Event class: bishop, appointed, archbishop, diocese, pope, consecrated, named, cathedral, auxiliary bishop, titular bishop

Events with high posterior probability

Stephen Fumio Hamao	He was appointed titular bishop of Oreto and auxiliary bishop of Tokyo on 5 February 1970, and was ordained a bishop on 29 April 1970.
Carl Maria Splett	He was succeed by Edmund Nowicki, his coadjutor bishop since 1956.
Hugh L. Lamb	On May 28, 1951, Pope Pius XII named him the first Bishop of the newly erected Diocese of Greensburg in Western Pennsylvania.
Francis Redwood	Redwood favoured the appointment of his fellow Marist John Grimes, who was English-born, as Bishop of Christchurch, but in 1885 the first plenary council of Australasian bishops recommended that the appointment go to a diocesan priest and that Dunedin be the new archdiocese.
Joseph Francis Maguire	Upon the resignation of Bishop Christopher Joseph Weldon, Maguire succeeded him as the fifth Bishop of Springfield on October 15, 1977.
William S. Skylstad	Bishop Skylstad was appointed Apostolic Administrator of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baker, in Oregon, effective January 24, 2011, upon the appointment of Bishop Robert F. Vasa as Coadjutor Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa in California.
Pio Taofinu'u	On January 11, 1968, he was named Bishop of Apia, becoming the first Polynesian bishop in history.
Sebastiano Martinelli	Frances Benjamin Johnston He was appointed apostolic delegate to the United States on 18 April 1896 by Pope Leo XIII and titular archbishop of Ephesus on 18 August 1896.
Bob Hardy (bishop)	In 1980 he awas ordained to the episcopate as the Bishop of Maidstone.
Peter Paul Lefevere	In effect, Lefevere would be the leader of the Detroit diocese, as Bishop Frederick Rese had become incapacitated for unspecified reasons and had returned to Europe, while retaining the title of Bishop of Detroit until his death in 1871.
Peter Paul Lefevere	He returned to the United States and was consecrated on November 21, 1841 by Bishop Francis Patrick Kenrick of Philadelphia.
Gerald Frederick Kicanas	He later succeeded Manuel Moreno as the seventh Bishop of Tucson on March 7, 2003.
David Zubik	Zubik was later named the eleventh Bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin, on October 10, 2003.
Joseph Gregory Vath	He was appointed Bishop of Birmingham in Alabama, on September 29, 1969, when the Diocese of Mobile-Birmingham was split into the Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile.
Robert Rivas	On May 31, 2005, he was appointed Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Bridgetown, Barbados.
Stanley Ntagali	He was consecrated on 16 December 2012 at St. Paul's Cathedral in Namirembe.
Vincent Nichols	Nichols was appointed the eleventh Archbishop of Westminster by Pope Benedict XVI on 3 April 2009, and solemnly installed on 21 May 2009.
Alois Josef, Freiherr von Schrenk	On 20 June 1838, Schrenk was appointed archbishop of Prague (called Prince Archbishop), was confirmed on 17 September 1838, and subsequently installed on 4 November 1838.
John Mortimer Smith	He received his episcopal consecration on January 25, 1988 from Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, with Archbishop Peter Gerety and Bishop Walter Curtis serving as co-consecrators.
John R. Quinn	He was named by Pope Paul VI, auxiliary bishop for San Diego and titular bishop of Thisiduo on October 21, 1967, and consecrated December 12.
Clarence Richard Silva	He is the fifth Bishop of Honolulu, appointed by Pope Benedict XVI on May 17, 2005, to oversee the Diocese of Honolulu.
Agust?n Garc?a-Gasco Vicente	On 24 July 1992 he became Archbishop of Valencia.
James Henry Garland	On June 2, 1984 Pope John Paul II named him the Titular Bishop of Garriana and Auxiliary Bishop of Cincinnati.
Nykanor Deyneha	In February 1972 he was consecrated as auxiliary bishop for underground Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv by Blessed Bishop Vasyl Velychkovsky, that in this time was the Administrator for all the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in catacombs.
