Nominations and Resignations

Mission sui juris of Lunda was established (from Apostolic Prefecture of Lower Congo in Cubango) (Angola)

Titular Episcopal See of Nemesi was suppressed (Cyprus)

Titular Episcopal See of Lacedæmon was promoted as Titular Archiepiscopal See of Lacedæmon (Greece)

Titular Episcopal See of Tripolis in Libanum (Syriac Rite) was suppressed (Lebanon)

Titular Episcopal See of Sabrata was restored (Libya)

Titular Metropolitan See of Dioclea was restored (Montenegro)

Titular Episcopal See of Attalia was promoted as Titular Archiepiscopal See of Attalia (Turkiye)

Titular Episcopal See of Hypsus was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Ipsus (Turkiye)

Titular Episcopal See of Phocæa was restored (Turkiye)

Titular Episcopal See of Polybotus was restored (Turkiye)

Titular Episcopal See of Pompeiopolis was promoted as Titular Archiepiscopal See of Pompeiopolis (Turkiye)

Fr. Hyacinthe Bricet, S.M.A., resigned as Prefect Apostolic of Dahomey (Benin)

Bishop Juan Nepomuceno Rueda Rueda resigned as Bishop of Antioquía (Colombia)

Fr. Aurelio Briante, O.F.M., resigned as Custos of the Holy Land of Custody of the Holy Land

Bishop Ludwig Wahl resigned as Vicar Apostolic of Meißen (Germany) and Prefect Apostolic of Lausitz (Germany)

Abbot Mauro Serafini, O.S.B. Subl., was appointed as President of Subiaco Benedictine Congregation

Msgr. Agapito Panici resigned as Protonotary Apostolic de numero of Prefecture of the Holy Apostolic Palaces

Saint Fr. Giovanni Battista Piamarta, F.N., was appointed as Founder of Congregation of the Holy Family of Nazareth of Father John Piamarta

Prof. Giuseppe Angelini was appointed as Director of L’Osservatore Romano

Mr. Giovan Battista Casoni resigned as Director of L’Osservatore Romano

Fr. Frediano Giannini, O.F.M., was appointed as Custos of the Holy Land of Custody of the Holy Land

Bishop Paolo Marmarian, Bishop of Trapezus of the Armenians (Turkiye), passed away at 67

Abbot Amadeus de Bie, O. Cist., was appointed as Abbot General of Order of Cistercians (Cistercians)

Abbot Leopold Wackarz, O. Cist., resigned as Abbot General of Order of Cistercians (Cistercians)

Fr. Simone Maria Bernardini, O. Carm., was appointed as Prior General of Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Carmelites)

Fr. Augusto Ferretti, S.J., resigned as Rector Magnificus of Pontifical Gregorian University

Fr. Luigi Galli, O. Carm., resigned as Prior General of Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Carmelites)

Fr. Gregorius a Jesu et Maria, O.SS.T., was appointed as Mnister General of Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives (Trinitarians)

Fr. Emidio Rossi, S.J., was appointed as Rector Magnificus of Pontifical Gregorian University

Br. Richard Anthony Maxwell, C.F.C., resigned as Superior General of Christian Brothers

Br. Michael Titus Moylan, C.F.C., was appointed as Superior General of Christian Brothers

Sr. Marie de Saint-Julien Aubry, O.S.U., was appointed as Prioress General of Order of Saint Ursula of the Roman Union (Ursuline Sisters)

Apostolic Prefecture of San Domingo de Urubamba was established (from Diocese of Cusco) (Peru)

Archbishop José Ignacio Árciga Ruiz de Chávez, Metropolitan Archbishop of Michoacán (Mexico), passed away at 69

Fr. Donato Sbarretti was elected Bishop of La Habana (Cuba)

Bishop Generoso Mattei, Bishop of Sutri (Italy) and Bishop of Nepi (Italy), passed away at 72

Archbishop Beniamino Cavicchioni, Secretary for Seminaries of Sacred Congregation of the Council, was appointed as Secretary of Sacred Congregation of the Council

Archbishop Cesare Sambucetti was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria

Bishop Auguste Marchal, Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Bourges (France), passed away at 76

Cardinal Luigi Trombetta, Cardinal-Deacon of S. Eustachio and Secretary of Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Regulars, passed away at 79

