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Year	Age	Bishop	Event	Title	Current Title
1931		Eugene Jerome Cooney	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
1934		Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja, S.J.	Born		Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Jakarta, Indonesia
1935		Percival Joseph Fernandez	Born		Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bombay, India
1939		Paul Bemile	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Wa, Ghana
1943		Antonio Buoncristiani	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Siena-Colle di Val d’Elsa-Montalcino, Italy
1945		Pierre Bürcher	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Reykjavik, Iceland
1947		Alonso Gerardo Garza Treviño	Born		Bishop Emeritus of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, México
1947		Francisco Javier Martínez Fernández	Born		Archbishop Emeritus of Granada, Spain
1950		Aloysius Murwito, O.F.M.	Born		Bishop of Agats, Indonesia
1951		Robert Michael Kasun, C.S.B.	Born		Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1952	24.8	Robert Joseph Banks	Ordained Priest	Priest of Boston, Massachusetts, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
1952	25.0	Daniel Anthony Cronin	Ordained Priest	Priest of Boston, Massachusetts, USA	Archbishop Emeritus of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
1953		Maurizio Gervasoni	Born		Bishop of Vigevano, Italy
1953		Carmen Ros Nortes, N.S.C.	Born		Under Secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
1954		François Marie Aimé Marius Fonlupt	Born		Archbishop of Avignon, France
1957		Christopher Michael Cardone, O.P.	Born		Archbishop of Honiara, Solomon Islands
1958		Karel Marinus Choennie	Born		Bishop of Paramaribo, Suriname, Antilles
1958	22.6	Barry James Hickey	Ordained Priest	Priest of Perth, Australia	Archbishop Emeritus
1959	30.9	Michael Michai Kitbunchu	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bangkok, Thailand	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	23.8	Gilbert Marie Michel Méranville	Ordained Priest	Priest of Fort-de-France (e Saint Pierre), Martinique, Antilles	Archbishop Emeritus
	24.2	Richard John Sklba	Ordained Priest	Priest of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
1961	25.0	Adrian Leo Doyle	Ordained Priest	Priest of Hobart, Australia	Archbishop Emeritus
	26.0	John Clement Favalora	Ordained Priest	Priest of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA	Archbishop Emeritus of Miami, Florida, USA
		Jesús José Herrera Quiñonez	Born		Bishop of Culiacán, Sinaloa, México
	25.0	Joseph Kingsley Swampillai	Ordained Priest	Priest of Jaffna, Sri Lanka	Bishop Emeritus of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
	24.8	John George Vlazny	Ordained Priest	Priest of Chicago, Illinois, USA	Archbishop Emeritus of Portland in Oregon, USA
1962		Bruno Cosme, M.E.P.	Born		Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Kompong-Cham, Cambodia
1964	25.4	François-Xavier Jacques Marie Loizeau	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Luçon, France	Bishop Emeritus of Digne (-Riez-Sisteron), France
	25.3	François Paul Marie Maupu	Ordained Priest	Priest of Orléans, France	Bishop Emeritus of Verdun, France
	23.1	Luciano Pacomio	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Casale Monferrato, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Mondovi, Italy
	27.4	Victor Antonio Tamayo Betancourt	Ordained Priest	Priest of Barranquilla, Colombia	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
1965	25.6	Timothy Joseph Carroll, S.M.A.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of African Missions	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Kontagora, Nigeria
1967	30.9	Bosco Penha	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bombay, India	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
1967	27.4	Roger Lawrence Schwietz, O.M.I.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate	Archbishop Emeritus of Anchorage, Alaska, USA
1968	25.3	John Raymond Gaydos	Ordained Priest	Priest of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Jefferson City, Missouri, USA
	25.8	Richard Edmund Pates	Ordained Priest	Priest of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Des Moines, Iowa, USA
	24.6	Arthur Joseph Serratelli	Ordained Priest	Priest of Newark, New Jersey, USA	Bishop Emeritus of Paterson, New Jersey, USA
1969	25.0	Joseph Alessandro, O.F.M. Cap.	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin	Bishop Emeritus of Garissa, Kenya
	29.0	Gérard Émile Jean-Louis Coliche	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lille, France	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Lille, France
	26.2	João Nílton dos Santos Souza	Ordained Priest	Priest of Amargosa, Bahia, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	34.1	Antony Selvanayagam	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Bishop Emeritus of Penang, Malaysia
	23.7	Maria Callist Soosa Pakiam	Ordained Priest	Priest of Trivandrum, India	Archbishop Emeritus of Trivandrum, India
1970	25.9	Oswald Gracias	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bombay, India	Cardinal, Archbishop
