Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
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Mar | 26.3 | Professed | Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi, S.V.D. | Member of Society of the Divine Word | Archbishop of Tōkyō, Japan |
1 Mar | 55.6 | Appointed | Fernando Iório Rodrigues † | Bishop of Palmeira dos Índios, Alagoas, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus |
2 Mar | 61.6 | Died | Carlos Esteban Cremata † | Bishop of Santo Tomé, Argentina | |
21.5 | Professed | Sergio Hernán Pérez de Arce Arriagada, SS.CC. | Member of Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary | Archbishop of Concepción (Santissima Concezione), Chile | |
3 Mar | 70.0 | Died | Bruno Roberto D’Amore, O.S.B. † | Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Montevergine, Italy | |
29.9 | Ordained Priest | James Kazuo Koda | Priest of Tōkyō, Japan | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | |
5 Mar | 67.2 | Resigned | Roberto Carniello † | Bishop of Volterra, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
7 Mar | 78.1 | Died | André-Jean-Marie Charles de la Brousse † | Bishop Emeritus of Dijon, France | |
49.3 | Appointed | Pio Vittorio Vigo † | Bishop of Nicosia, Italy | Bishop Emeritus of Acireale, Italy | |
8 Mar | 57.7 | Appointed | Alberto Lee López, O.F.M. † | Prefect of Guapi, Colombia | |
51.1 | Succeeded | Raphaël Lubaki Nganga † | Bishop of Matadi, Congo (Dem. Rep.) | ||
76.3 | Retired | Simon N’Zita Wa Ne Malanda † | Bishop of Matadi, Congo (Dem. Rep.) | Bishop Emeritus | |
9 Mar | 52.3 | Resigned | Francis Arinze | Archbishop of Onitsha, Nigeria | Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments |
55.0 | Appointed | Gabriel (Régis) Balet, O.F.M. Cap. † | Bishop of Moundou, Chad | ||
53.9 | Resigned | Joseph Marie Régis Belzile, O.F.M. Cap. † | Bishop of Moundou, Chad | Bishop Emeritus | |
63.9 | Appointed | Stephen Nweke Ezeanya † | Archbishop of Onitsha, Nigeria | Archbishop Emeritus | |
75.9 | Retired | John Shojiro Ito † | Bishop of Niigata, Japan | Bishop Emeritus | |
59.2 | Appointed | Paul Kim Ok-kyun † | Auxiliary Bishop of Seoul, Korea (South) | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | |
59.2 | Appointed | Paul Kim Ok-kyun † | Titular Bishop of Girba | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Seoul, Korea (South) | |
54.1 | Appointed | Mario Epifanio Abdallah Mgulunde † | Archbishop of Tabora, Tanzania | ||
78.1 | Retired | Marko Mihayo † | Archbishop of Tabora, Tanzania | Archbishop Emeritus | |
66.5 | Died | Amado Paulino y Hernandez † | Auxiliary Bishop of Manila, Philippines | ||
56.9 | Appointed | Francis Keiichi Sato, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Niigata, Japan | Bishop Emeritus | |
48.4 | Appointed | Fabriciano Sigampa † | Bishop of Reconquista, Argentina | Archbishop Emeritus of Resistencia, Argentina | |
48.4 | Appointed | Matthias Ssekamaanya | Auxiliary Bishop of Kampala, Uganda | Bishop Emeritus of Lugazi, Uganda | |
48.4 | Appointed | Matthias Ssekamaanya | Titular Bishop of Iziriana | Bishop Emeritus of Lugazi, Uganda | |
12 Mar | 24.2 | Ordained Deacon | Christian Noel Emmanuel | Deacon of Trincomalee-Batticaloa, Sri Lanka | Bishop of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka |
94.8 | Died | George Leo Leech † | Bishop Emeritus of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA | ||
13 Mar | 70.6 | Appointed | Elias Shaheen (Chahine) † | Archbishop of Saint-Maron de Montréal (Maronite), Canada | Archbishop Emeritus |
