The Year of Our Lord 2011

Bishop Events

April

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 of Cardiff-Menevia, Wales, Great Britain

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 Cardinal, 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 Emeritus 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

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 of Cardiff-Menevia, Wales, Great Britain
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	Cardinal, 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 Emeritus 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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