The Year of Our Lord 2020

Bishop Events

August

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

1 Aug 53.7 Appointed Karol Kulczycki, S.D.S. Bishop of Port Pirie, Australia

78.9 Retired Gregory O’Kelly, S.J. Bishop of Port Pirie, Australia Bishop Emeritus

50.9 Installed Francisco Cota de Oliveira Bishop of Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, Brazil

63.8 Ordained Bishop Ángel Luis Ríos Matos Bishop of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

82.7 Died Getúlio Teixeira Guimarães, S.V.D. † Bishop Emeritus of Cornélio Procópio, Parana, Brazil

2 Aug 53.9 Installed Eusebius Alfred Nzigilwa Bishop of Mpanda, Tanzania

3 Aug 85.3 Died Lorenzo Chiarinelli † Bishop Emeritus of Viterbo, Italy

4 Aug 60.6 Appointed Maximino Caballero Ledo Secretary General of the Secretariat for the Economy Prefect

5 Aug 86.7 Died John of the Cross Chang-yik † Bishop Emeritus of Ch’unch’ŏn, Korea (South)

6 Aug 70.8 Appointed Anders Arborelius, O.C.D. Member of the Council for the Economy Cardinal, Bishop of Stockholm, Sweden

68.1 Appointed Péter Erdő Member of the Council for the Economy Cardinal, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary

63.0 Appointed Gérald Cyprien Lacroix, I.S.P.X. Member of the Council for the Economy Cardinal, Archbishop of Québec, Canada

74.4 Resigned John Marvin LeVoir Bishop of New Ulm, Minnesota, USA Bishop Emeritus

58.4 Appointed Claudio Lurati, M.C.C.I. Vicar Apostolic of Alexandria of Egypt {Alessandria di Egitto} (-Eliopoli di Egitto-Port-Said)

71.9 Appointed Giuseppe Petrocchi Member of the Council for the Economy Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of L’Aquila, Italy

70.8 Appointed Odilo Pedro Scherer Member of the Council for the Economy Cardinal, Archbishop of São Paulo, Brazil

68.2 Appointed Joseph William Tobin, C.Ss.R. Member of the Council for the Economy Cardinal, Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA

7 Aug 74.6 Resigned Rubén Oscar Frassia Bishop of Avellaneda-Lanús, Argentina Bishop Emeritus

8 Aug 92.4 Died Pedro Casaldáliga Plá, C.M.F. † Prelate Emeritus of São Félix, Mato Grosso, Brazil

57.5 Installed Ovidio Giraldo Velásquez Bishop of Barrancabermeja, Colombia

50.5 Ordained Bishop Mitja Leskovar Titular Archbishop of Beneventum Apostolic Nuncio to Congo, Democratic Republic of

46.1 Ordained Bishop Giorgio Marengo, I.M.C. Titular Bishop of Castra Severiana Cardinal, Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

52.2 Ordained Bishop Noel Andrew Rucastle Bishop of Oudtshoorn, South Africa

10 Aug 85.4 Died Luis Abilio Sebastiani Aguirre, S.M. † Archbishop Emeritus of Ayacucho o Huamanga, Peru

11 Aug 58.9 Appointed Laurent Jean Lucien Marie Percerou Bishop of Nantes, France

12 Aug 86.6 Died Francisco José Cox Huneeus, P. Schönstatt †

52.2 Appointed Antônio Fontinele de Melo Bishop of Humaitá, Amazonas, Brazil

91.1 Died François-Mathurin Gourvès † Bishop Emeritus of Vannes, France

75.8 Retired Franz Josef Meinrad Merkel, C.S.Sp. Bishop of Humaitá, Amazonas, Brazil Bishop Emeritus

13 Aug 75.0 Retired Sławoj Leszek Głódź Archbishop of Gdańsk, Poland Archbishop Emeritus

70.6 Appointed Jacek Jezierski Apostolic Administrator of Gdańsk, Poland Bishop of Elbląg, Poland

15 Aug 56.7 Ceased Alick Banda Apostolic Administrator of Ndola, Zambia Archbishop of Lusaka, Zambia

57.6 Ordained Bishop Gonzalo Arturo Bravo Álvarez Bishop of San Felipe, Chile

75.0 Retired Mieczysław Cisło Auxiliary Bishop of Lublin, Poland Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

66.1 Installed Severino Clasen, O.F.M. Archbishop of Maringá, Parana, Brazil

50.3 Ordained Bishop Michael Francis Crotty Titular Archbishop of Lindisfarna Apostolic Nuncio to Nigeria

59.0 Installed Arturo Eduardo Fajardo Bustamante Bishop of Salto, Uruguay

68.9 Ceased João Mamede Filho, O.F.M. Conv. Apostolic Administrator of Maringá, Parana, Brazil Bishop of Umuarama, Parana, Brazil

