Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
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4 Nov | 84.6 | Died | [Pius Jin Peixian] † | Bishop Emeritus of Shenyang [Mukden, Fengtien], China | |
51.0 | Appointed | Pedro Mario Ossandón Buljevic | Auxiliary Bishop of Concepción (Santissima Concezione), Chile | Bishop of Chile, Military | |
51.0 | Appointed | Pedro Mario Ossandón Buljevic | Titular Bishop of La Imperial | Bishop of Chile, Military | |
61.9 | Appointed | Carlos Suárez Cázares | Auxiliary Bishop of Morelia, Michoacán, México | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | |
61.9 | Appointed | Carlos Suárez Cázares | Titular Bishop of Abidda | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Morelia, Michoacán, México | |
5 Nov | 91.4 | Died | Sofron Stepan Dmyterko, O.S.B.M. † | Bishop Emeritus of Ivano-Frankivsk [Stanisławów] (Ukrainian), Ukraine | |
6 Nov | 76.5 | Died | Carmelo Echenagusia Uribe † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bilbao, Spain | |
52.8 | Ordained Bishop | Almachius Vincent Rweyongeza | Bishop of Kayanga, Tanzania | ||
7 Nov | 98.7 | Died | José Bezerra Coutinho † | Bishop Emeritus of Estância, Sergipe, Brazil | |
8 Nov | 64.6 | Appointed | Rino Passigato | Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal | Apostolic Nuncio |
75.1 | Retired | Alfio Rapisarda | Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal | Apostolic Nuncio | |
11 Nov | 76.9 | Retired | Patrick Dougherty † | Bishop of Bathurst, Australia | Bishop Emeritus |
47.8 | Ordained Bishop | Vincent Alexandre Édouard Élie Jordy | Titular Bishop of Idassa | Archbishop of Tours, France | |
77.3 | Died | Alessandro Maggiolini † | Bishop Emeritus of Como, Italy | ||
55.0 | Appointed | Daniel Nlandu Mayi † | Coadjutor Bishop of Matadi, Congo (Dem. Rep.) | Bishop Emeritus | |
12 Nov | 62.1 | Ceased | Mílton Antônio dos Santos, S.D.B. | Apostolic Administrator of Juína, Mato Grosso, Brazil | Archbishop Emeritus of Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil |
84.4 | Died | Vladas Michelevičius † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Kaunas, Lithuania | ||
55.4 | Appointed | José Moreira da Silva | Bishop of Januária, Minas Gerais, Brazil | Bishop of Porto Nacional, Tocatins, Brazil | |
76.7 | Retired | Anselmo Müller, M.S.F. † | Bishop of Januária, Minas Gerais, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus | |
44.6 | Appointed | Neri José Tondello | Bishop of Juína, Mato Grosso, Brazil | ||
77.5 | Died | Marian Kazimierz Zimałek † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Sandomierz, Poland | ||
13 Nov | 63.0 | Appointed | Juan José Asenjo Pelegrina | Coadjutor Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain | Archbishop Emeritus |
14 Nov | 89.8 | Died | Michael Ugwu Eneja † | Bishop Emeritus of Enugu, Nigeria | |
15 Nov | 56.1 | Ordained Bishop | Pierre Nguyễn Văn Khảm | Titular Bishop of Trofimiana | Bishop of Mỹ Tho, Viet Nam |
16 Nov | 52.0 | Ordained Bishop | Martin Krebs | Titular Archbishop of Taborenta | Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland |
84.2 | Died | Bruno Maldaner † | Bishop Emeritus of Frederico Westphalen, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | ||
17 Nov | 60.1 | Ordained Bishop | Francisco Antonio Nieto Súa | Titular Bishop of Teglata in Numidia | Bishop Emeritus of Engativá, Colombia |
