Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1919

Newly Elected Bishops (69)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
AlgeriaBishop Léon-Auguste-Marie-Joseph Durand

former Bishop of Oran (Algeria)

1919.01.101919.05.03
USABishop William Augustine Hickey

former Bishop of Providence (USA)

1919.01.161919.04.10
ItalyBishop Quirico Travaini

former Bishop of Cuneo (Italy)

former Bishop of Fossano (Italy)

1919.01.161919.06.01
MexicoArchbishop Juan María Navarrete y Guerrero

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Hermosillo (Mexico)

1919.01.241919.06.08
MexicoArchbishop José Guadalupe Ortíz y López

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Monterrey (Mexico)

1919.01.241919.06.08
MexicoArchbishop Enrique Sánchez y Paredes

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Puebla de los Ángeles (Mexico)

1919.01.241919.06.08
BelgiumBishop Giacomo Laminne

former Auxiliary Bishop of Liège (Belgium)

1919.01.251919.03.25
LebanonArchbishop Paul Akl (Maronite Rite)

former Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Syria of the Maronites

1919.02.221919.03.02
LebanonArchbishop Ignazio Mobarak (Maronite Rite)

former Archbishop of Beirut of the Maronites (Lebanon)

1919.02.231919.03.02
LebanonBishop Agostino Bostani (Maronite Rite)

former Bishop of Saïdā of the Maronites (Lebanon)

1919.02.231919.03.02
LebanonBishop Pierre Feghali (Maronite Rite)

former Titular Bishop of Epiphania in Syria of the Maronites

1919.02.231919.03.02
LebanonBishop Luigi Giuseppe El-Khazen (Maronite Rite)

former Titular Bishop of Ptolemais of the Maronites

1919.02.231919.08.03
MexicoBishop Francisco Banegas y Galván

former Bishop of Querétaro (Mexico)

1919.02.281919.07.27
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Antonio Caruso

former Bishop of Oppido Mamertina (Italy)

1919.03.101919.03.16
USABishop Edmund Francis Gibbons

former Bishop of Albany (USA)

1919.03.101919.03.25
USABishop William Turner

former Bishop of Buffalo (USA)

1919.03.101919.03.30
FranceBishop Jean-François-Etienne Marnas

former Bishop of Clermont (France)

1919.03.101919.04.30
ItalyBishop Francesco Maria Franco

former Bishop of Crema (Italy)

1919.03.101919.05.01
FranceBishop Théophile-Marie Louvard

former Bishop of Coutances (France)

1919.03.101919.05.01
USAArchbishop Albert Thomas Daeger, O.F.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Santa Fe (USA)

1919.03.101919.05.07
ItalyBishop Giovanni Mele (Italo-Albanese Rite)

former Bishop of Lungro of the Italo-Albanese (Italy)

1919.03.101919.06.08
LithuaniaArchbishop Juozapas Skvireckas

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Kaunas (Lithuania)

1919.03.101919.07.13
BrazilBishop José Maurício da Rocha

former Bishop of Bragança Paulista (Brazil)

1919.03.101919.07.20
USABishop Thomas William Drumm

former Bishop of Des Moines (USA)

1919.03.281919.05.21
AustriaBishop Anton Keil

former Auxiliary Bishop of Salzburg (Austria)

1919.03.311919.08.17
ScotlandBishop Donald Martin

former Bishop of Argyll and The Isles (Scotland)

1919.04.021919.06.11
ItalyBishop Antonio Maria Capettini (康道華), P.I.M.E.

former Vicar Apostolic of Hanzhongfu 漢中府 (China)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina (Italy)

1919.04.021919.09.08
AustraliaArchbishop William Barry

former Archbishop of Hobart (Australia)

1919.04.071919.08.31
CanadaBishop Félix Couturier, O.P.

former Bishop of Alexandria in Ontario (Canada)

1919.04.091919.04.27
FranceBishop Marcelin-Charles Marty

former Bishop of Nîmes (France)

1919.04.141919.07.02
SwitzerlandBishop Viktor Bieler

former Bishop of Sion (Switzerland)

1919.05.261919.07.27
ItalyVenerable Archbishop Fortunato Maria Farina

former Bishop of Foggia (Italy)

1919.06.211919.08.10
ItalyBishop Giacomo Maria de Amicis

former Auxiliary Bishop of Genova (Italy)

1919.07.031919.07.25
FranceArchbishop Benjamin-Octave Roland-Gosselin

former Bishop of Versailles (France)

1919.07.031919.08.12
BrazilBishop Riccardo Ramos de Castro Vilela

former Bishop of Nazaré (Brazil)