66.5 Ordained Bishop Luis Francisco Miranda Rivera, O. Carm. Bishop of Fajardo-Humacao, Puerto Rico

51.0 Ceased Jaime Cesar Ortiz de Lazcano Piquer Apostolic Administrator of San Felipe, Chile Priest of Roma {Rome}, Italy

61.1 Installed Benjamin S. Phiri Bishop of Ndola, Zambia Archbishop of Ndola, Zambia

52.3 Ordained Bishop Vicente Horacio Saeteros Sierra Titular Bishop of Rusuccuru Bishop of Machala, Ecuador

40.2 Ordained Bishop Yaacoub Camil Afram Antoine Semaan Titular Bishop of Hierapolis in Syria dei Siri Patriarchal Exarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme} (Palestine and Jordan) (Syrian), Palestine

66.3 Installed Jorge Martín Torres Carbonell Bishop of Gregorio de Laferrere, Argentina

57.1 Ordained Bishop Anthony Weradet Chaiseri Archbishop of Thare and Nonseng, Thailand

16 Aug 56.6 Ordained Bishop Maurício Agostinho Camuto, C.S.Sp. Bishop of Caxito, Angola

56.7 Ceased António Francisco Jaca, S.V.D. Apostolic Administrator of Caxito, Angola Bishop of Benguela, Angola

18 Aug 62.6 Installed Francis Xavier Jin Yangke Bishop of Ningbo [Ningpo], China

53.1 Ordained Bishop Bruce Alan Lewandowski, C.Ss.R. Titular Bishop of Croae Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA

20 Aug 70.7 Ceased Gregory Michael Aymond Apostolic Administrator of Alexandria, Louisiana, USA Archbishop of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

61.1 Ordained Bishop Robert William Marshall Bishop of Alexandria, Louisiana, USA

21 Aug 86.8 Died Antonio Bayter Abud, M.X.Y. † Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Inírida, Colombia

63.5 Ceased Mario Grech Apostolic Administrator of Gozo, Malta Cardinal, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops

56.6 Ordained Bishop Anthony Teuma Bishop of Gozo, Malta

49.4 Ordained Bishop David Leon Toups Bishop of Beaumont, Texas, USA

22 Aug 47.2 Ordained Bishop Célio da Silveira Calixto Filho Titular Bishop of Segia Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

58.9 Ordained Bishop Jeová Elias Ferreira Bishop of Goiás, Brazil

57.1 Appointed Luciano Russo Apostolic Nuncio to Panama Secretary (Pontifical Representations) of the Secretariat of State

23 Aug 61.1 Ordained Bishop Bernard Marie Fansaka Biniama Bishop of Popokabaka, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

24 Aug 46.7 Ordained Bishop Moises Magpantay Cuevas Titular Bishop of Maraguia Vicar Apostolic of Calapan, Philippines

25 Aug 79.8 Died Laurent Akran Mandjo † Bishop Emeritus of Yopougon, Côte d’Ivoire

69.1 Appointed Robert Joseph McManus Apostolic Administrator of Springfield in Massachusetts, USA Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

77.8 Ceased Martin Roos Apostolic Administrator of Zrenjanin, Serbia Bishop Emeritus of Timişoara, Romania

62.0 Installed Mitchell Thomas Rozanski Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

76.5 Died Hippolyte Louis Jean Simon † Archbishop Emeritus of Clermont, France

26 Aug 85.7 Died Oscar Valero Cruz † Archbishop Emeritus of Lingayen-Dagupan, Philippines

90.4 Died Victor Hugo Martínez Contreras † Archbishop Emeritus of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán, Guatemala

