Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
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1 Mar | 90.08 | Born | Francis Folorunsho Clement Alonge | Bishop Emeritus of Ondo, Nigeria | |
64.1 | Died | Nikolaus Bares † | Bishop of Berlin, Germany | ||
90.08 | Born | Luis Gabriel Romero Franco | Bishop Emeritus of Facatativá, Colombia | ||
2 Mar | 74.6 | Appointed | Edward Joseph Hanna † | Titular Archbishop of Gortyna | Archbishop Emeritus of San Francisco, California, USA |
74.6 | Retired | Edward Joseph Hanna † | Archbishop of San Francisco, California, USA | Archbishop Emeritus | |
51.1 | Succeeded | John Joseph Mitty † | Archbishop of San Francisco, California, USA | ||
3 Mar | 51.2 | Ordained Bishop | Leandro Bautista Astelarra † | Bishop of Bahía Blanca, Argentina | |
90.07 | Born | Mario Busquets Jordá | Prelate Emeritus of Chuquibamba, Peru | ||
44.1 | Ordained Bishop | Zenobio Lorenzo Guilland † | Archbishop of Paraná, Argentina | ||
Born | Albino Mamede Cleto † | Bishop Emeritus of Coimbra, Portugal | |||
5 Mar | Born | Tobias Wunganayi Chiginya † | Bishop of Gweru, Zimbabwe | ||
Born | Francis Xavier Osamu Mizobe, S.D.B. † | Bishop Emeritus of Takamatsu, Japan | |||
6 Mar | 74.2 | Died | Jean-Baptiste-Marie Budes de Guébriant, M.E.P. † | Superior General of La Société des Missions Etrangères | |
7 Mar | 90.06 | Born | Giuseppe Anfossi | Bishop Emeritus of Aosta, Italy | |
55.3 | Died | Bl. Leontiy Leonid Fedorov, M.S.U. † | Apostolic Exarch of Russia (Russian) | ||
39.9 | Installed | Francisco Vicentín † | Bishop of Corrientes, Argentina | Archbishop Emeritus of Corrientes, Argentina | |
9 Mar | 51.5 | Appointed | William Richard Griffin † | Auxiliary Bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA | |
51.5 | Appointed | William Richard Griffin † | Titular Bishop of Lydda | Auxiliary Bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA | |
58.4 | Appointed | Joseph Francis Rummel † | Archbishop of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA | ||
10 Mar | 90.05 | Born | Kévork (Georges) Khazoumian, I.C.P.B. | Coadjutor Archbishop Emeritus of Istanbul (Armenian), Turkey | |
49.7 | Installed | Giacomo Rosso † | Bishop of Cuneo, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
11 Mar | 44.3 | Appointed | Mario Civelli, P.I.M.E. † | Vicar Apostolic of Hanchung [Hanzhong] (Hanchungfu), China | Bishop of Jixian [Weihwei], China |
44.3 | Appointed | Mario Civelli, P.I.M.E. † | Titular Bishop of Tabbora | Bishop of Jixian [Weihwei], China | |
58.2 | Appointed | Dominique Maria Hồ Ngọc Cẩn † | Coadjutor Bishop of Bùi Chu, Viet Nam | Vicar Apostolic | |
58.2 | Appointed | Dominique Maria Hồ Ngọc Cẩn † | Titular Bishop of Zenobias | Vicar Apostolic of Bùi Chu, Viet Nam | |
38.0 | Installed | Enrique José Mühn, S.V.D. † | Bishop of Jujuy, Argentina | Bishop Emeritus | |
49.6 | Appointed | Louis Parisot, S.M.A. † | Vicar Apostolic of Dahomey, Benin | Archbishop Emeritus of Cotonou, Benin | |
49.6 | Appointed | Louis Parisot, S.M.A. † | Titular Bishop of Tacapae | Archbishop Emeritus of Cotonou, Benin | |
12 Mar | Born | Paul John Marx, M.S.C. † | Bishop Emeritus of Kerema, Papua New Guinea | ||
13 Mar | 57.8 | Died | Francis John Vaughan † | Bishop of Menevia, Wales, Great Britain | |
15 Mar | 90.04 | Born | Salim Sayegh | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine | |
16 Mar | Born | João José Burke, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Miracema do Tocantins, Brazil | ||
Born | Lorenzo Chiarinelli † | Bishop Emeritus of Viterbo, Italy | |||
90.04 | Born | Xavier Gilles de Maupeou d’Ableiges | Bishop Emeritus of Viana, Maranhão, Brazil | ||
