Nominations and Resignations

Diocese of Osnabrück lost territory to Diocese of Hildesheim (Germany)

Diocese of Tyr (Maronite Rite) was promoted as Archdiocese of Tyr (Lebanon)

Msgr. Willy Onclin, Priest of Liège (Belgium) and Prelate of Honour of His Holiness, was appointed as Adjunct Secretary of Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Code of Canon Law

Msgr. José Ruysschaert, Priest of Tournai (Belgium), Secretary of Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences and Privy Chamberlain Supernumerary, was appointed as Vice-Prefect of Vatican Apostolic Library

Bishop Eugênio de Araújo Sales resigned as Apostolic Administrator sede plena of Natal (Brazil)

Bishop Nivaldo Monte, Auxiliary Bishop of Aracaju (Brazil), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator sede plena of Natal (Brazil)

Bishop Walmor Battú Wichrowski resigned as Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Maria (Brazil)

Bishop Gabriel Paulino Bueno Couto, O. Carm., Auxiliary Bishop of Taubaté (Brazil), was appointed as Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo (Brazil)

Bishop José Nepote-Fus, I.M.C., resigned as Bishop-Prelate of Roraima (Brazil)

Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez, S.D.B., resigned as President of Caritas Internationalis

Fr. Pacifico Calzolari, O.F.M., Prefect Apostolic of Xiangtan 湘潭 (China), passed away at 69

Fr. Augustin Fataki Alueke was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Wamba (Congo-Kinshasa)

Fr. Igino Gamboa, O.F.M. Cap., Prefect Apostolic of Aguarico (Ecuador), passed away

Bishop Lorenzo Michele Joseph Graziano, O.F.M., Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Ana (El Salvador), was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of San Miguel (El Salvador)

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, Librarian of Vatican Apostolic Library and Grand Master of Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (Knights of the Holy Sepulchre), was appointed as President Delegate of Central Commission for the Coordination of the Postconciliar Work and the Interpretation of Conciliar Resolutions

Bishop Jacques Le Cordier, Auxiliary Bishop of Paris (France), was appointed as Undersecretary of Central Commission for the Coordination of the Postconciliar Work and the Interpretation of Conciliar Resolutions

Abbot Henri Marcotte de Sainte-Marie, O.S.B., was appointed as Abbot of Abbey of St. Jerome for the Revision and Emendation of the Vulgate

Abbot Petrus Borne, O.S.B., was appointed as President of Beuronese Benedictine Congregation

Fr. Josef Kentenich, S.A.C., was appointed as Founder of Institute of Schönstatt Fathers

Fr. Maurinus Rast, S.D.S., was appointed as Superior General of Society of the Divine Saviour (Salvatorians)

Fr. Bonaventura Schweizer, S.D.S., resigned as Superior General of Society of the Divine Saviour (Salvatorians)

Fr. João Ferreira, O.F.M., Prefect Apostolic of Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau), passed away

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

Bishop Francis Arthur Carvalho resigned as Auxiliary Bishop of Madras and Mylapore (India)

Fr. Jacob Perumpral, O.I.C., was appointed as Superior General of Order of the Imitation of Christ

Fr. Joshua Thavalathil, O.I.C., resigned as Superior General of Order of the Imitation of Christ

Archbishop John Gordon, Apostolic Delegate to Thailand, Laos and Malay Peninsula, was appointed as Apostolic Delegate to North Africa

Archbishop Francesco Carpino, Secretary of Pontifical Commission for Latin America, Assessor of Sacred Consistorial Congregation, Secretary of Sacred College of Cardinals and Secretary of Commission of Cardinals for the Pontifical Shrines of Pompeii and Loreto, was appointed as Secretary of Sacred Consistorial Congregation

Cardinal Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, President of Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See, President of Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, Secretary of State of Secretariat of State, Prefect of Council for the Public Affairs of the Church, Cardinal Protector of Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy and President of Commission for the Coordination of Conciliar Work, was appointed as President Delegate of Central Commission for the Coordination of the Postconciliar Work and the Interpretation of Conciliar Resolutions

Msgr. Ernesto Civardi, Priest of Pavia (Italy), Domestic Prelate, Referendary Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura and Voting Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, was appointed as Undersecretary of Sacred Consistorial Congregation

Cardinal Carlo Confalonieri, Archpriest of Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major, President of Pontifical Commission for Latin America, Secretary of Sacred Consistorial Congregation, President of Commission of Cardinals for the Pontifical Shrines of Pompeii and Loreto and Vice-President of Consilium for Implementing the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, was appointed as Pro-Prefect of Sacred Congregation for Bishops

Archbishop Pericle Felici resigned as Secretary General of Commission for the Coordination of Conciliar Work

Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, Secretary of Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office and Protodeacon of Sacred College of Cardinals, was appointed as Pro-Prefect of Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Cardinal Gustavo Testa, Pro-President of Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See and Secretary of Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Churches, was appointed as Pro-Prefect of Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Churches

Cardinal Luigi Traglia was appointed as President of Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology

Archbishop Anacleto Cazzaniga, Metropolitan Archbishop of Urbino (Italy), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Urbania (Italy) and Apostolic Administrator of Sant’Angelo in Vado (Italy)

Venerable Archbishop Giovanni Vittorio Ferro, C.R.S., Metropolitan Archbishop of Reggio Calabria (Italy), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Oppido Mamertina (Italy)

Archbishop Arrigo Pintonello, Archbishop Military Vicar of Italy (Italy), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Velletri (Italy)

Archbishop Giovanni Battista Scapinelli di Léguigno resigned as Assessor of Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Churches

Archbishop Felicissimo Stefano Tinivella, O.F.M., was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Ventimiglia (Italy)

Archbishop Lino Zanini resigned as Apostolic Delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine

Archbishop Saverio Zupi, Apostolic Internuncio to Pakistan, was appointed as Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Pakistan

Bishop Giovanni Battista Pardini, Bishop of Jesi (Italy), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Senigallia (Italy)

Msgr. Pietro Rossano, Priest of Alba (Italy) and Chaplain of His Holiness, was appointed as Secretary of Pontifical Commission for the Neo-Vulgate

Bishop Federico Sargolini resigned as Auxiliary Bishop of Camerino (Italy)

Fr. Angelo Raimondo Verardo, O.P., resigned as Commissary of Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office

Msgr. Armando Fattinnanzi, Privy Chamberlain Supernumerary and Archivist of Sacred College of Cardinals, was appointed as Privy Chamberlain Participantium

Msgr. Amerigo Giovanelli, Referendary Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, was appointed as Undersecretary of Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Churches

Msgr. Arturo Lovelli, Secretary for Tribunal Section of Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary, was appointed as Secretary of Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary

Msgr. Marcello Magliocchetti was appointed as Canonist of Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary

Msgr. Sebastiano Masala, Priest of Sassari (Italy) and Prelate of Honour of His Holiness, was appointed as Adjunct Promoter of Justice of Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Msgr. Roberto Masi, Priest of Roma (Italy), Domestic Prelate and Canonist of Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary, was appointed as Sealer of Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary

Msgr. Alfredo Parisella, Referendary Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, was appointed as Undersecretary of Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education

Fr. Giulio Madurini, C.S.P., was appointed as President of Society of Saint Paul

Fr. Ulderico Pasquale Magni, C.S.P., resigned as President of Society of Saint Paul

Fr. Stefano Maria Pio Manelli, F.F.I., was appointed as Founder of Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate

Fr. Vincenzo Miano, S.D.B., was appointed as Secretary of Secretariat for Non-Believers

Fr. Luigi Ricceri, S.D.B., was appointed as Rector Major of Salesians of Saint John Bosco (Salesians)

Fr. Angelo Vedani was appointed as Administrative Director of Vatican Polyglot Press

Fr. Renato Ziggiotti, S.D.B., resigned as Rector Major of Salesians of Saint John Bosco (Salesians)

Dr. Ezio Franceschini was appointed as Rector Magnificus of Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

Dr. Francesco Vito resigned as Rector Magnificus of Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

Bishop Joseph Khoury, Bishop of Tyr of the Maronites (Lebanon), was promoted as Archbishop of Tyr of the Maronites (Lebanon)

