Nominations and Resignations

Diocese of Larino lost territory to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Manfredonia (Italy)

Apostolic Vicariate of Siberia was suppressed (Russia)

Diocese of Nitra lost territory to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kraków (Slovakia)

Titular Episcopal See of Cariana was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Cariana (Tunisia)

Fr. Daniel Gomes Junqueira, C.S.Sp., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Cubango in Angola (Angola)

Archbishop Sigismund Waitz resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Innsbruck–Feldkirch (Austria)

Mother Julia Verhaeghe, F.S.O., was appointed as Founder of Spiritual Family “The Work”

Bishop Joseph Aloysius Murphy, S.J., resigned as Vicar Apostolic of Belize (Belize)

Fr. Tomaz M. de Marcellano, O.F.M. Cap., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Alto Solimões (Brazil)

Bishop Arturo Jara Marquez, S.D.B., Vicar Apostolic of Magallanes y Islas Malvinas (Chile), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Magallanes y Islas Malvinas (Chile)

Fr. Edgar Larochelle (藍德), P.M.E., resigned as Prefect Apostolic of Lindong 林東 (China)

Bishop Jean Cuvelier, C.SS.R., resigned as Vicar Apostolic of Matadi (Congo-Kinshasa)

Fr. Felice de Kempeneer, C.M., Ecclesiastical Superior of Bikoro (Congo-Kinshasa), passed away

Fr. Nicanor Carlos Gavinales Chamorro was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Portoviejo (Ecuador)

Fr. Donatus von Welle, O.F.M. Cap., was appointed as Minister General of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (Capuchin Franciscans)

Fr. Pier Crisologo Fabi, O.F.M., resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Rhodes (Greece)

Fr. Hovannes Gamsaragan was appointed as Ordinary of Greece of the Armenians (Greece)

Bishop Yousef Ghanima resigned as Auxiliary Bishop of Mossul of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

Archbishop Carlo Chiarlo, Apostolic Nuncio to Costa Rica, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Nicaragua and Apostolic Nuncio to Panama

Msgr. Pietro Parente resigned as Rector Magnificus of Pontifical Athenaeum of the Propagation of Faith

Cardinal Giuseppe Pizzardo resigned as General Ecclesiastical Assistant of Italian Catholic Action

Msgr. Giacomo Violardo, Priest of Roma (Italy) and Privy Chamberlain Supernumerary, was appointed as Promoter of Justice of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura

Fr. Vigilio da Valstagna Dalla Zuanna (Federico), O.F.M. Cap., resigned as Minister General of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (Capuchin Franciscans)

Venerable Dr. Giuseppe Lazzati was appointed as Founder of Milites Christi Society

Bishop Wenceslaus Kinold (ヴェンチェスラオ・キノルド), O.F.M., resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Karafuto (Russia)

Venerable Fr. Cirillo Giovanni Zohrabian, O.F.M. Cap., resigned as Ordinary of Greece of the Armenians (Greece)

Fr. Joseph-Paul Futy, M.S., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Morondava (Madagascar)

Archbishop Albert Levame, Apostolic Nuncio to Guatemala and Apostolic Nuncio to Honduras and Salvador, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to El Salvador

Msgr. Patrick Joseph Whitney, S.P.S., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Ogoja (Nigeria)

Fr. William R. Booth resigned as Prefect Apostolic of Peng-yang (North Korea)

Bishop Gerard Vesters, M.S.C., resigned as Vicar Apostolic of Rabaul (Papua New Guinea)

Fr. José Constantino García Pulgar, O.S.A., resigned as Titular Bishop of Phæna

Fr. Claudio Bravo Moran was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of San León del Amazonas (Peru)

Fr. Rosino Ramos, Pro-Vicar Apostolic of San León del Amazonas (Peru), passed away

Fr. Vittoriano Romàn Zárate di S. Giuseppe, O.A.R., Prefect Apostolic of Palawan (Philippines), passed away at 63

Archbishop George Joseph Caruana resigned as Apostolic Delegate to Antilles

Fr. Giuseppe Zambonardi, F.S.C.I., Prefect Apostolic of Bahr el-Gebel (South Sudan), passed away at 54

Fr. José Soto Chuliá was appointed as Founder of Work of Saint Teresa

Fr. Max Theodor Franz Donders, M. Afr., Ecclesiastical Superior of Tukuyu (Tanzania), passed away

Fr. Francis Costantin Mazzieri, O.F.M. Conv., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Ndola (Zambia)

Abbot Joseph Aramouni, O.A.M., resigned as Superior General of Antonin Maronite Order

Abbot Jérôme Khaïrallah, O.A.M., was appointed as Superior General of Antonin Maronite Order

Fr. Albert Cousineau, C.S.C., was appointed as Superior General of Congregation of Holy Cross (Holy Cross Fathers)

Fr. Théophile De Paepe, C.I., resigned as Superior General of Josephites of Belgium

Fr. James Wesley Donahue, C.S.C., resigned as Superior General of Congregation of Holy Cross (Holy Cross Fathers)

Fr. Basile Ghanem, O.L.M., was appointed as Superior General of Lebanese Maronite Order (Baladites)

Fr. Jacques-Marie Mayaud, O. Cart., resigned as Minister General of Carthusian Order (Carthusians)

Fr. Hilaire Sterckx, C.I., was appointed as Superior General of Josephites of Belgium

Fr. Martin Torbey, O.L.M., resigned as Superior General of Lebanese Maronite Order (Baladites)

Fr. Ferdinand Vidal, O. Cart., was appointed as Minister General of Carthusian Order (Carthusians)

