The Year of Our Lord 1996

Bishop Events

April

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

1 Apr 52.9 Appointed Armando Xavier Ochoa Bishop of El Paso, Texas, USA Bishop Emeritus of Fresno, California, USA

2 Apr 53.4 Appointed Francis Joseph Christian Auxiliary Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire, USA Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

53.4 Appointed Francis Joseph Christian Titular Bishop of Quincy Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Manchester, New Hampshire, USA

46.3 Appointed Mario Espinosa Contreras Bishop of Tehuacán, Puebla, México Bishop of Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México

63.1 Appointed Lubomyr Husar, M.S.U. † Archiepiscopal Exarch of Kyiv-Vyshhorod (Ukrainian), Ukraine Cardinal, Major Archbishop Emeritus of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine

3 Apr 55.7 Appointed Francisco Gil Hellín Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family Archbishop Emeritus of Burgos, Spain

55.7 Appointed Francisco Gil Hellín Titular Bishop of Citium Archbishop Emeritus of Burgos, Spain

93.7 Died Alphonse James Schladweiler † Bishop Emeritus of New Ulm, Minnesota, USA

67.8 Resigned Elio Sgreccia † Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Academy for Life

4 Apr 65.5 Appointed Salvatore De Giorgi Archbishop of Palermo, Italy Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

77.5 Retired Salvatore Pappalardo † Archbishop of Palermo, Italy Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

7 Apr 25.5 Perpetual Vows Mykhaylo Bubniy, C.Ss.R. Member of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer Archiepiscopal Exarch of Odessa (Ukrainian), Ukraine

9 Apr 50.9 Appointed Issam John Darwish (Darwich), B.S. Bishop of Saint Michael’s of Sydney (Melkite Greek), Australia Archbishop Emeritus of Zahleh e Furzol (Melkite Greek), Lebanon

75.8 Retired Aurélio Granada Escudeiro † Bishop of Angra, Portugal Bishop Emeritus

55.0 Appointed António de Sousa Braga, S.C.I. † Bishop of Angra, Portugal Bishop Emeritus

10 Apr 55.2 Appointed Luigi Ferrando Bishop of Bragança do Pará, Brazil Bishop Emeritus

76.0 Retired Miguel Maria Giambelli, B. † Bishop of Bragança do Pará, Brazil Bishop Emeritus

47.7 Appointed Filippo Santoro Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Archbishop Emeritus of Taranto, Italy

47.7 Appointed Filippo Santoro Titular Bishop of Tuscamia Archbishop Emeritus of Taranto, Italy

11 Apr 38.8 Ordained Bishop Joseph Banga Bane Coadjutor Bishop of Buta, Congo (Dem. Rep.) Bishop Emeritus

80.2 Died Carlo Minchiatti † Archbishop Emeritus of Benevento, Italy

61.1 Appointed Juliusz Paetz † Archbishop of Poznań, Poland Archbishop Emeritus

76.3 Retired Jerzy Stroba † Archbishop of Poznań, Poland Archbishop Emeritus

12 Apr 72.5 Died Gilles Bélisle † Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

61.4 Appointed Benito Cocchi † Archbishop of Modena-Nonantola, Italy Archbishop Emeritus

76.1 Retired William Edward Murray † Bishop of Wollongong, Australia Bishop Emeritus

76.3 Retired Santo Bartolomeo Quadri † Archbishop of Modena-Nonantola, Italy Archbishop Emeritus

45.5 Appointed Philip Edward Wilson † Bishop of Wollongong, Australia Archbishop Emeritus of Adelaide, Australia

13 Apr 57.7 Installed Martino Canessa Bishop of Tortona, Italy Bishop Emeritus

64.9 Appointed Blasco Francisco Collaço Apostolic Nuncio to Bulgaria Apostolic Nuncio

26.3 Ordained Priest Stephen Dami Mamza Priest of Maiduguri, Nigeria Bishop of Yola, Nigeria

30.8 Ordained Priest Marcellin-Marie Ndabnyemb Priest of Douala, Cameroon Bishop of Batouri, Cameroon

77.5 Died Hugo Eduardo Polanco Brito † Bishop Emeritus of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia en Higüey, Dominican Republic

