The Year of Our Lord 1998

Bishop Events

August

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

1 Aug 32.5 Ordained Priest Miguel Fernando González Mariño Priest of Santa Marta, Colombia Bishop of Espinal, Colombia

86.8 Died Vito Roberti † Bishop Emeritus of Caserta, Italy

2 Aug 29.0 Ordained Priest Emery Kibal Nkufi Mansong’loo, C.P. Priest of Congregation of the Passion Bishop of Kole, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

55.8 Ordained Bishop Mosé João Pontelo, C.S.Sp. Coadjutor Bishop of Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil Bishop Emeritus

46.5 Ordained Bishop Melchisedec Sikuli Paluku Bishop of Butembo-Beni, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

23.9 Solemn Vows Aliaksandr Yasheuski, S.D.B. Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco Auxiliary Bishop of Minsk-Mohilev, Belarus

4 Aug 53.9 Appointed Bernard-Nicolas Jean-Marie Aubertin, O. Cist. Bishop of Chartres, France Archbishop Emeritus of Tours, France

86.6 Died Thomas Joseph McDonough † Archbishop Emeritus of Louisville, Kentucky, USA

45.8 Ordained Bishop Constancio Miranda Wechmann Bishop of Atlacomulco, México, México Archbishop of Chihuahua, México

5 Aug 37.0 Ordained Priest Michele Petruzzelli, O.S.B. Priest of Order of Saint Benedict Abbot of Santissima Trinità di Cava de’ Tirreni, Italy

6 Aug 50.8 Appointed Freddy Antonio de Jesús Bretón Martínez Bishop of Baní, Dominican Republic Archbishop Emeritus of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic

48.2 Ordained Bishop Sleiman Hajjar, B.S. † Bishop of Saint-Sauveur de Montréal (Melkite Greek), Canada

36.6 Ordained Deacon Carlos Eduardo Márquez Delima Deacon Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela

8 Aug 54.2 Appointed Renzo Fratini Apostolic Nuncio to Indonesia Apostolic Nuncio

72.9 Resigned Bernard Charles Ratsimamotoana, M.S. † Bishop of Morondava, Madagascar Bishop Emeritus

9 Aug 44.1 Ordained Bishop Sérgio Eduardo Castriani, C.S.Sp. † Coadjutor Prelate of Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil Archbishop Emeritus of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

90.7 Died Damián Nicolau Roig, T.O.R. † Prelate Emeritus of Huamachuco, Peru

31.4 Ordained Priest Dieudonné Nzapalainga, C.S.Sp. Priest of Congregation of the Holy Spirit Cardinal, Archbishop of Bangui, Central African Republic

28.8 Ordained Priest Luc Olivier Razafitsimialona Priest of Ihosy, Madagascar Bishop of Tôlagnaro, Madagascar

12 Aug 51.3 Appointed João Bráz de Aviz Bishop of Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brazil Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life

75.7 Retired Henri-François-Marie-Pierre Derouet † Bishop of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer), France Bishop Emeritus

53.9 Appointed Jean-Paul Maurice Jaeger Bishop of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer), France Bishop Emeritus

14 Aug 43.7 Ordained Bishop Mauro Aparecido dos Santos † Coadjutor Bishop of Campo Mourão, Parana, Brazil Archbishop of Cascavel, Parana, Brazil

37.7 Ordained Deacon Borys Andrij Gudziak Deacon of Lviv (Ukrainian), Ukraine Archbishop of Philadelphia (Ukrainian), Pennsylvania, USA

15 Aug 30.1 Ordained Priest Ricardo Aldo Barreto Cairo Priest of La Guaira, Venezuela Bishop of Valle de la Pascua, Venezuela

29.0 Ordained Priest Ramón Bejarano Priest of Stockton, California, USA Auxiliary Bishop of San Diego, California, USA

52.2 Ordained Bishop Maurice Anthony Crowley, S.P.S. Bishop of Kitale, Kenya Bishop Emeritus

55.8 Installed Paulo Antônio de Conto Bishop of Criciúma, Santa Catarina, Brazil Bishop Emeritus of Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

32.1 Ordained Priest Alfonso Gerardo Miranda Guardiola Priest of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México Bishop of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, México

33.1 Perpetual Vows Wolfgang Pisa, O.F.M. Cap. Member of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin Bishop of Lindi, Tanzania

29.5 Perpetual Vows Timoteo Solórzano Rojas, M.S.C. Member of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Bishop of Tarma, Peru

16 Aug 25.8 Ordained Priest Jean Abou Charouche, S.M.S.P. Priest of Società dei Missionari di San Paolo (Melkite Greek) Apostolic Administrator of Argentina (Melkite Greek)

