The Year of Our Lord 2001

Bishop Events

September

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

1 Sep 69.5 Ceased Olavio López Duque, O.A.R. † Apostolic Administrator of Yopal, Colombia Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Casanare, Colombia

58.4 Ordained Bishop Gabriele Mana Bishop of Biella, Italy Bishop Emeritus

43.3 Ordained Bishop Victor Hugo Palma Paúl Coadjutor Bishop of Escuintla, Guatemala Archbishop of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán, Guatemala

45.8 Installed Misael Vacca Ramirez Bishop of Yopal, Colombia Archbishop of Villavicencio, Colombia

2 Sep 55.2 Ordained Bishop Youssef (Joseph) Absi, S.M.S.P. Titular Archbishop of Tarsus dei Greco-Melkiti Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Melkite Greek), Syria

50.3 Ordained Bishop Joseph Yapo Aké Titular Bishop of Castellum Tatroportus Archbishop Emeritus of Gagnoa, Côte d’Ivoire

52.5 Ordained Bishop Salvador Piñeiro García-Calderón Bishop of Peru, Military Archbishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga, Peru

42.8 Ordained Bishop Zygmunt Robaszkiewicz, M.S.F. Bishop of Morombe, Madagascar Bishop of Mahajanga, Madagascar

49.0 Ordained Bishop Heinrich Timmerevers Titular Bishop of Tulana Bishop of Dresden-Meißen (Meissen), Germany

5 Sep 54.0 Ordained Bishop Gerard Joseph Holohan Bishop of Bunbury, Australia Bishop Emeritus

61.3 Installed William Francis Murphy Bishop of Rockville Centre, New York, USA Bishop Emeritus

88.5 Died Marcello Rosina † Bishop Emeritus of Civita Castellana (, Orte, Gallese, Nepi e Sutri), Italy

8 Sep 49.4 Ordained Bishop Jose Lazaro Fuerte Advincula Jr. Bishop of San Carlos, Philippines Cardinal, Archbishop of Manila, Philippines

51.8 Appointed Joseph-Luc-André Bouchard Bishop of Saint Paul in Alberta, Canada Bishop Emeritus of Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada

76.7 Retired Jean Gratton † Bishop of Mont-Laurier, Québec, Canada Bishop Emeritus

61.4 Appointed Dante Lafranconi Bishop of Cremona, Italy Bishop Emeritus

64.7 Appointed Vital Massé Bishop of Mont-Laurier, Québec, Canada Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Jérôme - Mont-Laurier, Québec, Canada

61.3 Ordained Bishop Youssef Massoud Massoud † Bishop of Lattaquié {Laodicea} (Maronite), Syria Bishop Emeritus

58.7 Ordained Bishop Francesco Panfilo, S.D.B. Bishop of Alotau-Sideia, Papua New Guinea Archbishop Emeritus of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea

76.6 Died Marcial Augusto Ramírez Ponce † Bishop Emeritus of Venezuela, Military

78.0 Retired Andrea Veggio † Auxiliary Bishop of Verona, Italy Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

9 Sep 28.6 Ordained Priest Charles Ndaka Salabisala Priest of Popokabaka, Congo (Dem. Rep.) Auxiliary Bishop of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

10 Sep 66.2 Appointed John Mortimer Fourette Smith † Apostolic Administrator of Metuchen, New Jersey, USA Bishop Emeritus of Trenton, New Jersey, USA

11 Sep 49.4 Installed Jose Lazaro Fuerte Advincula Jr. Bishop of San Carlos, Philippines Cardinal, Archbishop of Manila, Philippines

65.2 Ordained Bishop Lawrence John Saldanha Archbishop of Lahore, Pakistan Archbishop Emeritus

12 Sep 65.2 Appointed Luis Sáinz Hinojosa, O.F.M. † Archbishop (Personal Title), Auxiliary of Cochabamba, Bolivia Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

65.2 Appointed Luis Sáinz Hinojosa, O.F.M. † Titular Archbishop of Iunca in Mauretania Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Cochabamba, Bolivia

13 Sep 55.0 Appointed Denys Antoine Chahda Archbishop of Alep [Beroea, Halab] (Syrian), Syria

14 Sep 62.9 Ordained Bishop Walter James Edyvean † Titular Bishop of Aeliae Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Boston, Massachusetts, USA

