Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
3 Dec | 49.8 | Installed | Dieudonné Bogmis † | Bishop of Eséka, Cameroon | |
57.9 | Appointed | Francis Daw Tang | Bishop of Myitkyina, Myanmar | Bishop Emeritus | |
4 Dec | 96.5 | Died | Kevin William Barden, O.P. † | Archbishop Emeritus of Ispahan, Iran | |
49.7 | Ordained Bishop | Ricardo García García | Prelate of Yauyos, Peru | ||
75.9 | Retired | Lucas Liu Hsien Tang (Liu Xiantang) | Bishop of Hsinchu, Taiwan | Bishop Emeritus | |
51.4 | Appointed | James Liu Tan-kuei | Bishop of Hsinchu, Taiwan | Bishop Emeritus | |
53.6 | Installed | Jean-Bosco Ntep | Bishop of Edéa, Cameroon | ||
5 Dec | 26.4 | Ordained Deacon | Roko Glasnović | Deacon of Šibenik (Knin), Croatia | Bishop of Dubrovnik (Ragusa), Croatia |
61.1 | Ceased | Andrej Glavan | Apostolic Administrator of Ljubljana, Slovenia | Bishop Emeritus of Novo Mesto, Slovenia | |
65.6 | Ordained Bishop | Manfred Grothe | Titular Bishop of Hippo Diarrhytus | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Paderborn, Germany | |
45.0 | Ordained Bishop | Matthias König | Titular Bishop of Elicroca | Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn, Germany | |
48.5 | Ordained Bishop | Jean Mbarga | Bishop of Ebolowa-Kribi, Cameroon | Archbishop of Yaoundé, Cameroon | |
59.8 | Installed | Alojz Uran † | Archbishop of Ljubljana, Slovenia | Archbishop Emeritus | |
6 Dec | 71.7 | Appointed | Lubomyr Husar, M.S.U. † | Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine | Cardinal, Major Archbishop Emeritus |
71.7 | Appointed | Lubomyr Husar, M.S.U. † | Archbishop of Kyiv {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine | Cardinal, Major Archbishop Emeritus of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine | |
50.7 | Appointed | Hlib (Borys Sviatoslav) Lonchyna, M.S.U. | Auxiliary Bishop of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine | Bishop Emeritus of Holy Family of London (Ukrainian) | |
55.3 | Appointed | Wasyl Ihor Medwit, O.S.B.M. | Curial Bishop of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Donets’k-Kharkiv (Ukrainian), Ukraine | |
7 Dec | 61.4 | Appointed | Cornelius Fontem Esua | Coadjutor Archbishop of Bamenda, Cameroon | Archbishop Emeritus |
61.7 | Appointed | Segismundo Martínez Álvarez, S.D.B. † | Bishop of Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus | |
49.8 | Appointed | Castor Paul Msemwa † | Coadjutor Bishop of Tunduru-Masasi, Tanzania | Bishop | |
8 Dec | 30.5 | Ordained Priest | Giovani Edgar Arana | Priest of La Paz, Bolivia | Bishop of El Alto, Bolivia |
54.4 | Installed | Orani João Tempesta, O. Cist. | Archbishop of Belém do Pará, Brazil | Cardinal, Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
9 Dec | 91.6 | Died | Otàvio Barbosa Aguiar † | Bishop Emeritus of Palmeira dos Índios, Alagoas, Brazil | |
61.2 | Appointed | Michael Joseph Bransfield | Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, USA | Bishop Emeritus | |
76.3 | Retired | John Francis Donoghue † | Archbishop of Atlanta, Georgia, USA | Archbishop Emeritus | |
54.8 | Appointed | Demetrio Fernández González | Bishop of Tarazona, Spain | Bishop of Córdoba, Spain | |
57.0 | Appointed | Wilton Daniel Gregory | Archbishop of Atlanta, Georgia, USA | Cardinal, Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia, USA | |
47.0 | Ordained Bishop | Kevin Carl Rhoades | Bishop of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA | Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, USA | |
76.3 | Retired | Bernard William Schmitt † | Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, USA | Bishop Emeritus | |
10 Dec | 51.9 | Resigned | Anastase Mutabazi | Bishop of Kabgayi, Rwanda | Bishop Emeritus |
11 Dec | 44.5 | Appointed | Reynaldo Gonda Evangelista | Bishop of Boac, Philippines | Bishop of Imus, Philippines |
89.4 | Died | Tomás Enrique Márquez Gómez † | Bishop Emeritus of San Felipe, Venezuela | ||
