Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
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1 May | 58.9 | Ordained Bishop | Joseph James Potocnak, S.C.I. | Bishop of De Aar, South Africa | Bishop Emeritus |
49.6 | Ordained Bishop | Norbert Trelle | Titular Bishop of Egnatia | Bishop Emeritus of Hildesheim, Germany | |
2 May | 31.0 | Ordained Priest | Telesphore Bilung, S.V.D. | Priest of Society of the Divine Word | Bishop of Jamshedpur, India |
28.2 | Ordained Priest | Vincenzo Calvosa | Priest of Cassano all’Jonio, Italy | Bishop of Vallo della Lucania, Italy | |
28.0 | Ordained Deacon | Charles Duval, C.Ss.R. | Deacon of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer | Coadjutor Archbishop-Elect of Grouard-McLennan, Alberta, Canada | |
32.6 | Ordained Deacon | Julio Esteban Larrondo Yáñez | Deacon of Santiago de Chile | Prelate of Illapel, Chile | |
27.7 | Ordained Priest | Brian Udaigwe | Priest of Orlu, Nigeria | Apostolic Nuncio to Sri Lanka | |
3 May | 52.8 | Ordained Bishop | Joseph Sunday Ajomo † | Bishop of Lokoja, Nigeria | |
22.4 | First Vows | Leo Magdugo Dalmao, C.M.F. | Member of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary | Prelate of Isabela, Philippines | |
70.3 | Ordained Bishop | Yohannes Woldegiorgis † | Titular Bishop of Forma | Vicar Apostolic of Meki, Ethiopia | |
4 May | 63.1 | Appointed | Natalino Pescarolo † | Bishop of Fossano, Italy | Bishop Emeritus of Cuneo, Italy |
5 May | 52.6 | Appointed | Eustaquio Pastor Cuquejo Verga, C.Ss.R. † | Bishop of Paraguay, Military | Archbishop Emeritus of Asunción, Paraguay |
52.6 | Appointed | Eustaquio Pastor Cuquejo Verga, C.Ss.R. † | Titular Bishop of Aufinium | Archbishop Emeritus of Asunción, Paraguay | |
6 May | 65.0 | Resigned | Eamon Casey † | Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh, Ireland | Bishop Emeritus |
58.9 | Died | Michael Cornelis C. Coomans, M.S.F. † | Bishop of Samarinda, Indonesia | ||
75.0 | Retired | Hubertus Cornelis Antonius Ernst † | Bishop of Breda, Netherlands | Bishop Emeritus | |
7 May | 50.3 | Ordained Bishop | Thomas Nguyễn Văn Trâm | Titular Bishop of Hilta | Bishop Emeritus of Bà Rịa, Viet Nam |
61.8 | Appointed | Vittorio Tomassetti † | Bishop of Palestrina, Italy | Bishop Emeritus of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola, Italy | |
8 May | 79.8 | Died | Arnoldo Onisto † | Bishop Emeritus of Vicenza, Italy | |
9 May | 31.0 | Ordained Priest | Nicolò Anselmi | Priest of Genova {Genoa}, Italy | Bishop of Rimini, Italy |
63.0 | Ordained Bishop | Andrea Cassone † | Archbishop of Rossano-Cariati, Italy | Archbishop Emeritus | |
71.1 | Died | Joseph Nguyễn Phụng Hiểu † | Bishop of Hưng Hóa, Viet Nam | ||
30.7 | Ordained Priest | Cajetan Francis Osta | Priest of Muzaffarpur, India | Bishop | |
25.8 | Ordained Priest | Matteo Visioli | Priest of Parma (-Fontevivo), Italy | Secretary Emeritus of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith | |
26.8 | Ordained Priest | Dennis Gerard Walsh | Priest of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer | Bishop of Davenport, Iowa, USA | |
10 May | 33.3 | Ordained Priest | Michael Didi Adgum Mangoria | Priest of Khartoum, Sudan | Archbishop |
51.6 | Ordained Bishop | Cesare Bonivento, P.I.M.E. | Bishop of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea | Bishop Emeritus | |
24.3 | Ordained Priest | Walter Erbì | Priest of Iglesias, Italy | Apostolic Nuncio to Liberia | |
49.6 | Ordained Bishop | Jean-Berchmans Nterere † | Coadjutor Bishop of Muyinga, Burundi | Bishop | |
13 May | 56.6 | Ordained Bishop | Fabian Wendelin Bruskewitz | Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA | Bishop Emeritus |
48.4 | Appointed | Alfonso Cabezas Aristizábal, C.M. | Coadjutor Bishop of Villavicencio, Colombia | Bishop Emeritus | |
83.9 | Died | Launcelot John Goody † | Archbishop Emeritus of Perth, Australia | ||
14 May | 35.6 | Ordained Bishop | John Zhang Qingtian | Auxiliary Bishop of Yixian [Yihsien], China | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus |
16 May | 26.2 | Ordained Priest | Larry James Kulick | Priest of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA | Bishop |
28.7 | Ordained Priest | John Joseph McIntyre | Priest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA | Auxiliary Bishop | |
59.3 | Appointed | Alfredo José Rodríguez Figueroa † | Archbishop of Cumaná, Venezuela | ||
17 May | 66.2 | Installed | Bernard Agré † | Bishop of Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire |
47.4 | Ordained Bishop | Ayo-Maria Atoyebi, O.P. | Bishop of Ilorin, Nigeria | Bishop Emeritus | |
26.6 | Ordained Priest | Didier Fernand Gabriel Noblot | Priest of Troyes, France | Bishop of Saint-Flour, France | |
78.4 | Died | Alfred Pichler † | Bishop Emeritus of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
19 May | 51.3 | Ordained Bishop | Justin Joseph Bianchini | Bishop of Geraldton, Australia | Bishop Emeritus |
26.2 | Ordained Priest | Jeffrey Michael Fleming | Priest of Helena, Montana, USA | Bishop of Great Falls-Billings, Montana, USA | |
80.1 | Died | Józef Benedykt Kurpas † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Katowice, Poland | ||
20 May | 55.4 | Appointed | Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J. | Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) |
55.4 | Appointed | Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J. | Titular Bishop of Auca | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) | |
89.4 | Died | Giovanni Umberto Colombo † | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Milano {Milan}, Italy | ||
46.0 | Appointed | Michael Neary | Auxiliary Bishop of Tuam, Ireland | Archbishop Emeritus | |
46.0 | Appointed | Michael Neary | Titular Bishop of Quaestoriana | Archbishop Emeritus of Tuam, Ireland | |
53.7 | Appointed | Raúl Omar Rossi † | Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina | Bishop of San Martín, Argentina | |
53.7 | Appointed | Raúl Omar Rossi † | Titular Bishop of Enera | Bishop of San Martín, Argentina | |
21 May | 62.3 | Ordained Bishop | John Patrick Boles † | Titular Bishop of Nova Sparsa | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
64.7 | Ordained Bishop | John Richard McNamara † | Titular Bishop of Risinium | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Boston, Massachusetts, USA | |
22 May | 79.9 | Died | Giovanni Enrico (John Henry) Boccella, T.O.R. † | Archbishop Emeritus of Izmir (Smirne), Turkey | |
28.1 | Ordained Priest | Peter Andrew Comensoli | Priest of Wollongong, Australia | Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia | |
67.6 | Appointed | Manuel Edmilson da Cruz | Apostolic Administrator of Limoeiro do Norte, Ceara, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus | |
80.2 | Retired | Patrick Vincent Hurley, C.Ss.R. † | Auxiliary Bishop of Samoa-Apia and Tokelau, Pacific (Oceania) | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | |
23 May | 31.1 | Ordained Priest | Jeffrey Scott Grob | Priest of Chicago, Illinois, USA | Archbishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA |
26.3 | Ordained Priest | Lawrence John Sullivan | Priest of Chicago, Illinois, USA | Auxiliary Bishop-Elect | |
43.0 | Ordained Bishop | Tarcisius Gervazio Ziyaye † | Titular Bishop of Macon | Archbishop of Lilongwe, Malawi | |
24 May | 61.0 | Died | Mathias William Schmidt, O.S.B. † | Bishop of Ruy Barbosa (Rui Barbosa), Bahia, Brazil | |
52.0 | Installed | Jan Bernard Szlaga † | Bishop of Pelplin, Poland | ||
25 May | 69.7 | Died | Athanasios Abadir † | Bishop of Ismayliah (Coptic), Egypt | |
58.3 | Installed | Edmond Carmody | Bishop of Tyler, Texas, USA | Bishop Emeritus of Corpus Christi, Texas, USA | |
67.8 | Appointed | Nicola Comparone † | Apostolic Administrator of Aversa, Italy | Bishop of Alife-Caiazzo, Italy | |
57.0 | Appointed | Gerardo Pierro | Archbishop of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno, Italy | Archbishop Emeritus | |
85.7 | Died | Anselmo Pietrulla, O.F.M. † | Bishop Emeritus of Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil | ||