54.4 Ordained Bishop Richard Gerard Lennon † Titular Bishop of Sufes Bishop Emeritus of Cleveland, Ohio, USA

24.2 Ordained Deacon Vito Piccinonna Deacon of Bari-Bitonto, Italy Bishop of Rieti (-S. Salvatore Maggiore), Italy

46.0 Appointed Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A. Superior General of Order of St. Augustine Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops

15 Sep 27.1 Ordained Priest Adenis Roberto de Oliveira, S.d.P. Priest of Missionary Servants of the Poor Auxiliary Bishop of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil

32.2 Perpetual Vows Bashar Matti Warda, C.Ss.R. Priest of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer Archbishop of Arbil {Erbil} (Chaldean), Iraq

89.4 Died Robert Louis Whelan, S.J. † Bishop Emeritus of Fairbanks, Alaska, USA

16 Sep 68.3 Ordained Bishop Émilius Goulet, P.S.S. Archbishop of Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, Canada Archbishop Emeritus

55.7 Ordained Bishop Jean-Pierre Kutwa Archbishop of Gagnoa, Côte d’Ivoire Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

52.7 Ordained Bishop Menghesteab Tesfamariam, M.C.C.I. Bishop of Asmara (Ethiopian), Eritrea Archbishop of Asmara (Eritrean), Eritrea

17 Sep 87.9 Died Jean-Marie-Clément Badré † Bishop Emeritus of Bayeux (-Lisieux), France

68.6 Died Alfredo José Rodríguez Figueroa † Archbishop of Cumaná, Venezuela

18 Sep 52.5 Ordained Bishop Fernando Carlos Maletti † Bishop of San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina Bishop of Merlo-Moreno, Argentina

79.4 Died Adalberto Domingos Marzi, O.F.M. Cap. † Prelate Emeritus of Alto Solimões, Amazonas, Brazil

19 Sep 74.5 Died Raymond Alphonse Lucker † Bishop Emeritus of New Ulm, Minnesota, USA

20 Sep 71.4 Ordained Bishop Giuseppe Antonio De Andrea † Titular Archbishop of Antium Apostolic Nuncio

21 Sep 75.4 Retired Sergio Otoniel Contreras Navia † Bishop of Temuco, Chile Bishop Emeritus

75.3 Retired Jorge Maria Hourton Poisson † Auxiliary Bishop of Temuco, Chile Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

66.3 Appointed Manuel Camilo Vial Risopatrón, P. Schönstatt Bishop of Temuco, Chile Bishop Emeritus

22 Sep 50.2 Ordained Bishop Fidel León Cadavid Marin Bishop of Quibdó, Colombia Bishop of Sonsón-Rionegro, Colombia

40.5 Ordained Bishop Đuro Hranić Titular Bishop of Gaudiaba Archbishop of Ðakovo-Osijek, Croatia

52.5 Installed Fernando Carlos Maletti † Bishop of San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina Bishop of Merlo-Moreno, Argentina

68.7 Installed Eusébio Oscar Scheid, S.C.I. † Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

23 Sep 58.6 Installed Heinz Josef Algermissen Bishop of Fulda, Germany Bishop Emeritus

56.9 Ordained Bishop Vincent Rakotozafy Bishop of Tôlagnaro, Madagascar Bishop Emeritus

54.3 Ordained Bishop Michel Léon Émile Santier Bishop of Luçon, France Bishop Emeritus of Créteil, France

29.0 Ordained Deacon Ábel Antal Szocska, O.S.B.M. Deacon of Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat (Order of St. Basil the Great) Bishop of Nyíregyháza (Hungarian), Hungary

26 Sep 70.0 Resigned Joseph Hubert Hart † Bishop of Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA Bishop Emeritus

48.8 Succeeded David Laurin Ricken Bishop of Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA Bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA

29 Sep 52.5 Ordained Bishop Benoît Comlan Messan Alowonou Bishop of Kpalimé, Togo

50.3 Ordained Bishop José Carlos dos Santos, F.D.P. † Titular Bishop of Ausuccura Auxiliary Bishop of Luziânia, Goias, Brazil

29.0 Ordained Deacon Earl Kenneth Mario Fernandes Deacon of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, USA

24.1 Ordained Deacon Flavio Pace Deacon of Milano {Milan}, Italy Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity

55.7 Installed Jozef Marianus Punt Bishop of Haarlem, Netherlands Bishop Emeritus of Haarlem-Amsterdam, Netherlands

30 Sep 29.0 Ordained Priest Ábel Antal Szocska, O.S.B.M. Priest of Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat (Order of St. Basil the Great) Bishop of Nyíregyháza (Hungarian), Hungary