18 Nov | 52.3 | Ordained Bishop | Basilio Athai | Titular Bishop of Tasaccora | Archbishop of Taunggyi, Myanmar |
90.0 | Died | Manuel Castro Ruiz † | Archbishop Emeritus of Yucatán, México | ||
79.4 | Died | Miguel Delgado Avila, S.D.B. † | Bishop Emeritus of Barcelona, Venezuela | ||
46.4 | Appointed | Barry Christopher Knestout | Auxiliary Bishop of Washington, District of Columbia, USA | Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA | |
46.4 | Appointed | Barry Christopher Knestout | Titular Bishop of Leavenworth | Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA | |
19 Nov | 51.1 | Appointed | Maurício Grotto de Camargo | Archbishop of Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil | |
75.7 | Retired | Aloysio José Leal Penna, S.J. † | Archbishop of Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil | Archbishop Emeritus | |
53.6 | Incardinated | Jorge Humberto Rodríguez-Novelo | Priest of Denver, Colorado, USA | Auxiliary Bishop | |
53.6 | Installed | Gustavo Rodriguez Vega | Bishop of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, México | Archbishop of Yucatán, México | |
20 Nov | 58.0 | Appointed | László Bíró | Bishop of Hungary, Military | Bishop Emeritus |
63.7 | Appointed | Rosolino Bianchetti Boffelli | Bishop of Zacapa y Santo Cristo de Esquipulas, Guatemala | Bishop Emeritus of Quiché, Guatemala | |
21 Nov | 64.5 | Appointed | Paul Jacques Marie Desfarges, S.J. | Bishop of Constantine (-Hippone), Algeria | Archbishop Emeritus of Alger, Algeria |
54.6 | Appointed | Giambattista Diquattro | Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia | Apostolic Nuncio to Brazil | |
47.9 | Appointed | Yves Le Saux, Comm. l'Emm. | Bishop of Le Mans, France | Bishop of Annecy, France | |
47.6 | Installed | Mieczysław Mokrzycki | Archbishop of Lviv, Ukraine | ||
76.1 | Retired | Gabriel Jules Joseph Piroird, Ist. del Prado † | Bishop of Constantine (-Hippone), Algeria | Bishop Emeritus | |
51.8 | Resigned | Luciano Suriani | Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia | Apostolic Nuncio to Bulgaria | |
22 Nov | 57.6 | Appointed | Joseph Yapo Aké | Archbishop of Gagnoa, Côte d’Ivoire | Archbishop Emeritus |
60.1 | Ordained Bishop | Jan Baxant | Bishop of Litoměřice, Czechia | Bishop Emeritus | |
65.5 | Ceased | Dominik Jaroslav Duka, O.P. | Apostolic Administrator of Litoměřice, Czechia | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Praha {Prague}, Czechia | |
56.3 | Installed | Jorge Rubén Lugones, S.J. | Bishop of Lomas de Zamora, Argentina | ||
47.3 | Appointed | Silvester Tung Kiem San | Bishop of Denpasar, Indonesia | ||
47.8 | Appointed | Ariel Edgardo Torrado Mosconi | Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago del Estero, Argentina | Bishop of Nueve de Julio, Argentina | |
47.8 | Appointed | Ariel Edgardo Torrado Mosconi | Titular Bishop of Vicus Pacati | Bishop of Nueve de Julio, Argentina | |
24 Nov | 75.5 | Retired | George Francis Daniel | Archbishop of Pretoria, South Africa | Archbishop Emeritus |
75.5 | Retired | George Francis Daniel | Bishop of South Africa, Military | Archbishop Emeritus of Pretoria, South Africa | |
61.8 | Appointed | Paul Mandla Khumalo, C.M.M. | Archbishop of Pretoria, South Africa | Archbishop Emeritus | |
61.8 | Appointed | Paul Mandla Khumalo, C.M.M. | Bishop of South Africa, Military | Archbishop Emeritus of Pretoria, South Africa | |
