Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
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1 Dec | 65.9 | Ordained Bishop | Carlo Mazza | Bishop of Fidenza, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
55.6 | Converted | Jeffrey Neil Steenson | Ordinary Emeritus of The Chair of Saint Peter, USA | ||
65.9 | Installed | Giovanni Tonucci | Prelate of Loreto, Italy | Prelate Emeritus | |
2 Dec | 63.7 | Ordained Bishop | Séamus Freeman, S.A.C. † | Bishop of Ossory, Ireland | Bishop Emeritus |
52.4 | Installed | Simone Giusti | Bishop of Livorno, Italy | ||
50.4 | Ordained Bishop | Pablo Emiro Salas Anteliz | Bishop of Espinal, Colombia | Archbishop of Barranquilla, Colombia | |
64.0 | Installed | Leonardo Sandri | Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari | Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches | |
56.6 | Ordained Bishop | Justin Saw Min Thide | Titular Bishop of Lemfocta | Bishop of Hpa-an, Myanmar | |
3 Dec | 50.4 | Ordained Bishop | Joseph Ðặng Ðức Ngân | Bishop of Lạng Sơn et Cao Bằng, Viet Nam | Coadjutor Archbishop of Huế, Viet Nam |
49.1 | Appointed | Isaac Jogues Agbémenya Kodjo Gaglo | Bishop of Aného, Togo | ||
75.1 | Retired | Robert Kerketta, S.D.B. † | Bishop of Tezpur, India | Bishop Emeritus | |
80.9 | Died | Henri Salina, C.R.A. † | Abbot Emeritus of Saint-Maurice, Switzerland | ||
52.5 | Appointed | Michael Akasius Toppo | Bishop of Tezpur, India | ||
4 Dec | 43.6 | Ordained Bishop | Joseph Gan Junqiu | Bishop of Guangzhou [Canton], China | |
6 Dec | 67.9 | Appointed | Gerald Nicholas Dino † | Bishop of Van Nuys (Ruthenian), California, USA | Bishop Emeritus of Holy Protection of Mary of Phoenix (Ruthenian), Arizona, USA |
57.7 | Appointed | John Doaninoel, S.M. † | Auxiliary Bishop of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea | Auxiliary Bishop of Honiara, Solomon Islands | |
57.7 | Appointed | John Doaninoel, S.M. † | Titular Bishop of Girus Tarasii | Auxiliary Bishop of Honiara, Solomon Islands | |
68.1 | Appointed | Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya † | Archbishop of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.) | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus | |
54.5 | Appointed | Francesco Moraglia | Bishop of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato, Italy | Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy | |
83.9 | Died | Roger Mpungu † | Bishop Emeritus of Muyinga, Burundi | ||
80.2 | Retired | Andrew Pataki † | Bishop of Passaic (Ruthenian), New Jersey, USA | Bishop Emeritus | |
55.5 | Appointed | Giuseppe Pinto | Apostolic Nuncio to Chile | Apostolic Nuncio | |
51.5 | Appointed | William Charles Skurla | Bishop of Passaic (Ruthenian), New Jersey, USA | Archbishop of Pittsburgh (Ruthenian), Pennsylvania, USA | |
76.2 | Retired | Bassano Staffieri † | Bishop of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
51.5 | Appointed | Patrick Taval, M.S.C. † | Coadjutor Bishop of Kerema, Papua New Guinea | Bishop | |
7 Dec | 75.6 | Retired | Clément Joseph Marie Raymond Guillon, C.I.M. † | Bishop of Quimper [Cornouailles](-Léon), France | Bishop Emeritus |
48.6 | Appointed | Jean-Marie Charles André Le Vert | Bishop of Quimper [Cornouailles](-Léon), France | Auxiliary Bishop of Bordeaux (-Bazas), France | |
8 Dec | 65.4 | Appointed | Alberto Bottari de Castello | Titular Archbishop of Opitergium | Apostolic Nuncio |
