2022:  Archbishop Rémi Joseph Gustave Sainte-Marie, M. Afr., Metropolitan Archbishop of Lilongwe (Malawi) |
2016:  Bishop Robert Marie Gay, M. Afr., Bishop of Kabale (Uganda) |
| 2012: Bishop Patrick Augustine Kalilombe, M. Afr., Bishop of Lilongwe (Malawi) |
2008:  Bishop Denis Martin Tapsoba, M. Afr., Bishop of Ouahigouya (Burkina Faso) |
2007:  Bishop Pierre François Marie Joseph Duprey, M. Afr., Secretary of Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and Vice-President of Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews |
2005:  Bishop Joseph Paul Barnabé Perrot, M. Afr., Bishop of San (Mali) |
2004:  Archbishop André Makarakiza, M. Afr., Metropolitan Archbishop of Gitega (Burundi) |
2004:  Bishop Michel-Joseph-Gérard Gagnon, M. Afr., Bishop of Laghouat (Algeria) |
2003:  Archbishop André Perraudin, M. Afr., Archbishop-Bishop of Kabgayi (Rwanda) |
| 2003: Bishop Georges Biard, M. Afr., Bishop of Mopti (Mali) |
2003:  Bishop Louis-de-Gonzague Langevin, M. Afr., Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe (Canada) |
| 2000: Cardinal Paul Zoungrana, M. Afr., Cardinal-Priest of S. Camillo de Lellis and Metropolitan Archbishop of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) |
| 2000: Bishop Jean-Marie-Gaëtan Ogez, M. Afr., Bishop of Mbarara (Uganda) |
| 1999: Bishop André-Joseph-Prosper Dupont, M. Afr., Bishop of Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) |
1999:  Bishop Firmin Courtemanche, M. Afr., Bishop of Chipata (Zambia) |
| 1997: Bishop Jean-Louis Jobidon, M. Afr., Bishop of Mzuzu (Malawi) |
1995:  Bishop James Holmes-Siedle, M. Afr., Bishop of Kigoma (Tanzania) |
| 1992: Bishop Joseph Blomjous, M. Afr., Bishop of Mwanza (Tanzania) |
| 1991: Bishop Georges-Louis Mercier, M. Afr., Bishop of Laghouat (Algeria) |
1990:  Archbishop Michel Callens, M. Afr., Bishop-Prelate of Tunis (Tunisia) |
| 1990: Bishop Jean-Marie Lesourd, M. Afr., Bishop of Nouna (Burkina Faso) |
| 1989: Bishop Jean-Marie Michel Arthur Alix Zacharie Raimbaud, M. Afr., Bishop of Laghouat (Algeria) |
| 1988: Bishop Marcel Daubechies, M. Afr., Bishop of Kasama (Zambia) |
| 1988: Bishop Adolf Fürstenberg, M. Afr., Bishop of Mbala (Zambia) |
1988:  Bishop Eugène Maillat, M. Afr., Bishop of N’Zérékoré (Guinea) |
| 1988: Bishop René-Georges Pailloux, M. Afr., Bishop of Mansa (Zambia) |
1988:  Bishop Owen McCoy, M. Afr., Bishop of Oyo (Nigeria) |
| 1987: Archbishop Emile-Joseph Socquet, M. Afr., Metropolitan Archbishop of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) |
| 1986: Archbishop Antoine Grauls, M. Afr., Metropolitan Archbishop of Gitega (Burundi) |
1985:  Bishop Urbain Etienne Morlion, M. Afr., Bishop of Baudouinville (Congo-Kinshasa) |
| 1985: Bishop Joseph-Marie-Eugène Bretault, M. Afr., Bishop of Koudougou (Burkina Faso) |
| 1984: Bishop Alexandre-Auguste-Laurent-Marie Roy, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Bangweulu (Zambia) |
| 1984: Bishop Joseph Fady, M. Afr., Bishop of Lilongwe (Malawi) |
| 1983: Archbishop Pierre Louis Leclerc, M. Afr., Archbishop-Bishop of Ségou (Mali) |
| 1983: Archbishop Louis van Steene, M. Afr., Metropolitan Archbishop of Bukavu (Congo-Kinshasa) |
| 1982: Bishop Joseph Martin, M. Afr., Bishop of Bururi (Burundi) |
| 1981: Archbishop Louis Joseph Cabana, M. Afr., Metropolitan Archbishop of Rubaga (Uganda) |
| 1980: Archbishop Cornelius Bronsveld, M. Afr., Metropolitan Archbishop of Tabora (Tanzania) |
| 1980: Bishop Didier Pérouse de Montclos, M. Afr., Bishop of Sikasso (Mali) |
| 1978: Bishop Étienne-Marie-Félix Courtois, M. Afr., Bishop of Kayes (Mali) |
1976:  Bishop Gerard Bertrand, M. Afr., Bishop of Navrongo (Ghana) |
| 1976: Bishop Gabriel Champagne, M. Afr., Bishop of Tamale (Ghana) |
1974:  Bishop Francis Raymond Walsh, M. Afr., Bishop of Aberdeen (Scotland) |
| 1971: Bishop Xavier Geeraerts, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Bukavu (Congo-Kinshasa) |
| 1970: Bishop François-Xavier Lacoursière, M. Afr., Bishop of Mbarara (Uganda) |
| 1969: Bishop Alfred Lanctôt, M. Afr., Bishop of Rulenge (Tanzania) |
| 1968: Bishop Guillaume-Joseph Trudel, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Tabora (Tanzania) |
| 1968: Bishop Richard Cleire, M. Afr., Bishop of Kasongo (Congo-Kinshasa) |
| 1967: Bishop Paul-Marie Molin, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Bamako (Mali) |