62.2 Ordained Bishop Alphonse Émile Georger Bishop of Oran, Algeria Bishop Emeritus

73.4 Died Thomas Aloysius McBride, M.M. † Priest of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America

32.2 Ordained Priest Ildevert Mathurin Mouanga Priest of Kinkala, Congo Bishop

47.6 Installed Irineu Roque Scherer † Bishop of Garanhuns, Pernambuco, Brazil Bishop of Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil

46.6 Ordained Bishop Norman King’oo Wambua Bishop of Bungoma, Kenya Bishop of Machakos, Kenya

18 Aug 18.5 Professed Mykola Bychok, C.Ss.R. Member of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer Bishop of Saints Peter and Paul of Melbourne (Ukrainian), Australia

19 Aug 25.6 Ordained Deacon Arkadiusz Trochanowski Deacon of Wrocław-Gdańsk (Ukrainian), Poland Bishop of Olsztyn-Gdańsk (Ukrainian), Poland

20 Aug 93.6 Died Nicola Riezzo † Archbishop Emeritus of Otranto, Italy

22 Aug 26.5 Ordained Priest Dimas Antonio Acuña Jiménez Priest of Barranquilla, Colombia Bishop of El Banco, Colombia

52.3 Ordained Bishop Augustine Kasujja Titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Numidia Apostolic Nuncio

56.0 Appointed Osvaldo Montecillo Padilla Apostolic Nuncio to Nigeria Apostolic Nuncio

27.9 Perpetual Vows Kornelius Sipayung, O.F.M. Cap. Member of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin Archbishop of Medan, Indonesia

23 Aug 68.5 Installed Amédée (Antoine-Marie) Grab, O.S.B. † Bishop of Chur, Switzerland Bishop Emeritus

28.4 Ordained Priest Nestor-Désiré Nongo-Aziagbia, S.M.A. Priest of Society of African Missions Bishop of Bossangoa, Central African Republic

27.7 Perpetual Vows Pierre Olivier Tremblay, O.M.I. Member of Oblates of Mary Immaculate Bishop of Hearst-Moosonee, Ontario, Canada

25 Aug 32.2 Ordained Priest John Bosco Chang Shin-Ho Priest of Daegu {Taegu}, Korea (South) Auxiliary Bishop

33.0 Ordained Priest Clement Mulenga, S.D.B. Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco Bishop of Kabwe, Zambia

26 Aug 73.5 Resigned Luciano José Cabral Duarte † Archbishop of Aracajú, Sergipe, Brazil Archbishop Emeritus

59.4 Appointed Stefan Cichy Auxiliary Bishop of Katowice, Poland Bishop Emeritus of Legnica, Poland

59.4 Appointed Stefan Cichy Titular Bishop of Bonusta Bishop Emeritus of Legnica, Poland

72.7 Retired Agostinho Willy Kist, S.J. † Bishop of Diamantino, Mato Grosso, Brazil Bishop Emeritus

46.8 Succeeded Canísio Klaus Bishop of Diamantino, Mato Grosso, Brazil Bishop of Sinop, Mato Grosso, Brazil

56.6 Succeeded José Palmeira Lessa Archbishop of Aracajú, Sergipe, Brazil Archbishop Emeritus

27 Aug 70.1 Died Bernard Francis Pappin † Auxiliary Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada

65.3 Succeeded Luis María Pérez de Onraita Aguirre † Bishop of Malanje, Angola Archbishop Emeritus of Malanje, Angola

75.0 Retired Eugénio Salessu † Bishop of Malanje, Angola Bishop Emeritus

28 Aug 68.5 Appointed Jean Marie Louis Bonfils, S.M.A. Bishop of Nice, France Bishop Emeritus

53.9 Ordained Bishop Célio de Oliveira Goulart, O.F.M. † Bishop of Leopoldina, Minas Gerais, Brazil Bishop of São João del Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil

93.2 Died Rajarethinam Arokiasamy Sundaram † Bishop Emeritus of Tanjore, India

29 Aug 51.7 Ordained Bishop Luigi Gatti Titular Archbishop of Santa Giusta Apostolic Nuncio

54.0 Ordained Bishop Antonius Lambertus Maria Hurkmans Bishop of ’s-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), Netherlands Bishop Emeritus

67.1 Installed Giuseppe Malandrino Bishop of Noto, Italy Bishop Emeritus

28.8 Ordained Priest Rayarala Vijay Kumar, P.I.M.E. Priest of Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions Bishop of Srikakulam, India

55.7 Ordained Bishop John Baptist Tseng Chien-tsi Titular Bishop of Sululos Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Hwalien, Taiwan