47.5 | Appointed | José Luís Gerardo Ponce de León, I.M.C. | Vicar Apostolic of Ingwavuma, South Africa | Bishop of Manzini, eSwatini | |
47.5 | Appointed | José Luís Gerardo Ponce de León, I.M.C. | Titular Bishop of Maturba | Bishop of Manzini, eSwatini | |
55.8 | Appointed | Georges Varkey Puthiyakulangara, M.E.P. | Coadjutor Bishop of Port-Bergé, Madagascar | Bishop | |
76.1 | Retired | René Joseph Rakotondrabé † | Bishop of Toamasina, Madagascar | Bishop Emeritus | |
54.4 | Appointed | Désiré Tsarahazana | Bishop of Toamasina, Madagascar | Cardinal, Archbishop of Toamasina, Madagascar | |
25 Nov | 48.8 | Appointed | José Guadalupe Torres Campos | Bishop of Gómez Palacio, Durango, México | Bishop of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México |
82.6 | Died | Antanas Vaičius † | Bishop Emeritus of Telšiai (-Klaipeda), Lithuania | ||
27 Nov | 58.0 | Appointed | Florencio Armando Colín Cruz | Auxiliary Bishop of México, Federal District | Bishop of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, México |
58.0 | Appointed | Florencio Armando Colín Cruz | Titular Bishop of Thimida Regia | Bishop of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, México | |
28 Nov | 53.4 | Appointed | William Amove Avenya | Auxiliary Bishop of Makurdi, Nigeria | Bishop of Gboko, Nigeria |
53.4 | Appointed | William Amove Avenya | Titular Bishop of Thucca in Mauretania | Bishop of Gboko, Nigeria | |
54.4 | Appointed | Jean-Pierre Louis Roger Sylvain Batut | Auxiliary Bishop of Lyon, France | Auxiliary Bishop of Toulouse (-Saint Bertrand de Comminges-Rieux), France | |
54.4 | Appointed | Jean-Pierre Louis Roger Sylvain Batut | Titular Bishop of Ressiana | Auxiliary Bishop of Toulouse (-Saint Bertrand de Comminges-Rieux), France | |
80.5 | Died | Edoardo Ricci † | Bishop Emeritus of San Miniato, Italy | ||
50.3 | Appointed | Nicolas Jean-Marie Souchu | Auxiliary Bishop of Rennes (-Dol-Saint-Malo), France | Bishop of Aire et Dax, France | |
50.3 | Appointed | Nicolas Jean-Marie Souchu | Titular Bishop of Cataquas | Bishop of Aire et Dax, France | |
49.8 | Appointed | Marcel Utembi Tapa | Archbishop of Kisangani, Congo (Dem. Rep.) | ||
29 Nov | 52.9 | Succeeded | Jaime Soto | Bishop of Sacramento, California, USA | |
71.5 | Retired | William Keith Weigand | Bishop of Sacramento, California, USA | Bishop Emeritus | |
30 Nov | 51.6 | Ordained Bishop | Marc Marie Max Aillet | Bishop of Bayonne (-Lescar e Oloron), France | |
1 Dec | 75.0 | Retired | Horacio Ernesto Benites Astoul † | Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus |
64.4 | Installed | Thomas Matthew Burns, S.M. | Bishop of Menevia, Wales, Great Britain | Bishop Emeritus | |
67.6 | Appointed | Jaime Prieto Amaya † | Bishop of Cúcuta, Colombia | ||
3 Dec | 53.6 | Appointed | Guillermo Francisco Escobar Galicia | Bishop of Teotihuacán, México, México | |
51.0 | Appointed | Francis Kalist | Bishop of Meerut, India | Archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore, India | |
76.3 | Retired | Patrick Nair † | Bishop of Meerut, India | Bishop Emeritus | |
4 Dec | 76.0 | Retired | Raphaël Marie Ze † | Bishop of Sangmélima, Cameroon | Bishop Emeritus |
47.4 | Appointed | Christophe Zoa | Bishop of Sangmélima, Cameroon | ||
5 Dec | 64.9 | Ordained Bishop | Laurent Chu Văn Minh | Titular Bishop of Thinisa in Numidia | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Hà Nội, Viet Nam |
