The Year of Our Lord 2015

Bishop Events

April

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

Apr Selected Cosmas Ji Chengyi Bishop of Zhumadian [Chumatien], China

2 Apr 71.9 Died Alberto Ricardo da Silva † Bishop Emeritus of Díli, Timor-Leste

83.4 Died William Benedict Friend † Bishop Emeritus of Shreveport, Louisiana, USA

3 Apr 81.9 Died Luis María Pérez de Onraita Aguirre † Archbishop Emeritus of Malanje, Angola

6 Apr 99.0 Died Eugène Moke Motsüri † Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

7 Apr 60.1 Appointed Vincent Aind Bishop of Bagdogra, India Archbishop of Ranchi, India

54.9 Appointed Ernesto José Romero Rivas, O.F.M. Cap. Vicar Apostolic of Tucupita, Venezuela

54.9 Appointed Ernesto José Romero Rivas, O.F.M. Cap. Titular Bishop of Nova Sparsa Vicar Apostolic of Tucupita, Venezuela

8 Apr 78.7 Died Jean-Claude Turcotte † Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Montréal, Québec, Canada

75.2 Retired Octavio Villegas Aguilar Auxiliary Bishop of Morelia, Michoacán, México Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

9 Apr 58.3 Died João Alves dos Santos, O.F.M. Cap. † Bishop of Paranaguá, Parana, Brazil

82.3 Died Elmo Noel Joseph Perera † Bishop Emeritus of Galle, Sri Lanka

10 Apr 63.2 Selected Jean César Scarcella, C.R.A. Abbot of Saint-Maurice, Switzerland

11 Apr 46.7 Appointed Dante Gustavo Braida Lorenzón Auxiliary Bishop of Mendoza, Argentina Bishop of La Rioja, Argentina

46.7 Appointed Dante Gustavo Braida Lorenzón Titular Bishop of Tanudaia Bishop of La Rioja, Argentina

46.1 Ordained Bishop Marek Grzegorz Marczak Titular Bishop of Leontium Auxiliary Bishop of Łódź, Poland

51.6 Appointed Jean de Dieu Raoelison Bishop of Ambatondrazaka, Madagascar Archbishop of Antananarivo, Madagascar

76.0 Retired Antoine Scopelliti, O.SS.T. † Bishop of Ambatondrazaka, Madagascar Bishop Emeritus

12 Apr 58.7 Appointed Basilio Athai Apostolic Administrator of Taunggyi, Myanmar Archbishop

56.9 Ordained Bishop Lucien (Luc) Jacques Marie Joseph Crepy, C.I.M. Bishop of Le Puy-en-Velay, France Bishop of Versailles, France

55.9 Ordained Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, Ireland

45.4 Ordained Bishop David Thomas Daniel Macaire, O.P. Archbishop of Fort-de-France (e Saint Pierre), Martinique, Antilles

50.0 Ordained Bishop Jean-Bertin Nadonye Ndongo, O.F.M. Cap. Bishop of Lolo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

52.1 Ordained Bishop Liberatus Sangu Bishop of Shinyanga, Tanzania

46.9 Ordained Bishop John Saw Yaw Han Titular Bishop of Buffada Bishop of Kengtung, Myanmar

71.3 Resigned Matthias U Shwe † Archbishop of Taunggyi, Myanmar Archbishop Emeritus

13 Apr 54.1 Appointed Paolo Rocco Gualtieri Apostolic Nuncio to Madagascar Apostolic Nuncio to Peru

54.1 Appointed Paolo Rocco Gualtieri Titular Archbishop of Sagone Apostolic Nuncio to Peru

89.1 Died Antônio Alberto Guimarães Rezende, C.S.S. † Bishop Emeritus of Caetité, Bahia, Brazil

14 Apr 59.3 Resigned Yaser Rasmi Hanna Al-Ayyash Archbishop of Petra e Filadelfia (Melkite Greek), Jordan Protosyncellus of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme} (Melkite Greek), Palestine

50.7 Ordained Bishop Józef Andrzej Dąbrowski, C.S.M.A. Titular Bishop of Casae in Numidia Bishop of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada

