Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1903

Newly Elected Bishops (64)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
ItalyBishop Francesco Maria Traina

former Bishop of Patti (Italy)

19031903.06.29
SpainBishop Isidoro Badía y Sarradel

former Bishop of Tarazona (Spain)

1903.01.091903.05.17
AustraliaBishop Patrick Joseph O’Connor

former Bishop of Armidale (Australia)

1903.01.101903.05.03
USABishop John Francis Regis Canevin

former Bishop of Pittsburgh (USA)

1903.01.161903.02.24
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Astuni

former Titular Bishop of Hierocæsarea

1903.01.211903.02.22
ItalyBishop Federico Domenico Sala

former Auxiliary Bishop of Milano (Italy)

1903.01.231903.02.15
CroatiaBishop Giordano Zaninovic, O.P.

former Bishop of Hvar–Brač–Vis (Croatia)

1903.02.101903.04.19
EnglandBishop Charles Algernon Stanley

former Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster (England)

1903.02.121903.03.15
ItalyBishop Luca Canepa

former Bishop of Galtellì–Nuoro (Italy)

1903.02.151903.05.21
CubaBishop Braulio Orúe Vivanco

former Bishop of Pinar del Río (Cuba)

1903.02.201903.10.28
SlovakiaBishop Alexander Párvy

former Bishop of Spiš (Slovakia)

1903.03.271903.04.19
ItalyBishop Benedetto Spila

former Bishop of Alatri (Italy)

1903.04.031903.05.10
SyriaArchbishop Dionisio Efrem Naccàsché (Syriac Rite)

former Archbishop of Aleppo of the Syriacs (Syria)

1903.04.051903.04.05
TurkiyeBishop Etienne Apikian (Armenian Rite)

former Bishop of Trapezus of the Armenians (Turkiye)

1903.04.061903.06.14
USABishop Libert Hubert John Louis Boeynaems, SS.CC.

former Vicar Apostolic of Hawaiian Islands (USA)

1903.04.081903.07.25
ColombiaArchbishop Ismael Perdomo Borrero

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bogotá in Colombia (Colombia)

1903.04.291903.06.19
GermanyBishop Joseph Müller

former Auxiliary Bishop of Köln (Germany)

1903.04.301903.06.07
MexicoBishop Rafael Amador y Hernández

former Bishop of Huajuapan de León (Mexico)

1903.05.081903.06.29
USAArchbishop Jeremiah James Harty

former Archbishop-Bishop of Omaha (USA)

1903.06.061903.08.15
USABishop Charles Henry Colton

former Bishop of Buffalo (USA)

1903.06.101903.08.24
IrelandBishop Thomas O’Dea

former Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh (Ireland)

1903.06.101903.08.30
USACardinal Dennis Joseph Dougherty

former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Nereo ed Achilleo

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Philadelphia (USA)

1903.06.121903.06.14
PhilippinesBishop Frederick Zadok Rooker

former Bishop of Jaro (Philippines)

1903.06.121903.06.14
ItalyArchbishop Anselmo Filippo Pecci, O.S.B.

former Archbishop of Matera (Italy)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Acerenza (Italy)

1903.06.221903.06.28
ItalyBishop Salvatore Frattocchi

former Bishop of Orvieto (Italy)

1903.06.221903.06.28
ItalyBishop Francesco Maria Raiti, O. Carm.

former Bishop of Trapani (Italy)

1903.06.221903.06.28
ItalyArchbishop Ferdinando Fiandaca

former Bishop of Patti (Italy)

1903.06.221903.06.29
ItalyArchbishop Prospero Scaccia

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Siena (Italy)

1903.06.221903.06.29
CzechiaBishop Giuseppe Doubrava

former Bishop of Hradec Králové (Czechia)

1903.06.221903.06.29
ItalyBishop Massimiliano Novelli

former Bishop of Colle di Val d’Elsa (Italy)

1903.06.221903.06.29
ItalyBishop Mario Sturzo

former Bishop of Piazza Armerina (Italy)

1903.06.221903.06.29
ItalyBishop Pietro Terroni

former Bishop of Borgo San Donnino (Italy)

1903.06.221903.06.29
ItalyArchbishop Ludovico Gavotti

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Genova (Italy)