51.3 Ordained Bishop José Octavio Ruiz Arenas Titular Bishop of Troyna Secretary Emeritus of the Dicastery for Evangelization

54.8 Ordained Bishop Fernando Sabogal Viana † Titular Bishop of Muteci Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá, Colombia

34.4 Ordained Priest Malcolm Sequeira Priest of Poona, India Bishop of Amravati, India

27.4 Ordained Priest George Desmond Tambala, O.C.D. Priest of Order of Discalced Carmelites Archbishop of Lilongwe, Malawi

49.0 Ordained Bishop Oscar Urbina Ortega Titular Bishop of Forconium Archbishop Emeritus of Villavicencio, Colombia

14 Apr 48.7 Ordained Bishop Juan Antonio Reig Pla Bishop of Segorbe-Castellón de la Plana, Spain Bishop Emeritus of Alcalá de Henares, Spain

15 Apr 69.8 Appointed Dominik Hrušovský † Titular Archbishop of Tubia Apostolic Nuncio

69.8 Appointed Dominik Hrušovský † Apostolic Nuncio to Belarus Apostolic Nuncio

82.1 Died Biagio Vittorio Terrinoni, O.F.M. Cap. † Bishop Emeritus of Avezzano, Italy

16 Apr 91.6 Died Giuseppe Fenocchio † Bishop Emeritus of Pontremoli, Italy

17 Apr 93.3 Died João Batista Costa, S.D.B. † Bishop Emeritus of Porto Velho, Rondonia, Brazil

27.0 Ordained Priest Sagayaraj Thamburaj Priest of Tiruchirapalli, India Bishop of Tanjore, India

18 Apr 73.0 Died Jean Cuminal † Bishop of Blois, France

19 Apr 62.8 Died Kevin Lawrence Rafferty † Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain

21 Apr 27.7 Ordained Priest Dante Gustavo Braida Lorenzón Priest of Reconquista, Argentina Bishop of La Rioja, Argentina

70.3 Died Lucas Olu Chukwuka Nwaezeapu † Bishop Emeritus of Warri, Nigeria

33.5 Ordained Priest Lucas Jeimphaung Dau Ze, S.D.B. Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco Bishop of Lashio, Myanmar

22 Apr 26.5 Ordained Priest Severo Cagátan Caérmare Priest of Dipolog, Philippines Bishop

57.3 Appointed Félix Kouadjo † Bishop of Bondoukou, Côte d’Ivoire

50.2 Appointed Louis Nzala Kianza † Bishop of Popokabaka, Congo (Dem. Rep.) Bishop Emeritus

58.8 Appointed Manuel Antonio Valarezo Luzuriaga, O.F.M. Titular Bishop of Quaestoriana Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Galápagos, Ecuador

23 Apr 75.0 Retired Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González † Bishop of Melo, Uruguay Bishop Emeritus

86.5 Died Mario Luigi Ciappi, O.P. † Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Sacro Cuore di Gesù agonizzante a Vitinia

25 Apr 75.1 Retired Adrien André Maria Cimichella, O.S.M. † Auxiliary Bishop of Montréal, Québec, Canada Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

59.1 Appointed Jose Paala Salazar, O.P. † Prelate of Batanes and the Babuyan Islands, Philippines Auxiliary Bishop of Lipa, Philippines

26 Apr 89.6 Died Reginald Edward Vincent Arliss, C.P. † Prelate Emeritus of Marbel, Philippines

59.5 Ordained Bishop Paulinus Costa † Bishop of Rajshahi, Bangladesh Archbishop Emeritus of Dhaka, Bangladesh

27 Apr 59.0 Appointed Julio Amílcar Bethancourt Fioravanti † Bishop of Santa Rosa de Lima, Guatemala

61.7 Appointed Patrick Coveney † Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand Apostolic Nuncio

61.7 Appointed Patrick Coveney † Apostolic Nuncio to Samoa, Pacific (Oceania) Apostolic Nuncio

61.7 Appointed Patrick Coveney † Apostolic Nuncio to Tonga, Pacific (Oceania) Apostolic Nuncio

61.7 Appointed Patrick Coveney † Apostolic Nuncio to Marshall Islands, Pacific (Oceania) Apostolic Nuncio

51.6 Ordained Bishop Ilija Janjić Bishop of Kotor (Cattaro), Montenegro Bishop Emeritus

30.9 Ordained Priest Vusumuzi Francis Mazibuko, O.M.I. Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate Vicar Apostolic of Ingwavuma, South Africa

