Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 May | 42.2 | Ordained Bishop | Johannes Joachim Degenhardt † | Titular Bishop of Vicus Pacati | Cardinal, Archbishop of Paderborn, Germany |
38.2 | Ordained Bishop | Thomas John Gumbleton † | Titular Bishop of Ululi | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Detroit, Michigan, USA | |
58.4 | Ordained Bishop | Jean Jadot † | Titular Archbishop of Zuri | Pro-President Emeritus of the Secretariat for Non-Christians | |
48.1 | Ordained Bishop | Walter Joseph Schoenherr † | Titular Bishop of Timidana | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Detroit, Michigan, USA | |
2 May | 54.5 | Appointed | William Donald Borders † | Bishop of Orlando, Florida, USA | Archbishop Emeritus of Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
49.6 | Appointed | Michael Ryan Patrick Dempsey † | Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, Illinois, USA | ||
49.6 | Appointed | Michael Ryan Patrick Dempsey † | Titular Bishop of Truentum | Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, Illinois, USA | |
48.1 | Appointed | James William Malone † | Bishop of Youngstown, Ohio, USA | Bishop Emeritus | |
54.5 | Appointed | Charles Borromeo McLaughlin † | Bishop of Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA | ||
25.9 | Ordained Priest | George James Rassas | Priest of Chicago, Illinois, USA | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | |
3 May | 49.7 | Appointed | Karl Heinz Jacoby † | Auxiliary Bishop of Trier, Germany | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus |
49.7 | Appointed | Karl Heinz Jacoby † | Titular Bishop of Sulci | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Trier, Germany | |
40.0 | Appointed | Alfred Kleinermeilert † | Auxiliary Bishop of Trier, Germany | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | |
40.0 | Appointed | Alfred Kleinermeilert † | Titular Bishop of Pausulae | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Trier, Germany | |
4 May | 79.9 | Died | Michael Schulien, S.V.D. † | Priest of Society of the Divine Word | |
30.3 | Ordained Priest | Anthony Francis Sharma, S.J. † | Priest of Society of Jesus | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Nepal | |
5 May | Born | Roberto Pío Álvarez | Bishop of Rawson, Argentina | ||
51.5 | Ordained Bishop | Servílio Conti, I.M.C. † | Titular Bishop of Thuburbo Maius | Prelate Emeritus of Roraima, Brazil | |
Born | Emigdio Duarte Figueroa | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Culiacán, Sinaloa, México | |||
Born | John Saw Yaw Han | Bishop of Kengtung, Myanmar | |||
6 May | 48.0 | Appointed | José de Aquino Pereira † | Bishop of Rio Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus |
76.7 | Retired | Joseph-Marie-Eugène Martin † | Archbishop of Rouen, France | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus | |
Born | Samuel Nkuah-Boateng | Bishop of Wiawso, Ghana | |||
55.4 | Succeeded | André Louis Marie Pailler † | Archbishop of Rouen, France | Archbishop Emeritus | |
50.8 | Appointed | Luis Rojas Mena † | Auxiliary Bishop of Culiacán, Sinaloa, México | Bishop Emeritus | |
50.8 | Appointed | Luis Rojas Mena † | Titular Bishop of Accia | Bishop Emeritus of Culiacán, Sinaloa, México | |
7 May | 85.2 | Appointed | Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † | President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See | Cardinal, Secretary Emeritus of the Secretariat of State |
Born | Fernando García Cadiñanos | Bishop of Mondoñedo-Ferrol, Spain | |||
62.3 | Appointed | Sergio Guerri † | Secretary of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See | Cardinal, Pro-President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State | |
8 May | 49.2 | Appointed | Alfred Leo Abramowicz † | Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, Illinois, USA | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus |
49.2 | Appointed | Alfred Leo Abramowicz † | Titular Bishop of Pesto | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Chicago, Illinois, USA | |
9 May | Born | Antônio Fontinele de Melo | Bishop of Humaitá, Amazonas, Brazil | ||
Born | Dario Gervasi | Auxiliary Bishop of Roma {Rome}, Italy | |||