26 May | 78.9 | Died | Inácio Barbosa Accioly, O.S.B. † | Abbot of Nossa Senhora do Monserrate do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
50.1 | Appointed | Ricardo Blázquez Pérez | Bishop of Palencia, Spain | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Valladolid, Spain | |
44.3 | Appointed | Javier Salinas Viñals | Bishop of Ibiza, Spain | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Valencia, Spain | |
64.2 | Appointed | Joseph Shi Hongchen (Shi Hongzhen), C.M. † | Bishop of Tianjin [Tientsin], China | ||
27 May | 60.4 | Appointed | Hilário Moser, S.D.B. | Bishop of Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus |
63.3 | Appointed | Antonio Ignacio Velasco Garcia, S.D.B. † | Apostolic Administrator of San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela | Cardinal, Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela | |
28 May | 27.5 | Ordained Deacon | Andrzej Przybylski | Deacon of Częstochowa, Poland | Auxiliary Bishop |
25.1 | Ordained Priest | Marek Solarczyk | Priest of Warszawa-Praga, Poland | Bishop of Radom, Poland | |
29 May | 53.5 | Appointed | Reginald Michael Cawcutt † | Auxiliary Bishop of Cape Town {Kaapstad}, South Africa | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus |
53.5 | Appointed | Reginald Michael Cawcutt † | Titular Bishop of Egabro | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Cape Town {Kaapstad}, South Africa | |
41.8 | Appointed | Damião António Franklin † | Auxiliary Bishop of Luanda, Angola | Archbishop | |
41.8 | Appointed | Damião António Franklin † | Titular Bishop of Falerone | Archbishop of Luanda, Angola | |
76.5 | Retired | Denis Eugene Hurley, O.M.I. † | Archbishop of Durban, South Africa | Archbishop Emeritus | |
65.6 | Died | Albert Ndongmo † | Bishop Emeritus of Nkongsamba, Cameroon | ||
48.3 | Appointed | Ratko Perić | Coadjutor Bishop of Mostar-Duvno (-Trebinje e Mrkan), Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bishop Emeritus | |
47.3 | Appointed | Serafim Shyngo-Ya-Hombo, O.F.M. Cap. | Bishop of Mbanza Congo, Angola | Bishop Emeritus | |
30 May | 33.1 | Ordained Priest | Juan Antonio Guerrero Alves, S.J. | Priest of Society of Jesus | Prefect Emeritus of the Secretariat for the Economy |
27.6 | Ordained Priest | Richard Garth Henning | Priest of Rockville Centre, New York, USA | Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts, USA | |
35.1 | Ordained Priest | Joseph Phuong Nguyen | Priest of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | Bishop of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada | |
57.5 | Ordained Bishop | Simon Akwali Okafor † | Titular Bishop of Augurus | Bishop Emeritus of Awka, Nigeria | |
30.0 | Ordained Priest | Michael Arsenio Saporito | Priest of Newark, New Jersey, USA | Auxiliary Bishop | |
58.4 | Ordained Bishop | Adam Smigielski, S.D.B. † | Bishop of Sosnowiec, Poland | ||
26.3 | Ordained Priest | John-Nhàn Trần | Priest of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA | Auxiliary Bishop of Atlanta, Georgia, USA | |
51.6 | Appointed | Fouad Boutros Twal | Prelate of Tunis, Tunisia | Patriarch Emeritus of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine | |
31 May | 27.2 | Ordained Deacon | Onécimo Alberton | Deacon of Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil | Auxiliary Bishop of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil |
27.0 | Professed | Adilson Pedro Busin, C.S. | Member of Congregation of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo | Bishop of Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil | |
22.7 | Professed | Rozario Menezes, S.M.M. | Member of Missionaries of the Company of Mary | Bishop of Lae, Papua New Guinea | |
23.3 | Ordained Priest | Paul Pei Junmin | Priest of Shenyang [Mukden, Fengtien], China | Bishop | |
25.8 | Ordained Priest | Arūnas Poniškaitis | Priest of Vilkaviškis, Lithuania | Auxiliary Bishop of Vilnius, Lithuania |
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