64.9 | Ordained Bishop | Valentín Reynoso Hidalgo, M.S.C. | Titular Bishop of Mades | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic | |
45.7 | Ordained Bishop | Héctor Eduardo Vera Colona | Bishop of Ica, Peru | ||
9 Dec | 68.6 | Installed | Ángel Rubio Castro | Bishop of Segovia, Spain | Bishop Emeritus |
10 Dec | 64.0 | Appointed | Francisco-Javier Lozano Sebastián | Apostolic Nuncio to Romania | Apostolic Nuncio |
64.0 | Appointed | Francisco-Javier Lozano Sebastián | Apostolic Nuncio to Moldova, Republic of | Apostolic Nuncio | |
60.3 | Appointed | Romano Rossi | Bishop of Civita Castellana, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
76.8 | Retired | Divo Zadi † | Bishop of Civita Castellana, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
11 Dec | 54.4 | Appointed | Willem Jacobus Eijk | Cardinal, Archbishop of Utrecht, Netherlands | |
12 Dec | 58.9 | Appointed | Enemésio Ângelo Lazzaris, F.D.P. † | Bishop of Balsas, Maranhão, Brazil | |
97.3 | Died | Alfons Maria Stickler, S.D.B. † | Cardinal, Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archive | ||
41.5 | Ordained Bishop | Hermenegildo José Torres Asanza | Titular Bishop of Centenaria | Bishop of Guaranda, Ecuador | |
13 Dec | 85.7 | Died | Gaetano Michetti † | Bishop Emeritus of Pesaro, Italy | |
14 Dec | 52.9 | Ordained Bishop | Peter Jin Lugang | Coadjutor Bishop of Nanyang [Nanyang], China | Bishop |
15 Dec | 61.9 | Installed | Pierre Bürcher | Bishop of Reykjavik, Iceland | Bishop Emeritus |
45.8 | Installed | Zanoni Demettino Castro | Bishop of São Mateus, Espirito Santo, Brazil | Archbishop of Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil | |
92.4 | Died | Fernando Romo Gutiérrez † | Bishop Emeritus of Torreón, Coahuila, México | ||
50.5 | Installed | Pablo Emiro Salas Anteliz | Bishop of Espinal, Colombia | Archbishop of Barranquilla, Colombia | |
16 Dec | 38.1 | Ordained Bishop | Vasile Bizău | Titular Bishop of Appiaria | Bishop of Maramureş (Romanian), Romania |
37.0 | Ordained Bishop | Mihai Cătălin Frăţilă | Titular Bishop of Novae | Bishop of Sfântul Vasile cel Mare de Bucureşti (San Basilio Magno di Bucarest) (Romanian), Romania | |
55.6 | Ordained Bishop | Rosario Saro Vella, S.D.B. | Bishop of Ambanja, Madagascar | Bishop of Moramanga, Madagascar | |
49.0 | Ordained Bishop | João Carlos Seneme, C.S.S. | Titular Bishop of Albulae | Bishop of Toledo, Parana, Brazil | |
18 Dec | 44.9 | Appointed | Gaspard Béby Gnéba | Bishop of Man, Côte d’Ivoire | |
74.9 | Retired | Joseph Niangoran Teky | Bishop of Man, Côte d’Ivoire | Bishop Emeritus | |
19 Dec | 54.5 | Appointed | Roberto Francisco Ferrería Paz | Auxiliary Bishop of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Bishop of Campos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
54.5 | Appointed | Roberto Francisco Ferrería Paz | Titular Bishop of Accia | Bishop of Campos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
47.3 | Appointed | Karl-Heinz Wiesemann | Bishop of Speyer, Germany | ||
53.4 | Appointed | Michael Wüstenberg | Bishop of Aliwal, South Africa | Bishop Emeritus | |
20 Dec | 58.5 | Died | Sebastião Assis de Figueiredo, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Guiratinga, Mato Grosso, Brazil | |
47.8 | Appointed | Eugène Cyrille Houndékon | Bishop of Abomey, Benin | ||
