Nominations and Resignations

Titular Metropolitan See of Larissa in Thracia was renamed as Titular Metropolitan See of Larissa in Thessalia (Greece)

Titular Archiepiscopal See of Nisibis (Maronite Rite) was established (Turkiye)

Bishop Alonso Manuel Escalante, M.M., resigned as Vicar Apostolic of Pando (Bolivia)

Fr. Terence F. D’Souza was appointed as Priest of Toronto (Canada)

Fr. Cirilo Polidoro van Vlierberghe, O.F.M., was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Illapel (Chile)

Fr. Fang Zhi-gang (方志剛) ▼ was elected Bishop of Yongjia 永嘉 (China)

Fr. Shu Qi-shui (舒其誰) ▼ was elected Bishop of Ningbo 寧波 (China)

Fr. Aloysius Zhang Jia-shu (張家樹), S.J. ▼, was elected Bishop of Shanghai 上海 (China)

Fr. Zhang Ri-jin (張日進) ▼ was elected Bishop of Yantai 煙臺 (China)

Msgr. Giuseppe Del Ton, Priest of Poreč i Pula (Croatia) and Domestic Prelate, was appointed as Secretary of Secretariat of Latin Letters

Archbishop Octavio Antonio Beras Rojas, Coadjutor Archbishop of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator sede plena of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)

Cardinal Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant resigned as Camerlengo of Sacred College of Cardinals

Abbot Germain Cozien, O.S.B., President emeritus of Solesmes Congregation, passed away at 82

Fr. Winfried König was appointed as Priest of Münster (Germany)

Msgr. Arthur Wynen resigned as Prelate Auditor of Sacred Roman Rota

Fr. Rocco Dellatolla resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Naxos–Andros–Tinos–Mykonos (Greece)

Bishop Rémy Augustin, S.M.M., Auxiliary Bishop of Port-au-Prince (Haiti), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator sede plena of Port-au-Prince (Haiti)

Fr. László Rózsavölgyi was elected Titular Bishop of Lystra

Msgr. Thomas Nedumkallel, C.V., resigned as Superior General of Vincentian Congregation

Fr. Jacob Kallarackal, C.V., was appointed as Superior General of Vincentian Congregation

Patriarch Paul II Cheikho resigned as Bishop of Mossul of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

Archbishop Giuseppe Antonio Ferretto resigned as Secretary of Commission of Cardinals for the Shrine of Pompeii and Secretary of Pontifical Commission for Latin America

Cardinal Clemente Micara, President of Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology, Cardinal Vice-Dean of Sacred College of Cardinals and Vicar General for the Vicariate of Rome of Roma (Italy), was appointed as Camerlengo of Sacred College of Cardinals

Archbishop Luigi Centoz resigned as Apostolic Delegate to Puerto Rico

Archbishop Ettore Cunial, Second Vicegerent for the Vicariate of Rome of Roma (Italy), was appointed as Vicegerent for the Vicariate of Rome of Roma (Italy)

Fr. Saverio Zupi, Priest of Cosenza (Italy), was appointed as Apostolic Delegate to Korea

Bishop Oddo Bernacchia resigned as Bishop of Larino (Italy)

Fr. Ernesto Camagni, Priest of Milano (Italy), was appointed as Chancellor of Apostolic Briefs of Secretariat of State

Fr. Vittorio Maria Costantini, O.F.M. Conv., resigned as Minister General of Order of Friars Minor Conventual (Conventual Franciscans)

Bishop Pasquale Venezia resigned as Auxiliary Bishop of Benevento (Italy)

Msgr. Vittorio Bartoccetti resigned as Voting Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura

Msgr. Gildo Brugnola resigned as Chancellor of Apostolic Briefs of Secretariat of State

Msgr. Ferrero Conti was appointed as Undersecretary of Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See

Msgr. Carlo Corvo resigned as Undersecretary of Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith

Msgr. Bruno Fagiolo was appointed as Undersecretary of Sacred Congregation for Sacramental Discipline

Msgr. Cesare Federici resigned as Corrector of Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary

Msgr. Augusto Fidecicchi, Prelate Auditor emeritus of Sacred Roman Rota, passed away at 79

Msgr. Albino Galletto, Priest of Udine (Italy), Secretary of Pontifical Commission for Social Communications and Honorary Privy Chaplain, was appointed as Delegate of Vatican Film Library

Msgr. Giuseppe Graneris resigned as Sealer of Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary

Msgr. Angelo Perugini resigned as Secretary of Secretariat of Latin Letters

Msgr. Silvio Romani resigned as Voting Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura

Msgr. Giovanni Teodori resigned as Prelate Auditor of Sacred Roman Rota

Msgr. Francesco Tinello was appointed as Regent of Apostolic Chancery

Msgr. Amleto Tondini, Referendary Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura and Regent of Apostolic Chancery, was appointed as Secretary of Secretariat of Briefs to Princes

Msgr. Giuseppe Tondini resigned as Undersecretary of Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See

Prof. Giuseppe Dalla Torre di Sanguinetto resigned as Director of L’Osservatore Romano

Prof. Raimondo Manzini was appointed as Director of L’Osservatore Romano

Bishop Julijonas Steponavicius resigned as Auxiliary Bishop of Panevėžys (Lithuania)

Bishop Thomas James Wade, S.M., resigned as Vicar Apostolic of Northern Solomon Islands (Papua New Guinea)

Bishop Patrick Shanley, O.C.D., resigned as Bishop-Prelate of Infanta (Philippines)

Msgr. Andrzej Maria Deskur, Priest of Kraków (Poland), Privy Chamberlain Supernumerary and Undersecretary of Pontifical Commission for the Cinema, Radio and Television, was appointed as Vice-Delegate of Vatican Film Library

Msgr. Pedro Ramón Lamas Lourido resigned as Prelate Auditor of Sacred Roman Rota

Fr. Pedro Lumbreras, O.P., resigned as Canonist of Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary

Fr. Basilius Niederberger, O.S.B., was appointed as President of Benedictine Congregation of Switzerland

Fr. Leo M. Finn resigned as Supreme Chaplain of Knights of Columbus

Bishop Joseph Trương Cao Ðại resigned as Vicar Apostolic of Hai Phòng (Vietnam)

Fr. Luigi Bostani, O.M.M., resigned as Superior General of Mariamite Maronite Order (Aleppians)

Fr. Gastone Simoni was appointed as Priest of Fiesole (Italy)

Msgr. Sebastiano Masala, Priest of Sassari (Italy) and Privy Chamberlain Supernumerary, was appointed as Prelate of Honour of His Holiness

Fr. Raffaele Pellecchia was elected Titular Bishop of Amisus and Auxiliary Bishop of Alife (Italy)

Fr. Marion Francis Forst was elected Bishop of Dodge City (USA)

Fr. James William Malone was elected Titular Bishop of Alabanda and Auxiliary Bishop of Youngstown (USA)

Fr. Thomas Francis Maloney was elected Titular Bishop of Andropolis and Auxiliary Bishop of Providence (USA)

Bishop Bernardin Gantin, Titular Bishop of Tipasa in Mauretania and Auxiliary Bishop of Cotonou (Benin), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Cotonou (Benin)

Archbishop Louis Parisot, S.M.A., resigned as Metropolitan Archbishop of Cotonou (Benin)

Fr. Giovanni Canestri, Priest of Roma (Italy), was appointed as Domestic Prelate

Msgr. Enrico Dante, Priest of Roma (Italy), Master of Papal Liturgical Celebrations of Prefecture for Pontifical Ceremonies and Pro-Secretary of Congregation for Sacred Rites, was appointed as Secretary of Congregation for Sacred Rites

Archbishop Alfonso Carinci resigned as Secretary of Congregation for Sacred Rites

Archbishop Domenico Enrici, Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti, was appointed as Apostolic Internuncio to Japan

Fr. Carlos José Ruiseco Vieira was appointed as Priest of Barranquilla (Colombia)

Msgr. Mariano Strojny was appointed as Referendary Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura

Bishop Ernesto de Paula, Bishop of Piracicaba (Brazil), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Hierocæsarea

Diocese of Mangalore lost territory to Diocese of Calicut (India)

Archbishop Emile-Joseph Socquet, M. Afr., Metropolitan Archbishop of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), was appointed as Titular Archbishop of Selymbria

Fr. Gilbert Ramanantoanina, S.J., was elected Titular Bishop of Acmonia and Auxiliary Bishop of Fianarantsoa (Madagascar)

Archbishop Victor Sartre, S.J., Metropolitan Archbishop of Tananarive (Madagascar), was appointed as Titular Archbishop of Beroë

Fr. Joseph Kilasara, C.S.Sp., was elected Bishop of Moshi (Tanzania)

Archbishop Louis Parisot, S.M.A., was appointed as Titular Archbishop of Chersonesus in Zechia

Msgr. Bruno Torpigliani, Priest of Arezzo (Italy) and Privy Chamberlain Supernumerary, was appointed as Domestic Prelate

Fr. Joannes de Reeper, M.H.M., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Ngong (Kenya)

Diocese of Brasília was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Goiânia and without ecclesiastical province) (Brazil)

Diocese of Presidente Prudente was established (from Diocese of Assis and became suffragan of Botucatu) (Brazil)

Diocese of São João da Boa Vista was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ribeirão Preto and became suffragan of Ribeirão Preto) (Brazil)

Fr. Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Rozas was elected Bishop of Pinar del Río (Cuba)

Bishop Costantino Caminada, Bishop of Sant’Agata de’ Goti (Italy), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Thespiæ and Auxiliary Bishop of Siracusa (Italy)

Fr. Lawrence John Saldanha was appointed as Priest of Lahore (Pakistan)

Apostolic Prefecture of Ilorin was established (from Diocese of Ondo) (Nigeria)

Fr. Nicola Cavanna was elected Bishop of Rieti (Italy)

Archbishop Celestine Joseph Damiano, Titular Archbishop of Nicopolis in Epiro and Apostolic Delegate to Southern Africa, was appointed as Archbishop-Bishop of Camden (USA)

Fr. Samuel Ruiz García was elected Bishop of Chiapas (Mexico)

Bishop Gaetano Malchiodi, Titular Bishop of Cana and Apostolic Administrator of Loreto (Italy), was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Amasea

Fr. Victorio Manuel Bonamín, S.D.B., was elected Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires (Argentina), Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Vicariate of Argentina (Argentina) and Titular Bishop of Bita

Bishop Lawrence Alexander Glenn, Titular Bishop of Tuscamia and Auxiliary Bishop of Duluth (USA), was appointed as Bishop of Crookston (USA)

Bishop Francis Joseph Schenk, Bishop of Crookston (USA), was appointed as Bishop of Duluth (USA)

Bishop Pablo Ramírez Taboado, SS.CC., Bishop of Cajamarca (Peru), was appointed as Bishop of Huacho (Peru)

Bishop Nemesio Rivera Meza, Bishop of Huacho (Peru), was appointed as Bishop of Cajamarca (Peru)

Msgr. Gerard Marie Rogers, Priest of Motherwell (Scotland) and Domestic Prelate, was appointed as Prelate Auditor of Sacred Roman Rota

Fr. Cornélio Chizzini, F.D.P., was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Tocantinópolis (Brazil)

Fr. Edgerton Roland Clarke was appointed as Priest of Kingston (Jamaica)

Archbishop Alfredo Pacini, Apostolic Nuncio to Uruguay, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland

Bishop Marius Paré, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicoutimi (Canada), was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of Chicoutimi (Canada)

Fr. Joseph-Marie-Goerges-Michel Goupy was elected Titular Bishop of Apollonis and Coadjutor Bishop of Blois (France)

Fr. Jean-Pierre-Georges Dozolme was elected Titular Bishop of Arcadia and Coadjutor Bishop of Le Puy-en-Velay (France)

Fr. Giovanni Ferrofino, Priest of Alessandria (Italy), was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti

Archbishop Francisco de Assis Pires, Bishop emeritus of Crato (Brazil), passed away at 79

Blessed Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac, Metropolitan Archbishop of Zagreb (Croatia), passed away at 61

Bishop Adolfo Servando Tortolo, Titular Bishop of Cæciri and Auxiliary Bishop of Paraná (Argentina), was appointed as Bishop of Catamarca (Argentina)

Fr. Petrus Malachias van Diepen, O.S.A., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Manokwari (Indonesia)

Fr. Moisés Julio Blanchoud was elected Titular Bishop of Belali and Auxiliary Bishop of Río Cuarto (Argentina)

Fr. Leonardo Gregorio Gallardo Heredia was elected Titular Bishop of Areopolis and Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de Cuyo (Argentina)

Bishop Horacio Arturo Gómez Dávila, Auxiliary Bishop of Córdoba (Argentina), was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of La Rioja (Argentina)

Fr. Belchior Joaquim da Silva Neto, C.M., was elected Titular Bishop of Cremna, Coadjutor Bishop of Luz (Brazil) and Apostolic Administrator sede plena of Luz (Brazil)

Fr. Arturo Gerrit João Hermanus Maria Horsthuis, A.A., was elected Bishop of Jales (Brazil)

Msgr. Corrado Bafile, Priest of L’Aquila (Italy) and Domestic Prelate, was elected Apostolic Nuncio to Germany and Titular Archbishop of Antiochia in Pisidia

Archbishop Pietro Pisani, Titular Archbishop of Tomi, passed away at 88

Archbishop Eugenio Giambro, Bishop emeritus of Nicastro (Italy), passed away at 93

Abbacy nullius of New Norcia lost territory to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Perth (Australia)

Bishop Lucio Crescenzi, Bishop of Matelica (Italy) and Bishop of Fabriano (Italy), passed away at 67

Bishop Simon Chu Kai-min (朱開敏), S.J., Bishop of Haimen 海門 (China), passed away at 91

Fr. William Graham Connare was elected Bishop of Greensburg (USA)

Bishop Leo Ferdinand Dworschak, Titular Bishop of Tium and Auxiliary Bishop of Fargo (USA), was appointed as Bishop of Fargo (USA)

Fr. Jaime Flores Martin, H.S.O.D., Priest of Salamanca (Spain), was elected Bishop of Barbastro (Spain)

Msgr. André Bride was appointed as Prelate of Honour of His Holiness

Archbishop Raffaele Forni, Apostolic Nuncio to Venezuela, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Uruguay

Bishop Miguel Paternain, C.SS.R., Bishop of Florida (Uruguay), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Mades

Diocese of Golfe Saint-Laurent was renamed as Diocese of Hauterive (Canada)

Bishop Gérard Couturier, Bishop of Golfe Saint-Laurent (Canada), was appointed as Bishop of Hauterive (Canada)

Canon Georges Lemaître, Priest of Mechelen–Brussel (Belgium), was appointed as President of Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Domestic Prelate

Lieutenant Colonel Dieter von Balthasar was appointed as Vice Commander of Pontifical Swiss Guard

Apostolic Prefecture of Dapango was established (from Diocese of Sokodé) (Togo)

Fr. Thomas William Muldoon was elected Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney (Australia) and Titular Bishop of Fessei

Archbishop Louis van Steene, M. Afr., resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Goma (Congo-Kinshasa)

Fr. Joseph Mikararanga Busimba was elected Bishop of Goma (Congo-Kinshasa)

Fr. Eusebius John Crawford, O.P., was elected Titular Bishop of Caffa and Vicar Apostolic of Western Solomon Islands (Solomon Islands)

Bishop Edmond John Fitzmaurice, Bishop of Wilmington (USA), was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Tomi

Bishop Thomas Joseph McDonough, Titular Bishop of Thenæ and Auxiliary Bishop of Savannah (USA), was appointed as Bishop of Savannah (USA)

Bishop Michael William Hyle succeeded as Bishop of Wilmington (USA)