Bishop Julien-Marie Leventoux, C.I.M., resigned as Vicar Apostolic of Golfe Saint-Laurent (Canada)

Bishop Marie-Louis-Joseph-Constantin Tournier, M.E.P., Bishop of Coimbatore (India), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Ipsus

Archbishop Pierre-Florent-André du Bois de la Villerabel, Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Rouen (France), passed away at 73

Ms. Hemma von Gurk was canonised by equipollence

Fr. Pavao Butorac was elected Bishop of Kotor (Montenegro)

Fr. Franz Justus Rarkowski was elected Military Vicar of Germany (Germany) and Titular Bishop of Hierocæsarea

Bishop Lawrence Pereira, Bishop of Kottar (India), passed away at 62

Mission sui juris of Jianningfu 建寧府 was promoted as Apostolic Prefecture of Jian’ou 建甌 (China)

Diocese of Madura was established (from Diocese of Trichinopoly and became suffragan of Bombay) (India)

Apostolic Prefecture of Morondava was established (from Apostolic Vicariate of Antsirabé, Apostolic Vicariate of Fianarantsoa, Apostolic Vicariate of Majunga and Apostolic Vicariate of Tananarive) (Madagascar)

Apostolic Vicariate of Vinh Long was established (from Apostolic Vicariate of Saigon) (Vietnam)

Apostolic Prefecture of Ndola was established (from Apostolic Prefecture of Broken Hill) (Zambia)

Fr. John Joseph Lonergan was appointed as Bishop of Port Augusta (Australia)

Fr. William Ferrer Cassidy (谷源真), O.P., resigned as Ecclesiastical Superior of Jianningfu 建寧府 (China)

Bishop Jean-Pierre Leonard, S.J., Bishop of Trichinopoly (India), was appointed as Bishop of Madurai (India)

Fr. José Constantino García Pulgar, O.S.A., was appointed as Titular Bishop of Phæna

Fr. Pierre-Martin Ngô Ðình Thục ▼ was elected Titular Bishop of Sæsina and Vicar Apostolic of Vinh Long (Vietnam)

Venerable Fr. Félix de Jesús Rougier, M.Sp.S., Superior General of Missionaries of the Holy Spirit, passed away at 78

Fr. Edmundo Iturbide Reygondaud, M.Sp.S., was appointed as Superior General of Missionaries of the Holy Spirit

Bishop Pasquale Dell’Isola, Bishop of Sarno (Italy) and Bishop of Cava (Italy), passed away at 69

Bishop Sergio Der Abrahamian, Titular Bishop of Cucusus and Pro-Vicar General for the Vicariate of Rome of Roma (Italy), was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Chalcedon of the Armenians

Bishop Abel Isidoro Antezana y Rojas, C.M.F., Bishop of Oruro (Bolivia), was appointed as Bishop of La Paz (Bolivia)

Bishop Manuel Arce y Ochotorena, Bishop of Zamora (Spain), was appointed as Bishop of Oviedo (Spain)

Fr. Riccardo Chavez Alcazar was elected Bishop of Oruro (Bolivia)

Fr. Evangelista Galea, O.F.M. Cap., Prefect Apostolic of Alto Solimões (Brazil), passed away at 55

Bishop John William Campling, M.H.M., resigned as Vicar Apostolic of Upper Nile (Uganda)

Bishop Antonio García y García, Bishop of Tui (Spain), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Valladolid (Spain)

Apostolic Prefecture of Guilin 桂林 was established (from Apostolic Prefecture of Wuzhou 梧州) (China)

Apostolic Vicariate of Yazhou 雅州 was renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of Jiading 嘉定 (China)

Mission sui juris of Weihai 威海 was promoted as Apostolic Prefecture of Weihai 威海 (China)

Mission sui juris of Beni in Belgian Congo was promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Beni in Belgian Congo (Congo-Kinshasa)

Bishop Fabian Yu Yu-wen (Yu Teh-Guen) (余郁文), Vicar Apostolic of Yazhou 雅州 (China), was appointed as Vicar Apostolic of Jiading 嘉定 (China)

Fr. Henri Joseph Marius Piérard, A.A., Ecclesiastical Superior of Beni in Belgian Congo (Congo-Kinshasa), was elected Titular Bishop of Andropolis and Vicar Apostolic of Beni in Belgian Congo (Congo-Kinshasa)

Bishop Florian-Jean-Baptiste Demange (안세화 플로리아노), M.E.P., Vicar Apostolic of Taiku 대구 (South Korea), passed away at 62

Fr. Juan Paulo Odendahl Metz, C.M., was elected Titular Bishop of Latopolis and Vicar Apostolic of Limón (Costa Rica)

Bishop James Byrne, Bishop of Toowoomba (Australia), passed away at 67

Bishop Georges-Eugène-Emile Choquet, Bishop of Langres (France), was appointed as Bishop of Tarbes et Lourdes (France)

Fr. Carmelo Ballester y Nieto, C.M., was elected Bishop of León (Spain)

Fr. Albert Gregory Meyer, Priest of Milwaukee (USA), was appointed as Domestic Prelate

Bishop Joseph-Jean Heintz, Bishop of Troyes (France), was appointed as Bishop of Metz (France)

Cardinal Luigi Capotosti, Cardinal-Priest of S. Pietro in Vincoli, Bishop emeritus of Modigliana (Italy) and Datary of His Holiness of Apostolic Dataria, passed away at 74

Archbishop Julio Campero y Aráoz, Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Salta (Argentina), passed away at 64

