Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1917

Newly Elected Bishops (61)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
AlgeriaArchbishop Auguste-Fernand Leynaud

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Alger–Iulia Caesarea (Algeria)

1917.01.021917.03.06
AlgeriaBishop Amiel-François Bessière

former Bishop of Constantine (Algeria)

1917.01.021917.04.11
GreeceBishop Nicolas Charikiopoulos

former Bishop of Chios (Greece)

1917.01.031917.03.25
ItalyCardinal Lorenzo Lauri

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Pancrazio

former Major Penitentiary of Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary

former Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church of Reverend Apostolic Camera

1917.01.051917.01.21
SwitzerlandBishop Stefano Aurelio Bacciarini, S.C.

former Superior General of Congregation of the Servants of Charity

1917.01.121917.01.21
SpainArchbishop Plácido Ángel Rey de Lemos, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Lugo (Spain)

1917.01.181917.02.25
PolandBlessed Bishop Yosafat Kotsylovs’kyi (Йосафат Коциловський), O.S.B.M. (Ukrainian Rite)

former Bishop of Przemyśl of the Ukrainians (Poland)

1917.01.291917.09.23
PhilippinesBishop James Paul McCloskey

former Bishop of Jaro (Philippines)

1917.02.051917.05.01
PhilippinesArchbishop Santiago Caragnan Sancho

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Nueva Segovia (Philippines)

1917.02.051917.06.29
AustraliaBishop John McCarthy

former Bishop of Sandhurst (Australia)

1917.02.141917.06.07
USABishop Joseph Raphael John Crimont, S.J.

former Vicar Apostolic of Alaska (USA)

1917.02.151917.07.25
EnglandBishop Bernard Nicholas Ward

former Bishop of Brentwood (England)

1917.03.221917.04.10
ItalyBishop Alberto Romita

former Bishop of Boiano–Campobasso (Italy)

1917.03.221917.04.15
ItalyBishop Luigi Scarano

former Bishop of Tivoli (Italy)

1917.03.221917.05.01
BelgiumBishop Emile-Joannes Seghers

former Bishop of Gent (Belgium)

1917.03.221917.05.01
FranceBishop Eugène-Louis-Ernest Julien

former Bishop of Arras (France)

1917.03.221917.05.08
ItalyBishop Carlo Taccetti

former Bishop of Gubbio (Italy)

1917.03.221917.05.20
FranceBishop Alexandre Caillot

former Bishop of Grenoble (France)

1917.03.221917.05.29
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Conti

former Bishop of Pienza (Italy)

former Bishop of Chiusi (Italy)

1917.03.221917.06.03
FranceBishop Pierre Verdier

former Auxiliary Bishop of Rodez (France)

1917.03.221917.06.20
ChinaBishop Angel Diego y Carbajal (翟德隆), O.E.S.A.

former Vicar Apostolic of Changde 常德 (China)

1917.03.221917.06.23
ItalyBishop Bonaventura Porta

former Bishop of Pesaro (Italy)

1917.03.221917.06.24
Sri LankaBishop Gaston Robichez, S.J.

former Bishop of Trincomalee (Sri Lanka)

1917.03.221917.07.08
RéunionBishop Georges-Marie de Labonninière de Beaumont, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion (Réunion)

1917.03.221917.10.14
RomaniaBlessed Bishop Iuliu Hossu (Romanian Rite)

former Bishop of Cluj–Gherla of the Romanians (Romania)

1917.04.031917.12.04
ItalyPope Pius XII

former Supreme Pontiff

former Prefect of Sacred Consistorial Congregation

former Prefect of Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Churches

former Prefect of Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office

1917.04.231917.05.13
ItalyArchbishop Giuseppe Palica

former Vicegerent for the Vicariate of Rome of Roma (Italy)

1917.04.251917.05.20
ItalyBishop Eugenio Beccegato

former Bishop of Vittorio Veneto (Italy)

1917.05.191917.06.17
ItalyArchbishop Bartolomeo Cattaneo

former Treasurer General of Reverend Apostolic Camera

1917.05.211917.06.10
VietnamBishop Louis-Christian-Marie de Cooman, M.E.P.

former Bishop of Thanh Hoá (Vietnam)

