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The 52 living Redemptorist Bishops

Fr.  Gary Ziuraitis, C.Ss.R.

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This article appeared in the latest edition of our international news output.

This year we want to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the episcopal ordination of our founder St. Alphonsus Liguori with a series of articles. Our first efforts will center around the “statistical information” while later reports will attempt to put Alphonsus’ episcopal ministry into a Redemptorist pastoral context.

Last month we mentioned that since St. Alphonsus, there have been 152 Redemptorists ordained bishops for service to the Church. Of those 153, fifty-two are presently living. This month we wish to honor these confreres in the vineyard of the Lord.

Among this group of 52 are: 1 Cardinal – The Cardinal Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia and a Papal elector; 10 Archbishops and 41 bishops. All Redemptorist bishops, with the exception of one, are or were ordinaries of apostolic vicariates, prelacies, dioceses and archdioceses or auxiliary bishops. The one exception is Archbishop Tobin who serves as the #2 man in the Vatican Congregation for Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

There are 11 Redemptorist bishops from the Conference of Europe; 9 from the Conference of North America; 24 from the Conference of Latin America and the Caribbean; 5 from the Conference of Asia-Oceania; and 3 from the Conference of Africa and Madagascar .  Brazilians number the most Redemptorist bishops - 10. Canada has 6 and the Ukraine 5 – these 11 bishops belong to the Greek-Catholic Rite, which has a married clergy but their bishops are required to be from the ranks of celibate priests, making our confreres a convenient source. It was from the ranks of the Greek-Catholic Church that during the communist era in Eastern Europe, 2 Ukrainian Redemptorist bishops, Vasyl Velychkovsky and Nicholas Charnetsky, were imprisoned, tortured and martyred –as well as 3 Redemptorist priests -- and subsequently have been declared Blessed by the Church. We also have a bishop in the Chaldean Rite in Iraq and 2 serving Slovakian Greek-Catholics, one in Slovakia, the other, American-born, serves in Canada.

Like St. John Neumann, a Bohemian who was Bishop of Philadelphia, there are a number of Redemptorists who minister far from the lands of their birth, having first served as Redemptorists in mission areas. 3 Polish Redemptorist bishops, for example, head local Churches in South America. A Canadian-born Redemptorist now serves the Greek-Catholic Rite faithful in Melbourne, Australia, and a Redemptorist from England is bishop of the flock on the Rock of Gibraltar!

Following is a list of these confreres. They are arranged according to their age, oldest to youngest, along with their nationality, Redemptorist unit, years of episcopal service and the service they are presently engaged in. Pray for them. All of them, although technically outside of Redemptorist life now, never really lose their Redemptorist heart and identity. At the end of their service, like St. Alphonsus, many return to Redemptorist community life to finish out their years:

Look out for our own Bishop Ralph C.Ss.R. (London Province)!