Fr. Hermann Joseph (Thomas) Esser, O.P., was appointed as Secretary of Sacred Congregation of the Index

Diocese of Saïdā (Maronite Rite) was restored (from Diocese of Tyr and Saïdā and without ecclesiastical province) (Lebanon)

Diocese of Tyr and Saïdā (Maronite Rite) was renamed as Diocese of Tyr (lost territory to establish Diocese of Saïdā) (Lebanon)

Bishop António Pedro da Costa, Bishop of Daman (India), passed away at 59

Cardinal Domenico Maria Jacobini, Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Marcellino e Pietro and Vicar General for the Vicariate of Rome of Roma (Italy), passed away at 62

Bishop Franciscus Antonius Boermans, Bishop of Roermond (Netherlands), passed away at 84

Bishop Josephus Hubertus Drehmanns succeeded as Bishop of Roermond (Netherlands)

Blessed Sr. Maria Virgo Stollenwerk (Helena), S.Sp.S., Superior General emeritus of Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit, passed away at 47

Apostolic Prefecture of San León del Amazonas was established (from Diocese of Chachapoyas) (Peru)

Apostolic Prefecture of Ucayali was established (from Diocese of Ayacucho and Diocese of Huánuco) (Peru)

Archbishop Mariano Elvezio Pagliari, Archbishop of Spoleto (Italy), passed away at 65

Archbishop Seweryn Morawski, Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv (Ukraine), passed away at 81

Archbishop Vladislas Castellano, Metropolitan Archbishop of Buenos Aires (Argentina), passed away at 65

Fr. Denis O’Donaghue, Priest of Vincennes (USA), was elected Titular Bishop of Pomarium and Auxiliary Bishop of Indianapolis (USA)

Fr. Clemente Coltelli (郭德禮), O.F.M., was elected Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Northern Shaanxi 陝西北境 (China) and Titular Bishop of Adramyttium

Archbishop Raphael de Martinis, C.M., Titular Archbishop of Laodicea, passed away at 71

Bishop Manuel Santander y Frutos was appointed as Titular Bishop of Sebastopolis

Fr. Paul Basbous was elected Bishop of Tyr of the Maronites (Lebanon) and Bishop of Saïdā of the Maronites (Lebanon)

Bishop Julian Cáceres Negrón resigned as Bishop of Ayacucho (Peru)

Fr. Paul Rubian was elected Titular Archbishop of Amasea and Auxiliary Bishop of the Vicariate of Rome of Roma (Italy)

Bishop Santiago de los Santos Garza Zambrano, Bishop of León (Mexico), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Linares (Mexico)

Bishop Pasquale Maria Jaderosa, Coadjutor Bishop emeritus of Sant’Agata de’ Goti (Italy), passed away at 75

Bishop Łukasz Solecki, Bishop of Przemyśl (Poland), passed away at 72

Archbishop John Hennessy, Metropolitan Archbishop of Dubuque (USA), passed away at 74

Bishop Antonio Maria Saeli, C.SS.R., Bishop of Mazara del Vallo (Italy), passed away at 66

Bishop Jorge Montes Solar, Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago (Chile), passed away at 70

Fr. Heinrich Marx was elected Titular Bishop of Colossæ and Auxiliary Bishop of Wrocław (Poland)

Bishop Gabriele Neviani, O.F.M., resigned as Bishop of Sapë (Albania)

Cardinal Luigi Di Canossa, Cardinal-Priest of S. Marcello and Bishop of Verona (Italy), passed away at 90

Fr. Dominic Wagenaar, M.H.M., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Kafiristan e Kashmir (Pakistan)

Fr. Raniero Sarnari was elected Bishop of Ripatransone (Italy)

Archbishop Augusto Guidi, President emeritus of Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, passed away at 62

Fr. John Baptist Cahill was elected Titular Bishop of Thagura and Auxiliary Bishop of Portsmouth (England)

Fr. Richard Preston was elected Titular Bishop of Phocæa and Auxiliary Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle (England)

Bishop Franz Adolf Namszanowski, Military Vicar emeritus of Germany (Germany), passed away at 79

Fr. Bertram Orth was elected Bishop of Vancouver Island (Canada)

Cardinal Camillo Mazzella, S.J., Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina and Prefect emeritus of Sacred Congregation of Studies, passed away at 67

