Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr | 75.0 | Retired | Francesco Canalini | Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland | Apostolic Nuncio |
75.0 | Retired | Francesco Canalini | Apostolic Nuncio to Liechtenstein | Apostolic Nuncio | |
1 Apr | 59.2 | Appointed | Peter John Holiday | Bishop of Kroonstad, South Africa | Bishop Emeritus |
83.8 | Died | Varkey Vithayathil, C.SS.R. † | Cardinal, Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabar), India | ||
2 Apr | 44.3 | Ordained Bishop | Rolando José Álvarez Lagos | Bishop of Matagalpa, Nicaragua | |
63.4 | Installed | Leonardo Antonio Paolo Bonanno | Bishop of San Marco Argentano-Scalea, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
56.2 | Appointed | François Marie Aimé Marius Fonlupt | Bishop of Rodez (-Vabres), France | Archbishop of Avignon, France | |
75.8 | Retired | Bellino Giusto Ghirard † | Bishop of Rodez (-Vabres), France | Bishop Emeritus | |
66.5 | Installed | Mauro Piacenza | Cardinal-Deacon of San Paolo alle Tre Fontane | Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary | |
64.4 | Installed | Atilano Vicente Rodríguez Martínez | Bishop of Sigüenza-Guadalajara, Spain | Bishop Emeritus | |
57.2 | Ordained Bishop | Tomo Vukšić | Bishop of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Military | Archbishop of Vrhbosna {Sarajevo}, Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
3 Apr | 64.7 | Installed | Victor Abagna Mossa | Bishop of Owando, Congo | Archbishop Emeritus of Owando, Congo |
83.9 | Died | William Henry Bullock † | Bishop Emeritus of Madison, Wisconsin, USA | ||
74.1 | Installed | Raymundo Damasceno Assis | Cardinal-Priest of Immacolata al Tiburtino | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Aparecida, Sao Paulo, Brazil | |
64.1 | Ordained Bishop | Jean-Luc Hudsyn | Titular Bishop of Apt | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}, Belgium | |
52.6 | Ordained Bishop | Jean Kockerols | Titular Bishop of Ypres | Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}, Belgium | |
62.8 | Installed | Jean Marie Henri Legrez, O.P. | Archbishop of Albi (-Castres-Lavaur), France | Archbishop Emeritus | |
57.0 | Ordained Bishop | Léon Lemmens † | Titular Bishop of Municipa | Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}, Belgium | |
46.3 | Ordained Bishop | Ildo Augusto dos Santos Lopes Fortes | Bishop of Mindelo, Cape Verde | ||
53.0 | Ordained Bishop | Mauro Maria Morfino, S.D.B. | Bishop of Alghero-Bosa, Italy | ||
4 Apr | 71.4 | Resigned | Michael John Malone | Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Australia | Bishop Emeritus |
58.4 | Appointed | William Joseph Wright † | Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Australia | ||
5 Apr | 52.2 | Appointed | Alfred Agyenta | Bishop of Navrongo-Bolgatanga, Ghana | |
6 Apr | 55.9 | Appointed | Joseph Robert Binzer | Auxiliary Bishop of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus |
55.9 | Appointed | Joseph Robert Binzer | Titular Bishop of Subbar | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA | |
60.3 | Appointed | Moses Montu Costa, C.S.C. † | Bishop of Chittagong, Bangladesh | Archbishop of Chattogram, Bangladesh | |
69.0 | Appointed | Antonio Marino | Bishop of Mar del Plata, Argentina | Bishop Emeritus | |
62.0 | Appointed | Rolando Crisostomo Santos, C.M. | Bishop of Alotau-Sideia, Papua New Guinea | ||
7 Apr | 41.3 | Ordained Bishop | Stephen Dami Mamza | Bishop of Yola, Nigeria | |
74.8 | Retired | Lawrence John Saldanha | Archbishop of Lahore, Pakistan | Archbishop Emeritus | |
8 Apr | 47.1 | Appointed | Agapitus Enuyehnyoh Nfon | Auxiliary Bishop of Bamenda, Cameroon | Bishop of Kumba, Cameroon |
47.1 | Appointed | Agapitus Enuyehnyoh Nfon | Titular Bishop of Unizibira | Bishop of Kumba, Cameroon | |
9 Apr | 53.3 | Installed | Cecilio Raúl Berzosa Martínez | Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain | Bishop Emeritus |
76.5 | Retired | Ramiro Díaz Sánchez, O.M.I. | Vicar Apostolic of Machiques, Venezuela | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus | |
60.2 | Appointed | Jesús Alfonso Guerrero Contreras, O.F.M. Cap. | Bishop of Machiques, Venezuela | Bishop of Barinas, Venezuela | |
59.3 | Appointed | John Moolachira | Coadjutor Archbishop of Guwahati, India | Archbishop | |