Msgr. Antonio Piolanti, Priest of Roma (Italy), Privy Chamberlain Supernumerary, Referendary Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, Voting Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura and Rector Magnificus of Pontifical Lateran University, was appointed as Protonotary Apostolic Supernumerary

Archbishop Franjo Šeper succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Zagreb (Croatia)

Fr. Dominique Ðinh Ðức Trụ was elected Titular Bishop of Cataquas and Vicar Apostolic of Thái Bính (Vietnam)

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

Fr. Pierre Nguyễn Huy Quang was elected Titular Bishop of Claudiopolis in Isauria and Vicar Apostolic of Hung Hoá (Vietnam)

Fr. Joseph-Marie Phạm Năng Tĩnh, Apostolic Administrator of Bùi Chu (Vietnam), was elected Titular Bishop of Berenice and Vicar Apostolic of Bùi Chu (Vietnam)

Bishop Pierre-Marie Phạm Ngọc Chi resigned as Vicar Apostolic of Bùi Chu (Vietnam)

Fr. Vincent de Paul Phạm Văn Dụ was elected Titular Bishop of Boseta and Auxiliary Bishop of Lang Són et Cao Bang (Vietnam)

Fr. Marin Srakić was appointed as Priest of Đakovo i Srijem (Croatia)

Bishop Ilario Roatta, Bishop of Norcia (Italy), was appointed as Bishop of Sant’Agata de’ Goti (Italy)

Bishop-elect James Hagan, C.S.Sp., Bishop of Oturkpo (Nigeria), was appointed as Bishop of Makurdi (Nigeria)

Abbot Severinus Giacomo Gertken, O.S.B., Abbot Ordinary of Saint Peter–Muenster (Canada), passed away at 78

Bishop Pietro Sfair, Titular Bishop of Epiphania in Syria, was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Nisibis of the Maronites

Fr. José d’Angelo Neto was elected Bishop of Pouso Alegre (Brazil)

Archbishop José Newton de Almeida Baptista, Metropolitan Archbishop of Diamantina (Brazil), was appointed as Archbishop-Bishop of Brasília (Brazil)

Archbishop Oscar de Oliveira resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Pouso Alegre (Brazil)

Bishop William Charles Quinn (光一幸), C.M., Bishop of Yujiang 餘江 (China), passed away at 54

Fr. Bernard Lagoutte was appointed as Priest of Coutances (France)

Fr. Giuseppe Mani was appointed as Priest of Fiesole (Italy)

Bishop Francisco Miranda Vicente, Auxiliary Bishop of Toledo (Spain), passed away at 46

Fr. Gerard J. Legeland, C.SS.R., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Weetebula (Indonesia)

Fr. Peter Proeku Dery, Priest of Tamale (Ghana), was elected Bishop of Wa (Ghana)

Fr. Paolo De Nicolò was appointed as Priest of Rimini (Italy)

Fr. Santos Abril y Castelló was appointed as Priest of Teruel y Albarracín (Spain)

Fr. Carles Soler Perdigó was appointed as Priest of Barcelona (Spain)

Bishop Joseph Klemann, O.S.F.S., Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Great Namaqualand (Namibia), passed away at 88

Bishop Howard Joseph Carroll, Bishop of Altoona–Johnstown (USA), passed away at 57

Msgr. Loris Francesco Capovilla, Priest of Venezia (Italy), Private Secretary of the Pope and Domestic Prelate, was appointed as Privy Chamberlain Participantium

Msgr. Ugo Felice, Priest of Sulmona (Italy) and Privy Chamberlain Supernumerary, was appointed as Domestic Prelate

Apostolic Vicariate of Thare was renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of Thare and Nonseng (Thailand)

Bishop Michel Kien Samophithak, Vicar Apostolic of Thare (Thailand), was appointed as Vicar Apostolic of Thare and Nonseng (Thailand)

Diocese of Niterói was promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Niterói (with suffragan sees Campos, Nova Friburgo and Petrópolis and lost territory to establish Diocese of Nova Friburgo) (Brazil)

Diocese of Nova Friburgo was established (from Diocese of Campos, Diocese of Niterói and Diocese of Valença and became suffragan of Niterói) (Brazil)

Diocese of Nova Iguaçu was established (from Diocese of Barra do Piraí and Diocese of Petrópolis and became suffragan of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro) (Brazil)

Abbacy nullius of Belmont–Mary Help of Christians lost territory to Diocese of Raleigh (USA)

Archbishop Antônio de Almeida Moraes Junior, Metropolitan Archbishop of Olinda e Recife (Brazil), was appointed as Metropolitan Archbishop of Niterói (Brazil)

Bishop Carlos Gouvêa Coelho, Bishop of Niterói (Brazil), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Olinda e Recife (Brazil)

Bishop José de Aquino Pereira, Bishop of Dourados (Brazil), was appointed as Bishop of Presidente Prudente (Brazil)

Bishop Silvain van Hee, S.J., Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Kwango (Congo-Kinshasa), passed away at 85

Archbishop Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre, Metropolitan Archbishop of Bourges (France), was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Fr. Maurice-Jean-Fernand-Alexis Pourchet was elected Bishop of Saint-Flour (France)

Msgr. Antonio Bacci, Priest of Firenze (Italy) and Secretary of Secretariat of Briefs to Princes, was created Cardinal-Deacon with no Deaconry assigned

Archbishop Luigi Traglia, Titular Archbishop of Cesarea in Palæstina and Vicegerent for the Vicariate of Rome of Roma (Italy), was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned and Pro-Vicar General for the Vicariate of Rome of Roma (Italy)

Archbishop Francesco Giuseppe Lardone, Apostolic Administrator of Constantinopole (Turkiye) and Apostolic Internuncio to Turkiye, was appointed as

Fr. Albino Mensa was elected Bishop of Ivrea (Italy)

Fr. Alberto Scola was elected Bishop of Norcia (Italy)

Archbishop Peter Tatsuo Doi (ペトロ 土井辰雄), Metropolitan Archbishop of Tokyo 東京 (Japan) and President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan, was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Archbishop Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Metropolitan Archbishop of Utrecht (Netherlands) and Military Vicar of Netherlands (Netherlands), was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Archbishop Rufino Jiao Santos, Military Vicar of Philippines (Philippines) and Metropolitan Archbishop of Manila (Philippines), was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Bishop Antonio Cardona Riera, Bishop of Ibiza (Spain), was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Nicopolis in Epiro

Fr. Francisco Planas Muntaner was elected Bishop of Ibiza (Spain)

Bishop Laurean Rugambwa, Bishop of Rutabo (Tanzania), was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Fr. George Albert Hammes was elected Bishop of Superior (USA)

Abbot Walter Arthur Coggin, O.S.B., succeeded as Abbot nullius of Belmont–Mary Help of Christians (USA)

Bishop François-Marie Picaud, Bishop emeritus of Bayeux (France), passed away at 82

Fr. Barthélemy-Pierre-Joseph Hanrion, O.F.M., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Dapango (Togo)

Bishop Antonio José Jaramillo Tobón, Bishop of Jericó (Colombia), was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Cotrada

Bishop Augusto Trujillo Arango, Titular Bishop of Nisyrus and Auxiliary Bishop of Manizales (Colombia), was appointed as Bishop of Jericó (Colombia)

Fr. Eduardo Tomás Boza Masvidal was elected Auxiliary Bishop of La Habana (Cuba) and Titular Bishop of Vinda

Fr. José Maximino Eusebio Domínguez y Rodríguez was elected Titular Bishop of Cæciri and Auxiliary Bishop of La Habana (Cuba)

Bishop Cándido Rada Senosiáin, S.D.B., Titular Bishop of Pinara, was appointed as Bishop of Guaranda (Ecuador)

Cardinal Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre, Metropolitan Archbishop of Bourges (France), was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of S. Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini

Cardinal Antonio Bacci was appointed as Cardinal-Deacon of S. Eugenio

Cardinal Paolo Marella, Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to France, was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of S. Andrea delle Fratte

