Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
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1 Dec | 75.6 | Resigned | Giuseppe Rossi † | Regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary | Titular Bishop of Palmyra |
2 Dec | 23.7 | Ordained Priest | Luis Gabriel Cuara Méndez † | Priest | Bishop of Veracruz, México |
26.4 | Ordained Priest | Luis Morales Reyes † | Priest of Tacámbaro, Michoacán, México | Archbishop Emeritus of San Luis Potosí, México | |
51.2 | Ordained Bishop | Vito Roberti † | Titular Archbishop of Constantia in Scythia | Bishop Emeritus of Caserta, Italy | |
Born | Joseph Luechai Thatwisai | Bishop of Udon Thani, Thailand | |||
3 Dec | 80.4 | Died | Hipólito Martínez y Martínez, O.S.A. † | Prefect of Lixian [Lichow], China | |
Born | Benito Adán Méndez Bracamonte | Bishop of Venezuela, Military | |||
4 Dec | 73.1 | Died | Juan Albacete Sáiz, S.J. † | Prefect of San Francisco Javier, Peru | |
5 Dec | 34.7 | Appointed | Alcides Mendoza Castro † | Bishop of Abancay, Peru | Archbishop Emeritus of Cuzco, Peru |
Born | Carlos Silva, O.F.M. Cap. | Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Brazil | |||
6 Dec | 55.1 | Appointed | Enrique Bolaños Quesada † | Auxiliary Bishop of Alajuela, Costa Rica | Bishop Emeritus |
55.1 | Appointed | Enrique Bolaños Quesada † | Titular Bishop of Andropolis | Bishop Emeritus of Alajuela, Costa Rica | |
7 Dec | 35.1 | Appointed | Emmanuel III (Emmanuel-Karim) Delly † | Titular Bishop of Palaeopolis in Asia | Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus of Babylon {Babilonia} (Chaldean), Iraq |
35.1 | Selected | Emmanuel III (Emmanuel-Karim) Delly † | Auxiliary Bishop of Babylon {Babilonia} (Chaldean), Iraq | Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus | |
20.7 | Professed | Joseph John Oudeman, O.F.M. Cap. | Member of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Brisbane, Australia | |
Born | Félix María Ramírez Barajas | Bishop of Málaga-Soatá, Colombia | |||
8 Dec | 56.0 | Appointed | Octavio Antonio Beras Rojas † | Archbishop of Dominican Republic, Military | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
38.3 | Ordained Bishop | João (Giovanni) Gazza, S.X. † | Titular Bishop of Circesium | Bishop Emeritus of Aversa, Italy | |
28.1 | Simple Vows | Jean-Baptiste Gourion, O.S.B. † | Member of Order of Saint Benedict | Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine | |
Born | Marco Prastaro | Bishop of Asti, Italy | |||
21.2 | Solemn Vows | Lucio Angelo Renna, O. Carm. | Member of Order of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel | Bishop Emeritus of San Severo, Italy | |
9 Dec | Born | Enrique Eguía Seguí | Prelate of Deán Funes, Argentina | ||
11 Dec | Born | Donatien Bafuidinsoni Maloko-Mana, S.J. | Bishop of Inongo, Congo (Dem. Rep.) | ||
13 Dec | 53.8 | Died | George Shanks, M.H.M. † | Prefect of Kashmir and Jammu, India | |
14 Dec | 38.8 | Ordained Bishop | Remi Joseph De Roo † | Bishop of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada | Bishop Emeritus |
77.1 | Died | Carlo de Ferrari, C.S.S. † | Archbishop of Trento, Italy | ||
84.7 | Died | Pio Paschini † | President of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences | ||
15 Dec | 28.3 | Ordained Priest | Lino Vomboemmel, O.F.M. † | Priest of Order of Friars Minor | Bishop Emeritus of Santarém, Para, Brazil |
16 Dec | 44.6 | Ordained Bishop | Manuel d’Almeida Trindade † | Bishop of Aveiro, Portugal | Bishop Emeritus |