31 Aug 63.8 Resigned Tadeusz Władysław Pieronek † Auxiliary Bishop of Sosnowiec, Poland Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Aug	32.5	Ordained Priest	Miguel Fernando González Mariño	Priest of Santa Marta, Colombia	Bishop of Espinal, Colombia
86.8	Died	Vito Roberti †	Bishop Emeritus of Caserta, Italy
2 Aug	29.0	Ordained Priest	Emery Kibal Nkufi Mansong’loo, C.P.	Priest of Congregation of the Passion	Bishop of Kole, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
55.8	Ordained Bishop	Mosé João Pontelo, C.S.Sp.	Coadjutor Bishop of Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
46.5	Ordained Bishop	Melchisedec Sikuli Paluku	Bishop of Butembo-Beni, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
23.9	Solemn Vows	Aliaksandr Yasheuski, S.D.B.	Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Auxiliary Bishop of Minsk-Mohilev, Belarus
4 Aug	53.9	Appointed	Bernard-Nicolas Jean-Marie Aubertin, O. Cist.	Bishop of Chartres, France	Archbishop Emeritus of Tours, France
86.6	Died	Thomas Joseph McDonough †	Archbishop Emeritus of Louisville, Kentucky, USA
45.8	Ordained Bishop	Constancio Miranda Wechmann	Bishop of Atlacomulco, México, México	Archbishop of Chihuahua, México
5 Aug	37.0	Ordained Priest	Michele Petruzzelli, O.S.B.	Priest of Order of Saint Benedict	Abbot of Santissima Trinità di Cava de’ Tirreni, Italy
6 Aug	50.8	Appointed	Freddy Antonio de Jesús Bretón Martínez	Bishop of Baní, Dominican Republic	Archbishop Emeritus of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
48.2	Ordained Bishop	Sleiman Hajjar, B.S. †	Bishop of Saint-Sauveur de Montréal (Melkite Greek), Canada
36.6	Ordained Deacon	Carlos Eduardo Márquez Delima	Deacon	Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
8 Aug	54.2	Appointed	Renzo Fratini	Apostolic Nuncio to Indonesia	Apostolic Nuncio
72.9	Resigned	Bernard Charles Ratsimamotoana, M.S. †	Bishop of Morondava, Madagascar	Bishop Emeritus
9 Aug	44.1	Ordained Bishop	Sérgio Eduardo Castriani, C.S.Sp. †	Coadjutor Prelate of Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
90.7	Died	Damián Nicolau Roig, T.O.R. †	Prelate Emeritus of Huamachuco, Peru
31.4	Ordained Priest	Dieudonné Nzapalainga, C.S.Sp.	Priest of Congregation of the Holy Spirit	Cardinal, Archbishop of Bangui, Central African Republic
28.8	Ordained Priest	Luc Olivier Razafitsimialona	Priest of Ihosy, Madagascar	Bishop of Tôlagnaro, Madagascar
12 Aug	51.3	Appointed	João Bráz de Aviz	Bishop of Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brazil	Cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
75.7	Retired	Henri-François-Marie-Pierre Derouet †	Bishop of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer), France	Bishop Emeritus
53.9	Appointed	Jean-Paul Maurice Jaeger	Bishop of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer), France	Bishop Emeritus
14 Aug	43.7	Ordained Bishop	Mauro Aparecido dos Santos †	Coadjutor Bishop of Campo Mourão, Parana, Brazil	Archbishop of Cascavel, Parana, Brazil
37.7	Ordained Deacon	Borys Andrij Gudziak	Deacon of Lviv (Ukrainian), Ukraine	Archbishop of Philadelphia (Ukrainian), Pennsylvania, USA
15 Aug	30.1	Ordained Priest	Ricardo Aldo Barreto Cairo	Priest of La Guaira, Venezuela	Bishop of Valle de la Pascua, Venezuela
29.0	Ordained Priest	Ramón Bejarano	Priest of Stockton, California, USA	Auxiliary Bishop of San Diego, California, USA
52.2	Ordained Bishop	Maurice Anthony Crowley, S.P.S.	Bishop of Kitale, Kenya	Bishop Emeritus
55.8	Installed	Paulo Antônio de Conto	Bishop of Criciúma, Santa Catarina, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
32.1	Ordained Priest	Alfonso Gerardo Miranda Guardiola	Priest of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México	Bishop of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, México
33.1	Perpetual Vows	Wolfgang Pisa, O.F.M. Cap.	Member of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin	Bishop of Lindi, Tanzania
29.5	Perpetual Vows	Timoteo Solórzano Rojas, M.S.C.	Member of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus	Bishop of Tarma, Peru
16 Aug	25.8	Ordained Priest	Jean Abou Charouche, S.M.S.P.	Priest of Società dei Missionari di San Paolo (Melkite Greek)	Apostolic Administrator of Argentina (Melkite Greek)