51.8 | Ordained Bishop | Benjamin S. Phiri | Titular Bishop of Nachingwea | Archbishop of Ndola, Zambia | |
50.9 | Appointed | György Udvardy | Bishop of Pécs, Hungary | Archbishop of Veszprém, Hungary | |
10 Apr | 65.9 | Ordained Bishop | Pio Gonçalo Alves de Sousa | Titular Bishop of Aquae Flaviae | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Porto, Portugal |
69.4 | Installed | Jean Charles Émile Gardin, C.S.Sp. | Bishop of Impfondo, Congo | Bishop Emeritus | |
46.3 | Installed | Ildo Augusto dos Santos Lopes Fortes | Bishop of Mindelo, Cape Verde | ||
57.4 | Installed | Giuseppe Pellegrini | Bishop of Concordia-Pordenone, Italy | ||
58.4 | Installed | Wilmar Santin, O. Carm. | Prelate of Itaituba, Para, Brazil | ||
11 Apr | 53.8 | Installed | Robert Anthony Daniels | Bishop of Grand Falls, Newfoundland, Canada | |
62.2 | Appointed | Paul Patrick Donoghue, S.M. | Bishop of Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Pacific (Oceania) | Bishop Emeritus | |
75.9 | Retired | Stuart France O’Connell, S.M. † | Bishop of Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Pacific (Oceania) | Bishop Emeritus | |
12 Apr | 46.2 | Appointed | José Manuel Imbamba | Archbishop of Saurimo, Angola | |
45.7 | Ordained Bishop | Eugenio Andrés Lira Rugarcía | Titular Bishop of Buxentum | Bishop of Matamoros-Reynosa, Tamaulipas, México | |
78.0 | Appointed | Luis María Pérez de Onraita Aguirre † | Archbishop of Malanje, Angola | Archbishop Emeritus | |
51.1 | Appointed | Inácio Saúre, I.M.C. | Bishop of Tete, Mozambique | Archbishop of Nampula, Mozambique | |
75.6 | Retired | Carlos Arthur Sevilla, S.J. | Bishop of Yakima, Washington, USA | Bishop Emeritus | |
74.8 | Died | Ioan Şişeştean † | Bishop of Maramureş (Romanian), Romania | ||
55.9 | Ordained Bishop | Dagoberto Sosa Arriaga | Titular Bishop of Gummi in Byzacena | Bishop of Tlapa, Guerrero, México | |
53.4 | Appointed | Joseph Jude Tyson | Bishop of Yakima, Washington, USA | ||
13 Apr | 59.4 | Appointed | Jacinto Bergmann | Archbishop of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | |
54.6 | Installed | Peter Joseph Hundt | Bishop of Corner Brook and Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada | Archbishop of Saint John’s, Newfoundland, Canada | |
65.9 | Appointed | Hélio Adelar Rubert | Archbishop of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | Archbishop Emeritus | |
69.5 | Appointed | Pedro Ercílio Simon † | Archbishop of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | Archbishop Emeritus | |
14 Apr | 79.4 | Died | Louis Jean Dufaux † | Bishop Emeritus of Grenoble, France | |
86.3 | Died | Jean Gratton † | Bishop Emeritus of Mont-Laurier, Québec, Canada | ||
64.4 | Installed | Jonás Guerrero Corona | Bishop of Culiacán, Sinaloa, México | Bishop Emeritus | |
15 Apr | 70.9 | Appointed | Charles Henry Dufour | Archbishop of Kingston in Jamaica, Antilles | Archbishop Emeritus |
63.1 | Installed | Gilles Lemay | Bishop of Amos, Québec, Canada | Bishop Emeritus | |
77.0 | Retired | Donald James Reece | Archbishop of Kingston in Jamaica, Antilles | Archbishop Emeritus | |
16 Apr | 59.8 | Ordained Bishop | Ephrem Yousif Abba Mansoor | Archbishop of Baghdad (Syrian), Iraq | |
67.3 | Ordained Bishop | Youhanna Boutros Moshe | Archbishop of Mossul (Syrian), Iraq | Archbishop Emeritus | |
48.4 | Ordained Bishop | Miguel Olaortúa Laspra, O.S.A. † | Titular Bishop of Abbir Maius | Vicar Apostolic of Iquitos, Peru | |
63.8 | Appointed | Beniamino Pizziol | Bishop of Vicenza, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
18 Apr | 41.9 | Appointed | José Arturo Cepeda Escobedo | Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit, Michigan, USA | |
41.9 | Appointed | José Arturo Cepeda Escobedo | Titular Bishop of Tagase | Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit, Michigan, USA | |
86.3 | Died | Giovanni Saldarini † | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Torino {Turin}, Italy | ||
19 Apr | 56.2 | Ordained Bishop | Mark Leonard Bartchak | Bishop of Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA | |
64.9 | Appointed | George Stack | Archbishop of Cardiff, Wales, Great Britain | Archbishop Emeritus | |
20 Apr | 55.7 | Appointed | Faustino Armendáriz Jiménez | Bishop of Querétaro, México | Archbishop of Durango, México |