Cardinal Luigi Traglia, Pro-Vicar General for the Vicariate of Rome of Roma (Italy), was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of S. Andrea della Valle

Fr. Umberto Luciano Altomare was elected Titular Bishop of Carpasia and Auxiliary Bishop of Mazara del Vallo (Italy)

Cardinal Peter Tatsuo Doi (ペトロ 土井辰雄), Metropolitan Archbishop of Tokyo 東京 (Japan) and President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan, was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of S. Antonio da Padova in Via Merulana

Cardinal Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Metropolitan Archbishop of Utrecht (Netherlands) and Military Vicar of Netherlands (Netherlands), was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of S. Gioacchino ai Prati di Castello

Cardinal Rufino Jiao Santos, Military Vicar of Philippines (Philippines) and Metropolitan Archbishop of Manila (Philippines), was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria ai Monti

Cardinal Laurean Rugambwa, Bishop of Rutabo (Tanzania), was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of S. Francesco d’Assisi a Ripa Grande

Bishop Joseph Lennox Federal succeeded as Bishop of Salt Lake City (USA)

Bishop Duane Garrison Hunt, Bishop of Salt Lake City (USA), passed away at 75

Fr. Ennio Antonelli was appointed as Priest of Todi (Italy)

Fr. Angelo Mottola was appointed as Priest of Aversa (Italy)

Fr. Lucilo Barrameda Quiambao was appointed as Priest of Legazpi (Philippines)

Fr. Jérôme Rakotomalala, Priest of Tananarive (Madagascar), was elected Metropolitan Archbishop of Tananarive (Madagascar)

Fr. Stephen McGill, P.S.S., was elected Bishop of Argyll and The Isles (Scotland)

Bishop Richard Henry Ackerman, C.S.Sp., Titular Bishop of Lares and Auxiliary Bishop of San Diego (USA), was appointed as Bishop of Covington (USA)

Fr. Bernard Yago, Priest of Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire), was elected Metropolitan Archbishop of Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire)

Fr. François Xavier Rajaonarivo was elected Bishop of Miarinarivo (Madagascar)

Fr. Anthony Denis Galvin, M.H.M., was elected Titular Bishop of Lete and Vicar Apostolic of Miri (Malaysia)

Fr. Jerome Ferdinand Weber, O.S.B., was appointed as Abbot Ordinary of Saint Peter–Muenster (Canada)

Fr. André Pailler was elected Titular Bishop of Adada and Auxiliary Bishop of Rouen (France)

Fr. Paul Zoungrana, M. Afr., was elected Metropolitan Archbishop of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

Fr. José María Cirarda Lachiondo was elected Titular Bishop of Drusiliana and Auxiliary Bishop of Sevilla (Spain)

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Rangoon lost territory to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ranchi (Myanmar)

Diocese of Lyallpur was established (from Diocese of Multan and became suffragan of Karachi) (Pakistan)

Bishop Francesco Benedetto Cialeo, O.P., Bishop of Multan (Pakistan), was appointed as Bishop of Lyallpur (Pakistan)

Fr. Aloysius Louis Scheerer, O.P., was elected Bishop of Multan (Pakistan)

Msgr. Luigi Poggi, Priest of Piacenza (Italy) and Privy Chamberlain Supernumerary, was appointed as Domestic Prelate

Msgr. Alberto Giovannetti, Opus Dei, Priest of Sabina–Poggio Mirteto (Italy) and Privy Chamberlain Supernumerary, was appointed as Prelate of Honour of His Holiness

Msgr. Angelo Lanzoni, Privy Chamberlain Supernumerary, was appointed as Domestic Prelate

Msgr. Igino Quadraroli, Privy Chamberlain Supernumerary, was appointed as Domestic Prelate

Fr. Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Priest of Calahorra y La Calzada–Logroño (Spain), was appointed as Privy Chamberlain Supernumerary

Archbishop Paolo Bertoli, Apostolic Nuncio to Lebanon, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to France

Cardinal Paolo Marella resigned as Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to France

Fr. Bruno Pelaia was elected Titular Bishop of Lamdia and Coadjutor Bishop of Tricarico (Italy)

Fr. Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez was elected Titular Bishop of Cerasus and Coadjutor Bishop of San Andrés Tuxtla (Mexico)

Fr. Ignacy Ludwik Jeż was elected Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno (Poland) and Titular Bishop of Alba marittima

Archbishop Louis Parisot, S.M.A., Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Cotonou (Benin), passed away at 74

Bishop Walmor Battú Wichrowski, Titular Bishop of Sanavus and Auxiliary Bishop of Santos (Brazil), was appointed as Bishop of Nova Iguaçu (Brazil)

Fr. Clemente José Carlos de Gouvea Isnard, O.S.B., was elected Bishop of Nova Friburgo (Brazil)

Fr. George Mamalassery was appointed as Priest of Shillong–Gauhati (India)

Diocese of Morombe was established (from Diocese of Morondava and became suffragan of Fianarantsoa) (Madagascar)

Archbishop Oscar de Oliveira succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Mariana (Brazil)

Archbishop Helvécio Gomes de Oliveira, S.D.B., Metropolitan Archbishop of Mariana (Brazil), passed away at 84

Fr. Fang Zhi-gang (方志剛) ▼ was illicitly consecrated as Bishop emeritus of Yongjia 永嘉 (China)

Fr. Shu Qi-shui (舒其誰) ▼ was illicitly consecrated as Bishop of Ningbo 寧波 (China)

Fr. Matthias Wu Guo-huan (吳國煥) ▼ was illicitly consecrated as Metropolitan Archbishop of Hangzhou 杭州 (China)

Fr. Aloysius Zhang Jia-shu (張家樹), S.J. ▼, was illicitly consecrated as Bishop of Shanghai 上海 (China)

Archbishop Antonio Giordani, Titular Archbishop of Larissa in Thessalia, passed away at 82

Fr. Giovanni Lajolo was appointed as Priest of Novara (Italy)

Diocese of Aracaju was promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Aracaju (with suffragan sees Estância and Propriá and lost territory to establish Diocese of Estância and Diocese of Propriá) (Brazil)

Diocese of Estância was established (from Diocese of Aracaju and became suffragan of Aracaju) (Brazil)

Diocese of Propriá was established (from Diocese of Aracaju and became suffragan of Aracaju) (Brazil)

Territorial Prelature of Illapel was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of La Serena and Diocese of San Felipe and became suffragan of La Serena) (Chile)

Diocese of Texcoco was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of México and became suffragan of México) (Mexico)

Diocese of Arecibo was established (from Diocese of Ponce and Diocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico and became suffragan of San Juan de Puerto Rico) (Puerto Rico)

Diocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico was promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico (with suffragan sees Arecibo, Ponce and Virgin Islands and lost territory to establish Diocese of Arecibo and Territorial Prelature of Virgin Islands) (Puerto Rico)

Territorial Prelature of Virgin Islands was established (from Diocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico and became suffragan of San Juan de Puerto Rico) (U.S. Virgin Islands)

Bishop José Vicente Távora, Bishop of Aracaju (Brazil), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Aracaju (Brazil)

Fr. Zhang Ri-jin (張日進) ▼ was consecrated as Bishop of Yantai 煙臺 (China)

Bishop Bartholomew Kim Hyeon-bae (김현배 바르톨로메오), Vicar Apostolic of Jeonju 전주 (South Korea), passed away at 53

Fr. Anastasio Granados García was elected Titular Bishop of Cidramus and Auxiliary Bishop of Toledo (Spain)

Bishop James Peter Davis, Bishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)

Bishop Eugenio Raffaele Faggiano, C.P., Bishop emeritus of Cariati (Italy), passed away at 83

Sr. Marie de Sainte Agnès, F.M.M., was appointed as Superior General of Franciscan Missionaries of Mary

Fr. Eloy Tato Losada, I.E.M.E., was elected Titular Bishop of Cardicium and Vicar Apostolic of San Jorge (Colombia)

