Newly Elected Bishops

Archbishop Ihor Isichenko (Ігор Ісіченко) (70)

Archbishop ad personam

Archbishop Joseph Han Zhi-hai (韓志海) (60)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Lanzhou 蘭州 (China) ▼

Metropolitan Archbishop of Lanzhou 蘭州 (China)

Archbishop Joseph Tan Yan-quan (譚燕全) (63)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Nanning 南寧 (China)

Bishop Joseph Liao Hong-qing (廖宏清) (59)

Bishop of Jiaying 嘉應 (China)

Bishop Peter Mao Qing-fu (毛慶福) (62)

Auxiliary Bishop of Luoyang 洛陽 (China)

former Bishop of Luoyang 洛陽 (China)

former Coadjutor Bishop of Luoyang 洛陽 (China)

former Bishop of Jackson (USA)

Archbishop Bernard Longley (71)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Birmingham (England)

Vice-President of Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales

Bishop Alan Stephen Hopes (82)

Bishop emeritus of East Anglia (England)

Bishop Kidane Yebio (68)

Bishop of Keren of the Eritreans (Eritrea)

Bishop Luigi Paiaro (91)

Bishop emeritus of Nyahururu (Kenya)

Bishop Alonso Gerardo Garza Treviño (78)

Bishop emeritus of Piedras Negras (Mexico)

former Bishop of Vacaria (Brazil)

Archbishop Jean-Paul André Denis Marcel James (73)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Bordeaux (France)

former Bishop of Idukki of the Syro-Malabars (India)

Bishop José Soares Filho, O.F.M. Cap. (69)

Bishop emeritus of Carolina (Brazil)

Archbishop Jorge Alberto Ossa Soto (69)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Nueva Pamplona (Colombia)

Bishop Joseph Louis Jean Boishu (87)

Titular Bishop of Gauriana

Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Reims (France)

Bishop Assis Lopes (91)

Titular Bishop of Zaraï

Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller, M.Sp.S. (69)

Metropolitan Archbishop of San Antonio (USA)

Bishop Francis Joseph Kane (83)

Titular Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie in Michigan

Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Chicago (USA)

Bishop Thomas John Joseph Paprocki (73)

Bishop of Springfield in Illinois (USA)

former Bishop of Pathein (Myanmar)

Bishop Pascal Roland (75)

Bishop of Belley–Ars (France)

Bishop Harold Anthony Perera (74)

Bishop of Kurunegala (Sri Lanka)

President of Bishops’ Conference of Sri Lanka

Bishop Abraham Desta (75)

Vicar Apostolic of Meki (Ethiopia)

Titular Bishop of Horrea Aninici

Archbishop Fausto Gabriel Trávez Trávez, O.F.M. (85)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Quito (Ecuador)

former Bishop of Isiro–Niangara (Congo-Kinshasa)

Bishop Antônio Carlos Félix (68)

Bishop of Governador Valadares (Brazil)

former Bishop of Biloxi (USA)

Bishop Thomas Antony Vazhapilly (86)

Bishop emeritus of Mysore (India)

Bishop Paul Tan Chee Ing (陳志音), S.J. (86)

Bishop emeritus of Melaka–Johor (Malaysia)

former Bishop of East Anglia (England)

Bishop Pietro Maria Fragnelli (74)

Bishop of Trapani (Italy)

Bishop José Victoriano Naranjo Tovar (84)

Bishop emeritus of Latacunga (Ecuador)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz (Germany)

Bishop Ulrich Neymeyr (68)

Bishop of Erfurt (Germany)

Bishop Georges M. Saad Abi Younes, O.L.M. (77)

Bishop emeritus of Nuestra Señora de los Mártires del Líbano en México of the Maronites (Mexico)

Bishop Ernest Sambou (78)

Bishop emeritus of Saint-Louis du Sénégal (Senegal)

Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki (69)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Giovanni Maria Vianney

Metropolitan Archbishop of Köln (Germany)

Archbishop Matthew Man-oso Ndagoso (66)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Kaduna (Nigeria)

Vice-President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria

former Bishop of Ebebiyín (Equatorial Guinea)

Archbishop Jean-Luc Marie Maurice Louis Bouilleret (72)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Besançon (France)

Archbishop Martin Kivuva Musonde (74)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Mombasa (Kenya)

Bishop Callistus Rubaramira (76)

Bishop of Kabale (Uganda)

Bishop Robert Kisaija Muhiirwa (67)

Bishop of Fort Portal (Uganda)

Bishop Mathias Ri Iong-hoon (이용훈 마티아 / 李容勳) (74)

Bishop of Suwon 수원 (South Korea)

President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea

Bishop Carlos Germán Mesa Ruiz (82)