56.7 Ordained Bishop Francesco Sarego, S.V.D. Bishop of Goroka, Papua New Guinea Bishop Emeritus

64.7 Resigned Thomas Anthony White † Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand Apostolic Nuncio

64.7 Resigned Thomas Anthony White † Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Fiji, Pacific (Oceania) Apostolic Nuncio

64.7 Resigned Thomas Anthony White † Apostolic Nuncio to Nauru, Pacific (Oceania) Apostolic Nuncio

64.7 Resigned Thomas Anthony White † Apostolic Delegate to Pacific Ocean Apostolic Nuncio

28 Apr 29.6 Ordained Priest Estêvão Binga Priest of Benguela, Angola Bishop of Ganda, Angola

61.8 Ordained Bishop Paul Jean-Marie Dossavi † Bishop of Aného, Togo

70.1 Ordained Bishop Luigi de Magistris † Titular Bishop of Nova Cardinal, Pro-Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary

83.3 Died Pierluigi Sartorelli † Apostolic Pro-Nuncio Emeritus to Kenya

29 Apr 72.3 Resigned Eugene James Cuskelly, M.S.C. † Auxiliary Bishop of Brisbane, Australia Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

27.4 Ordained Priest Fidelis Bautista Layog Priest of Lingayen-Dagupan, Philippines Auxiliary Bishop

30 Apr 45.2 Appointed Rogelio Cabrera López Bishop of Tacámbaro, Michoacán, México Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México