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Sep	69.5	Ceased	Olavio López Duque, O.A.R. †	Apostolic Administrator of Yopal, Colombia	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Casanare, Colombia
58.4	Ordained Bishop	Gabriele Mana	Bishop of Biella, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
43.3	Ordained Bishop	Victor Hugo Palma Paúl	Coadjutor Bishop of Escuintla, Guatemala	Archbishop of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán, Guatemala
45.8	Installed	Misael Vacca Ramirez	Bishop of Yopal, Colombia	Archbishop of Villavicencio, Colombia
2 Sep	55.2	Ordained Bishop	Youssef (Joseph) Absi, S.M.S.P.	Titular Archbishop of Tarsus dei Greco-Melkiti	Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Melkite Greek), Syria
50.3	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Yapo Aké	Titular Bishop of Castellum Tatroportus	Archbishop Emeritus of Gagnoa, Côte d’Ivoire
52.5	Ordained Bishop	Salvador Piñeiro García-Calderón	Bishop of Peru, Military	Archbishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga, Peru
42.8	Ordained Bishop	Zygmunt Robaszkiewicz, M.S.F.	Bishop of Morombe, Madagascar	Bishop of Mahajanga, Madagascar
49.0	Ordained Bishop	Heinrich Timmerevers	Titular Bishop of Tulana	Bishop of Dresden-Meißen (Meissen), Germany
5 Sep	54.0	Ordained Bishop	Gerard Joseph Holohan	Bishop of Bunbury, Australia	Bishop Emeritus
61.3	Installed	William Francis Murphy	Bishop of Rockville Centre, New York, USA	Bishop Emeritus
88.5	Died	Marcello Rosina †	Bishop Emeritus of Civita Castellana (, Orte, Gallese, Nepi e Sutri), Italy
8 Sep	49.4	Ordained Bishop	Jose Lazaro Fuerte Advincula Jr.	Bishop of San Carlos, Philippines	Cardinal, Archbishop of Manila, Philippines
51.8	Appointed	Joseph-Luc-André Bouchard	Bishop of Saint Paul in Alberta, Canada	Bishop Emeritus of Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada
76.7	Retired	Jean Gratton †	Bishop of Mont-Laurier, Québec, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
61.4	Appointed	Dante Lafranconi	Bishop of Cremona, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
64.7	Appointed	Vital Massé	Bishop of Mont-Laurier, Québec, Canada	Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Jérôme - Mont-Laurier, Québec, Canada
61.3	Ordained Bishop	Youssef Massoud Massoud †	Bishop of Lattaquié {Laodicea} (Maronite), Syria	Bishop Emeritus
58.7	Ordained Bishop	Francesco Panfilo, S.D.B.	Bishop of Alotau-Sideia, Papua New Guinea	Archbishop Emeritus of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
76.6	Died	Marcial Augusto Ramírez Ponce †	Bishop Emeritus of Venezuela, Military
78.0	Retired	Andrea Veggio †	Auxiliary Bishop of Verona, Italy	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
9 Sep	28.6	Ordained Priest	Charles Ndaka Salabisala	Priest of Popokabaka, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Auxiliary Bishop of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
10 Sep	66.2	Appointed	John Mortimer Fourette Smith †	Apostolic Administrator of Metuchen, New Jersey, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Trenton, New Jersey, USA
11 Sep	49.4	Installed	Jose Lazaro Fuerte Advincula Jr.	Bishop of San Carlos, Philippines	Cardinal, Archbishop of Manila, Philippines
65.2	Ordained Bishop	Lawrence John Saldanha	Archbishop of Lahore, Pakistan	Archbishop Emeritus
12 Sep	65.2	Appointed	Luis Sáinz Hinojosa, O.F.M. †	Archbishop (Personal Title), Auxiliary of Cochabamba, Bolivia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
65.2	Appointed	Luis Sáinz Hinojosa, O.F.M. †	Titular Archbishop of Iunca in Mauretania	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Cochabamba, Bolivia
13 Sep	55.0	Appointed	Denys Antoine Chahda	Archbishop of Alep [Beroea, Halab] (Syrian), Syria
14 Sep	62.9	Ordained Bishop	Walter James Edyvean †	Titular Bishop of Aeliae	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
54.4	Ordained Bishop	Richard Gerard Lennon †	Titular Bishop of Sufes	Bishop Emeritus of Cleveland, Ohio, USA
24.2	Ordained Deacon	Vito Piccinonna	Deacon of Bari-Bitonto, Italy	Bishop of Rieti (-S. Salvatore Maggiore), Italy