Bishop Fortunato de Santa, Bishop of Sessa Aurunca (Italy), passed away at 75

Archbishop Richard Michael Joseph O’Brien succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Kingston (Canada)

Archbishop Michael Joseph Spratt, Metropolitan Archbishop of Kingston (Canada), passed away at 83

Bishop Boniface Yang Fu-jue (Yeung Fuk-tseuk) (楊福爵), Auxiliary Bishop of Guangzhou 廣州 (China), passed away at 59

Bishop Hubert Otto (陶福音), C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Northern Kansu 甘肅北境 (China), passed away at 87

Cardinal Federico Tedeschini, Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Spain, was appointed as Datary of His Holiness of Apostolic Dataria

Diocese of Saginaw was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Detroit and Diocese of Grand Rapids and became suffragan of Detroit) (USA)

Fr. José André Coimbra was elected Bishop of Barra do Piraí (Brazil)

Fr. Michele Maccarrone was appointed as Priest of Forlì–Bertinoro (Italy)

Fr. William Aloysius Griffin was elected Auxiliary Bishop of Newark (USA)

Fr. William Francis Murphy was elected Bishop of Saginaw (USA)

Blessed Fr. Stanisław Kostka Streich, Priest of Poznań (Poland), passed away at 35

Bishop Alfred Flocard, Bishop of Limoges (France), passed away at 71

Fr. Bruno Wüstenberg was appointed as Priest of Köln (Germany)

Bishop Joseph-Jean Heintz, Bishop of Troyes (France), was appointed as Bishop of Metz (France)

Archbishop John Hugh MacDonald succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Edmonton (Canada)

Archbishop Henry Joseph O’Leary, Metropolitan Archbishop of Edmonton (Canada), passed away at 58

Fr. Louis Liagre was elected Bishop of La Rochelle (France)

Bishop Jean-Marcel Rodié, Bishop of Ajaccio (France), was appointed as Bishop of Agen (France)

Fr. James Mendonça was elected Bishop of Trichinopoly (India)

Fr. Víctor Manuel Sanabria Martínez was elected Bishop of Alajuela (Costa Rica)

Bishop William Codd, Bishop of Ferns (Ireland), passed away at 73

Diocese of Chatham was renamed as Diocese of Bathurst (Canada)

Apostolic Prefecture of Ogoja was established (from Apostolic Prefecture of Calabar) (Nigeria)

Bishop Patrice-Alexandre Chiasson, C.I.M., Bishop of Chatham (Canada), was appointed as Bishop of Bathurst (Canada)

Cardinal Carlo Dalmazio Minoretti, Cardinal-Priest of S. Eusebio and Metropolitan Archbishop of Genova (Italy), passed away at 76

Blessed Fr. Juan Martínez Sánchez, Priest of Jaén (Spain), passed away at 66

Fr. Reginald Duprat, O.P., was elected Bishop of Prince Albert (Canada)

Cardinal Pietro Boetto, S.J., was appointed as Metropolitan Archbishop of Genova (Italy)

Fr. Giuseppe Pronti was elected Bishop of Acquapendente (Italy)

Fr. Mariano Aspiras Madriaga was elected Bishop of Lingayen (Philippines)

Fr. Michal Buzalka was elected Titular Bishop of Cone and Auxiliary Bishop of Trnava (Slovakia)

Bishop Rafael Lira Infante, Bishop of Rancagua (Chile), was appointed as Bishop of Valparaíso (Chile)

Cardinal Pietro Boetto, S.J., Cardinal-Deacon of S. Angelo in Pescheria and Metropolitan Archbishop of Genova (Italy), was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of S. Angelo in Pescheria pro hac vice Title

Fr. Roberto Benardino Berríos Gaínza, O.F.M., was elected Bishop of San Felipe (Chile)

Bishop Melquisedec del Canto Terán, Bishop of San Felipe (Chile), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Adrasus

Fr. Reginald John Delargey was appointed as Priest of Auckland (New Zealand)

Fr. Louis Morel (穆清海), C.I.C.M., was elected Titular Bishop of Araxa and Vicar Apostolic of Suiyuan 綏遠 (China)

Bishop John Barry, Bishop of Goulburn (Australia), passed away at 62

Bishop Gilberto Fuenzalida Guzmán, Bishop of Concepción (Chile), passed away at 70

Bishop Benvenuto Diego Alonso y Nistal, O.F.M. Cap., resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Caroní (Venezuela)

Bishop William Joseph Hafey succeeded as Bishop of Scranton (USA)

Bishop Thomas Charles O’Reilly, Bishop of Scranton (USA), passed away at 65

Bishop Frederico Benício de Souza e Costa, E.C.M.C., Bishop emeritus of Amazonas (Brazil), passed away at 62

Diocese of Victoria–Palmerston was renamed as Diocese of Darwin (gained territory from Apostolic Vicariate of Papua) (Australia)

Apostolic Vicariate of Papua lost territory to Diocese of Darwin (Papua New Guinea)

Mission sui juris of Queenstown was promoted as Apostolic Prefecture of Queenstown (South Africa)

Mission sui juris of Tukuyu was promoted as Apostolic Prefecture of Tukuyu (Tanzania)

Fr. Francis-Xavier Gsell, M.S.C., Apostolic Administrator of Victoria–Palmerston (Australia), was elected Bishop of Darwin (Australia)

Bishop Flaminio Belotti (包海容), P.I.M.E., resigned as Vicar Apostolic of Nanyangfu 南陽府 (China)

Fr. Pietro Massa (梅先春), P.I.M.E., was elected Titular Bishop of Citharizum and Vicar Apostolic of Nanyangfu 南陽府 (China)

