Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 Dec | 62.7 | Appointed | Michael William Fisher | Bishop of Buffalo, New York, USA | |
74.4 | Installed | Paulo Dionisio Lachovicz (Liakhovych), O.S.B.M. | Apostolic Exarch of Italy, Faithful of the Ukrainian Catholic Church (Ukrainian) | ||
91.3 | Died | Henri Antoine Marie Teissier † | Archbishop Emeritus of Alger, Algeria | ||
2 Dec | 60.3 | Appointed | Norbert Hans Christoph Foerster, S.V.D. | Bishop of Ji-Paraná, Rondonia, Brazil | |
3 Dec | 73.8 | Resigned | Jean-Anatole Kalala Kaseba | Bishop of Kamina, Congo (Dem. Rep.) | Bishop Emeritus |
58.4 | Appointed | Fulgence Muteba Mugalu | Apostolic Administrator of Kamina, Congo (Dem. Rep.) | Archbishop of Lubumbashi, Congo (Dem. Rep.) | |
4 Dec | 57.7 | Succeeded | Marcel Damphousse | Archbishop of Ottawa-Cornwall, Ontario, Canada | |
89.6 | Died | James Odongo † | Archbishop Emeritus of Tororo, Uganda | ||
76.7 | Retired | Terrence Thomas Prendergast, S.J. | Archbishop of Ottawa-Cornwall, Ontario, Canada | Archbishop Emeritus | |
5 Dec | 53.8 | Ordained Bishop | Charbel Yusef Abdallah | Archbishop of Tyr (Maronite), Lebanon | |
58.8 | Installed | Rosalvo Cordeiro de Lima | Bishop of Itapipoca, Ceara, Brazil | ||
60.0 | Appointed | Martín Fassi | Bishop of San Martín, Argentina | ||
55.8 | Ordained Bishop | Marcial Humberto Guzmán Saballo | Bishop of Juigalpa, Nicaragua | ||
55.7 | Installed | Mario Iceta Gavicagogeascoa | Archbishop of Burgos, Spain | ||
65.4 | Appointed | Han Lim Moon | Coadjutor Bishop of Venado Tuerto, Argentina | Bishop | |
6 Dec | 53.8 | Installed | Charbel Yusef Abdallah | Archbishop of Tyr (Maronite), Lebanon | |
45.4 | Ordained Bishop | Francisco Agamenilton Damascena | Bishop of Rubiataba-Mozarlândia, Goias, Brazil | ||
62.5 | Appointed | Joseba Segura Etxezarraga | Administrator of Bilbao, Spain | Bishop | |
58.3 | Installed | Youssef Antoine Soueif | Archbishop of Tripoli del Libano {Tarabulus} (Maronite) | ||
7 Dec | 60.4 | Appointed | Erio Castellucci | Archbishop (Personal Title) of Carpi, Italy | Archbishop of Modena-Nonantola, Italy |
58.1 | Appointed | Víctor Manuel Ochoa Cadavid | Bishop of Colombia, Military | ||
78.0 | Retired | Fabio Suescún Mutis | Bishop of Colombia, Military | Bishop Emeritus | |
8 Dec | 65.9 | Ordained Bishop | Jesús María Aristín Seco, C.P. | Vicar Apostolic of Yurimaguas, Peru | |
57.6 | Ordained Bishop | Gregory Charles Bennet | Bishop of Sale, Australia | ||
49.0 | Resigned | Dariusz Buras | Apostolic Administrator of Atyrau, Kazakhstan | Apostolic Administrator Emeritus | |
70.4 | Installed | Alain Harel | Bishop of Port Victoria o Seychelles | ||
64.0 | Appointed | Martin Kmetec, O.F.M. Conv. | Archbishop of Izmir (Smirne), Turkey | ||
45.9 | Installed | Atanasius Firas Mundher Dardar | Patriarchal Exarch of Bassorah e Golfo (Syrian), Iraq | ||
77.9 | Retired | Lorenzo Piretto, O.P. | Archbishop of Izmir (Smirne), Turkey | Archbishop Emeritus | |
42.1 | Appointed | Peter Sakmár | Apostolic Administrator of Atyrau, Kazakhstan | ||
9 Dec | 74.7 | Resigned | William D’Souza, S.J. | Archbishop of Patna, India | Archbishop Emeritus |
55.4 | Appointed | Luka Sylvester Gopep | Auxiliary Bishop of Minna, Nigeria | ||