13.6 | Entered | Lucas Luis Dónnelly Carey, O. de M. † | Member of Order of Our Lady of Mercy | Prelate Emeritus of Deán Funes, Argentina | |
25.3 | Ordained Priest | Cornelis Heiligers, S.M.M. † | Priest of Missionaries of the Company of Mary | Superior General Emeritus | |
28.0 | Ordained Deacon | Robert Marie-Joseph François de Provenchères † | Deacon of Paris, France | Bishop Emeritus of Créteil, France | |
17 Mar | 46.1 | Ordained Bishop | Antonio Caggiano † | Bishop of Rosario, Argentina | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Buenos Aires, Argentina |
32.3 | Ordained Priest | Mathew Chen Muchen (Chen Mushun) † | Priest | Bishop of Zhaotong [Chaotung], China | |
39.1 | Ordained Bishop | Norman Thomas Gilroy † | Bishop of Port Augusta, Australia | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Sydney, Australia | |
57.9 | Ordained Bishop | José Aníbal Verdaguer y Corominas † | Bishop of Mendoza, Argentina | ||
18 Mar | Born | Antonio Bello † | Bishop of Molfetta-Ruvo-Giovinazzo-Terlizzi, Italy | ||
58.2 | Installed | Nicolás Esandi, S.D.B. † | Bishop of Viedma, Argentina | ||
Born | Antonios Naguib † | Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus of Alexandria {Alessandria} (Coptic), Egypt | |||
57.9 | Installed | José Aníbal Verdaguer y Corominas † | Bishop of Mendoza, Argentina | ||
70.2 | Died | Antonino Zecchini, S.J. † | Apostolic Nuncio to Latvia | ||
19 Mar | Born | Youssef Mohsen Béchara † | Archbishop Emeritus of Antélias (Maronite), Lebanon | ||
44.2 | Ordained Bishop | Ralph Hubert Dignan † | Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada | ||
48.3 | Ordained Bishop | Giuseppe Mazzoli † | Titular Archbishop of Germa in Hellesponto | Apostolic Delegate to Bulgaria | |
44.9 | Ordained Bishop | Angelo Soracco † | Bishop of Fossano, Italy | ||
21 Mar | 52.9 | Installed | Leopoldo Buteler † | Bishop of Río Cuarto, Argentina | |
25.4 | Ordained Priest | Petro Arikata Kobayashi † | Priest of Osaka, Japan | Bishop Emeritus of Sendai, Japan | |
74.7 | Died | Adam Senger † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bamberg, Germany | ||
23 Mar | 51.2 | Installed | Leandro Bautista Astelarra † | Bishop of Bahía Blanca, Argentina | |
90.3 | Died | Robert Browne † | Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland | ||
66.1 | Died | Nicolás González y Pérez, C.M.F. † | Vicar Apostolic of Fernando Poo, Equatorial Guinea | ||
44.2 | Installed | Zenobio Lorenzo Guilland † | Archbishop of Paraná, Argentina | ||
64.4 | Succeeded | James J. Roche † | Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland | ||
24 Mar | 48.2 | Ordained Bishop | Joseph Oscar Julien, M. Afr. † | Titular Bishop of Choba | Vicar Apostolic of Nyassa, Malawi |
25 Mar | 47.6 | Appointed | Louis Mathias, S.D.B. † | Archbishop of Madras, India | Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor), India |
44.1 | Ordained Bishop | Paul Bergan Misner, C.M. † | Titular Bishop of Myrica | Vicar Apostolic of Yükiang [Yujiang], China | |
27 Mar | 90.01 | Born | Ovidio Poletto | Bishop Emeritus of Concordia-Pordenone, Italy | |
29 Mar | 61.4 | Died | Jules-Joseph Moury, S.M.A. † | Vicar Apostolic of Costa d’Avorio | |
18.0 | Entered | Ramón Salas Valdés, S.J. † | Member of Society of Jesus | Bishop Emeritus of Arica, Chile | |
30 Mar | 64.1 | Died | Ludwig Maria Hugo † | Bishop of Mainz, Germany | |
31 Mar | 44.9 | Ordained Bishop | Froilán Ferreira Reinafé † | Bishop of La Rioja, Argentina | |
23.8 | Ordained Priest | Manuel Pedro (Antonio) Rodríguez Rozas † | Priest of San Cristobal de la Habana, Cuba | Bishop Emeritus of Pinar del Rio, Cuba | |
