Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1916

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Newly Elected Bishops (60)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
EnglandBishop Thomas Dunn

former Bishop of Nottingham (England)

1916.01.031916.02.25
HaitiBishop Ignace-Marie Le Ruzic

former Bishop of Les Cayes (Haiti)

1916.01.121916.05.07
ItalyVenerable Bishop Giovanni Battista Pinardi

former Auxiliary Bishop of Torino (Italy)

1916.01.241916.03.05
BrazilBishop José Tupinambá da Frota

former Bishop of Sobral (Brazil)

1916.01.241916.06.29
BoliviaBishop Dionisio Avila

former Bishop of La Paz (Bolivia)

1916.01.271916.07.16
ChinaBishop Manuel Prat Pujoldevall (馬守仁), O.P.

former Bishop of Xiamen 廈門 (China)

1916.01.271916.10.01
ChinaBishop Jacques-Victor-Marius Rouchouse (駱書雅), M.E.P.

former Bishop of Chengdu 成都 (China)

1916.01.281916.10.01
IrelandBishop Bernard Hackett, C.SS.R.

former Bishop of Waterford and Lismore (Ireland)

1916.01.291916.03.19
ItalyBishop Emilio Bongiorni

former Auxiliary Bishop of Brescia (Italy)

1916.01.311916.03.20
Northern IrelandBishop Edward Mulhern

former Bishop of Dromore (Northern Ireland)

1916.01.311916.04.30
HondurasArchbishop Claudio María Volio y Jímenez

former Bishop of Santa Rosa de Copán (Honduras)

1916.02.081916.05.26
BrazilBishop Octávio Augusto Chagas de Miranda

former Bishop of Pouso Alegre (Brazil)

1916.02.141916.06.04
ChileBishop Reinaldo Muñoz Olave

former Auxiliary Bishop of Concepción (Chile)

1916.03.011916.12.08
GermanyBishop Johannes Baptista Sproll

former Bishop of Rottenburg (Germany)

1916.03.031916.06.18
SpainCardinal Pedro Segura y Sáenz

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Trastevere

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Sevilla (Spain)

1916.03.141916.06.13
ItalyBishop Niccolò Rotoli, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Venafro (Italy)

former Bishop of Isernia (Italy)

1916.03.281916.05.21
AustraliaBishop Daniel Foley

former Bishop of Ballarat (Australia)

1916.04.121916.08.24
SeychellesBishop Georges-Jean-Damascène Lachavanne, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Port Victoria (Seychelles)

1916.04.131916.11.05
ItalyBishop Calogero Licata

former Bishop of Teano (Italy)

former Bishop of Calvi (Italy)

1916.04.141916.06.29
IndiaArchbishop Evangelista Latino Enrico Vanni, O.F.M. Cap.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Agra (India)

1916.04.151916.09.21
GermanyBishop Karl Reth

former Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg (Germany)

1916.04.271916.06.11
ChileBishop Eduardo Gimpert Paut

former Bishop of Valparaíso (Chile)

1916.04.271916.10.28
SpainArchbishop Rigoberto Domenech y Valls

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Zaragoza (Spain)

1916.05.051916.10.01
SpainPatriarch Francisco Muñoz Izquierdo

former Bishop of Vic (Spain)

1916.05.051916.10.15
MonacoBishop Victor-Augustin Vié

former Bishop of Monaco (Monaco)

1916.05.081916.07.25
ItalyArchbishop Francesco Maffei

former Bishop of Lacedonia (Italy)

1916.05.221916.10.08
FranceBishop Gustave-Lazare Garnier

former Bishop of Luçon (France)

1916.05.271916.07.25
FranceBishop Auguste-Joseph-Marie Simeone

former Bishop of Fréjus (France)

1916.05.271916.08.31
ColombiaArchbishop Rafael Afanador y Cadena

former Bishop of Nueva Pamplona (Colombia)

1916.06.041916.09.03
FranceArchbishop Honoré-Paul-Emile Halle

former Auxiliary Bishop of Montpellier (France)