Fr. John Reesinck, M.H.M., was elected Vicar Apostolic of Upper Nile (Uganda) and Titular Bishop of Thinis

Fr. Napoléon-Alexandre Labrie, C.I.M., was elected Vicar Apostolic of Golfe Saint-Laurent (Canada) and Titular Bishop of Limata

Fr. Ubald Langlois, O.M.I., was elected Titular Bishop of Risinium and Vicar Apostolic of Grouard (Canada)

Fr. Florido Ambrogio Acciari, O.F.M., was elected Archbishop of Rhodes (Greece)

Bishop Joseph John Rice, Bishop of Burlington (USA), passed away at 66

Fr. Paolo Mosconi was appointed as Priest of Tortona (Italy)

Blessed Fr. Giuseppe Beotti was appointed as Priest of Piacenza (Italy)

Bishop Louis Termier, Bishop of Tarentaise (France), passed away at 78

Fr. Pacifico Calzolari, O.F.M., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Xiangtan 湘潭 (China)

Fr. Ludwig Haag, M. Afr., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Tukuyu (Tanzania)

Bishop Vicente Alejandro González y Robleto, Bishop of Matagalpa (Nicaragua), was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Odessus and Coadjutor Archbishop of Managua (Nicaragua)

Bishop Antonio Colturato, O.F.M. Cap., Bishop of Uberaba (Brazil), was appointed as Bishop of Botucatu (Brazil)

Fr. Ilarino Felder, O.F.M. Cap., was elected Titular Bishop of Geras

Fr. Alfonso Ferrandina was elected Titular Bishop of Leptis Magna and Auxiliary Bishop of Napoli (Italy)

Bishop Joseph-Lucien Giray, Titular Bishop of Lycopolis, was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Selymbria

Fr. Andrzej Bobola, S.J., was canonised

Fr. Giovanni Leonardi, O.M.D., Founder of Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of Lucca, was canonised

Br. Salvador de Horta Pladevall i Bien, O.F.M., was canonised

Archbishop Ettore Felici, Apostolic Nuncio to Chile, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Yugoslavia

Archbishop Alexandre-Louis-Victor-Aimé Le Roy, C.S.Sp., Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Gabon (Gabon) and Superior General emeritus of Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans, Holy Ghost Fathers), passed away at 84

Bishop Joseph Butt, Titular Bishop of Alexandria minor and Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster (England), was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Nicopsis

Fr. Antonijs Urbšs was elected Bishop of Liepāja (Latvia)

Bishop Nicola Jezzoni, Bishop emeritus of Valva (Italy) and Bishop emeritus of Sulmona (Italy), passed away at 78

Fr. Michael Augustine O’Connor, O.P., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Jian’ou 建甌 (China)

Archbishop Giorgio Delrio, Metropolitan Archbishop of Oristano (Italy), passed away at 72

Diocese of Limoeiro do Norte was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Fortaleza and became suffragan of Fortaleza) (Brazil)

Fr. Manuel Larraín Errázuriz was elected Titular Bishop of Thubunæ in Numidia and Coadjutor Bishop of Talca (Chile)

Msgr. Giovanni Battista Montini, Priest of Brescia (Italy), Domestic Prelate, Referendary Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura and Substitute for General Affairs of Secretariat of State, was appointed as Protonotary Apostolic Supernumerary

Fr. Alberto Martín y Villaverde was elected Bishop of Matanzas (Cuba)

Bishop Hermann Joseph Sträter, Auxiliary Bishop of Aachen (Germany), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Aachen (Germany)

Archbishop Gaetano Cicognani, Apostolic Nuncio to Austria, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Spain

Cardinal Federico Tedeschini resigned as Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Spain

Bishop Antonio Santin, Bishop of Rijeka–Opatija (Croatia), was appointed as Bishop of Koper (Slovenia) and Bishop of Trieste (Italy)

Fr. Albini Lafortune was elected Bishop of Nicolet (Canada)

Bishop Marie-Louis-Joseph-Constantin Tournier, M.E.P., Bishop emeritus of Coimbatore (India), passed away at 50

Fr. Alessandro Digard (狄嘉略), O.F.M., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Yiduxian 益都縣 (China)

Mission sui juris of Shaowu 邵武 was promoted as Apostolic Prefecture of Shaowu 邵武 (China)

Mission sui juris of Xinjiang 新疆 was promoted as Apostolic Prefecture of Xinjiang 新疆 (China)

Apostolic Prefecture of Bandjarmasin was established (from Apostolic Vicariate of Dutch Borneo) (Indonesia)

Apostolic Vicariate of Dutch Borneo was renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of Pontianak (lost territory to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Bandjarmasin) (Indonesia)

Mission sui juris of Karafuto was promoted as Apostolic Prefecture of Karafuto (Russia)

Fr. Inigo Maximilian König (王德俊), S.D.S., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Shaowu 邵武 (China)

Fr. Ferdinand Loy (盧裴德), S.V.D., Ecclesiastical Superior of Xinjiang 新疆 (China), was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Xinjiang 新疆 (China)

Fr. Heribert Aloysius Theodor Winkler (溫崇德), S.D.S., resigned as Ecclesiastical Superior of Shaowu 邵武 (China)

Bishop Tarcisius Henricus Josephus van Valenberg, O.F.M. Cap., Vicar Apostolic of Dutch Borneo (Indonesia), was appointed as Vicar Apostolic of Pontianak (Indonesia)

Fr. Jakobus Jan Kusters, M.S.F., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Bandjarmasin (Indonesia)

Fr. Pedro Paulo Santos Songco was elected Bishop of Nueva Caceres (Philippines)