90.5 | Died | [John Liu Ding-han], S.J. † | Bishop Emeritus of Xianxian [Sienhsien], China | ||
81.1 | Died | Raphaël Nguyễn Văn Diệp † | Coadjutor Bishop Emeritus of Vĩnh Long, Viet Nam | ||
21 Dec | 57.5 | Ordained Bishop | William Patrick Callahan, O.F.M. Conv. | Titular Bishop of Lares | Bishop Emeritus of La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA |
62.5 | Resigned | James Charles Gould, S.J. | Prefect of Marshall Islands, Pacific (Oceania) | Prefect Emeritus | |
39.0 | Ordained Bishop | Joseph Li Jing | Coadjutor Bishop of Yinchuan [Ningsia], China | Bishop | |
61.8 | Appointed | Raymundo Taco Sabio, M.S.C. † | Prefect of Marshall Islands, Pacific (Oceania) | Prefect Emeritus | |
22 Dec | 63.9 | Appointed | Gianni Ambrosio | Bishop of Piacenza-Bobbio, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
31.1 | Ordained Priest | Cristiano Guilherme Borro Barbosa | Priest of Bauru, Sao Paulo, Brazil | Auxiliary Bishop of Boston, Massachusetts, USA | |
75.1 | Retired | Tulio Manuel Chirivella Varela † | Archbishop of Barquisimeto, Venezuela | Archbishop Emeritus | |
72.1 | Appointed | John Patrick Foley † | Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem | Cardinal, Grand Master Emeritus | |
62.8 | Appointed | George Kocherry | Apostolic Nuncio to Zimbabwe | Apostolic Nuncio | |
65.5 | Appointed | Giuseppe Lazzarotto | Apostolic Nuncio to Australia | Apostolic Nuncio | |
45.0 | Appointed | Wiesław Lechowicz | Auxiliary Bishop of Tarnów, Poland | Bishop of Poland, Military | |
45.0 | Appointed | Wiesław Lechowicz | Titular Bishop of Lambiridi | Bishop of Poland, Military | |
62.4 | Appointed | Antonio José López Castillo † | Archbishop of Barquisimeto, Venezuela | Archbishop Emeritus | |
23 Dec | 83.2 | Died | Aloísio Leo Arlindo Lorscheider, O.F.M. † | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Aparecida, Sao Paulo, Brazil | |
24 Dec | 58.8 | Appointed | Richard Anthony Burke, S.P.S. | Archbishop of Benin City, Nigeria | Archbishop Emeritus |
58.8 | Appointed | Richard Anthony Burke, S.P.S. | Apostolic Administrator of Warri, Nigeria | Archbishop Emeritus of Benin City, Nigeria | |
25 Dec | 89.5 | Died | Juan Alfredo Arzube † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Los Angeles, California, USA | |
27 Dec | 75.7 | Retired | Rubén Héctor di Monte † | Archbishop of Mercedes-Luján, Argentina | Archbishop Emeritus |
74.6 | Resigned | Elmer Osmar Ramón Miani † | Bishop of Catamarca, Argentina | Bishop Emeritus | |
63.2 | Appointed | Agustín Roberto Radrizzani, S.D.B. † | Archbishop of Mercedes-Luján, Argentina | Archbishop Emeritus | |
49.4 | Succeeded | Luis Urbanč | Bishop of Catamarca, Argentina | ||
28 Dec | 39.3 | Solemn Vows | Khalid Rehmat, O.F.M. Cap. | Member of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin | Vicar Apostolic of Quetta, Pakistan |
45.4 | Installed | Pietro Vittorelli, O.S.B. † | Abbot of Montecassino, Italy | Abbot Emeritus | |
54.0 | Appointed | Dominic Nyarko Yeboah | Bishop of Techiman, Ghana | ||
29 Dec | 75.1 | Retired | Adam Dyczkowski † | Bishop of Zielona Góra-Gorzów, Poland | Bishop Emeritus |
56.5 | Appointed | Stefan Regmunt | Bishop of Zielona Góra-Gorzów, Poland | Bishop Emeritus | |
76.6 | Retired | Marian Kazimierz Zimałek † | Auxiliary Bishop of Sandomierz, Poland | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus |
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