Bishop emeritus of Socorro y San Gil (Colombia)

Archbishop Yannis Spiteris, O.F.M. Cap. (85)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Corfu–Zakynthos–Kefalonia (Greece)

former Apostolic Administrator of Thessaloniki (Greece)

Bishop Emmanuel Okombo Wandera (83)

Bishop emeritus of Kericho (Kenya)

Bishop Wiesław Alojzy Mering (80)

Bishop emeritus of Włocławek (Poland)

Bishop Francesco Beschi (74)

Bishop of Bergamo (Italy)

former Bishop of Saint Nicholas of Chicago of the Ukrainians (USA)

Bishop Claude Champagne, O.M.I. (78)

Bishop of Edmundston (Canada)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Rockville Centre (USA)

Archbishop Christopher Charles Prowse (72)

Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn (Australia)

Apostolic Administrator of the Military Ordinariate of Australia (Australia)

Bishop Hilário Da Cruz Massinga, O.F.M. (67)

Titular Bishop of Chullu

Auxiliary Bishop of Inhambane (Mozambique)

Bishop Vitaliy Skomarovskyi (62)

Bishop of Lutsk (Ukraine)

President of Episcopal Conference of Ukraine

Archbishop Wojciech Polak (61)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Gniezno (Poland)

Bishop Guillermo Patricio Vera Soto (67)

Bishop of Rancagua (Chile)

Bishop Antonio Marino (84)

Bishop emeritus of Mar del Plata (Argentina)

Bishop Oscar Domingo Sarlinga (62)

Bishop emeritus of Zárate–Campana (Argentina)

Bishop Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi (68)

Bishop of Sunyani (Ghana)

President of Ghana Bishops’ Conference

Archbishop Hervé Jean Robert Giraud (69)

Bishop of Viviers (France)

Archbishop ad personam

Bishop Thierry Marie Jacques Brac de la Perrière (66)

Titular Bishop of Senez

Auxiliary Bishop of Lyon (France)

Bishop Thomas Anthony Williams (78)

Titular Bishop of Mayo

Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Liverpool (England)

Bishop Paweł Stobrawa (78)

Titular Bishop of Eca

Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Opole (Poland)

Bishop Giuseppe Guerrini (84)

Bishop emeritus of Saluzzo (Italy)

Bishop Peter Martin Musikuwa (74)

Bishop of Chikwawa (Malawi)

Bishop Prudencio Padilla Andaya Jr., C.I.C.M. (67)

Bishop of Cabanatuan (Philippines)

former Apostolic Exarch of Czech Republic of the Ruthenians (Czechia)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Orange (USA)

Archbishop Ricardo Antonio Tobón Restrepo (74)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Medellín (Colombia)

Bishop Cristián Contreras Villarroel (66)

Bishop of Melipilla (Chile)

Bishop Jenő Schönberger (66)

Bishop of Satu Mare (Romania)

Bishop Enrique Díaz Díaz (73)

Bishop of Irapuato (Mexico)

Bishop Marco Eugênio Galrão Leite de Almeida (67)

Titular Bishop of Albulæ

Auxiliary Bishop of São Salvador da Bahia (Brazil)

former Bishop of Fall River (USA)

former Bishop of Bafia (Cameroon)

former Bishop of Toronto of the Ukrainians (Canada)

Bishop Jean-Yves Riocreux (80)

Bishop emeritus of Basse-Terre et Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe)

Archbishop Volodymyr Viytyshyn (66)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Ivano-Frankivsk of the Ukrainians (Ukraine)

former Bishop of Vélez (Colombia)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Pereira (Colombia)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Regina (Canada)

former Apostolic Exarch of Venezuela of the Syriacs (Venezuela)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Montpellier (France)

Bishop Guy Harpigny (77)

Bishop emeritus of Tournai (Belgium)

Bishop Óscar Gerardo Fernández Guillén (76)

Bishop of Puntarenas (Costa Rica)

former Bishop of Juazeiro (Brazil)

Bishop Oscar José Vélez Isaza, C.M.F. (71)

Bishop of Valledupar (Colombia)

Bishop Jose Corazon Tumbagahan Tala-oc (75)

Bishop emeritus of Kalibo (Philippines)

Archbishop Dimas Lara Barbosa (70)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Campo Grande (Brazil)

Archbishop Wilson Tadeu Jönck, S.C.I. (74)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Florianópolis (Brazil)

Bishop Román Casanova Casanova (69)

Bishop of Vic (Spain)

Archbishop Robert Zollitsch (87)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany)

Archbishop Ibrahim Michael Ibrahim, B.S. (64)

Archbishop of Zahleh–Furzol of the Greek-Melkites (Lebanon)

Bishop Eduardo Horacio García (70)

