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Living Bishop Events

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1934		José Ignacio Alemany Grau, C.Ss.R.	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Chachapoyas, Peru
1944		Jabulani Adatus Nxumalo, O.M.I.	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Bloemfontein, South Africa
		Braulio Rodríguez Plaza	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Toledo, Spain
		Carmelo Scampa	Born		Bishop Emeritus of São Luís de Montes Belos, Goias, Brazil
1945		Juan Navarro Castellanos	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Tuxpan, Veracruz, México
1949		Salvador Piñeiro García-Calderón	Born		Archbishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga, Peru
1950		Juan Manuel Mancilla Sánchez	Born		Bishop of Texcoco, México, México
1952		Calogero La Piana, S.D.B.	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela, Italy
1952		Melchisedec Sikuli Paluku	Born		Bishop of Butembo-Beni, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
1956		Ramón Castro Castro	Born		Bishop of Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
1957	25.8	José Carlos de Oliveira, C.Ss.R.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer	Bishop Emeritus of Rubiataba-Mozarlândia, Goias, Brazil
1958		Paul Connell	Born		Bishop of Ardagh (and Clonmacnois), Ireland
1959		Rafic Nahra	Born		Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine
1963		Ovidio Giraldo Velásquez	Born		Bishop of Barrancabermeja, Colombia
1967		Michael (Micae) Phạm Minh Cường	Born		Auxiliary Bishop of San Diego, California, USA
1968	26.4	José Moreira de Melo	Ordained Priest	Priest of Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Itapeva, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1971	25.3	Jebalamai Susaimanickam	Ordained Priest	Priest of Madurai, India	Bishop Emeritus of Sivagangai, India
1973	23.4	Noel Antonio Londoño Buitrago, C.Ss.R.	Perpetual Vows	Member of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer	Bishop of Jericó, Colombia
1984	47.2	Luis Alfonso Santos Villeda, S.D.B.	Appointed	Bishop of Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras	Bishop Emeritus
1985	28.0	José Luiz Ferreira Salles, C.Ss.R.	Professed	Member of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer	Bishop of Pesqueira, Pernambuco, Brazil
	25.7	Darci José Nicioli, C.Ss.R.	Perpetual Vows	Member of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer	Archbishop of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	44.7	Adrian Thomas Smith, S.M.	Installed	Archbishop of Honiara, Solomon Islands	Archbishop Emeritus
1990	22.7	Juarez Albino Destro, R.C.J.	Professed	Member of Rogationists of the Heart of Jesus	Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
	25.5	Mark William O’Connell	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Boston, Massachusetts, USA	Auxiliary Bishop
	24.7	Pierbattista Pizzaballa, O.F.M.	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Order of Friars Minor	Cardinal, Patriarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine
1991	46.9	Kevin Patrick Dowling, C.Ss.R.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Rustenburg, South Africa	Bishop Emeritus
1994	56.6	William Keith Weigand	Installed	Bishop of Sacramento, California, USA	Bishop Emeritus
1995	44.1	Otto Georgens	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Speyer, Germany
1995	44.1	Otto Georgens	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Gubaliana	Auxiliary Bishop of Speyer, Germany
1996	50.9	Dionisio Guillermo García Ibáñez	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Santisimo Salvador de Bayamo y Manzanillo, Cuba	Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba
1996	32.7	Teodoro Gómez Rivera	Ordained Priest	Priest of Choluteca, Honduras	Bishop
1997	39.3	Milan Chautur, C.Ss.R.	Appointed	Apostolic Exarch of Košice (Slovak), Slovakia	Bishop Emeritus of Košice (Slovak), Slovakia
1998	56.3	Manuel Pelino Domingues	Appointed	Bishop of Santarém, Portugal	Bishop Emeritus
2000	53.8	Richard Joseph Malone	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Boston, Massachusetts, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Buffalo, New York, USA
2000	53.8	Richard Joseph Malone	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Aptuca	Bishop Emeritus of Buffalo, New York, USA
2001	50.0	Héctor Javier Pizarro Acevedo, O.A.R.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Ceramus	Vicar Apostolic of Trinidad, Colombia
2001	48.2	Józef Wróbel, S.C.I.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Helsinki, Finland	Auxiliary Bishop of Lublin, Poland
