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Living Bishop Events

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1944		Flavio Calle Zapata	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Ibagué, Colombia
1952		Daniel Kozelinski Netto	Born		Bishop of Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires (Ukrainian), Argentina
1953		Gonzalo Espina Peruyero	Born		Priest of Oviedo, Spain
1956		João Evangelista Pimentel Lavrador	Born		Bishop of Viana do Castelo, Portugal
1957		Luis Gonzaga Silva Pepeu, O.F.M. Cap.	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, Brazil
1960		Jonas Ivanauskas	Born		Bishop of Kaišiadorys, Lithuania
1962	23.2	Patrick Altham Kelly	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lancaster, England, Great Britain	Archbishop Emeritus of Liverpool, England, Great Britain
1964		Michael Gobal Gokum	Born		Bishop of Pankshin, Nigeria
1967	24.8	Ricardo Blázquez Pérez	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ávila, Spain	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Valladolid, Spain
		Jon Paul Christian Hansen, C.Ss.R.	Born		Bishop of Mackenzie-Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada
		Eduardo Gonzalo Redondo Castanera, H.S.O.D.	Born		Auxiliary Bishop of Quilmes, Argentina
1968		Emmanuel Marie Anne Alain Gobilliard	Born		Bishop of Digne (-Riez-Sisteron), France
1969		Juan Domingo-Beka Esono Ayang, C.M.F.	Born		Bishop of Mongomo, Equatorial Guinea
1978	24.6	Peter Malcolm Brignall	Ordained Priest	Priest of Menevia, Wales, Great Britain	Bishop of Wrexham, Wales, Great Britain
1978	42.3	Hugo Eugenio Puccini Banfi	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Oppidum Consilinum	Bishop Emeritus of Santa Marta, Colombia
1979	40.2	Theodor Kettmann	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Busiris	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Osnabrück, Germany
1979	30.1	Menghesteab Tesfamariam, M.C.C.I.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus	Archbishop of Asmara (Eritrean), Eritrea
1987	26.9	Anthony Colin Joseph Fisher, O.P.	Perpetual Vows	Member of Order of Friars Preachers	Archbishop of Sydney, Australia
	44.9	Braulio Sáez Garcia, O.C.D.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Oruro, Bolivia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
	44.9	Braulio Sáez Garcia, O.C.D.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tacapae	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
1988	49.3	John Kirby	Appointed	Bishop of Clonfert, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
1989	48.9	Vartán Waldir Boghossian, S.D.B.	Appointed	Bishop of San Gregorio de Narek en Buenos Aires (Armenian), Argentina	Bishop Emeritus
	26.0	Ovidio Giraldo Velásquez	Ordained Priest	Priest of La Dorada-Guaduas, Colombia	Bishop of Barrancabermeja, Colombia
	27.7	Joseph Ndembu Mbatia	Ordained Priest	Priest of Nyeri, Kenya	Bishop of Nyahururu, Kenya
	50.4	George Valiamattam	Appointed	Bishop of Tellicherry (Syro-Malabar), India	Archbishop Emeritus of Tellicherry (Syro-Malabar), India
1994	49.6	Julio César Vidal Ortiz	Ordained Bishop	Prelate of Alto Sinú, Colombia	Bishop Emeritus of Cúcuta, Colombia
1995	28.6	Richard Ng	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kuching, Malaysia	Bishop of Miri, Malaysia
1996	46.3	Pedro José Conti	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Macapá, Amapa, Brazil
1996	49.3	Atilano Vicente Rodríguez Martínez	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Horaea	Bishop Emeritus of Sigüenza-Guadalajara, Spain
1997	47.4	David Allen Zubik	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA	Bishop Emeritus
1997	47.4	David Allen Zubik	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Jamestown	Bishop Emeritus of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1998	49.2	Sérgio Arthur Braschi	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brazil
	49.2	Sérgio Arthur Braschi	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tipasa in Numidia	Bishop Emeritus of Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brazil
	62.9	Xavier Gilles de Maupeou d’Ableiges	Appointed	Bishop of Viana, Maranhão, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	50.6	Jacinto Furtado de Brito Sobrinho	Appointed	Bishop of Crateús, Ceara, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus of Teresina, Piaui, Brazil
	25.7	George George Panamthundil	Ordained Priest	Priest of Trivandrum (Syro-Malankara), India	Apostolic Nuncio to Kazakhstan
1999	52.0	Thomas Christopher Collins	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
	53.2	Anthony Mancini	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Montréal, Québec, Canada	Archbishop Emeritus of Halifax-Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
	53.2	Anthony Mancini	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Natchitoches	Archbishop Emeritus of Halifax-Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
2000	25.1	Reginei José Modolo	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Cascavel, Parana, Brazil	Auxiliary Bishop of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
2001	42.1	Samuel Kleda	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Batouri, Cameroon	Archbishop of Douala, Cameroon
	46.4	Benoît Marie Pascal Rivière	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Aquae Albae in Mauretania	Bishop of Autun (-Châlon-sur-Saône-Mâcon-Cluny), France