31.1 | Ordained Priest | Jose Paala Salazar, O.P. † | Priest of Order of Friars Preachers | Auxiliary Bishop of Lipa, Philippines | |
11 May | 57.7 | Appointed | Juan Bockwinckel (Bockwinkel), S.V.D. † | Prelate of Encarnación, Paraguay | Prelate Emeritus |
57.7 | Appointed | Juan Bockwinckel (Bockwinkel), S.V.D. † | Titular Bishop of Oppidum Novum | Prelate Emeritus of Encarnación, Paraguay | |
56.6 | Appointed | Franciszek Cedzich, S.V.D. † | Prelate of Alto Paraná, Paraguay | ||
56.6 | Appointed | Franciszek Cedzich, S.V.D. † | Titular Bishop of Buxentum | Prelate of Alto Paraná, Paraguay | |
24.2 | Ordained Priest | Ernest Léger | Priest of Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada | Archbishop Emeritus | |
56.0 | Appointed | Luigi Rovigatti † | Auxiliary Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina, Italy | Vicegerent of Roma {Rome}, Italy | |
12 May | 45.7 | Ordained Bishop | Lorenzo Antonetti † | Titular Archbishop of Rusellae | Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See |
54.0 | Ordained Bishop | Francis Jules Joseph Marie Barbu † | Bishop of Quimper [Cornouailles](-Léon), France | Bishop Emeritus | |
Born | Sebastián Chico Martínez | Bishop of Jaén, Spain | |||
24.4 | Ordained Priest | Martin William Currie | Priest of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada | Archbishop Emeritus of Saint John’s, Newfoundland, Canada | |
48.5 | Appointed | Augustine Eugene Hornyak, O.S.B.M. † | Apostolic Exarch of Great Britain (Ukrainian) | Apostolic Exarch Emeritus | |
Born | Vicente Ribas Prats | Bishop of Ibiza, Spain | |||
48.1 | Ordained Bishop | José Tomás Sánchez † | Titular Bishop of Lesvi | Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Clergy | |
13 May | Born | Michael Robert Kennedy | Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Australia | ||
82.1 | Died | Cutbert Martin O’Gara, C.P. † | Bishop of Yuanling [Yüanling], China | ||
14 May | 46.3 | Ordained Bishop | Austin-Emile Burke † | Bishop of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada | Archbishop Emeritus of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
15 May | Born | Áureo Patricio Bonilla Bonilla, O.F.M. | Vicar Apostolic of Galápagos, Ecuador | ||
Born | Javier Herrera Corona | Apostolic Nuncio to Congo, Republic of | |||
16 May | 76.2 | Appointed | Eduard Nécsey † | Titular Archbishop of Velicia | Apostolic Administrator of Nitra, Slovakia |
17 May | 18.1 | First Vows | Thomas Elavanal, M.C.B.S. | Member of Missionary Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament | Bishop of Kalyan (Syro-Malabar), India |
26.0 | Ordained Priest | William Joseph Justice | Priest of San Francisco, California, USA | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | |
18 May | 26.0 | Ordained Priest | Francis Xavier DiLorenzo † | Priest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA | Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA |
25.3 | Ordained Priest | Robert William Muench | Priest of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA | Bishop Emeritus of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA | |
78.7 | Died | Thomas Pothacamury (Pothakamuri) † | Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore, India | ||
52.5 | Ordained Bishop | Godofredo Pedernal Pisig † | Bishop of Borongan, Philippines | Bishop Emeritus | |
43.9 | Appointed | Andrés María Rubio Garcia, S.D.B. † | Auxiliary Bishop of Montevideo, Uruguay | Bishop Emeritus of Mercedes, Uruguay | |
43.9 | Appointed | Andrés María Rubio Garcia, S.D.B. † | Titular Bishop of Forum Traiani | Bishop Emeritus of Mercedes, Uruguay | |
19 May | 47.8 | Installed | Louis Joseph Jean Marie Fortier † | Archbishop of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada | Archbishop Emeritus |
42.9 | Ordained Bishop | Orozimbo Fuenzalida y Fuenzalida † | Titular Bishop of Burca | Bishop Emeritus of San Bernardo, Chile | |
23.8 | Ordained Priest | Fidel Herráez Vegas | Priest of Madrid, Spain | Archbishop Emeritus of Burgos, Spain | |
55.2 | Ordained Bishop | Jean-François Étienne Marie Joseph Ghislaine Gérard Motte, O.F.M. † | Titular Bishop of Sufes | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Cambrai, France | |
Born | Maurice Muhatia Makumba | Archbishop of Kisumu, Kenya | |||
