Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1915

Newly Elected Bishops (76)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
ItalyBishop Antonio Lippolis

former Bishop of Ugento (Italy)

1915.01.011915.06.29
Congo-BrazzavilleBishop Léon-Charles-Joseph Girod, C.S.Sp.

former Vicar Apostolic of Loango (Congo-Brazzaville)

1915.01.131915.06.06
ItalyBishop Luigi Zaffarami

former Bishop of Todi (Italy)

1915.01.221915.01.31
MaltaArchbishop Mauro Caruana, O.S.B.

former Bishop of Malta (Malta)

former Archbishop ad personam

1915.01.221915.02.10
ItalyBishop Angelo Cambiaso

former Bishop of Albenga (Italy)

1915.01.221915.03.21
FranceArchbishop Gabriel-Roch de Llobet

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Avignon (France)

1915.01.221915.04.12
ItalyArchbishop Carlo Sica

former Bishop of Foligno (Italy)

1915.01.221915.05.23
Costa RicaBishop Antonio del Carmen Monestel Zamora

former Bishop of Alajuela (Costa Rica)

1915.01.231915.07.25
GermanyBishop Franz Löbmann

former Vicar Apostolic of Meißen (Germany)

former Prefect Apostolic of Lausitz (Germany)

1915.01.301915.03.25
NetherlandsBishop Arnold Frans Diepen

former Bishop of ’s-Hertogenbosch (Netherlands)

1915.02.111915.03.07
CubaBishop Severiano Sainz y Bencamo

former Bishop of Matanzas (Cuba)

1915.02.111915.05.03
ItalyBishop Giovanni Sodo

former Bishop of Cerignola (Italy)

former Bishop of Ascoli Satriano (Italy)

1915.02.191915.06.29
SpainBishop Juan Bautista Luis y Pérez

former Bishop of Oviedo (Spain)

1915.02.221915.06.29
SpainBishop Manuel María Vidal y Boullon

former Bishop of Tui (Spain)

1915.02.251915.05.23
CroatiaVenerable Bishop Josip Lang

former Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb (Croatia)

1915.02.261915.04.18
CroatiaBishop Dominik Premus

former Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb (Croatia)

1915.02.261915.04.18
USABishop Thomas Francis Doran

former Auxiliary Bishop of Providence (USA)

1915.02.261915.04.28
CanadaArchbishop Edward Patrick Roche

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Saint John’s, Newfoundland (Canada)

1915.02.261915.06.29
GreeceArchbishop Matteo Vido

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Naxos–Andros–Tinos–Mykonos (Greece)

1915.03.091915.06
BrazilBishop Quintino Rodrigo de Oliveira e Silva

former Bishop of Crato (Brazil)

1915.03.101915.10.31
BrazilBishop Pedro Luis Maria Galibert, T.O.R.

former Bishop of São Luiz de Cáceres (Brazil)

1915.03.131915.08.15
IndiaArchbishop Joseph Angel Poli, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Allahabad (India)

1915.03.131915.11.30
BrazilBishop Manoel Antônio de Paiva

former Bishop of Garanhuns (Brazil)

1915.03.151915.07.18
MartiniqueBishop Paul-Louis-Joseph Lequien

former Bishop of Fort-de-France–Saint-Pierre (Martinique)

1915.03.151915.07.22
ItalyArchbishop Carlo Gregorio Maria Grasso, O.S.B.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Salerno (Italy)

1915.04.071915.04.21
SpainBishop Francisco de Paula Mas y Oliver

former Bishop of Gerona (Spain)

1915.04.101915.07.04
ItalyArchbishop Carmine Cesarano, C.SS.R.

former Archbishop-Bishop of Aversa (Italy)

1915.04.181915.05.30
BulgariaBishop Damian Johannes Theelen, C.P.

former Bishop of Nikopol (Bulgaria)

1915.05.211915.08.15
CubaArchbishop Felice Ambrogio Guerra Fezza, S.D.B.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Santiago (Cuba)

1915.05.261915.09.05
SpainBishop Angel Regueras y López

former Bishop of Salamanca (Spain)

1915.05.261915.09.12
GermanyBishop Joseph Ernst

former Bishop of Hildesheim (Germany)

1915.05.261915.09.26
ItalyBishop Paolo Albera

former Bishop of Mileto (Italy)

1915.05.271915.07.26
FranceBishop Désiré-Hyacinthe Berthoin

former Bishop of Autun (France)

1915.06.011915.07.22
FranceArchbishop Pierre-Florent-André du Bois de la Villerabel

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Rouen (France)

1915.06.011915.07.29
FranceBishop Eugène-Stanislas Le Senne

former Bishop of Beauvais (France)

1915.06.011915.08.10
USABishop Joseph Sarsfield Glass, C.M.

former Bishop of Salt Lake (USA)

1915.06.011915.08.24
FranceBishop Léon-Adophe Lenfant

former Bishop of Digne (France)