	46.6	Désiré Tsarahazana	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Fenoarivo Atsinanana, Madagascar	Cardinal, Archbishop of Toamasina, Madagascar
2002	22.9	Oleksandr Yazlovetskiy	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Ukraine	Auxiliary Bishop of Kyiv-Zhytomyr, Ukraine
2003	46.6	Isabelo Caiban Abarquez	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Talaptula	Bishop of Calbayog, Philippines
2003	53.0	Stephanus Tri Bữu Thiên	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Cần Thơ, Viet Nam	Bishop Emeritus
2004	65.8	Carlo Ellena	Appointed	Bishop of Zé-Doca, Maranhão, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
2006	35.7	Justin Georges Ebengue	Ordained Priest	Priest of Batouri, Cameroon	Bishop of Yokadouma, Cameroon
	62.4	Juan Godayol Colom, S.D.B.	Resigned	Prelate of Ayaviri, Peru	Prelate Emeritus
	42.7	Oscar Domingo Sarlinga	Installed	Bishop of Zárate-Campana, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus
	41.5	Kay Martin Schmalhausen Panizo	Appointed	Prelate of Ayaviri, Peru	Prelate Emeritus
2008	50.4	Milan Chautur, C.Ss.R.	Installed	Bishop of Košice (Slovak), Slovakia	Bishop Emeritus
2009	54.6	Matthias Heinrich	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Berlin, Germany
	54.6	Matthias Heinrich	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Thibaris	Auxiliary Bishop of Berlin, Germany
	49.4	Giuseppe (José) Negri, P.I.M.E.	Appointed	Bishop of Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil	Bishop of Santo Amaro, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	38.4	Anselm van der Linde, O. Cist.	Confirmed	Abbot of Wettingen-Mehrerau, Austria	Abbot Emeritus
2010	52.6	José Araneta Cabantan	Appointed	Bishop of Malaybalay, Philippines	Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro, Philippines
	76.5	José Dimas Cedeño Delgado	Retired	Archbishop of Panamá	Archbishop Emeritus
	60.0	Demetrio Fernández González	Appointed	Bishop of Córdoba, Spain	Bishop Emeritus
	53.1	José Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, O.S.A.	Appointed	Archbishop of Panamá
2011	65.8	Pio Gonçalo Alves de Sousa	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Porto, Portugal	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	65.8	Pio Gonçalo Alves de Sousa	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Aquae Flaviae	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Porto, Portugal
	41.2	Stephen Dami Mamza	Appointed	Bishop of Yola, Nigeria
2012	76.4	Santos Abril y Castelló	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Ponziano	Cardinal, Archpriest Emeritus of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}
	76.4	Santos Abril y Castelló	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archpriest Emeritus of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}
	66.8	George Alencherry	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Major Archbishop Emeritus of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabar), India
	66.8	George Alencherry	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Bernardo alle Terme	Cardinal, Major Archbishop Emeritus of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabar), India
	69.3	Giuseppe Bertello	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Governatorate of Vatican City State
	69.3	Giuseppe Bertello	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Governatorate of Vatican City State
	64.9	Giuseppe Betori	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Firenze {Florence}, Italy
	64.9	Giuseppe Betori	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Marcello	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Firenze {Florence}, Italy
	64.8	João Bráz de Aviz	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
	64.8	João Bráz de Aviz	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Elena fuori Porta Prenestina	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
	69.0	Domenico Calcagno	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See
	69.0	Domenico Calcagno	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Annunciazione della Beata Vergine Maria a Via Ardeatina	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See
	73.9	Francesco Coccopalmerio	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts
	73.9	Francesco Coccopalmerio	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Giuseppe dei Falegnami	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts
	65.0	Thomas Christopher Collins	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
	65.0	Thomas Christopher Collins	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Patrizio	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
	62.0	Timothy Michael Dolan	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archbishop of New York, New York, USA
	62.0	Timothy Michael Dolan	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Nostra Signora di Guadalupe a Monte Mario	Cardinal, Archbishop of New York, New York, USA
	68.8	Dominik Jaroslav Duka, O.P.	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Praha {Prague}, Czechia
	68.8	Dominik Jaroslav Duka, O.P.	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Marcellino e Pietro	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Praha {Prague}, Czechia
	58.6	Willem Jacobus Eijk	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archbishop of Utrecht, Netherlands
	58.6	Willem Jacobus Eijk	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Callisto	Cardinal, Archbishop of Utrecht, Netherlands