Bishop Endre Kriston, Auxiliary Bishop of Eger (Hungary), passed away at 83

Fr. Paul Cheng Shi-guang (Ch’eng Shih-kuang) (成世光), Priest of Fenyang 汾陽 (China), was elected Titular Bishop of Uccula and Auxiliary Bishop of Taipei 臺北 (Taiwan)

Bishop Félix-Maurice Hedde, O.P., Vicar Apostolic of Lang Són et Cao Bang (Vietnam), passed away at 81

Bishop Réginald-André-Paulin-Edmond Jacq, O.P., succeeded as Vicar Apostolic of Lang Són et Cao Bang (Vietnam)

Fr. Carlos Humberto Rodríguez Quirós was elected Metropolitan Archbishop of San José (Costa Rica)

Fr. Héctor Rueda Hernández was elected Bishop of Bucaramanga (Colombia)

Bishop Giacomo Zaffrani, Bishop of Guastalla (Italy), passed away at 81

Bishop Angelo Zambarbieri succeeded as Bishop of Guastalla (Italy)

Bishop Vincenzo Padolskis, Coadjutor Bishop emeritus of Vilkaviškis (Lithuania), passed away at 56

Archbishop François Marty succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Reims (France)

Archbishop Louis-Augustin Marmottin, Metropolitan Archbishop of Reims (France), passed away at 85

Apostolic Vicariate of El Obeid was established (from Apostolic Vicariate of Khartoum) (Sudan)

Bishop Emile-Arsène Blanchet, Titular Bishop of Lerus, was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Philippopolis in Thracia

Bishop Ireneus Wien Dud, Vicar Apostolic of Rumbek (South Sudan), was appointed as Vicar Apostolic of Bahr el-Ghazal (South Sudan)

Bishop Edoardo Mason, M.C.C.J., Vicar Apostolic of Bahr el-Ghazal (South Sudan), was appointed as Vicar Apostolic of El Obeid (Sudan)

Fr. Clément Ignace Mansourati, Priest of Antioch of the Syriacs (Lebanon), was appointed as Domestic Prelate

Bishop Francis Joseph Green, Auxiliary Bishop of Tucson (USA), was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of Tucson (USA)

Fr. William Edward Power was elected Bishop of Antigonish (Canada)

Fr. Jorge Alberto Giraldo Restrepo, C.I.M., was elected Titular Bishop of Garriana and Auxiliary Bishop of Pasto (Colombia)

Fr. Antonio Fustella was elected Bishop of Todi (Italy)

Fr. Armando Círio, O.S.J., was elected Bishop of Toledo (Brazil)

Fr. David Picão was elected Bishop of São João da Boa Vista (Brazil)

Bishop Abel Ribeiro Camelo, Bishop of Jataí (Brazil), was appointed as Bishop of Goiás (Brazil)

Fr. Eusebius Joseph Beltran was appointed as Priest of Atlanta (USA)

Fr. Paul-Marie Cao Ðình Thuyên was appointed as Priest of Vinh (Vietnam)

Archbishop Pasquale Mores, Bishop emeritus of Nusco (Italy), passed away at 87

Bishop Inocêncio Engelke, O.F.M., resigned as Bishop of Campanha (Brazil)

Bishop Othon Motta succeeded as Bishop of Campanha (Brazil)

Fr. Macario Tinti was elected Bishop of Fabriano (Italy) and Bishop of Matelica (Italy)

Msgr. Giovanni Piantoni was appointed as Privy Chamberlain Supernumerary

Diocese of São João del Rei was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mariana, Diocese of Campanha and Diocese of Juiz de Fora and became suffragan of Mariana) (Brazil)

Diocese of Kisii was established (from Diocese of Kisumu and became suffragan of Nairobi) (Kenya)

Bishop Francisco Gallego Pérez, Bishop of Cali (Colombia), passed away at 57

Bishop Maurice Michael Otunga, Titular Bishop of Tacapæ and Auxiliary Bishop of Kisumu (Kenya), was appointed as Bishop of Kisii (Kenya)

Fr. William Stephen Skylstad was appointed as Priest of Spokane (USA)

Archbishop Daniel Rivero Rivero, Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Sucre (Bolivia), passed away at 84

Fr. Angel Pérez Cisneros was elected Bishop of Barcelona (Venezuela)

Fr. Julian Groblicki was elected Titular Bishop of Philadelphia in Arabia and Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków (Poland)

Cardinal Gregorio Giovanni Gasparo Barbarigo, Cardinal-Priest of S. Marco and Bishop of Padova (Italy), was canonised

Fr. Joseph Gaston Hebert was appointed as Priest of Little Rock (USA)

Diocese of Fort Wayne was renamed as Diocese of Fort Wayne–South Bend (USA)

Fr. Vicente Alfredo Aducci was elected Titular Bishop of Musti and Auxiliary Bishop of Mercedes (Argentina)

Fr. Joseph Zimmermann, M.S.F., was elected Bishop of Morombe (Madagascar)

Fr. James Anthony Griffin was appointed as Priest of Cleveland (USA)

Bishop Leo Aloysius Pursley, Bishop of Fort Wayne (USA), was appointed as Bishop of Fort Wayne–South Bend (USA)

Fr. José Melhado Campos was elected Bishop of Lorena (Brazil)

Fr. Aniger de Francisco de Maria Melillo was elected Bishop of Piracicaba (Brazil)

Fr. Josef Grünwald was appointed as Priest of Augsburg (Germany)

Diocese of Segorbe was renamed as Diocese of Segorbe–Castellón de la Plana (gained territory from Diocese of Tortosa and lost territory to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Valencia) (Spain)

Diocese of Tortosa lost territory to Diocese of Segorbe–Castellón de la Plana (Spain)

Bishop José Pont y Gol, Bishop of Segorbe (Spain), was appointed as Bishop of Segorbe–Castellón de la Plana (Spain)

Fr. Paul Nguyễn Bình Tĩnh, P.S.S., was appointed as Priest of Kontum (Vietnam)

Archabbot Benedikt Reetz, O.S.B., was appointed as President of Beuronese Benedictine Congregation

Abbot Bernhard Durst, O.S.B., resigned as President of Beuronese Benedictine Congregation

Bishop Andrew Gerard Tynan, Bishop of Rockhampton (Australia), passed away at 52

Fr. Eugene Jerome Cooney was appointed as Priest of Calgary (Canada)

Bishop Domingos da Silva Gonçalves, Bishop of Guarda (Portugal), passed away at 69

Fr. Basil Mary Heiser, O.F.M. Conv., was appointed as Minister General of Order of Friars Minor Conventual (Conventual Franciscans)

Cardinal Augustin Bea, S.J., was appointed as President of Secretariat for Christian Unity

Fr. Gentil Diniz Barreto was elected Bishop of Mossoró (Brazil)

Fr. Eugenio Sbarbaro was appointed as Priest of Guastalla (Italy)

Fr. Teofil Józef Wilski was appointed as Priest of Gniezno (Poland)

Patriarch Juan de Ribera, Metropolitan Archbishop of Valencia (Spain), was canonised

Bishop Joseph Calasanz Fließer, Bishop emeritus of Linz (Austria), passed away at 63

Fr. Raymond Saint-Gelais was appointed as Priest of Saint-Hyacinthe (Canada)

Fr. Martin Veillette was appointed as Priest of Trois-Rivières (Canada)

Fr. Eugène Klein, M.S.C., was elected Titular Bishop of Echinus and Vicar Apostolic of Yule Island (Papua New Guinea)

Fr. Leo Lemay, S.M., was elected Titular Bishop of Agbia and Vicar Apostolic of Northern Solomon Islands (Papua New Guinea)

Bishop Dragutin Nežic, Titular Bishop of Pomaria and Apostolic Administrator of Poreč i Pula (Croatia), was appointed as Bishop of Poreč i Pula (Croatia)

Bishop Joël-André-Jean-Marie Bellec, Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (France), was appointed as Bishop of Perpignan–Elne (France)

