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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Apr	85.9	Died	Miguel Angel Aguilar Miranda †	Bishop Emeritus of Ecuador, Military
	48.7	Appointed	Yohane Suzgo Nyirenda	Bishop of Mzuzu, Malawi
	73.0	Resigned	John Alphonsus Ryan, S.P.S.	Bishop of Mzuzu, Malawi	Bishop Emeritus
2 Apr	55.7	Installed	Midyphil Bermejo Billones	Archbishop of Jaro, Philippines
	47.7	Appointed	Giacomo Cardinali	Vice Prefect of the Vatican Library
	66.2	Appointed	Augustin Simmel Ndiaye	Bishop of Saint-Louis du Sénégal	Bishop-Elect
	53.6	Appointed	Ronald Anthony Parco Timoner	Bishop of Pagadian, Philippines	Bishop-Elect
3 Apr	57.5	Installed	Robert Gerald Casey	Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
	52.0	Ordained Bishop	Peter Chao Yung-Chi	Titular Bishop of Rusguniae	Auxiliary Bishop of Taipei, Taiwan
	94.7	Died	Theodore Edgar McCarrick †
	59.6	Ceased	Jaya Rao Polimera	Apostolic Administrator of Visakhapatnam, India	Bishop of Eluru, India
	70.7	Installed	Udumala Bala Showreddy	Archbishop of Visakhapatnam, India
4 Apr	62.2	Installed	Murray Chatlain	Archbishop of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
	78.1	Died	Peter Turang †	Archbishop Emeritus of Kupang, Indonesia
5 Apr	63.6	Ceased	Ignace Bessi Dogbo	Apostolic Administrator of Korhogo, Côte d’Ivoire	Cardinal, Archbishop of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
	60.0	Ceased	Georges Bizimana	Apostolic Administrator of Bubanza, Burundi	Bishop of Ngozi, Burundi
	55.6	Ordained Bishop	Armand Koné	Archbishop of Korhogo, Côte d’Ivoire
	49.8	Appointed	Ósmar Pedro López Benítez	Bishop of San Juan Bautista de las Misiones, Paraguay	Bishop-Elect
	75.8	Retired	Malcolm Patrick McMahon, O.P.	Archbishop of Liverpool, England, Great Britain	Archbishop Emeritus
	68.2	Ordained Bishop	Emmanuel Ntakarutimana, O.P.	Bishop of Bubanza, Burundi
	57.8	Appointed	Arkadiusz Okroj	Bishop of Toruń, Poland
	67.2	Appointed	John Francis Sherrington	Archbishop of Liverpool, England, Great Britain
6 Apr	92.8	Died	Paschal Topno, S.J. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Bhopal, India
8 Apr	63.0	Appointed	Jean-Jacques Koffi Oi Koffi	Archbishop of Gagnoa, Côte d’Ivoire
	57.8	Appointed	Bruce Alan Lewandowski, C.Ss.R.	Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island, USA
	56.7	Appointed	William Shawn McKnight	Archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas, USA
	75.8	Appointed	Joseph Fred Naumann	Apostolic Administrator of Kansas City in Kansas, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
	75.8	Retired	Joseph Fred Naumann	Archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
	56.9	Appointed	Antônio Carlos Paiva	Coadjutor Bishop of Oliveira, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Coadjutor Bishop-Elect
	75.0	Retired	Ireneusz Józef Pękalski	Auxiliary Bishop of Łódź, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	50.2	Appointed	Wilder Alberto Vásquez Saldaña, O.S.A.	Prelate of Chuquibambilla, Peru
9 Apr	48.6	Appointed	Evandro Luis Braun	Bishop of Campo Mourão, Parana, Brazil	Bishop-Elect
	57.1	Appointed	Francisco de Assis Gabriel dos Santos, C.Ss.R.	Bishop of Cajazeiras, Paraiba, Brazil
	58.0	Appointed	Patrick S. Eluke	Apostolic Administrator of Port Harcourt, Nigeria	Auxiliary Bishop
