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Living Bishop Events

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1935		Gerardo Pierro	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno, Italy
1938		Osvino José Both	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Brazil, Military
1943		Francesco Cacucci	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Bari-Bitonto, Italy
1943		Dominik Jaroslav Duka, O.P.	Born		Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Praha {Prague}, Czechia
1946		Augustine Kasujja	Born		Apostolic Nuncio
1946		Edouard Kisonga Ndinga, S.S.S.	Born		Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
1950		Adelio Pasqualotto, C.S.I.	Born		Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Napo, Ecuador
1951		Ryszard Szmydki, O.M.I.	Born		Secretary Emeritus of the Dicastery for Evangelization
1954		Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo	Born		Archbishop of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
1955		Joseph Robert Binzer	Born		Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
1955		Damian Denis Dallu	Born		Archbishop of Songea, Tanzania
1957		Linus Neli	Born		Archbishop of Imphal, India
1958		John Bonaventure Kwofie, C.S.Sp.	Born		Archbishop of Accra, Ghana
1966		Miguel Ángel Espinoza Garza	Born		Coadjutor Bishop of La Paz en la Baja California Sur, México
1967		Andrew Jagaye Karnley	Born		Bishop of Cape Palmas, Liberia
1974		Sergio Iván Dornelles	Born		Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina
1977	20.6	Manuel Nin Güell, O.S.B.	Professed	Member of Order of Saint Benedict	Apostolic Exarch of Greece (Greek)
1977	46.2	Joseph Willy Romélus	Appointed	Bishop of Jérémie, Haïti	Bishop Emeritus
1979	24.8	Robert Milner Coerver	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Dallas, Texas, USA	Bishop of Lubbock, Texas, USA
1980	39.1	Juan José Larrañeta Olleta, O.P.	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Maldonado, Peru	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
1980	31.6	Michael William Warfel	Ordained Priest	Priest of Anchorage, Alaska, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Great Falls-Billings, Montana, USA
1981	28.1	George Nkuo	Ordained Priest	Priest of Buéa, Cameroon	Bishop of Kumbo, Cameroon
1985	25.3	Antoni Dziemianko	Incardinated	Priest of Minsk-Mohilev, Belarus	Bishop of Pinsk, Belarus
1986	22.8	Luis Ángel de las Heras Berzal, C.M.F.	Perpetual Vows	Member of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary	Bishop of León, Spain
1986	30.0	Joachim Walder	Ordained Priest	Priest of Silchar, India	Auxiliary Bishop of Aizawl, India
1987	26.3	Antonysamy Savarimuthu	Ordained Priest	Priest of Palayamkottai, India	Bishop
1987	40.0	Simon-Victor Tonyé Bakot	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Siminina	Archbishop Emeritus of Yaoundé, Cameroon
1988	42.4	Telesphore Richard Mkude	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tanga, Tanzania	Bishop Emeritus of Morogoro, Tanzania
1989	33.4	Kurt Richard Burnette	Ordained Priest	Priest of Van Nuys (Ruthenian), California, USA	Bishop of Passaic (Ruthenian), New Jersey, USA
1992	25.3	Albert George Alexander Anastas	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kottar, India	Bishop of Kuzhithurai, India
	58.2	Enzo Dieci	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Maura	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Roma {Rome}, Italy
	55.0	Antonio Franco	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Gallesium	Apostolic Nuncio
	54.0	Tadeusz Rakoczy	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Bielsko-Żywiec, Poland	Bishop Emeritus
	48.8	Crescenzio Sepe	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Gradum	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Napoli {Naples}, Italy
	52.6	Luigi Travaglino	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Litterae	Apostolic Nuncio
	51.2	Carlo Maria Viganò	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Ulpiana	Apostolic Nuncio
1997	62.6	Ramiro Díaz Sánchez, O.M.I.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Lari Castellum	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Machiques, Venezuela
1998	53.7	Polycarp Pengo	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of Nostra Signora de La Salette	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
2000	28.7	Michael Miabesue Bibi	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bamenda, Cameroon	Bishop of Buéa, Cameroon
2000	65.8	Eugenio Sbarbaro	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Yugoslavia	Apostolic Nuncio
2003	60.7	Adriano Bernardini	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Argentina	Apostolic Nuncio