55.4 | Appointed | Luka Sylvester Gopep | Titular Bishop of Muzuca in Byzacena | Auxiliary Bishop of Minna, Nigeria | |
67.4 | Succeeded | Sebastian Kallupura | Archbishop of Patna, India | ||
90.3 | Died | José Mario Ruiz Navas † | Archbishop Emeritus of Portoviejo, Ecuador | ||
10 Dec | 72.4 | Appointed | Luigi Bonazzi | Apostolic Nuncio to Albania | |
77.4 | Died | Rafael Ramón Conde Alfonzo † | Bishop Emeritus of Maracay, Venezuela | ||
51.1 | Appointed | Jean-Luc Gérard Garin | Bishop of Saint-Claude, France | ||
11 Dec | 76.4 | Retired | Gustavo García Naranjo | Bishop of Guarenas, Venezuela | Bishop Emeritus |
60.7 | Appointed | Tulio Luis Ramírez Padilla | Bishop of Guarenas, Venezuela | ||
12 Dec | 47.0 | Ordained Bishop | Juan Alberto Ayala Ramírez | Titular Bishop of Rusibisir | Auxiliary Bishop of San Cristóbal de Venezuela |
57.8 | Appointed | Domenico Battaglia | Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy | ||
53.3 | Installed | Paulo Cezar Costa | Cardinal, Archbishop of Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil | ||
80.0 | Died | Victor Gnanapragasam, O.M.I. † | Vicar Apostolic of Quetta, Pakistan | ||
60.3 | Ceased | José Aparecido Gonçalves de Almeida | Administrator of Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil | Bishop of Itumbiara, Goias, Brazil | |
64.3 | Appointed | Jorge Alberto Ossa Soto | Apostolic Administrator of Tibú, Colombia | Archbishop of Nueva Pamplona, Colombia | |
57.2 | Installed | Omar Alberto Sánchez Cubillos, O.P. | Archbishop of Popayán, Colombia | ||
77.5 | Retired | Crescenzio Sepe | Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus | |
60.7 | Ordained Bishop | Fernando Valera Sánchez | Bishop of Zamora, Spain | ||
54.1 | Appointed | Artur Ważny | Auxiliary Bishop of Tarnów, Poland | Bishop of Sosnowiec, Poland | |
54.1 | Appointed | Artur Ważny | Titular Bishop of Mazaca | Bishop of Sosnowiec, Poland | |
14 Dec | 58.5 | Appointed | Philippe Abbo Chen, I.N.D.V. | Vicar Apostolic of Mongo, Chad | |
56.2 | Ordained Bishop | William Draper Byrne | Bishop of Springfield in Massachusetts, USA | ||
78.4 | Retired | Henri Coudray, S.J. | Vicar Apostolic of Mongo, Chad | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus | |
53.4 | Appointed | Eduardo Malaspina | Administrator of São Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brazil | Bishop of Itapeva, Sao Paulo, Brazil | |
69.4 | Ceased | Robert Joseph McManus | Apostolic Administrator of Springfield in Massachusetts, USA | Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, USA | |
68.2 | Died | José María de la Torre Martín † | Bishop of Aguascalientes, México | ||
71.5 | Died | Tarcisius Gervazio Ziyaye † | Archbishop of Lilongwe, Malawi | ||
16 Dec | 52.0 | Installed | Elkin Fernando Álvarez Botero † | Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia | |
89.3 | Died | Peter Yariyok Jatau † | Archbishop Emeritus of Kaduna, Nigeria | ||
90.7 | Died | Joseph Kyeong Kap-ryong † | Bishop Emeritus of Daejeon {Taejon}, Korea (South) | ||
58.0 | Appointed | Carlos Silva, O.F.M. Cap. | Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Brazil | ||
58.0 | Appointed | Carlos Silva, O.F.M. Cap. | Titular Bishop of Summula | Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Brazil | |