1915.06.011915.09.08
FranceArchbishop Maurice-Louis-Marie Rivière

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Aix (France)

1915.06.011915.09.21
ItalyArchbishop Fabio Berdini

former Bishop of Cesena (Italy)

1915.06.041915.07.25
FranceBishop Paul-Gaston Laperrine d’Hautpoul

former Titular Bishop of Carystus

1915.06.141915.06.29
VenezuelaBishop Sixto Sosa Díz

former Bishop of Cumaná (Venezuela)

1915.06.141915.10.31
CroatiaBishop Giuseppe Marušic

former Bishop of Senj–Modruš (Croatia)

1915.06.161915.10.03
USABishop Anthony Joseph Schuler, S.J.

former Bishop of El Paso (USA)

1915.06.171915.10.28
IndiaArchbishop Angel María Pérez y Cecilia, O.C.D.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Verapoly (India)

1915.06.181915.10.28
BrazilBishop José Antônio de Oliveira Lopes

former Bishop of Pesqueira (Brazil)

1915.06.261915.11.21
PolandCardinal Edmund Dalbor

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Giovanni a Porta Latina

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Poznań (Poland)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Gniezno (Poland)

1915.06.301915.09.21
PolandBishop Paul Anton Jedzink

former Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno (Poland)

1915.06.301915.09.21
GermanyBishop Antonius Mönch

former Auxiliary Bishop of Trier (Germany)

1915.07.011915.09.21
ItalyBishop Michele Izzi

former Bishop of Alatri (Italy)

1915.07.011915.09.23
USABishop Michael James Gallagher

former Bishop of Detroit (USA)

1915.07.051915.09.08
NicaraguaBishop Canuto José Reyes y Balladares

former Bishop of Granada (Nicaragua)

1915.07.121915.11.14
ItalyArchbishop Ruggero Bovelli

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Ferrara (Italy)

1915.07.261915.09.26
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Fabbrucci

former Bishop of Fidenza (Italy)

1915.08.061915.09.19
Northern IrelandCardinal Joseph MacRory

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Giovanni a Porta Latina

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Armagh (Northern Ireland)

1915.08.091915.11.14
ChinaBishop Jean de Vienne de Hautefeuille (文貴斌), C.M.

former Bishop of Tianjin 天津 (China)

1915.08.101915.11.21
VietnamBishop Teodoro Gordaliza Sánchez, O.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Bac Ninh (Vietnam)

1915.08.101916.01.16
ChinaBishop Louis van Dyck (葛崇德), C.I.C.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Suiyuan 綏遠 (China)

1915.08.101916.01.23
AustriaBishop Johannes Evangelist Maria Gföllner

former Bishop of Linz (Austria)

1915.08.191915.10.18
ItalyBishop Pacifico Monza, O.F.M.

former Titular Bishop of Troas

1915.08.201915.09.08
PortugalBishop José Leite Lopes de Faria

former Bishop of Bragança e Miranda (Portugal)

1915.10.051916.01.30
New ZealandBishop Matthew Joseph Brodie

former Bishop of Christchurch (New Zealand)

1915.11.271916.02.27
ItalyBishop Oronzo Caldarola

former Bishop of Diano–Teggiano (Italy)

1915.11.271916.06.29
USABishop Ferdinand Brossart

former Bishop of Covington (USA)

1915.11.291916.01.25
CanadaArchbishop Arthur Alfred Sinnott

former Archbishop of Winnipeg (Canada)

1915.12.041916.09.21
BelgiumBishop Amedée Crooy

former Bishop of Tournai (Belgium)

1915.12.061916.01.09
ItalyCardinal Carlo Dalmazio Minoretti

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Eusebio

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Genova (Italy)

1915.12.061916.01.16
SpainSaint Bishop Manuel González y García

former Bishop of Palencia (Spain)

1915.12.061916.01.16
FranceBishop Maurice Landrieux

former Bishop of Dijon (France)

1915.12.061916.02.02
FranceBishop Christophe-Louis Légasse

former Bishop of Périgueux (France)

1915.12.061916.02.22
ItalyCardinal Enrico Gasparri

former Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri

former Prefect of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura

1915.12.091915.12.12
ItalyArchbishop Francesco Cherubini

former Undersecretary of Sacred Congregation of Religious

1915.12.091915.12.12
ItalyArchbishop Tito Trocchi

former Vice-Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church of Reverend Apostolic Camera

1915.12.091915.12.12
SwitzerlandBishop Placide Colliard

former Bishop of Lausanne et Genève (Switzerland)

1915.12.091916.01.09
ItalyBishop Tranquillo Guarneri

former Bishop of Bagnoregio (Italy)

former Bishop of Acquapendente (Italy)

1915.12.091916.01.16
PortugalArchbishop Emanuele Mendes da Conceição Santos

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Évora (Portugal)

1915.12.091916.05.03
SlovakiaBishop Martin Kheberich

former Auxiliary Bishop of Spiš (Slovakia)

1915.12.191916.02.20

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