28 Aug 57.2 Ordained Bishop Guy Boulanger Bishop of Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, Canada

63.1 Installed José Araneta Cabantan Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro, Philippines

57.1 Ordained Bishop Luis Manuel López Alfaro Titular Bishop of Garba Auxiliary Bishop of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México

29 Aug 66.4 Appointed Giambattista Diquattro Apostolic Nuncio to Brazil

52.0 Ordained Bishop László Kerekes Titular Bishop of Tharros Auxiliary Bishop of Alba Iulia, Romania

59.0 Appointed Gheevarghese Aphrem Kurisummoottil Auxiliary Bishop of Kottayam (Syro-Malabar), India

59.0 Appointed Gheevarghese Aphrem Kurisummoottil Titular Bishop of Chaialum Auxiliary Bishop of Kottayam (Syro-Malabar), India

75.3 Retired Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

57.2 Ceased Anthony Muheria Apostolic Administrator of Kitui, Kenya Archbishop of Nyeri, Kenya

52.3 Ordained Bishop Joseph Maluki Mwongela Bishop of Kitui, Kenya

55.6 Appointed Pierre Nguyên Văn Viên Apostolic Administrator of Hưng Hóa, Viet Nam Auxiliary Bishop of Vinh, Viet Nam

53.9 Ordained Bishop Anton Ranjith Pillainayagam Titular Bishop of Materiana Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka

76.4 Retired Jean Marie Vũ Tất Bishop of Hưng Hóa, Viet Nam Bishop Emeritus

30 Aug 45.6 Ordained Bishop Felix (Saeed) Dawood Al Shabi Bishop of Zākhō (Zaku) (Chaldean), Iraq

49.3 Ordained Bishop Paul Dempsey Bishop of Achonry, Ireland Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin, Ireland

31 Aug 52.3 Appointed Dario Gervasi Auxiliary Bishop of Roma {Rome}, Italy Adjunct Secretary of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life