67.5 | Appointed | Faustino Sainz Muñoz † | Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain | Apostolic Nuncio | |
50.4 | Ordained Bishop | Moacir Silva | Bishop of São José dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil | Archbishop of Ribeirão Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil | |
12 Dec | 65.6 | Ordained Bishop | Ángel Rubio Castro | Titular Bishop of Vergi | Bishop Emeritus of Segovia, Spain |
78.3 | Died | Pavlo Vasylyk † | Bishop of Kolomyia-Chernivtsi (Ukrainian), Ukraine | ||
45.0 | Succeeded | Volodymyr Viytyshyn | Bishop of Kolomyia-Chernivtsi (Ukrainian), Ukraine | Archbishop of Ivano-Frankivsk [Stanislaviv] (Ukrainian), Ukraine | |
13 Dec | 65.5 | Ordained Bishop | William Joseph Dendinger | Bishop of Grand Island, Nebraska, USA | Bishop Emeritus |
14 Dec | 44.9 | Appointed | Antoni Dziemianko | Auxiliary Bishop of Minsk-Mohilev, Belarus | Bishop of Pinsk, Belarus |
53.9 | Ordained Bishop | Gonzalo Galván Castillo † | Bishop of Autlán, Jalisco, México | Bishop Emeritus | |
68.3 | Appointed | Guido Plante, P.M.E. † | Coadjutor Bishop of Choluteca, Honduras | Bishop Emeritus | |
15 Dec | 54.3 | Appointed | Thomas Edward Gullickson | Apostolic Nuncio to Antigua and Barbuda, Antilles | Apostolic Nuncio |
54.3 | Appointed | Thomas Edward Gullickson | Apostolic Nuncio to Barbados, Antilles | Apostolic Nuncio | |
54.3 | Appointed | Thomas Edward Gullickson | Apostolic Nuncio to Jamaica, Antilles | Apostolic Nuncio | |
54.3 | Appointed | Thomas Edward Gullickson | Apostolic Nuncio to Guyana, Antilles | Apostolic Nuncio | |
54.3 | Appointed | Thomas Edward Gullickson | Apostolic Nuncio to Suriname, Antilles | Apostolic Nuncio | |
75.1 | Retired | Sebastião Roque Rabelo Mendes † | Auxiliary Bishop of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | |
16 Dec | 59.1 | Appointed | Paul Joseph Bradley | Auxiliary Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA | Bishop Emeritus of Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA |
59.1 | Appointed | Paul Joseph Bradley | Titular Bishop of Afufenia | Bishop Emeritus of Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA | |
64.0 | Ordained Bishop | Claude Jean Narcisse Rault, M. Afr. | Bishop of Laghouat, Algeria | Bishop Emeritus | |
65.5 | Appointed | Jaime Rodríguez Salazar, M.C.C.I. | Bishop of Huánuco, Peru | Bishop Emeritus | |
17 Dec | 76.3 | Died | Lawrence James McNamara † | Bishop Emeritus of Grand Island, Nebraska, USA | |
18 Dec | 76.0 | Retired | Giuseppe Agostino † | Archbishop of Cosenza-Bisignano, Italy | Archbishop Emeritus |
70.3 | Appointed | Ambrose Battista De Paoli † | Apostolic Nuncio to Australia | ||
51.3 | Appointed | Kazimierz Gurda | Auxiliary Bishop of Kielce, Poland | Bishop of Siedlce, Poland | |
51.3 | Appointed | Kazimierz Gurda | Titular Bishop of Chusira | Bishop of Siedlce, Poland | |
65.7 | Appointed | Peter Marzinkowski, C.S.Sp. | Bishop of Alindao, Central African Republic | Bishop Emeritus | |
65.5 | Appointed | Salvatore Nunnari | Archbishop of Cosenza-Bisignano, Italy | Archbishop Emeritus | |
48.1 | Appointed | Luigi Ernesto Palletti | Auxiliary Bishop of Genova {Genoa}, Italy | Bishop of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato, Italy | |
48.1 | Appointed | Luigi Ernesto Palletti | Titular Bishop of Fundi | Bishop of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato, Italy | |
58.2 | Ordained Bishop | Ángel Polivio Sánchez Loaiza | Bishop of Guaranda, Ecuador | Bishop Emeritus of Machala, Ecuador | |
34.8 | Incardinated | Cyr-Nestor Yapaupa | Priest of Alindao, Central African Republic | Bishop | |
19 Dec | 62.2 | Installed | Joaquin Maria López de Andújar y Cánovas del Castillo | Bishop of Getafe, Spain | Bishop Emeritus |
50.3 | Installed | José Carmelo Martínez Lázaro, O.A.R. | Bishop of Cajamarca, Peru | Bishop Emeritus | |
65.9 | Installed | Alfonso Milián Sorribas † | Bishop of Barbastro-Monzón, Spain | Bishop Emeritus | |
93.7 | Died | Longinus Gabriel Pereira † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bombay, India | ||