	75.6	Retired	Camillus Archibong Etokudoh	Bishop of Port Harcourt, Nigeria	Bishop Emeritus
	85.9	Ceased	Bali Gali	Apostolic Administrator of Cuddapah, India	Bishop Emeritus of Guntur, India
	61.8	Appointed	Luis Manuel López Alfaro	Bishop of Tapachula, Chiapas, México
	64.3	Ordained Bishop	Paul Prakash Saginala	Bishop of Cuddapah, India
10 Apr	95.6	Died	René Marie Albert Dupont, M.E.P. †	Bishop Emeritus of Andong, Korea (South)
	67.2	Appointed	Luis Albeiro Maldonado Monsalve	Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia
	65.0	Retired	Santo Marcianò	Archbishop of Italy, Military	Archbishop Emeritus
	56.5	Appointed	Gian Franco Saba	Archbishop of Italy, Military
11 Apr	80.8	Appointed	Sevastianos Rossolatos	Apostolic Administrator of Syros (e Milos), Greece	Archbishop Emeritus of Athēnai {Athens}, Greece
	80.8	Appointed	Sevastianos Rossolatos	Apostolic Administrator of Santorini {Thira}, Greece	Archbishop Emeritus of Athēnai {Athens}, Greece
	80.8	Appointed	Sevastianos Rossolatos	Apostolic Administrator of Crete {Candia}, Greece	Archbishop Emeritus of Athēnai {Athens}, Greece
	61.6	Resigned	Petros Stefanou	Bishop of Syros (e Milos), Greece	Bishop Emeritus
	61.6	Resigned	Petros Stefanou	Bishop of Santorini {Thira}, Greece	Bishop Emeritus of Syros (e Milos), Greece
	61.6	Resigned	Petros Stefanou	Apostolic Administrator of Crete {Candia}, Greece	Bishop Emeritus of Syros (e Milos), Greece
	88.0	Died	Michelangelo Riccardo Maria Tiribilli, O.S.B. †	Abbot Emeritus of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Italy
12 Apr	72.1	Appointed	Varghese Chakkalakal	Archbishop of Calicut, India	Archbishop of Calicut, India
	55.9	Appointed	Sonatan Kisku	Auxiliary Bishop of Dumka, India	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
	55.9	Appointed	Sonatan Kisku	Titular Bishop of Zarna	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Dumka, India
	75.8	Retired	Ignatius Loyola Ivan Mascarenhas	Bishop of Simla and Chandigarh, India	Bishop Emeritus
	65.8	Ceased	Bonaventure Nahimana	Apostolic Administrator of Rutana, Burundi	Archbishop of Gitega, Burundi
	64.6	Ordained Bishop	Léonidas Nitereka	Bishop of Rutana, Burundi
	67.1	Ordained Bishop	José Maria Pereira	Titular Bishop of Sigus	Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	61.0	Appointed	Gábor Pintér	Apostolic Nuncio to Cook Islands, Pacific (Oceania)	Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand
	61.0	Appointed	Gábor Pintér	Apostolic Nuncio to Kiribati, Pacific (Oceania)	Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand
	61.0	Appointed	Gábor Pintér	Apostolic Nuncio to Marshall Islands, Pacific (Oceania)	Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand
	61.0	Appointed	Gábor Pintér	Apostolic Nuncio to Samoa, Pacific (Oceania)	Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand
	61.0	Appointed	Gábor Pintér	Apostolic Nuncio to Nauru, Pacific (Oceania)	Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand
	60.2	Installed	Susitino Sionepoe, S.M.	Archbishop of Nouméa, New Caledonia, Pacific (Oceania)
	69.8	Appointed	Jean-Marie Antoine Joseph Speich	Apostolic Nuncio to Netherlands
	53.4	Appointed	Sahaya Thatheus Thomas	Bishop of Simla and Chandigarh, India	Bishop-Elect
	60.7	Appointed	Brian Ngozi Udaigwe	Apostolic Nuncio to Ethiopia