52.3 Appointed Dario Gervasi Titular Bishop of Subaugusta Adjunct Secretary of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Aug	53.7	Appointed	Karol Kulczycki, S.D.S.	Bishop of Port Pirie, Australia
78.9	Retired	Gregory O’Kelly, S.J.	Bishop of Port Pirie, Australia	Bishop Emeritus
50.9	Installed	Francisco Cota de Oliveira	Bishop of Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
63.8	Ordained Bishop	Ángel Luis Ríos Matos	Bishop of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
82.7	Died	Getúlio Teixeira Guimarães, S.V.D. †	Bishop Emeritus of Cornélio Procópio, Parana, Brazil
2 Aug	53.9	Installed	Eusebius Alfred Nzigilwa	Bishop of Mpanda, Tanzania
3 Aug	85.3	Died	Lorenzo Chiarinelli †	Bishop Emeritus of Viterbo, Italy
4 Aug	60.6	Appointed	Maximino Caballero Ledo	Secretary General of the Secretariat for the Economy	Prefect
5 Aug	86.7	Died	John of the Cross Chang-yik †	Bishop Emeritus of Ch’unch’ŏn, Korea (South)
6 Aug	70.8	Appointed	Anders Arborelius, O.C.D.	Member of the Council for the Economy	Cardinal, Bishop of Stockholm, Sweden
68.1	Appointed	Péter Erdő	Member of the Council for the Economy	Cardinal, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary
63.0	Appointed	Gérald Cyprien Lacroix, I.S.P.X.	Member of the Council for the Economy	Cardinal, Archbishop of Québec, Canada
74.4	Resigned	John Marvin LeVoir	Bishop of New Ulm, Minnesota, USA	Bishop Emeritus
58.4	Appointed	Claudio Lurati, M.C.C.I.	Vicar Apostolic of Alexandria of Egypt {Alessandria di Egitto} (-Eliopoli di Egitto-Port-Said)
71.9	Appointed	Giuseppe Petrocchi	Member of the Council for the Economy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of L’Aquila, Italy
70.8	Appointed	Odilo Pedro Scherer	Member of the Council for the Economy	Cardinal, Archbishop of São Paulo, Brazil
68.2	Appointed	Joseph William Tobin, C.Ss.R.	Member of the Council for the Economy	Cardinal, Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA
7 Aug	74.6	Resigned	Rubén Oscar Frassia	Bishop of Avellaneda-Lanús, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus
8 Aug	92.4	Died	Pedro Casaldáliga Plá, C.M.F. †	Prelate Emeritus of São Félix, Mato Grosso, Brazil
57.5	Installed	Ovidio Giraldo Velásquez	Bishop of Barrancabermeja, Colombia
50.5	Ordained Bishop	Mitja Leskovar	Titular Archbishop of Beneventum	Apostolic Nuncio to Congo, Democratic Republic of
46.1	Ordained Bishop	Giorgio Marengo, I.M.C.	Titular Bishop of Castra Severiana	Cardinal, Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
52.2	Ordained Bishop	Noel Andrew Rucastle	Bishop of Oudtshoorn, South Africa
10 Aug	85.4	Died	Luis Abilio Sebastiani Aguirre, S.M. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Ayacucho o Huamanga, Peru
11 Aug	58.9	Appointed	Laurent Jean Lucien Marie Percerou	Bishop of Nantes, France
12 Aug	86.6	Died	Francisco José Cox Huneeus, P. Schönstatt †
52.2	Appointed	Antônio Fontinele de Melo	Bishop of Humaitá, Amazonas, Brazil
91.1	Died	François-Mathurin Gourvès †	Bishop Emeritus of Vannes, France
75.8	Retired	Franz Josef Meinrad Merkel, C.S.Sp.	Bishop of Humaitá, Amazonas, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
13 Aug	75.0	Retired	Sławoj Leszek Głódź	Archbishop of Gdańsk, Poland	Archbishop Emeritus
70.6	Appointed	Jacek Jezierski	Apostolic Administrator of Gdańsk, Poland	Bishop of Elbląg, Poland
15 Aug	56.7	Ceased	Alick Banda	Apostolic Administrator of Ndola, Zambia	Archbishop of Lusaka, Zambia
57.6	Ordained Bishop	Gonzalo Arturo Bravo Álvarez	Bishop of San Felipe, Chile
75.0	Retired	Mieczysław Cisło	Auxiliary Bishop of Lublin, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
66.1	Installed	Severino Clasen, O.F.M.	Archbishop of Maringá, Parana, Brazil
50.3	Ordained Bishop	Michael Francis Crotty	Titular Archbishop of Lindisfarna	Apostolic Nuncio to Nigeria
59.0	Installed	Arturo Eduardo Fajardo Bustamante	Bishop of Salto, Uruguay
68.9	Ceased	João Mamede Filho, O.F.M. Conv.	Apostolic Administrator of Maringá, Parana, Brazil	Bishop of Umuarama, Parana, Brazil
66.5	Ordained Bishop	Luis Francisco Miranda Rivera, O. Carm.	Bishop of Fajardo-Humacao, Puerto Rico
51.0	Ceased	Jaime Cesar Ortiz de Lazcano Piquer	Apostolic Administrator of San Felipe, Chile	Priest of Roma {Rome}, Italy
61.1	Installed	Benjamin S. Phiri	Bishop of Ndola, Zambia	Archbishop of Ndola, Zambia
52.3	Ordained Bishop	Vicente Horacio Saeteros Sierra	Titular Bishop of Rusuccuru	Bishop of Machala, Ecuador
40.2	Ordained Bishop	Yaacoub Camil Afram Antoine Semaan	Titular Bishop of Hierapolis in Syria dei Siri	Patriarchal Exarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme} (Palestine and Jordan) (Syrian), Palestine