	24.9	Jean-Pierre Kutwa	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
	25.6	Armando José María Rossi, O.P.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Preachers	Bishop Emeritus of Concepción, Argentina
1971		Salvador González Morales	Born		Auxiliary Bishop of México, Federal District
1971	25.4	George Njaralakatt	Ordained Priest	Priest of Tellicherry (Syro-Malabar), India	Archbishop Emeritus of Tellicherry (Syro-Malabar), India
1975	30.4	Gerald Richard Barnes	Ordained Priest	Priest of San Antonio, Texas, USA	Bishop Emeritus of San Bernardino, California, USA
1975	27.7	Edson Tasquetto (Taschetto) Damian	Ordained Priest	Priest of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas, Brazil
1976	46.9	Victorio Oliver Domingo	Appointed	Bishop of Tarazona, Spain	Bishop Emeritus of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain
1980	32.4	Joseph Shipandeni Shikongo, O.M.I.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Rundu, Namibia
1981	27.5	Flávio Giovenale, S.D.B.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Bishop of Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil
1982	28.6	George Palliparampil (Palliparambil), S.D.B.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Bishop of Miao, India
1983	48.5	Manuel Camilo Vial Risopatrón, P. Schönstatt	Appointed	Bishop of San Felipe, Chile	Bishop Emeritus of Temuco, Chile
1984	27.6	Linus Neli	Ordained Priest	Priest of Imphal, India	Archbishop of Imphal, India
1985	46.8	Alberto Suárez Inda	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tacámbaro, Michoacán, México	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Morelia, Michoacán, México
1986	28.5	Jorge Enrique Concha Cayuqueo, O.F.M.	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor	Bishop of Temuco, Chile
	29.0	Antônio Carlos Félix	Ordained Priest	Priest of Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bishop of Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
	29.1	Pedro Mario Ossandón Buljevic	Ordained Priest	Priest of Santiago de Chile	Bishop of Chile, Military
1987	26.0	Jesús José Herrera Quiñonez	Ordained Priest	Priest of Mexicali, Baja California Norte, México	Bishop of Culiacán, Sinaloa, México
1987	43.8	Braulio Rodríguez Plaza	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Osma-Soria, Spain	Archbishop Emeritus of Toledo, Spain
1992	25.3	Leomar Antônio Brustolin	Ordained Priest	Priest of Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	Archbishop of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
	43.0	Joseph Nguyễn Chí Linh	Ordained Priest	Priest of Nha Trang, Viet Nam	Archbishop of Huế, Viet Nam
	28.4	Aldemiro Sena dos Santos	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil	Bishop of Guarabira, Paraiba, Brazil
1993	40.9	Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Goa e Damão, India	Cardinal, Archbishop
	40.9	Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Vanariona	Cardinal, Archbishop of Goa e Damão, India
	48.8	Philip Lasap Za Hawng	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Myitkyina, Myanmar	Bishop Emeritus of Lashio, Myanmar
	48.8	Philip Lasap Za Hawng	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Avioccala	Bishop Emeritus of Lashio, Myanmar
1994	59.0	John Clement Favalora	Installed	Archbishop of Miami, Florida, USA	Archbishop Emeritus
1995	50.4	Mauro Montagnoli, C.S.S.	Appointed	Bishop of Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	49.3	Carlos José Ñáñez	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Tucumán, Argentina	Archbishop Emeritus of Córdoba, Argentina
	50.4	Stanisław Ryłko	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Novica	Cardinal, Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}
	50.4	Stanisław Ryłko	Appointed	Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity	Cardinal, Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}
1997	27.2	Armando Matteo	Ordained Priest	Priest of Catanzaro-Squillace, Italy	Secretary of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
1998	30.8	Devair Araújo da Fonseca	Ordained Priest	Priest of Franca, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop of Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil
	29.3	Honoré Beugré Dakpa	Ordained Priest	Priest of Gagnoa, Côte d’Ivoire	Bishop of Katiola, Côte d’Ivoire
	42.9	Marcelo Arturo González Amador	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Segia	Bishop of Santa Clara, Cuba
	57.4	Thomas Yeh Sheng-nan	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Leptis Magna	Apostolic Nuncio
2000	69.1	Antônio Gaspar	Appointed	Bishop of Barretos, Sao Paulo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	50.6	Ismael Rueda Sierra	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Cartagena, Colombia	Archbishop of Bucaramanga, Colombia
	50.6	Ismael Rueda Sierra	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Buruni	Archbishop of Bucaramanga, Colombia
	28.5	Jean Baptiste Valter Manga	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ziguinchor, Senegal	Bishop-Elect
2001	48.2	Reinhard Marx	Appointed	Bishop of Trier, Germany	Cardinal, Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}, Germany