46.0	Appointed	Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A.	Superior General of Order of St. Augustine	Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops
15 Sep	27.1	Ordained Priest	Adenis Roberto de Oliveira, S.d.P.	Priest of Missionary Servants of the Poor	Auxiliary Bishop of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
32.2	Perpetual Vows	Bashar Matti Warda, C.Ss.R.	Priest of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer	Archbishop of Arbil {Erbil} (Chaldean), Iraq
89.4	Died	Robert Louis Whelan, S.J. †	Bishop Emeritus of Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
16 Sep	68.3	Ordained Bishop	Émilius Goulet, P.S.S.	Archbishop of Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus
55.7	Ordained Bishop	Jean-Pierre Kutwa	Archbishop of Gagnoa, Côte d’Ivoire	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
52.7	Ordained Bishop	Menghesteab Tesfamariam, M.C.C.I.	Bishop of Asmara (Ethiopian), Eritrea	Archbishop of Asmara (Eritrean), Eritrea
17 Sep	87.9	Died	Jean-Marie-Clément Badré †	Bishop Emeritus of Bayeux (-Lisieux), France
68.6	Died	Alfredo José Rodríguez Figueroa †	Archbishop of Cumaná, Venezuela
18 Sep	52.5	Ordained Bishop	Fernando Carlos Maletti †	Bishop of San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina	Bishop of Merlo-Moreno, Argentina
79.4	Died	Adalberto Domingos Marzi, O.F.M. Cap. †	Prelate Emeritus of Alto Solimões, Amazonas, Brazil
19 Sep	74.5	Died	Raymond Alphonse Lucker †	Bishop Emeritus of New Ulm, Minnesota, USA
20 Sep	71.4	Ordained Bishop	Giuseppe Antonio De Andrea †	Titular Archbishop of Antium	Apostolic Nuncio
21 Sep	75.4	Retired	Sergio Otoniel Contreras Navia †	Bishop of Temuco, Chile	Bishop Emeritus
75.3	Retired	Jorge Maria Hourton Poisson †	Auxiliary Bishop of Temuco, Chile	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
66.3	Appointed	Manuel Camilo Vial Risopatrón, P. Schönstatt	Bishop of Temuco, Chile	Bishop Emeritus
22 Sep	50.2	Ordained Bishop	Fidel León Cadavid Marin	Bishop of Quibdó, Colombia	Bishop of Sonsón-Rionegro, Colombia
40.5	Ordained Bishop	Đuro Hranić	Titular Bishop of Gaudiaba	Archbishop of Ðakovo-Osijek, Croatia
52.5	Installed	Fernando Carlos Maletti †	Bishop of San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina	Bishop of Merlo-Moreno, Argentina
68.7	Installed	Eusébio Oscar Scheid, S.C.I. †	Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
23 Sep	58.6	Installed	Heinz Josef Algermissen	Bishop of Fulda, Germany	Bishop Emeritus
56.9	Ordained Bishop	Vincent Rakotozafy	Bishop of Tôlagnaro, Madagascar	Bishop Emeritus
54.3	Ordained Bishop	Michel Léon Émile Santier	Bishop of Luçon, France	Bishop Emeritus of Créteil, France
29.0	Ordained Deacon	Ábel Antal Szocska, O.S.B.M.	Deacon of Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat (Order of St. Basil the Great)	Bishop of Nyíregyháza (Hungarian), Hungary
26 Sep	70.0	Resigned	Joseph Hubert Hart †	Bishop of Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA	Bishop Emeritus
48.8	Succeeded	David Laurin Ricken	Bishop of Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA	Bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
29 Sep	52.5	Ordained Bishop	Benoît Comlan Messan Alowonou	Bishop of Kpalimé, Togo
50.3	Ordained Bishop	José Carlos dos Santos, F.D.P. †	Titular Bishop of Ausuccura	Auxiliary Bishop of Luziânia, Goias, Brazil
29.0	Ordained Deacon	Earl Kenneth Mario Fernandes	Deacon of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA	Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, USA
24.1	Ordained Deacon	Flavio Pace	Deacon of Milano {Milan}, Italy	Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity
55.7	Installed	Jozef Marianus Punt	Bishop of Haarlem, Netherlands	Bishop Emeritus of Haarlem-Amsterdam, Netherlands
30 Sep	29.0	Ordained Priest	Ábel Antal Szocska, O.S.B.M.	Priest of Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat (Order of St. Basil the Great)	Bishop of Nyíregyháza (Hungarian), Hungary

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