Bishop Gabriele Neviani, O.F.M., was appointed as Titular Bishop of Comanæ

Archbishop Gaetano Maria de Angelis, O.F.M. Conv., Archbishop of Athens (Greece), passed away at 51

Bishop-elect Heinrich Brück was confirmed as Bishop of Mainz (Germany)

Saint Fr. Leonardo Murialdo, C.S.I., Superior General of Congregation of Saint Joseph, passed away at 71

Bishop Miguel León y Garrido, Bishop of Cuenca (Ecuador), passed away at 75

Bishop Louis-Callixte Lasserre, O.F.M. Cap., resigned as Vicar Apostolic of Arabia (United Arab Emirates)

Bishop Bartolomeo Bacilieri succeeded as Bishop of Verona (Italy)

Fr. Bernhard Joseph Doebbing, O.F.M., was elected Bishop of Nepi (Italy) and Bishop of Sutri (Italy)

Fr. Giulio Costantino, C.S.I., was appointed as Superior General of Congregation of Saint Joseph

Bishop Hermann Gleich, Auxiliary Bishop of Wrocław (Poland), passed away at 84

Fr. Benjamin Joseph Keiley was elected Bishop of Savannah (USA)

Fr. Próspero París (姚宗李), S.J., was elected Vicar Apostolic of Jiangnan 江南 (China) and Titular Bishop of Silandus

Fr. André-Marie-Elie Jarosseau, O.F.M. Cap., was elected Vicar Apostolic of Harar (Ethiopia) and Titular Bishop of Sauatra

Fr. Henry Moeller, Priest of Cincinnati (USA), was elected Bishop of Columbus (USA)

Cardinal Pietro Respighi, Metropolitan Archbishop of Ferrara (Italy), was appointed as Vicar General for the Vicariate of Rome of Roma (Italy)

Msgr. Rafael Merry del Val y Zulueta, President of Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, was elected Titular Archbishop of Nicæa

Diocese of Manizales was established (from Diocese of Medellín and Diocese of Popayán) (Colombia)

Bishop Pierre-Emmanuel-Dieudonné Bouvier, Bishop of Tarentaise (France), passed away at 65

Cardinal Domenico Ferrata resigned as Camerlengo of Sacred College of Cardinals

Bishop Ignazio Łobos, Bishop of Tarnów (Poland), passed away at 72

Abbot Domenico Serafini, O.S.B. Subl., resigned as Abbot Ordinary of Subiaco (Italy) and President of Subiaco Benedictine Congregation

Bishop Giacinto Nicolai was appointed as Titular Bishop of Arethusus

Bishop-elect Clemente Coltelli (郭德禮), O.F.M., succeeded as Vicar Apostolic of Northern Shaanxi 陝西北境 (China)

Bishop Pio Vidi (魏明德), O.F.M., resigned as Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Northern Shaanxi 陝西北境 (China)

Fr. Károly Emmánuel de Csáky was elected Bishop of Vác (Hungary)

Bishop Giulio Boschi, Bishop of Senigallia (Italy), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Ferrara (Italy)

Cardinal Serafino Cretoni was appointed as Camerlengo of Sacred College of Cardinals

Fr. Angelo Maria Dolci was elected Bishop of Gubbio (Italy)

Cardinal Pietro Respighi resigned as Metropolitan Archbishop of Ferrara (Italy)

Abbot Domenico Serafini, O.S.B. Subl., was elected Archbishop of Spoleto (Italy)

Cardinal Vicenzo Vannutelli, Cardinal-Priest of S. Silvestro in Capite and Archpriest of Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major, was appointed as Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina

Fr. Diomede Panici was elected Titular Archbishop of Laodicea and Secretary of Congregation for Sacred Rites

Archbishop Macario Sorini, Archbishop-Bishop of Gubbio (Italy), was appointed as Titular Archbishop of Marcianopolis

Fr. Tito Maria Cucchi was elected Bishop of Senigallia (Italy)

Fr. Ignacio Monterisi was elected Bishop of Marsico Nuovo (Italy) and Bishop of Potenza (Italy)

Fr. Giuseppe Paderi was elected Bishop of Ogliastra (Italy)

Fr. Domenico Pugliatti was elected Bishop of Bova (Italy)

Fr. Fidel Olivas Escudero was elected Bishop of Ayacucho (Peru)