Bishop Paul-Marie Ramond, M.E.P., resigned as Vicar Apostolic of Hung Hoá (Vietnam)

Bishop Gustave-Georges-Arsène Vandaele, M.E.P., succeeded as Vicar Apostolic of Hung Hoá (Vietnam)

Fr. Heinrich Horst, M. Afr., was elected Titular Bishop of Hermonthis and Vicar Apostolic of Lwangwa (Zambia)

Fr. Giorgio Rossi, C.S.I., was elected Titular Bishop of Lebessus and Vicar Apostolic of Napo (Ecuador)

Bishop Benvenuto Diego Alonso y Nistal, O.F.M. Cap., Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Caroní (Venezuela), passed away at 66

Fr. Czeslaw Kaczmarek was elected Bishop of Kielce (Poland)

Fr. Mário de Miranda Villas-Boas was elected Bishop of Garanhuns (Brazil)

Fr. Bernard William Griffin was elected Titular Bishop of Appia and Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham (England)

Fr. Thomas Joseph McDonough was appointed as Priest of Philadelphia (USA)

Fr. John Henry King was elected Titular Bishop of Opus and Auxiliary Bishop of Portsmouth (England)

Bishop Gusztáv Károly Majláth, Bishop of Alba Iulia (Romania), was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Soteropolis

Bishop Adolfo Vorbuchner succeeded as Bishop of Alba Iulia (Romania)

Fr. Tihamér Tóth was elected Titular Bishop of Olba and Coadjutor Bishop of Veszprém (Hungary)

Bishop Igino Serci, Bishop of Ozieri (Italy), passed away at 54

Fr. Felice Herrmann, O.F.M., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Karafuto (Russia)

Blessed Fr. Jean Batiffol was appointed as Priest of Paris (France)

Apostolic Prefecture of Baoqing 寶慶 was established (from Apostolic Prefecture of Yongzhoufu 永州府) (China)

Fr. Ladislaus Lombos, O.F.M., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Baoqing 寶慶 (China)

Fr. Teodosio Martínez Ramos, M.S.C., was appointed as Founder of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart and Saint Mary of Guadalupe

Saint Bishop Raphael Guízar y Valencia, Bishop of Veracruz–Jalapa (Mexico), passed away at 60

Archbishop Enrico Montalbetti, Titular Archbishop of Dercos and Coadjutor Archbishop of Trento (Italy), was appointed as Metropolitan Archbishop of Reggio Calabria (Italy)

Msgr. John Angel Romaniello (羅民勞), M.M., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Guilin 桂林 (China)

Fr. Louis-Albert Vachon was appointed as Priest of Québec (Canada)

Fr. Enrique Ezequiel Vacas Galindo, O.P., Prefect Apostolic emeritus of Canelos y Macas (Ecuador), passed away at 73

Blessed Fr. Michał Oziębłowski was appointed as Priest of Warszawa (Poland)

Bishop Francis Joseph Tief, Bishop of Concordia (USA), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Nisa in Lycia

Fr. Francis Anthony Marrocco was appointed as Priest of Peterborough (Canada)

Bishop Eduard Graf O’Rourke, Bishop of Gdańsk (Poland), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Sophene

Fr. Carlo Maria Splett was elected Bishop of Gdańsk (Poland)

Fr. Jean-Marie Masson, O.M.I., was elected Metropolitan Archbishop of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Apostolic Vicariate of Shinan 施南 was established (from Apostolic Vicariate of Yichang 宜昌) (China)

Apostolic Prefecture of Vientiane et Louang-Prabang was established (from Apostolic Vicariate of Laos) (Laos)

Apostolic Prefecture of Isole di Mayotta, Nossi-Bé e Comore was renamed as Apostolic Prefecture of Ambanja (Madagascar)

Apostolic Vicariate of Togo was renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of Lomé (Togo)

Bishop Terence Bernard McGuire, Bishop of Townsville (Australia), was appointed as Bishop of Goulburn (Australia)

Fr. Louis-Prosper Durand (杜安坤), O.F.M., Prefect Apostolic of Weihai 威海 (China), was elected Titular Bishop of Sebela and Vicar Apostolic of Zhifou 芝罘 (China)

Fr. Alphonse Marie van den Bosch, C.SS.R., was elected Titular Bishop of Philæ and Vicar Apostolic of Matadi (Congo-Kinshasa)

Fr. Jean-Henri Mazoyer, O.M.I., was appointed as Vicar Apostolic of Vientiane (Laos)

Bishop Goffredo Frederix (費達德), C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Ningxia 寧夏 (China), passed away at 71

Fr. Giacomo Drago was appointed as Priest of Bergamo (Italy)

Bishop Timothy J. Corbett, Bishop of Crookston (USA), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Vita

Fr. Costante Maltoni was appointed as Priest of Bertinoro (Italy)

Fr. Jan Cieński was appointed as Priest of Lviv (Ukraine)

Archbishop Francisco Alberti, Metropolitan Archbishop of La Plata (Argentina), passed away at 73

Fr. Ugo Poletti was appointed as Priest of Novara (Italy)

Fr. Mario Schierano was appointed as Priest of Torino (Italy)

Fr. Bruno Bernard Heim was appointed as Priest of Basel (Switzerland)

Bishop Gherardo Sante Menegazzi, O.F.M. Cap., Bishop of Comacchio (Italy), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Dorylaëum

Bishop Francesco Maria Berti, O.F.M. Conv., Bishop of Amelia (Italy), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Sebaste in Palæstina