14 Mar | 54.9 | Appointed | Desmond A. Williams † | Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin, Ireland | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus |
54.9 | Appointed | Desmond A. Williams † | Titular Bishop of Summa | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Dublin, Ireland | |
16 Mar | 59.8 | Appointed | Dominik Kalata, S.J. † | Titular Bishop of Semta | |
71.3 | Succeeded | John Joseph Thomas Ryan † | Archbishop of United States of America, Military | Archbishop Emeritus | |
17 Mar | 70.6 | Died | Carlos Arturo Mullín Nocetti, S.J. † | Bishop of Minas, Uruguay | |
19 Mar | 50.4 | Ordained Bishop | Paulo Cardoso da Silva, O. Carm. | Bishop of Petrolina, Pernambuco, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus |
20 Mar | 54.1 | Appointed | Agustín García-Gasco y Vicente † | Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid, Spain | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Valencia, Spain |
54.1 | Appointed | Agustín García-Gasco y Vicente † | Titular Bishop of Nona | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Valencia, Spain | |
37.2 | Appointed | Francisco Javier Martínez Fernández | Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid, Spain | Archbishop Emeritus of Granada, Spain | |
37.2 | Appointed | Francisco Javier Martínez Fernández | Titular Bishop of Voli | Archbishop Emeritus of Granada, Spain | |
54.1 | Appointed | Francisco José Pérez y Fernández-Golfin † | Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid, Spain | Bishop of Getafe, Spain | |
54.1 | Appointed | Francisco José Pérez y Fernández-Golfin † | Titular Bishop of Tigillava | Bishop of Getafe, Spain | |
75.1 | Retired | Leonidas Eduardo Proaño Villalba † | Bishop of Riobamba, Ecuador | Bishop Emeritus | |
21 Mar | 24.4 | Professed | Elias Richard G. Lorenzo, O.S.B. | Member of Order of Saint Benedict | Auxiliary Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA |
23 Mar | 46.9 | Ordained Bishop | Manuel Monteiro de Castro | Titular Archbishop of Beneventum | Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary |
24 Mar | 76.2 | Died | Norbert Jules François Calmels, O. Praem. † | Official to Morocco | |
28.0 | Ordained Deacon | Hervé Jean Robert Giraud | Deacon of Viviers, France | Bishop | |
48.6 | Ordained Bishop | Marie-Edouard Mununu Kasiala, O.C.S.O. † | Titular Bishop of Aquae Flaviae | Bishop Emeritus of Kikwit, Congo (Dem. Rep.) | |
25 Mar | 71.8 | Appointed | Sebastiano Baggio † | Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber | Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State |
77.1 | Retired | Paolo Bertoli † | Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber | Cardinal, Chamberlain Emeritus | |
68.9 | Died | Antonio Corso † | Bishop of Maldonado-Punta del Este, Uruguay | ||
52.0 | Ordained Bishop | Henryk Józef Muszyński | Titular Bishop of Villa Regis | Archbishop Emeritus of Gniezno, Poland | |
77.3 | Died | Carlos Mariano Pérez Eslava, S.D.B. † | Archbishop Emeritus of Salta, Argentina | ||
48.8 | Appointed | Metod Pirih † | Coadjutor Bishop of Koper, Slovenia | Bishop Emeritus | |
84.9 | Died | Dino Luigi Romoli, O.P. † | Bishop Emeritus of Pescia, Italy | ||
71.3 | Installed | John Joseph Thomas Ryan † | Archbishop of United States of America, Military | Archbishop Emeritus | |
41.7 | Ordained Bishop | Eduardus Sangsun, S.V.D. † | Bishop of Ruteng, Indonesia | ||
32.7 | Ordained Priest | Rafael Masahiro Umemura | Priest of Yokohama, Japan | Bishop | |
27 Mar | 65.1 | Died | Joseph Alain Leroy, O.F.M. † | Bishop Emeritus of Kilwa, Congo (Dem. Rep.) | |