Fr. Manuel María Cerero y Soler was elected Bishop of Segorbe (Spain)

Fr. Wenceslao Sangüesa y Guía was elected Bishop of Cuenca (Spain)

Fr. Henry Regis Granjon was elected Bishop of Tucson (USA)

Bishop Tobias Mullen, Bishop emeritus of Erie (USA), passed away at 82

Archbishop Antonio Sabatucci was appointed as Apostolic Internuncio to Argentina

Bishop Manoel dos Santos Pereira, Bishop of Olinda (Brazil), passed away at 73

Fr. Joseph-Marie Lavest (羅惠良), M.E.P., was elected Titular Bishop of Sophene and Prefect Apostolic of Guangxi 廣西 (China)

Fr. Théotime Matthieu Verhaehen (德希聖), O.F.M., was elected Titular Bishop of Syene and Vicar Apostolic of Southwestern Hupeh 湖北南境 (China)

Archbishop Angus MacDonald, Metropolitan Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh (Scotland), passed away at 55

Archbishop Julian Kuiłovskyi, Metropolitan of Lviv–Halyč–Kamyanets of the Ukrainians (Ukraine), passed away at 74

Cardinal Johannes Haller, Cardinal-Priest of S. Bartolomeo all’Isola and Metropolitan Archbishop of Salzburg (Austria), passed away at 75

Bishop Johannes Baptist Katschthaler, Titular Bishop of Cybistra postea Herculea and Auxiliary Bishop of Salzburg (Austria), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Salzburg (Austria)

Fr. Wilhelm Schneider was elected Bishop of Paderborn (Germany)

Bishop Teofilo Massucci, O.F.M., Bishop emeritus of Syros (Greece), passed away at 80

Sr. Jeanne de Lestonnac, O.D.N., was beatified

Diocese of Garzón was established (from the suppressed Diocese of Tolima) (Colombia)

Diocese of Ibagué was established (from the suppressed Diocese of Tolima and became suffragan of Bogotá in Colombia) (Colombia)

Diocese of Tolima was suppressed (to Diocese of Popayán and to establish Diocese of Garzón and Diocese of Ibagué) (Colombia)

Bishop Esteban Rojas Tobar, Bishop of Tolima (Colombia), was appointed as Bishop of Garzón (Colombia)

Bishop John Vertue, Bishop of Portsmouth (England), passed away at 74

Fr. Léon-Alexander Lejeune, C.S.Sp., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Lower Niger (Nigeria)

Fr. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, F.S.C., Founder of Brothers of the Christian Schools (Lasalians, De La Salle Brothers), was canonised

Sr. Rita da Cascia Lotti (Rita of Cascia / Margherita) was canonised

Bishop Ignacio Clemente Delgado Cebrián, O.P., and 63 companions were beatified

Bishop Jean-Gabriel-Taurin Dufresse (徐德新), M.E.P., and 12 companions were beatified

Bishop Bernardo Antonio De Riso, O.S.B., Bishop of Catanzaro (Italy), passed away at 76

Bishop Luigi Finoja succeeded as Bishop of Catanzaro (Italy)

Sr. Maria Maddalena Martinengo, O.S.C. Cap., was beatified

Blessed Fr. Juan José Egea Rodríguez was appointed as Priest of Almería (Spain)

Fr. Denis de la Nativité Berthelot (Pierre), O.C.D., and Br. Redento da Cruz Rodrigues da Cunha (Tomás), O.C.D., were beatified

Bishop Joseph Rademacher, Bishop of Fort Wayne (USA), passed away at 59

Diocese of Grafton was renamed as Diocese of Lismore (Australia)

Bishop Jeremiah Joseph Doyle, Bishop of Grafton (Australia), was appointed as Bishop of Lismore (Australia)

Bishop John Gallagher succeeded as Bishop of Goulburn (Australia)

Bishop William Lanigan, Bishop of Goulburn (Australia), passed away at 80

Bishop Joachim-Pierre Buléon, C.S.Sp., Vicar Apostolic of Senegambia (Senegal) and Prefect Apostolic of Sénégal (Senegal), passed away at 38

Bishop Gaetano Quattrocchi, Titular Bishop of Europus, was appointed as Bishop of Mazara del Vallo (Italy)

Fr. Paulino Díaz Rodríguez, O.E.S.A., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of San León del Amazonas (Peru)