59.2 Appointed Francis Eugene George, O.M.I. † Archbishop of Portland in Oregon, USA Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Apr	52.9	Appointed	Armando Xavier Ochoa	Bishop of El Paso, Texas, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Fresno, California, USA
2 Apr	53.4	Appointed	Francis Joseph Christian	Auxiliary Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
53.4	Appointed	Francis Joseph Christian	Titular Bishop of Quincy	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
46.3	Appointed	Mario Espinosa Contreras	Bishop of Tehuacán, Puebla, México	Bishop of Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México
63.1	Appointed	Lubomyr Husar, M.S.U. †	Archiepiscopal Exarch of Kyiv-Vyshhorod (Ukrainian), Ukraine	Cardinal, Major Archbishop Emeritus of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine
3 Apr	55.7	Appointed	Francisco Gil Hellín	Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family	Archbishop Emeritus of Burgos, Spain
55.7	Appointed	Francisco Gil Hellín	Titular Bishop of Citium	Archbishop Emeritus of Burgos, Spain
93.7	Died	Alphonse James Schladweiler †	Bishop Emeritus of New Ulm, Minnesota, USA
67.8	Resigned	Elio Sgreccia †	Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Academy for Life
4 Apr	65.5	Appointed	Salvatore De Giorgi	Archbishop of Palermo, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
77.5	Retired	Salvatore Pappalardo †	Archbishop of Palermo, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
7 Apr	25.5	Perpetual Vows	Mykhaylo Bubniy, C.Ss.R.	Member of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer	Archiepiscopal Exarch of Odessa (Ukrainian), Ukraine
9 Apr	50.9	Appointed	Issam John Darwish (Darwich), B.S.	Bishop of Saint Michael’s of Sydney (Melkite Greek), Australia	Archbishop Emeritus of Zahleh e Furzol (Melkite Greek), Lebanon
75.8	Retired	Aurélio Granada Escudeiro †	Bishop of Angra, Portugal	Bishop Emeritus
55.0	Appointed	António de Sousa Braga, S.C.I. †	Bishop of Angra, Portugal	Bishop Emeritus
10 Apr	55.2	Appointed	Luigi Ferrando	Bishop of Bragança do Pará, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
76.0	Retired	Miguel Maria Giambelli, B. †	Bishop of Bragança do Pará, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
47.7	Appointed	Filippo Santoro	Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus of Taranto, Italy
47.7	Appointed	Filippo Santoro	Titular Bishop of Tuscamia	Archbishop Emeritus of Taranto, Italy
11 Apr	38.8	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Banga Bane	Coadjutor Bishop of Buta, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop Emeritus
80.2	Died	Carlo Minchiatti †	Archbishop Emeritus of Benevento, Italy
61.1	Appointed	Juliusz Paetz †	Archbishop of Poznań, Poland	Archbishop Emeritus
76.3	Retired	Jerzy Stroba †	Archbishop of Poznań, Poland	Archbishop Emeritus
12 Apr	72.5	Died	Gilles Bélisle †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
61.4	Appointed	Benito Cocchi †	Archbishop of Modena-Nonantola, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
76.1	Retired	William Edward Murray †	Bishop of Wollongong, Australia	Bishop Emeritus
76.3	Retired	Santo Bartolomeo Quadri †	Archbishop of Modena-Nonantola, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
45.5	Appointed	Philip Edward Wilson †	Bishop of Wollongong, Australia	Archbishop Emeritus of Adelaide, Australia
13 Apr	57.7	Installed	Martino Canessa	Bishop of Tortona, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
64.9	Appointed	Blasco Francisco Collaço	Apostolic Nuncio to Bulgaria	Apostolic Nuncio
26.3	Ordained Priest	Stephen Dami Mamza	Priest of Maiduguri, Nigeria	Bishop of Yola, Nigeria
30.8	Ordained Priest	Marcellin-Marie Ndabnyemb	Priest of Douala, Cameroon	Bishop of Batouri, Cameroon
77.5	Died	Hugo Eduardo Polanco Brito †	Bishop Emeritus of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia en Higüey, Dominican Republic
51.3	Ordained Bishop	José Octavio Ruiz Arenas	Titular Bishop of Troyna	Secretary Emeritus of the Dicastery for Evangelization
54.8	Ordained Bishop	Fernando Sabogal Viana †	Titular Bishop of Muteci	Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá, Colombia
34.4	Ordained Priest	Malcolm Sequeira	Priest of Poona, India	Bishop of Amravati, India
27.4	Ordained Priest	George Desmond Tambala, O.C.D.	Priest of Order of Discalced Carmelites	Archbishop of Lilongwe, Malawi
49.0	Ordained Bishop	Oscar Urbina Ortega	Titular Bishop of Forconium	Archbishop Emeritus of Villavicencio, Colombia
14 Apr	48.7	Ordained Bishop	Juan Antonio Reig Pla	Bishop of Segorbe-Castellón de la Plana, Spain	Bishop Emeritus of Alcalá de Henares, Spain