Fr. Juozas Matulaitis-Labukas was elected Apostolic Administrator of Vilkaviškis (Lithuania)

Bishop Pierre Salmon, O.S.B., resigned as Abbot of Abbey of St. Jerome for the Revision and Emendation of the Vulgate

Fr. Boutros Raï, B.A., was appointed as Superior General of Basilian Alepian Order

Fr. Francisco Javier Asencio Dávalos, M.Sp.S., was appointed as Founder of School of the Cross

Bishop António Cardoso Cunha, Auxiliary Bishop of Beja (Portugal), was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of Vila Real (Portugal)

Br. Célestin Kapemb, F.J., was appointed as Superior General of Josephite Brothers of Rwanda

Fr. Joseph Landreau, C.S.Sp., Prefect Apostolic of Saint-Louis du Sénégal (Senegal), passed away

Bishop Jaime Flores Martin, H.S.O.D., Bishop of Barbastro (Spain), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator sede plena of Huesca (Spain)

Fr. Raimondo Bidagor, S.J., was appointed as Secretary of Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Code of Canon Law

Abbot Denis Strittmatter, O.S.B., resigned as President of American-Cassinese Benedictine Congregation

Fr. Baldwin Wilfred Dworschak, O.S.B., was appointed as President of American-Cassinese Benedictine Congregation

Fr. John A. Radano was appointed as Priest of Newark (USA)

Fr. Lloyd A. Torgerson was appointed as Priest of Los Angeles (USA)

Fr. Joseph M. Loftus, O.S.M., was appointed as Prior General of Order of Friar Servants of Mary (Servites)

Abbot Vincent Truijen, O.S.B., was appointed as Prior of Abbey of St. Jerome for the Revision and Emendation of the Vulgate

Fr. Joseph Cuoq, M. Afr., was appointed as Undersecretary of Secretariat for Non-Christians

Fr. Alphons Eicheldinger, C.R., resigned as Superior General of Congregation of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Resurrectionists)

Fr. Edoardo Filippini, P.M.S., was appointed as Superior General of Little Mission for the Deaf and Dumb

Fr. Hubert Gehl, C.R., was appointed as Superior General of Congregation of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Resurrectionists)

Fr. Jean Gribomont, O.S.B., resigned as Prior of Abbey of St. Jerome for the Revision and Emendation of the Vulgate

Fr. Karl Mansfeld, M.I., resigned as Superior General of Clerics Regular of the Ministers of the Sick (Camillians)

Fr. Alfonso Maria Montà, O.S.M., resigned as Prior General of Order of Friar Servants of Mary (Servites)

Fr. Aldo Natali, P.M.S., resigned as Superior General of Little Mission for the Deaf and Dumb

Fr. Lucianus Rubio, O.S.A., resigned as Prior General of Order of Saint Augustine (Augustinians)

Fr. Augustinus Trapč, O.S.A., was appointed as Prior General of Order of Saint Augustine (Augustinians)

Fr. Arnoldo van Lantschoot, O. Praem., resigned as Vice-Prefect of Vatican Apostolic Library

Fr. Forsenio Vezzani, M.I., was appointed as Superior General of Clerics Regular of the Ministers of the Sick (Camillians)

Fr. Wilhelm Wissing, I.Sch., was appointed as Superior General of Institute of Schönstatt Fathers

Fr. Giuseppe Zeliauskas resigned as Administrative Director of Vatican Polyglot Press

Fr. Servílio Conti, I.M.C., was elected Bishop-Prelate of Roraima (Brazil)

Fr. Genival Saraiva de França was appointed as Priest of Campina Grande (Brazil)

Fr. Adolphe E. Proulx was elected Titular Bishop of Missua and Auxiliary Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie (Canada)

Fr. Gerald Eugene Wilkerson was appointed as Priest of Los Angeles (USA)

Bishop Walfrido Teixeira Vieira, Titular Bishop of Laranda and Auxiliary Bishop of São Salvador da Bahia (Brazil), was appointed as Bishop of Sobral (Brazil)

Bishop Maurizio Raspini, Bishop of Oppido Mamertina (Italy), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Sebarga

Bishop William Richard Arnold, Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Vicariate of United States of America (USA), passed away at 83

Fr. Eduardo Herrera Riera was elected Titular Bishop of Sesta and Auxiliary Bishop of Cumaná (Venezuela)

Archbishop Paul-Marie-Maurice Perrin resigned as Bishop-Prelate of Tunis (Tunisia)

Fr. Michel Callens, M. Afr., was elected Titular Archbishop of Moxori and Bishop-Prelate of Tunis (Tunisia)

Apostolic Prefecture of Bhagalpur was promoted as Diocese of Bhagalpur (became suffragan of Calcutta) (India)

Fr. Urban Eugen McGarry, T.O.R., Prefect Apostolic of Bhagalpur (India), was elected Bishop of Bhagalpur (India)

Fr. Giustino Giulio Pastorino, O.F.M., was elected Vicar Apostolic of Benghazi (Libya), Apostolic Administrator of Derna (Libya) and Titular Bishop of Babra

Fr. James Chiona was elected Titular Bishop of Bacanaria and Auxiliary Bishop of Blantyre (Malawi)

Bishop Beniamino Ubaldi, Bishop of Gubbio (Italy), passed away at 82

Bishop Jacobus Grent, M.S.C., Bishop of Amboina (Indonesia), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Betagbara

Bishop Andreas Peter Cornelius Sol, M.S.C., succeeded as Bishop of Amboina (Indonesia)

Msgr. Giovanni Angelo Abbo, Priest of Albenga (Italy) and Domestic Prelate, was appointed as Prelate Auditor of Sacred Roman Rota

Bishop Beniamino Socche, Bishop of Reggio Emilia (Italy), passed away at 74

Fr. Manuel Ferreira Cabral was elected Titular Bishop of Obbi and Auxiliary Bishop of Braga (Portugal)

Bishop John Joseph Carberry, Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana (USA), was appointed as Bishop of Columbus (USA)

Archbishop John Hugh MacDonald, Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Edmonton (Canada), passed away at 83

Cardinal Pierre-Marie Gerlier, Cardinal-Priest of SS. Trinità al Monte Pincio and Metropolitan Archbishop of Lyon (France), passed away at 85

Archbishop Jean-Marie Villot succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Lyon (France)

Bishop Giuseppe Almici, Titular Bishop of Arcadia and Auxiliary Bishop of Brescia (Italy), was appointed as Bishop of Alessandria (Italy)

Archbishop Ramón José Castellano, Metropolitan Archbishop of Córdoba (Argentina), was appointed as Titular Archbishop of Jomnium

Bishop Jean-Marie Fortier, Titular Bishop of Pomaria and Auxiliary Bishop of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (Canada), was appointed as Bishop of Gaspé (Canada)

Fr. Rafael Grovas Felix was elected Bishop of Caguas (Puerto Rico)

Fr. Angel Morta Figuls was elected Titular Bishop of Gubaliana and Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid (Spain)

Bishop Umberto Ravetta, Bishop of Senigallia (Italy), passed away at 80

Msgr. Domenico Bartolucci, Priest of Firenze (Italy) and Director Master of Pontifical Musical Chorus of the Sistine Chapel, was appointed as Domestic Prelate

Venerable Fr. Alejandro Labaka Ugarte, O.F.M. Cap., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Aguarico (Ecuador)

Archbishop Gaetano Malchiodi, Apostolic Administrator emeritus of Loreto (Italy), passed away at 87

Fr. Ramón Benito de La Rosa y Carpio was appointed as Priest of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia en Higüey (Dominican Republic)

Bishop Eugenio Beitia Aldazabal, Bishop of Santander (Spain), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Verrona

Bishop Juan Ricote Alonso, Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid (Spain), was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of Teruel (Spain)

Diocese of Barra do Piraí was renamed as Diocese of Barra do Piraí–Volta Redonda (Brazil)

Bishop Altivo Pacheco Ribeiro, Bishop of Barra do Piraí (Brazil), was appointed as Bishop of Barra do Piraí–Volta Redonda (Brazil)

