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St. Bonaventure, bishop and doctor (Memorial)

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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1940	84.83	Paweł Cieślik	Born		Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg, Poland
1947	77.83	Dieter Geerlings	Born		Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Münster, Germany
1951	73.83	Paul McAleenan	Born		Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain
1952	19.7	Denis Croteau, O.M.I.	Entered	Member of Oblates of Mary Immaculate	Bishop Emeritus of Mackenzie-Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada
1953	71.83	Martin Vidović	Born		Apostolic Nuncio
1956	68.83	Juan de la Cruz Barros Madrid	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Osorno, Chile
1956	24.5	Cipriano García Fernández, O.S.A.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of St. Augustine	Prelate Emeritus of Cafayate, Argentina
1957	67.83	José Aparecido Hergesse, C.R.	Born		Priest of Congregation of Clerics Regular
1959	65.83	Damiano Giulio Guzzetti, M.C.C.I.	Born		Bishop of Moroto, Uganda
1960	24.4	Victor Alejandro Corral Mantilla	Ordained Priest	Priest of Guayaquil, Ecuador	Bishop Emeritus of Riobamba, Ecuador
1964	60.83	Nicolás Baisi	Born		Bishop of Puerto Iguazú, Argentina
1966	58.83	Joseph Mopepe Ngongo	Born		Bishop-Elect of Molegbe, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
1966	16.9	Giovanni Roncari, O.F.M. Cap.	Professed	Member of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin	Bishop Emeritus of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello, Italy
1968	56.83	John Joseph Kennedy	Born		Secretary of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
1969	55.83	Edwin Mwansa Mulandu	Born		Bishop of Mpika, Zambia
1969	55.83	Mark Maigida Nzukwein	Born		Bishop of Wukari, Nigeria
1970	54.83	Michael Gerard Duignan	Born		Bishop of Clonfert, Ireland
1972	24.5	Donato Negro	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lecce, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus of Otranto, Italy
1973	26.3	Simon-Victor Tonyé Bakot	Ordained Priest	Priest of Douala, Cameroon	Archbishop Emeritus of Yaoundé, Cameroon
1973	51.83	Iyad Akram Twal	Born		Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine
1978	48.1	Lawrence Primo Sabatini, C.S.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	Bishop Emeritus of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
	48.1	Lawrence Primo Sabatini, C.S.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Nasai	Bishop Emeritus of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
	26.1	James Peter Sartain	Ordained Priest	Priest of Memphis, Tennessee, USA	Archbishop Emeritus of Seattle, Washington, USA
	27.2	Angelo Spinillo	Ordained Priest	Priest of Diano-Teggiano, Italy	Bishop of Aversa, Italy
1984	34.3	Carlos Gustavo Castillo Mattasoglio	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lima, Peru	Cardinal, Archbishop
	33.7	Domingo Oropesa Lorente	Ordained Priest	Priest of Toledo, Spain	Bishop of Cienfuegos, Cuba
	27.9	Josep Ángel Saiz Meneses	Ordained Priest	Priest of Toledo, Spain	Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain
1985	19.5	Mladen Vukšić, O.F.M.	First Vows	Member of Order of Friars Minor	Bishop of Kotor (Cattaro), Montenegro
1986	52.5	Fabián Marulanda López	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Ibagué, Colombia	Bishop Emeritus of Florencia, Colombia
1986	52.5	Fabián Marulanda López	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Pederodiana	Bishop Emeritus of Florencia, Colombia
1989	26.7	Raúl Biord Castillo, S.D.B.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
	36.8	Pedro María Laxague	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bahía Blanca, Argentina	Bishop of Zárate-Campana, Argentina
	51.3	Januário Torgal Mendes Ferreira	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Gaudiaba	Bishop Emeritus of Portugal, Military
1990	25.6	Francisco Lima Soares	Ordained Priest	Priest of Imperatriz, Maranhão, Brazil	Bishop of Carolina, Maranhão, Brazil
1993	30.0	Sosthène Ayikuli Udjuwa	Ordained Priest	Priest of Mahagi-Nioka, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop
1994	49.2	Julián López Martín	Appointed	Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain	Bishop Emeritus of León, Spain
1995	26.9	Matthäus Karrer	Ordained Priest	Priest of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany	Auxiliary Bishop
	26.0	Mark Maigida Nzukwein	Ordained Priest	Priest of Jalingo, Nigeria	Bishop of Wukari, Nigeria
	25.4	Josif Printezis	Ordained Priest	Priest of Syros (e Milos), Greece	Archbishop of Naxos, Andros, Tinos e Mykonos, Greece
	53.6	Angelo Scola	Appointed	Rector of the Pontifical Lateran University	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Milano {Milan}, Italy
	31.9	Petros Stefanou	Ordained Priest	Priest of Syros (e Milos), Greece	Bishop Emeritus
1996	50.2	Juan José Omella Omella	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Zaragoza, Spain	Cardinal, Archbishop of Barcelona, Spain
