Nominated: Bishop John Choi Young-su,
from auxiliary bishop to coadjutor archbishop of Taegu, South Korea;
Fr. Basil Cho Kyu-man, auxiliary bishop of Seoul, South Korea; Fr.
Paul Hwang Cheol-soo, auxiliary bishop of Pusan, South Korea; Bishop
Peter Liu Cheng-chung, from coadjutor bishop to bishop of Kaohsiung,
Taiwan R.O.C.; Fr. John Hung Shan-shuan SVD, bishop of Chiayi, Taiwan
R.O.C.; Archbishop Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo, from archbishop
of Semarang to bishop of the Military Ordinariate, Indonesia; Fr.
Roberto Calara Mallari, auxiliary bishop of San Fernando, Pampanga,
Philippines; Fr. Mario Mendoza Peralta, coadjutor bishop of Alaminos,
Philippines; Bishop Mathew Moolakkattu, from coadjutor bishop to
bishop of Kottayam (Syro-Malabarese), India; Bishop John Thomas
Kattrukudiyil, from bishop of Diphu to bishop of Itanagar, India;
Fr. George Pallimparampil, bishop of Miao, India; Msgr. Anthony
Chirayath, as bishop of Sagar (Syro-Malabarese), India; Fr. Peter
Machado, bishop of Belgaum, India; Fr. John Barwa, coadjutor bishop
of Rourkela, India; fr. Clement Tirkey, bishop of Jalpaigur, India;
Fr. Vicentius Sensi, bishop of Maumere, Flores Island, East Timor;
Fr. Ivan Tilak Jayasindera, bishop of Ratnapura, Sri Lanka; Bishop
Peter Hla, from bishop of Taunggyi to bishop of Pekhon, Myanmar;
Fr. Martin Tetsuo Hiraga, from administrator and vicar general to
bishop of Sendai, Japan; Fr. Paul Kenjiro Koriyama, bishop of Kagoshima,
Japan
Appointed: Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith, from
apostolic nuncio to Indonesia and East Timor to secretary of the
Pontifical Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of
the Sacraments: Archbishop Antonio Franco, from apostolic nuncio
to the Philippines to apostolic nuncio to Isarael;
Resigned: Cardinal Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja,
SJ, as bishop of the Military Ordinariate, Indonesia but remains
as archbishop of Jakarta, Indonesia; Bishop Jospeh Pastor Neelankavi,
bishop of Sagar (Syro-Malabarese), India
Retired: Cardinal Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, SJ,
bishop of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C.; Archbishop Kuriakose Kunnacherry,
archbishop of Kottayam (Syro-Malabarese), India; Bishop Paul L?
Dac Trong, auxiliary bishop of Hanoi, Vietnam;
Died: Archbishop emeritus Leobard D'Souza
of Nagpur (+75), India; Bishop Alexander Soetandio Djajasiswaja
(+74), bishop of Bandung, Indonesia:
Nominated: Father Felix Lian Khen Thang, auxiliary
bishop of Hakha, Myanmar; Father Philip Banchong Chaiyara, bishop
of Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand; Father Joseph Chau Ngoc Tri, bishop
of Da Nang, Vietnam; Father George Beluso Rimando, auxiliary bishop
of Davao, Philippines; Bishop Antonio J. Ledesma SJ, from bishop
of Ipil to archbishop of Cagayan de Oro, Philippines; Father Rodolfo
Fontiveros Beltran, vicar apostolic of Bontoc-Lagawe, Philippines;
Bishop Jose Serofia Palma, from bishop of Calbayog to archbishop
of Palo, Philippines; Father Broderick Soncuaco Pabillo, auxiliary
bishop of Manila, Philippines; Father Pablo Siongco David, auxiliary
bishop of San Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines; Father Nikolaus Messmer,
SJ, apostolic administraor of Kyrgzstan; Fr. Athanasius Schneider,
auxiliary bishop of Kazakhstan; Father John Baptist Lee Keh-mien,
bishop of Hsinchu, Taiwan R.O.C.; Bishop Victor Kindo, from bishop
of Raigarh to bishop of Jashpur, India; Msgr. Paul Toppo, bishop
of Raigarh, India; Bishop Isaac Mar Cleemis Thottunkal, from bishop
to archbishop of Tiruvalla (Malankarese), India; Father Sebastian
Thekethecheril, bishop of Vijayapuram, India
Appointed: Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli, Apostolic
nuncio to Indonesia.