Lazar Mladenov	During the administrative reorganization of the Catholic Church in Bulgaria in 1883, he was appointed Apostolic Vicar for Catholic Bulgarians in Macedonia on June 12, 1883, and was consecrated by archbishop Nil Izvorov in Constantinople.
Dermot Farrell	He was appointed Parish Priest of Dunboyne, in the Diocese of Meath, effective 1 September 2007.
Joseph Rademacher (bishop)	Following the death of Bishop Dwenger in January 1893, Rademacher returned to Indiana and was named the third Bishop of Fort Wayne on July 15, 1893.
Henry Rohlman	Bishop Rohlman served as Bishop of Davenport for 17 years until September 8, 1944, when he was named to the See of Dubuque.
Joseph Rummel	Archbishop Shaw, Archbishop Chapelle, Archbishop Blenk, and Archbishop Rummel, all in Jefferson Parish, were built in 1962.
Salvador Cristau Coll	In 2004, after the erection of the Terrassa diocese, Cristau was incardinated as a prelate and was appointed as the diocesan vicar general.
Adolphe Lechaptois	On 19 June 1891 Lechaptois was appointed his successor as Vicar Apostolic of Tanganyika and Titular Bishop of Utica.
Louis Charles Casartelli	He was consecrated in St John's Cathedral, on 21 September 1903 by Archbishop-elect Francis Bourne, with Bishops Thomas Whiteside and Samuel Webster Allen as co-consecrators.
Alessio Ascalesi	Pope Pius X appointed him Bishop of Muro Lucano on 29 April 1909.
James Brown (bishop of Shrewsbury)	He was appointed the Bishop of the Diocese of Shrewsbury by the Holy See on 27 June 1851.
Patrick Dunn (bishop)	On 24 July 1994, Dunn was ordained as Auxiliary Bishop of Auckland.
James Lynch (bishop of Kildare and Leighlin)	He was appointed Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Western District in Scotland and Titular Bishop of Arcadiopolis in Asia on 31 August 1866.
Leo Ferdinand Dworschak	On February 23, 1960, Pope John XXIII appointed Bishop Dworschak the fourth bishop of the Fargo Diocese.
Ilia II of Georgia	On August 26, 1963, he was chosen to be the bishop of Batumi and Shemokmedi and appointed a patriarchal vicar.
Armando Xavier Ochoa	Ochoa was named titular bishop of Sitifis as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles by Pope John Paul II during late December 1986.
Joseph Kallarangatt	On 2 May 2004, he received his episcopal consecration from Archbishop Mar Joseph Powathil and the same day he was enthroned as Bishop of Palai by the Syro-Malabar Major-Archbishop Mar Varkey Cardinal Vithayathil.
Pascal Tosi	On July 27, 1894, the Holy See separated Alaska from the Diocese of Vancouver Island and made it a Prefecture Apostolic with Tosi as its Apostolic Prefect.
Pedro R. Dean	Pope Paul VI appointed Dean as Titular Bishop of Thuccabora and Auxiliary Bishop to Archbishop Antonio Lloren Mabutas, the Archbsihop of Davao on 12 December 1977.
Ildebrando Antoniutti	On 19 May 1936, Antoniutti was appointed Apostolic Delegate to Albania and Titular Archbishop of Synnada in Phrygia by Pope Pius XI.
John Hepworth	From then until November 1999, Hepworth acted as bishop administrator.
Roger Kaffer	Kaffer was also formally named the Titular Bishop of the Diocese of Dusa, which is located in North Africa, in 1985.
Bartolomeo Bacilieri	Bacilieri later succeeded Cardinal Luigi di Canossa as Bishop of Verona upon the latter's death on 12 March 1900.
Leo Soekoto	The Pope appointed him Apostolic Administrator ad Nutum Sanctae sedis for Diocese of Bogor until October 23, 1994, when the new Bishop of Bogor, Michael Angkur was ordained.
Andrea Cassulo	In 1914, he was appointed bishop of Fabriano e Matelica.
Sergei Solovyov (Catholic priest)	In 1926 after the arrest of the Exarch Leonid Fyodorov, Father Sergei Solovyov was appointed apostolic administrator of Moscow by Catholic bishop Pius Neve and Vice Exarch for Catholic Synod of the Byzantine rite.