Bishop José Luis Castro Cabrera, Bishop of San Felipe (Chile), passed away at 62

Fr. Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli, O.F.M., was appointed as Secretary of Sacred Congregation of Rites

Archbishop Enrico Dante resigned as Secretary of Congregation for Sacred Rites

Msgr. Giacomo Violardo, Priest of Roma (Italy), Domestic Prelate, Referendary Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, Voting Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, Undersecretary of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, Secretary of Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Code of Canon Law and Sealer of Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary, was appointed as Secretary of Sacred Congregation for Sacramental Discipline

Archbishop Cesare Zerba resigned as Secretary of Sacred Congregation of Sacramental Discipline

Bishop Daniel Cohalan, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore (Ireland), passed away at 80

Bishop George Joseph Biskup, Titular Bishop of Hemeria and Auxiliary Bishop of Dubuque (USA), was appointed as Bishop of Des Moines (USA)

Archbishop Angelo Rotta, Titular Archbishop of Thebæ, passed away at 92

Diocese of Mondovì lost territory to Diocese of Albenga (Italy)

Bishop Nicasio Balisa y Melero, O.A.R., Vicar Apostolic of Casanare (Colombia), passed away at 71

Fr. James Martin Hayes was elected Titular Bishop of Reperi and Auxiliary Bishop of Halifax (Canada)

Msgr. Mario Schierano, Priest of Torino (Italy), Prelate of Honour of His Holiness, Secretary for Indulgence Section of Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary and Referendary Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, was appointed as Undersecretary of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura

Papal See of Roma lost territory to Diocese of Porto e Santa Rufina (Italy)

Fr. Romeo Roy Blanchette was elected Titular Bishop of Maxita and Auxiliary Bishop of Joliet (USA)

Fr. James Patrick Shannon was elected Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis (USA) and Titular Bishop of Lacubaza

Fr. William Joseph Scheyd was appointed as Priest of Bridgeport (USA)

Cardinal Ignace Gabriel I Tappouni, Patriarch of Antioch of the Syriacs (Lebanon) and Cardinal-Priest of Ss. XII Apostoli, was appointed as Cardinal-Patriarch

Msgr. Mario Crovini, Cleric Prelate of Apostolic Camera, was appointed as Referendary Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura

Msgr. Nicola Metta, Domestic Prelate, was appointed as Referendary Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura

Bishop Carlo Stoppa, Bishop of Alba (Italy), passed away at 83

Bishop José Pedro da Silva, Titular Bishop of Thiava and Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa (Portugal), was appointed as Bishop of Viseu (Portugal)

Msgr. Josef-Léon Cardijn, Priest of Mechelen–Brussel (Belgium) and Protonotary Apostolic Supernumerary, was elected Titular Archbishop of Tusuros

Fr. Giulio Bevilacqua, C.O., was elected Titular Archbishop of Gaudiaba

Msgr. Federico Callori di Vignale, Priest of Casale Monferrato (Italy), Protonotary Apostolic Supernumerary and Prefect of Prefecture of the Holy Apostolic Palaces, was elected Titular Archbishop of Maiuca

Msgr. Charles Journet, Priest of Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg (Switzerland) and Domestic Prelate, was elected Titular Archbishop of Furnos minor

Bishop Raúl Francisco Primatesta, Bishop of San Rafael (Argentina), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Córdoba (Argentina)

Bishop František Tomášek, Auxiliary Bishop of Olomouc (Czechia), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator sede plena of Praha (Czechia)

Bishop Jesús Villareal y Fierro, Bishop of San Andrés Tuxtla (Mexico), passed away at 80

Bishop Manuel de Jesus Pereira, Titular Bishop of Prænetus and Auxiliary Bishop of Coimbra (Portugal), was appointed as Bishop of Bragança e Miranda (Portugal)

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

Bishop Mariano Simon Garriga, Bishop of Corpus Christi (USA), passed away at 78

Archbishop Léon-Étienne Duval, Metropolitan Archbishop of Alger–Iulia Caesarea (Algeria), was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Archbishop Josef-Léon Cardijn, Titular Archbishop of Tusuros, was created Cardinal-Deacon with no Deaconry assigned

Archbishop Agnelo Rossi, President of National Conference of Bishops of Brazil and Metropolitan Archbishop of São Paulo (Brazil), was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Bishop Romeu Alberti, Titular Bishop of Belali and Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo (Brazil), was appointed as Bishop of Apucarana (Brazil)

Fr. Silvio Maria Dário was elected Titular Bishop of Oppidum novum and Auxiliary Bishop of Botucatu (Brazil)

Bishop José Melhado Campos, Bishop of Lorena (Brazil), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Hospita and Coadjutor Bishop of Sorocaba (Brazil)

Archbishop Paul Zoungrana, M. Afr., Metropolitan Archbishop of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Archbishop Maurice Roy, Military Vicar of Canada (Canada) and Metropolitan Archbishop of Québec (Canada), was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Archbishop Franjo Šeper, Metropolitan Archbishop of Zagreb (Croatia), was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Archbishop Josef Beran, Metropolitan Archbishop of Praha (Czechia), was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Patriarch Stephanos I Sidarouss, Patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts (Egypt), was created Cardinal-Patriarch

Archbishop John Carmel Heenan, President of Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, Metropolitan Archbishop of Westminster (England) and Vice-President of Secretariat for Christian Unity, was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Archbishop Joseph-Marie-Eugène Martin, Metropolitan Archbishop of Rouen (France), was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Archbishop Jean-Marie Villot, Metropolitan Archbishop of Lyon (France), was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Archbishop Lorenz Jäger, Metropolitan Archbishop of Paderborn (Germany), was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Archbishop Giulio Bevilacqua, C.O., Titular Archbishop of Gaudiaba, was created Cardinal-Deacon with no Deaconry assigned

Archbishop Federico Callori di Vignale, Prefect of Prefecture of the Holy Apostolic Palaces and Titular Archbishop of Maiuca, was created Cardinal-Deacon with no Deaconry assigned

Archbishop Giovanni Colombo, Metropolitan Archbishop of Milano (Italy), was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Archbishop Enrico Dante, Master of Papal Liturgical Celebrations of Prefecture for Pontifical Ceremonies and Titular Archbishop of Carpasia, was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Archbishop Ermenegildo Florit, Metropolitan Archbishop of Firenze (Italy), was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Archbishop Cesare Zerba, Referendary Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura and Titular Archbishop of Colossæ, was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Patriarch Paul Pierre Méouchi, Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites (Lebanon), was created Cardinal-Patriarch

Archbishop William John Conway, Metropolitan Archbishop of Armagh (Northern Ireland) and President of Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference, was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Archbishop Owen McCann, Metropolitan Archbishop of Cape Town (South Africa), was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Bishop Ángel Herrera Oria, Bishop of Málaga (Spain), was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Archbishop Thomas Benjamin Cooray, O.M.I., Metropolitan Archbishop of Colombo in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Archbishop Charles Journet, Titular Archbishop of Furnos minor, was created Cardinal-Deacon with no Deaconry assigned

Patriarch Maximos IV Saïgh, Patriarch of Antioch of the Greek-Melkites (Syria), Patriarch of Alexandria of the Greek-Melkites and Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Greek-Melkites, was created Cardinal-Patriarch

Major Archbishop Josyf Ivanovyce Slipyj, Apostolic Exarch of Velyka Ukraina (Ukraine) and Major Archbishop of Lviv–Halyč–Kamyanets of the Ukrainians (Ukraine), was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Archbishop Lawrence Joseph Shehan, Metropolitan Archbishop of Baltimore (USA), was created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned

Bishop Felix Roeder, Bishop emeritus of Beauvais (France), passed away at 84

Cardinal Léon-Étienne Duval, Metropolitan Archbishop of Alger–Iulia Caesarea (Algeria), was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of S. Balbina

Cardinal Josef-Léon Cardijn was appointed as Cardinal-Deacon of S. Michele Arcangelo

Cardinal Agnelo Rossi, President of National Conference of Bishops of Brazil and Metropolitan Archbishop of São Paulo (Brazil), was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of Gran Madre di Dio

Cardinal Paul Zoungrana, M. Afr., Metropolitan Archbishop of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of S. Camillo de Lellis