Resigned: Father Aleksandr Kan, SJ, superior of
Kyrgyzstan; Fr. Krysztof Kukulka, OFM, Apostolic administrator of
Uzbekistan; Bishop Joseph Ngûyen Tich Duc, bishop of Ban Mê
Thuôt, Vietnam.
Retired: Cardinal Stephen Fumio Hamao, president
of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers; Archbishop
Jesus B. Tuquib, archbishop of Cagayan de Oro, Philippines; Archbishop
Pedro Rosales Dean, archbishop of Palo, Philippines; Bishop Peter
Thuruthikonam, bishop of Vijayapuram, India; Bishop Paul Ngûyen
Binh Tinh, bishop of Da Nang, Vietnam.
Died: Bishop emeritus Sebastian Valloppilly (+94)
of Tellicherry (Syro-Malabarese), India; Archbishop Longinus Da
Cunha (+60) of Ende, Indonesia; Bishop Joseph Hisajiro Matsunaga
(+76), bishop of Fuluoka, Japan.
Appointed: Archbishop Oswald Gracias,
archbishop of Agra to archbishop of Mumbai, India; Father Soundaraj Periyanayagam,
bishop of Vellore, India; Father Thomas Thurutimattam, bishop of Gorakhpur
(Syro-Malabarese), India; Bishop Jose Pandaraserry, from auxiliary bishop to
bishop of Kottayam (Syro-Malabarese), India; Archbishop Dominic Lumon, from coadjutor
archbishop to archbishop of Imphal, India; Bishop Edwin Colaco from bishop of Amravati
to bishop of Aurangabad, India; Bishop Paul Ponen Kubi, C.S.C., from auxiliary bishop
to bishop of Mymensingh, Bangladesh; Bishop Warnakulasurya Wadumestrige Devasritha Valence
Mendis, from coadjutor to bishop of Chilaw, Sri Lanka; Father Raymond Sumlut Gam,
bishop of Banmaw, Myanmar; Msgr. Janusz Kaleta, from apostolic administrator to bishop
of Atyrau, Kazakhstan; Bishop; Father Thomas Chung An-zu, auxiliary bishop of Taipei,
Taiwan R.O.C.; Bishop Leonardo Yuzon Medroso, from bishop of Borongan to bishop of
Tagbilaran, Philippines; Bishop Sergio L. Utleg, from bishop of Ilagan to bishop of
Laoag, Philippines; Bishop Romulo Geolina Valles, from bishop of Kidapawan to archbishop
of Zamboanga, Philippines.
Resigned: Bishop Ivan Tirak Jayasundera,
bishop-elect of Ratnapura, Sri Lanka.
Retired: Bishop Francis Anthony Gomes, bishop of Mymensingh, Bangladesh; Bishop Dominic Kokkat, C.S.T., bishop of Gorakhpur (Syro-Malabarese), India.
Died: Bishop Joseph Nguyên Quang Tuyên
(+61), bishop of Bac Ninh, Vietnam; Bishop Thomas Fernando (+93), bishop
emeritus of Tiruchirapalli, India; Bishop Joseph D'Silva (+74), bishop of
Bellary, India; Archbishop Cecil De Sa (+83), archbishop emeritus of Agra,
India; Archbishop Simeon Anthony Pereira (+78), archbishop emeritus of Karachi,
Pakistan.
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