13 Apr	61.4	Died	Geraldo de Souza Rodrigues †	Bishop of Januária, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	79.4	Died	Albert Privet Thévenot, M. Afr. †	Bishop Emeritus of Prince-Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada
14 Apr	60.2	Appointed	Glenn Montebon Corsiga	Bishop of Ipil, Philippines	Bishop-Elect
	60.5	Died	Piotr Wojciech Turzyński †	Auxiliary Bishop of Radom, Poland
15 Apr	53.9	Appointed	Éric Bidot, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Tulle, France	Bishop-Elect
	69.9	Appointed	Miguel Fritz, O.M.I.	Vicar Apostolic of Pilcomayo, Paraguay
	58.7	Appointed	Joseph Mopepe Ngongo	Bishop of Molegbe, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop-Elect
	92.2	Died	Angélico Sândalo Bernardino †	Bishop Emeritus of Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil
	86.3	Died	Werner Thissen †	Archbishop Emeritus of Hamburg, Germany
17 Apr	59.0	Appointed	Marek Ochlak, O.M.I.	Bishop of Fenoarivo Atsinanana, Madagascar	Bishop-Elect
18 Apr	95.5	Died	Patricio Infante Alfonso †	Archbishop Emeritus of Antofagasta, Chile
19 Apr	95.1	Died	David Cremin †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Sydney, Australia
21 Apr	62.8	Ceased	Alejandro Arellano Cedillo, C.O.R.C.	Dean of the Roman Rota	Dean Emeritus
	88.3	Died	Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J. †	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
	65.3	Ceased	Maximino Caballero Ledo	Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy	Prefect Emeritus
	78.7	Ceased	Michael F. Czerny, S.J.	Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	77.6	Ceased	Kevin Joseph Farrell	Prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	64.6	Ceased	Ángel Fernández Artime, S.D.B.	Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life	Cardinal, Pro-Prefect Emeritus
	62.7	Ceased	Victor Manuel Fernández	Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	69.5	Ceased	Claudio Gugerotti	Prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	67.3	Ceased	Filippo Iannone, O. Carm.	Prefect of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts	Prefect Emeritus
	75.0	Ceased	Kurt Koch	Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	51.6	Ceased	George Jacob Koovakad	Prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	73.1	Ceased	Dominique François Joseph Mamberti	Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	59.3	Ceased	José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça	Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	70.2	Ceased	Pietro Parolin	Secretary of State	Cardinal, Secretary Emeritus
	50.1	Ceased	Giordano Piccinotti, S.D.B.	President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See	President Emeritus
	69.6	Ceased	Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A.	Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	75.1	Ceased	Arthur Roche	Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	68.5	Ceased	Paolo Ruffini	Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication	Prefect Emeritus
	77.3	Ceased	Marcello Semeraro	Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
	73.4	Ceased	Lazzaro You Heung-sik	Prefect of the Dicastery for the Clergy	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus
The future events listed below have been publicly announced, but are subject to change.