Cardinal Maurice Roy, Military Vicar of Canada (Canada) and Metropolitan Archbishop of Québec (Canada), was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of Nostra Signora del SS. Sacramento e Santi Martiri Canadesi

Cardinal Franjo Šeper, Metropolitan Archbishop of Zagreb (Croatia), was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Pietro e Paolo a Via Ostiense

Cardinal Josef Beran, Metropolitan Archbishop of Praha (Czechia), was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of S. Croce in Via Flaminia

Cardinal John Carmel Heenan, President of Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, Metropolitan Archbishop of Westminster (England) and Vice-President of Secretariat for Christian Unity, was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of S. Silvestro in Capite

Cardinal Joseph-Marie-Eugène Martin, Metropolitan Archbishop of Rouen (France), was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of S. Teresa al Corso d’Italia

Cardinal Jean-Marie Villot, Metropolitan Archbishop of Lyon (France), was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of SS. Trinità al Monte Pincio

Cardinal Lorenz Jäger, Metropolitan Archbishop of Paderborn (Germany), was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of S. Leone I

Cardinal Giulio Bevilacqua, C.O., was appointed as Cardinal-Deacon of S. Girolamo della Carità

Cardinal Federico Callori di Vignale was appointed as Cardinal-Deacon of S. Giovanni Bosco in Via Tuscolana

Cardinal Giovanni Colombo, Metropolitan Archbishop of Milano (Italy), was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Silvestro e Martino ai Monti

Cardinal Enrico Dante was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of S. Agata de’ Goti pro hac vice Title

Cardinal Ermenegildo Florit, Metropolitan Archbishop of Firenze (Italy), was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of «Regina Apostolorum»

Cardinal Cesare Zerba was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore pro hac vice Title

Cardinal William John Conway, Metropolitan Archbishop of Armagh (Northern Ireland) and President of Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference, was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of S. Patrizio

Cardinal Owen McCann, Metropolitan Archbishop of Cape Town (South Africa), was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of S. Prassede

Cardinal Ángel Herrera Oria, Bishop of Málaga (Spain), was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of S. Cuore di Maria

Cardinal Thomas Benjamin Cooray, O.M.I., Metropolitan Archbishop of Colombo in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Nereo ed Achilleo

Cardinal Charles Journet was appointed as Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria in Portico

Cardinal Josyf Ivanovyce Slipyj, Apostolic Exarch of Velyka Ukraina (Ukraine) and Major Archbishop of Lviv–Halyč–Kamyanets of the Ukrainians (Ukraine), was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of S. Atanasio

Cardinal Lawrence Joseph Shehan, Metropolitan Archbishop of Baltimore (USA), was appointed as Cardinal-Priest of S. Clemente

Bishop George Theodore Boileau, S.J., Coadjutor Bishop of Fairbanks (USA), passed away at 52

Archbishop Joseph-Eugène Limoges, Bishop of Mont-Laurier (Canada) and Archbishop ad personam, passed away at 85

Msgr. Giovanni Cheli, Priest of Asti (Italy) and Privy Chamberlain Supernumerary, was appointed as Domestic Prelate

Fr. Franco Brambilla, Priest of Como (Italy), was appointed as Prelate of Honour of His Holiness

Fr. Michele Cecchini, Priest of Lucca (Italy), was appointed as Prelate of Honour of His Holiness

Msgr. Antonio Petti, Privy Chamberlain Supernumerary, was appointed as Prelate of Honour of His Holiness

Archbishop Gabriel Abou-Saada, Patriarchal Vicar of Jerusalem of the Greek-Melkites (Palestine), passed away at 57

Fr. James Edward Charles Burke, O.P., was elected Bishop-Prelate of Chimbote (Peru)

Bishop Rafael Alvarez Lara, Bishop of Guadix (Spain), was appointed as Bishop of Mallorca (Spain)

Bishop Dionysios Kfoury, B.S., Patriarchal Vicar emeritus of Egypt and Sudan of the Greek-Melkites (Egypt), passed away at 85

Msgr. Giovanni Benelli, Priest of Pistoia (Italy), was appointed as Permanent Observer to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Cardinal Clemente Micara, Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri, Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria sopra Minerva in commendum, President of Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology and Vicar General for the Vicariate of Rome of Roma (Italy), passed away at 85

Fr. Jean-Baptiste Brunon, P.S.S., was elected Auxiliary Bishop of Toulouse (France) and Titular Bishop of Vagal

Fr. Enrico Feroci was appointed as Priest of Roma (Italy)

Fr. Anthony J. Farquhar was appointed as Priest of Down and Connor (Northern Ireland)

Bishop Thomas Asagoro Wakida (トマ 脇田 浅五郎), Bishop emeritus of Yokohama 横浜 (Japan), passed away at 83

Diocese of Tulcán was established (from Diocese of Ibarra and became suffragan of Quito) (Ecuador)

Fr. Luis Clemente de la Vega Rodriguez was elected Bishop of Tulcán (Ecuador)

Bishop-elect Martin Legarra Tellechea, O.A.R., Bishop-Prelate of Bocas del Toro (Panama), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Luperciana

Archbishop François Marty, Metropolitan Archbishop of Reims (France), was appointed as Bishop-Prelate of Mission de France (France)

Fr. Claudio Maria Celli was appointed as Priest of Rimini (Italy)

Fr. Ramiro Moliner Inglés was appointed as Priest of Zaragoza (Spain)

Bishop Antônio Mazzarotto, Bishop of Ponta Grossa (Brazil), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Octabia

Bishop Geraldo Claudio Luiz Micheletto Pellanda, C.P., succeeded as Bishop of Ponta Grossa (Brazil)

Fr. Paul Poupard, Priest of Angers (France), was appointed as Chaplain of His Holiness

Bishop Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez succeeded as Bishop of San Andrés Tuxtla (Mexico)

Fr. Gerald Nicholas Dino was appointed as Priest of Passaic of the Ruthenians (USA)

Diocese of Chikwawa was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Blantyre and became suffragan of Blantyre) (Malawi)

Diocese of Wonju 원주 was established (from Diocese of Chunchon 춘천 and became suffragan of Seoul 서울) (South Korea)

Apostolic Vicariate of Nakhorn-Rajasima was established (from Apostolic Vicariate of Ubon) (Thailand)

Diocese of Moroto was established (from Diocese of Gulu and became suffragan of Rubaga) (Uganda)

Bishop José Thurler resigned as Coadjutor Bishop of Sorocaba (Brazil)

Fr. Hans Ludvig Martensen, S.J., was elected Bishop of København (Denmark)

Archbishop Francis Joseph Grimshaw, Metropolitan Archbishop of Birmingham (England), passed away at 63

Fr. Basil Salvadore D’Souza was elected Bishop of Mangalore (India)

Fr. Eugen Joseph Frans Vroemen, S.M.M., was elected Bishop of Chikwawa (Malawi)

Fr. Peter Hwang Min-sung (황민성 베드로) was elected Bishop of Daejeon 대전 (South Korea)

Fr. Daniel Tji Hak-sun (지학순 다니엘) was elected Bishop of Wonju 원주 (South Korea)

Bishop Anthony de Saram, Titular Bishop of Tacapæ and Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), was appointed as Bishop of Galle (Sri Lanka)

Bishop Nicholas Laudadio, S.J., resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Galle (Sri Lanka)

Fr. Alain Sauveur Ferdinand van Gaver, M.E.P., was elected Titular Bishop of Capra and Vicar Apostolic of Nakhorn-Rajasima (Thailand)

Bishop Sisto Mazzoldi, M.C.C.J., Vicar Apostolic of Juba (South Sudan), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Moroto (Uganda)

Fr. Jacques Nguyễn Ngọc Quang was elected Bishop of Cân Tho (Vietnam)

Archbishop John Henry King, Bishop of Portsmouth (England) and Archbishop ad personam, passed away at 84

Fr. Francis Joseph Gossman, Priest of Baltimore (USA), was appointed as Chaplain of His Holiness

Archbishop Felício César da Cunha Vasconcellos, O.F.M., Titular Archbishop of Verissa and Coadjutor Archbishop of Florianópolis (Brazil), was appointed as Metropolitan Archbishop of Ribeirão Preto (Brazil)