28.0 | Ordained Priest | Ireneo Alisla Amantillo, C.SS.R. † | Priest of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer | Bishop Emeritus of Tandag, Philippines | |
31.4 | Ordained Priest | Paulino do Livramento Évora, C.S.Sp. † | Priest of Congregation of the Holy Spirit | Bishop Emeritus of Santiago de Cabo Verde | |
54.9 | Ordained Bishop | Francisco Javier Gillmore Stock † | Titular Bishop of Auzia | Bishop Emeritus of Chile, Military | |
65.9 | Ordained Bishop | Giovanni Picco † | Titular Bishop of Anaea | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Vercelli, Italy | |
27.1 | Ordained Priest | Claudio Silvero Acosta, S.C.I. di Béth. | Priest of Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Bétharram | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Encarnación, Paraguay | |
50.0 | Installed | Mario Zanchin † | Bishop of Fidenza, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
17 Dec | 51.5 | Appointed | Antonio D’Erchia † | Prelate of Altamura ed Acquaviva delle Fonti, Italy | Bishop Emeritus of Conversano-Monopoli, Italy |
51.5 | Appointed | Antonio D’Erchia † | Titular Bishop of Podalia | Bishop Emeritus of Conversano-Monopoli, Italy | |
28.4 | Incardinated | Rubén López Ardón | Priest of Esteli, Nicaragua | Bishop Emeritus | |
19 Dec | Born | Domingo Buezo Leiva | Bishop of Sololá-Chimaltenango, Guatemala | ||
25.4 | Ordained Priest | Matthew Harvey Clark † | Priest of Albany, New York, USA | Bishop Emeritus of Rochester, New York, USA | |
25.1 | Ordained Priest | Henry Joseph Mansell | Priest of New York, New York, USA | Archbishop Emeritus of Hartford, Connecticut, USA | |
47.1 | Appointed | Vittorio Ottaviani † | Bishop of Alatri, Italy | Bishop Emeritus of Marsi, Italy | |
20 Dec | Born | Bruno Cosme, M.E.P. | Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Kompong-Cham, Cambodia | ||
38.8 | Installed | Remi Joseph De Roo † | Bishop of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada | Bishop Emeritus | |
54.9 | Appointed | Pompeu de Sá Leão y Seabra, C.S.Sp. † | Bishop of Malanje, Angola | ||
46.2 | Appointed | Félix Niza Ribeiro † | Bishop of Tete, Mozambique | Bishop Emeritus of João Belo, Mozambique | |
21 Dec | 58.8 | Ordained Bishop | Clarence Edward Elwell † | Titular Bishop of Cone | Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, USA |
23.3 | Ordained Priest | Agnelo Rufino Gracias | Priest | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bombay, India | |
32.7 | Ordained Priest | Joseph Kyeong Kap-ryong † | Priest of Seoul, Korea (South) | Bishop Emeritus of Daejeon {Taejon}, Korea (South) | |
42.8 | Ordained Bishop | Joseph Alain Leroy, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Kilwa, Congo (Dem. Rep.) | Bishop Emeritus | |
22 Dec | 24.6 | Ordained Priest | José Luis Amezcua Melgoza | Priest of Zamora, Michoacán, México | Bishop Emeritus of Colima, México |
27.7 | Ordained Priest | Robert Lucien Chapuis, M.E.P. † | Priest of La Société des Missions Etrangères | ||
27.5 | Ordained Priest | Augustine Cheong Myong-jo † | Priest | Bishop of Busan {Pusan}, Korea (South) | |
25.9 | Ordained Priest | Benedito Beni dos Santos | Priest of Taubaté, Sao Paulo, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus of Lorena, Sao Paulo, Brazil | |
30.4 | Ordained Priest | Paul Francis Duffy, O.M.I. † | Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate | Bishop Emeritus of Mongu, Zambia | |
28.4 | Ordained Priest | Lawrence Patrick Henry † | Priest of Cape Town {Kaapstad}, South Africa | Archbishop Emeritus | |
