Recent Events

Msgr. Eamon Martin was consecrated as Coadjutor Archbishop of Armagh (United Kingdom)

Bishop Gerard Clifford resigned as Auxiliary Bishop of Armagh (United Kingdom)

Archbishop Patrick Altham Kelly resigned as Metropolitan Archbishop of Liverpool (United Kingdom)

Cardinal Keith Michael Patrick O’Brien resigned as Metropolitan Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh (United Kingdom)

Apostolic Exarchate of Great Britain (Ukrainian Rite) was promoted as Diocese of Holy Family of London (United Kingdom)

Bishop Hlib Borys Sviatoslav Lonchyna, M.S.U., Titular Bishop of Bareta and Apostolic Exarch of Great Britain of the Ukrainians (United Kingdom), was appointed as Bishop of Holy Family of London of the Ukrainians (United Kingdom)

Msgr. Eamon Martin was elected Coadjutor Archbishop of Armagh (United Kingdom)

Archbishop Michael Louis Fitzgerald, M. Afr. resigned as Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt and Permanent Observer to League of Arab States

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Apostolic Nuncio to Guatemala, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Australia

Bishop Michel Hrynchyshyn, C.SS.R., Apostolic Exarch emeritus of France of the Ukrainians (France), passed away at the age of 83

Cardinal Keith Michael Patrick O’Brien resigned as President of Bishops’ Conference of Scotland

Archbishop Philip Tartaglia, Metropolitan Archbishop of Glasgow (United Kingdom), was appointed as President of Bishops’ Conference of Scotland

Bishop Joseph Anthony Toal, Bishop of Argyll and the Isles (United Kingdom), was appointed as Vice-President of Bishops’ Conference of Scotland

Archbishop Faustino Sainz Muñoz, Apostolic Nuncio emeritus to Great Britain, passed away at the age of 75

Msgr. Philip Anthony Egan was consecrated as Bishop of Portsmouth (United Kingdom)

Bishop Michael Vincent Paschal Rowland, O.F.M., Bishop emeritus of Dundee (South Africa), passed away at the age of 83

Msgr. Peter Malcolm Brignall was consecrated as Bishop of Wrexham (United Kingdom)

Fr. Nasser Gemayel was consecrated as Bishop of Notre-Dame du Liban de Paris of the Maronites (France)

Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto, Apostolic Nuncio to Israel and Apostolic Delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Cyprus

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria sopra Minerva, Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Westminster (United Kingdom), Secretary emeritus of “Vox Clara” Committee reached the age of 80 and became ineligible to vote in a future conclave (United Kingdom)

Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto, Apostolic Nuncio to Australia, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Israel and Apostolic Delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine

Archbishop Mario Joseph Conti resigned as Metropolitan Archbishop of Glasgow (United Kingdom)

Bishop Philip Tartaglia, Bishop of Paisley (United Kingdom), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Glasgow (United Kingdom)

Fr. Nasser Gemayel was elected Bishop of Notre-Dame du Liban de Paris of the Maronites (France)

Bishop Michel Hrynchyshyn, C.SS.R. resigned as Apostolic Exarch of France of the Ukrainians (France)

Msgr. Philip Anthony Egan was elected Bishop of Portsmouth (United Kingdom)

Bishop Roger Francis Crispan Hollis resigned as Bishop of Portsmouth (United Kingdom)

Bishop Vincent Paul Logan resigned as Bishop of Dunkeld (United Kingdom)

Msgr. Peter Malcolm Brignall was elected Bishop of Wrexham (United Kingdom)

Bishop Edwin Regan resigned as Bishop of Wrexham (United Kingdom)

Bishop Arthur Roche, Bishop of Leeds (United Kingdom), was promoted as Secretary of Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and Archbishop ad personam

Fr. Harry Entwistle was appointed as Ordinary of Our Lady of the Southern Cross of the Anglican Rite (Australia)

Msgr. Stephen Robson was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Tunnuna, Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh (United Kingdom)

Msgr. Stephen Robson was elected Titular Bishop of Tunnuna and Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh (United Kingdom)

Msgr. Charles John Brown was consecrated as Titular Archbishop of Aquileia, Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland

Msgr. Charles John Brown, Adjunct Secretary of International Theological Commission, was elected Titular Archbishop of Aquileia and Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland

Bishop Séamus Hegarty resigned as Bishop of Derry (United Kingdom)

Bishop John Peter Jukes, O.F.M. Conv., Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Southwark (United Kingdom), passed away at the age of 88

Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza, Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Czech Republic

Fr. John Sherrington was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Hilta, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster (United Kingdom)

Fr. Hugh Gilbert, O.S.B. was consecrated as Bishop of Aberdeen (United Kingdom)

Bishop Michael Charles Evans, Bishop of East Anglia (United Kingdom), passed away at the age of 59

Fr. John Sherrington was elected Titular Bishop of Hilta and Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster (United Kingdom)

Bishop Michael Ambrose Griffiths, O.S.B., Bishop emeritus of Hexham and Newcastle (United Kingdom), passed away at the age of 82

Bishop Hlib Borys Sviatoslav Lonchyna, M.S.U., Apostolic Administrator of Great Britain of the Ukrainians (United Kingdom), was appointed as Apostolic Exarch of Great Britain of the Ukrainians (United Kingdom)

Fr. Hugh Gilbert, O.S.B. was elected Bishop of Aberdeen (United Kingdom)

Bishop Peter Antony Moran resigned as Bishop of Aberdeen (United Kingdom)

Msgr. Graham Bell was appointed as Undersecretary of Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization

Bishop George Stack, Titular Bishop of Gemellæ in Numidia and Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster (United Kingdom), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Cardiff (United Kingdom)

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor resigned as Secretary of “Vox Clara” Committee

Archbishop Emanuele Gerada, Apostolic Nuncio emeritus to Ireland, passed away at the age of 90

Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham (Anglican Rite) was established (United Kingdom)

Fr. Keith Newton was appointed as Ordinary of Our Lady of Walsingham of the Anglican Rite (United Kingdom)

Msgr. Philip James Whitmore was appointed as Cleric Prelate of Apostolic Camera

Archbishop John Bulaitis, Apostolic Nuncio emeritus to Albania, passed away at the age of 77

Archbishop Antonio Mennini, Apostolic Nuncio to Russian Federation and Apostolic Nuncio to Uzbekistan, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain

Archbishop Faustino Sainz Muñoz resigned as Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain

Bishop Mark Davies succeeded as Bishop of Shrewsbury (United Kingdom)

Bishop Brian Michael Noble resigned as Bishop of Shrewsbury (United Kingdom)

Bishop Francis Gerard Brooks, Bishop emeritus of Dromore (United Kingdom), passed away at the age of 86