54.1 | Appointed | Fernando Natalio Chomalí Garib | Archbishop of Concepción (Santissima Concezione), Chile | Archbishop of Santiago de Chile | |
47.0 | Appointed | Peter Andrew Comensoli | Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney, Australia | Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia | |
47.0 | Appointed | Peter Andrew Comensoli | Titular Bishop of Tigisi in Numidia | Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia | |
76.2 | Retired | Mario de Gasperín Gasperín | Bishop of Querétaro, México | Bishop Emeritus | |
53.5 | Ceased | Pedro Mario Ossandón Buljevic | Apostolic Administrator of Concepción (Santissima Concezione), Chile | Bishop of Chile, Military | |
48.4 | Appointed | Mylo Hubert Claudio Vergara | Bishop of Pasig, Philippines | ||
21 Apr | 67.5 | Appointed | Mosè Marcia | Bishop of Nuoro, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
75.6 | Retired | Pietro Meloni | Bishop of Nuoro, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
23 Apr | 92.2 | Died | Peter Li Hongye † | Bishop of Luoyang [Loyang], China | |
24 Apr | 49.8 | Converted | David Arthur Waller | Ordinary of Our Lady of Walsingham, England, Great Britain | |
25 Apr | 50.9 | Installed | György Udvardy | Bishop of Pécs, Hungary | Archbishop of Veszprém, Hungary |
51.4 | Ceased | András Veres | Apostolic Administrator of Pécs, Hungary | Bishop of Győr (Raab), Hungary | |
54.4 | Ordained Bishop | William John Waltersheid | Titular Bishop of California | Auxiliary Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA | |
26 Apr | 75.5 | Retired | Gerald Andrew Gettelfinger | Bishop of Evansville, Indiana, USA | Bishop Emeritus |
85.4 | Died | José María Izuzquiza Herranz, S.J. † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Jaén en Peru o San Francisco Javier | ||
50.0 | Appointed | Charles Coleman Thompson | Bishop of Evansville, Indiana, USA | Archbishop of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA | |
27 Apr | 62.8 | Appointed | Dario Campos, O.F.M. | Bishop of Cachoeiro do Itapemirim, Espirito Santo, Brazil | Archbishop of Vitória, Espirito Santo, Brazil |
86.6 | Died | Paul Vincent Donovan † | Bishop Emeritus of Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA | ||
65.2 | Appointed | Felipe de Jesús Estévez | Bishop of Saint Augustine, Florida, USA | Bishop Emeritus | |
75.6 | Retired | Victor Benito Galeone † | Bishop of Saint Augustine, Florida, USA | Bishop Emeritus | |
28 Apr | 54.6 | Installed | Augustine Obiora Akubeze | Archbishop of Benin City, Nigeria | |
49.5 | Appointed | Virgilio do Nascimento Antunes | Bishop of Coimbra, Portugal | ||
76.1 | Retired | Albino Mamede Cleto † | Bishop of Coimbra, Portugal | Bishop Emeritus | |
29 Apr | 52.0 | Ordained Bishop | Miguel Ángel D’Annibale † | Titular Bishop of Nasai | Bishop of San Martín, Argentina |
85.3 | Installed | José Manuel Estepa Llaurens † | Cardinal-Priest of San Gabriele Arcangelo all’Acqua Traversa | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Spain, Military | |
46.1 | Ordained Bishop | José Francisco Falcão de Barros | Titular Bishop of Augurus | Auxiliary Bishop of Brazil, Military | |
79.8 | Died | Salim Ghazal, B.S. † | Curial Bishop Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Melkite Greek), Syria | ||
87.3 | Died | Anthony Francis Mestice † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of New York, New York, USA | ||
52.6 | Ordained Bishop | Joseph Nguyễn Tấn Tước | Coadjutor Bishop of Phú Cường, Viet Nam | Bishop | |
61.2 | Installed | Kazimierz Nycz | Cardinal-Priest of Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti | Cardinal, Archbishop of Warszawa {Warsaw}, Poland | |
30 Apr | 63.5 | Appointed | Saúl Figueroa Albornoz | Bishop of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela | Bishop Emeritus |
44.0 | Ordained Bishop | Andrew Jagaye Karnley | Bishop of Cape Palmas, Liberia | ||
45.1 | Died | [Francis Lu Shouwang] † | Bishop of Yichang [Ichang], China | ||
49.3 | Ordained Bishop | Gabriel Sayaogo | Bishop of Manga, Burkina Faso | Archbishop of Koupéla, Burkina Faso | |
54.0 | Ordained Bishop | Sanctus Lino Wanok | Bishop of Nebbi, Uganda | Bishop of Lira, Uganda |
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