Bishop of San Justo (Argentina)

Archbishop Patrick Christopher Pinder (72)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Nassau (Bahamas)

Bishop Edgar Moreira da Cunha, S.D.V. (72)

Bishop of Fall River (USA)

Bishop Heriberto Andrés Bodeant Fernández (70)

Bishop of Canelones (Uruguay)

General Secretary of Episcopal Conference of Uruguay

Bishop Datus Hilarion Lega (69)

Bishop of Manokwari–Sorong (Indonesia)

Bishop Amadeo Rodríguez Magro (80)

Bishop emeritus of Jaén (Spain)

Archbishop Giovanni Paolo Benotto (76)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Pisa (Italy)

Bishop Walter Allison Hurley (88)

Bishop emeritus of Grand Rapids (USA)

Bishop John Michael Quinn (80)

Bishop emeritus of Winona–Rochester (USA)

Bishop Francis Ronald Reiss (85)

Titular Bishop of Remesiana

Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Detroit (USA)

Bishop Luis Artemio Flores Calzada (76)

Bishop emeritus of Tepic (Mexico)

Archbishop Hyginus Kim Hee-joong (김희중 히지노 / 金熙中) (79)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Gwangju 광주 (South Korea)

Cardinal Lazzaro You Heung-sik (유흥식 라자로 / 俞興植) (74)

Cardinal-Deacon of Gesù Buon Pastore alla Montagnola

Prefect of Dicastery for the Clergy

President of Interdicastery Commission for Candidates to Sacred Order

President of Pontifical Work for Ecclesiastical Vocations

Bishop emeritus of Daejeon 대전 (South Korea)

former Bishop of Le Havre (France)

Bishop Max Leroy Davis (80)

Military Ordinary emeritus of Australia (Australia)

Bishop Michel Hoàng Ðức Oanh (87)

Bishop emeritus of Kontum (Vietnam)

Archbishop Anthony Colin Fisher, O.P. (66)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Sydney (Australia)

Archbishop Julian Charles Porteous (76)

Archbishop emeritus of Hobart (Australia)

Archbishop Eliseo Antonio Ariotti (77)

Titular Archbishop of Vibiana

Archbishop Claudio Maniago (67)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Catanzaro–Squillace (Italy)

Archbishop Antonio Arcari (72)

Titular Archbishop of Cæciri

Bishop Francesco Biasin (82)

Bishop emeritus of Barra do Piraí–Volta Redonda (Brazil)

Bishop Vasyl Ivasyuk (66)

Bishop of Kolomyia of the Ukrainians (Ukraine)

Bishop Guillermo Loría Garita (88)

Bishop emeritus of San Isidro de El General (Costa Rica)

Bishop Peter Joseph Jugis (69)

Bishop emeritus of Charlotte (USA)

former Prefect Apostolic of Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia)

Bishop Mario Russotto (68)

Bishop of Caltanissetta (Italy)

Bishop Antoine Vũ Huy Chương (81)

Bishop emeritus of Đà Lat (Vietnam)

Bishop Enrique Pérez Lavado (74)

Bishop of Maturín (Venezuela)

Bishop Youssef Aboul El Kher (82)

Bishop emeritus of Sohag of the Copts (Egypt)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem (Palestine)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Tehuantepec (Mexico)

Archbishop Chucrallah-Nabil El-Hage (83)

Archbishop emeritus of Tyr of the Maronites (Lebanon)

Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako (77)

Cardinal-Patriarch

Member of Council for the Economy

Patriarch emeritus of Baghdad of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

Archbishop Filomeno do Nascimento Vieira Dias (67)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Luanda (Angola)

Archbishop Gustavo Bombín Espino, O.SS.T. (65)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Toliara (Madagascar)

former Cardinal-Deacon of S. Pier Damiani ai Monti di S. Paolo

former Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria della Scala

former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Domenico e Sisto pro hac vice Title

former Pro-Theologian of Prefecture of the Papal Household

Bishop Juan Ignacio González Errázuriz, Opus Dei (69)

Bishop of San Bernardo (Chile)

Cardinal Mauro Piacenza (81)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Paolo alle Tre Fontane pro hac vice Title

Major Penitentiary emeritus of Apostolic Penitentiary

Bishop Peter Antony Moran (90)

Bishop emeritus of Aberdeen (Scotland)

Bishop Jonas Ivanauskas (66)

Bishop of Kaišiadorys (Lithuania)

former Bishop of Mocoa–Sibundoy (Colombia)

Bishop Manfred Scheuer (70)

Bishop of Linz (Austria)

Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Austria

Archbishop Jesús Sanz Montes, O.F.M. (71)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Oviedo (Spain)

Archbishop Anthony Muheria, Opus Dei (62)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Nyeri (Kenya)