1903.06.221903.07.05
ItalyArchbishop Robert John Seton

former Titular Archbishop of Heliopolis

1903.06.221903.07.05
ItalyBishop Lorenzo Chieppa

former Bishop of Lucera (Italy)

1903.06.221903.07.05
ItalyCardinal Vittorio Amedeo Ranuzzi de’ Bianchi

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Prisca

former Bishop of Recanati (Italy)

former Prefect of Prefecture of the Holy Apostolic Palaces

1903.06.221903.07.12
ItalyBishop Carlo Marozio

former Bishop of Susa (Italy)

1903.06.221903.10.04
PortugalArchbishop José Alves de Mattos

former Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa (Portugal)

1903.06.221903.11.08
MexicoBishop Francisco Uranga y Sáenz

former Bishop of Cuernavaca (Mexico)

1903.06.251903.08.16
USABishop Charles Joseph O’Reilly

former Bishop of Lincoln (USA)

1903.06.251903.08.25
RomaniaBishop Vasile Hossu (Romanian Rite)

former Bishop of Gherla, Armenopoli, Szamos-Ujvár of the Romanians (Romania)

1903.06.251903.09.21
SpainBishop Ricardo Cortés y Cullel

former Auxiliary Bishop of Barcelona (Spain)

1903.06.251903.10.25
PhilippinesBishop Thomas Augustine Hendrick

former Bishop of Cebu (Philippines)

1903.07.171903.08.23
MexicoBishop José Amador Velasco y Peña

former Bishop of Colima (Mexico)

1903.07.171903.08.30
SudanBishop Franz Xavier Geyer, F.S.C.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Khartoum (Sudan)

1903.08.061903.11.08
ItalyCardinal Aristide Cavallari

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Cosmedin pro hac vice Title

former Patriarch of Venezia (Italy)

1903.08.091903.08.23
EnglandBishop Louis Charles Casartelli

former Bishop of Salford (England)

1903.08.281903.09.21
CubaBishop Bonaventure Finbarr Francis Broderick

former Coadjutor Bishop of La Habana (Cuba)

1903.09.071903.10.28
NetherlandsBishop Augustinus Josephus Callier

former Bishop of Haarlem (Netherlands)

1903.09.111903.10.28
ChinaBishop Giovanni Menicatti (梅占魁), P.I.M.E.

former Vicar Apostolic of Northern Honan 河南北境 (China)

1903.09.121903.11.22
Sierra LeoneBishop John Joseph O’Gorman, C.S.Sp.

former Vicar Apostolic of Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone)

1903.09.141903.10.28
CubaBishop Pedro Ladislao González y Estrada

former Bishop of La Habana (Cuba)

1903.09.161903.10.28
MonacoBishop Jean-Charles Arnal du Curel

former Bishop of Monaco (Monaco)

1903.10.021903.11.08
HaitiArchbishop Julien-Jean-Guillaume Conan

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Port-au-Prince (Haiti)

1903.10.221903.12.13
SyriaPatriarch Dimitri I Cadi [Qâdî] (Greek-Melkite Rite)

former Patriarch of Antioch of the Greek-Melkites (Syria)

1903.10.271903.11.29
CroatiaArchbishop Vincenzo Pulisic

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Zadar (Croatia)

1903.11.091904.01.31
GermanyBishop Heinrich Vollmar

former Military Vicar of Germany (Germany)

1903.11.091904.02.10
SpainBishop Julián Miranda y Ristuer

former Bishop of Segovia (Spain)

1903.11.121904.02.02
SpainBishop Francisco García y López

former Auxiliary Bishop of Valencia (Spain)

1903.11.121904.02.07
SyriaArchbishop Pierre-Macario Saba (Greek-Melkite Rite)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Aleppo of the Greek-Melkites (Syria)

1903.11.291903.11.29
USABishop James Joseph Hartley

former Bishop of Columbus (USA)

1903.12.101904.02.25
South AfricaBishop Henri Delalle, O.M.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Natal (South Africa)

1903.12.191904.06.02
TongaBishop Armand Olier, S.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Central Oceania (Tonga)

1903.12.221904.04.17
VenezuelaArchbishop Juan Bautista Castro

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Caracas (Venezuela)

1903.12.301904.01.06

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