Bishop Maksimilijan Držecnik, Titular Bishop of Abrittum, Auxiliary Bishop of Lavant (Austria) and Apostolic Administrator of Lavant (Austria), was appointed as Bishop of Lavant (Austria)

Bishop Inocêncio Engelke, O.F.M., Bishop emeritus of Campanha (Brazil), passed away at 79

Fr. Salvatore Sorrentino was elected Auxiliary Bishop of Pozzuoli (Italy) and Titular Bishop of Gerasa

Fr. Colm O’Reilly was appointed as Priest of Ardagh (Ireland)

Diocese of Ipamu was renamed as Diocese of Idiofa (Congo-Kinshasa)

Bishop René Toussaint, O.M.I., Bishop of Ipamu (Congo-Kinshasa), was appointed as Bishop of Idiofa (Congo-Kinshasa)

Diocese of Bukoba was established (from the suppressed Diocese of Rutabo and became suffragan of Tabora) (Tanzania)

Diocese of Bukoba was renamed as Diocese of Rulenge (Tanzania)

Diocese of Rutabo was suppressed (to establish Diocese of Bukoba) (Tanzania)

Fr. Vittorio Luigi Mondello was appointed as Priest of Messina (Italy)

Cardinal Laurean Rugambwa, Bishop of Rutabo (Tanzania), was appointed as Bishop of Bukoba (Tanzania)

Fr. Marko Mihayo was elected Metropolitan Archbishop of Tabora (Tanzania)

Bishop Alfred Lanctôt, M. Afr., Bishop of Bukoba (Tanzania), was appointed as Bishop of Rulenge (Tanzania)

Bishop Miguel de Andrea, Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires (Argentina), passed away at 82

Fr. Stéphane-Émile-Alfred Desmazières was elected Titular Bishop of Byblus and Auxiliary Bishop of Bordeaux (France)

Msgr. Ernesto Maria Fiore, Priest of Nicosia (Italy) and Privy Chamberlain Supernumerary, was appointed as Prelate Auditor of Roman Rota

Diocese of Bagé was established (from Diocese of Pelotas and Diocese of Uruguaiana and became suffragan of Porto Alegre) (Brazil)

Diocese of Minas was established (from Diocese of Melo and became suffragan of Montevideo) (Uruguay)

Fr. José Brandão de Castro, C.SS.R., was elected Bishop of Propriá (Brazil)

Bishop Joseph Carroll McCormick, Titular Bishop of Ruspæ and Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia (USA), was appointed as Bishop of Altoona–Johnstown (USA)

Fr. Emmanuel Daddi was elected Bishop of Mossul of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

Bishop Johannes Petrus Huibers, Bishop of Haarlem (Netherlands), was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Cypsela

Bishop Willem Pieter Adrian Maria Mutsaerts, Bishop of ’s-Hertogenbosch (Netherlands), was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Phulli

Bishop Wilhelmus Marinus Bekkers succeeded as Bishop of ’s-Hertogenbosch (Netherlands)

Bishop Joannes Antonius Eduardus van Dodewaard succeeded as Bishop of Haarlem (Netherlands)

Diocese of Oturkpo was renamed as Diocese of Makurdi (Nigeria)

Abbot Jerome Ferdinand Weber, O.S.B., was confirmed as Abbot Ordinary of Saint Peter–Muenster (Canada)

Fr. Johannes Willebrands, Priest of Haarlem (Netherlands), was appointed as Secretary of Secretariat for Christian Unity

Fr. Germán Trajano Pavón Puente was appointed as Priest of Quito (Ecuador)

Fr. Georg Maximilian Sterzinsky was appointed as Priest of Fulda (Germany)

Fr. Antioco Piseddu was appointed as Priest of Cagliari (Italy)

Fr. Fernand Franck was appointed as Priest of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)

Fr. Kazimierz Górny was appointed as Priest of Kraków (Poland)

Fr. Franc Kramberger was appointed as Priest of Lavant (Austria)

Fr. Guy Sansaricq was appointed as Priest of Les Cayes (Haiti)

Bishop Auguste Joseph Gaudel resigned as Bishop of Fréjus–Toulon (France)

Abbot Isidoro Croce, O.S.B.I., resigned as Abbot Ordinary of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) and Superior General of Italian Basilian Order of Grottaferrata

Archbishop Jacques Nessimian, Archbishop-Bishop of Iskanderiya of the Armenians (Egypt), passed away at 84

Bishop Raphaël Bayan succeeded as Bishop of Iskanderiya of the Armenians (Egypt)

Fr. Salvatore Di Cristina was appointed as Priest of Palermo (Italy)

Blessed Fr. Pino Puglisi was appointed as Priest of Palermo (Italy)

Fr. Czesław Sipović, M.I.C., was elected Titular Bishop of Mariamme

Fr. Vasile Cristea, A.A., was elected Titular Bishop of Lebedus

Fr. James Ward was elected Titular Bishop of Sita and Auxiliary Bishop of Glasgow (Scotland)

Fr. Mario Milano was appointed as Priest of Lamezia Terme (Italy)

Fr. Georges Khazzoum was appointed as Priest of Beirut of the Armenians (Lebanon)

Apostolic Vicariate of Bahama Islands was promoted as Diocese of Nassau (without ecclesiastical province) (Bahamas)

Bishop Paul Leonard Hagarty, O.S.B., Titular Bishop of Arba and Vicar Apostolic of Bahama Islands (Bahamas), was appointed as Bishop of Nassau (Bahamas)

Fr. Humberto Tonna Zanotta was elected Bishop of Florida (Uruguay)

Diocese of Beni in Congo was renamed as Diocese of Beni (Congo-Kinshasa)

Bishop Henri Joseph Marius Piérard, A.A., Bishop of Beni in Congo (Congo-Kinshasa), was appointed as Bishop of Beni (Congo-Kinshasa)

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Palermo lost territory to Diocese of Piana degli Albanesi (Italy)

Bishop Paul Joseph Biéchy, C.S.Sp., Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Brazzaville (Congo-Brazzaville), passed away at 73

Msgr. Egano Righi-Lambertini, Priest of Bologna (Italy), Domestic Prelate and Apostolic Delegate to Korea, was elected Apostolic Nuncio to Lebanon and Titular Archbishop of Doclea

Bishop Policarpo da Costa Vaz (高德華), Bishop of Macau 澳門 (Macau), was appointed as Bishop of Guarda (Portugal)

Bishop José Maria Cavallero Gómez, Bishop of Melo (Uruguay), was appointed as Bishop of Minas (Uruguay)

Fr. Orestes Santiago Nuti Sanguinetti, S.D.B., was elected Bishop of Melo (Uruguay)

Fr. Antonio Franco was appointed as Priest of Cerreto Sannita–Telese–Sant’Agata de’ Goti (Italy)

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Köln lost territory to Diocese of Essen (Germany)

Bishop Francis-Xavier Gsell, M.S.C., Bishop emeritus of Darwin (Australia), passed away at 87

Cardinal Pietro Fumasoni Biondi, Cardinal-Priest of S. Croce in Gerusalemme and Prefect of Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith, passed away at 87

Archbishop Raffaele Calabria, Metropolitan Archbishop of Otranto (Italy), was appointed as Titular Archbishop of Heliopolis in Phœnicia and Coadjutor Archbishop of Benevento (Italy)

Bishop Alberto Uribe Urdaneta, Bishop of Sonsón (Colombia), was appointed as Bishop of Cali (Colombia)

Archbishop Ivan Šaric, Metropolitan Archbishop of Vrhbosna (Bosnia and Herzegovina), passed away at 88

Msgr. Marcellinus van Soest, SS.CC., former Apostolic Administrator of Bangka dan Billiton (Indonesia), passed away at 66

Blessed Bishop Pavel Peter Gojdic, O.S.B.M., Bishop of Prešov of the Slovaks (Slovakia), passed away at 72

Fr. Fabian Wendelin Bruskewitz was appointed as Priest of Milwaukee (USA)

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Córdoba lost territory to Diocese of Villa María (Argentina)