62.8 Appointed Luigi Mistò Official of the Secretariat for the Economy

51.7 Appointed Mauro Rivella Secretary of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See Secretary Emeritus

93.9 Died Roberto Tucci, S.J. † Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Ignazio di Loyola a Campo Marzio

15 Apr 57.0 Appointed Wilson Luís Angotti Filho Bishop of Taubaté, Sao Paulo, Brazil

100.0 Died Felice Leonardo † Bishop Emeritus of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de’ Goti, Italy

61.1 Installed Robert Walter McElroy Cardinal, Bishop of San Diego, California, USA

50.5 Appointed Edson José Oriolo dos Santos Auxiliary Bishop of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil Bishop of Leopoldina, Minas Gerais, Brazil

50.5 Appointed Edson José Oriolo dos Santos Titular Bishop of Segia Bishop of Leopoldina, Minas Gerais, Brazil

75.9 Retired Carmo João Rhoden, S.C.I. Bishop of Taubaté, Sao Paulo, Brazil Bishop Emeritus

16 Apr 61.4 Appointed Werner Freistetter Bishop of Austria, Military

52.1 Appointed Wilhelm Krautwaschl Bishop of Graz-Seckau, Austria

71.3 Resigned Christian Werner Bishop of Austria, Military Bishop Emeritus

17 Apr 78.2 Died Francis Eugene George, O.M.I. † Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Chicago, Illinois, USA

47.6 Appointed Juan de Dios Peña Rojas Bishop of El Vigia-San Carlos del Zulia, Venezuela

18 Apr 67.5 Installed Freddy Antonio de Jesús Bretón Martínez Archbishop of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic Archbishop Emeritus

54.2 Ordained Bishop Antoine Chbeir Bishop of Lattaquié {Laodicea} (Maronite), Syria

59.4 Appointed Misael Vacca Ramirez Bishop of Duitama-Sogamoso, Colombia Archbishop of Villavicencio, Colombia

19 Apr 58.1 Installed Hervé Jean Robert Giraud Archbishop of Sens (-Auxerre), France Bishop of Viviers, France

58.1 Installed Hervé Jean Robert Giraud Prelate of Mission de France o Pontigny, France Bishop of Viviers, France

82.5 Appointed Daniel Camille Victor Marie Labille † Apostolic Administrator of Soissons (-Laon-Saint-Quentin), France Bishop Emeritus of Créteil, France

68.9 Installed Francesco Montenegro Cardinal-Priest of Santi Andrea e Gregorio al Monte Celio Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Agrigento, Italy

50.9 Ordained Bishop Ernest Ngboko Ngombe, C.I.C.M. Bishop of Lisala, Congo (Dem. Rep.) Archbishop of Mbandaka-Bikoro, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

20 Apr 54.4 Ordained Bishop Mario Eduardo Dorsonville-Rodríguez † Titular Bishop of Kearney Bishop of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana, USA

21 Apr 62.0 Resigned Robert William Finn Bishop of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA Bishop Emeritus

71.6 Resigned José Trinidad González Rodríguez † Auxiliary Bishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

65.8 Appointed Joseph Fred Naumann Apostolic Administrator of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA Archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas, USA

22 Apr 51.4 Appointed Benedito Araújo Apostolic Administrator of Porto Velho, Rondonia, Brazil Bishop of Guajará-Mirim, Rondonia, Brazil

