Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1906

Newly Elected Bishops (91)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
ItalyArchbishop Luigi Morando, C.S.S.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Brindisi (Italy)

former Bishop of Ostuni (Italy)

1906.01.031906.01.07
ItalyArchbishop Giovanni Battista Vinati

former Bishop of Bosa (Italy)

1906.01.161906.03.25
ChileBishop Luis Enrique Izquierdo Vargas

former Bishop of Concepción (Chile)

1906.01.261906.03.25
LebanonBishop Checrallah Khouri, L.M. (Maronite Rite)

former Bishop of Tyr of the Maronites (Lebanon)

1906.01.311906.04.14
BelgiumCardinal Désiré-Félicien-François-Joseph Mercier

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Pietro in Vincoli

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Mechelen (Belgium)

1906.02.071906.03.25
CyprusArchbishop Boutros Al Zoghbi (Maronite Rite)

former Archbishop of Cyprus of the Maronites (Cyprus)

1906.02.111906.02.11
FranceArchbishop Jean-Victor-Emile Chesnelong

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Sens (France)

1906.02.211906.02.25
FranceArchbishop François-Léon Gauthey

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Besançon (France)

1906.02.211906.02.25
FranceArchbishop François-Xavier-Marie-Jules Gieure

former Bishop of Bayonne (France)

1906.02.211906.02.25
FranceArchbishop Eugène-Jacques Grellier

former Bishop of Laval (France)

1906.02.211906.02.25
FranceBishop Pierre Dadolle

former Bishop of Dijon (France)

1906.02.211906.02.25
FranceBishop Charles du Pont de Ligonnès

former Bishop of Rodez (France)

1906.02.211906.02.25
FranceBishop Adrien-Alexis Fodéré

former Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (France)

1906.02.211906.02.25
FranceBishop Jacques-Jean Gely

former Bishop of Mende (France)

1906.02.211906.02.25
FranceBishop Charles-Henri-Célestin Gibier

former Bishop of Versailles (France)

1906.02.211906.02.25
FranceBishop Alcime-Armand-Pierre-Henri Gouraud

former Bishop of Vannes (France)

1906.02.211906.02.25
FranceBishop Félix-Adolphe-Camille-Jean-Baptiste Guillibert

former Bishop of Fréjus (France)

1906.02.211906.02.25
FranceBishop Marie-Joseph Ollivier

former Bishop of Ajaccio (France)

1906.02.211906.02.25
FranceBishop Charles-Paul Sagot du Vauroux

former Bishop of Agen (France)

1906.02.211906.02.25
FranceBishop François-Eugène Touzet

former Bishop of Aire et Dax (France)

1906.02.211906.02.25
ItalyArchbishop Franz Borgia Sedej

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Gorizia e Gradisca (Italy)

1906.02.211906.03.25
FranceBishop Louis-Jean Déchelette

former Bishop of Évreux (France)

1906.02.211906.03.25
BrazilBishop João Antônio Pimenta

former Bishop of Montes Claros (Brazil)

1906.02.211906.05.20
ItalyArchbishop Rinaldo Camillo Rousset, O.C.D.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Reggio Calabria (Italy)

1906.02.211906.12.30
GhanaBishop François-Ignace Hummel, S.M.A.

former Vicar Apostolic of Gold Coast (Ghana)

1906.03.061906.07.29
HungaryBishop Antal Fetser

former Bishop of Győr (Hungary)

1906.03.081906.04.01
BrazilBishop Geraldo Van Caloen, O.S.B.

former Abbot nullius of Nossa Senhora do Monserrate do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

1906.03.121906.04.18
South AfricaBishop Thomas Spreiter, O.S.B.

former Vicar Apostolic of Eshowe (South Africa)

1906.03.131906.05.01
CanadaBishop William Andrew Macdonell

former Bishop of Alexandria in Ontario (Canada)

1906.03.211906.06.24
GermanyBishop Aloys Schaefer

former Vicar Apostolic of Meißen (Germany)

former Prefect Apostolic of Lausitz (Germany)