Diocese of Cartagena was promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cartagena (with suffragan sees Panamá and Santa Marta) (Colombia)

Diocese of Popayán was promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Popayán (with suffragan sees Garzón, Manizales and Pasto) (Colombia)

Bishop Pietro-Adamo Brioschi, P.I.M.E., Bishop of Cartagena (Colombia), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Cartagena (Colombia)

Bishop Manuel José Cayzedo y Cuero, Bishop of Popayán (Colombia), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Popayán (Colombia)

Fr. Peter Joseph O’Reilly was elected Titular Bishop of Lebedus and Auxiliary Bishop of Peoria (USA)

Bishop-elect Wilhelm Schneider was confirmed as Bishop of Paderborn (Germany)

Diocese of Alagôas was established (from Diocese of Olinda and became suffragan of São Salvador da Bahia) (Brazil)

Bishop Laurent Guillon (紀隆), M.E.P., Vicar Apostolic of Southern Manchuria 南滿 (China), passed away at 45

Fr. Paul-Raphaël Abi-Mourad was elected Titular Bishop of Damiata of the Greek-Melkites

Fr. Clément Michel Bakhache was elected Metropolitan Archbishop of Damascus of the Syriacs (Syria)

Bishop Michael Naughten, Bishop of Roseau (Dominica), passed away at 65

Msgr. Evaristo Lucidi was appointed as Privy Chamberlain Supernumerary

Saint Bishop Antonio Fantosati (范懷德), O.F.M., Vicar Apostolic of Southern Hunan 湖南南境 (China), passed away at 57

Saint Bishop Francesco Antonio Domenico Fogolla (富格辣), O.F.M. Obs., Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Northern Shanxi 山西北境 (China), passed away at 60

Saint Bishop Gregorio Maria Grassi (艾士傑), O.F.M. Obs., Vicar Apostolic of Northern Shanxi 山西北境 (China), passed away at 66

Bishop Yousef Emmanuel Thoma [Toma], Bishop of Seert of the Chaldeans (Turkiye), was elected Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans (Iraq) and Bishop of Mossul of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

Archbishop Giuseppe Elis Khayatt, Titular Archbishop of Nisibis of the Chaldeans, was appointed as Metropolitan Archbishop of Kirkuk of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

Bishop Ferdinand Hubertus Hamer (韓默理), C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Southwestern Mongolia 西南蒙古 (China), passed away at 59

Bishop Pedro Schumacher, C.M., Bishop of Portoviejo (Ecuador), passed away at 61

Fr. Luis María Benziger, O.C.D., was elected Titular Bishop of Tabæ and Coadjutor Bishop of Quilon (India)

Bishop Sebastião José Pereira, Titular Bishop of Epiphania and Bishop-Prelate of Mozambique (Mozambique), was appointed as Bishop of Daman (India)

Fr. Giacomo della Chiesa, Priest of Genova (Italy), was appointed as Domestic Prelate

Mr. Obizio da Niardo was canonised by equipollence

Bishop Charles-Félix Pelvat, M.S.F.S., Bishop of Nagpur (India), passed away at 54

Bishop Jean Louis Mando, Bishop of Angoulême (France), passed away at 49

Archbishop John Joseph Keane, Titular Archbishop of Damascus, was appointed as Metropolitan Archbishop of Dubuque (USA)

Bishop Giulio Matteoli, Bishop of Livorno (Italy), passed away at 58

Fr. Martín Tritschler y Córdoba was elected Bishop of Yucatán (Mexico)

Fr. Maurice Francis McAuliffe was appointed as Priest of Hartford (USA)

Diocese of Pouso Alegre was established (from Diocese of Mariana and Diocese of São Paulo and became suffragan of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro) (Brazil)

Bishop James Augustine Healy, Bishop of Portland in Maine (USA), passed away at 70

Fr. Augustin Marre, O.C.S.O., was elected Auxiliary Bishop of Reims (France) and Titular Bishop of Constantia

Bishop Paul-François-Marie de Forges, Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Rennes (France), passed away at 77

Bishop Fülöp Steiner, Bishop of Székesfehérvár (Hungary), passed away at 61

Archbishop Antonio Delenda, Metropolitan Archbishop of Corfù (Greece), was appointed as Archbishop of Athens (Greece)