65.3 | Died | Stephen Tjephe † | Bishop of Loikaw, Myanmar | ||
53.2 | Appointed | Mate Uzinić | Apostolic Administrator of Dubrovnik (Ragusa), Croatia | Archbishop of Rijeka, Croatia | |
53.2 | Installed | Mate Uzinić | Coadjutor Archbishop of Rijeka, Croatia | Archbishop | |
17 Dec | 54.1 | Ordained Bishop | Juan Carlos Arcq Guzmán | Titular Bishop of Milevum | Bishop of Tacámbaro, Michoacán, México |
74.8 | Resigned | Éric Marie Pierre Henri Aumonier | Bishop of Versailles, France | Bishop Emeritus | |
56.4 | Appointed | Celso Ba Shwe | Administrator of Loikaw, Myanmar | Bishop | |
50.2 | Installed | Thomas Dowd | Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada | ||
68.9 | Ordained Bishop | José Manuel Garza Madero | Titular Bishop of Tetci | Auxiliary Bishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México | |
49.1 | Ordained Bishop | César Garza Miranda, O.F.M. | Titular Bishop of Magnetum | Auxiliary Bishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México | |
94.8 | Died | Jacó (Jacob) Roberto Hilgert † | Bishop Emeritus of Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | ||
60.0 | Appointed | Jan Romeo Pawłowski | Secretary (Pontifical Representations) of the Secretariat of State | Apostolic Nuncio to Greece | |
50.9 | Appointed | Mauricio Rueda Beltz | Under Secretary of the Secretariat of State | Apostolic Nuncio to Côte d’Ivoire | |
18 Dec | 54.8 | Appointed | Larry James Kulick | Bishop of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA | |
79.1 | Died | Peter Takeo Okada † | Archbishop Emeritus of Tōkyō, Japan | ||
19 Dec | 45.4 | Installed | Francisco Agamenilton Damascena | Bishop of Rubiataba-Mozarlândia, Goias, Brazil | |
81.3 | Died | Mile Bogović † | Bishop Emeritus of Gospić-Senj, Croatia | ||
54.9 | Appointed | Miguel Fernando González Mariño | Bishop of Espinal, Colombia | ||
47.3 | Ordained Bishop | Jacek Grzybowski | Titular Bishop of Nova | Auxiliary Bishop of Warszawa-Praga, Poland | |
57.5 | Installed | Luis Ángel de las Heras Berzal, C.M.F. | Bishop of León, Spain | ||
59.2 | Appointed | Pietro Lagnese | Bishop of Caserta, Italy | Archbishop of Capua, Italy | |
47.7 | Appointed | Raúl Pizarro | Auxiliary Bishop of San Isidro, Argentina | ||
47.7 | Appointed | Raúl Pizarro | Titular Bishop of Ausana | Auxiliary Bishop of San Isidro, Argentina | |
20 Dec | 74.1 | Died | Anthony Mathias Banzi † | Bishop of Tanga, Tanzania | |
78.6 | Ceased | Michel Marie Jacques Dubost, C.I.M. | Apostolic Administrator of Lyon, France | Bishop Emeritus of Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes, France | |
60.2 | Installed | Olivier Jacques Marie de Germay de Cirfontaine | Archbishop of Lyon, France | ||
55.7 | Appointed | Thomas John Kiangio | Administrator of Tanga, Tanzania | Bishop | |
87.1 | Died | Florencio Olvera Ochoa † | Bishop Emeritus of Cuernavaca, Morelos, México | ||
47.2 | Ordained Bishop | Javier Vilanova Pellisa | Titular Bishop of Empúries | Auxiliary Bishop of Barcelona, Spain | |
21 Dec | 60.2 | Appointed | Giuseppe Satriano | Apostolic Administrator of Rossano-Cariati, Italy | Archbishop of Bari-Bitonto, Italy |
22 Dec | 54.1 | Ordained Bishop | Pietro Liu Genzhu | Bishop of Hongdong [Hungtung], China | |
60.6 | Appointed | Ivan Štironja | Bishop of Kotor (Cattaro), Montenegro | Bishop of Poreč i Pula, Croatia | |