	65.8	Fernando Filoni	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Nostra Signora di Coromoto in San Giovanni di Dio	Cardinal, Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
	65.8	Fernando Filoni	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
	51.8	Christopher John Glancy, C.S.V.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Belize City-Belmopan, Belize, Antilles	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	51.8	Christopher John Glancy, C.S.V.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Absa Salla	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Belize City-Belmopan, Belize, Antilles
	48.2	Ollo Modeste Kambou	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Gaoua, Burkina Faso
	73.8	Manuel Monteiro de Castro	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Domenico di Guzman	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
	73.8	Manuel Monteiro de Castro	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
	72.8	Edwin Frederick O’Brien	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
	72.8	Edwin Frederick O’Brien	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Sebastiano al Palatino	Cardinal, Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
	72.5	John Tong Hon	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong [Xianggang], China
	72.5	John Tong Hon	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Regina Apostolorum	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong [Xianggang], China
	74.0	Antonio Maria Vegliò	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Cesareo in Palatio	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
	74.0	Antonio Maria Vegliò	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
	68.5	Giuseppe Versaldi	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Dicastery for Culture and Education
	68.5	Giuseppe Versaldi	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Castro Pretorio	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Dicastery for Culture and Education
	55.5	Rainer Maria Woelki	Elevated to Cardinal	Cardinal, Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
	55.5	Rainer Maria Woelki	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni Maria Vianney	Cardinal, Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
2016	56.2	Felice Accrocca	Appointed	Archbishop of Benevento, Italy
	50.3	Brian Thomas McGee	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Argyll and The Isles, Scotland, Great Britain
	63.0	James Patrick Powers	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Superior, Wisconsin, USA
2017	64.0	Jean-Pierre Edmond Cottanceau, SS.CC.	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Papeete, French Polynesia, Pacific (Oceania)
	75.7	Jean-Pierre Grallet, O.F.M.	Retired	Archbishop of Strasbourg, France	Archbishop Emeritus
	59.2	Joseph-Marie Ndi-Okalla	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Mbalmayo, Cameroon
	59.4	Oscar Nkolo Kanowa, C.I.C.M.	Appointed	Bishop of Mweka, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	59.7	Luc Marie Daniel Ravel, C.R.S.V.	Appointed	Archbishop of Strasbourg, France	Archbishop Emeritus
	66.3	Miguel Ángel Sebastián Martínez, M.C.C.I.	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Doba, Chad	Bishop of Sarh, Chad
	54.0	Martin Waïngue Bani	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Doba, Chad
2019	75.2	Carlos Bürgler, C.Ss.R.	Retired	Vicar Apostolic of Reyes, Bolivia	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
	58.2	Borys Andrij Gudziak	Appointed	Archbishop of Philadelphia (Ukrainian), Pennsylvania, USA
	64.9	Hlib (Borys Sviatoslav) Lonchyna, M.S.U.	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Saint Vladimir-Le-Grand de Paris (Ukrainian)	Bishop Emeritus of Holy Family of London (Ukrainian)
2020	58.6	Nelson Jesus Perez	Installed	Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2020	63.6	Stanislav Szyrokoradiuk, O.F.M.	Succeeded	Bishop of Odessa-Simferopol, Ukraine
2021	54.6	Tibor Berta	Appointed	Bishop of Hungary, Military
	70.2	László Bíró	Resigned	Bishop of Hungary, Military	Bishop Emeritus
	53.9	Bohdan Dzyurakh, C.Ss.R.	Appointed	Apostolic Exarch of Germany and Scandinavia {Deutschland und Skandinavien} (Ukrainian)
	75.8	Piotr Kryk	Retired	Apostolic Exarch of Germany and Scandinavia {Deutschland und Skandinavien} (Ukrainian)	Apostolic Exarch Emeritus
2022	53.7	Maurice Muhatia Makumba	Appointed	Archbishop of Kisumu, Kenya
2023	55.5	Joseph Kakou Aka	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire
	83.3	Stanislaus Fernandes, S.J.	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Baroda, India	Archbishop Emeritus of Gandhinagar, India
	63.5	Sebastião Mascarenhas, S.F.X.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Baroda, India
	54.1	Stefano Rega	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of San Marco Argentano-Scalea, Italy
	55.1	José Carlos de Souza Campos	Installed	Archbishop of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2024	63.7	Protase Rugambwa	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Montesanto	Cardinal, Archbishop of Tabora, Tanzania
2025	75.7	Jean-Pierre Blais	Retired	Bishop of Baie-Comeau, Québec, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
2025	62.1	Pierre Charland, O.F.M.	Appointed	Bishop of Baie-Comeau, Québec, Canada

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