Born | Ignace Baguibassa Sambar-Talkena † | Bishop Emeritus of Kara, Togo | |||
25.5 | Ordained Priest | James Cornelius van Miltenburg, O.F.M. † | Priest of Order of Friars Minor | Bishop of Hyderabad in Pakistan | |
1 Apr | 55.7 | Appointed | Giovanni Capobianco † | Bishop of Urbania e Sant’Angelo in Vado, Italy | |
69.6 | Appointed | Arthur Hinsley † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain | ||
79.0 | Resigned | Achille Locatelli † | Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the College of Cardinals | Cardinal, Chamberlain Emeritus | |
59.0 | Appointed | Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † | Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) | |
53.4 | Appointed | Domenico Petroni † | Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
53.4 | Appointed | Domenico Petroni † | Bishop of Venosa, Italy | Bishop Emeritus of Melfi e Rapolla, Italy | |
45.7 | Appointed | Mario Toccabelli † | Archbishop of Siena, Italy | ||
2 Apr | 44.3 | Installed | Ralph Hubert Dignan † | Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada | |
62.8 | Died | Pasquale Gioia, C.R.S. † | Bishop of Molfetta, Giovinazzo e Terlizzi, Italy | ||
Born | Anthony Xu Jiwei † | Bishop Emeritus of Linhai [Taichow], China | |||
4 Apr | Born | Robert Lucien Chapuis, M.E.P. † | |||
89.99 | Born | Hans-Georg Koitz | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Hildesheim, Germany | ||
5 Apr | 79.0 | Died | Achille Locatelli † | Cardinal, Chamberlain Emeritus of the College of Cardinals | |
76.4 | Died | Giuseppe Scarlata † | Bishop of Muro Lucano, Italy | ||
6 Apr | 23.5 | Ordained Priest | Emilio Cinense y Abera † | Priest | Archbishop of San Fernando, Philippines |
27.9 | Ordained Priest | Justin Diraviam † | Priest | Archbishop Emeritus of Madurai, India | |
23.0 | Ordained Priest | Paolo Ghizzoni † | Priest of Piacenza, Italy | Bishop of San Miniato, Italy | |
24.3 | Ordained Priest | Anton Herre † | Priest of Rottenburg, Germany | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany | |
7 Apr | 50.9 | Ordained Bishop | Justo Antonino de Echeguren y Aldama † | Bishop of Oviedo, Spain | |
8 Apr | 52.2 | Appointed | Jean-Marie Aubin, S.M. † | Vicar Apostolic of Southern Solomon Islands, Solomon Islands | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus |
52.2 | Appointed | Jean-Marie Aubin, S.M. † | Titular Bishop of Antiphellus | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Southern Solomon Islands, Solomon Islands | |
57.6 | Appointed | Léon Klerlein, C.S.Sp. † | Titular Bishop of Voncaria | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Bethlehem, South Africa | |
57.6 | Appointed | Léon Klerlein, C.S.Sp. † | Vicar Apostolic of Kroonstad, South Africa | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Bethlehem, South Africa | |
46.8 | Appointed | Pietro Moretti, O.F.M. † | Prefect of Tongzhou [Tungchow], China | ||
56.5 | Appointed | Damian Tcheng † | Prefect of Zhaotong [Chaotung], China | ||
9 Apr | 25.2 | Ordained Priest | Elie Farah † | Priest | Archbishop Emeritus of Cyprus (Maronite) |
10 Apr | Born | José Augusto Martins Fernandes Pedreira † | Bishop Emeritus of Viana do Castelo, Portugal | ||
12 Apr | 31.0 | Ordained Priest | Joseph Meng Zi Wen (Meng Jieren; Mong Zi Wen) † | Priest of Nanning [Nanning], China | Bishop of Nanning [Nanning], China |
86.2 | Died | Fidel Olivas Escudero † | Bishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga (Guamanga), Peru | ||
13 Apr | 65.4 | Appointed | James Dey † | Vicar Apostolic of Great Britain, Military | |
65.4 | Appointed | James Dey † | Titular Bishop of Sebastopolis in Armenia | Vicar Apostolic of Great Britain, Military | |
