Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1918

Newly Elected Bishops (70)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
SpainBishop Emilio Jiménez Pérez

former Titular Bishop of Anthedon

former Apostolic Administrator of Barbastro (Spain)

1918.01.041918.04.07
ItalyArchbishop Carmelo Patané

former Archbishop of Catania (Italy)

1918.01.111918.02.17
BrazilBishop Benedito Paulo Alves de Souza

former Bishop of Espírito Santo (Brazil)

1918.01.281918.04.21
BrazilBishop Jonas de Araújo Batinga

former Bishop of Penedo (Brazil)

1918.01.281918.07.14
FranceCardinal Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Bernardo alle Terme

former Archbishop-Bishop of Le Mans (France)

1918.01.301918.04.17
ItalyBishop Agostino Migliore

former Bishop of Monopoli (Italy)

1918.02.021918.03.10
USABishop Daniel Mary Gorman

former Bishop of Boise City (USA)

1918.02.061918.05.01
FranceArchbishop Joseph-Lucien Giray

former Bishop of Cahors (France)

1918.02.151918.05.01
BrazilArchbishop Helvécio Gomes de Oliveira, S.D.B.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Mariana (Brazil)

1918.02.151918.08.15
ItalyCardinal Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani

former Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia

former Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati

former Prefect of Sacred Congregation of Ceremonies

former President of Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology

former Archpriest of Papal Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran

former Vicar General for the Vicariate of Rome of Roma (Italy)

former Secretary of Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office

1918.02.161918.04.14
BoliviaArchbishop Luigi Francesco Pierini, O.F.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Sucre (Bolivia)

1918.02.201918.05.30
ChileBishop Gilberto Fuenzalida Guzmán

former Bishop of Concepción (Chile)

1918.02.201918.06.07
ChileBishop Carlos Silva Cotapos

former Bishop of Talca (Chile)

1918.02.201918.06.07
ChileBishop Luis Antonio Castro Alvarez, SS.CC.

former Bishop of San Carlos de Ancud (Chile)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago (Chile)

1918.02.211918.06.02
SpainBishop Matteo Múgica y Urrestarazu

former Bishop of Vitoria (Spain)

1918.02.221918.05.20
ItalyBishop Giorgio Giovanni Elli

former Bishop of Squillace (Italy)

1918.02.231918.05.06
IrelandBishop Denis Hallinan

former Bishop of Limerick (Ireland)

1918.03.101918.03.10
AustraliaArchbishop William Hayden

former Archbishop of Hobart (Australia)

1918.03.131918.09.08
IndonesiaBishop Jan Pacificus Bos, O.F.M. Cap.

former Vicar Apostolic of Dutch Borneo (Indonesia)

1918.03.131918.11.17
AustraliaBishop Joseph Wilfrid Dwyer

former Bishop of Wagga Wagga (Australia)

1918.03.141918.10.13
ChinaBishop Joseph-Fructueux Bourgain (卜恩佑), M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Ningyuanfu 寧遠府 (China)

1918.03.311918.11.10
NetherlandsCardinal Wilhelmus Marinus van Rossum, C.SS.R.

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Croce in Gerusalemme

former Prefect of Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith

former President of Pontifical Commission for Biblical Studies

1918.04.251918.05.19
USAArchbishop Thomas Joseph Walsh

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Newark (USA)

1918.05.101918.07.25
EcuadorBishop Daniel Hermida Ortega

former Bishop of Cuenca (Ecuador)

1918.05.121919.11.09
SpainBishop Gabriel Llompart y Jaume Santandreu

former Bishop of Mallorca (Spain)

1918.05.171918.09.15
SpainBishop Marcial López y Criado

former Bishop of Cádiz (Spain)

1918.05.181918.10.20
ScotlandBishop George Henry Bennett

former Bishop of Aberdeen (Scotland)

1918.06.181918.08.01
ItalyArchbishop Stefano Corbini

former Bishop of Foligno (Italy)

1918.06.181918.08.04
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Signore

former Bishop of Telese (Italy)

1918.06.201918.08.24
ItalyVenerable Archbishop Giovanni Jacono

former Bishop of Caltanissetta (Italy)

1918.07.021918.09.08
JapanBishop Jean-Baptiste Castanier (ジャン・バティスト・カスタニエ), M.E.P.

former Bishop of Osaka 大阪 (Japan)

1918.07.061918.08.29
USAArchbishop John Timothy McNicholas, O.P.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Cincinnati (USA)

1918.07.181918.09.08
USABishop Christopher Edward Byrne

former Bishop of Galveston (USA)

1918.07.181918.11.10
USAArchbishop Arthur Jerome Drossaerts

former Metropolitan Archbishop of San Antonio (USA)

