Muskens resigned, van den Hende succeeded as Breda Bishop

Bishop Martinus Petrus Maria Muskens resigned and Bishop Johannes Harmannes Jozefus van den Hende succeeded as Bishop of Breda, Netherlands. Bishop van den Hende had been serving as Coadjutor of the same diocese.

Freitas Ribeiro named Oliveira Bishop

Bishop Miguel Ângelo Freitas Ribeiro was named Bishop of Oliveira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The diocese had been vacant since the death of Bishop Jésus Rocha in July 2006. Bishop Freitas Ribeiro had been serving as Bishop of Tocantinópolis.

Breña López retired, Vera Colona named Ica Bishop

Bishop Guido Breña López, O.P. retired and Héctor Eduardo Vera Colona was named Bishop of Ica, Peru.

Baumgaertner retired, dos Santos named Cascavel Archbishop

Archbishop Lúcio Ignácio Baumgaertner retired and Archbishop-designate Mauro Aparecido dos Santos was named Archbishop of Cascavel, Parana, Brazil. Archbishop-designate dos Santos had been serving as Bishop of Campo Mourão.

Torres Asanza named Machala Auxiliary

Bishop-elect Hermenegildo Torres Asanza was named Auxiliary Bishop of Machala, Ecuador and titular bishop of Centenaria.

Gaschignard named Toulouse Auxiliary

Bishop-elect Hervé Gaschignard was named Auxiliary Bishop of Toulouse (-Saint Bertrand de Comminges-Rieux), France and titular bishop of Bisuldino.

Gijsen retired, Bürcher named Reykjavik Bishop

Bishop Joannes Baptist Matthijs Gijsen retired and Bishop Pierre Bürcher was named Bishop of Reykjavik, Iceland. Bishop Bürcher had been serving as an Auxiliary Bishop of Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg (Freiburg), Switzerland.

Callahan named Milwaukee Auxiliary

Bishop-elect William Patrick Callahan, O.F.M. Conv. was named Auxiliary Bishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA and titular bishop of Lares.

Cavalli named Colombia Nuncio

Archbishop Aldo Cavalli was named Apostolic Nuncio to Colombia. The post had been vacant since Archbishop Beniamino Stella was named President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy just over a fortnight ago. Archbishop Cavalli had been serving as Apostolic Nuncio to Chile.

Archbishop Varthalítis Died

Archbishop Antónios Varthalítis, A.A., Archbishop Emeritus of Corfù, Zante e Cefalonia, Greece, has died. He was 83 years old and had served as a priest for 54 years and as a bishop for 45 years. May he rest in peace.

Bizău and Frăţilă named Făgăraş şi Alba Iulia Auxiliaries

Bishop-elect Vasile Bizău and Bishop-elect Mihai Cătălin Frăţilă were named Auxiliary Bishops of Făgăraş şi Alba Iulia (Romanian), Romania and titular bishops of Appiaria and Novae, respectively.

Upon their consecration, they will become the youngest two bishops in the world. Bishop-elect Frăţilă will be the first to be born in the 1970's.

Salas Anteliz named Espinal Bishop

Bishop-elect Pablo Emiro Salas Anteliz was named Bishop of Espinal, Colombia. The diocese had been vacant since February 2007 when Bishop Abraham Escudero Montoya was named Bishop of Palmira.

Reynoso Hidalgo named Santiago de los Caballeros Auxiliary

Bishop-elect Valentin Reynoso Hidalgo, M.S.C. was named an Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic and titular bishop of Mades.

Technical Note: Consistory and Conclave Pages Changing

I have made some adjustments to the website over the last few days regarding the pages for Consistories and added a new type of page for Conclaves. Both use a new internal framework that will (hopefully) allow me to easily add other type of events in the future.

One side benefit is that the new framework will allow these events to also show up on bishop pages. The new block of information will appear after the normal events and before the consecration data.

As bishop pages are updated which contain data from the new framework, that section will appear. I don't plan to do a general refresh of the bishop pages for a while (mostly because one was done a few weeks ago).

