Recent Events

Fr. Alan Campeau was consecrated as Bishop of Thunder Bay (Canada)

Fr. Jean Tailleur was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Abora and Auxiliary Bishop of Québec (Canada)

Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi resigned as Apostolic Nuncio to Albania

Fr. Alan Campeau, Priest of London (Canada), was elected Bishop of Thunder Bay (Canada)

Archbishop Murray Chatlain, Metropolitan Archbishop of Keewatin–Le Pas (Canada), was appointed as Archbishop of Winnipeg (Canada)

Archbishop Richard Joseph Gagnon resigned as Archbishop of Winnipeg (Canada)

Bishop Stephen Victor Chmilar, Bishop emeritus of Toronto of the Ukrainians (Canada), passed away at 79

Fr. Jean Tailleur, Priest of Québec (Canada), was elected Titular Bishop of Abora and Auxiliary Bishop of Québec (Canada)

Archbishop Frank Leo, Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto (Canada), was created Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria della Salute a Primavalle

Bishop Frederick Bernard Henry, Bishop emeritus of Calgary (Canada), passed away at 81

Bishop Kurt Richard Burnette resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Holy Protection of Mary of Phoenix of the Ruthenians (USA)

Bishop Pierre Laurent Jubinville, C.S.Sp., Bishop of San Pedro (Paraguay) and Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Paraguay, was appointed as President of Episcopal Conference of Paraguay

Sr. Marie-Léonie Paradis (Alodie-Virginie), P.S.S.F., was canonised

Bishop Alain Faubert, Titular Bishop of Vicus Pacati and Auxiliary Bishop of Montréal (Canada), was appointed as Bishop of Valleyfield (Canada)

Bishop Noël Simard resigned as Bishop of Valleyfield (Canada)

Fr. Michael Brehl, C.SS.R., was consecrated as Bishop of Pembroke (Canada)

Abbot Peter Wilfred Novecosky, O.S.B., Abbot Ordinary emeritus of Saint Peter–Muenster (Canada), passed away at 79

Bishop Frederick Joseph Colli resigned as Bishop of Thunder Bay (Canada)

Fr. Parsegh Baghdassarian (Manuel), I.C.P.B., was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Comana Armeniæ and Auxiliary Bishop of Our Lady of Nareg in Glendale of the Armenians (USA)

Fr. Michael Brehl, C.SS.R., was elected Bishop of Pembroke (Canada)

Cardinal Marc Ouellet, P.S.S., Cardinal-Bishop of S. Maria in Traspontina, Prefect emeritus of Dicastery for Bishops and President emeritus of Pontifical Commission for Latin America, reached the age of 80 and became ineligible to vote in a future conclave (Canada)

Fr. Parsegh Baghdassarian (Manuel), I.C.P.B., was elected Titular Bishop of Comana Armeniæ and Auxiliary Bishop of Our Lady of Nareg in Glendale of the Armenians (USA)

Archbishop Petar Rajič, Apostolic Nuncio to Lithuania, Apostolic Nuncio to Estonia and Apostolic Nuncio to Latvia, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Italy and Apostolic Nuncio to San Marino

Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., Prefect of Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and President of Vatican COVID-19 Commission, was appointed as Member of Council of the Section for Relations with States and International Organisations

Fr. Juan Carlos Londoño was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Baeza and Auxiliary Bishop of Québec (Canada)

Fr. Michel Proulx, O. Praem., was consecrated as Bishop of Bathurst (Canada)

Fr. Michael Smolinski (Михайло Смолінський), C.SS.R., was consecrated as Bishop of Saskatoon of the Ukrainians (Canada)

Bishop Pola Ayoub Matta Usama Shafik Akhnoukh, Bishop of Ismayliah of the Copts (Egypt), was appointed as Apostolic Visitator in the United States and Canada of the Copts

Fr. Juan Carlos Londoño, Priest of Medellín (Colombia), was elected Titular Bishop of Baeza and Auxiliary Bishop of Québec (Canada)