15 Apr	69.8	Appointed	Dominik Hrušovský †	Titular Archbishop of Tubia	Apostolic Nuncio
69.8	Appointed	Dominik Hrušovský †	Apostolic Nuncio to Belarus	Apostolic Nuncio
82.1	Died	Biagio Vittorio Terrinoni, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop Emeritus of Avezzano, Italy
16 Apr	91.6	Died	Giuseppe Fenocchio †	Bishop Emeritus of Pontremoli, Italy
17 Apr	93.3	Died	João Batista Costa, S.D.B. †	Bishop Emeritus of Porto Velho, Rondonia, Brazil
27.0	Ordained Priest	Sagayaraj Thamburaj	Priest of Tiruchirapalli, India	Bishop of Tanjore, India
18 Apr	73.0	Died	Jean Cuminal †	Bishop of Blois, France
19 Apr	62.8	Died	Kevin Lawrence Rafferty †	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain
21 Apr	27.7	Ordained Priest	Dante Gustavo Braida Lorenzón	Priest of Reconquista, Argentina	Bishop of La Rioja, Argentina
70.3	Died	Lucas Olu Chukwuka Nwaezeapu †	Bishop Emeritus of Warri, Nigeria
33.5	Ordained Priest	Lucas Jeimphaung Dau Ze, S.D.B.	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Bishop of Lashio, Myanmar
22 Apr	26.5	Ordained Priest	Severo Cagátan Caérmare	Priest of Dipolog, Philippines	Bishop
57.3	Appointed	Félix Kouadjo †	Bishop of Bondoukou, Côte d’Ivoire
50.2	Appointed	Louis Nzala Kianza †	Bishop of Popokabaka, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop Emeritus
58.8	Appointed	Manuel Antonio Valarezo Luzuriaga, O.F.M.	Titular Bishop of Quaestoriana	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Galápagos, Ecuador
23 Apr	75.0	Retired	Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González †	Bishop of Melo, Uruguay	Bishop Emeritus
86.5	Died	Mario Luigi Ciappi, O.P. †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Sacro Cuore di Gesù agonizzante a Vitinia
25 Apr	75.1	Retired	Adrien André Maria Cimichella, O.S.M. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Montréal, Québec, Canada	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
59.1	Appointed	Jose Paala Salazar, O.P. †	Prelate of Batanes and the Babuyan Islands, Philippines	Auxiliary Bishop of Lipa, Philippines
26 Apr	89.6	Died	Reginald Edward Vincent Arliss, C.P. †	Prelate Emeritus of Marbel, Philippines
59.5	Ordained Bishop	Paulinus Costa †	Bishop of Rajshahi, Bangladesh	Archbishop Emeritus of Dhaka, Bangladesh
27 Apr	59.0	Appointed	Julio Amílcar Bethancourt Fioravanti †	Bishop of Santa Rosa de Lima, Guatemala
61.7	Appointed	Patrick Coveney †	Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand	Apostolic Nuncio
61.7	Appointed	Patrick Coveney †	Apostolic Nuncio to Samoa, Pacific (Oceania)	Apostolic Nuncio
61.7	Appointed	Patrick Coveney †	Apostolic Nuncio to Tonga, Pacific (Oceania)	Apostolic Nuncio
61.7	Appointed	Patrick Coveney †	Apostolic Nuncio to Marshall Islands, Pacific (Oceania)	Apostolic Nuncio
51.6	Ordained Bishop	Ilija Janjić	Bishop of Kotor (Cattaro), Montenegro	Bishop Emeritus
30.9	Ordained Priest	Vusumuzi Francis Mazibuko, O.M.I.	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate	Vicar Apostolic of Ingwavuma, South Africa
56.7	Ordained Bishop	Francesco Sarego, S.V.D.	Bishop of Goroka, Papua New Guinea	Bishop Emeritus
64.7	Resigned	Thomas Anthony White †	Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand	Apostolic Nuncio
64.7	Resigned	Thomas Anthony White †	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Fiji, Pacific (Oceania)	Apostolic Nuncio
64.7	Resigned	Thomas Anthony White †	Apostolic Nuncio to Nauru, Pacific (Oceania)	Apostolic Nuncio
64.7	Resigned	Thomas Anthony White †	Apostolic Delegate to Pacific Ocean	Apostolic Nuncio
28 Apr	29.6	Ordained Priest	Estêvão Binga	Priest of Benguela, Angola	Bishop of Ganda, Angola
61.8	Ordained Bishop	Paul Jean-Marie Dossavi †	Bishop of Aného, Togo
70.1	Ordained Bishop	Luigi de Magistris †	Titular Bishop of Nova	Cardinal, Pro-Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
83.3	Died	Pierluigi Sartorelli †	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio Emeritus to Kenya
29 Apr	72.3	Resigned	Eugene James Cuskelly, M.S.C. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Brisbane, Australia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
27.4	Ordained Priest	Fidelis Bautista Layog	Priest of Lingayen-Dagupan, Philippines	Auxiliary Bishop
30 Apr	45.2	Appointed	Rogelio Cabrera López	Bishop of Tacámbaro, Michoacán, México	Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
59.2	Appointed	Francis Eugene George, O.M.I. †	Archbishop of Portland in Oregon, USA	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Chicago, Illinois, USA

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