Time Line: 2001
- beatification of Blessed Alfonso Maria Fusco
- beatification of Blessed Andrew Ishchak
- beatification of Blessed Alfonso Lopez
- beatification of Blessed Aurelio da Vinalesa
- beatification of Blessed Basil Velychkovsky
- beatification of Blessed Bartolomeu dei Martiri Fernandes
- beatification of Blessed Carmelo Sastre Sastre
- beatification of Blessed Caterina Volpicelli
- beatification of Blessed Caterina Cittadini
- beatification of Blessed Carlos Manuel Cecilio Rodriguez Santiago
- beatification of Blessed Emilian Kovch
- beatification of Blessed Eugenia Picco
- beatification of Blessed Emilie Tavernier Gamelin
- beatification of Blessed Gregory Lakota
- beatification of Blessed Gregory Khomyshyn
- beatification of Blessed Gaetana Sterni
- beatification of Blessed Giovanni Antonio Farina
- beatification of Blessed Jósef Bilczewski
- beatification of Blessed Josaphat Kotsylovsky
- beatification of Blessed John Sleziuk
- beatification of Blessed Leonid Feodorov
- beatification of Blessed Luigi Quattrocchi
- beatification of Blessed Louis Tezza
- beatification of Blessed Maria Eutimia
- beatification of Blessed Maria Corsini
- beatification of Blessed Ignazio Maloyan
- beatification of Blessed Maria del Pilar Izquierdo Albero
- beatification of Blessed Metod Dominik Trcka
- beatification of Blessed Metodio Domenico Trcka
- beatification of Blessed Manuel Gonzalez Garcia
- beatification of Blessed Maria Anna Blondin
- beatification of Blessed Maria Adeodata Pisani
- beatification of Blessed Nazju Falzon
- beatification of Blessed Nicholas Charnetsky
- beatification of Blessed Nicholas Konrad
- beatification of Blessed Nikolaus Gross
- beatification of Blessed Nikita Budka
- beatification of Blessed Olympia Bida
- beatification of Blessed Oleksa Zarytsky
- beatification of Blessed Paolo Manna
- beatification of Blessed Pavol Peter Gojdic
- beatification of Blessed Peter Verhun
- beatification of Blessed Roman Lysko
- beatification of Blessed Simeon Lukach
- beatification of Blessed Teodor Romza
- beatification of Blessed Tommaso Maria Fusco
- beatification of Blessed Vitaliy Bayrak
- beatification of Blessed Zygmunt Gorazdowski
- beatification of Saint George Preca
- beatification of the Martyrs of Valencia
- canonization of Saint Agostino Roscelli
- canonization of Saint Bernard of Corleone
- canonization of Saint Francisca Salesia
- canonization of Saint Joseph Marello
- canonization of Saint Luigi Scrosoppi
- canonization of Saint Jeanne Marie Kerguin
- canonization of Saint Marie Amandine
- canonization of Saint Maria Crescentia Hoss
- canonization of Saint Paula Montal of Saint Joseph Calasanz
- canonization of Saint Rafqa
- canonization of Saint Teresa Eustochio Verzeri
- declaration of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich as Venerable
- declaration of Blessed Charles de Foucauld as Venerable
- declaration of Blessed Juan Nepomuceno Zegrí y Moreno as Venerable
- declaration of Blessed Luigi Maria Monti as Venerable
- declaration of Blessed Rosalie Rendu as Venerable
- elevation of the archdiocese of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- elevation of the archdiocese of Visakhapatnam, India
- elevation of the diocese of Chisinau, Moldova
- elevation of the diocese of Villarrica, Chile
- elevation of the vicariate apostolic of Guapi, Colombia
- founding of the diocese of Bafatá, Guinea-Bissau
- founding of the diocese of Dundo, Angola
- founding of the diocese of Maradi, Niger
- founding of the diocese of Maralal, Kenya
- founding of the diocese of Nnewi, Nigeria
- founding of the apostolic exarchate of Macedonia, Faithful of Eastern Rite
- founding of the apostolic exarchate of Venezuela, Faithful of the Oriental Rite
- founding of the eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Chicago, Illinois
- founding of the prefecture apostolic of Mongo, Chad
- founding of the prefecture apostolic of Quetta, Pakistan