24 Apr	58.9	Installed	Luiz Antônio Lopes Ricci	Bishop of Itapetininga, Sao Paulo, Brazil
25 Apr	73.1	Ceased	Rodrigo Aguilar Martínez	Apostolic Administrator of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México	Bishop of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México
	63.6	Ordained Bishop	Giancarlo Dellagiovanna	Titular Archbishop of Sistroniana	Apostolic Nuncio to Burkina Faso
	59.1	Installed	José Francisco González González	Archbishop of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México
26 Apr	70.4	Installed	Camillo Cibotti	Bishop of Trivento, Italy	Bishop of Isernia-Venafro, Italy
	56.6	Ordained Bishop	Guy Mukasa Sanon	Bishop of Nouna, Burkina Faso	Bishop-Elect
	53.9	Ordained Bishop	Hiansen Vieira Franco	Titular Bishop of Tigava	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
27 Apr	55.8	Ordained Bishop	Romanus Elamu Mihaliè	Bishop of Iringa, Tanzania	Bishop-Elect
	60.4	Ordained Bishop	Joselito Ramalho Nogueira	Titular Bishop of Tinum	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	51.3	Ordained Bishop	Augustine Thang Zawm Hung	Bishop of Mindat, Myanmar	Bishop-Elect
29 Apr	66.8	Ceased	Christopher James Coyne	Apostolic Administrator of Norwich, Connecticut, USA	Archbishop of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
	66.9	Ordained Bishop	Richard Francis Reidy	Bishop of Norwich, Connecticut, USA	Bishop-Elect
1 May	60.0	Ordained Bishop	Herman Guinto Abcede, R.C.J.	Bishop of Daet, Philippines	Bishop-Elect
	52.8	Ordained Bishop	Johannes Freitag	Titular Bishop of Guzabeta	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Graz-Seckau, Austria
	59.4	Ordained Bishop	John Edward Keehner, Jr.	Bishop of Sioux City, Iowa, USA	Bishop-Elect
	76.4	Ceased	John (Gordon) MacWilliam, M. Afr.	Apostolic Administrator of Laghouat, Algeria	Bishop Emeritus
	51.6	Ordained Bishop	Eloy Alberto Santiago Santiago	Bishop of San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife, Spain	Bishop-Elect
	53.7	Installed	Diego Ramón Sarrió Cucarella, M. Afr.	Bishop of Laghouat, Algeria
	64.3	Ordained Bishop	Fabian Toppo	Bishop of Jalpaiguri, India	Bishop-Elect
	60.2	Installed	Zbigniew Jan Zieliński	Archbishop of Poznań, Poland
2 May	62.0	Ordained Bishop	Anthony Gerard Percy	Titular Bishop of Appiaria	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Sydney, Australia
3 May	59.9	Installed	Ángel Francisco Caraballo Fermín	Archbishop of Cumaná, Venezuela
	58.3	Installed	André Guèye	Archbishop of Dakar, Senegal
	48.8	Installed	Yohane Suzgo Nyirenda	Bishop of Mzuzu, Malawi
	107.8	Beatified	Petro Pavlo Oros †	Auxiliary Bishop of Mukachevo (Munkács) (Ruthenian), Ukraine
	78.0	Ceased	Mariano José Parra Sandoval	Apostolic Administrator of Cumaná, Venezuela	Archbishop Emeritus of Coro, Venezuela
	56.8	Ordained Bishop	Ángel Román Idígoras	Bishop of Albacete, Spain	Bishop-Elect
4 May	60.2	Installed	Jailton de Oliveira Lino, P.S.D.P.	Bishop of Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil
7 May	60.8	Installed	Michael George McGovern	Archbishop of Omaha, Nebraska, USA
9 May	56.7	Ordained Bishop	Gregg Michael Caggianelli	Titular Bishop of Gemellae in Byzacena	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of United States of America, Military
10 May	68.6	Ordained Bishop	Marcelo Benítez Martínez, O.F.M.	Bishop of Caazapá, Paraguay	Bishop-Elect
	50.8	Ordained Bishop	Estêvão Ângelo Fernando	Bishop of Alto Molócuè, Mozambique	Bishop-Elect
	70.4	Ordained Bishop	Vitalis Sekhonyana Marole, O.M.I.	Bishop of Leribe, Lesotho	Bishop-Elect