Name  Nationality	Age	Unit	Years a Bishop	Present service in the Church
Bishop Pedro Fré Brazil	87	São Paolo	26	Bishop Emeritus of Barretos São Paolo, Brazil
Archbishop Altamiro Rossato  Brazil	86	Porto Alegre	25	Archbishop Emeritus of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Bishop Lélis Lara  Brazil	86	Rio de Janeiro	35	Bishop Emeritus of Itabira, Fabriciano, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Bishop José Rodriques de Souza  Brazil	85	Goiás	37	Bishop Emeritus di Juazeiro, Baia, Brazil
Bishop Michael Hrynchyshyn  Canada	82	Yorkton	28	Exarch Apostolic of France (Ukrainian rite), Canada
Bishop Alfred Novak  United States	81	Manaus	32	Bishop Emeritus of Paranaguá, Brazil
Archbishop Michael Bzde,  Canada	81	Yorkton	18	Archbishop Emeritus of Winnipeg (Ukrainian rite), Canada
Bishop José Carlos de Oliveira Brazil	80	São Paulo	32	Bishop Emeritus of Rubiataba-Mozarlândia, Goiás, Brazil
Bishop Antonio Juan Baseotto  Argentina	79	Buenos Aires	20	Bishop Emeritus of Argentine Military
Bishop Michael Wiwchar  Canada	79	Yorkton	18	Bishop Emeritus of Saskatoon (Ukrainian rite), Canada
Bishop George Yod Phimphisan  Thailand	79	Bangkok	36	Bishop Emeritus of Udon Thani, Thailand
Bishop Aloysius Zichem Suriname	78	Suriname	41	Bishop Emeritus of Paramaribo, Suriname
Bishop Alvaro Efrèn Rincón Rojas Colombia	78	Bogotá	11	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Puerto Carreño, Colombia
Bishop José Ignacio Alemany  Grau Spagna	78	Madrid	16	Bishop Emeritus of Chachapovas, Perù
Bishop Fabio de Jesús Morales Grisale Colombia	77	Bogotá	20	Bishop Emeritus of Mocoa-Sibundoy, Colombia
Bishop Rafael Arcadio Bernal  Colombia	77	Bogotá	33	Bishop Emeritus of Libano-Honda, Colombia
Bishop Ireneo A. Amantillo  Philippines	77	Cebu	35	Bishop Emeritus of Tandag, Philippines
Cardinal Julio Terrazas Sandoval Bolivia	75	Bolivia	33	Cardinal Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
Archbishop Edward Gilbert  United States	75	Baltimore	17	Archbishop Emeritus of Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
Bishop Antonio Napoletano Italy	74	Naples	17	Bishop of Sessa Aurunca, Italy
Bishop Guy Armand Romano France	74	Burkina-Niger	27	Bishop Emeritus of Niamey, Niger
Archbishop Pastor Eustaquio Cuquejo Vergá Paraguay	72	Paraguay	29	Archbishop of Asunción, Paraguay
Bishop Czelaw Stanula  Poland	71	Bahia	22	Bishop of Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil
Bishop Gutemberg Freire Régis Brazil	71	Manaus	33	Prelate Emeritus of Coari, Amazonas, Brazil
Archbishop José de Queirós Alves Portugal	70	Luanda	25	Archbishop di Huambo, Angola, Africa
Bishop Emmanuel Treveno Cabajar  Philippines	69	Cebu	7	Bishop of Pagadian, Philippines
Bishop Peter Stasiuk  Canada	68	Yorkton	18	Bishop of Sts. Peter & Paul of Melbourne (Ukrainian Rite), Australia
Bishop Karl Bürgler Switzerland	68	Bolivia	14	Vicar Apostolic of Reyes, Bolivia
Bishop Kevin Dowling  South Africa	68	South Africa	21	Bishop of Rustenburg, South Africa
Bishop Philip Banchong Chaiyara Thailand	67	Bangkok	5	Bishop of Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand
Bishop Fernando José Monteriro Guimarães Brazil	65	Rio de Janeiro	3	Bishop of Garanhuns, Pernambuco, Brazil
Bishop John Stephen Pazak  United States	65	Yorkton	11	Bishop of Sts. Cyril & Methoofus di Toronto, CA (Byzantine Greek-Catholic )
Bishop Mychajlo Koltun Ukraine	62	Lviv	18	Bishop di Sokal-Zhovkka (Ukrainian rite), Ukraine
Bishop Stephan Meniok Ukraine	62	Lviv	10	Archepiscopal Exarch of Donetsk-Kharkiv (Ukrainian Rite)
Archbishop Gerard Pettipas  Canada	61	Edmonton-Toronto	5	Archbishop di Grouard-McLennan, Alberta, Canada
Bishop Edmund Woga  Indonesia	61	Indonesia	2.5	Bishop of Weetebula, Indonesia
Archbishop Joseph William Tobin United States	59	Denver	1.5	Secretary for the Congregation of Religious, Rome
Archbishop Ihor Vozniak Ukraine	59	Lviv	10	Archbishop of Lviv (Ukrainian rite), Ukraine
Bishop Ralph Heskett England	58	London	1.5	Bishop of Gibraltar
Bishop Joércio Gonçalves Pereira  Brazil	58	São Paulo	6	Prelate Emeritus of Coari, Amazonas, Brazil
Bishop José Luiz Majella Delgado  Brazil	58	São Paulo	2	Bishop of Jatai, Goiás, Brazil
Bishop Marek Marian Piatek  Poland	57	Bahia	0.5	Prelate of Coari, Amazonas, Brazil
Bishop Antonio De Luca Italy	55	Naplesi	0,1	Bishop di Teggiano-Policastro, Italy
Bishop José Luis Ferreira Salles  Brazil	55	Recife	5	Bishop of Pesqueira, Brazil
Bishop Milan Chautur  Slovakia	54	Michalovce	20	Bishop of Kosice (Byzantine Greek-Cathollic), Slovakia
Bishop José Slavy  Poland	54	Resistencia	2.5	Prelate of Esqeul, Argentina
Bishop Francisco Antonio  Ceballos Escobar Colombia	54	Bogotá	1	Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Carreño, Colombia
Archbishop Róbert Bezák Slovakia	52	Bratislava	2.5	Archbishop of Trnava, Slovacchia
Bishop Bryan Joseph Bayda Canada	50	Yorkton	3.5	Bishop of Saskatoon (Ukrainian Rite), Canada
Bishop Jaroslav Pryriz Ukraine	49	Lviv	5.5	Bishop of Sambir-Drohobych (Ukrainian Rite ), Ukraine
Bishop Bohdan Dziurakh Ukraine	44	Lviv	6	Bishop Ausiliario of Kiev-Vyshhorod (Ukrainian rite), Ukraine
Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda Iraq	42	Saint Clement	1.5	Archbishop of Arbil (Chaldean Rite), Iraq

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