	50.2	Juan José Omella Omella	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Sasabe	Cardinal, Archbishop of Barcelona, Spain
	47.3	José Francisco Robles Ortega	Installed	Bishop of Toluca, México, México	Cardinal, Archbishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
1997	43.1	Francisco Carlos Bach	Appointed	Administrator of Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brazil	Archbishop of Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil
1998	56.4	Guilherme Porto	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
1999	58.1	Beniamino Depalma, C.M.	Appointed	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Nola, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
2000	60.2	Felice di Molfetta	Installed	Bishop of Cerignola-Ascoli Satriano, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
2000	27.1	Linas (Genadijus) Vodopjanovas, O.F.M.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor	Bishop of Panevėžys, Lithuania
2002	56.9	Roger Joseph Foys	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Covington, Kentucky, USA	Bishop Emeritus
	56.7	Peter Kang U-il	Appointed	Bishop of Cheju, Korea (South)	Bishop Emeritus
	75.4	Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol	Retired	Bishop of Cheju, Korea (South)	Bishop Emeritus
2003	68.2	Justin Francis Rigali	Appointed	Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
2003	43.6	Volodymyr Viytyshyn	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Kolomyia-Chernivtsi (Ukrainian), Ukraine	Archbishop of Ivano-Frankivsk [Stanislaviv] (Ukrainian), Ukraine
2004	57.2	Domenico Cancian, F.A.M.	Appointed	Superior General of Congregation of the Sons of Merciful Love	Bishop Emeritus of Città di Castello, Italy
2006	48.6	José Luis Azuaje Ayala	Appointed	Bishop of El Vigia-San Carlos del Zulia, Venezuela	Archbishop of Maracaibo, Venezuela
	74.3	Dominic Kokkat, C.S.T.	Retired	Bishop of Gorakhpur (Syro-Malabar), India	Bishop Emeritus
	50.0	Paul Ponen Kubi, C.S.C.	Appointed	Bishop of Mymensingh, Bangladesh
	59.2	Thomas Thuruthimattam, C.S.T.	Appointed	Bishop of Gorakhpur (Syro-Malabar), India	Bishop Emeritus
	55.6	Lajos Varga	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Sicca Veneria	Auxiliary Bishop of Vác, Hungary
2007	60.8	Alberto Silvani	Installed	Bishop of Volterra, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
2008	71.1	Manuel Antonio Valarezo Luzuriaga, O.F.M.	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Galápagos, Ecuador	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
2009	55.6	Christopher Charles Prowse	Installed	Bishop of Sale, Australia	Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn, Australia
2010	48.2	Fernando Bascopé Müller, S.D.B.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of El Alto, Bolivia	Auxiliary Bishop of San Ignacio de Velasco, Bolivia
	48.2	Fernando Bascopé Müller, S.D.B.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Naratcata	Auxiliary Bishop of San Ignacio de Velasco, Bolivia
	59.7	Timothy Lawrence Doherty	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana, USA
	61.7	Joaquín Gimeno Lahoz	Appointed	Bishop of Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina	Bishop Emeritus
	49.8	Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Liesen	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of ’s-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), Netherlands	Bishop of Breda, Netherlands
	49.8	Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Liesen	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tunnuna	Bishop of Breda, Netherlands
	52.1	Robertus Gerardus Leonia Maria Mutsaerts	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of ’s-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), Netherlands
	52.1	Robertus Gerardus Leonia Maria Mutsaerts	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Uccula	Auxiliary Bishop of ’s-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), Netherlands
	56.2	Marko Semren, O.F.M.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	56.2	Marko Semren, O.F.M.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Abaradira	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
	46.2	John Baptist Yang Xiaoting	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Yan’an [Yenan], China	Bishop
2011	62.9	Rigoberto Corredor Bermúdez	Appointed	Bishop of Pereira, Colombia	Bishop Emeritus
	76.4	Tulio Duque Gutiérrez, S.D.S.	Retired	Bishop of Pereira, Colombia	Bishop Emeritus
	55.7	Claudio Gugerotti	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Belarus	Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches
	54.9	Jorge Alberto Ossa Soto	Appointed	Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia	Archbishop of Nueva Pamplona, Colombia
	57.9	Ivo Scapolo	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Chile	Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal
2012	43.0	Abraham Kome	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Bafang, Cameroon
2013	76.5	Luis Alfonso Márquez Molina, C.I.M.	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Mérida, Venezuela	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	63.3	Alfredo Enrique Torres Rondón	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Mérida, Venezuela	Bishop of San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela
	63.3	Alfredo Enrique Torres Rondón	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Sassura	Bishop of San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela
2014	49.7	Janusz Wiesław Kaleta	Resigned	Bishop of Karaganda, Kazakhstan
	61.3	Valdomiro Koubetch, O.S.B.M.	Installed	Archbishop of São João Batista em Curitiba (Ukrainian), Brazil
	53.8	Giuseppe Satriano	Appointed	Archbishop of Rossano-Cariati, Italy	Archbishop of Bari-Bitonto, Italy
	54.2	Wojciech Załuski	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi	Apostolic Nuncio to Malaysia
	54.2	Wojciech Załuski	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Diocletiana	Apostolic Nuncio to Malaysia
2015	63.7	Antônio Carlos Altieri, S.D.B.	Resigned	Archbishop of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
	48.3	Udo Markus Bentz	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz, Germany	Archbishop of Paderborn, Germany
	48.3	Udo Markus Bentz	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Sita	Archbishop of Paderborn, Germany
	48.6	Laurent Michel Camiade	Appointed	Bishop of Cahors, France
	72.7	Paulo Antônio de Conto	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
	76.2	Manfred Grothe	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn, Germany	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	56.0	Dominicus (Michael) Meier, O.S.B.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn, Germany	Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany
	56.0	Dominicus (Michael) Meier, O.S.B.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Castro di Sardegna	Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany
2016	52.3	Gábor Pintér	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Velebusdus	Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand
	51.2	Pierbattista Pizzaballa, O.F.M.	Installed	Apostolic Administrator of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine	Cardinal, Patriarch
	66.3	Alfredo Enrique Torres Rondón	Appointed	Bishop of San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela
2017	58.1	Jorge Eduardo Scheinig	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Ita	Archbishop of Mercedes-Luján, Argentina
2018	68.2	François Joseph Marie Jacolin, M.D.P.	Installed	Bishop of Luçon, France
2021	57.1	José Trinidad Fernández Angulo	Appointed	Bishop of Trujillo, Venezuela
	63.7	Pedro Mario Ossandón Buljevic	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Valparaíso, Chile	Bishop of Chile, Military
	64.0	Jorge Patricio Vega Velasco, S.V.D.	Installed	Bishop of Valparaíso, Chile
2022	60.9	Antony Silvanos Kakkanatt	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Barcusus	Curial Bishop of Trivandrum (Syro-Malankara), India
	66.6	Mathew Polycarpos Manakkarakavil	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Canatha	Auxiliary Bishop of Trivandrum (Syro-Malankara), India
	50.2	Pierre Suon Hangly	Appointed	Prefect of Kompong-Cham, Cambodia
	50.4	Bruno Paul Marie Valentin	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Carcassonne et Narbonne, France	Bishop
2023	53.9	Honoré Beugré Dakpa	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Katiola, Côte d’Ivoire
	81.1	Jesús García Burillo	Ceased	Administrator of Ávila, Spain	Bishop Emeritus
	55.2	Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva	Installed	Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina
	50.2	Edouard Isango Nkoyo	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	50.2	Edouard Isango Nkoyo	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Utimmira	Auxiliary Bishop of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	51.1	George George Panamthundil	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Kyrgyzstan	Apostolic Nuncio to Kazakhstan
	51.1	George George Panamthundil	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Tadjikistan	Apostolic Nuncio to Kazakhstan
	58.8	Gian Luca Perici	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Volsinium	Apostolic Nuncio to Zambia
	48.6	Aurélio Pinto de Sousa	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Quixadá, Ceara, Brazil
	68.7	Jesús Rico García, H.S.O.D.	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ávila, Spain
	53.3	Joseph Shen Bin	Appointed	Bishop of Shanghai [Shanghai], China
	66.2	Edouard Tsimba Ngoma, C.I.C.M.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	66.2	Edouard Tsimba Ngoma, C.I.C.M.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Igilgili	Auxiliary Bishop of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
2024	50.6	Kryspin Witold Dubiel	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to São Tomé and Príncipe	Apostolic Nuncio to Angola
	61.3	John Joseph McDermott	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Burlington, Vermont, USA
	61.3	John Joseph McDermott	Ceased	Administrator of Burlington, Vermont, USA	Bishop
	70.2	Marko Semren, O.F.M.	Resigned	Auxiliary Bishop of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

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