Fr. Rafael Leónidas Felipe y Núñez was appointed as Priest of Mao–Monte Cristi (Dominican Republic)

Bishop Youhanna Nueir, O.F.M., Titular Bishop of Phatanus and Auxiliary Bishop of Luqsor of the Copts (Egypt), was appointed as Bishop of Assiut of the Copts (Egypt)

Bishop Aristide Pirovano, P.I.M.E., Bishop-Prelate of Macapá (Brazil), was appointed as Superior General of Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions

Bishop Joseph Louis André Ouellette, Titular Bishop of Carrhæ and Auxiliary Bishop of Mont-Laurier (Canada), was appointed as Bishop of Mont-Laurier (Canada)

Bishop Gilberto Baroni, Bishop of Albenga (Italy), was appointed as Bishop of Reggio Emilia (Italy)

Fr. Jesús Moliné Labarta was appointed as Priest of Piura (Peru)

Cardinal Giuseppe Pizzardo, Prefect of Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education, was appointed as Cardinal Vice-Dean of Sacred College of Cardinals

Cardinal Maurilio Fossati, O.Ss.G.C.N., Cardinal-Priest of S. Marcello and Metropolitan Archbishop of Torino (Italy), passed away at 88

Cardinal Luigi Traglia, Pro-Vicar General for the Vicariate of Rome of Roma (Italy) and Pro-President of Episcopal Conference of Italy, was appointed as Vicar General for the Vicariate of Rome of Roma (Italy) and Grand Chancellor of Pontifical Lateran University

Bishop José de Jesús Tirado Pedraza, Titular Bishop of Thelepte, was appointed as Bishop of Ciudad Victoria (Mexico)

Msgr. Luigi Poggi, Priest of Piacenza (Italy) and Domestic Prelate, was elected Apostolic Delegate to Central Africa and Titular Archbishop of Forontoniana

Fr. Keith Michael Patrick O’Brien was appointed as Priest of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh (Scotland)

Archbishop Johann Evangelist Müller, Bishop emeritus of Stockholm (Sweden), passed away at 87

Cardinal Franz König, Metropolitan Archbishop of Wien (Austria), Ordinary of Austria of the Eastern Rite (Austria), President of Episcopal Conference of Austria and Military Vicar of Austria (Austria), was appointed as President of Secretariat for Non-Believers

Archbishop Teopisto Valderrama Alberto succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Caceres (Philippines)

Archbishop Pedro Paulo Santos Songco, Metropolitan Archbishop of Caceres (Philippines), passed away at 75

Bishop Gregório Alonso Aparicio, O.A.R., resigned as Bishop-Prelate of Marajó (Brazil)

Bishop Miguel Angel Arce Vivas, Bishop of Ipiales (Colombia), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Popayán (Colombia)

Msgr. Angelo Pedroni, Priest of Milano (Italy), Referendary Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura and Permanent Observer to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), was elected Apostolic Delegate to Thailand, Laos and Malay Peninsula and Titular Archbishop of Novica

Bishop Giovanni Capobianco, Bishop of Sant’Angelo in Vado (Italy) and Bishop of Urbania (Italy), passed away at 85

Cardinal Albert Gregory Meyer, Cardinal-Priest of S. Cecilia and Metropolitan Archbishop of Chicago (USA), passed away at 62

Archbishop James Duhig, Metropolitan Archbishop of Brisbane (Australia), passed away at 93

Archbishop Patrick Mary O’Donnell succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Brisbane (Australia)

Fr. Henri Lemaître, Priest of Antwerpen (Belgium), was appointed as Prelate of Honour of His Holiness

Fr. Emanuele Gerada, Priest of Malta (Malta), was appointed as Domestic Prelate

Bishop Ubaldo Evaristo Cibrián Fernández, C.P., Bishop-Prelate of Corocoro (Bolivia), passed away at 58

Fr. Frank Henry Greteman was elected Titular Bishop of Vissalsa and Auxiliary Bishop of Sioux City (USA)

Fr. Cyril John Vogel was elected Bishop of Salina (USA)

Archbishop Włodzimierz Bronisław Jasiński, Bishop emeritus of Łódź (Poland), passed away at 91

Fr. Venant Bacinoni was appointed as Priest of Bururi (Burundi)

Archbishop Paul Kiredjian, Archbishop of Istanbul of the Armenians (Turkiye), passed away at 69

Fr. Edward Anthony McCarthy was elected Titular Bishop of Tamascani and Auxiliary Bishop of Cincinnati (USA)

Bishop Gerardo Faustino Herrero Garrote (王德純), O.S.A., Bishop of Changde 常德 (China), passed away at 79

Bishop Pierre-Marie Lacointe, Bishop of Beauvais (France), passed away at 66

Cardinal Fernando Cento, Cardinal-Priest of S. Eustachio pro hac vice Title and Major Penitentiary of Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary, was appointed as Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri

Bishop Angelo Prinetto resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Loreto (Italy)

Fr. Joseph Edra Ukpo was appointed as Priest of Ogoja (Nigeria)

Msgr. Mario Schierano, Priest of Torino (Italy), Prelate of Honour of His Holiness, Referendary Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura and Undersecretary of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, was appointed as Voting Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura

Fr. Mauro Morelli was appointed as Priest of Piracicaba (Brazil)

Archbishop Alberto Gaudêncio Ramos resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Ponta de Pedras (Brazil)

Fr. Ângelo Maria Rivato, S.J., was elected Bishop-Prelate of Ponta de Pedras (Brazil)

Bishop Joseph Khiamsun Nittayo succeeded as Vicar Apostolic of Bangkok (Thailand)

Bishop Louis-August Chorin, M.E.P., Vicar Apostolic of Bangkok (Thailand), passed away at 76

Fr. Paul Nguyễn Thanh Hoan was appointed as Priest of Phan Thiêt (Vietnam)

Fr. Pierre Trần Ðình Tứ was appointed as Priest of Thành-Phô Hô Chí Minh (Vietnam)

Fr. Luís Ferrando (Luigi Ferrando) was appointed as Priest of Piacenza–Bobbio (Italy)

Fr. Joseph Mees, Priest of Mechelen–Brussel (Belgium), was appointed as Prelate of Honour of His Holiness

Bishop Vincent Billington, M.H.M., Bishop of Kampala (Uganda), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Fallaba

Diocese of Kabba was renamed as Diocese of Lokoja (Nigeria)

Bishop Auguste Delisle, C.S.Sp., Bishop of Kabba (Nigeria), was appointed as Bishop of Lokoja (Nigeria)

Bishop-elect Nevin William Hayes, O. Carm., Bishop-Prelate of Sicuani (Peru), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Nova Sinna

Fr. Alquilio Alvarez Diez, O.A.R., was elected Bishop-Prelate of Marajó (Brazil)

Fr. Nestor Bihonda was elected Titular Bishop of Siminina and Auxiliary Bishop of Gitega (Burundi)

Cardinal Giulio Bevilacqua, C.O., Cardinal-Deacon of S. Girolamo della Carità, passed away at 83

Bishop Henryk Strakowski, Auxiliary Bishop of Lublin (Poland), passed away at 55

Fr. Alexandru Mesian was appointed as Priest of Maramureş of the Romanians (Romania)

Bishop René-Noël-Joseph Kérautret succeeded as Bishop of Angoulême (France)

Bishop Jean-Baptiste Mégnin, Bishop of Angoulême (France), passed away at 82

Fr. Anthony Columba McFeely was elected Bishop of Raphoe (Ireland)

Bishop Henri-Martin-Félix Jenny, Titular Bishop of Lycaonia and Auxiliary Bishop of Cambrai (France), was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Saldæ and Coadjutor Archbishop of Cambrai (France)

Archbishop Serapione Uluhogian, C.A.M., Abbot General of Congregation of the Mechitarists of Venice, passed away at 75

Fr. Giuseppe Carata was elected Titular Bishop of Præsidium and Auxiliary Bishop of Trani (Italy)

Fr. Alfred Michael Watson was elected Titular Bishop of Nationa and Auxiliary Bishop of Erie (USA)

