Bishops Consecrated

in a.d. 1917

Bishops (58)ElectedConsecratedAscending
BelgiumArchbishop Sebastiano Nicotra

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

1916.12.181917.01.06
PhilippinesBishop Alfredo Verzosa y Florentin

former Bishop of Lipa (Philippines)

1916.09.061917.01.20
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
IndiaBishop Hippolyte Teissier, M.E.P.

former Bishop of Mysore (India)

1916.09.041917.01.24
ItalyBishop Giuseppe d’Alessio

former Auxiliary Bishop of Napoli (Italy)

1916.12.221917.01.25
UkraineArchbishop Ignacy Maria Dubowski

former Bishop of Lutsk and Zytomierz (Ukraine)

1916.10.161917.01.28
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
UkraineArchbishop Michele Godlewski

former Auxiliary Bishop of Lutsk (Ukraine)

1916.10.211917.02.04
FranceBishop Paul Nègre

former Auxiliary Bishop of Rodez (France)

1916.12.071917.02.11
SpainArchbishop Plácido Ángel Rey de Lemos, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Lugo (Spain)

1917.01.181917.02.25
AlgeriaArchbishop Auguste-Fernand Leynaud

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Alger–Iulia Caesarea (Algeria)

1917.01.021917.03.06
USABishop William Thomas B. Russell

former Bishop of Charleston (USA)

1916.12.071917.03.15
GreeceBishop Nicolas Charikiopoulos

former Bishop of Chios (Greece)

1917.01.031917.03.25
EnglandBishop Bernard Nicholas Ward

former Bishop of Brentwood (England)

1917.03.221917.04.10
AlgeriaBishop Amiel-François Bessière

former Bishop of Constantine (Algeria)

1917.01.021917.04.11
ItalyBishop Alberto Romita

former Bishop of Boiano–Campobasso (Italy)

1917.03.221917.04.15
ItalyBishop Angelico Zanetti, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Bosa (Italy)

1916.12.161917.04.22
PhilippinesBishop James Paul McCloskey

former Bishop of Jaro (Philippines)

1917.02.051917.05.01
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
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
ChileBishop Abraham Aguilera Bravo, S.D.B.

former Bishop of San Carlos de Ancud (Chile)

1916.12.221917.05.20
ItalyBishop Carlo Taccetti

former Bishop of Gubbio (Italy)

1917.03.221917.05.20
ItalyArchbishop Giuseppe Palica

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

1917.04.251917.05.20
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
AustraliaBishop John McCarthy

former Bishop of Sandhurst (Australia)

1917.02.141917.06.07
ItalyArchbishop Bartolomeo Cattaneo

former Treasurer General of Reverend Apostolic Camera

1917.05.211917.06.10
ItalyBishop Eugenio Beccegato

former Bishop of Vittorio Veneto (Italy)

1917.05.191917.06.17
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
PhilippinesArchbishop Santiago Caragnan Sancho

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Nueva Segovia (Philippines)

1917.02.051917.06.29
Sri LankaBishop Gaston Robichez, S.J.

former Bishop of Trincomalee (Sri Lanka)

1917.03.221917.07.08
GermanyBishop Hermann Joseph (Thomas) Esser, O.P.

former Secretary of Sacred Congregation of the Index

1917.06.181917.07.08
USABishop Joseph Raphael John Crimont, S.J.

former Vicar Apostolic of Alaska (USA)

1917.02.151917.07.25
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
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Bertazzoni

former Bishop of Massa Carrara (Italy)

1917.06.301917.09.12
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
HungaryBishop Nándor Rott

former Bishop of Veszprém (Hungary)

1917.07.121917.09.23
GermanyBishop Ludwig Sebastian

former Bishop of Speyer (Germany)

1917.07.311917.09.23
FranceBishop Hyacinthe-Jean Chassagnon

former Bishop of Autun (France)

1917.06.281917.10.10
RéunionBishop Georges-Marie de Labonninière de Beaumont, C.S.Sp.

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

1917.03.221917.10.14
CanadaBishop Emile-Marie Bunoz, O.M.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Prince Rupert (Canada)

1916.11.201917.10.18
CanadaBishop Patrice-Alexandre Chiasson, C.I.M.

former Bishop of Bathurst (Canada)

1917.07.271917.10.18
USABishop Denis Matthew Lowney

former Auxiliary Bishop of Providence (USA)

1917.08.241917.10.23
EcuadorBishop Alberto Maria Ordóñez Crespo

former Bishop of Bolivar (Ecuador)

1916.12.041917.10.28
ScotlandBishop Henry Gray Graham

former Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh (Scotland)

1917.08.301917.11.16
RomaniaBlessed Bishop Iuliu Hossu (Romanian Rite)

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

1917.04.031917.12.04
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
ItalyArchbishop Amedeo Casabona

former Bishop of Chiavari (Italy)

former Archbishop ad personam

1917.11.031917.12.08
VietnamBishop Francisco Ruiz de Azúa Ortiz de Zárate, O.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Hai Phòng (Vietnam)

1917.06.191917.12.09
South SudanBishop Antonio Stoppani, F.S.C.I.

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

1917.06.131917.12.21
IndiaArchbishop Angelo Raffaele Bernacchioni, O.F.M. Cap.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Agra (India)

1917.08.071917.12.27

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