Tod Brown	On December 27, 1988, Brown was appointed the sixth Bishop of Boise City, Idaho, by Pope John Paul II.
Michael Richard Cote	Following his return from Catholic University in 1981, Cote was appointed adjutant judicial vicar of the Diocesan Tribunal.
Terrence Prendergast	In addition, Prendergast served as Chancellor of Saint Mary's University, Halifax, a position granted to the serving Archbishop of Halifax until 2007, when the archdiocese and the university agreed to instead bestow the title of Visitor.
Henry P. Northrop	In addition to his duties in North Carolina, he was named the fourth Bishop of Charleston on January 27, 1883.
Juan Jos? Gerardi Conedera	In 1974, he was appointed Bishop of Quiché, but continued working as an Apostolic Administrator in Verapaz.
Christopher Lowson	He was consecrated as a bishop on 21 September 2011 in Westminster Abbey and enthroned in Lincoln Cathedral on 12 November 2011.
Sergey Golovanov	In December 2004, Pope John Paul II appointed Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph Werth SJ as the Ordinary for Byzantine Catholics in Russia, who dismissed Golovanov from his duty in Roman Catholic diocese of Novosibirsk.
Olivier Schmitthaeusler	He succeed him on 10 October 2010 after being ordained bishop on 20 March 2010.
Nykyta Budka	He was appointed the Bishop for Canada on July 15, 1912, and consecrated on October 14 that year.
Jean-Claude Turcotte	On April 14, 1982, his appointment as the titular bishop of Suas (a titular see in what is today Tunisia) and auxiliary bishop of Montreal was announced.
Christopher Epting	Bishop Epting succeeded Bishop Righter as Bishop of Iowa at the end of 1988.
Enrique Reig y Casanova	He was appointed as Bishop of Barcelona on 28 March 1914 (at that time Barcelona was a simple diocese).
James Roosevelt Bayley	thumb | Archbishop Bayley At the death of Archbishop Spalding of Baltimore he was promoted, on July 30, 1872, to succeed that prelate.
Chrysostomos II of Cyprus	He was elected Metropolitan (Bishop) of Paphos on 25 February 1978, and his episcopal consecration took place on 26 February 1978.
Jerome Edward Listecki	As Archbishop of Milwaukee, the metropolitan see of the Ecclesiastical Province of Milwaukee (the entire state of Wisconsin), he received the pallium on June 29, 2010 from Pope Benedict XVI.
Tod Brown	He was consecrated on April 3, 1989 by Archbishop William Levada, with Bishops Sylvester Treinen and Thaddeus Shubsda serving as co-consecrators.
Tony Clavier	On 11 February 1970, George consecrated Clavier as a bishop and appointed him as a suffragan.
Augustus Toebbe	After serving the diocese well, Bishop Toebbe died on May 2, 1884.
Joseph Lloyd Hogan	He was consecrated on November 28, 1969 succeeding Fulton J. Sheen.
Manuel Tato	Tato received his episcopal consecration on March 27, 1949 from Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello, archbishop of Buenos Aires, with the archbishop of Santa Fe, Nicolás Fasolino, who would later become a cardinal, and the auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires, Antonio Rocca, serving as co-consecrators.
Martin William Currie	In 2001 Martin William Currie became a bishop : He was first appointed to the See of Grand Falls.
John Njue	On 9 June 1986, Njue was appointed Bishop of Embu by Pope John Paul II.
Francisco Vidal y Barraquer	He received his episcopal consecration on April 26, 1914 from Archbishop Antolín López Peláez, with Bishops Ramón Barberá y Boada and Ramón Guillamet y Coma serving as co-consecrators, in the cathedral of Tarragona.
Tom?s ? Fiaich	He served as the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland from 1977 until his death.
Desmond Tutu	He retired as Archbishop of Cape Town in 1996 and was made emeritus Archbishop of Cape Town, an honorary title that is unusual in the Anglican church.
John Mark Gannon	He received his episcopal consecration on February 6, 1918 from Bishop Michael John Hoban, with Bishops Philip R. McDevitt and John Joseph McCort serving as co-consecrators.
