Time Line 1977 Oct 272008 Births Ordinations Archbishop José Rodríguez Carballo Religious Professions Consecrations Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo Cardinal Antonios Naguib Pope Benedict XVI Deaths Sister María Dolores Romero Algarín Venerations Blessed Maria Anna Sala Saint Albert Chmielowski Beatifications Saint Miguel Febres Cordero Muñoz Saint Mutien Marie Wiaux Canonizations Saint Charbel Makhlouf Saint John Nepomucene Neumann Founded Elevations Pope Benedict XVI Archdiocese of Acerenza, Italy Publications Other Events Pope Paul VI ends automatic excommunication of divorced American Catholics who remarry, a decree first imposed by American bishops in 1884 and only to the dioceses of America 1976 1978