Bishops Consecrated

in a.d. 1916

Bishops (64)ElectedConsecratedAscending
BelgiumBishop Amedée Crooy

former Bishop of Tournai (Belgium)

1915.12.061916.01.09
SwitzerlandBishop Placide Colliard

former Bishop of Lausanne et Genève (Switzerland)

1915.12.091916.01.09
VietnamBishop Teodoro Gordaliza Sánchez, O.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Bac Ninh (Vietnam)

1915.08.101916.01.16
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
ItalyBishop Tranquillo Guarneri

former Bishop of Bagnoregio (Italy)

former Bishop of Acquapendente (Italy)

1915.12.091916.01.16
ChinaBishop Louis van Dyck (葛崇德), C.I.C.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Suiyuan 綏遠 (China)

1915.08.101916.01.23
USABishop Ferdinand Brossart

former Bishop of Covington (USA)

1915.11.291916.01.25
PortugalBishop José Leite Lopes de Faria

former Bishop of Bragança e Miranda (Portugal)

1915.10.051916.01.30
FranceBishop Maurice Landrieux

former Bishop of Dijon (France)

1915.12.061916.02.02
SlovakiaBishop Martin Kheberich

former Auxiliary Bishop of Spiš (Slovakia)

1915.12.191916.02.20
FranceBishop Christophe-Louis Légasse

former Bishop of Périgueux (France)

1915.12.061916.02.22
EnglandBishop Thomas Dunn

former Bishop of Nottingham (England)

1916.01.031916.02.25
New ZealandBishop Matthew Joseph Brodie

former Bishop of Christchurch (New Zealand)

1915.11.271916.02.27
ItalyVenerable Bishop Giovanni Battista Pinardi

former Auxiliary Bishop of Torino (Italy)

1916.01.241916.03.05
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
PortugalArchbishop Emanuele Mendes da Conceição Santos

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Évora (Portugal)

1915.12.091916.05.03
HaitiBishop Ignace-Marie Le Ruzic

former Bishop of Les Cayes (Haiti)

1916.01.121916.05.07
ItalyBishop Niccolò Rotoli, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Venafro (Italy)

former Bishop of Isernia (Italy)

1916.03.281916.05.21
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
GermanyBishop Karl Reth

former Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg (Germany)

1916.04.271916.06.11
SpainCardinal Pedro Segura y Sáenz

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Trastevere

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Sevilla (Spain)

1916.03.141916.06.13
GermanyBishop Johannes Baptista Sproll

former Bishop of Rottenburg (Germany)

1916.03.031916.06.18
ItalyBishop Oronzo Caldarola

former Bishop of Diano–Teggiano (Italy)

1915.11.271916.06.29
BrazilBishop José Tupinambá da Frota

former Bishop of Sobral (Brazil)

1916.01.241916.06.29
ItalyBishop Calogero Licata

former Bishop of Teano (Italy)

former Bishop of Calvi (Italy)

1916.04.141916.06.29
BoliviaBishop Dionisio Avila

former Bishop of La Paz (Bolivia)

1916.01.271916.07.16
MonacoBishop Victor-Augustin Vié

former Bishop of Monaco (Monaco)

1916.05.081916.07.25
FranceBishop Gustave-Lazare Garnier

former Bishop of Luçon (France)

1916.05.271916.07.25
FranceArchbishop Honoré-Paul-Emile Halle

former Auxiliary Bishop of Montpellier (France)

1916.06.051916.07.25
ItalyArchbishop Francesco Sidoli

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Genova (Italy)

1916.06.201916.07.25
UkraineBishop Stephen Dzubay (Russian Rite)1916.08.07
BrazilBishop Joaquim Mamede da Silva Leite

former Auxiliary Bishop of Campinas (Brazil)

1916.06.071916.08.13
MauritiusBishop Giovanni Battista Murphy, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Port-Louis (Mauritius)

1916.07.081916.08.13
AustraliaBishop Daniel Foley

former Bishop of Ballarat (Australia)

1916.04.121916.08.24
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
ItalyBishop Riccardo Carlesi

former Bishop of Cortona (Italy)

1916.07.081916.09.03
CanadaArchbishop Arthur Alfred Sinnott

former Archbishop of Winnipeg (Canada)

1915.12.041916.09.21
IndiaArchbishop Evangelista Latino Enrico Vanni, O.F.M. Cap.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Agra (India)

1916.04.151916.09.21
ItalyBishop Ambrogio Riccardi

former Bishop of Sarsina (Italy)

1916.07.011916.09.21
USABishop Philip Richard McDevitt

former Bishop of Harrisburg (USA)

1916.07.101916.09.21
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
SpainArchbishop Rigoberto Domenech y Valls

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Zaragoza (Spain)

1916.05.051916.10.01
ItalyArchbishop Francesco Maffei

former Bishop of Lacedonia (Italy)

1916.05.221916.10.08
ItalyBishop Giustino Sanchini

former Bishop of Fano (Italy)

1916.06.051916.10.14
SpainPatriarch Francisco Muñoz Izquierdo

former Bishop of Vic (Spain)

1916.05.051916.10.15
ChileBishop Eduardo Gimpert Paut

former Bishop of Valparaíso (Chile)

1916.04.271916.10.28
FranceBishop Jean Raynaud

former Auxiliary Bishop of Toulouse (France)

1916.07.051916.10.28
ItalyBishop Vincenzo Migliorelli

former Bishop of San Severino (Italy)

former Bishop of Treia (Italy)

1916.07.111916.10.28
VenezuelaArchbishop Felipe Rincón González

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Caracas (Venezuela)

1916.08.101916.10.28
FranceBishop Pierre Marceillac

former Bishop of Pamiers (France)

1916.08.191916.10.28
ItalyBishop Luigi Maria Olivares, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Sutri (Italy)

former Bishop of Nepi (Italy)

1916.07.151916.10.29
SeychellesBishop Georges-Jean-Damascène Lachavanne, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Port Victoria (Seychelles)

1916.04.131916.11.05
BangladeshBishop Amand-Théophile-Joseph Legrand, C.S.C.

former Bishop of Dacca (Bangladesh)

1916.08.161916.11.05
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
ChileBishop Reinaldo Muñoz Olave

former Auxiliary Bishop of Concepción (Chile)

1916.03.011916.12.08
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
SpainBishop Eustaquio Nieto y Martín

former Bishop of Sigüenza (Spain)

1916.08.221916.12.27

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