Cardinal Krikor Bédros XV Agagianian, Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians (Lebanon), President of Pontifical Commission for the Codification of Oriental Canon Law and Pro-Prefect of Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith, was appointed as Prefect of Sacred Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples

Apostolic Vicariate of France (Armenian Rite) was established (France)

Apostolic Exarchate of France (Ukrainian Rite) was established (France)

Bishop Gabrijel Bukatko, Apostolic Administrator of Križevci of the Croatians (Croatia) and Titular Bishop of Severiana, was appointed as Bishop of Križevci of the Croatians (Croatia)

Fr. Garabed Amadouni was elected Vicar Apostolic of France of the Armenians (France) and Titular Bishop of Amathus in Cypro

Fr. Vladimiro Malanczuk, C.SS.R., was elected Apostolic Exarch of France of the Ukrainians (France) and Titular Bishop of Epiphania in Syria

Archbishop Jozef Hubert Willem Lemmens, Bishop emeritus of Roermond (Netherlands), passed away at 75

Bishop Frederic Osterrath, O.S.B. Subl., Abbot Ordinary emeritus of Pietersburg (South Africa), passed away at 77

Fr. Serapione Uluhogian, C.A.M., was elected Titular Archbishop of Chersonesus in Zechia and Abbot General of Congregation of the Mechitarists of Venice

Bishop Delfim Ribeiro Guedes, Bishop of Leopoldina (Brazil), was appointed as Bishop of São João del Rei (Brazil)

Fr. Teodoro Minisci, O.S.B.I., was appointed as Abbot Ordinary of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) and Superior General of Italian Basilian Order of Grottaferrata

Fr. Luis Aponte Martínez, Priest of Ponce (Puerto Rico), was elected Titular Bishop of Lares and Auxiliary Bishop of Ponce (Puerto Rico)

Fr. Alfredo José Isaac Cecilio Francesco Méndez-Gonzalez, C.S.C., was elected Bishop of Arecibo (Puerto Rico)

Fr. Edward John Harper, C.SS.R., was elected Titular Bishop of Heraclea pontica and Bishop-Prelate of Virgin Islands (U.S. Virgin Islands)

Archbishop Niclas Kujur, S.J., Metropolitan Archbishop of Ranchi (India), passed away at 61

Fr. Karl Reger was appointed as Priest of Aachen (Germany)

Fr. Elio Tinti was appointed as Priest of Bologna (Italy)

Fr. Arturo Rivera Damas, S.D.B., was elected Titular Bishop of Legia and Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador (El Salvador)

Bishop Henri-Louis-Marie Mazerat succeeded as Bishop of Fréjus–Toulon (France)

Fr. Luigi Conti, Priest of Veroli–Frosinone (Italy), was appointed as Privy Chamberlain Supernumerary

Fr. Domenico De Luca, Priest of Napoli (Italy), was appointed as Privy Chamberlain Supernumerary

Bishop Francisco Ferreira Arreola, Titular Bishop of Arycanda and Auxiliary Bishop of Durango (Mexico), was appointed as Bishop of Texcoco (Mexico)

Territorial Prelature of Caacupé was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Asunción and Diocese of Concepción and became suffragan of Asunción) (Paraguay)

Bishop Francesco Orlando, Bishop of San Severo (Italy), passed away at 65

Fr. Ismael Blas Rolón Silvero, S.D.B., was elected Bishop-Prelate of Caacupé (Paraguay)

Bishop Peters Strods, Auxiliary Bishop of Riga (Latvia), passed away at 68

Fr. João Miranda Teixeira was appointed as Priest of Porto (Portugal)

Archbishop Ambrogio Squintani, Bishop emeritus of Ascoli Piceno (Italy), passed away at 75

Archbishop Vivian Anthony Dyer succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Calcutta (India)

Archbishop Ferdinand Périer, S.J., Metropolitan Archbishop of Calcutta (India), was appointed as Titular Archbishop of Rhoina

Apostolic Administration of Burgenland was promoted as Diocese of Eisenstadt (became suffragan of Wien) (Austria)

Bishop Štefan László, Apostolic Administrator of Burgenland (Austria), was appointed as Bishop of Eisenstadt (Austria)

Fr. Francis James Furey was elected Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia (USA) and Titular Bishop of Temnus

Fr. Cletus Joseph Benjamin was elected Titular Bishop of Binda and Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia (USA)

Bishop José Castelltort Subeyre, Bishop of Astorga (Spain), passed away at 61

Cardinal Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant, President of Pontifical Biblical Commission, Cardinal Dean of Sacred College of Cardinals, Prefect of Sacred Congregation of Ceremonies, Archivist of Vatican Secret Archives and Librarian of Vatican Apostolic Library, was appointed as Grand Master of Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (Knights of the Holy Sepulchre)

Cardinal Nicola Canali resigned as Grand Master of Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (Knights of the Holy Sepulchre)

Cardinal John Francis O’Hara, C.S.C., Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Andrea e Gregorio al Monte Celio and Metropolitan Archbishop of Philadelphia (USA), passed away at 72

Fr. Carlos Schmitt, O.F.M., was elected Bishop of Dourados (Brazil)

Bishop Massimiliano Massimiliani, Bishop of Modigliana (Italy), passed away at 84

Bishop Antonio Ravagli succeeded as Bishop of Modigliana (Italy)

Archbishop José Humberto Quintero Parra, Titular Archbishop of Acrida and Coadjutor Archbishop of Mérida (Venezuela), was appointed as Metropolitan Archbishop of Caracas (Venezuela)

Bishop Auguste Joseph Gaudel was appointed as Titular Bishop of Nisyrus

Fr. Francesco Bertoglio was elected Titular Bishop of Paros

Fr. Theotonius Amal Ganguly, C.S.C., was elected Titular Bishop of Oliva and Auxiliary Bishop of Dacca (Bangladesh)

Msgr. Pericle Felici, Prelate Auditor of Sacred Roman Rota and Vicar of the Chapter of Papal Basilica of Saint Peter, was elected Titular Archbishop of Samosata

Msgr. Dino Staffa, Prelate Auditor of Sacred Roman Rota, Consultant of Justice of Secretariat of State and Secretary of Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities, was elected Titular Archbishop of Cesarea in Palæstina

Fr. Medardo Joseph Mazombwe was appointed as Priest of Chipata (Zambia)

Bishop Marko Alaupovic, Titular Bishop of Capitolias and Auxiliary Bishop of Vrhbosna (Bosnia and Herzegovina), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Vrhbosna (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Fr. Bruno Wolnik, S.J., Prefect Apostolic emeritus of Lusaka (Zambia), passed away at 77

Venerable Archbishop Giovanni Vittorio Ferro, C.R.S., resigned as Bishop of Bova (Italy)

Fr. Giuseppe Lenotti was elected Bishop of Bova (Italy)

Archbishop Gaetano Pollio (陽霖), P.I.M.E., Metropolitan Archbishop of Kaifeng 開封 (China), was appointed as Metropolitan Archbishop of Otranto (Italy)

Bishop Alejandro Menchaca Lira, Bishop of Temuco (Chile), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Pinara

Fr. André-Georges Bontems was elected Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (France)

Bishop Antônio Reis, Bishop of Santa Maria (Brazil), passed away at 74

Bishop Luís Victor Sartori succeeded as Bishop of Santa Maria (Brazil)

Fr. Edward Ernest Swanstrom was elected Auxiliary Bishop of New York (USA) and Titular Bishop of Arba

Fr. Jean-Henri Mazoyer, O.M.I., Vicar Apostolic of Vientiane (Laos), passed away at 77

Msgr. Joseph Francis McGeough, Priest of New York (USA), Domestic Prelate and Apostolic Internuncio to Ethiopia, was elected Apostolic Delegate to Southern Africa and Titular Archbishop of Hemesa

Bishop Miguel Paternain, C.SS.R., Titular Bishop of Mades, was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Acrida

Fr. Benito Epifanio Rodríguez was elected Auxiliary Bishop of Rosario (Argentina) and Titular Bishop of Arycanda

