Time Line: 1996
- beatification of Blessed Anicet Hryciuk
- beatification of Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster
- beatification of Blessed Bartlomiej Osypiuk
- beatification of Blessed Bernhard Lichtenberg
- beatification of Blessed Candida Maria de Jesus
- beatification of Blessed Catherine Jarrige
- beatification of Blessed Daniel Comboni
- beatification of Blessed Daniel Karmasz
- beatification of Blessed Edmund Rice
- beatification of Blessed Francis Coll
- beatification of Blessed Filip Geryluk
- beatification of Blessed Guido Maria Conforti
- beatification of Blessed Ignacy Franczuk
- beatification of Blessed Karl Leisner
- beatification of Saint Filippo Smaldone
- beatification of the Martyrs of Podlasie
- canonization of Saint Giles Mary of Saint Joseph
- canonization of Saint John Grande
- canonization of Saint John Gabriel Perboyre
- death of Father Henri Caffarel
- death of Amparo Portilla Crespo de Romero
- death of Brother Basilio Rueda Guzmán
- death of Marcello Inguscio
- declaration of Blessed Alexandrina Maria da Costa as Venerable
- declaration of Blessed Anton Martin Slomsek as Venerable
- declaration of Blessed Bernardina Maria Jablonska as Venerable
- declaration of Blessed Caterina Cittadini as Venerated
- declaration of Blessed Eusebia Palomino Yenes as Venerable
- declaration of Blessed Elias del Socorro Nieves as Venerable
- declaration of Saint María Maravillas de Jesús as Venerable
- declaration of Antonio Amumdarain Garmendia as Venerable
- declaration of Giacomo Alberione as Venerable
- declaration of Pierre Toussaint as Venerable
- elevation of the archdiocese of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán, Guatemala
- elevation of the diocese of Buenaventura, Colombia
- elevation of the diocese of Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Ecuador
- elevation of the prefecture apostolic of Nepal
- elevation of the Ukrainian archdiocese of Przemysl-Warsaw, Poland
- elevation of the vicariate apostolic of Bomadi, Nigeria
- founding of the archdiocese of Palmas, Tocatins, Brazil
- founding of the diocese of Agartala, India
- founding of the diocese of Baucau, East Timor
- founding of the diocese of Carabayllo, Peru
- founding of the diocese of Chosica, Peru
- founding of the diocese of Ciego de Avila, Cuba
- founding of the diocese of Eunápolis, Baia, Brazil
- founding of the diocese of Guarenas, Venezuela
- founding of the diocese of Kasana-Luweero, Uganda
- founding of the diocese of Lugazi, Uganda
- founding of the diocese of Lurín, Peru
- founding of the diocese of Nebbi, Uganda
- founding of the diocese of Neyyattinkara, India
- founding of the diocese of Ostrava-Opava, Czech Republic
- founding of the diocese of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
- founding of the diocese of Rrëshen, Albania
- founding of the diocese of Santa Rosa de Lima, Guatemala
- founding of the diocese of Suchitepéquez-Retalhuleu, Guatemala
- founding of the Byzantine apostolic exarchate of Czech Republic
- founding of the Malankarese diocese of Marthandom, India
- founding of the Maronite archeparchy of Haifa e Terra Santa, Israel
- founding of the Syro-Malabarese diocese of Thuckalay, India
- founding of the Ukrainian diocese of Wroclaw-Gdansk, Poland
- founding of the vicariate apostolic of Bauchi, Nigeria
