Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1909

Newly Elected Bishops (73)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
ItalyArchbishop Ciro Pontecorvi

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Urbino (Italy)

19091909.05.16
ItalyBishop Giovanni Capitoli

former Bishop of Bagnoregio (Italy)

19091909.05.16
ItalyBishop Adamo Borghini

former Bishop of San Severino (Italy)

former Bishop of Treia (Italy)

1909.01.131909.02.02
LesothoBishop Jules-Joseph Cénez, O.M.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Basutoland (Lesotho)

1909.01.251909.05.01
USABishop John Grimes

former Bishop of Syracuse (USA)

1909.02.011909.05.16
BangladeshBishop Frederick Linneborn, C.S.C.

former Bishop of Dacca (Bangladesh)

1909.02.131909.04.11
SenegalBishop Hyacinthe-Joseph Jalabert, C.S.Sp.

former Vicar Apostolic of Senegambia (Senegal)

former Prefect Apostolic of Sénégal (Senegal)

1909.02.131909.05.01
AlgeriaBishop Alexandre Piquemal

former Auxiliary Bishop of Alger–Iulia Caesarea (Algeria)

1909.02.261909.03.25
GermanyBishop Everhard Illigens

former Auxiliary Bishop of Münster (Germany)

1909.02.281909.03.28
IndiaBishop José Bento Martins Ribeiro

former Bishop of Cochin (India)

1909.02.281909.08.15
Trinidad and TobagoArchbishop John Pius Dowling, O.P.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago)

1909.03.091909.05.16
Congo-KinshasaBishop Augustin-Léopold Huys, M. Afr.

former Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Haut-Congo (Congo-Kinshasa)

1909.03.161909.04.12
PeruArchbishop Emilio Francisco Lisson Chaves, C.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Lima (Peru)

1909.03.161909.09.19
PeruBishop Valentín Ampuero, C.M.

former Bishop of Puno (Peru)

1909.03.161909.09.19
USABishop John Patrick Farrelly

former Bishop of Cleveland (USA)

1909.03.181909.05.01
MexicoArchbishop José Othón Núñez y Zárate

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Antequera (Mexico)

1909.03.221909.07.04
ItalyArchbishop Giovanni Fiorentini

former Archbishop of Catanzaro (Italy)

1909.03.251909.08.29
ItalyBishop Salvatore Scanu

former Bishop of San Marco (Italy)

former Bishop of Bisignano (Italy)

1909.03.271909.09.05
GreeceArchbishop Leonard Brindisi

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Corfu–Zakynthos–Kefalonia (Greece)

1909.03.301909.05.02
IndiaBishop Ange-Auguste Faisandier, S.J.

former Bishop of Trichinopoly (India)

1909.03.301909.06.27
PortugalArchbishop João Evangelista de Lima Vidal

former Archbishop-Bishop of Aveiro (Portugal)

1909.03.311909.06.29
PolandBishop Augustinus Bludau

former Bishop of Warmia (Poland)

1909.04.121909.06.20
AustriaBishop Rudolf Hittmair

former Bishop of Linz (Austria)

1909.04.141909.05.01
ItalyArchbishop Americo Bevilacqua

former Bishop of Alatri (Italy)

1909.04.291909.05.02
ItalyArchbishop Giacinto Gaggia

former Bishop of Brescia (Italy)

1909.04.291909.05.03
ItalyArchbishop Pietro Paolo Camillo Moreschini, C.P.

former Archbishop of Camerino (Italy)

former Bishop of Treia (Italy)

1909.04.291909.05.03
ItalyBishop Domenico Lancellotti

former Bishop of Conversano (Italy)

1909.04.291909.05.03
ItalyArchbishop Giovanni Battista Marenco, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Massa Carrara (Italy)

1909.04.291909.05.16
ItalyBishop Antonio Padovani

former Auxiliary Bishop of Cremona (Italy)

1909.04.291909.05.30
ItalyArchbishop Angelo Giacinto Scapardini, O.P.

former Archbishop-Bishop of Vigevano (Italy)

1909.04.291909.06.06
ItalyBishop Bernardo Pizzorno

former Bishop of Brugnato (Italy)

former Bishop of Luni–Sarzana (Italy)

1909.04.291909.06.06
ItalyBishop Salvatore Bella

former Bishop of Acireale (Italy)

1909.04.291909.06.13
FranceBishop Joseph-Marie Fabre

former Bishop of Marseille (France)

1909.04.291909.06.16
ItalyBishop Alfredo Del Tomba

former Bishop of Montalcino (Italy)

1909.04.291909.06.20
PhilippinesBishop Giovanni Battista Gorordo

former Bishop of Cebu (Philippines)

1909.04.291909.06.24
ItalyBishop Giovanni Fossà

former Bishop of Fiesole (Italy)

1909.04.291909.06.27
USABishop Joseph Gaudentius Anderson

former Auxiliary Bishop of Boston (USA)