Bishop Jude Saint-Antoine, Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Montréal (Canada), passed away at 93

Archbishop Lawrence Daniel Huculak, O.S.B.M., resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Saskatoon of the Ukrainians (Canada)

Fr. Michael Smolinski (Михайло Смолінський), C.SS.R., was elected Bishop of Saskatoon of the Ukrainians (Canada)

Fr. Michael Kwiatkowski was consecrated as Bishop of New Westminster of the Ukrainians (Canada)

Fr. Michel Proulx, O. Praem., was elected Bishop of Bathurst (Canada)

Bishop Pierre Goudreault, Bishop of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (Canada), was appointed as Vice-President of Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops

Bishop William Terrence McGrattan, Bishop of Calgary (Canada) and Vice-President of Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, was appointed as President of Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops

Bishop Raymond Poisson resigned as President of Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops

Bishop Joseph Ferdinand Guy Boulanger, Bishop of Rouyn-Noranda (Canada), was appointed as Bishop of Amos (Canada)

Bishop Gilles Lemay resigned as Bishop of Amos (Canada)

Archbishop Adam Joseph Exner, O.M.I., Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Vancouver (Canada), passed away at 94

Bishop Kurt Richard Burnette resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Parma of the Ruthenians (USA)

Archbishop José Avelino Bettencourt, Apostolic Nuncio to Armenia and Apostolic Nuncio to Georgia, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Cameroon and Apostolic Nuncio to Equatorial Guinea

Fr. Michael Kwiatkowski, Priest of Winnipeg of the Ukrainians (Canada), was elected Bishop of New Westminster of the Ukrainians (Canada)

Bishop David Motiuk resigned as Apostolic Administrator of New Westminster of the Ukrainians (Canada)

Archbishop Marcel André Joseph Gervais, Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Ottawa (Canada), passed away at 91

Bishop Guy Desrochers, C.SS.R., Bishop of Pembroke (Canada), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Moncton (Canada)

Archbishop Valéry Vienneau resigned as Metropolitan Archbishop of Moncton (Canada)

Msgr. Carl Leonard Reid resigned as Ordinary of Our Lady of the Southern Cross (Australia)

Bishop François Thibodeau, C.I.M., Bishop emeritus of Edmundston (Canada), passed away at 83

Bishop Nicola De Angelis, C.F.I.C., Bishop emeritus of Peterborough (Canada), passed away at 84

Fr. Roland Laneuville, P.M.E., resigned as Superior General of Society of Foreign Missions

Fr. Ergete Tesfaye, P.M.E., was appointed as Superior General of Society of Foreign Missions

Fr. Pola Ayoub Matta Usama Shafik Akhnoukh was consecrated as Bishop of Ismayliah of the Copts (Egypt)

Bishop Kyrillos Kamal William Samaan, O.F.M., Bishop emeritus of Assiut of the Copts (Egypt), passed away at 76

Msgr. Claude Lamoureux was consecrated as Bishop of Gaspé (Canada)

Fra’ John Timothy Dunlap, S.M.O.M., Lieutenant of Grand Master of Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta (Knights of Malta), was appointed as Grand Master of Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta (Knights of Malta)

Cardinal Marc Ouellet, P.S.S., resigned as Prefect of Dicastery for Bishops and President of Pontifical Commission for Latin America

Bishop Józef Andrzej Dąbrowski, C.S.M.A., Titular Bishop of Casæ in Numidia and Auxiliary Bishop of London (Canada), was appointed as Bishop of Charlottetown (Canada)

Fr. Pola Ayoub Matta Usama Shafik Akhnoukh, Priest of Assiut of the Copts (Egypt), was elected Bishop of Ismayliah of the Copts (Egypt)

Bishop Joseph Edward Troy, Bishop emeritus of Saint John, New Brunswick (Canada), passed away at 91