65.5 | Appointed | Karl Golser † | Bishop of Bolzano-Bressanone {Bozen-Brixen}, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
55.5 | Ordained Bishop | Cláudio Nori Sturm, O.F.M. Cap. | Bishop of Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil | ||
6 Dec | 61.1 | Appointed | Ulrich Boom | Auxiliary Bishop of Würzburg, Germany | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus |
61.1 | Appointed | Ulrich Boom | Titular Bishop of Sullectum | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Würzburg, Germany | |
87.4 | Died | Ivan Semedi † | Bishop Emeritus of Mukachevo (Munkács) (Ruthenian), Ukraine | ||
46.3 | Ordained Bishop | Youssef Antoine Soueif | Archbishop of Cipro (Maronite) | Archbishop of Tripoli del Libano {Tarabulus} (Maronite) | |
7 Dec | 83.3 | Died | George Martin Kuzma † | Bishop Emeritus of Van Nuys (Ruthenian), California, USA | |
60.4 | Installed | Dennis Marion Schnurr | Coadjutor Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA | Archbishop | |
59.9 | Installed | Chacko Thottumarickal, S.V.D. | Bishop of Indore, India | Bishop Emeritus | |
8 Dec | 45.8 | Ordained Bishop | Damián Santiago Bitar | Titular Bishop of Turris Tamalleni | Bishop of Oberá, Argentina |
40.7 | Appointed | Paul He Zinqing | Bishop of Wanxian [Wanhsien], China | ||
52.1 | Ordained Bishop | Joseph Anthony Toal | Bishop of Argyll and The Isles, Scotland, Great Britain | Bishop of Motherwell, Scotland, Great Britain | |
92.4 | Died | Joseph Xu Zhixuan † | Bishop of Wanxian [Wanhsien], China | ||
9 Dec | 76.1 | Retired | Francis Arinze | Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments | Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus |
63.1 | Appointed | Antonio Cañizares Llovera | Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Valencia, Spain | |
63.1 | Appointed | Antonio Cañizares Llovera | Apostolic Administrator of Toledo, Spain | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Valencia, Spain | |
90.7 | Died | José María Larrauri Lafuente † | Bishop Emeritus of Vitoria, Spain | ||
10 Dec | 53.5 | Appointed | Manuel Felipe Díaz Sánchez | Archbishop of Calabozo, Venezuela | |
11 Dec | 80.2 | Died | Elie Amsini Kiswaya † | Bishop Emeritus of Sakania-Kipushi, Congo (Dem. Rep.) | |
62.9 | Installed | John Michael Quinn | Coadjutor Bishop of Winona, Minnesota, USA | Bishop Emeritus of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, USA | |
12 Dec | 55.5 | Appointed | Antonio Arcari | Apostolic Nuncio to Mozambique | Apostolic Nuncio |
59.5 | Appointed | Jean-Pierre Blais | Bishop of Baie-Comeau, Québec, Canada | ||
90.3 | Died | Avery Robert Dulles, S.J. † | Priest of Society of Jesus | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Santissimi Nome di Gesù e Maria in Via Lata | |
51.1 | Ordained Bishop | Pedro Mario Ossandón Buljevic | Titular Bishop of La Imperial | Bishop of Chile, Military | |
13 Dec | 58.9 | Installed | Jesús Esteban Catalá Ibáñez | Bishop of Málaga, Spain | |
44.2 | Ordained Bishop | Raphaël Balla Guilavogui | Bishop of N’Zérékoré, Guinea | ||
56.6 | Ordained Deacon | Jeffrey Neil Steenson | Deacon of Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA | Ordinary Emeritus of The Chair of Saint Peter, USA | |
47.9 | Ordained Bishop | Ariel Edgardo Torrado Mosconi | Titular Bishop of Vicus Pacati | Bishop of Nueve de Julio, Argentina | |
14 Dec | 43.9 | Ordained Bishop | José Manuel Imbamba | Bishop of Dundo, Angola | Archbishop of Saurimo, Angola |