1919.07.031919.09.07
BrazilBishop João Tavares de Moura

former Bishop of Garanhuns (Brazil)

1919.07.031919.09.07
IrelandBishop Thomas O’Doherty

former Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh (Ireland)

1919.07.031919.09.14
ItalyPope Pius XI

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

former Prefect of Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities

former Grand Master of Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (Knights of the Holy Sepulchre)

1919.07.031919.10.28
UruguayArchbishop Juan Francesco Aragone

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Montevideo (Uruguay)

1919.07.031919.11.09
UruguayBishop Tomás Gregorio Camacho

former Bishop of Salto (Uruguay)

1919.07.031919.11.09
UruguayBishop José Marcos Semeria

former Bishop of Melo (Uruguay)

1919.07.031919.11.09
PolandBishop Ceslao Sokołowski

former Auxiliary Bishop of Siedlce (Poland)

1919.07.251919.09.28
FranceBishop Jean-Baptiste Pelt

former Bishop of Metz (France)

1919.08.011919.09.29
MexicoSaint Bishop Raphael Guízar y Valencia

former Bishop of Veracruz–Jalapa (Mexico)

1919.08.011919.11.30
SamoaBishop Joseph Darnand, S.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Archipelago of the Navigators (Samoa)

1919.08.041920.05.16
Sri LankaBishop Jules-André Brault, O.M.I.

former Bishop of Jaffna (Sri Lanka)

1919.08.051920.02.14
LibyaBishop Giacinto Tonizza, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Tripolitana (Libya)

1919.08.071919.11.02
RomaniaArchbishop Vasile Suciu (Romanian Rite)

former Metropolitan of Făgăraş şi Alba Iulia of the Romanians (Romania)

1919.08.091920.01.25
MexicoBishop Manuel Azpeitia Palomar

former Bishop of Tepic (Mexico)

1919.08.101919.11.23
BoliviaBishop Ippolito Ulivelli, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Chaco (Bolivia)

1919.08.131919.10.26
BoliviaBishop Ramón Calvó y Martí, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of El Beni (Bolivia)

1919.08.131919.11.09
SyriaCardinal Maximos IV Saïgh (Greek-Melkite Rite)

former Cardinal-Patriarch

former Patriarch of Antioch of the Greek-Melkites (Syria)

1919.08.301919.08.30
JamaicaBishop William Francis O’Hare, S.J.

former Vicar Apostolic of Jamaica (Jamaica)

1919.09.021920.02.25
HungaryBishop Árpád István Hanauer

former Bishop of Vác (Hungary)

1919.09.091919.10.05
PortugalBishop António Antunes

former Bishop of Coimbra (Portugal)

1919.09.121919.12.27
CzechiaArchbishop Frantisek Kordác

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Praha (Czechia)

1919.09.161919.10.26
USAArchbishop John Gregory Murray

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Saint Paul (USA)

1919.11.151920.04.28
ItalyCardinal Benedetto Aloisi Masella

former Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina

former Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church of Apostolic Camera

former Archpriest of Papal Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran

1919.12.151919.12.21
ItalyArchbishop Pietro Pisani

former Titular Archbishop of Tomi

1919.12.151919.12.21
IndiaArchbishop Alban Goodier, S.J.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bombay (India)

1919.12.151919.12.22
BrazilBishop Próspero Maria Gustavo Bernardi, O.S.M.

former Bishop-Prelate of São Peregrino Laziosi no Alto Acre e Alto Purus (Brazil)

1919.12.151920.01.11
ItalyArchbishop Pasquale Mores

former Bishop of Nusco (Italy)

1919.12.151920.01.18
ItalyArchbishop Antonio Galati

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Santa Severina (Italy)

former Archbishop-Bishop of Crotone (Italy)

1919.12.151920.03.14
BrazilBishop Carloto Fernandes da Silva Távora

former Bishop of Caratinga (Brazil)

1919.12.181920.01.25
FranceBishop Hippolyte-Marie de La Celle

former Bishop of Nancy (France)

1919.12.181920.02.11
CanadaBishop Joseph-Romuald Léonard

former Bishop of Saint-Germain de Rimouski (Canada)

1919.12.181920.02.25
SpainBishop Valentín Comellas y Santamaría

former Bishop of Solsona (Spain)

1919.12.181920.05.16
El SalvadorArchbishop Alfonso Belloso y Sánchez

former Metropolitan Archbishop of San Salvador (El Salvador)

1919.12.181920.05.30
ArgentinaBishop Miguel de Andrea

former Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

1919.12.181920.06.13

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