24.0 | Ordained Priest | Josu Iriondo Zabaleta | Priest of Canons Regular of the Congregation of the Most Holy Saviour of the Lateran | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of New York, New York, USA | |
26.8 | Ordained Priest | John Joseph Kaising † | Priest of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA | Auxiliary Bishop of United States of America, Military | |
26.8 | Ordained Priest | Nicodemus Kirima † | Priest of Nyeri, Kenya | Archbishop of Nyeri, Kenya | |
Born | Wiesław Lechowicz | Bishop of Poland, Military | |||
28.3 | Ordained Priest | Januário Machaze Nhangumbe | Priest | Bishop Emeritus of Pemba, Mozambique | |
28.9 | Ordained Priest | Joachim Meisner † | Priest of Erfurt-Meiningen, Germany | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Köln {Cologne}, Germany | |
24.8 | Ordained Priest | Michel Paul Marie Moutel, P.S.S. † | Priest of Nantes, France | Archbishop of Tours, France | |
42.3 | Ordained Bishop | Jerónimo José Podestá † | Bishop of Avellaneda, Argentina | Bishop Emeritus | |
27.3 | Ordained Priest | Joseph Sangval Surasarang † | Priest | Bishop Emeritus of Chiang Mai, Thailand | |
25.2 | Ordained Priest | José Clemente Weber | Priest of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus of Santo Ângelo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | |
23 Dec | 25.7 | Ordained Priest | Paciano Basilio Aniceto | Priest of San Fernando, Philippines | Archbishop Emeritus of San Fernando, Philippines |
73.9 | Died | Heinrich Breuer, O.M.I. † | Prefect Emeritus of Pilcomayo, Paraguay | ||
45.5 | Ordained Bishop | Alfonso Pedro Torres Farías, O.P. † | Bishop of Catamarca, Argentina | ||
25 Dec | Born | Emmanuel Cosmas Kanyama † | Bishop of Dedza, Malawi | ||
26 Dec | 35.2 | Confirmed | Emmanuel III (Emmanuel-Karim) Delly † | Auxiliary Bishop of Babylon {Babilonia} (Chaldean), Iraq | Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus |
27 Dec | 47.6 | Appointed | Anthony de Saram † | Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo in Ceylon, Sri Lanka | Bishop of Galle, Sri Lanka |
47.6 | Appointed | Anthony de Saram † | Titular Bishop of Tacapae | Bishop of Galle, Sri Lanka | |
42.7 | Appointed | John Willem Nicolaysen Gran, O.C.S.O. † | Coadjutor Bishop of Oslo, Norway | Bishop Emeritus | |
42.7 | Appointed | John Willem Nicolaysen Gran, O.C.S.O. † | Titular Bishop of Raphia | Bishop Emeritus of Oslo, Norway | |
29 Dec | 17.7 | Entered | José Alejandro Castaño Arbeláez, O.A.R. | Member of Order of Augustinian Recollects | Bishop Emeritus of Cartago, Colombia |
Born | Aitor Jiménez Echave, C.M.F. | Under Secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life | |||
51.1 | Installed | Adolfo Servando Tortolo † | Archbishop of Paraná, Argentina | Archbishop Emeritus | |
30 Dec | 38.8 | Ordained Bishop | Climério Almeida de Andrade † | Bishop of Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, Brazil | |
Born | Gonzalo Arturo Bravo Álvarez | Bishop of San Felipe, Chile | |||
41.3 | Ordained Bishop | Ernesto Gonçalves da Costa, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Inhambane, Mozambique | Bishop Emeritus of Faro {Algarve}, Portugal | |
Born | Dominique Banlène Guigbile | Bishop of Dapaong, Togo | |||
25.2 | Ordained Priest | Ibrahim Namo Ibrahim | Priest | Bishop Emeritus of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Detroit (Chaldean), USA | |
31 Dec | 84.8 | Died | Louis-Joseph Kerkhofs † | Bishop Emeritus of Liège (Luik, Lüttich), Belgium |
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