Bishop Mathurin-Pie Le Ruyet, O.F.M. Cap., Bishop of Ajmer (India), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Alexandria minor

Fr. Václav Drbola was appointed as Priest of Brno (Czechia)

Bishop Giuseppe Augusto da Rocha Noronha, Auxiliary Bishop of Guarda (Portugal), passed away at 49

Bishop François Person, S.M.A., Vicar Apostolic of Costa d’Avorio (Cote d’Ivoire), passed away at 47

Fr. Giorgio Baraka was elected Bishop of Minya of the Copts (Egypt)

Fr. Eduardo Larraín Cordovez was elected Bishop of Rancagua (Chile)

Bishop Joseph-Jean-Yves Marcadé, Bishop of Laval (France), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Bargala

Fr. Jean-Avila Roch, P.M.E., resigned as Superior General of Society of Foreign Missions

Fr. Edgar Larochelle (藍德), P.M.E., was appointed as Superior General of Society of Foreign Missions

Cardinal Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant, Secretary of Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Churches, was appointed as President of Pontifical Biblical Commission

Fr. Joseph Basil Roper was elected Bishop of Toowoomba (Australia)

Fr. Hugo Edward Ryan was elected Bishop of Townsville (Australia)

Fr. John Joseph Lonergan, Bishop of Port Augusta (Australia), passed away at 50

Archbishop Ildebrando Antoniutti, Apostolic Delegate to Albania, was appointed as Apostolic Delegate to Canada

Fr. Constantino Gómez Villa, O.F.M. Cap., was elected Vicar Apostolic of Caroní (Venezuela) and Titular Bishop of Cucusus

Cardinal Giulio Serafini, Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria sopra Minerva, Bishop emeritus of Pescia (Italy), President of Pontifical Commission for the Authentic Interpretation of the Code of Canon Law and Prefect of Sacred Congregation of the Council, passed away at 70

Fr. Antonio Innocenti was appointed as Priest of Firenze (Italy)

Bishop Alois Scheiwiler, Bishop of Sankt Gallen (Switzerland), passed away at 66

Fr. Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky was appointed as Priest of Lviv–Halyč–Kamyanets of the Ukrainians (Ukraine)

Cardinal Luigi Maglione was appointed as Prefect of Sacred Congregation of the Council

Fr. Ireneo Chelucci was elected Bishop of Montalcino (Italy)

Fr. Francesco Chiaurri was appointed as Priest of Cesena–Sarsina (Italy)

Fr. Salvatore Asta was appointed as Priest of Trapani (Italy)

Fr. Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre, Priest of Poitiers (France), was elected Bishop of Troyes (France)

Bishop Paul-Marie Richaud, Titular Bishop of Irenopolis in Isauria and Auxiliary Bishop of Versailles (France), was appointed as Bishop of Laval (France)

Fr. Firmin Lamy was elected Bishop of Langres (France)

Fr. Charles Massé was elected Auxiliary Bishop of Luçon (France) and Titular Bishop of Phæna

Fr. João Batista Cavati, C.M., was elected Bishop of Caratinga (Brazil)

Fr. Matthew Francis Brady was elected Bishop of Burlington (USA)

Mission sui juris of Kodok was promoted as Apostolic Prefecture of Kodok (South Sudan)

Bishop Rafael Edwards Salas, Military Vicar of Chile (Chile) and Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago (Chile), passed away at 60

Fr. José Luis Fermandois Cabrera was appointed as Military Vicar of Chile (Chile)

Fr. Tadeusz Pawel Zakrzewski was elected Titular Bishop of Cariana and Auxiliary Bishop of Łomża (Poland)

Archbishop Alfonso Belloso y Sánchez, Metropolitan Archbishop of San Salvador (El Salvador), passed away at 64

Fr. Władysław Goral was elected Titular Bishop of Meloë in Isauria and Auxiliary Bishop of Lublin (Poland)

Fr. John A. Wall, M.H.M., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Kodok (South Sudan)

Fr. Angelo Palmas was appointed as Priest of Alghero (Italy)

Fr. Ugo Camozzo was elected Bishop of Rijeka–Opatija (Croatia)

Fr. Gennaro Fenizia was elected Bishop of Nardò (Italy)

Fr. Vincenzo Lojali was elected Bishop of Amelia (Italy)

Fr. Leone Giovanni Battista Nigris was elected Apostolic Delegate to Albania and Titular Archbishop of Philippi

Diocese of Aveiro was restored (from Diocese of Coimbra, Diocese of Porto and Diocese of Viseu and became suffragan of Braga) (Portugal)

Fr. Francis Augustine Thill was elected Bishop of Concordia (USA)

Fr. Aldo Laghi was elected Titular Archbishop of Nicæa and Apostolic Nuncio to Chile

Bishop Severios Giuseppe Valakuzhyil was appointed as Titular Bishop of Ingila

Fr. John Hubert Peschges was elected Bishop of Crookston (USA)

Fr. Luis Chávez y González was elected Metropolitan Archbishop of San Salvador (El Salvador)

Fr. Flavien Prat, SS.CC., resigned as Superior General of Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Picpus Fathers)

Cardinal Patrick Joseph Hayes, Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Via, Metropolitan Archbishop of New York (USA) and Military Vicar of United States of America (USA), passed away at 70

Fr. Jean du Cœur de Jésus d’Elbée, SS.CC., was appointed as Superior General of Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Picpus Fathers)

Fr. Abraham Elias, C.M., was elected Metropolitan Archbishop of Sehna of the Chaldeans (Iran)

Cardinal Camillo Laurenti, Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria della Scala pro hac vice Title and Prefect of Congregation for Sacred Rites, passed away at 76

