Judicial Council Decision 1498 lets us know Bishops retirement age is not attached to elder retirement age. Bishop’s mandatory retirement age (At the time of the request and decision) was 68, elder retirement age is 72.
Bishop’s must follow a retirement age, if it set for them.
Thus, form the decision: A bishop in a central conference shall be retired at a date no later than one year following the adjournment of General Conference, if the bishop’s sixty-eighth birthday is reached on or before the opening day of his or her scheduled conference effective on January 1, 2016.
***NOTE: We later passed Calendar item 408 which moves the mandatory retirement age of bishops to 72, but this does not render the item moot, as elder retirement age and bishop retirement age could change.***
Jonathan LeMaster-Smith 
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