1918.07.181918.12.08
USABishop Jules Benjamin Jeanmard

former Bishop of Lafayette in Louisiana (USA)

1918.07.181918.12.08
PolandBishop Władysław Krynicki

former Bishop of Włocławek (Poland)

1918.07.291918.11.10
PolandBishop Adalberto Stanislao Owczarek

former Auxiliary Bishop of Włocławek (Poland)

1918.07.291918.11.10
PolandArchbishop Stanisław Gall

former Military Vicar of Poland (Poland)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Warszawa (Poland)

1918.07.291918.11.17
UkraineBishop Adolf Peter Szelazek

former Bishop of Lutsk (Ukraine)

1918.07.291918.11.24
LithuaniaArchbishop Romuald Jałbrzykowski

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Vilnius (Lithuania)

1918.07.291918.11.30
PolandBishop Paweł Franciszek Kubicki

former Auxiliary Bishop of Sandomierz (Poland)

1918.07.291918.12.01
ArgentinaBishop Nicolás De Carlo

former Bishop of Resistencia (Argentina)

1918.08.021919.03.30
FranceBishop Jean Castel

former Bishop of Tulle (France)

1918.08.031918.10.09
PalestinePatriarch Luigi Barlassina

former Patriarch of Jerusalem (Palestine)

1918.08.091918.09.08
FijiBishop Charles-Joseph Nicolas, S.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Fiji Island (Fiji)

1918.08.121919.02.02
IndiaBishop Pierre Rossillon, M.S.F.S.

former Bishop of Vizagapatam (India)

1918.08.221919.05.07
Equatorial GuineaBishop Nicolás Gonzalez Pérez, C.M.F.

former Vicar Apostolic of Fernando Poo (Equatorial Guinea)

1918.08.241918.11.30
NigeriaBishop Thomas Broderick, S.M.A.

former Vicar Apostolic of Northern Nigeria (Nigeria)

1918.08.241918.12.08
Congo-KinshasaBishop Auguste De Clercq, C.I.C.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Kasaï Supérieur (Congo-Kinshasa)

1918.08.241919.01.12
MadagascarBishop François-Joseph Dantin, M.S.

former Vicar Apostolic of Antsirabé (Madagascar)

1918.08.241919.08.05
UkraineArchbishop Bolesław Twardowski

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv (Ukraine)

1918.09.141919.01.12
PolandBishop Marian Leon Fulman

former Bishop of Lublin (Poland)

1918.09.241918.11.17
PolandBishop Henryk Ignazio Przezdziecki

former Bishop of Siedlce (Poland)

1918.09.241918.11.17
UkraineArchbishop Pietro Mankowski

former Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi (Ukraine)

1918.09.241918.12.01
PolandBishop Eduard Graf O’Rourke

former Bishop of Gdańsk (Poland)

1918.09.291918.12.15
AustriaBishop Ernst Karl Jakob Seydl

former Auxiliary Bishop of Wien (Austria)

1918.09.301918.11.30
LithuaniaBlessed Archbishop Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevicius, M.I.C.

former Bishop of Vilnius (Lithuania)

former Superior General of Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Marian Fathers)

1918.10.231918.12.01
ItalyArchbishop Giuseppe Lojacono

former Bishop of Ariano (Italy)

1918.11.041919.01.12
ArgentinaCardinal Santiago Luis Copello

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Lorenzo in Damaso

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

former Chancellor of Apostolic Chancery

1918.11.081919.03.30
PhilippinesBishop Sofronio Hacbang y Gaborni

former Bishop of Calbayog (Philippines)

1918.11.081919.06.08
PolandBishop Adolfo Giuseppe Jelowicki

former Auxiliary Bishop of Lublin (Poland)

1918.11.091919.03.23
FranceBishop Louis Termier

former Bishop of Tarentaise (France)

1918.11.291919.05.01
SpainCardinal Enrique Pla y Deniel

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Pietro in Montorio

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Toledo (Spain)

1918.12.041919.06.08
SpainArchbishop Zacarías Martínez Núñez, O.E.S.A.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

1918.12.041919.06.15
BrazilBishop Antônio José dos Santos, C.M.

former Bishop of Assis (Brazil)

1918.12.131919.10.19
USABishop Joseph Francis McGrath

former Bishop of Baker City (USA)

1918.12.211919.03.25
USABishop Edmond Heelan

former Bishop of Sioux City (USA)

1918.12.211919.04.08
ItalyArchbishop Antonio Torrini

former Archbishop of Lucca (Italy)

1918.12.231919.03.19
ItalyArchbishop Augusto Curi

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bari e Canosa (Italy)

1918.12.231919.03.25
ChileArchbishop Crescencio Errázuriz Valdivieso

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Santiago (Chile)

1918.12.301919.01.12

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