Bishop Ernest Neveux, Auxiliary Bishop of Reims (France), passed away at 79

Bishop Tito Maria Cucchi, Bishop of Senigallia (Italy), passed away at 78

Bishop Adolfo Vorbuchner, Bishop of Alba Iulia (Romania), passed away at 48

Fr. Paolo Babini was elected Bishop of Comacchio (Italy)

Fr. Jean-Baptiste-Adrien Llosa was elected Bishop of Ajaccio (France)

Fr. Léon-Albert Terrier was elected Bishop of Tarentaise (France)

Cardinal Carlo Salotti was appointed as Prefect of Congregation for Sacred Rites

Fr. Josephus Meile was elected Bishop of Sankt Gallen (Switzerland)

Bishop Agapito Augusto Fiorentini (鳳朝瑞), O.F.M., resigned as Vicar Apostolic of Taiyuanfu 太原府 (China)

Bishop Thomas Henshaw, Bishop of Salford (England), passed away at 65

Fr. Enea Selis was appointed as Priest of Sassari (Italy)

Bishop-elect Josephus Meile was confirmed as Bishop of Sankt Gallen (Switzerland)

Fr. Gabriel Naamo was elected Apostolic Administrator of Syria of the Chaldeans (Syria), Apostolic Administrator of Upper Gazireh of the Chaldeans (Turkiye) and Titular Bishop of Batnæ

Bishop Adalberto Stanislao Owczarek, Auxiliary Bishop of Włocławek (Poland), passed away at 62

Archbishop Ettore Fronzi, Archbishop of Camerino (Italy), was appointed as Titular Archbishop of Melitene

Archbishop Basile Khoury resigned as Metropolitan Archbishop of Homs of the Greek-Melkites (Syria)

Fr. Athanasios Toutoungi, B.A., Superior General of Basilian Alepian Order, was elected Metropolitan Archbishop of Homs of the Greek-Melkites (Syria)

Bishop Augustin-Léopold Huys, M. Afr., Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Haut-Congo (Congo-Kinshasa), passed away at 67

Bishop Francesco d’Errico, Bishop of Alghero (Italy), was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Samosata

Bishop Luis Guízar y Barragán, Bishop of Campeche (Mexico), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Knin and Coadjutor Bishop of Saltillo (Mexico)

Fr. René de Pontes was elected Bishop of Valença (Brazil)

Fr. Paulus Rusch was elected Titular Bishop of Lycopolis and Apostolic Administrator of Innsbruck–Feldkirch (Austria)

Fr. Souleyman Kutchouk Ousta was elected Titular Bishop of Comana Armeniæ and Auxiliary Bishop of Baghdad of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

Archbishop Basile Khoury was appointed as Titular Archbishop of Sergiopolis

Bishop Juan Pascual Chimento, Bishop of Mercedes (Argentina), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of La Plata (Argentina)

Bishop Georges-Marie-Joseph-Hubert-Ghislain de Jonghe d’Ardoye (雍守正), M.E.P., Vicar Apostolic of Yunnanfu 雲南府 (China) and Titular Bishop of Amathus in Cypro, was promoted as Apostolic Delegate to Iraq and Titular Archbishop of Misthia

Bishop Gherardo Sante Menegazzi, O.F.M. Cap., Titular Bishop of Dorylaëum, was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Pompeiopolis in Paphlagonia

Fr. Louis-Paul Rastouil was elected Bishop of Limoges (France)

Fr. Stephen Mlakic, F.S.C.I., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Bahr el-Gebel (South Sudan)

Fr. Henri Audrain was elected Titular Bishop of Arsinoë in Arcadia and Auxiliary Bishop of Versailles (France)

Bishop François O’Rourke, S.M.A., Vicar Apostolic of Bight of Benin (Nigeria), passed away at 56

Bishop Bartholomew Stanley Wilson, C.S.Sp., Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone), passed away at 54

Bishop Auguste De Clercq, C.I.C.M., resigned as Vicar Apostolic of Kasaï Supérieur (Congo-Kinshasa)

Bishop Louis-Georges-Firmin Demol, C.I.C.M., succeeded as Vicar Apostolic of Kasaï Supérieur (Congo-Kinshasa)

Bishop Santiago López de Rego y Labarta, S.J., resigned as Vicar Apostolic of Mariana, Caroline, and Marshall Islands (Micronesia)

Archbishop Federico Lunardi, Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Honduras

Bishop Josef Ludovico Brems, O. Praem., resigned as Vicar Apostolic of Denmark (Denmark)

Blessed Fr. Mateo López López, Priest of Almería (Spain), passed away at 27

Bishop Paul Bergan Misner (高其志), C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Yujiang 餘江 (China), passed away at 47

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Wrocław lost territory to Diocese of Katowice (Poland)

Bishop Giuseppe Cogoni, Bishop of Nuoro (Italy), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Oristano (Italy)

Sr. Maria Giuseppa Rossello, F.d.M., was beatified

Bishop Giovanni Stavel, Auxiliary Bishop of Olomouc (Czechia), passed away at 69

Fr. Paul-Laurent-Jean-Louis Mazé, SS.CC., was elected Titular Bishop of Ascalon and Vicar Apostolic of Tahiti Islands (French Polynesia)

Archbishop João Evangelista de Lima Vidal was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Aveiro (Portugal)

Sr. Francesca Saverio Cabrini, M.S.C., Superior General of Institute of Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, was beatified

Archbishop Leopoldo Duarte e Silva, Metropolitan Archbishop of São Paulo (Brazil), passed away at 71