68.3 | Died | Rubén Tierrablanca Gonzalez, O.F.M. † | Vicar Apostolic of Istanbul, Turkey | ||
86.3 | Died | Antonio Vacca † | Bishop Emeritus of Alghero-Bosa, Italy | ||
23 Dec | 53.5 | Appointed | Nivaldo dos Santos Ferreira | Auxiliary Bishop of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
53.5 | Appointed | Nivaldo dos Santos Ferreira | Titular Bishop of Thiava | Auxiliary Bishop of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
48.6 | Appointed | Júlio César Gomes Moreira | Auxiliary Bishop of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil | ||
48.6 | Appointed | Júlio César Gomes Moreira | Titular Bishop of Thisiduo | Auxiliary Bishop of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
65.5 | Appointed | Santiago Jaime Silva Retamales | Bishop of Valdivia, Chile | ||
24 Dec | 78.0 | Appointed | Lorenzo Piretto, O.P. | Apostolic Administrator of Istanbul, Turkey | Archbishop Emeritus of Izmir (Smirne), Turkey |
78.0 | Appointed | Lorenzo Piretto, O.P. | Apostolic Administrator of Istanbul (Constantinople) (Greek), Turkey | Archbishop Emeritus of Izmir (Smirne), Turkey | |
26 Dec | 60.1 | Installed | Martín Fassi | Bishop of San Martín, Argentina | |
83.1 | Died | Sergio Giovanni Pintor † | Bishop Emeritus of Ozieri, Italy | ||
28 Dec | 59.5 | Appointed | Sebastiano Roberto Asta | Apostolic Administrator of Ragusa, Italy | Priest |
75.5 | Retired | Gerald Richard Barnes | Bishop of San Bernardino, California, USA | Bishop Emeritus | |
58.7 | Resigned | Carmelo Cuttitta | Bishop of Ragusa, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
72.4 | Died | Paul Sueo Hamaguchi † | Bishop of Oita, Japan | ||
62.7 | Appointed | Willybard Kitogho Lagho | Bishop of Malindi, Kenya | ||
64.9 | Appointed | Victor Lyngdoh | Archbishop of Shillong, India | ||
55.9 | Succeeded | Alberto Rojas | Bishop of San Bernardino, California, USA | ||
55.2 | Appointed | Neil Sebastian Ricardo Scantlebury | Bishop of Bridgetown, Barbados, Antilles | ||
74.3 | Resigned | Marc Camille Michel Stenger | Bishop of Troyes, France | Bishop Emeritus | |
29 Dec | 66.1 | Appointed | Dermot Pius Farrell | Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland | |
75.7 | Retired | Diarmuid Martin | Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland | Archbishop Emeritus | |
89.3 | Died | Gregory Obinna Ochiagha † | Bishop Emeritus of Orlu, Nigeria | ||
83.3 | Died | Geoffrey James Robinson † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Sydney, Australia | ||
30 Dec | 75.0 | Retired | Telesphore Richard Mkude | Bishop of Morogoro, Tanzania | Bishop Emeritus |
31 Dec | 70.3 | Retired | Thomas Edward Gullickson | Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland | Apostolic Nuncio |
70.3 | Retired | Thomas Edward Gullickson | Apostolic Nuncio to Liechtenstein | Apostolic Nuncio | |
99.4 | Died | Andreas Han Jingtao (Han Qian) † | Bishop of Siping [Szepingkai], China | ||
79.9 | Ceased | Peter William Ingham † | Apostolic Visitor (Visitator) of Broome, Australia | Bishop Emeritus of Wollongong, Australia | |
83.3 | Died | Floribert Songasonga Mwitwa † | Archbishop Emeritus of Lubumbashi, Congo (Dem. Rep.) |
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