43.8 | Ordained Bishop | Jean-Marie Michel Arthur Alix Zacharie Raimbaud, M. Afr. † | Bishop of Laghouat, Algeria | ||
50.6 | Resigned | Francisco de Borja Valenzuela Ríos † | Administrator of Calama, Chile | Bishop Emeritus of Valparaíso, Chile | |
20 May | 41.1 | Appointed | Roger-Alfred Despatie † | Auxiliary Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada | Bishop Emeritus of Hearst, Ontario, Canada |
41.1 | Appointed | Roger-Alfred Despatie † | Titular Bishop of Usinaza | Bishop Emeritus of Hearst, Ontario, Canada | |
Born | Oswaldo Estéfano Escobar Aguilar, O.C.D. | Bishop of Chalatenango, El Salvador | |||
49.9 | Appointed | Jorge Manuel López † | Auxiliary Bishop of Rosario, Argentina | Archbishop Emeritus | |
49.9 | Appointed | Jorge Manuel López † | Titular Bishop of Ausafa | Archbishop Emeritus of Rosario, Argentina | |
80.5 | Died | Adam Sawicki † | Apostolic Administrator of Vilnius, Lithuania | ||
21 May | Born | Abel Cahiles Apigo | Bishop of Mati, Philippines | ||
22 May | 56.5 | Installed | Paul Grégoire † | Archbishop of Montréal, Québec, Canada | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus |
23 May | 85.3 | Died | Gaudenzio Binaschi † | Bishop of Pinerolo, Italy | |
27.6 | Ordained Priest | Plácido Rodríguez, C.M.F. | Priest of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary | Bishop Emeritus of Lubbock, Texas, USA | |
47.9 | Ordained Bishop | Antonio Silvio Zocchetta, O.F.M. † | Titular Bishop of Sfasferia | Vicar Apostolic of Mogadiscio, Somalia | |
24 May | 58.1 | Appointed | Bruno Desrochers † | Titular Bishop of Zaba | Bishop Emeritus of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Québec, Canada |
58.1 | Resigned | Bruno Desrochers † | Bishop of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Québec, Canada | Bishop Emeritus | |
54.3 | Appointed | Thomas Andrew Donnellan † | Archbishop of Atlanta, Georgia, USA | ||
64.3 | Appointed | Clarence Edward Elwell † | Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, USA | ||
Born | Roberto Farinella | Bishop of Biella, Italy | |||
70.8 | Died | Henryk Grzondziel † | Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno, Poland | ||
25 May | 26.4 | Ordained Priest | Martin John Amos | Priest of Cleveland, Ohio, USA | Bishop Emeritus of Davenport, Iowa, USA |
56.3 | Appointed | John A. Choi Jae-seon † | Apostolic Administrator of Masan, Korea (South) | Bishop Emeritus of Busan {Pusan}, Korea (South) | |
25.1 | Ordained Priest | Frederick Bernard Henry | Priest of London, Ontario, Canada | Bishop Emeritus of Calgary, Alberta, Canada | |
23.9 | Ordained Priest | Marc Armand Ouellet, P.S.S. | Priest of Amos, Québec, Canada | Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Dicastery for Bishops | |
28.2 | Ordained Priest | John Huston Ricard, S.S.J. | Priest of St. Joseph’s Society of the Sacred Heart | Bishop Emeritus of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida, USA | |
Born | Santiago Rodríguez Rodríguez | Bishop of San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic | |||
26 May | 45.1 | Installed | Blas Victorio Conrero † | Archbishop of Tucumán, Argentina | |
85.7 | Died | Mate Garković † | Archbishop of Zadar (Zara), Croatia | ||
Born | Georges Masri | Archbishop of Alep [Beroea, Halab] (Melkite Greek), Syria | |||
28 May | 62.1 | Appointed | Alois Brems † | Bishop of Eichstätt, Germany | Bishop Emeritus |
40.2 | Appointed | Friedrich Wetter | Bishop of Speyer, Germany | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of München und Freising {Munich}, Germany | |
29 May | 44.4 | Ordained Bishop | Pio Taofinu’u, S.M. † | Bishop of Apia, American Samoa, Pacific (Oceania) | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Samoa-Apia, Pacific (Oceania) |
45.7 | Ordained Bishop | Serafín Vásquez Elizalde † | Bishop of Huejutla, Hidalgo, México | Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, México | |
31 May | Born | Juan Carlos Cárdenas Toro | Bishop of Pasto, Colombia | ||
47.3 | Appointed | Henri Lugagne-Delpon † | Bishop of Pamiers (-Couserans-Mirepoix), France |
![]()
Home |
Countries | Religious
Men
Women |
Popes |
Holy See |
Roman Curia |
Cardinals by Rank
| ||
About Catholic-Hierarchy | Terminology/Site Help | |
![]() |
Copyright David M. Cheney, 1996-2024 Code: web_e, v3.2.4, 30 Jun 2024; Data: 7 Sep 2024 |
✠