The Year of Our Lord 2019

Bishop Events

April

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

2 Apr 72.6 Ceased Joseph Edward Kurtz Apostolic Administrator of Memphis, Tennessee, USA Archbishop Emeritus of Louisville, Kentucky, USA

50.1 Ordained Bishop Marvyn Abrea Maceda Bishop of San Jose de Antique, Philippines

55.6 Appointed Joel Ocampo Gorostieta Bishop of Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero, México

68.5 Installed David Prescott Talley Bishop of Memphis, Tennessee, USA

3 Apr 69.3 Appointed Gregory Michael Aymond Apostolic Administrator of Alexandria, Louisiana, USA Archbishop of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

51.6 Appointed Giovanni Cefai, M.S.S.P. Prelate of Santiago Apóstol de Huancané, Peru

53.1 Installed Oscar Jaime Llaneta Florencio Bishop of Philippines, Military

60.0 Appointed Pascal N’Koué Apostolic Administrator of Djougou, Benin Archbishop of Parakou, Benin

86.4 Died Gabriel Jules Joseph Piroird, Ist. del Prado † Bishop Emeritus of Constantine (-Hippone), Algeria

4 Apr 73.4 Removed Anthony Sablan Apuron, O.F.M. Cap. Archbishop of Agaña, Guam, Pacific (Oceania) Archbishop Emeritus

60.6 Succeeded Michael Jude Byrnes Archbishop of Agaña, Guam, Pacific (Oceania) Archbishop Emeritus

68.4 Installed Florencio Armando Colín Cruz Bishop of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, México

71.3 Appointed Wilton Daniel Gregory Cardinal, Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia, USA

61.1 Installed Hency Martínez Vargas Bishop of La Dorada-Guaduas, Colombia

5 Apr 60.9 Appointed Alfredo José Espinoza Mateus, S.D.B. Archbishop of Quito, Ecuador

78.0 Retired Fausto Gabriel Trávez Trávez, O.F.M. Archbishop of Quito, Ecuador Archbishop Emeritus

6 Apr 51.4 Installed Carlos José de Oliveira Bishop of Apucarana, Parana, Brazil

89.5 Died George Edward Rueger † Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

60.9 Ordained Bishop Joseba Segura Etxezarraga Titular Bishop of Basti Bishop of Bilbao, Spain

48.8 Ordained Bishop Wojciech Skibicki Titular Bishop of Casae Nigrae Auxiliary Bishop of Elbląg, Poland

8 Apr 79.4 Retired John Buckley Bishop of Cork and Ross, Ireland Bishop Emeritus

53.2 Appointed Fintan Gavin Bishop of Cork and Ross, Ireland

9 Apr 50.1 Installed Marvyn Abrea Maceda Bishop of San Jose de Antique, Philippines

85.9 Died Héctor Manuel Rivera Pérez † Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of San Juan de Puerto Rico

53.3 Selected Anthony Yao Shun Bishop of Jining [Tsining], China

10 Apr 51.9 Appointed Darley José Kummer Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

51.9 Appointed Darley José Kummer Titular Bishop of Elvas Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

63.4 Appointed Joseph Son Sam-seok Bishop of Busan {Pusan}, Korea (South)

11 Apr 44.2 Selected Stephen Xu Hongwei Coadjutor Bishop of Hanzhong [Hanchung], China

12 Apr 76.9 Died Ronald Paul Herzog † Bishop Emeritus of Alexandria, Louisiana, USA

13 Apr 86.4 Died Rodolfo Francisco Bobadilla Mata, C.M. † Bishop Emeritus of Huehuetenango, Guatemala

64.2 Appointed Brian Joseph Dunn Coadjutor Archbishop of Halifax-Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada Archbishop

65.4 Appointed Guillermo Teodoro Elías Millares Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru

65.4 Appointed Guillermo Teodoro Elías Millares Titular Bishop of Turres in Numidia Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru

56.8 Appointed Ricardo Augusto Rodríguez Álvarez Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru

56.8 Appointed Ricardo Augusto Rodríguez Álvarez Titular Bishop of Aeliae Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru

79.4 Retired Adriano Tomasi Travaglia, O.F.M. Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

15 Apr 79.2 Ceased Philip Boyce, O.C.D. Apostolic Administrator of Dromore, Ireland Bishop Emeritus of Raphoe, Ireland

57.4 Appointed Eamon Martin Apostolic Administrator of Dromore, Ireland Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland

16 Apr 56.7 Appointed Serverus Jjumba Bishop of Masaka, Uganda

76.0 Retired John Baptist Kaggwa † Bishop of Masaka, Uganda Bishop Emeritus

55.9 Appointed Pascual Limachi Ortiz Auxiliary Bishop of El Alto, Bolivia Prelate of Corocoro, Bolivia

55.9 Appointed Pascual Limachi Ortiz Titular Bishop of Belesasa Prelate of Corocoro, Bolivia

96.4 Died Abraham D. Mattam, C.V. † Bishop Emeritus of Satna (Syro-Malabar), India

66.8 Resigned Giuseppe Pinto Apostolic Nuncio to Croatia Apostolic Nuncio

50.2 Appointed Gerhard Schneider Auxiliary Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany

50.2 Appointed Gerhard Schneider Titular Bishop of Abbir Germaniciana Auxiliary Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany

17 Apr 68.6 Appointed Thomas D’Souza Apostolic Administrator of Krishnagar, India Archbishop of Calcutta, India

58.2 Appointed Alain Jean Louis Guellec Auxiliary Bishop of Montpellier (-Lodève-Béziers-Agde-Saint-Pons-de-Thomières), France Bishop of Montauban, France

58.2 Appointed Alain Jean Louis Guellec Titular Bishop of Senez Bishop of Montauban, France

57.7 Installed Mauro Parmeggiani Bishop of Palestrina, Italy Bishop of Tivoli, Italy

75.1 Retired Joseph Suren Gomes, S.D.B. † Bishop of Krishnagar, India Bishop Emeritus

22 Apr 54.3 Ordained Bishop Ivan Ćurić Titular Bishop of Tela Auxiliary Bishop of Ðakovo-Osijek, Croatia

53.3 Appointed Carlos María Domínguez, O.A.R. Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de Cuyo, Argentina Bishop of San Rafael, Argentina

53.3 Appointed Carlos María Domínguez, O.A.R. Titular Bishop of Vita Bishop of San Rafael, Argentina

65.2 Died Simon Kaipuram, C.M. † Bishop of Balasore, India

23 Apr 78.1 Retired Théophile Kaboy Ruboneka Bishop of Goma, Congo (Dem. Rep.) Bishop Emeritus

54.1 Appointed Willy Ngumbi Ngengele, M. Afr. Bishop of Goma, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

24 Apr 74.9 Died Francisco Lerma Martínez, I.M.C. † Bishop of Gurué, Mozambique

25 Apr 54.8 Ordained Bishop Francis Obafemi Adesina Bishop of Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria

55.6 Appointed Donald Joseph Hying Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin, USA

75.9 Retired Nicholas Mang Thang Archbishop of Mandalay, Myanmar Archbishop Emeritus

59.0 Appointed Marco Tin Win Archbishop of Mandalay, Myanmar

26 Apr 75.2 Retired Uriah Adolphus Ashley Maclean † Auxiliary Bishop of Panamá Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

76.8 Retired Pablo Varela Server † Auxiliary Bishop of Panamá Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

47.9 Appointed Christian Würtz Auxiliary Bishop of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

47.9 Appointed Christian Würtz Titular Bishop of Germania in Dacia Auxiliary Bishop of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

27 Apr 95.7 Beatified Bl. Enrique Ángel Angelelli Carletti † Bishop of La Rioja, Argentina

52.3 Appointed Ettore Balestrero Apostolic Nuncio to Congo, Democratic Republic of Permanent Observer to United Nations Office and Specialized Agencies in Geneva