56.2 Appointed Eduardo Pinheiro da Silva, S.D.B. Bishop of Jaboticabal, Sao Paulo, Brazil

23 Apr 51.4 Appointed Brendan John Cahill Bishop of Victoria in Texas, USA

61.5 Ordained Bishop Francisco Eduardo Cervantes Merino Bishop of Orizaba, Veracruz, México

75.6 Retired David Eugene Fellhauer Bishop of Victoria in Texas, USA Bishop Emeritus

24 Apr 51.7 Appointed Piergiorgio Bertoldi Titular Archbishop of Hispellum Apostolic Nuncio to Dominican Republic

51.7 Appointed Piergiorgio Bertoldi Apostolic Nuncio to Burkina Faso Apostolic Nuncio to Dominican Republic

51.7 Appointed Piergiorgio Bertoldi Apostolic Nuncio to Niger Apostolic Nuncio to Dominican Republic

76.0 Retired Lawrence Eugene Brandt Bishop of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA Bishop Emeritus

61.5 Installed Francisco Eduardo Cervantes Merino Bishop of Orizaba, Veracruz, México

92.7 Died Thomas Joseph Connolly † Bishop Emeritus of Baker, Oregon, USA

47.4 Ordained Bishop Luiz Gonçalves Knupp Bishop of Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

57.8 Appointed Josef Graf Auxiliary Bishop of Regensburg, Germany

57.8 Appointed Josef Graf Titular Bishop of Inis Cathaig Auxiliary Bishop of Regensburg, Germany

54.6 Appointed Edward Charles Malesic Bishop of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio, USA

61.9 Ceased Vito Rallo Apostolic Nuncio to Burkina Faso Apostolic Nuncio

61.9 Ceased Vito Rallo Apostolic Nuncio to Niger Apostolic Nuncio

75.8 Died Raymond Olir Roussin, S. M. † Archbishop Emeritus of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

25 Apr 71.9 Ceased Stephen Joseph Reichert, O.F.M. Cap. Apostolic Administrator of Wewak, Papua New Guinea Archbishop Emeritus of Madang, Papua New Guinea

47.7 Ordained Bishop Andrés Napoleón Romero Cárdenas Bishop of Barahona, Dominican Republic

52.6 Ordained Bishop Józef Roszyński, S.V.D. Bishop of Wewak, Papua New Guinea

26 Apr 59.8 Ordained Bishop Alojzij Cvikl, S.J. Archbishop of Maribor, Slovenia

71.7 Ceased Stanislav Lipovšek Apostolic Administrator of Maribor, Slovenia Bishop Emeritus of Celje, Slovenia

27 Apr 53.0 Appointed Gary Wayne Janak Administrator of Victoria in Texas, USA Auxiliary Bishop of San Antonio, Texas, USA