Archbishop Carlo Maria Borgognini, Metropolitan Archbishop of Modena (Italy) and Commendatory Abbot of Nonantola (Italy), passed away at 63

Archbishop Avedis Marcus Turkian, Archbishop of Aleppo of the Armenians (Syria), passed away at 55

Bishop Atenógenes Silva y Álvarez Tostado, Bishop of Colima (Mexico), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Michoacán (Mexico)

Bishop Mariano Antonio Espinosa, Bishop of La Plata (Argentina), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Archbishop Antonio Delenda, Archbishop of Athens (Greece), was appointed as Apostolic Delegate to Greece

Bishop John Baptist Cahill, Titular Bishop of Thagura and Auxiliary Bishop of Portsmouth (England), was appointed as Bishop of Portsmouth (England)

Bishop James August Smith, Bishop of Dunkeld (Scotland), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh (Scotland)

Fr. Herman Joseph Alerding was elected Bishop of Fort Wayne (USA)

Fr. Rómulo Betancourt y Torres was elected Bishop of Campeche (Mexico)

Archbishop François Xavier Gouthe-Soulard, Metropolitan Archbishop of Aix (France), passed away at 81

Bishop Theophilus Mayer, M.H.M., Auxiliary Bishop of Madras (India), passed away at 46

Bishop José Ramón Quesada y Gascón, Bishop of Segovia (Spain), passed away at 54

Archbishop Paolo Giuseppe Maria Serci Serra, Metropolitan Archbishop of Cagliari (Italy), passed away at 73

Archbishop-elect Clément Michel Bakhache was confirmed as Metropolitan Archbishop of Damascus of the Syriacs (Syria)

Fr. José María Villalba was elected Bishop of Antioquía (Colombia)

Fr. Francis Aidan Gasquet, E.B.C., was appointed as President of English Benedictine Congregation

Bishop François-Narcisse Baptifolier, Bishop of Mende (France), passed away at 80

Fr. Francesco Giacci was elected Titular Bishop of Nyssa and Auxiliary Bishop of Frascati (Italy)

Bishop Giacinto Nicolai, Bishop emeritus of Ripatransone (Italy), passed away at 66

Fr. Antonio Grassi (Vincenzo), C.O., was beatified

Blessed Br. Luigi Maria Monti, C.F.I.C., Founder of Congregation of the Sons of the Immaculate Conception, passed away at 75

Sr. Maria Crescentia Höss (Anna), T.O.R., was beatified

Bishop Kornél Hidasy, Bishop of Szombathely (Hungary), passed away at 72

Bishop Augustin Chausse (邵斯), M.E.P., Vicar Apostolic of Guangdong 廣東 (China), passed away at 62

Bishop Henri-Joseph Bulté (步天衢), C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Southeastern Chi-Li 直隸東南 (China), passed away at 69

Bishop Luciano Bucci, O.F.M., Bishop of Sora (Italy), Bishop of Pontecorvo (Italy) and Bishop of Aquino (Italy), passed away at 58

Cardinal Serafino Cretoni, Camerlengo of Sacred College of Cardinals, was appointed as Prefect of Sacred Congregation of Indulgences and Sacred Relics

Cardinal Domenico Ferrata, Prefect of Sacred Congregation of Indulgences and Sacred Relics, was appointed as Prefect of Congregation for Sacred Rites

Archbishop Josyf Sembratovyc, Metropolitan emeritus of Lviv–Halyč–Kamyanets of the Ukrainians (Ukraine), passed away at 78

Fr. Jean-Marie Crochet was elected Bishop of Nagpur (India)

Bishop Perfecto Amézquita y Gutiérrez, C.M., Bishop of Puebla–Tlaxcala (Mexico), passed away at 65

Fr. Donald Mackintosh was appointed as Priest of Glasgow (Scotland)

Fr. Lazare Miedia was elected Bishop of Sapë (Albania)

Archbishop Melchiorre Nazarian, Archbishop of Mardin of the Armenians (Turkiye), passed away at 70

Fr. Leopoldo Ruiz y Flóres was elected Bishop of León (Mexico)

Bishop Domenico Cocchia, O.F.M. Cap., Bishop of Cerignola (Italy) and Bishop of Ascoli Satriano (Italy), passed away at 57