29 Mar | 46.8 | Appointed | Guy André Dominique Marie Chevalier, SS.CC. | Coadjutor Bishop of Taiohae o Tefenuaenata, French Polynesia, Pacific (Oceania) | Bishop Emeritus |
59.1 | Appointed | Henry Sebastian D’Souza † | Coadjutor Archbishop of Calcutta, India | Archbishop Emeritus | |
48.9 | Appointed | Joseph Atsumi Misue † | Bishop of Hiroshima, Japan | Bishop Emeritus | |
75.4 | Retired | Dominic Yoshimatsu Noguchi † | Bishop of Hiroshima, Japan | Bishop Emeritus | |
60.3 | Appointed | Diarmaid (Dermot) O’Súilleabháin (O’Sullivan) † | Bishop of Kerry, Ireland | ||
24.0 | Ordained Priest | Jorge Solórzano Pérez | Priest of Managua, Nicaragua | Bishop of Granada, Nicaragua | |
55.6 | Appointed | James Stephen Sullivan † | Bishop of Fargo, North Dakota, USA | Bishop Emeritus | |
30 Mar | 25.0 | Ordained Priest | Luigi Bianco | Priest of Casale Monferrato, Italy | Apostolic Nuncio to Uganda |
1 Apr | 52.9 | Appointed | Edward Michael Egan † | Auxiliary Bishop of New York, New York, USA | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus |
52.9 | Appointed | Edward Michael Egan † | Titular Bishop of Allegheny | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of New York, New York, USA | |
2 Apr | 51.7 | Appointed | José Cardoso Sobrinho, O. Carm. | Archbishop of Olinda e Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil | Archbishop Emeritus |
76.1 | Retired | Hélder Pessoa Câmara † | Archbishop of Olinda e Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil | Archbishop Emeritus | |
58.0 | Appointed | José Lamartine Soares † | Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil | ||
3 Apr | 44.8 | Ordained Priest | Nicholas Han Jide, O.F.M. Cap. | Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin | Bishop of Pingliang [Pingliang], China |
40.4 | Appointed | Adam Odzimek † | Auxiliary Bishop of Sandomierz-Radom, Poland | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Radom, Poland | |
40.4 | Appointed | Adam Odzimek † | Titular Bishop of Tadamata | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Radom, Poland | |
4 Apr | 24.4 | Ordained Priest | Andrea Bellandi | Priest of Firenze {Florence}, Italy | Archbishop of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno, Italy |
46.9 | Appointed | Angel Gelmi Bertocchi † | Auxiliary Bishop of Cochabamba, Bolivia | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | |
46.9 | Appointed | Angel Gelmi Bertocchi † | Titular Bishop of Forum Clodii | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Cochabamba, Bolivia | |
25.9 | Ordained Deacon | Rosario Gisana | Deacon of Noto, Italy | Bishop of Piazza Armerina, Italy | |
Died | [Roch Liu Dian-chi (Li Dianxi)] † | Bishop of Jilin [Kirin], China | |||
24.8 | Ordained Priest | Giovanni Paccosi | Priest of Firenze {Florence}, Italy | Bishop of San Miniato, Italy | |
59.7 | Appointed | Manuel Revollo Crespo, C.M.F. † | Auxiliary Bishop of Cochabamba, Bolivia | Coadjutor Bishop Emeritus of Bolivia, Military | |
59.7 | Appointed | Manuel Revollo Crespo, C.M.F. † | Titular Bishop of Casae in Numidia | Coadjutor Bishop Emeritus of Bolivia, Military | |
6 Apr | 73.8 | Died | Edgar Godin † | Bishop of Bathurst in Canada, New Brunswick | |
7 Apr | 33.7 | Ordained Deacon | Adalberto Martínez Flores | Deacon of Saint Thomas, American Virgin Islands, USA | Cardinal, Archbishop of Asunción, Paraguay |
8 Apr | 28.4 | Ordained Priest | Alfonso Carrasco Rouco | Priest of Mondoñedo-Ferrol, Spain | Bishop of Lugo, Spain |
9 Apr | 47.0 | Ordained Bishop | Luis Robles Díaz † | Titular Archbishop of Stephaniacum | Vice President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America |