75.7 Retired Michael Jarboe Sheehan † Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Archbishop Emeritus

64.4 Appointed John Charles Wester Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

28 Apr 50.5 Appointed Edward Elias Mapunda Bishop of Singida, Tanzania

44.0 Selected Joseph Zhang Yinlin Coadjutor Bishop of Jixian [Weihwei], China Bishop

29 Apr 96.5 Died Giovanni Canestri † Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Genova {Genoa}, Italy

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
Apr		Selected	Cosmas Ji Chengyi	Bishop of Zhumadian [Chumatien], China
2 Apr	71.9	Died	Alberto Ricardo da Silva †	Bishop Emeritus of Díli, Timor-Leste
83.4	Died	William Benedict Friend †	Bishop Emeritus of Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
3 Apr	81.9	Died	Luis María Pérez de Onraita Aguirre †	Archbishop Emeritus of Malanje, Angola
6 Apr	99.0	Died	Eugène Moke Motsüri †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
7 Apr	60.1	Appointed	Vincent Aind	Bishop of Bagdogra, India	Archbishop of Ranchi, India
54.9	Appointed	Ernesto José Romero Rivas, O.F.M. Cap.	Vicar Apostolic of Tucupita, Venezuela
54.9	Appointed	Ernesto José Romero Rivas, O.F.M. Cap.	Titular Bishop of Nova Sparsa	Vicar Apostolic of Tucupita, Venezuela
8 Apr	78.7	Died	Jean-Claude Turcotte †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Montréal, Québec, Canada
75.2	Retired	Octavio Villegas Aguilar	Auxiliary Bishop of Morelia, Michoacán, México	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
9 Apr	58.3	Died	João Alves dos Santos, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop of Paranaguá, Parana, Brazil
82.3	Died	Elmo Noel Joseph Perera †	Bishop Emeritus of Galle, Sri Lanka
10 Apr	63.2	Selected	Jean César Scarcella, C.R.A.	Abbot of Saint-Maurice, Switzerland
11 Apr	46.7	Appointed	Dante Gustavo Braida Lorenzón	Auxiliary Bishop of Mendoza, Argentina	Bishop of La Rioja, Argentina
46.7	Appointed	Dante Gustavo Braida Lorenzón	Titular Bishop of Tanudaia	Bishop of La Rioja, Argentina
46.1	Ordained Bishop	Marek Grzegorz Marczak	Titular Bishop of Leontium	Auxiliary Bishop of Łódź, Poland
51.6	Appointed	Jean de Dieu Raoelison	Bishop of Ambatondrazaka, Madagascar	Archbishop of Antananarivo, Madagascar
76.0	Retired	Antoine Scopelliti, O.SS.T. †	Bishop of Ambatondrazaka, Madagascar	Bishop Emeritus
12 Apr	58.7	Appointed	Basilio Athai	Apostolic Administrator of Taunggyi, Myanmar	Archbishop
56.9	Ordained Bishop	Lucien (Luc) Jacques Marie Joseph Crepy, C.I.M.	Bishop of Le Puy-en-Velay, France	Bishop of Versailles, France
55.9	Ordained Bishop	Alphonsus Cullinan	Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, Ireland
45.4	Ordained Bishop	David Thomas Daniel Macaire, O.P.	Archbishop of Fort-de-France (e Saint Pierre), Martinique, Antilles
50.0	Ordained Bishop	Jean-Bertin Nadonye Ndongo, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Lolo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
52.1	Ordained Bishop	Liberatus Sangu	Bishop of Shinyanga, Tanzania
46.9	Ordained Bishop	John Saw Yaw Han	Titular Bishop of Buffada	Bishop of Kengtung, Myanmar
71.3	Resigned	Matthias U Shwe †	Archbishop of Taunggyi, Myanmar	Archbishop Emeritus
13 Apr	54.1	Appointed	Paolo Rocco Gualtieri	Apostolic Nuncio to Madagascar	Apostolic Nuncio to Peru
54.1	Appointed	Paolo Rocco Gualtieri	Titular Archbishop of Sagone	Apostolic Nuncio to Peru
89.1	Died	Antônio Alberto Guimarães Rezende, C.S.S. †	Bishop Emeritus of Caetité, Bahia, Brazil
14 Apr	59.3	Resigned	Yaser Rasmi Hanna Al-Ayyash	Archbishop of Petra e Filadelfia (Melkite Greek), Jordan	Protosyncellus of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme} (Melkite Greek), Palestine
50.7	Ordained Bishop	Józef Andrzej Dąbrowski, C.S.M.A.	Titular Bishop of Casae in Numidia	Bishop of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
62.8	Appointed	Luigi Mistò	Official of the Secretariat for the Economy
51.7	Appointed	Mauro Rivella	Secretary of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See	Secretary Emeritus
93.9	Died	Roberto Tucci, S.J. †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Ignazio di Loyola a Campo Marzio
15 Apr	57.0	Appointed	Wilson Luís Angotti Filho	Bishop of Taubaté, Sao Paulo, Brazil
100.0	Died	Felice Leonardo †	Bishop Emeritus of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de’ Goti, Italy
61.1	Installed	Robert Walter McElroy	Cardinal, Bishop of San Diego, California, USA
50.5	Appointed	Edson José Oriolo dos Santos	Auxiliary Bishop of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop of Leopoldina, Minas Gerais, Brazil
50.5	Appointed	Edson José Oriolo dos Santos	Titular Bishop of Segia	Bishop of Leopoldina, Minas Gerais, Brazil
75.9	Retired	Carmo João Rhoden, S.C.I.	Bishop of Taubaté, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
16 Apr	61.4	Appointed	Werner Freistetter	Bishop of Austria, Military
52.1	Appointed	Wilhelm Krautwaschl	Bishop of Graz-Seckau, Austria
71.3	Resigned	Christian Werner	Bishop of Austria, Military	Bishop Emeritus
17 Apr	78.2	Died	Francis Eugene George, O.M.I. †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Chicago, Illinois, USA
47.6	Appointed	Juan de Dios Peña Rojas	Bishop of El Vigia-San Carlos del Zulia, Venezuela
18 Apr	67.5	Installed	Freddy Antonio de Jesús Bretón Martínez	Archbishop of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic	Archbishop Emeritus
54.2	Ordained Bishop	Antoine Chbeir	Bishop of Lattaquié {Laodicea} (Maronite), Syria
59.4	Appointed	Misael Vacca Ramirez	Bishop of Duitama-Sogamoso, Colombia	Archbishop of Villavicencio, Colombia
19 Apr	58.1	Installed	Hervé Jean Robert Giraud	Archbishop of Sens (-Auxerre), France	Bishop of Viviers, France
58.1	Installed	Hervé Jean Robert Giraud	Prelate of Mission de France o Pontigny, France	Bishop of Viviers, France
82.5	Appointed	Daniel Camille Victor Marie Labille †	Apostolic Administrator of Soissons (-Laon-Saint-Quentin), France	Bishop Emeritus of Créteil, France
68.9	Installed	Francesco Montenegro	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Andrea e Gregorio al Monte Celio	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Agrigento, Italy
50.9	Ordained Bishop	Ernest Ngboko Ngombe, C.I.C.M.	Bishop of Lisala, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Archbishop of Mbandaka-Bikoro, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
20 Apr	54.4	Ordained Bishop	Mario Eduardo Dorsonville-Rodríguez †	Titular Bishop of Kearney	Bishop of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana, USA
21 Apr	62.0	Resigned	Robert William Finn	Bishop of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA	Bishop Emeritus
71.6	Resigned	José Trinidad González Rodríguez †	Auxiliary Bishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
65.8	Appointed	Joseph Fred Naumann	Apostolic Administrator of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA	Archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas, USA
22 Apr	51.4	Appointed	Benedito Araújo	Apostolic Administrator of Porto Velho, Rondonia, Brazil	Bishop of Guajará-Mirim, Rondonia, Brazil
56.2	Appointed	Eduardo Pinheiro da Silva, S.D.B.	Bishop of Jaboticabal, Sao Paulo, Brazil
23 Apr	51.4	Appointed	Brendan John Cahill	Bishop of Victoria in Texas, USA
61.5	Ordained Bishop	Francisco Eduardo Cervantes Merino	Bishop of Orizaba, Veracruz, México
75.6	Retired	David Eugene Fellhauer	Bishop of Victoria in Texas, USA	Bishop Emeritus
24 Apr	51.7	Appointed	Piergiorgio Bertoldi	Titular Archbishop of Hispellum	Apostolic Nuncio to Dominican Republic
51.7	Appointed	Piergiorgio Bertoldi	Apostolic Nuncio to Burkina Faso	Apostolic Nuncio to Dominican Republic
51.7	Appointed	Piergiorgio Bertoldi	Apostolic Nuncio to Niger	Apostolic Nuncio to Dominican Republic
76.0	Retired	Lawrence Eugene Brandt	Bishop of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA	Bishop Emeritus
61.5	Installed	Francisco Eduardo Cervantes Merino	Bishop of Orizaba, Veracruz, México
92.7	Died	Thomas Joseph Connolly †	Bishop Emeritus of Baker, Oregon, USA
47.4	Ordained Bishop	Luiz Gonçalves Knupp	Bishop of Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
57.8	Appointed	Josef Graf	Auxiliary Bishop of Regensburg, Germany
57.8	Appointed	Josef Graf	Titular Bishop of Inis Cathaig	Auxiliary Bishop of Regensburg, Germany
54.6	Appointed	Edward Charles Malesic	Bishop of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA	Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio, USA
61.9	Ceased	Vito Rallo	Apostolic Nuncio to Burkina Faso	Apostolic Nuncio
61.9	Ceased	Vito Rallo	Apostolic Nuncio to Niger	Apostolic Nuncio
75.8	Died	Raymond Olir Roussin, S. M. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
25 Apr	71.9	Ceased	Stephen Joseph Reichert, O.F.M. Cap.	Apostolic Administrator of Wewak, Papua New Guinea	Archbishop Emeritus of Madang, Papua New Guinea
47.7	Ordained Bishop	Andrés Napoleón Romero Cárdenas	Bishop of Barahona, Dominican Republic
52.6	Ordained Bishop	Józef Roszyński, S.V.D.	Bishop of Wewak, Papua New Guinea
26 Apr	59.8	Ordained Bishop	Alojzij Cvikl, S.J.	Archbishop of Maribor, Slovenia
71.7	Ceased	Stanislav Lipovšek	Apostolic Administrator of Maribor, Slovenia	Bishop Emeritus of Celje, Slovenia
27 Apr	53.0	Appointed	Gary Wayne Janak	Administrator of Victoria in Texas, USA	Auxiliary Bishop of San Antonio, Texas, USA
75.7	Retired	Michael Jarboe Sheehan †	Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
64.4	Appointed	John Charles Wester	Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
28 Apr	50.5	Appointed	Edward Elias Mapunda	Bishop of Singida, Tanzania
44.0	Selected	Joseph Zhang Yinlin	Coadjutor Bishop of Jixian [Weihwei], China	Bishop
29 Apr	96.5	Died	Giovanni Canestri †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Genova {Genoa}, Italy

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