Time Line 1977
Births
- Bishop Settimio Arturo Ferrazzetta
- Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo
- Cardinal Antonios Naguib
- Pope Benedict XVI
- Saint Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez
- Auguste Pelafigue
- Blessed Andrea Bordino
- Blessed Manuel Solórzano
- Blessed Maria del Carmen Rendiles Martinez
- Blessed María Romero Meneses
- Blessed Nelson Rutilio Lemus Chávez
- Blessed Rutilio Grande García
- Brother John Conway
- Father Christopher Shepherd-Smith
- Father George J Willmann
- Father Martin Thomas
- Johanna Decker
- Sister Anna Ploner
- Sister Anna Stiegler
- Sister Berta Schneider
- Sister Christa Elisabeth Lewandowski
- Sister María Dolores Romero Algarín
- Sister Pauline Wilkinson
- Venerable Giorgio la Pira
- Venerable Serafin Kaszuba
- Blessed Maria Anna Sala
- Saint Albert Chmielowski
- Venerable Giacinta Gertrude Maurizi
- Venerable Giorgio Maria Martinelli
Founded
Elevations
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 |