1916.06.051916.07.25
ItalyBishop Giustino Sanchini

former Bishop of Fano (Italy)

1916.06.051916.10.14
BrazilBishop Joaquim Mamede da Silva Leite

former Auxiliary Bishop of Campinas (Brazil)

1916.06.071916.08.13
ItalyArchbishop Francesco Sidoli

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Genova (Italy)

1916.06.201916.07.25
ItalyBishop Ambrogio Riccardi

former Bishop of Sarsina (Italy)

1916.07.011916.09.21
FranceBishop Jean Raynaud

former Auxiliary Bishop of Toulouse (France)

1916.07.051916.10.28
MauritiusBishop Giovanni Battista Murphy, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Port-Louis (Mauritius)

1916.07.081916.08.13
ItalyBishop Riccardo Carlesi

former Bishop of Cortona (Italy)

1916.07.081916.09.03
USABishop Philip Richard McDevitt

former Bishop of Harrisburg (USA)

1916.07.101916.09.21
ItalyBishop Vincenzo Migliorelli

former Bishop of San Severino (Italy)

former Bishop of Treia (Italy)

1916.07.111916.10.28
ItalyBishop Luigi Maria Olivares, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Sutri (Italy)

former Bishop of Nepi (Italy)

1916.07.151916.10.29
VenezuelaArchbishop Felipe Rincón González

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Caracas (Venezuela)

1916.08.101916.10.28
BangladeshBishop Amand-Théophile-Joseph Legrand, C.S.C.

former Bishop of Dacca (Bangladesh)

1916.08.161916.11.05
FranceBishop Pierre Marceillac

former Bishop of Pamiers (France)

1916.08.191916.10.28
SpainBishop Eustaquio Nieto y Martín

former Bishop of Sigüenza (Spain)

1916.08.221916.12.27
IndiaBishop Hippolyte Teissier, M.E.P.

former Bishop of Mysore (India)

1916.09.041917.01.24
PhilippinesBishop Alfredo Verzosa y Florentin

former Bishop of Lipa (Philippines)

1916.09.061917.01.20
ItalyBishop Giuseppe de Nardis

former Bishop of Sant’Agata de’ Goti (Italy)

1916.09.121916.11.30
ItalyBishop Romolo Molaroni

former Bishop of Macerata (Italy)

former Bishop of Tolentino (Italy)

1916.09.301916.11.30
UkraineArchbishop Ignacy Maria Dubowski

former Bishop of Lutsk and Zytomierz (Ukraine)

1916.10.161917.01.28
UkraineArchbishop Michele Godlewski

former Auxiliary Bishop of Lutsk (Ukraine)

1916.10.211917.02.04
ItalyCardinal Pietro Fumasoni Biondi

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Croce in Gerusalemme

former Prefect of Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith

1916.11.141916.12.10
CanadaBishop Emile-Marie Bunoz, O.M.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Prince Rupert (Canada)

1916.11.201917.10.18
EcuadorBishop Alberto Maria Ordóñez Crespo

former Bishop of Bolivar (Ecuador)

1916.12.041917.10.28
CzechiaBishop Norbert Johann Klein, O.T.

former Bishop of Brno (Czechia)

former Grand Master of Order of the Teutonic Knights of Saint Mary’s Hospital in Jerusalem (Teutonic Order)

1916.12.071917.01.28
FranceBishop Paul Nègre

former Auxiliary Bishop of Rodez (France)

1916.12.071917.02.11
USABishop William Thomas B. Russell

former Bishop of Charleston (USA)

1916.12.071917.03.15
ItalyBishop Angelico Zanetti, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Bosa (Italy)

1916.12.161917.04.22
BelgiumArchbishop Sebastiano Nicotra

former Apostolic Administrator of Eupen–Malmedy–Sankt Vith (Belgium)

1916.12.181917.01.06
ItalyBishop Giuseppe d’Alessio

former Auxiliary Bishop of Napoli (Italy)

1916.12.221917.01.25
ChileBishop Abraham Aguilera Bravo, S.D.B.

former Bishop of San Carlos de Ancud (Chile)

1916.12.221917.05.20
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