10 Apr | 46.1 | Appointed | Isaías Duarte Cancino † | Auxiliary Bishop of Bucaramanga, Colombia | Archbishop of Cali, Colombia |
46.1 | Appointed | Isaías Duarte Cancino † | Titular Bishop of Germania in Numidia | Archbishop of Cali, Colombia | |
60.5 | Appointed | Alfonso de Jesús Hinojosa Berrones † | Auxiliary Bishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México | Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México | |
26.6 | Ordained Priest | Eugene Joseph | Priest of Varanasi, India | Bishop | |
13 Apr | 41.3 | Ordained Bishop | Edmundo Luis Flavio Abastoflor Montero | Bishop of Potosí, Bolivia | Archbishop Emeritus of La Paz, Bolivia |
64.4 | Appointed | Robert-Joseph Coffy † | Archbishop of Marseille, France | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus | |
62.5 | Resigned | Roger Marie Élie Etchegaray † | Archbishop of Marseille, France | Cardinal, Vice-Dean Emeritus of the College of Cardinals | |
64.7 | Appointed | Adolphe-Maria Gustave Hardy † | Bishop of Beauvais (-Noyon-Senlis), France | Bishop Emeritus | |
43.1 | Ordained Bishop | Roman Adam Marcinkowski | Titular Bishop of Bulla Regia | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Płock, Poland | |
14 Apr | 29.8 | Ordained Priest | John Barwa, S.V.D. | Priest of Society of the Divine Word | Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, India |
25.1 | Ordained Priest | Jonas Ivanauskas | Priest of Kaunas, Lithuania | Bishop of Kaišiadorys, Lithuania | |
24.8 | Professed | João Inácio Müller, O.F.M. | Member of Order of Friars Minor | Archbishop of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil | |
15 Apr | 42.4 | Appointed | Jorge Leonardo Gómez Serna, O.P. | Prelate of Tibú, Colombia | Bishop Emeritus of Magangué, Colombia |
16 Apr | 75.3 | Retired | Nicholas Thomas Elko † | Auxiliary Bishop of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus |
68.1 | Retired | George Edward Lynch † | Auxiliary Bishop of Raleigh, North Carolina, USA | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | |
48.8 | Ordained Bishop | Donald Walter Trautman † | Titular Bishop of Sassura | Bishop Emeritus of Erie, Pennsylvania, USA | |
17 Apr | 66.9 | Appointed | Jean-François Mathieu Arrighi † | Vice President of the Pontifical Council for the Family | Vice President Emeritus |
66.9 | Appointed | Jean-François Mathieu Arrighi † | Titular Bishop of Vico Equense | Vice President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Family | |
73.8 | Died | Aniger de Francisco de Maria Melillo † | Bishop Emeritus of Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil | ||
88.0 | Died | Ferdinando Fulgencio Pasini, O.F.M. † | Bishop Emeritus of Sanyuan [Sanyüan], China | ||
20 Apr | 48.7 | Installed | Luis Morales Reyes † | Coadjutor Bishop of Torreón, Coahuila, México | Archbishop Emeritus of San Luis Potosí, México |
21 Apr | 55.0 | Ordained Bishop | Desmond A. Williams † | Titular Bishop of Summa | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Dublin, Ireland |
24.6 | Ordained Deacon | Milan Zgrablić | Deacon of Poreč i Pula, Croatia | Archbishop of Zadar (Zara), Croatia | |
22 Apr | 44.3 | Appointed | Jesus Aputen Cabrera | Bishop of Alaminos, Philippines | Bishop Emeritus |
84.6 | Died | Basile Khoury, B.S. † | Archbishop Emeritus of Saïdā (Sidone) (Melkite Greek), Lebanon | ||
60.0 | Appointed | Pedro de Guzman Magugat, M.S.C. † | Bishop of Urdaneta, Philippines | ||
66.5 | Died | Cipriano Urgel y Villahermosa † | Archbishop of Palo, Philippines | ||
