The Year of Our Lord 2026

Bishop Events

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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
The future events listed below have been publicly announced, but are subject to change.
unknown	55.9	Ordained Bishop	Peter Dai Bui	Titular Bishop of Ausafa	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Jan	49.9	Ordained Bishop	Jacob Aba, S.M.	Bishop of Auki, Solomon Islands	Bishop-Elect
3 Jan	64.2	Ordained Bishop	Stephen Eustace Victor Fernandes	Titular Bishop of Abbir Maius	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Bombay, India
3 Jan	56.8	Ordained Bishop	Jean-Pierre Tanoh Tiémélé	Bishop of Abengourou, Côte d’Ivoire	Bishop-Elect
10 Jan	50.5	Ordained Bishop	Jesús Alberto Torres Ariza	Bishop of San José del Guaviare, Colombia	Bishop-Elect
14 Jan	74.9	Ceased	Rogelio Cabrera López	Apostolic Administrator of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, México	Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
14 Jan	63.4	Ordained Bishop	Luis Carlos Lerma Martínez	Bishop of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, México	Bishop-Elect
16 Jan	65.1	Ordained Bishop	Simon Almeida	Bishop of Poona, India	Bishop-Elect
17 Jan	56.1	Ordained Bishop	Samuel Naceno Agcaracar, S.V.D.	Bishop of San Jose, Philippines	Bishop-Elect
	62.1	Installed	Benedito Araújo	Bishop of Campo Maior, Piaui, Brazil
	53.5	Ordained Bishop	Rabindra Kumar Ranasingh	Titular Bishop of Thuburbo Maius	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, India
	50.6	Installed	Jesús Alberto Torres Ariza	Bishop of San José del Guaviare, Colombia	Bishop-Elect
21 Jan	61.0	Ordained Bishop	Edward Baretto	Coadjutor Bishop of Darjeeling, India	Coadjutor Bishop-Elect
24 Jan	64.5	Ordained Bishop	José Camilo Arbeláez Montoya	Bishop of Vélez, Colombia	Bishop-Elect
	62.9	Ordained Bishop	Josef Grünwidl	Archbishop of Wien {Vienna}, Austria	Archbishop-Elect
	58.2	Ordained Bishop	Márcio Antonio Vidal de Negreiros, O.S.A.	Titular Bishop of Catula	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of São Paulo, Brazil
26 Jan	63.0	Ceased	Murray Chatlain	Apostolic Administrator of Keewatin-Le Pas, Manitoba, Canada	Archbishop of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
26 Jan	54.6	Ordained Bishop	Susai Jesu, O.M.I.	Archbishop of Keewatin-Le Pas, Manitoba, Canada	Archbishop-Elect
28 Jan	56.3	Installed	Mario Alberto Avilés Campos, C.O.	Bishop of Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
29 Jan	64.6	Installed	José Camilo Arbeláez Montoya	Bishop of Vélez, Colombia	Bishop-Elect
31 Jan	45.0	Ordained Bishop	Marko Kovač	Titular Bishop of Sarda	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Zagreb, Croatia
31 Jan	65.1	Ordained Bishop	Vlado Razum	Titular Bishop of Stagnum	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Zagreb, Croatia
Feb	48.6	Ordained Bishop	Martin Marahrens	Titular Bishop of Cercina	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Hildesheim, Germany
1 Feb	56.4	Ordained Bishop	Celso Alexandre	Titular Bishop of Capsa	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of São Paulo, Brazil
2 Feb	65.2	Ordained Bishop	Gerard Bradley	Titular Bishop of Beverlacum	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Southwark, England, Great Britain
2 Feb	53.1	Ordained Bishop	Antônio Carlos do Nascimento	Titular Bishop of Cibaliana	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil
6 Feb	56.1	Ordained Bishop	Jânison de Sá Santos	Titular Bishop of Cillium	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil
6 Feb	58.5	Installed	Ronald Aldon Hicks	Archbishop of New York, New York, USA
7 Feb	51.7	Ordained Bishop	Evandro Campos Maria	Titular Bishop of Cilibia	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
11 Feb	54.8	Ordained Bishop	Yohanes Hans Monteiro	Bishop of Larantuka, Indonesia	Bishop-Elect
14 Feb	67.5	Installed	Charles Phillip Richard Moth	Archbishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain
14 Feb	60.6	Ordained Bishop	Miro Relota, O.F.M.	Bishop of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Military	Bishop-Elect
15 Feb	48.3	Ordained Bishop	François Halyday Mbouangui	Coadjutor Bishop of Nkayi, Congo	Coadjutor Bishop-Elect
20 Feb	55.6	Ordained Bishop	James Albert Misko	Bishop of Tucson, Arizona, USA	Bishop-Elect
21 Feb	50.4	Ordained Bishop	Eliéser Antonio Rivero Barrios	Bishop of San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela	Bishop-Elect
24 Feb	59.7	Ordained Bishop	John Mario Mesa Palacio	Vicar Apostolic of Leticia, Colombia
27 Feb	54.1	Installed	Salvador González Morales	Bishop of Cancún-Chetumal, Quintana Roo, México
4 Mar	59.7	Installed	John Mario Mesa Palacio	Vicar Apostolic of Leticia, Colombia
15 Mar	48.8	Ordained Bishop	Joshy George Pottackal, O. Carm.	Titular Bishop of Ceramussa	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Mainz, Germany

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