11 May	66.6	Ordained Bishop	Saverio Antonio Gennaro Cannistrà, O.C.D.	Archbishop of Pisa, Italy	Archbishop-Elect
	56.0	Ordained Bishop	John Carvalho	Bishop of Ajmer, India	Bishop-Elect
	80.7	Ceased	Oswald Joseph Lewis	Apostolic Administrator of Ajmer, India	Bishop Emeritus of Jaipur, India
14 May	55.7	Ordained Bishop	Bernardus Bofitwos Baru, O.S.A.	Bishop of Timika, Indonesia	Bishop-Elect
	61.0	Ordained Bishop	Charles Duval, C.Ss.R.	Coadjutor Archbishop of Grouard-McLennan, Alberta, Canada	Coadjutor Archbishop-Elect
17 May	63.1	Installed	Jean-Jacques Koffi Oi Koffi	Archbishop of Gagnoa, Côte d’Ivoire
	134.6	Beatified	Eduard Profittlich, S.J. †	Apostolic Administrator of Estonia
	51.7	Ordained Bishop	Antônio Ranis Rosendo Dos Santos, C.Ss.R.	Bishop of Caicó, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil	Bishop-Elect
18 May	52.8	Ordained Bishop	Giuseppe Luigi Spiga	Bishop of Grajaú, Maranhão, Brazil	Bishop-Elect
20 May		Ceased	Albert A. Kenney	Administrator of Providence, Rhode Island, USA
	57.9	Installed	Bruce Alan Lewandowski, C.Ss.R.	Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island, USA
24 May	69.6	Installed	Jesús Fernández González	Bishop of Córdoba, Spain
	52.8	Ordained Bishop	David Koudougou	Bishop of Tenkodogo, Burkina Faso	Bishop-Elect
25 May	62.7	Ordained Bishop	Riccardo Battocchio	Bishop of Vittorio Veneto, Italy	Bishop-Elect
	48.1	Ordained Bishop	Josaphat Jackson Bududu	Titular Bishop of Vegesela in Numidia	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Tabora, Tanzania
27 May	56.9	Installed	William Shawn McKnight	Archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas, USA
	75.9	Ceased	Joseph Fred Naumann	Apostolic Administrator of Kansas City in Kansas, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
	67.3	Installed	John Francis Sherrington	Archbishop of Liverpool, England, Great Britain
28 May	62.4	Ordained Bishop	Pierre Charland, O.F.M.	Bishop of Baie-Comeau, Québec, Canada	Bishop-Elect
31 May	62.5	Installed	Júlio Endi Akamine, S.A.C.	Coadjutor Archbishop of Belém do Pará, Brazil
6 Jun	58.0	Installed	Arkadiusz Okroj	Bishop of Toruń, Poland
	70.6	Ceased	Józef Szamocki	Apostolic Administrator of Toruń, Poland	Auxiliary Bishop
14 Jun	67.9	Ordained Bishop	Pedro Aguado Cuesta, Sch. P.	Bishop of Huesca, Spain	Bishop-Elect
	81.3	Ceased	Vicente Jiménez Zamora	Apostolic Administrator of Huesca, Spain	Archbishop Emeritus of Zaragoza, Spain
	50.0	Ordained Bishop	Ósmar Pedro López Benítez	Bishop of San Juan Bautista de las Misiones, Paraguay	Bishop-Elect
	57.0	Ordained Bishop	Antônio Carlos Paiva	Coadjutor Bishop of Oliveira, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Coadjutor Bishop-Elect
	51.7	Installed	Antônio Ranis Rosendo Dos Santos, C.Ss.R.	Bishop of Caicó, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil	Bishop-Elect
15 Jun	67.9	Installed	Pedro Aguado Cuesta, Sch. P.	Bishop of Jaca, Spain	Bishop-Elect of Huesca, Spain
	54.0	Ordained Bishop	Éric Bidot, O.F.M. Cap.	Bishop of Tulle, France	Bishop-Elect
	81.3	Ceased	Vicente Jiménez Zamora	Apostolic Administrator of Jaca, Spain	Archbishop Emeritus of Zaragoza, Spain
18 Jun	55.8	Ordained Bishop	Andrés Sáinz Márquez	Prelate of Jesús María (del Nayar), Nayarit, México
27 Jun	62.0	Installed	Luis Manuel López Alfaro	Bishop of Tapachula, Chiapas, México
28 Jun	58.1	Ordained Bishop	Víctor Luís Quematcha, O.F.M.	Bishop of Bafatá, Guinea-Bissau	Bishop-Elect

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