1906.04.041906.05.16
ItalyCardinal Luigi Capotosti

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Pietro in Vincoli

former Bishop of Modigliana (Italy)

former Datary of His Holiness of Apostolic Dataria

1906.04.081908.05.31
VietnamBishop Nicasio Arellano, O.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Eastern Tonking (Vietnam)

1906.04.111906.10.14
USABishop John Baptist Morris

former Bishop of Little Rock (USA)

1906.04.181906.06.11
EnglandBishop William Anthony Johnson

former Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster (England)

1906.04.231906.05.01
BrazilArchbishop José Marcondes Homem de Melo

former Archbishop-Bishop of São Carlos do Pinhal (Brazil)

1906.04.261906.06.29
PortugalBishop António Barbosa Leão

former Bishop of Porto (Portugal)

1906.04.261906.08.26
SpainBishop Severo Araújo y Silva

former Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

1906.04.281906.10.14
SwitzerlandBishop Ferdinand Rüegg

former Bishop of Sankt Gallen (Switzerland)

1906.05.161906.06.10
IrelandBishop Lawrence Gaughran

former Bishop of Meath (Ireland)

1906.05.191906.06.24
BeninBishop François Steinmetz, S.M.A.

former Vicar Apostolic of Dahomey (Benin)

1906.05.201906.10.28
ItalyArchbishop Giuseppe Aversa

former Titular Archbishop of Sardes

former Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria

1906.05.251906.09.08
FranceBishop Jean-Baptiste Desanti

former Bishop of Ajaccio (France)

1906.06.011906.08.12
PolandCardinal Adolf Bertram

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Agnese fuori le mura

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Wrocław (Poland)

1906.06.121906.08.15
HungaryBishop Lajos Rajner

former Auxiliary Bishop of Esztergom (Hungary)

1906.06.141906.07.08
ChinaBishop Everard Ter Laak (蘭克複), C.I.C.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Xiwanzi 西灣子 (China)

1906.06.211914.11.15
CanadaArchbishop Edward Joseph McCarthy

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Halifax (Canada)

1906.06.271906.09.09
FranceBishop Henri-Raymond Villard

former Bishop of Autun (France)

1906.07.131906.08.05
FranceBishop Paul-Augustin Lecoeur

former Bishop of Saint-Flour (France)

1906.07.131906.08.08
FranceBishop Thomas-Paul-Henri Lemonnier

former Bishop of Bayeux (France)

1906.07.131906.08.08
FranceBishop Victor-Omésime-Quirin Laurans

former Bishop of Cahors (France)

1906.07.131906.08.12
ItalyArchbishop Luigi Pellizzo

former Bishop of Padova (Italy)

1906.07.131906.08.19
FranceBishop François-Auguste Labeuche

former Bishop of Belley (France)

1906.07.131906.08.19
FranceArchbishop Dominique Castellan

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Chambéry (France)

1906.07.131906.08.26
FranceBishop Jules-Laurent-Benjamin Morelle

former Bishop of Saint-Brieuc (France)

1906.07.131906.08.26
RomaniaBishop Tibor Boromisza

former Bishop of Satu Mare (Romania)

1906.07.131906.09.30
ItalyBishop Annibale Lupi

former Bishop of Comacchio (Italy)

1906.07.141906.09.23
CameroonBishop François-Xavier Vogt, C.S.Sp.

former Vicar Apostolic of Yaoundé (Cameroon)

1906.07.251906.10.14
SwitzerlandBishop Jakobus von Stammler

former Bishop of Basel (Switzerland)

1906.07.311906.09.30
USABishop Louis Sebastian Walsh

former Bishop of Portland in Maine (USA)

1906.08.031906.10.18
MexicoBishop Andrés Segura y Domínguez

former Bishop of Tepic (Mexico)

1906.08.061906.09.16
FranceBishop Emile-Louis-Cornil Lobbedey

former Bishop of Arras (France)