Bishop Joseph-Jean-Louis Robert, Bishop of Marseille (France), passed away at 81

Archbishop Désiré de Besançon, Metropolitan Archbishop of Besançon (France), was canonised by equipollence

Archbishop Donat de Besançon, Metropolitan Archbishop of Besançon (France), was canonised by equipollence

Abbot Ermenfroy de Cusance was canonised by equipollence

Mr. Maimbod was canonised by equipollence

Bishop Maximin de Besançon, Bishop of Besançon (France), was canonised by equipollence

Archbishop Nicet de Besançon, Metropolitan Archbishop of Besançon (France), was canonised by equipollence

Archbishop Prothade de Besançon, Metropolitan Archbishop of Besançon (France), was canonised by equipollence

Br. Simon de Valois de Vexin, O.S.B., was canonised by equipollence

Archbishop Tétrade de Besançon, Metropolitan Archbishop of Besançon (France), was canonised by equipollence

Abbot Valbert de Luxeuil was canonised by equipollence

Mr. Valérien de Tournus was canonised by equipollence

Bishop Thomas McGivern, Bishop of Dromore (Northern Ireland), passed away at 70

Blessed Fr. Stanisław Kubski was appointed as Priest of Gniezno (Poland)

Bishop Juan Nepomuceno Terrero y Escalada, Titular Bishop of Delcus and Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires (Argentina), was appointed as Bishop of La Plata (Argentina)

Bishop Andriy Sheptytskyi (Andreas Alexander Szeptyckyj), O.S.B.M., Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk of the Ukrainians (Ukraine), was promoted as Metropolitan of Lviv–Halyč–Kamyanets of the Ukrainians (Ukraine)

Fr. Antonio José Gomes Cardoso was elected Titular Bishop of Arethusus and Bishop-Prelate of Mozambique (Mozambique)

Fr. Josef Medard Kohl, O.S.B., was elected Titular Bishop of Samosata and Auxiliary Bishop of Esztergom (Hungary)

Patriarch Yousef Emmanuel II Thoma [Toma] was granted ecclesiastical communion by the Pope as Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans (Iraq) and Bishop of Mossul of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

Bishop Pietro Balestra, O.F.M. Conv., Bishop of Acqui (Italy), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Cagliari (Italy)

Fr. Natale Bruni was elected Commendatory Abbot of Nonantola (Italy) and Metropolitan Archbishop of Modena (Italy)

Bishop Domenico Fegatelli, Bishop of Rimini (Italy), was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Scythopolis

Fr. Paolo Jacuzio was elected Bishop of Capaccio–Vallo (Italy)

Bishop Pietro Maglione, Bishop of Capaccio–Vallo (Italy), was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Theodosiopolis

Fr. Giuliano Cabras, Priest of Sassari (Italy), was elected Titular Bishop of Cæsarea Paneas and Auxiliary Bishop of Sassari (Italy)

Fr. Filippo Genovese was elected Titular Bishop of Sarepta

Fr. Sabbatino Giani was elected Bishop of Livorno (Italy)

Fr. Antonio Maria Jannotta was elected Bishop of Aquino (Italy), Bishop of Pontecorvo (Italy) and Bishop of Sora (Italy)

Fr. Vincenzo Scozzoli was elected Bishop of Rimini (Italy)

Fr. Anatol Novak was elected Titular Bishop of Irenopolis and Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków (Poland)

Saint Bishop Józef Sebastian Pelczar, Titular Bishop of Miletopolis, was appointed as Bishop of Przemyśl (Poland)

Fr. Józef Bilczewski was elected Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv (Ukraine)

Blessed Fr. Santiago Mesa Leyva was appointed as Priest of Guadix (Spain)

Blessed Fr. Francisco Solís Pedrajas was appointed as Priest of Jaén (Spain)

Bishop Elias Chahwann, Bishop of Mardin and Amida of the Syriacs (Turkiye), passed away

Archbishop Giovanni Kupelian, Titular Archbishop of Attalia, passed away at 80

Bishop Rosendo Salvado, O.S.B. Subl., Abbot nullius of New Norcia (Australia), passed away at 86

Archbishop Macario Sorini, Archbishop-Bishop emeritus of Gubbio (Italy), passed away at 66

Archbishop Jacinto López y Romo, Metropolitan Archbishop of Guadalajara (Mexico), passed away at 69