Oldest Latin-rite archbishops:
Cardinal Maida of Detriot, 77.07 years
Cardinal Keeler of Baltimore, 76.11
Archbishop Kelly of Louisville, 75.75
Archbishop Lipscomb of Mobile, 75.56
Cardinal Egan of New York, 75.03
I’m not sure who the other 1-2 bishops the article refers to are. Archbishop Curtiss of Omaha is 74.83. None else are over 74. There are about three dozen archdiocese, so even six archbishops in one year is an awful lot. Three cardinals being replaced in one year would be pretty stunning: there are only seven archbishop cardinals, the others being from Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia.
Cardinal Mahoney of Los Angeles is 71 years old. He was appointed bishop by Pope Paul VI way back in 1975, and promoted to archbishop in 1985.
Is he one of the Jadot appointees?
The list you are showing has those who have “reached the age.” If I am not mistaken, there are several Dioceses that are “still open” and the Holy Father received a request for removal due to poor health only last week. That is a huge number to replace!
I have the impression that the outgoing (Arch)Bishop has had significant input into his successor. That is surely true for D.C. and San Fran, IMHO. I hope that now that the Papal Nuncio has had time to get the full lay of the land, that will stop. It is clear that the Bishops being appointed to the South (and I am thinking of the Carolinas) are very solid. Who is engineering that is not known to me, but it could be the man in Philadelphia since Raleigh was one of his.
It has been speculated that several Archdioceses that were historically “Cardinatial Sees” may not be so anymore. The absence of a Cardinal from Texas, for example, is glaring with its huge Catholic population. I would not be surprised to see a change in that direction as well.
I would love to see Bishop Bruskewitz move to either coast. The thunder would roar!