	57.3	Wiesław Alojzy Mering	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Włocławek (Kujawy, Kalisze), Poland	Bishop Emeritus
	59.6	Carlos Germán Mesa Ruiz	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Arauca, Colombia	Bishop Emeritus of Socorro y San Gil, Colombia
	50.6	Joseph Ngô Quang Kiệt	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Hà Nội, Viet Nam	Archbishop Emeritus
	55.0	Georges Miled Saad Abi Younes, O.L.M.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Nuestra Señora de los Mártires del Libano en México (Maronite)	Bishop Emeritus
	46.7	José Soares Filho, O.F.M. Cap.	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Carolina, Maranhão, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
2004	60.5	Andrej Glavan	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Ljubljana, Slovenia	Bishop Emeritus of Novo Mesto, Slovenia
	59.0	Diarmuid Martin	Succeeded	Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland	Archbishop Emeritus
	64.8	Claudio Stagni	Appointed	Bishop of Faenza-Modigliana, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
2006	69.2	Benedito Beni dos Santos	Appointed	Bishop of Lorena, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	54.6	João Mamede Filho, O.F.M. Conv.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Brazil	Bishop of Umuarama, Parana, Brazil
	54.6	João Mamede Filho, O.F.M. Conv.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Aquae Albae in Mauretania	Bishop of Umuarama, Parana, Brazil
	49.6	François-Xavier Maroy Rusengo	Appointed	Archbishop of Bukavu, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
2008	62.7	Sławoj Leszek Głódź	Installed	Archbishop of Gdańsk, Poland	Archbishop Emeritus
	65.7	Osvaldo Montecillo Padilla	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Mongolia	Apostolic Nuncio
	51.2	Luciano Suriani	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Amiternum	Apostolic Nuncio to Bulgaria
2009	52.5	Philippe Gabriel Marie Augustin Ballot	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Chambéry (-Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne-Tarentaise), France	Bishop of Metz, France
2010	54.0	Joseph Charles Bambera	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
2011	75.5	Gerald Andrew Gettelfinger	Retired	Bishop of Evansville, Indiana, USA	Bishop Emeritus
2011	50.0	Charles Coleman Thompson	Appointed	Bishop of Evansville, Indiana, USA	Archbishop of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
2012	74.1	Francesco Coccopalmerio	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Giuseppe dei Falegnami	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts
2013	66.4	Michele Pennisi	Installed	Archbishop of Monreale, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
2013	65.3	Buti Joseph Tlhagale, O.M.I.	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Klerksdorp, South Africa	Archbishop Emeritus of Johannesburg, South Africa
2014	70.4	Sotero Phamo (Thein Myint)	Resigned	Bishop of Loikaw, Myanmar	Bishop Emeritus
2015	59.8	Alojzij Cvikl, S.J.	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Maribor, Slovenia
2015	71.7	Stanislav Lipovšek	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Maribor, Slovenia	Bishop Emeritus of Celje, Slovenia
2016	67.7	Juan de la Caridad García Rodríguez	Appointed	Cardinal, Archbishop of San Cristobal de la Habana, Cuba
	69.2	Manuel Herrero Fernández, O.S.A.	Appointed	Bishop of Palencia, Spain	Bishop Emeritus
	75.4	José Ulises Macías Salcedo	Retired	Archbishop of Hermosillo, Sonora, México	Archbishop Emeritus
	62.6	Francisco Montecillo Padilla	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Bahrain	Apostolic Nuncio to Guatemala
	62.6	Francisco Montecillo Padilla	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to United Arab Emirates	Apostolic Nuncio to Guatemala
	62.4	Ruy Rendón Leal	Appointed	Archbishop of Hermosillo, Sonora, México
	55.7	Edward Matthew Rice	Appointed	Bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA
	64.1	John Alphonsus Ryan, S.P.S.	Appointed	Bishop of Mzuzu, Malawi
2017	53.5	Antonio Guido Filipazzi	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Nigeria	Apostolic Nuncio to Poland
2018	56.3	Michael Joseph Dooley	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Dunedin, New Zealand
2019	47.9	Christian Würtz	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
2019	47.9	Christian Würtz	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Germania in Dacia	Auxiliary Bishop of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
2022	70.6	Laurent Bernard Marie Ulrich	Appointed	Archbishop of Paris, France
2023	48.9	Leandro Maria Alves	Appointed	Bishop of Baucau, Timor-Leste

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