavon	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Trebia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Roma {Rome}, Italy
2003	30.2	Philippe Médard Guiougou	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Saint-Denis, France	Bishop of Basse-Terre (et Pointe-à-Pitre), Guadeloupe, Antilles
2003	66.3	Héctor Luis Gutiérrez Pabón	Installed	Bishop of Engativá, Colombia	Bishop Emeritus
2004	47.2	Robert Anthony Daniels	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of London, Ontario, Canada	Bishop of Grand Falls, Newfoundland, Canada
	47.2	Robert Anthony Daniels	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Scebatiana	Bishop of Grand Falls, Newfoundland, Canada
	45.4	Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda, O.M.I.	Appointed	Archbishop of Windhoek, Namibia
	59.5	Dennis Joseph Sullivan	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Enera	Bishop of Camden, New Jersey, USA
	62.4	Gerald Thomas Walsh	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Altiburus	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of New York, New York, USA
2005	53.5	George Antonysamy	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Sulci	Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor), India
	59.6	Ottorino Assolari, C.S.F.	Appointed	Bishop of Serrinha, Bahia, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	60.1	José Belisário da Silva, O.F.M.	Appointed	Archbishop of São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
	54.8	Jacinto Agcaoili Jose	Appointed	Bishop of Urdaneta, Philippines
2007	32.9	Benoni Ambăruş	Incardinated	Priest of Roma {Rome}, Italy	Auxiliary Bishop
	47.7	Antoni Dziemianko	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Minsk-Mohilev, Belarus	Bishop of Pinsk, Belarus
	61.7	Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz	Appointed	Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev, Belarus	Archbishop Emeritus
	42.5	Joseph Li Shan	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Beijing [Peking], China
	45.5	Michael Mulhall	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Pembroke, Ontario, Canada	Archbishop of Kingston, Ontario, Canada
	47.1	Paolo Pezzi, F.S.C.B.	Appointed	Archbishop of Madre di Dio a Mosca (Moscow), Russian Federation
	47.4	Dominikus Saku	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Atambua, Indonesia
2008	71.2	Giovanni Battista Morandini	Retired	Apostolic Nuncio to Syria	Apostolic Nuncio
2009	63.5	Richard John Grecco	Installed	Bishop of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
2009	56.3	Albert LeGatt	Installed	Archbishop of Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, Canada
2010	49.2	Thomas Eusebios Naickamparampil	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Lares	Bishop of Parassala (Syro-Malankara), India
2011	53.2	Christopher James Coyne	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA	Archbishop of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
	52.5	Charles Jason Gordon	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Bridgetown, Barbados, Antilles	Archbishop of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Antilles
	65.2	Robert Rivas, O.P.	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Bridgetown, Barbados, Antilles	Archbishop Emeritus of Castries, Saint Lucia, Antilles
	67.2	Eugène Lambert Adrian Rixen	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of São Félix, Mato Grosso, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Goiás, Brazil
	60.8	Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, O.F.M.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil	Cardinal, Archbishop of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
	60.8	Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, O.F.M.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Thisiduo	Cardinal, Archbishop of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
	50.2	Lucio Ángel Vallejo Balda	Appointed	Secretary of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See	Secretary Emeritus
	68.1	Giuseppe Versaldi	Appointed	President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Dicastery for Culture and Education
	68.1	Giuseppe Versaldi	Appointed	Archbishop (Personal Title)	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Dicastery for Culture and Education
2012	69.2	Robert Joseph Cunningham	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Rochester, New York, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Syracuse, New York, USA