44.9 | Installed | Froilán Ferreira Reinafé † | Bishop of La Rioja, Argentina | ||
Born | Michael Joseph Kaniecki, S.J. † | Bishop of Fairbanks, Alaska, USA | |||
89.96 | Born | Peter Antony Moran | Bishop Emeritus of Aberdeen, Scotland, Great Britain | ||
68.9 | Died | John Joseph O’Gorman, C.S.Sp. † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Sierra Leone | ||
14 Apr | 27.2 | Ordained Priest | Alois Bürke, S.M.B. † | Priest of Society of Bethlehem Mission Immensee | Prefect Emeritus of Qiqihar [Tsitsihar], China |
16 Apr | 68.7 | Died | Giacinto Tonizza, O.F.M. † | Vicar Apostolic of Tripolitana, Libya | |
17 Apr | 89.95 | Born | Michael Patrick Olatunji Fagun | Bishop Emeritus of Ekiti, Nigeria | |
Born | Medardo Luis Luzardo Romero † | Archbishop Emeritus of Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela | |||
18 Apr | Born | István Ács, O.S.P.P.E. † | Auxiliary Bishop of Eger, Hungary | ||
19 Apr | 89.95 | Born | Justin Francis Rigali | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA | |
20 Apr | 24.7 | Ordained Priest | Alberto Frederico Etges † | Priest | Bishop Emeritus of Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
Born | Tomás Osvaldo González Morales, S.D.B. † | Bishop Emeritus of Punta Arenas, Chile | |||
25.5 | Ordained Priest | Henri Alfred Bernardin Hoffmann, O.F.M. Cap. † | Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin | Bishop of Djibouti | |
21 Apr | 26.1 | Ordained Priest | Leonardo José Rodriguez Ballón, O.F.M. † | Priest of Order of Friars Minor | Archbishop Emeritus of Arequipa, Peru |
23 Apr | 63.4 | Died | Lorenzo Schioppa † | Apostolic Internuncio to Netherlands | |
25 Apr | 89.93 | Born | John Kevin Boland | Bishop Emeritus of Savannah, Georgia, USA | |
39.2 | Ordained Bishop | François-Emile-Marie Cléret de Langavant, C.S.Sp. † | Bishop of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion | Bishop Emeritus | |
58.0 | Appointed | Joseph Laurent Philippe, S.C.I. † | Coadjutor Bishop of Luxembourg | Bishop | |
58.0 | Appointed | Joseph Laurent Philippe, S.C.I. † | Titular Bishop of Tinum | Bishop of Luxembourg | |
26 Apr | Born | Gerardo Pierro † | Archbishop Emeritus of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno, Italy | ||
28 Apr | 22.0 | Ordained Priest | Otàvio Barbosa Aguiar † | Priest | Bishop Emeritus of Palmeira dos Índios, Alagoas, Brazil |
47.6 | Ordained Bishop | Assuero Teofano Bassi, S.X. † | Titular Bishop of Tabae | Bishop of Luoyang [Loyang], China | |
34.3 | Ordained Bishop | José Gaspar d’Afonseca e Silva † | Titular Bishop of Barca | Archbishop of São Paulo, Brazil | |
27.2 | Ordained Priest | Peter Kelleter, C.S.Sp. † | Priest of Congregation of the Holy Spirit | Bishop Emeritus of Bethlehem, South Africa | |
22.0 | Ordained Priest | João José da Mota e Albuquerque † | Priest | Archbishop Emeritus of São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil | |
40.6 | Ordained Bishop | Alfredo Silva Santiago † | Bishop of Temuco, Chile | Archbishop Emeritus of Concepción (Santissima Concezione), Chile | |
38.6 | Ordained Bishop | Juan Subercaseaux Errázuriz † | Bishop of Linares, Chile | Archbishop of La Serena, Chile | |
29 Apr | 69.6 | Installed | Arthur Hinsley † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain | |
30 Apr | 56.6 | Ordained Bishop | Maurice Jean Baptiste Félix Marie Amoudru, O.P. † | Titular Bishop of Pyrgos | Apostolic Administrator of Leningrad, Russian Federation |
89.92 | Born | António Montes Moreira, O.F.M. | Bishop Emeritus of Bragança-Miranda, Portugal |
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