Bishop Camille Van Ronslé, C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Léopoldville (Congo-Kinshasa), passed away at 76

Fr. Umberto Malchiodi was elected Archbishop of Camerino (Italy)

Fr. Umberto Ravetta was elected Bishop of Senigallia (Italy)

Bishop Angel Diego y Carbajal (翟德隆), O.E.S.A., resigned as Vicar Apostolic of Changde 常德 (China)

Fr. William Aloysius Rice, S.J., was elected Titular Bishop of Rusicade and Vicar Apostolic of Belize (Belize)

Sr. Maria Domenica Mazzarello, F.M.A., Superior General of Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco, was beatified

Fr. William Godfrey, Priest of Liverpool (England), was elected Titular Archbishop of Cius and Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain

Fr. Leandro Nieto y Bolandier, O.A.R., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Palawan (Philippines)

Bishop Antonio Bahabanian, Bishop of Cesarea in Cappadocia of the Armenians (Turkiye), passed away at 71

Msgr. Dionizy Kajetanowicz, O.F.M., was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Lviv of the Armenians (Ukraine)

Bishop Thomas Wulstan Pearson, O.S.B., Bishop of Lancaster (England), passed away at 68

Diocese of Amos was established (from Diocese of Haileybury and became suffragan of Québec) (Canada)

Apostolic Vicariate of Baie de James was established (from Diocese of Haileybury and Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Ontario and became suffragan of Ottawa) (Canada)

Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Ontario was promoted as Diocese of Hearst (lost territory to establish Apostolic Vicariate of Baie de James) (Canada)

Bishop Joseph-Jean-Baptiste Hallé, Vicar Apostolic of Northern Ontario (Canada) and Titular Bishop of Perrhe, was appointed as Bishop of Hearst (Canada)

Fr. David Mathew was elected Titular Bishop of Æliæ and Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster (England)

Fr. Friedrich Hünermann was elected Titular Bishop of Ostracine and Auxiliary Bishop of Aachen (Germany)

Fr. Domenico Grassi, P.I.M.E., Apostolic Administrator of Bezwada (India), was elected Bishop of Vijayawada (India)

Archbishop Alfonso Archi, Archbishop-Bishop of Cesena (Italy), passed away at 74

Archbishop Giuseppe Teodorowicz, Archbishop of Lviv of the Armenians (Ukraine), passed away at 74

Bishop Donald Martin, Bishop of Argyll and The Isles (Scotland), passed away at 65

Bishop Geoffrey Zaccherini, Bishop emeritus of Jesi (Italy), passed away at 67

Bishop Abílio Augusto Vaz das Neves, Bishop of Cochin (India), was appointed as Bishop of Bragança e Miranda (Portugal)

Diocese of Haileybury was renamed as Diocese of Timmins (Canada)

Bishop Louis Rhéaume, O.M.I., Bishop of Haileybury (Canada), was appointed as Bishop of Timmins (Canada)

Fr. James Staunton was elected Bishop of Ferns (Ireland)

Apostolic Prefecture of Jianchangfu 建昌府 was promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Nancheng 南城 (China)

Fr. Thomas Absolem McCabe was elected Bishop of Port Augusta (Australia)

Fr. Patrick Cleary (利伯高), S.S.C.M.E., Prefect Apostolic of Jianchangfu 建昌府 (China), was elected Titular Bishop of Amathus in Cypro and Vicar Apostolic of Nancheng 南城 (China)

Fr. Johannes Theodor Suhr, O.S.B., Prior of Abbey of St. Jerome for the Revision and Emendation of the Vulgate, was elected Titular Bishop of Balecium and Vicar Apostolic of Denmark (Denmark)

Fr. Jean-Germain Mousset (문제만 제르마노), M.E.P., was elected Vicar Apostolic of Taiku 대구 (South Korea) and Titular Bishop of Irenopolis in Isauria

Fr. Walter James Fitzgerald, S.J., was elected Titular Bishop of Tymbrias and Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Alaska (USA)

Bishop Hugh McSherry, Titular Bishop of Giustinianopolis in Galatia and Vicar Apostolic of Cape of Good Hope, Eastern District (South Africa), was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Amorium

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Eger exchanged territory with Apostolic Prefecture of Mérk (Hungary)

Apostolic Prefecture of Mérk exchanged territory with Metropolitan Archdiocese of Eger (Hungary)

Blessed Fr. Hermann Lange was appointed as Priest of Osnabrück (Germany)

Archbishop Luis Durou y Sure, C.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of Guatemala (Guatemala), passed away at 68

Fr. Giuseppe Caprio (高理耀) was appointed as Priest of Benevento (Italy)

Blessed Msgr. Luigi Novarese was appointed as Priest of Frascati (Italy)

Fr. Jean Margéot was appointed as Priest of Port-Louis (Mauritius)

Cardinal Lev Skrbenský z Hřiště, Cardinal-Priest of S. Stefano al Monte Celio and Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Olomouc (Czechia), passed away at 75

Venerable Fr. Áron Márton was elected Bishop of Alba Iulia (Romania)

Cardinal William Henry O’Connell, Metropolitan Archbishop of Boston (USA), was appointed as Protopriest of Sacred College of Cardinals

Bishop Thomas Francis Lillis, Bishop of Kansas City (USA), passed away at 77

Cardinal Aleksander Kakowski, Cardinal-Priest of S. Agostino and Metropolitan Archbishop of Warszawa (Poland), passed away at 76

Archbishop Stanisław Gall resigned as Auxiliary Bishop of Warszawa (Poland)

Diocese of Alghero lost territory to Diocese of Nuoro (Italy)