	45.9	José Rico Pavés	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Mentesa	Bishop of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
	61.3	Kevin William Vann	Appointed	Bishop of Orange in California, USA
2013	51.1	Mirosław Adamczyk	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Sierra Leone	Apostolic Nuncio to Argentina
	72.9	Lorenzo Baldisseri	Appointed	Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops	Cardinal, Secretary General Emeritus
	52.2	Leo William Cushley	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain
	70.1	Joseph Augustine Di Noia, O.P.	Appointed	Adjunct Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith	Secretary Emeritus of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
	62.6	Nikola Eterović	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Germany
	55.3	Giampiero Gloder	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy	Apostolic Nuncio to Romania
	55.3	Giampiero Gloder	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Telde	Apostolic Nuncio to Romania
	75.4	Manuel Monteiro de Castro	Retired	Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus
	55.7	Jorge Carlos Patrón Wong	Appointed	Official of the Congregation for the Clergy	Archbishop of Jalapa (Xalapa), Veracruz, México
	55.7	Jorge Carlos Patrón Wong	Appointed	Archbishop (Personal Title)	Archbishop of Jalapa (Xalapa), Veracruz, México
	74.4	Jean-Claude Périsset	Retired	Apostolic Nuncio to Germany	Apostolic Nuncio
	69.0	Mauro Piacenza	Appointed	Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus
	59.9	Orazio Francesco Piazza	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sessa Aurunca, Italy	Bishop of Viterbo, Italy
	57.7	Ansgar Puff	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Gordus	Auxiliary Bishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
	52.4	Jose Puthenveettil	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Rusubbicari	Auxiliary Bishop of Faridabad (Syro-Malabar), India
	53.5	Joseph Mopeli Sephamola, O.M.I.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Qacha’s Nek, Lesotho
	72.0	Beniamino Stella	Appointed	Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
2014	47.5	Fernando Barbosa dos Santos, C.M.	Installed	Prelate of Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil	Bishop of Palmares, Pernambuco, Brazil
2014	59.2	Jean-Paul Gabriel Émile Gusching	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Verdun, France
2015	75.7	Nándor Bosák	Retired	Bishop of Debrecen-Nyíregyháza, Hungary	Bishop Emeritus
2015	51.5	Ferenc Palánki	Appointed	Bishop of Debrecen-Nyíregyháza, Hungary
2016	62.4	Hugo Norberto Santiago	Appointed	Bishop of San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Argentina
	66.0	David Prescott Talley	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Alexandria, Louisiana, USA	Bishop of Memphis, Tennessee, USA
	50.1	Kurian Mathew Vayalunkal	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Solomon Islands	Apostolic Nuncio to Algeria
2017	61.9	Hyacinth Oroko Egbebo, M.S.P.N.	Appointed	Bishop of Bomadi, Nigeria
	59.1	Geevarghese Makarios Kalayil	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Puthur (Syro-Malankara), India
	58.4	Yoohanon Theodosius Kochuthundil	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Thuburbo Maius	Bishop of Muvattupuzha (Syro-Malankara), India
2018	67.2	Charles Daniel Balvo	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Czech Republic	Apostolic Nuncio to Australia
	71.8	Cristián Enrique Contreras Molina, O. de M.	Resigned	Bishop of San Felipe, Chile	Bishop Emeritus
	74.5	Juliusz Janusz	Retired	Apostolic Nuncio to Slovenia	Apostolic Nuncio
	74.5	Juliusz Janusz	Retired	Apostolic Delegate to Kosovo	Apostolic Nuncio
	75.7	Giuseppe Leanza	Retired	Apostolic Nuncio to Czech Republic	Apostolic Nuncio
	49.1	Jaime Cesar Ortiz de Lazcano Piquer	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of San Felipe, Chile	Priest of Roma {Rome}, Italy
	55.0	Sergio Hernán Pérez de Arce Arriagada, SS.CC.	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of San Bartolomé de Chillán, Chile	Archbishop of Concepción (Santissima Concezione), Chile
	60.1	Carlos Eduardo Pellegrín Barrera, S.V.D.	Resigned	Bishop of San Bartolomé de Chillán, Chile	Bishop Emeritus
2019	64.1	Faustino Armendáriz Jiménez	Appointed	Archbishop of Durango, México
	43.3	Marco Ganci	Appointed	Permanent Observer to Council of Europe
	52.1	José Ruy Gonçalves Lopes, O.F.M. Cap.	Installed	Bishop of Caruaru, Pernambuco, Brazil
	57.1	Francis Meli	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Aitape, Papua New Guinea	Bishop of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea
	50.5	Augusto Martín Quijano Rodríguez, S.D.B.	Ordained Bishop	Vicar Apostolic of Pucallpa, Peru
2020	56.6	Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Wau, South Sudan	Cardinal, Archbishop of Juba, South Sudan
	70.2	Hubert Berenbrinker	Resigned	Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn, Germany	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	57.2	Giovanni Gaspari	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Angola	Apostolic Nuncio to Korea
	57.2	Giovanni Gaspari	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to São Tomé and Príncipe	Apostolic Nuncio to Korea
	57.2	Giovanni Gaspari	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Alba Maritima	Apostolic Nuncio to Korea
2021	58.7	Domingo Buezo Leiva	Installed	Bishop of Sololá-Chimaltenango, Guatemala
	78.3	Raúl Antonio Martinez Paredes	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Izabal, Guatemala	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Santiago de Guatemala
	54.2	Giovanni Massaro	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Avezzano, Italy
	56.7	Henry Mchamungu	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tanaramusa	Auxiliary Bishop of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
	51.9	Stephano Lameck Musomba, O.S.A.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Perdices	Auxiliary Bishop of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
	44.0	Tulio Omar Pérez Rivera	Ceased	Administrator of Sololá-Chimaltenango, Guatemala	Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de Guatemala
	65.5	João Evangelista Pimentel Lavrador	Appointed	Bishop of Viana do Castelo, Portugal
	60.5	Krzysztof Stefan Włodarczyk	Appointed	Bishop of Bydgoszcz, Poland
2022	56.4	Algacir Munhak, C.S.	Appointed	Bishop of São Miguel Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	75.9	Manuel Parrado Carral	Retired	Bishop of São Miguel Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	45.0	Tulio Omar Pérez Rivera	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Filaca	Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de Guatemala
	56.8	José Bolivar Piedra Aguirre	Appointed	Bishop of Riobamba, Ecuador
	75.2	Juan Antonio Reig Pla	Retired	Bishop of Alcalá de Henares, Spain	Bishop Emeritus
	48.3	Jesús Vidal Chamorro	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Alcalá de Henares, Spain	Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid, Spain
2023	58.2	Giuseppe Alberti	Appointed	Bishop of Oppido Mamertina-Palmi, Italy
	49.7	Américo Manuel Alves Aguiar	Appointed	Cardinal, Bishop of Setúbal, Portugal
	65.0	Lourdu Anandam	Appointed	Bishop of Sivagangai, India
	51.3	Osório Citora Afonso, I.M.C.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Maputo, Mozambique
	51.3	Osório Citora Afonso, I.M.C.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Putia in Numidia	Auxiliary Bishop of Maputo, Mozambique
	53.2	Habila Tyiakwonaboi Daboh	Appointed	Bishop of Zaria, Nigeria
	66.2	Joseph Ðặng Ðức Ngân	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Huế, Viet Nam
	66.2	Joseph Ðặng Ðức Ngân	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Ðà Nẵng, Viet Nam	Coadjutor Archbishop of Huế, Viet Nam
	67.1	Buenaventura Malayo Famadico	Resigned	Bishop of San Pablo, Philippines	Bishop Emeritus
	76.8	Jonás Guerrero Corona	Retired	Bishop of Culiacán, Sinaloa, México	Bishop Emeritus
	61.7	Jesús José Herrera Quiñonez	Appointed	Bishop of Culiacán, Sinaloa, México
	75.2	Francesco Milito	Retired	Bishop of Oppido Mamertina-Palmi, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	60.9	Mylo Hubert Claudio Vergara	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of San Pablo, Philippines	Bishop of Pasig, Philippines
2024	56.7	Edmilson Tadeu Canavarros dos Santos, S.D.B.	Installed	Prelate of Itacoatiara, Amazonas, Brazil
	76.9	Saúl Figueroa Albornoz	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Valencia en Venezuela	Bishop Emeritus of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
	63.7	Jesús González de Zárate Salas	Installed	Archbishop of Valencia en Venezuela
	55.3	Marcelino Antonio Malabanan Maralit	Appointed	Bishop of San Pablo, Philippines
	55.8	Kévork Noradounguian, I.C.P.B.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Sebaste degli Armeni	Ordinary of Eastern Europe {Europa Orientale} (Armenian)
	47.5	Josep-Lluís Serrano Pentinat	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Urgell, Spain

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