Archbishop Mário de Miranda Villas-Boas, Metropolitan Archbishop of Paraíba (Brazil), was appointed as Titular Archbishop of Gibba

Fr. Alessandro Piazza was elected Bishop of Albenga (Italy)

Fr. Eugène-Jean-Marie Polge was elected Titular Bishop of Thiava and Auxiliary Bishop of Avignon (France)

Fr. Bernard-Pierre-Edmond Alix was elected Auxiliary Bishop of Le Mans (France) and Titular Bishop of Mediana

Fr. José Trinidad Sepúlveda Ruiz-Velasco was elected Bishop of Tuxtla Gutiérrez (Mexico)

Bishop Costantino Maria Attilio Barneschi, O.S.M., Bishop of Manzini (Eswatini), passed away at 72

Fr. Giancarlo Vecerrica was appointed as Priest of Macerata–Tolentino–Recanati–Cingoli–Treia (Italy)

Fr. Pedro de Arrupe y Gondra, S.J., was appointed as Superior General of Society of Jesus (Jesuits)

Archbishop Louis van Steene, M. Afr., Metropolitan Archbishop of Bukavu (Congo-Kinshasa), was appointed as Titular Archbishop of Ausuccura

Fr. Antulio Parrilla-Bonilla, S.J., was elected Auxiliary Bishop of Caguas (Puerto Rico) and Titular Bishop of Ucres

Fr. Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn was appointed as Priest of Cân Tho (Vietnam)

Bishop Bartolomeo Mangino, Bishop of Caserta (Italy), passed away at 81

Fr. Robert Zollitsch was appointed as Priest of Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany)

Diocese of Arundel and Brighton was established (from Diocese of Southwark and became suffragan of Southwark) (England)

Diocese of Southwark was promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Southwark (with suffragan sees Arundel and Brighton, Plymouth and Portsmouth and lost territory to establish Diocese of Arundel and Brighton) (England)

Bishop Cyril Conrad Cowderoy, Bishop of Southwark (England), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Southwark (England)

Archbishop John Joseph U Win, Metropolitan Archbishop of Mandalay (Myanmar), passed away at 63

Fr. Edwin Frederick O’Brien was appointed as Priest of New York (USA)

Fr. William Joseph Dendinger was appointed as Priest of Omaha (USA)

Fr. Gaetano Aldo Donato (Thomas) was appointed as Priest of Newark (USA)

Fr. David Eugene Fellhauer was appointed as Priest of Dallas (USA)

Bishop Louis-Marie-Joseph Durrieu, M. Afr., Bishop of Ouahigouya (Burkina Faso), passed away at 68

Fr. Walter Allison Hurley was appointed as Priest of Detroit (USA)

Fr. Thomas J. Morgan was appointed as Priest of Camden (USA)

Bishop Enrique Alvear Urrutia, Titular Bishop of Columnata and Auxiliary Bishop of Talca (Chile), was appointed as Bishop of San Felipe (Chile)

Bishop Manuel Martín del Campo Padilla, Bishop of León (Mexico), was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Vadesi and Coadjutor Archbishop of Morelia (Mexico)

Archbishop Émile André Jean-Marie Maury, Apostolic Delegate to Western Africa and Apostolic Internuncio to Senegal, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi, Apostolic Nuncio to Rwanda and Apostolic Nuncio to Democratic Republic of Congo

Archbishop Vito Roberti resigned as Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi, Apostolic Nuncio to Democratic Republic of Congo and Apostolic Nuncio to Rwanda

Bishop Jorge Carlos Carreras, Titular Bishop of Campania and Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires (Argentina), was appointed as Bishop of San Rafael (Argentina)

Fr. Jean-Louis Plouffe was appointed as Priest of Ottawa (Canada)

Fr. John Patrick Crowley was appointed as Priest of Westminster (England)

Fr. Jude O’Doherty was appointed as Priest of Killaloe (Ireland)

Fr. Virgilio Noè, Priest of Pavia (Italy), was appointed as Chaplain of His Holiness

Fr. Ignazio García Martin, S.J., Prefect Apostolic emeritus of San Francisco Javier (Peru), passed away at 63

Fr. Roman Adam Marcinkowski was appointed as Priest of Płock (Poland)

Fr. Andrzej Wojciech Suski was appointed as Priest of Płock (Poland)

Fr. Józef Wysocki was appointed as Priest of Warmia (Poland)

Diocese of Itabira was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Diamantina and Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mariana and became suffragan of Mariana) (Brazil)

Bishop David John Cashman, Titular Bishop of Cantanus and Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster (England), was appointed as Bishop of Arundel and Brighton (England)

Archbishop John Patrick Cody, Metropolitan Archbishop of New Orleans (USA), was appointed as Metropolitan Archbishop of Chicago (USA)

Fr. Henri Roy, I.S.P.X., Founder of Secular Institute of Pius X, passed away at 66

Fr. Béla Balás was appointed as Priest of Esztergom (Hungary)

Fr. John Buckley was appointed as Priest of Cork and Ross (Ireland)

Fr. Luciano Monari was appointed as Priest of Reggio Emilia–Guastalla (Italy)

Fr. Antoni Józef Długosz was appointed as Priest of Częstochowa (Poland)

Fr. Giuseppe Ferraioli, Priest of Roma (Italy), was appointed as Chaplain of His Holiness

Fr. Raymond Joseph Gallagher was elected Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana (USA)

Fr. Loras Joseph Watters was elected Titular Bishop of Fidoloma and Auxiliary Bishop of Dubuque (USA)

Bishop Pedro Reginaldo Lira, Bishop of San Francisco (Argentina), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Castellum in Mauretania

Fr. Carlos Ambrosio Lewis, S.V.D., was elected Titular Bishop of Nova Petra and Auxiliary Bishop of Panamá (Panama)

Apostolic Administration of Loreto was promoted as Territorial Prelature of Loreto (gained territory from Diocese of Recanati) (Italy)

Diocese of Recanati lost territory to Territorial Prelature of Loreto (Italy)

Msgr. Aurelio Sabattani, Prelate Auditor of Sacred Roman Rota, was elected Bishop-Prelate of Loreto (Italy) and Titular Archbishop of Iustiniana prima

Fr. Michel Jean Guyard was appointed as Priest of Paris (France)

Msgr. Sebastiano Masala, Priest of Sassari (Italy) and Prelate of Honour of His Holiness, was appointed as Referendary Prelate of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura

Fr. Francesco Monterisi, Priest of Barletta (Italy), was appointed as Chaplain of His Holiness

Fr. Luigi Conti was appointed as Priest of Roma (Italy)

Fr. Diego Coletti was appointed as Priest of Milano (Italy)

Fr. Leonardo Erriquenz, Priest of Conversano–Monopoli (Italy), was appointed as Chaplain of His Holiness

Fr. Audrys Juozas Bačkis, Priest of Kaunas (Lithuania), was appointed as Privy Chamberlain Supernumerary

Fr. François-Marie-Joseph Blondel was appointed as Priest of Limoges (France)

Fr. Piero Marini was appointed as Priest of Piacenza–Bobbio (Italy)

Fr. Vito De Grisantis was appointed as Priest of Lecce (Italy)

Fr. Piergiorgio Debernardi was appointed as Priest of Ivrea (Italy)

Fr. Julius Babatunde Adelakun was appointed as Priest of Oyo (Nigeria)

Fr. Jan Styrna was appointed as Priest of Tarnów (Poland)

Fr. Pierre Farine was appointed as Priest of Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg (Switzerland)

Fr. François-Xavier Jacques Marie Loizeau was appointed as Priest of Luçon (France)

Fr. Giuseppe Andrich was appointed as Priest of Belluno–Feltre (Italy)

Fr. Alphonse Émile Georger was appointed as Priest of Alger–Iulia Caesarea (Algeria)

Fr. Francisco Javier del Río Sendino was appointed as Priest of Palencia (Spain)

Fr. Miguel Angel Aguilar Miranda was appointed as Priest of Quito (Ecuador)

Fr. Yves François Patenôtre was appointed as Priest of Troyes (France)

Fr. Guy Claude Bagnard was appointed as Priest of Autun (France)