15 Dec | 54.8 | Ceased | Hlib (Borys Sviatoslav) Lonchyna, M.S.U. | Apostolic Visitor (Visitator) | Bishop Emeritus of Holy Family of London (Ukrainian) |
54.8 | Ceased | Hlib (Borys Sviatoslav) Lonchyna, M.S.U. | Apostolic Visitor (Visitator) | Bishop Emeritus of Holy Family of London (Ukrainian) | |
18 Dec | 48.8 | Appointed | Berislav Grgić | Prelate of Tromsø, Norway | Prelate Emeritus |
66.1 | Appointed | George Panikulam | Apostolic Nuncio to Djibouti | Apostolic Nuncio | |
19 Dec | 62.6 | Ordained Bishop | Jesús Carlos Cabrero Romero | Bishop of Zacatecas, México | Archbishop Emeritus of San Luis Potosí, México |
58.7 | Appointed | Felix Genn | Bishop of Münster, Germany | ||
52.4 | Appointed | Jorge Anibal Quintero Chacón | Bishop of Margarita, Venezuela | Bishop of Barcelona, Venezuela | |
20 Dec | 87.1 | Died | Luca Collino, O.S.B. † | Abbot Emeritus of San Paolo fuori le Mura, Italy | |
83.9 | Died | Gabriel Larraín Valdivieso † | |||
23 Dec | 43.4 | Appointed | László Bőcskei | Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad}, Romania | |
77.7 | Retired | József Tempfli † | Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad}, Romania | Bishop Emeritus | |
24 Dec | 60.9 | Appointed | Derek John Christopher Byrne, S.P.S. | Bishop of Guiratinga, Mato Grosso, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus of Primavera do Leste-Paranatinga, Mato Grosso, Brazil |
66.0 | Appointed | Francisco Javier Del Valle Paredes | Bishop of Campo Mourão, Parana, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus | |
47.7 | Appointed | Marek Mendyk | Auxiliary Bishop of Legnica, Poland | Bishop of Świdnica, Poland | |
47.7 | Appointed | Marek Mendyk | Titular Bishop of Rusuccuru | Bishop of Świdnica, Poland | |
25 Dec | 83.5 | Died | Olívio Aurélio Fazza, S.V.D. † | Bishop Emeritus of Foz do Iguaçu, Parana, Brazil | |
27 Dec | 83.8 | Died | Rodrigo Arango Velásquez, P.S.S. † | Bishop Emeritus of Buga, Colombia | |
49.7 | Appointed | José Luis Escobar Alas | Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador | ||
68.9 | Succeeded | Vladimír Filo † | Bishop of Rožňava, Slovakia | Bishop Emeritus | |
75.3 | Retired | Eduard Kojnok † | Bishop of Rožňava, Slovakia | Bishop Emeritus | |
67.1 | Ordained Bishop | Yvon-Joseph Moreau, O.C.S.O. | Bishop of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Québec, Canada | Bishop Emeritus | |
69.2 | Appointed | Sebelio Peralta Alvarez † | Bishop of San Lorenzo, Paraguay | ||
76.1 | Retired | Fernando Sáenz Lacalle † | Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador | Archbishop Emeritus | |
28 Dec | 50.9 | Ordained Bishop | Vincent Guo Xijin | Coadjutor Bishop of Xiapu [Funing], China | Auxiliary Bishop |
29 Dec | 46.5 | Ordained Bishop | Barry Christopher Knestout | Titular Bishop of Leavenworth | Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA |
30 Dec | 70.1 | Appointed | Elio Giovanni Greselin, S.C.I. | Bishop of Lichinga, Mozambique | Bishop Emeritus |
62.9 | Appointed | Mario Zenari | Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio to Syria | ||
31 Dec | 77.5 | Retired | Hubert Bucher † | Bishop of Bethlehem, South Africa | Bishop Emeritus |
48.6 | Appointed | Stanisław Jan Dziuba, O.S.P.P.E. | Bishop of Umzimkulu, South Africa | ||
60.9 | Appointed | Jan de Groef, M. Afr. | Bishop of Bethlehem, South Africa |
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