I will continue to add more conclaves and consistories to the new framework as I have time. As always, that means it will take a while :-)

An example of the new Conclave pages: Conclave 2005

An example of the new Consistory pages: Consistory 2007 (versus the old style: Consistory 1700.

An example of a "bishop" page with the new data block: Pope Benedict XVI

Bishop Nilmar Died

Bishop Juan Nicolasora Nilmar, Bishop Emeritus of Kalibo, Philippines, has died. He was 91 years old and had served as a priest for 65 years and as a bishop for 48 years. May he rest in peace.

Tonucci named Prelate of Loreta

Archbishop Giovanni Tonucci was named Prelate of Loreto, Italy. The Prelature had been vacant since the death of Archbishop Gianni Danzi in October 2007. Archbishop Tonucci had been serving as Apostolic Nuncio to Sweden, to Denmark, to Finland, to Iceland, and to Norway.

Giusti named Livorno Bishop

Bishop-elect Simone Giusti was named Bishop of Livorno, Italy. The diocese had been vacant since Bishop Diego Coletti was named Bishop of Como in December 2006.

Currie named Saint John's, Newfoundland Archbishop

Archbishop-designate Martin William Currie was named Archbishop of Saint John's, Newfoundland, Canada. The Archdiocese had been vacant since Archbishop Brendan Michael O'Brien was named Archbishop of Kingston in June 2007. Archbishop-designate Currie remains the Bishop of Grand Falls, Newfoundland.

Mancini named Halifax Archbishop

Archbishop-designate Anthony Mancini was named Archbishop of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The Archdiocese had been vacant since Archbishop Terrence Thomas Prendergast, S.J. was named Archbishop of Ottawa, Ontario in May 2007. Archbishop-designate Mancini had been serving as an Auxiliary Bishop of Montréal, Québec.

Seneme named Curitiba Auxiliary

Bishop-elect João Carlos Seneme, C.S.S. was named an Auxiliary Bishop of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil and titular bishop of Albulae.

Consistory to Create New Cardinals

A consistory to create new cardinals will be held on 24 November 2007. The following will be added to the College of Cardinals at that time:

• Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
  
  
• John Patrick Foley, Pro-Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
  
  
• Giovanni Lajolo, President of the Governatorate of Vatican City State.
  
  
• Paul Josef Cordes, President of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum"
  
  
• Angelo Comastri, President of the Fabric of St. Peter
  
  
• Stanisław Ryłko, President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity
  
  
• Raffaele Farina, S.D.B., Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives
  
  
• Agustín García-Gasco y Vicente, Archbishop of Valencia, Spain
  
  
• Seán B. Brady, Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland
  
  
• Lluís Martínez Sistach, Archbishop of Barcelona, Spain
  
  
• André Armand Vingt-Trois, Archbishop of Paris, France
  
  
• Angelo Bagnasco, Archbishop of Genova {Genoa}, Italy
  
  
• Théodore-Adrien Sarr, Archbishop of Dakar, Senegal
  
  
• Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, India
  
  
• Francisco Robles Ortega, Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
  
  
• Daniel Nicholas DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA
  
  
• Odilo Pedro Scherer, Archbishop of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  
  
• John Njue, Archbishop of Nairobi, Kenya
  
  

Plus 5 over 80, namely:

• Emmanuel III (Emmanuel-Karim) Delly, Patriarch of Babylon {Babilonia} (Chaldean), Iraq
  
  
• Giovanni Coppa, Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Czech Republic
  
  
• Estanislao Esteban Karlic, Archbishop Emeritus of Paraná, Argentina
  
  
• Urbano Navarrete, S.J., già Rettore della Pontificia Università Gregoriana
  
  
• Umberto Betti, O.F.M., già Rettore della Pontificia Università
  Lateranense
  

In addition, Bishop Ignacy Ludwik Jeż, who died yesterday, was to be named a Cardinal. May he rest in peace.

Bishop Jeż Died

Bishop Ignacy Ludwik Jeż, Bishop Emeritus of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg, Poland, has died. He was 93 years old and had served as a priest for 70 years and as a bishop for 47 years. May he rest in peace.