Fr. Bernard Housset was appointed as Priest of Bayonne (France)

Fr. Claude-Pierre-Charles Schockert was appointed as Priest of Nancy (France)

Fr. Delio Lucarelli was appointed as Priest of Fano–Fossombrone–Cagli–Pergola (Italy)

Fr. Luciano Pacomio was appointed as Priest of Casale Monferrato (Italy)

Fr. José Guadalupe Galván Galindo was appointed as Priest of Monterrey (Mexico)

Fr. Petru Gherghel was appointed as Priest of Iaşi (Romania)

Bishop José Joaquim Ribeiro, Auxiliary Bishop of Évora (Portugal), was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of Díli (Timor-Leste)

Fr. Giovanni Dettori was appointed as Priest of Ozieri (Italy)

Fr. Juan Navarro Ramirez was elected Bishop of Ciudad Altamirano (Mexico)

Bishop Jean Fryns, C.S.Sp., Bishop of Kindu (Congo-Kinshasa), passed away at 54

Fr. José Victoriano Naranjo Tovar was appointed as Priest of Latacunga (Ecuador)

Fr. Vincente Puchol Montis was elected Bishop of Santander (Spain)

Fr. Jean-Charles Marie Descubes was appointed as Priest of La Rochelle (France)

Fr. Edoardo Menichelli was appointed as Priest of San Severino (Italy)

Fr. Augustinho Petry was appointed as Priest of Florianópolis (Brazil)

Fr. Michael Patrick Olatunji Fagun was appointed as Priest of Ondo (Nigeria)

Bishop Stanisław Czajka, Auxiliary Bishop of Częstochowa (Poland), passed away at 67

Apostolic Prefecture of Bafia was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Yaoundé) (Cameroon)

Apostolic Prefecture of Mendi was promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Mendi (Papua New Guinea)

Apostolic Prefecture of Kaolack was promoted as Diocese of Kaolack (became suffragan of Dakar) (Senegal)

Apostolic Prefecture of Dapango was promoted as Diocese of Dapango (became suffragan of Lomé) (Togo)

Bishop Theotonius Amal Ganguly, C.S.C., Titular Bishop of Oliva and Auxiliary Bishop of Dacca (Bangladesh), was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Drizipara and Coadjutor Archbishop of Dacca (Bangladesh)

Fr. Georges Benoit Gassongo was elected Titular Bishop of Cubda and Auxiliary Bishop of Owando (Congo-Brazzaville)

Fr. Francis Arinze, Priest of Onitsha (Nigeria), was elected Titular Bishop of Fissiana and Coadjutor Archbishop of Onitsha (Nigeria)

Bishop John Kwao Amuzu Aggey, Titular Bishop of Sigus and Auxiliary Bishop of Lagos (Nigeria), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Lagos (Nigeria)

Archbishop Leo Hale Taylor, S.M.A., Metropolitan Archbishop of Lagos (Nigeria), was appointed as Titular Archbishop of Madytus

Fr. Firmin Martin Schmidt, O.F.M. Cap., Prefect Apostolic of Mendi (Papua New Guinea), was elected Titular Bishop of Conana and Vicar Apostolic of Mendi (Papua New Guinea)

Fr. Théophile Albert Cadoux, M.S.C., Prefect Apostolic of Kaolack (Senegal), was elected Bishop of Kaolack (Senegal)

Fr. Frank Marcus Fernando was elected Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and Titular Bishop of Oliva

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

Bishop Clemens P. Chabukasansha, Titular Bishop of Cibyra and Auxiliary Bishop of Fort Rosebery (Zambia), was appointed as Bishop of Kasama (Zambia)

Fr. Marcos Antônio Noronha was elected Bishop of Itabira (Brazil)

Bishop Karol Niemira, Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Pinsk (Belarus), passed away at 81

Bishop-elect Giocondo María Grotti, O.S.M., Bishop-Prelate of Acre e Purus (Brazil), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Thunigaba

Bishop Adolph Marx, Titular Bishop of Citrus and Auxiliary Bishop of Corpus Christi (USA), was appointed as Bishop of Brownsville (USA)

Diocese of Brownsville was restored (from Diocese of Corpus Christi and became suffragan of San Antonio) (USA)

Fr. Roger Francis Crispian Hollis was appointed as Priest of Clifton (England)

Fr. Gilbert Louis was appointed as Priest of Séez (France)

Msgr. Ugo Felice, Priest of Sulmona (Italy) and Domestic Prelate, was appointed as Prelate Auditor of Sacred Roman Rota

Fr. Jesús Maria Pellin was elected Titular Bishop of Aquæ Thibilitanæ and Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas (Venezuela)

Fr. André Charles Lucien Loucheur, C.S.Sp., was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of Bafia (Cameroon)

Bishop Thomas Reis, Bishop of Zaku of the Chaldeans (Iraq), passed away at 66

Bishop Francisco Rendeiro, O.P., Bishop of Faro (Portugal), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Benepota and Coadjutor Bishop of Coimbra (Portugal)

Fr. Patrick Percival Power was appointed as Priest of Canberra and Goulburn (Australia)

Fr. Domenico Umberto D’Ambrosio was appointed as Priest of Manfredonia–Vieste (Italy)

Bishop Thomas Joseph Drury, Bishop of San Angelo (USA), was appointed as Bishop of Corpus Christi (USA)

Fr. Francis Paul McHugh, S.F.M., was elected Bishop-Prelate of Itacoatiara (Brazil)

Territorial Prelature of Calama was established (from Diocese of Antofagasta and Diocese of Iquique and became suffragan of La Serena) (Chile)

Bishop Francisco de Borja Valenzuela Ríos, Bishop of Antofagasta (Chile), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Calama (Chile)

Fr. Manuel Castro Ruiz was elected Titular Bishop of Cincari and Auxiliary Bishop of Yucatán (Mexico)

Diocese of Barinas was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mérida and Diocese of Calabozo and became suffragan of Mérida) (Venezuela)

Diocese of Cabimas was established (from Diocese of Maracaibo and became suffragan of Mérida) (Venezuela)

Diocese of Los Teques was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Caracas and became suffragan of Caracas) (Venezuela)

Fr. Rafael Angel González Ramírez was elected Bishop of Barinas (Venezuela)

Fr. Constantino Maradei Donato was elected Bishop of Cabimas (Venezuela)

Bishop Alonso Arteaga Yepes, Titular Bishop of Auzegera and Auxiliary Bishop of Popayán (Colombia), was appointed as Bishop of Ipiales (Colombia)

Fr. Elias Chacour, Vice-President of Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land, was appointed as Priest of Akka of the Greek-Melkites (Israel)

Archbishop Juan José Bernal Ortiz, Metropolitan Archbishop of Ciudad Bolívar (Venezuela), was appointed as Archbishop-Bishop of Los Teques (Venezuela)

Fr. José Lafayette Ferreira Álvares was elected Titular Bishop of Carcabia and Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo (Brazil)

Msgr. Paul Wesemann was appointed as Prelate of Honour of His Holiness

Fr. António José Cavaco Carrilho was appointed as Priest of Porto (Portugal)

Fr. Georges Haddad was elected Metropolitan Archbishop of Tyr of the Greek-Melkites (Lebanon)

Fr. Grégoire Haddad was elected Titular Bishop of Palmyra of the Greek-Melkites and Auxiliary Bishop of Beirut–Gibail of the Greek-Melkites (Lebanon)

Fr. Nicolas Hajj was elected Titular Archbishop of Damiata of the Greek-Melkites and Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch of the Greek-Melkites (Syria)

Archbishop Agapios Salomon Naoum, B.S., resigned as Metropolitan Archbishop of Tyr of the Greek-Melkites (Lebanon)

Fr. Hilarion Capucci, B.A., Superior General of Basilian Alepian Order, was elected Patriarchal Vicar of Jerusalem of the Greek-Melkites (Palestine) and Titular Archbishop of Cesarea in Palæstina of the Greek-Melkites

Archbishop Paul-Marie-Maurice Perrin was appointed as Apostolic Delegate to Iraq

Fr. Joaquín José Morón Hidalgo was appointed as Priest of Trujillo (Venezuela)