66.3	Installed	Jorge Martín Torres Carbonell	Bishop of Gregorio de Laferrere, Argentina
57.1	Ordained Bishop	Anthony Weradet Chaiseri	Archbishop of Thare and Nonseng, Thailand
16 Aug	56.6	Ordained Bishop	Maurício Agostinho Camuto, C.S.Sp.	Bishop of Caxito, Angola
56.7	Ceased	António Francisco Jaca, S.V.D.	Apostolic Administrator of Caxito, Angola	Bishop of Benguela, Angola
18 Aug	62.6	Installed	Francis Xavier Jin Yangke	Bishop of Ningbo [Ningpo], China
53.1	Ordained Bishop	Bruce Alan Lewandowski, C.Ss.R.	Titular Bishop of Croae	Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
20 Aug	70.7	Ceased	Gregory Michael Aymond	Apostolic Administrator of Alexandria, Louisiana, USA	Archbishop of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
61.1	Ordained Bishop	Robert William Marshall	Bishop of Alexandria, Louisiana, USA
21 Aug	86.8	Died	Antonio Bayter Abud, M.X.Y. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Inírida, Colombia
63.5	Ceased	Mario Grech	Apostolic Administrator of Gozo, Malta	Cardinal, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops
56.6	Ordained Bishop	Anthony Teuma	Bishop of Gozo, Malta
49.4	Ordained Bishop	David Leon Toups	Bishop of Beaumont, Texas, USA
22 Aug	47.2	Ordained Bishop	Célio da Silveira Calixto Filho	Titular Bishop of Segia	Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
58.9	Ordained Bishop	Jeová Elias Ferreira	Bishop of Goiás, Brazil
57.1	Appointed	Luciano Russo	Apostolic Nuncio to Panama	Secretary (Pontifical Representations) of the Secretariat of State
23 Aug	61.1	Ordained Bishop	Bernard Marie Fansaka Biniama	Bishop of Popokabaka, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
24 Aug	46.7	Ordained Bishop	Moises Magpantay Cuevas	Titular Bishop of Maraguia	Vicar Apostolic of Calapan, Philippines
25 Aug	79.8	Died	Laurent Akran Mandjo †	Bishop Emeritus of Yopougon, Côte d’Ivoire
69.1	Appointed	Robert Joseph McManus	Apostolic Administrator of Springfield in Massachusetts, USA	Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
77.8	Ceased	Martin Roos	Apostolic Administrator of Zrenjanin, Serbia	Bishop Emeritus of Timişoara, Romania
62.0	Installed	Mitchell Thomas Rozanski	Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
76.5	Died	Hippolyte Louis Jean Simon †	Archbishop Emeritus of Clermont, France
26 Aug	85.7	Died	Oscar Valero Cruz †	Archbishop Emeritus of Lingayen-Dagupan, Philippines
90.4	Died	Victor Hugo Martínez Contreras †	Archbishop Emeritus of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán, Guatemala
28 Aug	57.2	Ordained Bishop	Guy Boulanger	Bishop of Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, Canada
63.1	Installed	José Araneta Cabantan	Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro, Philippines
57.1	Ordained Bishop	Luis Manuel López Alfaro	Titular Bishop of Garba	Auxiliary Bishop of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México
29 Aug	66.4	Appointed	Giambattista Diquattro	Apostolic Nuncio to Brazil
52.0	Ordained Bishop	László Kerekes	Titular Bishop of Tharros	Auxiliary Bishop of Alba Iulia, Romania
59.0	Appointed	Gheevarghese Aphrem Kurisummoottil	Auxiliary Bishop of Kottayam (Syro-Malabar), India
59.0	Appointed	Gheevarghese Aphrem Kurisummoottil	Titular Bishop of Chaialum	Auxiliary Bishop of Kottayam (Syro-Malabar), India
75.3	Retired	Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo	Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
57.2	Ceased	Anthony Muheria	Apostolic Administrator of Kitui, Kenya	Archbishop of Nyeri, Kenya
52.3	Ordained Bishop	Joseph Maluki Mwongela	Bishop of Kitui, Kenya
55.6	Appointed	Pierre Nguyên Văn Viên	Apostolic Administrator of Hưng Hóa, Viet Nam	Auxiliary Bishop of Vinh, Viet Nam
53.9	Ordained Bishop	Anton Ranjith Pillainayagam	Titular Bishop of Materiana	Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka
76.4	Retired	Jean Marie Vũ Tất	Bishop of Hưng Hóa, Viet Nam	Bishop Emeritus
30 Aug	45.6	Ordained Bishop	Felix (Saeed) Dawood Al Shabi	Bishop of Zākhō (Zaku) (Chaldean), Iraq
49.3	Ordained Bishop	Paul Dempsey	Bishop of Achonry, Ireland	Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin, Ireland
31 Aug	52.3	Appointed	Dario Gervasi	Auxiliary Bishop of Roma {Rome}, Italy	Adjunct Secretary of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life
52.3	Appointed	Dario Gervasi	Titular Bishop of Subaugusta	Adjunct Secretary of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life

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