2003	30.8	Stanislaus Min Ko	Ordained Priest	Priest of Yangon, Myanmar	Coadjutor Bishop of Hpa-an, Myanmar
2003	56.9	Thomas James Olmsted	Installed	Bishop of Phoenix, Arizona, USA	Bishop Emeritus
2004	54.3	Thomas Edward Gullickson	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Grenada, Antilles	Apostolic Nuncio
2007	47.8	Eugène Cyrille Houndékon	Appointed	Bishop of Abomey, Benin
2007	34.7	Joseph Vũ Công Viện	Ordained Priest	Priest of Hà Nội, Viet Nam	Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
2009	45.5	Franz-Josef Overbeck	Installed	Bishop of Essen, Germany
2009	45.7	Milton Luis Tróccoli Cebedio	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Munatiana	Bishop of Maldonado-Punta del Este-Minas, Uruguay
2010	56.1	Thaddeus Cho Hwan-Kil	Installed	Archbishop of Daegu {Taegu}, Korea (South)
2010	28.2	Younan (Benedict Qusay Mubarak Abdullah) Hano	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Mossul (Syrian), Iraq	Archbishop
2013	55.6	Alfredo José Espinoza Mateus, S.D.B.	Appointed	Bishop of Loja, Ecuador	Archbishop of Quito, Ecuador
2014	80.0	Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Bertone, S.D.B.	Retired	Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber	Cardinal, Secretary Emeritus of the Secretariat of State
	77.9	Pier Luigi Celata	Retired	Vice-Chamberlain of the Apostolic Chamber	Vice-Chamberlain Emeritus
	66.0	César Augusto Franco Martínez	Installed	Bishop of Segovia, Spain
	56.5	Giampiero Gloder	Appointed	Vice-Chamberlain of the Apostolic Chamber	Apostolic Nuncio to Romania
	49.5	Francisco Javier Pistilli Scorzara, P. Schönstatt	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Encarnación, Paraguay
	54.9	José Guadalupe Torres Campos	Appointed	Bishop of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México
	55.0	Henryk Wejman	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Sinitis	Auxiliary Bishop of Szczecin-Kamień, Poland
2015	57.7	Renauld Marie François Dupont de Dinechin	Installed	Bishop of Soissons (-Laon-Saint-Quentin), France
2015	48.3	Andrea Migliavacca	Installed	Bishop of San Miniato, Italy	Bishop of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, Italy
2016	55.2	Barthol Barretto	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay, India	Bishop of Nashik, India
	55.2	Barthol Barretto	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Strongoli	Bishop of Nashik, India
	68.6	Allwyn D’Silva	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay, India	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
	68.6	Allwyn D’Silva	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Dura	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bombay, India
	58.5	Gregory Paul Homeming, O.C.D.	Appointed	Bishop of Lismore, Australia
	79.0	Geoffrey Hylton Jarrett	Retired	Bishop of Lismore, Australia	Bishop Emeritus
2017	53.7	Sebastião Lima Duarte	Appointed	Bishop of Caxias do Maranhão, Brazil
2019	50.9	Antonio Crameri, S.S.C.	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Guayaquil, Ecuador	Vicar Apostolic of Esmeraldas, Ecuador
	50.9	Antonio Crameri, S.S.C.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Apollonia	Vicar Apostolic of Esmeraldas, Ecuador
	51.6	Joseph Antoine Khawam, B.A.	Appointed	Apostolic Exarch of Venezuela (Melkite Greek)
	51.6	Joseph Antoine Khawam, B.A.	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Apamea in Syria dei Greco-Melkiti	Apostolic Exarch of Venezuela (Melkite Greek)
	51.6	Joseph Antoine Khawam, B.A.	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Nuestra Señora del Paraíso en México (Melkite Greek)	Apostolic Exarch of Venezuela (Melkite Greek)
	75.3	Nicholas James Samra	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Nuestra Señora del Paraíso en México (Melkite Greek)	Bishop Emeritus of Newton (Our Lady of the Annunciation in Boston) (Melkite Greek), USA
2020	78.6	Michel Marie Jacques Dubost, C.I.M.	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Lyon, France	Bishop Emeritus of Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes, France
	60.2	Olivier Jacques Marie de Germay de Cirfontaine	Installed	Archbishop of Lyon, France
	55.7	Thomas John Kiangio	Appointed	Administrator of Tanga, Tanzania	Bishop
	47.2	Javier Vilanova Pellisa	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Empúries	Auxiliary Bishop of Barcelona, Spain
2022	69.8	Diego Maria (Gualtiero) Rosa, O.S.B.	Confirmed	Abbot of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Italy
	61.1	Geraldo de Paula Souza, C.Ss.R.	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tinista	Auxiliary Bishop of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	61.7	Josef Stübi	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Basel {Bâle, Basilea}, Switzerland
	61.7	Josef Stübi	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Lemellefa	Auxiliary Bishop of Basel {Bâle, Basilea}, Switzerland
	61.9	Pedro Javier Torres Aliaga	Installed	Bishop of Rafaela, Argentina
2023	61.2	Michel Moura	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Rodrigues, Mauritius

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