| 1966: Archbishop Joseph Kiwánuka, M. Afr., Metropolitan Archbishop of Rubaga (Uganda) |
| 1966: Bishop John van Sambeek, M. Afr., Bishop of Kigoma (Tanzania) |
| 1965: Bishop Louis-Marie-Joseph Durrieu, M. Afr., Bishop of Ouahigouya (Burkina Faso) |
| 1964: Bishop Anthony van Oorschot, M. Afr., Bishop of Mbeya (Tanzania) |
| 1963: Bishop Alphonse Joseph Matthijsen, M. Afr., Bishop of Bunia (Congo-Kinshasa) |
| 1962: Bishop Laurent-François Déprimoz, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Kabgayi (Rwanda) |
| 1961: Bishop Joseph Ansgarius Julien, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Nyassa (Malawi) |
| 1957: Bishop Antoon Oomen, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Mwanza (Tanzania) |
| 1954: Bishop Burcardo Huwiler, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Bubuka (Tanzania) |
| 1953: Bishop Henri Léonard, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Tabora (Tanzania) |
| 1952: Archbishop Henri Streicher, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Uganda (Uganda) |
| 1952: Bishop Oscar Morin, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Navrongo (Ghana) |
| 1951: Bishop Laurent Tétrault, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Bubuka (Tanzania) |
| 1950: Bishop Joseph Sweens, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Victoria-Nyanza (Tanzania) |
1949:  Archbishop Arthur Hughes, M. Afr., Titular Archbishop of Aprus and Apostolic Internuncio to Egypt |
| 1949: Bishop Joanny Thévenoud, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) |
| 1947: Bishop Victor Roelens, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Baudouinville (Congo-Kinshasa) |
| 1947: Bishop Joseph-Marie Birraux, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Tanganyika (Tanzania) and Superior General of Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) |
| 1946: Bishop Heinrich Horst, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Lwangwa (Zambia) |
| 1945: Bishop Léon-Paul Classe, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Ruanda (Rwanda) |
| 1945: Bishop Joseph-Georges-Édouard Michaud, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Uganda (Uganda) |
| 1945: Bishop Edoardo Luigi Antonio Leys, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Kivu (Congo-Kinshasa) |
| 1942: Bishop Mathurin Guillemé, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Nyassa (Malawi) |
| 1942: Bishop Julien-Louis-Edouard-Marie Gorju, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Urundi (Burundi) |
| 1939: Archbishop Alexis Lemaître, M. Afr., Metropolitan Archbishop of Carthage |
| 1939: Bishop Emile-Fernand Sauvant, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Bamako (Mali) |
| 1938: Bishop Augustin-Léopold Huys, M. Afr., Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Haut-Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) |
| 1935: Bishop Étienne-Benoît Larue, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Bangweulu (Zambia) |
| 1931: Bishop Jean-Joseph Hirth, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Kivu (Rwanda) |
| 1930: Bishop Joseph-Marie-Stanislas Dupont, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Nyassa (Malawi) |
| 1926: Bishop Jean Forbes, M. Afr., Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Uganda (Uganda) and Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Kampala (Uganda) |
| 1922: Archbishop Léon-Antoine-Augustin-Siméon Livinhac, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Victoria-Nyanza (Uganda) and Superior General of Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) |
| 1917: Bishop Adolphe Lechaptois, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Tanganyika (Tanzania) |
| 1912: Bishop François Gerboin, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Unianyembé (Tanzania) |
| 1901: Bishop Augustin Prosper Hacquard, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Sahara and Sudan (Mali) |
| 1896: Bishop Antonin Guillermain, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Northern Victoria-Nyanza (Uganda) |
| 1890: Bishop Léonce Bridoux, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Tanganyika (Tanzania) |
| 1888: Bishop Jean-Baptiste-Frézal Charbonnier, M. Afr., Vicar Apostolic of Tanganyika (Tanzania) |
Fr. Gérard Chabanon, M. Afr. (76) (2004.06.02 – 2010.05.31)