Bishop Stéphane-Émile-Alfred Desmazières, Titular Bishop of Byblus and Auxiliary Bishop of Bordeaux (France), was appointed as Bishop of Beauvais (France)

Archbishop Louis Mathias, S.D.B., Metropolitan Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (India), passed away at 78

Archbishop Paul-Marie-Maurice Perrin, Titular Archbishop of Nova and Apostolic Delegate to Iraq, was appointed as Archbishop of Baghdad (Iraq)

Archbishop Audino Rodríguez y Olmos, Metropolitan Archbishop of San Juan de Cuyo (Argentina), passed away at 76

Bishop Alfonso Niehues, Titular Bishop of Eurœa in Epiro and Auxiliary Bishop of Lages (Brazil), was promoted as Titular Archbishop of Aptuca and Coadjutor Archbishop of Florianópolis (Brazil)

Bishop Georges-Auguste Louis, Bishop of Périgueux (France), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Mimiana

Bishop Jacques-Julien-Émile Patria, Titular Bishop of Uthina and Auxiliary Bishop of Beauvais (France), was appointed as Bishop of Périgueux (France)

Bishop Ján Vojtassák, Bishop of Spiš (Slovakia), passed away at 87

Bishop Tomas Wilczynski, Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Lublin (Poland), passed away at 61

Fr. Grégoire Pierre Melki was appointed as Priest of Antioch of the Syriacs (Lebanon)

Apostolic Vicariate of Río Muni was established (from Apostolic Vicariate of Fernando Poo) (Equatorial Guinea)

Diocese of Hoima was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Rubaga and Diocese of Fort Portal and became suffragan of Rubaga) (Uganda)

Bishop Enrique José Mühn, S.V.D., Bishop of Jujuy (Argentina), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Castellum medianum

Fr. Rafael María Nze Abuy, C.M.F., was elected Titular Bishop of Sutunurca and Vicar Apostolic of Río Muni (Equatorial Guinea)

Fr. Aloysius Moses U Ba Khim was elected Metropolitan Archbishop of Mandalay (Myanmar)

Fr. Chrétien Matawo Bakpessi was elected Bishop of Sokodé (Togo)

Bishop Cipriano Biyehima Kihangire, Military Vicar of Uganda (Uganda), was appointed as Bishop of Hoima (Uganda)

Bishop José García Villas, C.M., Bishop of San Pedro Sula (Honduras), passed away at 55

Bishop Antonijs Urbšs, Bishop of Liepāja (Latvia), passed away at 85

Bishop Gabriele (Nicola) Nabaa, B.S., Bishop emeritus of Saïdā of the Greek-Melkites (Lebanon), passed away at 71

Fr. Giuseppe Billiet, C.I.C.M., Vicar Apostolic of Mountain Provinces (Philippines), passed away at 77

Archbishop Vito Roberti, Titular Archbishop of Tomi, was appointed as Archbishop-Bishop of Caserta (Italy)

Fr. Manuel Pelino Domingues was appointed as Priest of Coimbra (Portugal)

Bishop Henry Joseph Thünemann, O.S.F.S., Bishop emeritus of Keimoes (South Africa), passed away at 67

Bishop José Armando Gutiérrez Granier, Titular Bishop of Pionia and Auxiliary Bishop of La Paz (Bolivia), was appointed as Bishop of Cochabamba (Bolivia)

Bishop Juan Tarsicio Senner, O.F.M., Bishop of Cochabamba (Bolivia), was appointed as Titular Bishop of Equizetum

Fr. Nicolaus Szarvas (查宗夏), S.J., Prefect Apostolic emeritus of Daming 大名 (China), passed away at 74

Fr. Gabino Díaz Merchán, Priest of Toledo (Spain), was elected Bishop of Guadix (Spain)

Archbishop Ottavio De Liva, Titular Archbishop of Heliopolis in Phœnicia and Apostolic Internuncio to Indonesia, passed away at 54

Bishop Theodore Schu (舒德祿), S.V.D., Bishop of Yanzhou 兗州 (China), passed away at 73

Fr. Alfredo Caselle was appointed as Titular Bishop of Lugura and Auxiliary Bishop of Melfi (Italy)

Fr. Hendrik Theodorus Edmund Beel was elected Auxiliary Bishop of Roermond (Netherlands) and Titular Bishop of Sucarda

Fr. João Antonio da Silva Saraiva was elected Titular Bishop of Mopta and Auxiliary Bishop of Évora (Portugal)

Ordinariate of Ordinariaat voor buitenlandse studenten in België was established (Belgium)

Bishop Albert Louis Descamps was appointed as Ordinary of Ordinariaat voor buitenlandse studenten in België (Belgium)

Fr. Ramón del Hoyo López was appointed as Priest of Burgos (Spain)

Msgr. Terence James Cooke, Priest of New York (USA) and Privy Chamberlain Supernumerary, was elected Titular Bishop of Summa and Auxiliary Bishop of New York (USA)

Fr. Olimpo Santiago Maresma was elected Titular Bishop of Gegi and Auxiliary Bishop of Mendoza (Argentina)

Bishop Agustín Adolfo Herrera, Titular Bishop of Tanais and Coadjutor Bishop of Jujuy (Argentina), was appointed as Bishop of San Francisco (Argentina)

Bishop José Miguel Medina, Titular Bishop of Termessus and Auxiliary Bishop of Mendoza (Argentina), was appointed as Bishop of Jujuy (Argentina)

Msgr. Jean Rodhain, Priest of Bordeaux (France) and Protonotary Apostolic Supernumerary, was appointed as President of Caritas Internationalis

Fr. Giuseppe Orlandoni was appointed as Priest of Recanati (Italy)

Fr. Luigi Maverna was elected Titular Bishop of Vannida and Auxiliary Bishop of Luni–Sarzana (Italy)

Bishop John Joseph Maguire, Titular Bishop of Antiphræ and Auxiliary Bishop of New York (USA), was promoted as Coadjutor Archbishop of New York (USA) and Titular Archbishop of Tabalta

Fr. William Joseph Moran was elected Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Vicariate of United States of America (USA) and Titular Bishop of Centuria

Fr. Michele Pellegrino, Priest of Fossano (Italy), was elected Metropolitan Archbishop of Torino (Italy)

Archbishop Felicissimo Stefano Tinivella, O.F.M., Titular Bishop of Cana and Coadjutor Archbishop of Torino (Italy), was appointed as Titular Archbishop of Uthina

Archbishop Emanuele Trindade Salgueiro, Metropolitan Archbishop of Évora (Portugal), passed away at 66

Fr. Giacomo Giuseppe Beltritti was elected Titular Bishop of Cana and Coadjutor Archbishop of Jerusalem (Palestine)

Fr. Neemeh Simaan was elected Titular Bishop of Termessus and Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem (Palestine)

Bishop Francis Joseph Tief, Bishop emeritus of Concordia (USA), passed away at 84

Bishop Joseph Ferche, Auxiliary Bishop of Köln (Germany), passed away at 77

Fr. Alfredo Caselle, Auxiliary Bishop of Melfi (Italy), passed away at 54

Archbishop Giacinto Giovanni Ambrosi, O.F.M. Cap., Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Gorizia e Gradisca (Italy), passed away at 78

Archbishop Ernest Victor Tweedy, Archbishop emeritus of Hobart (Australia), passed away at 64

Fr. Júlio Tavares Rebimbas was elected Bishop of Faro (Portugal)

Msgr. Georg Hüssler, Priest of Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg (Switzerland), was appointed as Chaplain of His Holiness

Bishop Philip Matthew Hannan, Titular Bishop of Hieropolis and Auxiliary Bishop of Washington (USA), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of New Orleans (USA)

Fr. Harold Robert Perry, S.V.D., was elected Titular Bishop of Mons in Mauretania and Auxiliary Bishop of New Orleans (USA)

Fr. Augustin-Joseph Antoine Sépinski, O.F.M., Minister General of Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans), was elected Apostolic Delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine and Titular Archbishop of Assuras

Archbishop Mario Brini, Apostolic Internuncio to United Arab Republic, was appointed as Secretary of Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Churches