1917.06.121918.01.06
South SudanBishop Antonio Stoppani, F.S.C.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Bahr el-Ghazal (South Sudan)

1917.06.131917.12.21
ChinaBishop Flaminio Belotti (包海容), P.I.M.E.

former Vicar Apostolic of Nanyangfu 南陽府 (China)

1917.06.141918.01.06
GermanyBishop Hermann Joseph (Thomas) Esser, O.P.

former Secretary of Sacred Congregation of the Index

1917.06.181917.07.08
VietnamBishop Francisco Ruiz de Azúa Ortiz de Zárate, O.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Hai Phòng (Vietnam)

1917.06.191917.12.09
FranceBishop Hyacinthe-Jean Chassagnon

former Bishop of Autun (France)

1917.06.281917.10.10
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Bertazzoni

former Bishop of Massa Carrara (Italy)

1917.06.301917.09.12
CzechiaBishop Giorgio Glosauer

former Auxiliary Bishop of Praha (Czechia)

1917.07.071917.09.08
CzechiaBishop Giovanni Sedlák

former Auxiliary Bishop of Praha (Czechia)

1917.07.071917.09.08
HungaryBishop Nándor Rott

former Bishop of Veszprém (Hungary)

1917.07.121917.09.23
CanadaBishop Patrice-Alexandre Chiasson, C.I.M.

former Bishop of Bathurst (Canada)

1917.07.271917.10.18
ChinaBishop Henri Lécroart (劉欽明), S.J.

former Vicar Apostolic of Xianxian 獻縣 (China)

1917.07.301918.02.07
GermanyBishop Ludwig Sebastian

former Bishop of Speyer (Germany)

1917.07.311917.09.23
IndiaArchbishop Angelo Raffaele Bernacchioni, O.F.M. Cap.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Agra (India)

1917.08.071917.12.27
USABishop Denis Matthew Lowney

former Auxiliary Bishop of Providence (USA)

1917.08.241917.10.23
ScotlandBishop Henry Gray Graham

former Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh (Scotland)

1917.08.301917.11.16
BrazilArchbishop Antônio dos Santos Cabral

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Belo Horizonte (Brazil)

1917.09.011918.04.14
ColombiaArchbishop Joaquín Garcia Benitez, C.I.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Medellín (Colombia)

1917.09.171918.02.17
USAArchbishop John Joseph Cantwell

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Los Angeles (USA)

1917.09.211917.12.05
EnglandBishop Manuel Bidwell

former Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster (England)

1917.10.301917.12.08
EnglandBishop William Keatinge

former Military Vicar of Great Britain (England)

1917.10.301918.02.25
BelarusBishop Zygmunt Łoziński

former Bishop of Pinsk (Belarus)

1917.11.021918.07.28
ItalyArchbishop Amedeo Casabona

former Bishop of Chiavari (Italy)

former Archbishop ad personam

1917.11.031917.12.08
IrelandBishop Charles O’Sullivan

former Bishop of Ardfert and Aghadoe (Ireland)

1917.11.101918.01.27
ItalyBishop Luca Piergiovanni

former Bishop of Tarquinia (Italy)

former Bishop of Civitavecchia (Italy)

1917.11.101918.02.02
USAArchbishop John Mark Gannon

former Bishop of Erie (USA)

former Archbishop ad personam

1917.11.131918.02.06
ItalyBishop Luigi Ferretti

former Bishop of Macerata (Italy)

former Bishop of Tolentino (Italy)

1917.11.171918.02.24
UgandaBishop Jean Forbes, M. Afr.

former Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Uganda (Uganda)

former Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Kampala (Uganda)

1917.11.171918.05.19
ColombiaBishop Antonio María Pueyo de Val, C.M.F.

former Bishop of Pasto (Colombia)

1917.11.261918.01.06
FranceBishop Jean-Joseph-Benoît-Marie Martel

former Bishop of Digne (France)

1917.11.271918.02.02
IrelandBishop William Codd

former Bishop of Ferns (Ireland)

1917.12.071918.02.25
ItalyBishop Francesco Cammarota

former Bishop of Policastro (Italy)

former Bishop of Capaccio–Vallo (Italy)

1917.12.171918.03.19

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