64.0 | Installed | Claude Jean Narcisse Rault, M. Afr. | Bishop of Laghouat, Algeria | Bishop Emeritus | |
20 Dec | 54.3 | Appointed | Thomas Edward Gullickson | Apostolic Nuncio to Grenada, Antilles | Apostolic Nuncio |
21 Dec | 57.1 | Appointed | Manuel da Rocha Felício | Coadjutor Bishop of Guarda, Portugal | Bishop |
56.3 | Appointed | António Francisco dos Santos † | Auxiliary Bishop of Braga, Portugal | Bishop of Porto, Portugal | |
56.3 | Appointed | António Francisco dos Santos † | Titular Bishop of Magnetum | Bishop of Porto, Portugal | |
76.4 | Retired | Maurice Lucien Fréchard, C.S.Sp. † | Archbishop of Auch (-Condom-Lectoure-Lombez), France | Archbishop Emeritus | |
59.8 | Appointed | Maurice Marcel Gardès | Archbishop of Auch (-Condom-Lectoure-Lombez), France | Archbishop Emeritus | |
80.8 | Died | Gabriel Lee Gab-sou † | Bishop Emeritus of Busan {Pusan}, Korea (South) | ||
22 Dec | 45.8 | Appointed | Sebastião Bandeira Coêlho | Auxiliary Bishop of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil | Bishop of Coroatá, Maranhão, Brazil |
45.8 | Appointed | Sebastião Bandeira Coêlho | Titular Bishop of Thubursicum | Bishop of Coroatá, Maranhão, Brazil | |
58.2 | Installed | Ángel Polivio Sánchez Loaiza | Bishop of Guaranda, Ecuador | Bishop Emeritus of Machala, Ecuador | |
23 Dec | 76.8 | Retired | Pietro Bottaccioli † | Bishop of Gubbio, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
63.3 | Appointed | Mario Ceccobelli | Bishop of Gubbio, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
88.9 | Died | Pietro Fiordelli † | Bishop Emeritus of Prato, Italy | ||
27 Dec | 81.8 | Died | Thomas Kevin O’Brien † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Middlesbrough, England, Great Britain | |
28 Dec | 49.5 | Ordained Bishop | Paul Stagg Coakley | Bishop of Salina, Kansas, USA | Archbishop of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA |
29 Dec | 60.4 | Appointed | Robert James Carlson | Bishop of Saginaw, Michigan, USA | Archbishop Emeritus of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA |
55.2 | Appointed | Pedro José Conti | Bishop of Macapá, Amapa, Brazil | ||
55.5 | Appointed | Daniel Nicholas DiNardo | Coadjutor Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA | Cardinal, Archbishop | |
73.9 | Appointed | Joseph Anthony Fiorenza † | Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA | Archbishop Emeritus | |
75.4 | Retired | Patrick Fernández Flores † | Archbishop of San Antonio, Texas, USA | Archbishop Emeritus | |
53.0 | Appointed | José Horacio Gómez Velasco | Archbishop of San Antonio, Texas, USA | Archbishop of Los Angeles, California, USA | |
30.6 | Ordained Priest | Hani Nassif Wasef Bakhoum Kiroulos | Priest of Alexandria {Alessandria} (Coptic), Egypt | Curial Bishop | |
55.7 | Appointed | Jerome Edward Listecki | Bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA | Archbishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA | |
54.3 | Appointed | Carlos Verzeletti | Bishop of Castanhal, Para, Brazil | ||
30 Dec | 89.9 | Died | Salvatore Asta † | Apostolic Nuncio | |
55.1 | Appointed | Freddy Jesús Fuenmayor Suárez | Bishop of Los Teques, Venezuela | ||
72.5 | Resigned | Ramón Ovidio Pérez Morales | Bishop of Los Teques, Venezuela | Bishop Emeritus | |
31 Dec | 75.5 | Retired | Georges Edmond Robert Gilson | Archbishop of Sens (-Auxerre), France | Archbishop Emeritus |
75.5 | Retired | Georges Edmond Robert Gilson | Prelate of Mission de France o Pontigny, France | Archbishop Emeritus of Sens (-Auxerre), France | |
64.9 | Succeeded | Yves François Patenôtre | Archbishop of Sens (-Auxerre), France | Archbishop Emeritus | |
64.9 | Succeeded | Yves François Patenôtre | Prelate of Mission de France o Pontigny, France | Archbishop Emeritus of Sens (-Auxerre), France | |
88.8 | Died | Charles-Auguste-Marie Paty † | Bishop Emeritus of Luçon, France |
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