23 Apr | 64.1 | Appointed | Antony Padiyara † | Archbishop of Ernakulam (Syro-Malabar), India | Cardinal, Major Archbishop Emeritus of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabar), India |
24 Apr | 56.9 | Appointed | Jan Pieter Schotte, C.I.C.M. † | Titular Archbishop of Silli | Cardinal, President of the Labour Office of the Apostolic See |
56.9 | Appointed | Jan Pieter Schotte, C.I.C.M. † | Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops | Cardinal, President of the Labour Office of the Apostolic See | |
25.5 | Ordained Priest | Francesco Antonio Soddu | Priest of Sassari, Italy | Bishop of Terni-Narni-Amelia, Italy | |
61.1 | Appointed | Jozef Tomko † | Pro-Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples | Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses | |
25 Apr | 79.5 | Died | Ioan Dragomir † | Auxiliary Bishop of Maramureş (Romanian), Romania | |
57.6 | Appointed | Roger Louis Kaffer † | Auxiliary Bishop of Joliet in Illinois, USA | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | |
57.6 | Appointed | Roger Louis Kaffer † | Titular Bishop of Dusa | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Joliet in Illinois, USA | |
59.3 | Ordained Bishop | Paul Kim Ok-kyun † | Titular Bishop of Girba | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Seoul, Korea (South) | |
53.3 | Appointed | Fernando Legal, S.D.B. † | Bishop of Limeira, Sao Paulo, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus of São Miguel Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil | |
26 Apr | 51.8 | Appointed | Abelardo Alvarado Alcántara † | Auxiliary Bishop of México, Federal District | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus |
51.8 | Appointed | Abelardo Alvarado Alcántara † | Titular Bishop of Thysdrus | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of México, Federal District | |
25.3 | Incardinated | Antoni Dziemianko | Priest of Minsk-Mohilev, Belarus | Bishop of Pinsk, Belarus | |
27 Apr | 79.9 | Died | René-Fernand-Bernardin Collin, O.F.M. † | Bishop Emeritus of Digne (-Riez-Sisteron), France | |
45.3 | Appointed | Roberto Lückert León † | Bishop of Cabimas, Venezuela | Archbishop Emeritus of Coro, Venezuela | |
97.3 | Died | Pierre Kamel Medawar, S.M.S.P. † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Melkite Greek), Syria | ||
28 Apr | 59.9 | Ordained Bishop | Carlos Francisco Martins Pinheiro † | Titular Bishop of Dumium | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Braga, Portugal |
41.6 | Ordained Bishop | Murilo Sebastião Ramos Krieger, S.C.I. | Titular Bishop of Lysinia | Archbishop Emeritus of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil | |
89.7 | Died | Juan Tarcisio Senner, O.F.M. † | Bishop Emeritus of Cochabamba, Bolivia | ||
29 Apr | 49.6 | Appointed | Santos Abril y Castelló | Titular Archbishop of Tamada | Cardinal, Archpriest Emeritus of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica} |
49.6 | Appointed | Santos Abril y Castelló | Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia | Cardinal, Archpriest Emeritus of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica} | |
42.1 | Appointed | Juan de Dios Mataflorida Pueblos † | Auxiliary Bishop of Davao, Philippines | Bishop of Butuan, Philippines | |
42.1 | Appointed | Juan de Dios Mataflorida Pueblos † | Titular Bishop of Zaba | Bishop of Butuan, Philippines | |
70.1 | Died | Joseph Sipendi † | Bishop of Moshi, Tanzania | ||
30 Apr | 58.7 | Appointed | Agostino Cacciavillan † | Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Nepal | Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See |
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