1909.04.291909.07.25
ItalyCardinal Alessio Ascalesi, C.PP.S.

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Callisto

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Napoli (Italy)

1909.04.291909.08.08
BrazilBishop Epaminondas Nuñez de Ávila e Silva

former Bishop of Taubaté (Brazil)

1909.04.291909.09.08
BrazilBishop João de Almeida Ferrão

former Bishop of Campanha (Brazil)

1909.04.291909.09.19
SpainBishop Adolfo Pérez y Muñoz

former Bishop of Córdoba (Spain)

1909.04.291909.10.03
SpainBishop Ramón Guillamet y Coma

former Bishop of Barcelona (Spain)

1909.04.291909.10.10
IndiaBishop Dionigi Vismara

former Bishop of Hyderabad (India)

1909.05.111909.06.29
CanadaBishop Célestin-Henri Joussard, O.M.I.

former Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Grouard (Canada)

1909.05.111909.09.05
IndiaArchbishop Elie-Jean-Joseph Morel, M.E.P.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Pondicherry (India)

1909.05.111909.09.21
TurkiyeBishop Israel Audo (Chaldean Rite)

former Bishop of Mardin of the Chaldeans (Turkiye)

1909.05.111910.02.27
IrelandBishop Patrick McKenna

former Bishop of Clogher (Ireland)

1909.06.011909.10.10
GermanyCardinal Franziskus von Bettinger

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Marcello

former Metropolitan Archbishop of München und Freising (Germany)

1909.06.061909.08.15
ItalyBishop Saturnino Peri

former Bishop of Iglesias (Italy)

1909.06.161909.08.15
BelgiumBishop Antoine Alphonse de Wachter

former Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen (Belgium)

1909.06.211909.07.25
ItalyArchbishop Giuseppe Maria Leo

former Archbishop of Barletta (Italy)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Trani (Italy)

1909.06.231909.07.11
USABishop James O’Reilly

former Bishop of Fargo (USA)

1909.06.241910.05.19
USABishop Edmund Michael Dunne

former Bishop of Peoria (USA)

1909.06.301909.09.01
ItalyArchbishop Adolfo Turchi

former Archbishop of L’Aquila (Italy)

1909.06.301909.09.05
USACardinal George William Mundelein

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria del Popolo

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Chicago (USA)

1909.06.301909.09.21
ItalyArchbishop Luigi Fantozzi

former Bishop of Veroli (Italy)

1909.07.101909.09.12
ItalyArchbishop Angelo Paino

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Messina (Italy)

former Archimandrite of Santissimo Salvatore of the Italo-Albanese (Italy)

1909.07.121909.07.25
EnglandBishop John Stephen Vaughan

former Auxiliary Bishop of Salford (England)

1909.07.131909.08.15
KenyaBishop Filippo Perlo, I.M.C.

former Vicar Apostolic of Kenya (Kenya)

former Superior General of Consolata Missionaries

1909.07.151909.10.23
ChinaBishop Jean-Pierre-Marie Fayolle (劉), M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Suifu 敘府 (China)

1909.07.151909.10.24
SwitzerlandBishop Joseph-Emile Abbet, C.R.A.

former Abbot Ordinary of Saint-Maurice d’Agaune (Switzerland)

former Abbot Ordinary of Swiss Congregation of Canons Regular of Saint Maurice of Agaune

1909.07.241909.09.19
MexicoBishop Emeterio Valverde y Télles

former Bishop of León (Mexico)

1909.08.071909.10.17
SpainArchbishop Manuel Lago y González

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

1909.08.251910.04.03
SpainBlessed Bishop Manuel Basulto y Jiménez

former Bishop of Jaén (Spain)

1909.09.031910.01.16
ThailandBishop René-Marie-Joseph Perros, M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Bangkok (Thailand)

1909.09.171910.01.30
EgyptBishop Augustin Duret, S.M.A.

former Vicar Apostolic of Delta del Nilo (Egypt)

1909.09.171910.02.24
MexicoBishop Jaime de Anasagasti y Llamas

former Bishop of Campeche (Mexico)

1909.11.121909.12.12
MexicoBishop José de Jesús Guzmán y Sánchez

former Bishop of Ciudad Victoria–Tamaulipas (Mexico)

1909.11.141910.02.24
GermanyCardinal Karl Joseph Schulte

former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Quattro Coronati

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Köln (Germany)

1909.11.301910.03.19
AustraliaBishop John Carroll

former Bishop of Lismore (Australia)

1909.12.021910.03.06
CanadaBishop Michael Francis Fallon, O.M.I.

former Bishop of London (Canada)

1909.12.141910.04.25
IrelandArchbishop Thomas P. Gilmartin

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tuam (Ireland)

1909.12.181910.02.13
TurkiyeArchbishop Giovanni Antonio Zucchetti, O.F.M. Cap.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Izmir (Turkiye)

1909.12.221910.01.02

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