62.2	Ordained Bishop	Alphonse Émile Georger	Bishop of Oran, Algeria	Bishop Emeritus
73.4	Died	Thomas Aloysius McBride, M.M. †	Priest of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
32.2	Ordained Priest	Ildevert Mathurin Mouanga	Priest of Kinkala, Congo	Bishop
47.6	Installed	Irineu Roque Scherer †	Bishop of Garanhuns, Pernambuco, Brazil	Bishop of Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil
46.6	Ordained Bishop	Norman King’oo Wambua	Bishop of Bungoma, Kenya	Bishop of Machakos, Kenya
18 Aug	18.5	Professed	Mykola Bychok, C.Ss.R.	Member of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer	Bishop of Saints Peter and Paul of Melbourne (Ukrainian), Australia
19 Aug	25.6	Ordained Deacon	Arkadiusz Trochanowski	Deacon of Wrocław-Gdańsk (Ukrainian), Poland	Bishop of Olsztyn-Gdańsk (Ukrainian), Poland
20 Aug	93.6	Died	Nicola Riezzo †	Archbishop Emeritus of Otranto, Italy
22 Aug	26.5	Ordained Priest	Dimas Antonio Acuña Jiménez	Priest of Barranquilla, Colombia	Bishop of El Banco, Colombia
52.3	Ordained Bishop	Augustine Kasujja	Titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Numidia	Apostolic Nuncio
56.0	Appointed	Osvaldo Montecillo Padilla	Apostolic Nuncio to Nigeria	Apostolic Nuncio
27.9	Perpetual Vows	Kornelius Sipayung, O.F.M. Cap.	Member of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin	Archbishop of Medan, Indonesia
23 Aug	68.5	Installed	Amédée (Antoine-Marie) Grab, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Chur, Switzerland	Bishop Emeritus
28.4	Ordained Priest	Nestor-Désiré Nongo-Aziagbia, S.M.A.	Priest of Society of African Missions	Bishop of Bossangoa, Central African Republic
27.7	Perpetual Vows	Pierre Olivier Tremblay, O.M.I.	Member of Oblates of Mary Immaculate	Bishop of Hearst-Moosonee, Ontario, Canada
25 Aug	32.2	Ordained Priest	John Bosco Chang Shin-Ho	Priest of Daegu {Taegu}, Korea (South)	Auxiliary Bishop
33.0	Ordained Priest	Clement Mulenga, S.D.B.	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Bishop of Kabwe, Zambia
26 Aug	73.5	Resigned	Luciano José Cabral Duarte †	Archbishop of Aracajú, Sergipe, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
59.4	Appointed	Stefan Cichy	Auxiliary Bishop of Katowice, Poland	Bishop Emeritus of Legnica, Poland
59.4	Appointed	Stefan Cichy	Titular Bishop of Bonusta	Bishop Emeritus of Legnica, Poland
72.7	Retired	Agostinho Willy Kist, S.J. †	Bishop of Diamantino, Mato Grosso, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
46.8	Succeeded	Canísio Klaus	Bishop of Diamantino, Mato Grosso, Brazil	Bishop of Sinop, Mato Grosso, Brazil
56.6	Succeeded	José Palmeira Lessa	Archbishop of Aracajú, Sergipe, Brazil	Archbishop Emeritus
27 Aug	70.1	Died	Bernard Francis Pappin †	Auxiliary Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada
65.3	Succeeded	Luis María Pérez de Onraita Aguirre †	Bishop of Malanje, Angola	Archbishop Emeritus of Malanje, Angola
75.0	Retired	Eugénio Salessu †	Bishop of Malanje, Angola	Bishop Emeritus
28 Aug	68.5	Appointed	Jean Marie Louis Bonfils, S.M.A.	Bishop of Nice, France	Bishop Emeritus
53.9	Ordained Bishop	Célio de Oliveira Goulart, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Leopoldina, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop of São João del Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil
93.2	Died	Rajarethinam Arokiasamy Sundaram †	Bishop Emeritus of Tanjore, India
29 Aug	51.7	Ordained Bishop	Luigi Gatti	Titular Archbishop of Santa Giusta	Apostolic Nuncio
54.0	Ordained Bishop	Antonius Lambertus Maria Hurkmans	Bishop of ’s-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), Netherlands	Bishop Emeritus
67.1	Installed	Giuseppe Malandrino	Bishop of Noto, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
28.8	Ordained Priest	Rayarala Vijay Kumar, P.I.M.E.	Priest of Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions	Bishop of Srikakulam, India
55.7	Ordained Bishop	John Baptist Tseng Chien-tsi	Titular Bishop of Sululos	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Hwalien, Taiwan
31 Aug	63.8	Resigned	Tadeusz Władysław Pieronek †	Auxiliary Bishop of Sosnowiec, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus

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