Recent Appointments

• 2009.12.10: Bishop Lucilo B. Quiambao (77) resigned from the office of Auxiliary Bishop of Legazpi (Philippines)
• 2009.12.10: Archbishop Pedro López Quintana (56), Apostolic Nuncio of India and Apostolic Nuncio of Nepal, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio of Canada
• 2009.12.09: Bishop Daniel Ernest Flores (48), Titular Bishop of Cozyla and Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit (United States), was appointed as Bishop of Brownsville (United States)
• 2009.12.09: Bishop Raymundo Joseph Peña (75) resigned from the office of Bishop of Brownsville (United States)
• 2009.12.07: Fr. Pedro Daniel Martínez (43) was elected Coadjutor Bishop of San Luis (Argentina)
• 2009.12.07: Msgr. Theodorus Cornelis Maria Hoogenboom (49) was elected Titular Bishop of Bistue and Auxiliary Bishop of Utrecht (Netherlands)
• 2009.12.07: Fr. Herman Willebrordus Woorts (46) was elected Titular Bishop of Giufi Salaria and Auxiliary Bishop of Utrecht (Netherlands)
• 2009.12.07: Fr. Marian Eleganti, O.S.B. (54) was elected Titular Bishop of Lamdia and Auxiliary Bishop of Chur (Switzerland)
• 2009.12.05: Diocese of Bjelovar – Križevci was erected (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Zagreb)
• 2009.12.05: Diocese of Sisak was erected (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Zagreb)
• 2009.12.05: Apostolic Prefecture of Gambella was promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Gambella
• 2009.12.05: Apostolic Prefecture of Jimma – Bonga was promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Jimma – Bonga
• 2009.12.05: Msgr. Vjekoslav Huzjak (49) was elected Bishop of Bjelovar – Križevci (Croatia)
• 2009.12.05: Bishop Vlado Košić (50), Titular Bishop of Ruspae and Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb (Croatia), was appointed as Bishop of Sisak (Croatia)
• 2009.12.05: Fr. Markos Ghebremedhin, C.M. (43) was elected Titular Bishop of Gummi in Proconsulari and Vicar Apostolic of Jimma – Bonga (Ethiopia)
• 2009.12.05: Fr. Angelo Moreschi, S.D.B. (57), Prefect Apostolic of Gambella (Ethiopia), was elected Titular Bishop of Elephantaria in Mauretania and Vicar Apostolic of Gambella (Ethiopia)
• 2009.12.05: Bishop Method Kilaini (61), Auxiliary Bishop of Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania), was appointed as Auxiliary Bishop of Bukoba (Tanzania)

Upcoming Celebrations

• 2009.06.19 – 2010.06.11: Year for Priests
• 2010.01.01: World Day of Peace 2010
• 2010.01.17: World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2010
• 2010.01.18 – 2010.01.25: Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2010
• 2010.01.31: 57th World Day of Leprosy
• 2010.02.02: World Day for Consecrated Life 2010
• 2010.02.11: World Day of the Sick 2010
• 2010.02.17 – 2010.04.01: Lent 2010
• 2010.04.01 – 2010.04.04: Triduum 2010
• 2010.04.17 – 2010.04.18: Apostolic Journey to Malta

Recent Major Papal Documents

• 2009.11.04: Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum cœtibus
• 2009.07.07: Motu Proprio “Approving the new Statute of the Labour Office of the Holy See”
• 2009.07.02: Motu Proprio Ecclesiæ unitatem
• 2009.06.29: Encyclical Charity in Truth / Caritas in Veritate
• 2008.10.28: Apostolic Letter “For the 7th centenary of the death of blessed John Duns Scotus”

Recent Curial Documents

• 2009.11.10: Secretariat of State, Curial Letter “To all the Priests of the Catholic Church in the People’s Republic of China”
• 2009.11.04: Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Norms “Complementary Norms for the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus”
• 2009.10.20: Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Note “On personal ordinariates for Anglicans entering the Catholic Church”
• 2009.10.17: Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue, Message “To the Hindus on the Feast of Diwali 2009”
• 2009.10: Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Directory Compendium of the Eucharist / Compendium Eucharisticum

Recent Minor Papal Documents

• 2009.11.26: Message “For the Conference 'From Galilei's Telescope to Evolutionary Cosmology: Science, Philosophy and Theology in Dialogue'”
• 2009.11.25: Message “To the Archbishop of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch, on the occasion of the feast of St. Andrew”
• 2009.11.22: Message “For the 18th World Day of the Sick (2010)”
• 2009.11.17: Message “To the President of the Episcopal Conference of Vietnam”
• 2009.11.16: Message “For the death of Patriarch Pavle of the Serbian Orthodox Church”

Recent Papal Speeches

• 2009.12.10: Speech “To the Ambassador of Cuba to the Holy See”
• 2009.12.08: Speech “Act of Veneration to the Virgin Mary on the occasion of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception”
• 2009.12.05: Speech “To Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Brazil (South Regions 3 and 4) on their ad Limina visit”
• 2009.12.04: Speech “To the Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania”
• 2009.12.04: Speech “Concert offered by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany in honour of the Holy Father”