50.1 Ordained Bishop Evaldo Carvalho dos Santos, C.M. Bishop of Viana, Maranhão, Brazil

63.9 Resigned Dominic Ryōji Miyahara Bishop of Fukuoka, Japan Bishop Emeritus

56.2 Installed Walter Jorge Pinto Bishop of União da Vitória, Parana, Brazil

57.6 Appointed Stefano Russo Apostolic Administrator of Fabriano-Matelica, Italy Bishop of Velletri-Segni, Italy

57.6 Resigned Stefano Russo Bishop of Fabriano-Matelica, Italy Bishop of Velletri-Segni, Italy

28 Apr 55.1 Installed Emílio Sumbelelo Bishop of Viana, Angola

29 Apr 82.2 Died Albert-Marie Joseph Cyrille de Monléon, O.P. † Bishop Emeritus of Meaux, France

59.8 Appointed Paul Dennis Etienne Coadjutor Archbishop of Seattle, Washington, USA Archbishop

30 Apr 75.6 Retired Valentino Di Cerbo Bishop of Alife-Caiazzo, Italy Bishop Emeritus

59.6 Appointed Dabula Anthony Mpako Bishop of South Africa, Military Archbishop of Pretoria, South Africa

59.6 Appointed Dabula Anthony Mpako Archbishop of Pretoria, South Africa

65.5 Appointed Orazio Francesco Piazza Apostolic Administrator of Alife-Caiazzo, Italy Bishop of Viterbo, Italy

75.6 Retired William Matthew Slattery, O.F.M. Archbishop of Pretoria, South Africa Archbishop Emeritus

75.6 Retired William Matthew Slattery, O.F.M. Bishop of South Africa, Military Archbishop Emeritus of Pretoria, South Africa

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
2 Apr	72.6	Ceased	Joseph Edward Kurtz	Apostolic Administrator of Memphis, Tennessee, USA	Archbishop Emeritus of Louisville, Kentucky, USA
50.1	Ordained Bishop	Marvyn Abrea Maceda	Bishop of San Jose de Antique, Philippines
55.6	Appointed	Joel Ocampo Gorostieta	Bishop of Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero, México
68.5	Installed	David Prescott Talley	Bishop of Memphis, Tennessee, USA
3 Apr	69.3	Appointed	Gregory Michael Aymond	Apostolic Administrator of Alexandria, Louisiana, USA	Archbishop of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
51.6	Appointed	Giovanni Cefai, M.S.S.P.	Prelate of Santiago Apóstol de Huancané, Peru
53.1	Installed	Oscar Jaime Llaneta Florencio	Bishop of Philippines, Military
60.0	Appointed	Pascal N’Koué	Apostolic Administrator of Djougou, Benin	Archbishop of Parakou, Benin
86.4	Died	Gabriel Jules Joseph Piroird, Ist. del Prado †	Bishop Emeritus of Constantine (-Hippone), Algeria
4 Apr	73.4	Removed	Anthony Sablan Apuron, O.F.M. Cap.	Archbishop of Agaña, Guam, Pacific (Oceania)	Archbishop Emeritus
60.6	Succeeded	Michael Jude Byrnes	Archbishop of Agaña, Guam, Pacific (Oceania)	Archbishop Emeritus
68.4	Installed	Florencio Armando Colín Cruz	Bishop of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, México
71.3	Appointed	Wilton Daniel Gregory	Cardinal, Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia, USA
61.1	Installed	Hency Martínez Vargas	Bishop of La Dorada-Guaduas, Colombia
5 Apr	60.9	Appointed	Alfredo José Espinoza Mateus, S.D.B.	Archbishop of Quito, Ecuador
78.0	Retired	Fausto Gabriel Trávez Trávez, O.F.M.	Archbishop of Quito, Ecuador	Archbishop Emeritus
6 Apr	51.4	Installed	Carlos José de Oliveira	Bishop of Apucarana, Parana, Brazil
89.5	Died	George Edward Rueger †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
60.9	Ordained Bishop	Joseba Segura Etxezarraga	Titular Bishop of Basti	Bishop of Bilbao, Spain
48.8	Ordained Bishop	Wojciech Skibicki	Titular Bishop of Casae Nigrae	Auxiliary Bishop of Elbląg, Poland
8 Apr	79.4	Retired	John Buckley	Bishop of Cork and Ross, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
53.2	Appointed	Fintan Gavin	Bishop of Cork and Ross, Ireland
9 Apr	50.1	Installed	Marvyn Abrea Maceda	Bishop of San Jose de Antique, Philippines
85.9	Died	Héctor Manuel Rivera Pérez †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of San Juan de Puerto Rico
53.3	Selected	Anthony Yao Shun	Bishop of Jining [Tsining], China
10 Apr	51.9	Appointed	Darley José Kummer	Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
51.9	Appointed	Darley José Kummer	Titular Bishop of Elvas	Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
63.4	Appointed	Joseph Son Sam-seok	Bishop of Busan {Pusan}, Korea (South)
11 Apr	44.2	Selected	Stephen Xu Hongwei	Coadjutor Bishop of Hanzhong [Hanchung], China
12 Apr	76.9	Died	Ronald Paul Herzog †	Bishop Emeritus of Alexandria, Louisiana, USA
13 Apr	86.4	Died	Rodolfo Francisco Bobadilla Mata, C.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Huehuetenango, Guatemala
64.2	Appointed	Brian Joseph Dunn	Coadjutor Archbishop of Halifax-Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada	Archbishop
65.4	Appointed	Guillermo Teodoro Elías Millares	Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru
65.4	Appointed	Guillermo Teodoro Elías Millares	Titular Bishop of Turres in Numidia	Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru
56.8	Appointed	Ricardo Augusto Rodríguez Álvarez	Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru
56.8	Appointed	Ricardo Augusto Rodríguez Álvarez	Titular Bishop of Aeliae	Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru
79.4	Retired	Adriano Tomasi Travaglia, O.F.M.	Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
15 Apr	79.2	Ceased	Philip Boyce, O.C.D.	Apostolic Administrator of Dromore, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus of Raphoe, Ireland
57.4	Appointed	Eamon Martin	Apostolic Administrator of Dromore, Ireland	Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland
16 Apr	56.7	Appointed	Serverus Jjumba	Bishop of Masaka, Uganda
76.0	Retired	John Baptist Kaggwa †	Bishop of Masaka, Uganda	Bishop Emeritus
55.9	Appointed	Pascual Limachi Ortiz	Auxiliary Bishop of El Alto, Bolivia	Prelate of Corocoro, Bolivia