2002	54.9	Paul Mandla Khumalo, C.M.M.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Witbank, South Africa	Archbishop Emeritus of Pretoria, South Africa
2003	52.0	Pascal Marie Roland	Appointed	Bishop of Moulins, France	Bishop of Belley-Ars, France
2004	59.7	Renzo Fratini	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Nigeria	Apostolic Nuncio
2004	50.6	Vito Rallo	Appointed	Permanent Observer to Council of Europe	Apostolic Nuncio
2006	61.2	Francisco Cases Andreu	Installed	Bishop of Islas Canarias {Canary Islands}, Spain	Bishop Emeritus
2007	61.8	José Alejandro Castaño Arbeláez, O.A.R.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Castellum Tatroportus	Bishop Emeritus of Cartago, Colombia
	46.9	Elie Bechara Haddad, B.S.	Confirmed	Archbishop of Saïdā (Sidone) (Melkite Greek), Lebanon
	56.2	Wilfredo Pino Estévez	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Guantánamo-Baracoa, Cuba	Archbishop of Camagüey, Cuba
2008	61.6	Brendan Kelly	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Achonry, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus of Galway and Kilmacduagh, Ireland
	73.0	Giovanni Lajolo	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria Liberatrice a Monte Testaccio	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Governatorate of Vatican City State
	66.8	Vittorio Lupi	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Savona-Noli, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
2012	50.4	Santo Rocco Gangemi	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Solomon Islands	Apostolic Nuncio to Serbia
	50.4	Santo Rocco Gangemi	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Umbriatico	Apostolic Nuncio to Serbia
	50.4	Julio Murat	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Zambia	Apostolic Nuncio to Sweden
	50.4	Julio Murat	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Orange	Apostolic Nuncio to Sweden
	48.5	Luciano Russo	Appointed	Official of the Secretariat of State	Secretary (Pontifical Representations)
	48.5	Luciano Russo	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Monteverde	Secretary (Pontifical Representations) of the Secretariat of State
	44.6	Sebastian Tudu	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Dinajpur, Bangladesh
2013	61.1	William Crean	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland
2014	74.1	Elias Chacour	Resigned	Archbishop of Akka [San Giovanni d’Acri; Tolemaide] (Melkite Greek), Israel	Archbishop Emeritus
	59.9	Moussa El-Hage, O.A.M.	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Akka [San Giovanni d’Acri; Tolemaide] (Melkite Greek), Israel	Archbishop of Haifa and the Holy Land {Haifa e Terra Santa} (Maronite), Israel
	54.0	Michael James Sis	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of San Angelo, Texas, USA
2016	50.6	Adilson Pedro Busin, C.S.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	Bishop of Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil
2016	50.6	Adilson Pedro Busin, C.S.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Guardialfiera	Bishop of Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil
2018	56.4	Leonardo D’Ascenzo	Installed	Archbishop of Trani-Barletta-Bisceglie (-Nazareth), Italy
2020	48.7	Paul Dempsey	Appointed	Bishop of Achonry, Ireland	Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin, Ireland
2021	69.2	Peter Abir Antonysamy	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Pondicherry and Cuddalore, India	Bishop of Sultanpet, India
2024	69.5	Joaquim Carlos Carvalho, O.S.B.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Jataí, Goias, Brazil
	60.2	Geraldo de Souza Rodrigues	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Januária, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	64.7	Peter Rumal Kharadi	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Jhabua, India
	75.8	Method Paul Kilaini	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Bukoba, Tanzania	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	75.8	Method Paul Kilaini	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Bukoba, Tanzania	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	49.1	Jonáš (Jozef) Maxim, M.S.U.	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Prešov (Prjašev) (Slovak), Slovakia
	57.1	Jovitus Francis Mwijage	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Bukoba, Tanzania
	62.0	Florencio Roselló Avellanas, O. de M.	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Pamplona y Tudela, Spain
	73.3	Peter Rusnák	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Prešov (Prjašev) (Slovak), Slovakia	Bishop of Bratislava (Slovak), Slovakia
	48.7	Antônio Ederaldo de Santana	Installed	Bishop of Irecê, Bahia, Brazil

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