Cardinal Castillo Lara Died

Rosalio José Cardinal Castillo Lara, S.D.B., President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, has died. He was 85 years old and had served as a priest for 58 years. He had also served as a bishop for 34 years and as a cardinal for 22 years. May he rest in peace.

Ender resigned, Périsset named Germany Nuncio

Archbishop Erwin Josef Ender resigned and Archbishop Jean-Claude Périsset was named Apostolic Nuncio to Germany. Archbishop Périsset had been serving as Apostolic Nuncio to Romania and to Moldova, Republic of.

González de Zárate named Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela Auxiliary

Bishop-elect Jesús González de Zárate was named Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela and titular bishop of Suava.

Reece named Kingston in Jamaica Coadjutor

Archbishop-designate Donald James Reece was named Coadjutor Archbishop of Kingston in Jamaica. He had been serving as Bishop of Saint John's-Basseterre, Virgin Islands (British).

Dang Duc Ngan named Lang Són et Cao Bang Bishop

Bishop-elect Joseph Dang Duc Ngan was named Bishop of Lang Són et Cao Bang, Viêt Nam. The diocese had been vacant since then-Bishop Joseph Ngô Quang Kiêt was named Archbishop of Hà Nôi in February 2005.

Bishop D'Cunha Died

Bishop Ignatius D'Cunha, Bishop Emeritus of Aurangabad, India, has died. He was 83 years old and had served as a priest for 52 years and as a bishop for 18 years. May he rest in peace.

Soto named Sacramento Coadjutor

Bishop Jaime Soto was named Coadjutor Bishop of Sacramento, California, USA. He had been serving as an Auxiliary Bishop of Orange in California.

Archbishop De Paoli Died

Archbishop Ambrose Battista De Paoli, Apostolic Nuncio to Australia, has died. He was 73 years old and had served as a priest for 46 years and a bishop for almost 24 years. May he rest in peace.

Gobel named Iran Nuncio

Archbishop Jean-Paul Aimé Gobel was named Apostolic Nuncio to Iran. The post had been vacant since Archbishop Angelo Mottola was named Apostolic Nuncio to Montenegro in January 2007. Archbishop Gobel had been serving as Apostolic Nuncio to Nicaragua.

Ndingi Mwana'a Nzeki retired, Njue named Nairobi Archbishop

Archbishop Raphael S. Ndingi Mwana'a Nzeki retired and Archbishop John Njue was named Archbishop of Nairobi, Kenya. Archbishop Njue had been serving as Coadjutor Archbishop of Nyeri.

Di Donna named Napoli {Naples} Auxiliary

Bishop-elect Antonio Di Donna was named Auxiliary Bishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy and titular bishop of Castellum in Numidia.

Brady named Sydney Auxiliary

Bishop-elect Terence John Gerard Brady was named Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney, Australia and titular bishop of Talaptula.

Gerna retired, Demettino Castro named São Mateus Bishop

Bishop Aldo Gerna, M.C.C.I. retired and Bishop-elect Zanoni Demettino Castro was named Bishop of São Mateus, Espirito Santo, Brazil.

Archbishop Danzi Died

Archbishop Gianni Danzi, Prelate of Loreto, Italy, has died. He was 67 years old and had served as a priest for 40 years and as a bishop for 11 years. May he rest in peace.

Tomko retired, Marini named International Eucharistic Congresses President

Jozef Cardinal Tomko retired and Archbishop Piero Marini was named President of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses.

Mazza named Fidenza Bishop

Bishop-elect Carlo Mazza was named Bishop of Fidenza, Italy. The diocese had been vacant since the resignation of Bishop Maurizio Galli in June 2007.

Osta retired, D’Souza named Patna Archbishop

Archbishop Benedict John Osta, S.J. retired and Archbishop-designate William D'Souza, S.J. was named Archbishop of Patna, India. Archbishop-designate D'Souza had been serving as Bishop of Buxar.