Archbishop Sergio Pignedoli, Auxiliary Bishop of Milano (Italy), was appointed as Apostolic Delegate to Central Western Africa

Msgr. Felice Pirozzi, Priest of Nola (Italy) and Domestic Prelate, was appointed as Apostolic Delegate to Madagascar

Fr. Luis Héctor Villalba was appointed as Priest of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Bishop Francis Ridgley Cotton, Bishop of Owensboro (USA), passed away at 65

Msgr. Giuseppe Mojoli, Priest of Bergamo (Italy) and Domestic Prelate, was elected Apostolic Internuncio to Ethiopia and Titular Archbishop of Larissa in Thessalia

Bishop Daniel James Gercke, Bishop of Tucson (USA), was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Cotyæum

Bishop Francis Joseph Green succeeded as Bishop of Tucson (USA)

Bishop Rafael Balanzá y Navarro, Bishop of Lugo (Spain), passed away at 80

Cardinal Giuseppe Fietta, Cardinal-Priest of S. Paolo alla Regola pro hac vice Title, passed away at 76

Msgr. Giovanni Foschini, Protonotary Apostolic ad instar participantium, was appointed as Protonotary Apostolic de numero of Prefecture of the Holy Apostolic Palaces

Bishop Georges Désiré Raeymaeckers, O. Praem., Bishop of Buta (Congo-Kinshasa), passed away at 61

Bishop Jean-Justin-Michel Girbeau, Bishop of Nîmes (France), was promoted as Archbishop ad personam

Bishop Jerome Aloysius Daugherty Sebastian, Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore (USA), passed away at 64

Bishop Joseph-Marie-Jean-Baptiste Chappe, Bishop of Le Puy-en-Velay (France), passed away at 72

Bishop Jean-Pierre-Georges Dozolme succeeded as Bishop of Le Puy-en-Velay (France)

Bishop Štefan László resigned as Titular Bishop of Metellopolis

Msgr. Giuseppe D’Ercole was appointed as Referendary Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura

Msgr. Alfredo Parisella was appointed as Referendary Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura

Fr. Januário Torgal Mendes Ferreira was appointed as Priest of Porto (Portugal)

Fr. Salvador Canals, Opus Dei, Priest of Secular Institute of Opus Dei, was appointed as Prelate Auditor of Sacred Roman Rota

Fr. Aloysius John Wycislo was elected Titular Bishop of Stadia and Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago (USA)

Bishop François-Emile-Marie Cléret de Langavant, C.S.Sp., Bishop of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion (Réunion), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Mactaris

Diocese of Borongan was established (from Diocese of Calbayog and became suffragan of Cebu) (Philippines)

Diocese of Tacuarembó was established (from Diocese of Florida and became suffragan of Montevideo) (Uruguay)

Bishop Antonio Torasso, I.M.C., Vicar Apostolic of Florencia (Colombia), passed away at 45

Diocese of Alquoch (Chaldean Rite) was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Baghdad and became suffragan of Babylon) (Iraq)

Fr. Ioánnis Perrís was elected Metropolitan Archbishop of Naxos–Andros–Tinos–Mykonos (Greece)

Bishop-elect Emmanuel Daddi was confirmed as Bishop of Mossul of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

Msgr. Giovanni Colombo, Priest of Milano (Italy) and Domestic Prelate, was elected Titular Bishop of Philippopolis in Arabia and Auxiliary Bishop of Milano (Italy)

Fr. Stefan Barela was elected Titular Bishop of Hyllarima and Auxiliary Bishop of Częstochowa (Poland)

Fr. Edward Jan Muszynski was elected Titular Bishop of Mastaura in Asia and Auxiliary Bishop of Kielce (Poland)

Fr. Walenty Wójcik was elected Titular Bishop of Baris in Hellesponto and Auxiliary Bishop of Sandomierz–Radom (Poland)

Fr. Cletus Francis O’Donnell was elected Titular Bishop of Abrittum and Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago (USA)

Bishop Alfonso Verwimp, S.J., Bishop of Kisantu (Congo-Kinshasa), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Gibba

Fr. Antonios Naguib was appointed as Priest of Minya of the Copts (Egypt)

Fr. Paolo Rabitti was appointed as Priest of Bologna (Italy)

Fr. Mario de Gasperín Gasperín was appointed as Priest of Córdoba (Mexico)

Fr. Thomas Holland was elected Titular Bishop of Etenna and Coadjutor Bishop of Portsmouth (England)

Fr. Albert Louis Descamps was elected Auxiliary Bishop of Tournai (Belgium) and Titular Bishop of Tunes

Bishop Alberto Martín y Villaverde, Bishop of Matanzas (Cuba), passed away at 56

Fr. Carlos Parteli Keller was elected Bishop of Tacuarembó (Uruguay)

Msgr. Angelo Pedroni, Priest of Milano (Italy) and Referendary Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, was appointed as Permanent Observer to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Fr. Karl Gnädinger was elected Auxiliary Bishop of Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) and Titular Bishop of Celerina

Fr. László Rózsavölgyi was consecrated as Titular Bishop emeritus of Lystra

Fr. David Monas Maloney was elected Titular Bishop of Ruspæ and Auxiliary Bishop of Denver (USA)

Archbishop Nicolás Eugenio Navarro, Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas (Venezuela), passed away at 92

Fr. Francis Roberts Rush was elected Bishop of Rockhampton (Australia)

Bishop Georges-Henri Guibert, C.S.Sp., Titular Bishop of Dices and Auxiliary Bishop of Dakar (Senegal), was appointed as Bishop of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion (Réunion)

Bishop Ruggero Raffaele Cazzanelli (佳格理), O.F.M., Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Qichun 蘄春 (China), passed away at 78

Fr. Geraldo Claudio Luiz Micheletto Pellanda, C.P., was elected Titular Bishop of Mades and Coadjutor Bishop of Ponta Grossa (Brazil)

Apostolic Vicariate of San Gabriel de la Dolorosa del Marañón was renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of Yurimaguas (Peru)

Bishop Gregorio Elias Olazar Muruaga, C.P., Vicar Apostolic of San Gabriel de la Dolorosa del Marañón (Peru), was appointed as Vicar Apostolic of Yurimaguas (Peru)

Bishop Pietro Capizzi, Bishop of Caltagirone (Italy), was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Amorium

Bishop Francesco Fasola, Titular Bishop of Vartana and Coadjutor Bishop of Agrigento (Italy), was appointed as Bishop of Caltagirone (Italy)

Bishop Costanzo Micci, Titular Bishop of Hadriania and Auxiliary Bishop of Larino (Italy), was appointed as Bishop of Larino (Italy)

Fr. Alfonso López Trujillo was appointed as Priest of Bogotá (Colombia)

Bishop Pietro Villa, F.S.C.I., Prefect Apostolic emeritus of Gondar (Ethiopia) and Auxiliary Bishop of Ostia (Italy), passed away at 71

Fr. Thomas Patrick Collins, M.M., was elected Vicar Apostolic of Pando (Bolivia) and Titular Bishop of Sufetula

Fr. Jean-Marie Fortier was elected Titular Bishop of Pomaria and Auxiliary Bishop of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (Canada)

Fr. Paul-Émile Charbonneau was elected Titular Bishop of Thapsus and Auxiliary Bishop of Ottawa (Canada)

Fr. Joseph Raymond Windle was elected Auxiliary Bishop of Ottawa (Canada) and Titular Bishop of Uzita

Fr. Simon N’Zita Wa Ne Malanda was elected Titular Bishop of Gindarus and Auxiliary Bishop of Matadi (Congo-Kinshasa)

Fr. François Ndong was elected Titular Bishop of Raphanea and Auxiliary Bishop of Libreville (Gabon)

Bishop Paul-Louis Touzé, Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Paris (France), passed away at 85

Apostolic Vicariate of Bac Ninh was promoted as Diocese of Bac Ninh (became suffragan of Hà Nôi) (Vietnam)