1906.08.071906.08.26
MyanmarBishop Marie-Eugène-Auguste-Charles Foulquier, M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Northern Burma (Myanmar)

1906.08.181906.11.21
AustraliaBishop John Henry Norton

former Bishop of Port Augusta (Australia)

1906.08.181906.12.09
ItalyBishop Giovanni Andrea Masera

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

1906.08.191906.10.28
BangladeshBishop Santino Taveggia, P.I.M.E.

former Bishop of Dinajpur (Bangladesh)

1906.08.231906.11.04
ChinaBishop Graziano Génnaro (田瑞玉), O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Hankou 漢口 (China)

1906.08.251906.12.08
CanadaBishop John March

former Bishop of Harbour Grace (Canada)

1906.09.041906.11.04
BrazilArchbishop Santino Maria da Silva Coutinho

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Maceió (Brazil)

1906.09.091907.03.19
FranceBishop Henri-Louis-Prosper Bougoin

former Bishop of Périgueux (France)

1906.09.121906.10.28
ItalyBishop Vincenzo Bacchi

former Bishop of Faenza (Italy)

1906.09.161906.11.18
UkraineBishop Wladyslaw Bandurski

former Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv (Ukraine)

1906.09.261906.12.30
ItalyBishop Felice Del Sordo

former Bishop of Alife (Italy)

1906.10.141906.12.08
SlovakiaBishop József Lányi

former Titular Bishop of Tinum

1906.11.071906.12.08
LithuaniaBishop Antanas Karosas (Antoni Karaś)

former Bishop of Vilkaviškis (Lithuania)

1906.11.081907.06.16
ItalyBishop Camillo Tiberio

former Bishop of Diano–Teggiano (Italy)

1906.11.101906.11.25
FranceBishop Jean-Auguste-François-Eutrope Eyssautier

former Bishop of La Rochelle (France)

1906.11.271906.11.30
CroatiaBishop Georg Caric

former Bishop of Split (Croatia)

former Bishop of Makarska (Croatia)

1906.12.061906.12.08
ItalyBishop Nicola Jezzoni

former Bishop of Valva (Italy)

former Bishop of Sulmona (Italy)

1906.12.061906.12.16
ItalyBishop Giuliano Tommasuolo

former Auxiliary Bishop of Napoli (Italy)

1906.12.061906.12.16
ItalyCardinal Pietro La Fontaine

former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. XII Apostoli

former Patriarch of Venezia (Italy)

1906.12.061906.12.23
ItalyCardinal Achille Locatelli

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Bernardo alle Terme

former Camerlengo of Sacred College of Cardinals

1906.12.061906.12.27
ItalyArchbishop Pietro Di Maria

former Bishop of Catanzaro (Italy)

1906.12.061906.12.30
CzechiaBishop Guglielmo Blazek

former Auxiliary Bishop of Olomouc (Czechia)

1906.12.061907.01.06
ItalyArchbishop Giorgio Delrio

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Oristano (Italy)

1906.12.061907.02.24
SpainBishop Francisco Jarrín y Moro

former Bishop of Plasencia (Spain)

1906.12.061907.05.01
SpainBishop Francisco de Pol y Baralt

former Bishop of Gerona (Spain)

1906.12.061907.06.16
ItalyBishop Raffaele Piras

former Bishop of Penne (Italy)

former Bishop of Atri (Italy)

1906.12.091907.01.20
USABishop George Albert Guertin

former Bishop of Manchester (USA)

1906.12.161907.03.19
FranceBishop Pierre-Louis Péchenard

former Bishop of Soissons (France)

1906.12.221907.01.31
ColombiaBishop Atanasio María Vicente Soler y Royo, O.F.M. Cap.

former Vicar Apostolic of Goajira (Colombia)

1906.12.221907.05.19
ItalyCardinal Augusto Silj

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Cecilia

former Prefect of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura

1906.12.261907.01.13

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