Vice-President of Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops

Archbishop Gabriel Justice Yaw Anokye (65)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Kumasi (Ghana)

Bishop Francis Dean Alleyne, O.S.B. (74)

Bishop of Georgetown (Guyana)

Bishop Augustin Traoré (70)

Bishop of Ségou (Mali)

Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Mali

Bishop Cornel Damian (65)

Titular Bishop of Iziriana

Auxiliary Bishop of Bucureşti (Romania)

Archbishop Carlo Liberati (88)

Archbishop ad personam

Bishop-Prelate emeritus of Pompei (Italy)

former Bishop of Luziânia (Brazil)

Bishop Giovanni Scanavino, O.S.A. (86)

Bishop emeritus of Orvieto–Todi (Italy)

Bishop Eduardo Cirilo Carmona Ortega, C.O.R.C. (67)

Bishop of Córdoba (Mexico)

Bishop Luis Morao Andreazza, O.F.M. (86)

Bishop emeritus of Chalatenango (El Salvador)

Bishop Jacinto Inácio Flach (74)

Bishop of Criciúma (Brazil)

Bishop Norbert Marshall Andradi, O.M.I. (76)

Bishop emeritus of Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka)

Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst (66)

Delegate for catechesis of Dicastery for Evangelisation

Delegate of International Council for Catechesis

Bishop emeritus of Limburg (Germany)

Bishop Michael Odogwu Elue (70)

Bishop of Issele-Uku (Nigeria)

Cardinal Arlindo Gomes Furtado (76)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Timoteo

Bishop emeritus of Santiago de Cabo Verde (Cabo Verde)

Archbishop Jose Romeo Juanito Orquejo Lazo (77)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Jaro (Philippines)

Archbishop Jean-Jacques Koffi Oi Koffi (64)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Gagnoa (Cote d’Ivoire)

Bishop Felipe de Jesús Estévez (80)

Bishop emeritus of Saint Augustine (USA)

Bishop Karl Borsch (66)

Titular Bishop of Crepedula

Auxiliary Bishop of Aachen (Germany)

former Bishop of Temuco (Chile)

Bishop Josef Clemens (78)

Titular Bishop of Segermes

Secretary emeritus of Pontifical Council for the Laity

Archbishop John Michael Miller, C.S.B. (79)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Vancouver (Canada)

Bishop Musiè Ghebreghiorghis, O.F.M. Cap. (76)

Bishop emeritus of Emdeber of the Ethiopics (Ethiopia)

Archbishop Anselmo Guido Pecorari (79)

Titular Archbishop of Populonia

Archbishop Renato Boccardo (73)

Archbishop of Spoleto–Norcia (Italy)

former Bishop of Garzón (Colombia)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Modena–Nonantola (Italy)

Bishop Giuseppe Zenti (79)

Bishop emeritus of Verona (Italy)

former Bishop of Puerto Cabello (Venezuela)

Archbishop Ulises Antonio Gutiérrez Reyes, O. de M. (74)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Ciudad Bolívar (Venezuela)

Bishop Robert Brahm (70)

Titular Bishop of Mimiana

Auxiliary Bishop of Trier (Germany)

Bishop Jörg Michael Peters (65)

Titular Bishop of Fordongianus

Auxiliary Bishop of Trier (Germany)

Archbishop Volodemer Koubetch (Valdomiro), O.S.B.M. (73)

Metropolitan Archbishop of São João Batista em Curitiba of the Ukrainians (Brazil)

Bishop Oscar Azarcon Solis (72)

Bishop of Salt Lake City (USA)

Bishop Victor Antonio Tamayo Betancourt (88)

Titular Bishop of Voncariana

Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Barranquilla (Colombia)

Bishop Paul Hinder, O.F.M. Cap. (83)

Titular Bishop of Macon

Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Southern Arabia (United Arab Emirates)

Archbishop Gonzalo Restrepo Restrepo (78)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Manizales (Colombia)

Bishop Pier Giacomo Grampa (89)

Bishop emeritus of Lugano (Switzerland)

Bishop Lucas Van Looy, S.D.B. (84)

Bishop emeritus of Gent (Belgium)

Bishop Edgar Hernando Tirado Mazo, M.X.Y. (87)

Titular Bishop of Zaba

Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Tierradentro (Colombia)

former Bishop of Timika (Indonesia)

Bishop Paul Ponen Kubi, C.S.C. (69)

Bishop of Mymensingh (Bangladesh)

General Secretary of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Bangladesh

Bishop Pavel Posád (72)

Titular Bishop of Ptuj

Auxiliary Bishop of České Budějovice (Czechia)

former Cardinal-Deacon of Gesù Buon Pastore alla Montagnola

former Pontifical Delegate for Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