Joseph Jules Zerey	He was consecrated bishop on 9 November 2001 by Patriarch Gregory III Laham, assisted by co-consecrators Archbishops Elias Zoghby and Paul Antaki.
Henry Joseph O'Brien	When the Diocese of Hartford was elevated to the rank of an archdiocese on August 6, 1953, O'Brien was made its first archbishop.
Joseph Patrick Lynch	He was shortly afterwards made Apostolic Administrator of Dallas following the death of Bishop Dunne in August 1910.
Reinhard Marx	On 20 December 2001 he was named Bishop of Trier (the oldest diocese in Germany), succeeding Hermann Josef Spital nearly a year after the latter's retirement.
Daniel Cohalan (bishop of Waterford and Lismore)	He was appointed Bishop of Waterford and Lismore by the Holy See on 30 January 1943 and consecrated on 4 April 1943.
Patrick Lyons	Lyons returned to Australia upon being named Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney and Titular Bishop of Cabasa on 5 April 1950.
Epiphany Shanov	After the recall of Lazar Mladenov on July 23, 1895, he became the Bishop of the Bulgarian Uniat Church in Macedonia and on September 8, 1895 in Istanbul he was granted the title Livadian Bishop and appointed as Apostolic vicar in Macedonia.
Lodovico Altieri	He was appointed titular archbishop of Ephesus on 11 July 1836 by Pope Gregory XVI and was consecrated on 17 July of that year by Pope Gregory, and appointed Nuncio to Austria the next day.
Charles Dodgson (archdeacon)	In 1836 he was additionally appointed Examining Chaplain to Charles Longley, the newly created Bishop of Ripon.
Cyril Salim Bustros	He was ordained to the episcopate on November 27, 1988, in the Basilica of St. Paul in Harissa, by Maximos V Hakim, assisted by Archbishops Zoghby and Joseph Raya.
Theotonius Amal Ganguly	In November 1967 he became the Metropolitan Archbishop of Dhaka.
Manuel Aurelio Cruz	On June 9, 2008, Cruz was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Newark and Titular Bishop of Gaguari by Pope Benedict XVI.
Philip Hannan	During the Fourth Session of Vatican II, specifically on September 29, 1965, Hannan was appointed as the eleventh Archbishop of New Orleans, succeeding Archbishop John Cody (later Cardinal), who had been transferred to Chicago.
John Francis McNulty	His consecration to the Episcopate took place on 11 June 1932, the principal consecrator was Cardinal Francis Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop Peter Amigo of Southwark and Bishop Thomas Henshaw of Salford.
George Joseph Lucas	He succeeded Elden Francis Curtiss, and was installed at St. Cecilia Cathedral on July 22, 2009, by His Excellency, The Most Reverend Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See to the United States.
Edmund Szoka	On March 21, 1981, he was promoted to the third Metropolitan Archbishop of Detroit (eighth bishop) by Pope John Paul II.
Paul Joseph Nussbaum	After six years as bishop, he resigned on March 26, 1920 ; he was named Titular Bishop of Gerasa on the same date.
Orani Jo?o Tempesta	Archbishop Tempesta took possession of the See on 19 April 2009, the fourth anniversary of the election of Pope Benedict XVI.
David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes	On 1 October 2007 it was announced that he would also serve as an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe.
Lawrence Donald Soens	He was ordained a bishop and installed on August 17, 1983 at the Cathedral of the Ephiphany by Archbishop James Joseph Byrne.
John Joseph Leibrecht	On October 20, 1984, Leibrecht was appointed the fifth bishop of the Springfield-Cape Girardeau by Pope John Paul II.
Aleksander Kaszkiewicz	On May 23, 1991, he was ordained a bishop, consecrated by archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz.
Fernando Lugo	Lugo was ordained a bishop on 17 April 1994, and received charge of the nation's poorest diocese, in the San Pedro diocese.
Diarmuid Martin	On 17 January 2001, he was appointed Titular Archbishop of the same diocese.
Alan Hopes	On 24 January 2003 he received episcopal ordination, along with the now Archbishop Bernard Longley, in Westminster Cathedral from Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor.