Time Line: 2002
- beatification of Blessed Artemide Zatti
- beatification of Blessed Andrea Longhin
- beatification of Blessed Daudi Okelo
- beatification of Blessed Eugenia Ravasco
- beatification of Blessed Gaetano Errico
- beatification of Blessed Josaphat Chichkov
- beatification of Blessed John Adalbert Balicki
- beatification of Blessed John Beyzym
- beatification of Blessed Jildo Irwa
- beatification of Blessed Kamen Vitchev
- beatification of Blessed Ladislao Batthyany-Strattmann
- beatification of Blessed Liduina Meneguzzi
- beatification of Blessed Ludovico Pavoni
- beatification of Blessed Luigi Variara
- beatification of Blessed Marco Antonio Durando
- beatification of Blessed Maria Romero Meneses
- beatification of Blessed María del Tránsito de Jesús Sacramentado
- beatification of Blessed Maria Dominica Mantovani
- beatification of Blessed Pavel Dzjidzjov
- beatification of Blessed Sigimondo Felice Felinski
- beatification of Blessed Sanzia Szymkowiak
- canonization of Saint Alonso de Orozco-Mena
- canonization of Saint Benedicta Cambiagio Frassinello
- canonization of Saint Ignatius of Santhia
- canonization of Saint Josemaria Escriva
- canonization of Saint Juan Diego
- canonization of Saint Pedro de San Jose Betancur
- canonization of Saint Padre Pio
- canonization of Saint Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus
- declaration of Blessed Eufrasia of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Eluvathingal as Venerable
- declaration of Blessed Giulia Nemesia Valle as Venerable
- declaration of Blessed Giulia Salzano as Venerable
- declaration of Blessed Ivan Merz as Venerable
- declaration of Blessed Marie Therese of Saint Joseph as Venerable
- declaration of Blessed Maria Crucified as Venerable
- declaration of Blessed Teresa Maria Mastena as Venerable
- declaration of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta as Venerable
- elevation of the archdiocese of Clermont, France
- elevation of the archdiocese of Dijon, France
- elevation of the archdiocese of Feira de Santana, Baia, Brazil
- elevation of the archdiocese of Kumasi, Ghana
- elevation of the archdiocese of Madre di Dio a Mosca, Russian Federation
- elevation of the archdiocese of Montpellier, France
- elevation of the archdiocese of Poitiers, France
- elevation of the archdiocese of Vitória da Conquista, Baia, Brazil
- elevation of the diocese of Coxim, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
- elevation of the diocese of Mukacheve, Ukraine
- elevation of the diocese of San Clemente a Saratov, Russian Federation
- elevation of the diocese of San Giuseppe a Irkutsk, Russian Federation
- elevation of the diocese of Trasfigurazione a Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
- elevation of the prefecture apostolic of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- elevation of the vicariate apostolic of Kontagora, Nigeria
- founding of the archdiocese of Gandhinagar, India
- founding of the diocese of Acarigua-Araure, Venezuela
- founding of the diocese of Auchi, Nigeria
- founding of the diocese of Chinglepet, India
- founding of the diocese of Jhabua, India
- founding of the diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia, Ukraine
- founding of the diocese of Novaliches, Philippines
- founding of the diocese of Nyahururu, Kenya
- founding of the diocese of Odessa-Simferopol, Ukraine
- founding of the diocese of Parañaque, Philippines
- founding of the diocese of Tanjung Selor, Indonesia
- founding of the apostolic administration of São João Maria Vianney, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- founding of the apostolic exarchate of Argentina, Faithful of the Oriental Rite
- founding of the archeparchy of Donets'k-Kharkiv, Ukraine
- founding of the eparchy of Saint Peter the Apostle of San Diego
- founding of the mission "Sui Iuris" of Afghanistan
- founding of the nunciature to East Timor
- founding of the nunciature to Qatar
- founding of the vicariate apostolic of Rodrigues, Mauritius
- founding of the vicariate apostolic of Taytay, Philippines