55.9	Appointed	Pascual Limachi Ortiz	Titular Bishop of Belesasa	Prelate of Corocoro, Bolivia
96.4	Died	Abraham D. Mattam, C.V. †	Bishop Emeritus of Satna (Syro-Malabar), India
66.8	Resigned	Giuseppe Pinto	Apostolic Nuncio to Croatia	Apostolic Nuncio
50.2	Appointed	Gerhard Schneider	Auxiliary Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany
50.2	Appointed	Gerhard Schneider	Titular Bishop of Abbir Germaniciana	Auxiliary Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany
17 Apr	68.6	Appointed	Thomas D’Souza	Apostolic Administrator of Krishnagar, India	Archbishop of Calcutta, India
58.2	Appointed	Alain Jean Louis Guellec	Auxiliary Bishop of Montpellier (-Lodève-Béziers-Agde-Saint-Pons-de-Thomières), France	Bishop of Montauban, France
58.2	Appointed	Alain Jean Louis Guellec	Titular Bishop of Senez	Bishop of Montauban, France
57.7	Installed	Mauro Parmeggiani	Bishop of Palestrina, Italy	Bishop of Tivoli, Italy
75.1	Retired	Joseph Suren Gomes, S.D.B. †	Bishop of Krishnagar, India	Bishop Emeritus
22 Apr	54.3	Ordained Bishop	Ivan Ćurić	Titular Bishop of Tela	Auxiliary Bishop of Ðakovo-Osijek, Croatia
53.3	Appointed	Carlos María Domínguez, O.A.R.	Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de Cuyo, Argentina	Bishop of San Rafael, Argentina
53.3	Appointed	Carlos María Domínguez, O.A.R.	Titular Bishop of Vita	Bishop of San Rafael, Argentina
65.2	Died	Simon Kaipuram, C.M. †	Bishop of Balasore, India
23 Apr	78.1	Retired	Théophile Kaboy Ruboneka	Bishop of Goma, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop Emeritus
54.1	Appointed	Willy Ngumbi Ngengele, M. Afr.	Bishop of Goma, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
24 Apr	74.9	Died	Francisco Lerma Martínez, I.M.C. †	Bishop of Gurué, Mozambique
25 Apr	54.8	Ordained Bishop	Francis Obafemi Adesina	Bishop of Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria
55.6	Appointed	Donald Joseph Hying	Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin, USA
75.9	Retired	Nicholas Mang Thang	Archbishop of Mandalay, Myanmar	Archbishop Emeritus
59.0	Appointed	Marco Tin Win	Archbishop of Mandalay, Myanmar
26 Apr	75.2	Retired	Uriah Adolphus Ashley Maclean †	Auxiliary Bishop of Panamá	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
76.8	Retired	Pablo Varela Server †	Auxiliary Bishop of Panamá	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
47.9	Appointed	Christian Würtz	Auxiliary Bishop of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
47.9	Appointed	Christian Würtz	Titular Bishop of Germania in Dacia	Auxiliary Bishop of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
27 Apr	95.7	Beatified	Bl. Enrique Ángel Angelelli Carletti †	Bishop of La Rioja, Argentina
52.3	Appointed	Ettore Balestrero	Apostolic Nuncio to Congo, Democratic Republic of	Permanent Observer to United Nations Office and Specialized Agencies in Geneva
50.1	Ordained Bishop	Evaldo Carvalho dos Santos, C.M.	Bishop of Viana, Maranhão, Brazil
63.9	Resigned	Dominic Ryōji Miyahara	Bishop of Fukuoka, Japan	Bishop Emeritus
56.2	Installed	Walter Jorge Pinto	Bishop of União da Vitória, Parana, Brazil
57.6	Appointed	Stefano Russo	Apostolic Administrator of Fabriano-Matelica, Italy	Bishop of Velletri-Segni, Italy
57.6	Resigned	Stefano Russo	Bishop of Fabriano-Matelica, Italy	Bishop of Velletri-Segni, Italy
28 Apr	55.1	Installed	Emílio Sumbelelo	Bishop of Viana, Angola
29 Apr	82.2	Died	Albert-Marie Joseph Cyrille de Monléon, O.P. †	Bishop Emeritus of Meaux, France
59.8	Appointed	Paul Dennis Etienne	Coadjutor Archbishop of Seattle, Washington, USA	Archbishop
30 Apr	75.6	Retired	Valentino Di Cerbo	Bishop of Alife-Caiazzo, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
59.6	Appointed	Dabula Anthony Mpako	Bishop of South Africa, Military	Archbishop of Pretoria, South Africa
59.6	Appointed	Dabula Anthony Mpako	Archbishop of Pretoria, South Africa
65.5	Appointed	Orazio Francesco Piazza	Apostolic Administrator of Alife-Caiazzo, Italy	Bishop of Viterbo, Italy
75.6	Retired	William Matthew Slattery, O.F.M.	Archbishop of Pretoria, South Africa	Archbishop Emeritus
75.6	Retired	William Matthew Slattery, O.F.M.	Bishop of South Africa, Military	Archbishop Emeritus of Pretoria, South Africa

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