Bishops Consecrated

in a.d. 1920

Bishops (81)ElectedConsecratedAscending
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
RomaniaArchbishop Vasile Suciu (Romanian Rite)

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

1919.08.091920.01.25
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
Sri LankaBishop Jules-André Brault, O.M.I.

former Bishop of Jaffna (Sri Lanka)

1919.08.051920.02.14
JamaicaBishop William Francis O’Hare, S.J.

former Vicar Apostolic of Jamaica (Jamaica)

1919.09.021920.02.25
CanadaBishop Joseph-Romuald Léonard

former Bishop of Saint-Germain de Rimouski (Canada)

1919.12.181920.02.25
ItalyArchbishop Antonio Galati

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Santa Severina (Italy)

former Archbishop-Bishop of Crotone (Italy)

1919.12.151920.03.14
LebanonBishop Atanasio Khoriaty, B.S. (Greek-Melkite Rite)

former Bishop of Saïdā of the Greek-Melkites (Lebanon)

1920.02.071920.03.14
ItalyArchbishop Gustavo Matteoni

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Siena (Italy)

1920.03.081920.03.25
LuxembourgBishop Pierre Nommesch

former Bishop of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)

1920.03.081920.03.25
CzechiaCardinal Karel Boromejský Kašpar

former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio e Protasio

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Praha (Czechia)

1920.03.081920.04.11
ItalyBishop Salvatore Ballo Guercio

former Bishop of Mazara del Vallo (Italy)

1920.03.081920.04.11
CzechiaBishop Antonio Podlaha

former Auxiliary Bishop of Praha (Czechia)

1920.03.081920.04.11
FranceBishop Jules-Alexandre Cusin

former Bishop of Mende (France)

1920.03.081920.04.21
EgyptArchbishop Etienne Soukkarie (Greek-Melkite Rite)

former Patriarchal Vicar of Egypt and Sudan of the Greek-Melkites (Egypt)

1920.04.251920.04.25
USAArchbishop John Gregory Murray

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Saint Paul (USA)

1919.11.151920.04.28
PolandBishop Valentin Wojciech

former Auxiliary Bishop of Wrocław (Poland)

1920.03.081920.05.01
ItalyBishop Geoffrey Zaccherini

former Bishop of Jesi (Italy)

1920.03.081920.05.01
SamoaBishop Joseph Darnand, S.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Archipelago of the Navigators (Samoa)

1919.08.041920.05.16
SpainBishop Valentín Comellas y Santamaría

former Bishop of Solsona (Spain)

1919.12.181920.05.16
VenezuelaBishop Marcos Sergio Godoy

former Bishop of Maracaibo (Venezuela)

1920.03.081920.05.16
SpainBishop Justí Guitart i Vilardebó

former Bishop of Urgell (Spain)

1920.01.091920.05.23
PolandBishop Stanisław Kostka Łomżyński

former Bishop of Łomża (Poland)

1920.03.091920.05.23
SyriaArchbishop Bisciarah Riccardo Chémali (Maronite Rite)

former Archbishop of Damascus of the Maronites (Syria)

1920.05.091920.05.23
GuineaBishop Raymond-René Lerouge, C.S.Sp.

former Vicar Apostolic of Conakry (Guinea)

1920.04.181920.05.25
ItalyCardinal Raffaello Carlo Rossi, O.C.D.

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Prassede

former Bishop of Volterra (Italy)

former Superior General of Congregation of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo (Scalabrinians)

former Secretary of Sacred Consistorial Congregation

1920.04.221920.05.25
El SalvadorArchbishop Alfonso Belloso y Sánchez

former Metropolitan Archbishop of San Salvador (El Salvador)

1919.12.181920.05.30
SenegalArchbishop Louis Le Hunsec, C.S.Sp.

former Prefect Apostolic of Sénégal (Senegal)

former Superior General of Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans, Holy Ghost Fathers)

1920.04.221920.05.30
NigeriaBishop Joseph (Ignatius) Shanahan, C.S.Sp.

former Vicar Apostolic of Southern Nigeria (Nigeria)

1920.04.161920.06.06
ArgentinaBishop Miguel de Andrea

former Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

1919.12.181920.06.13
MexicoBishop Gerardo Anaya y Diez de Bonilla

former Bishop of San Luis Potosí (Mexico)

1920.03.081920.06.13
SwitzerlandBishop Marius Besson

former Bishop of Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg (Switzerland)

1920.05.071920.06.13
FranceArchbishop Florent-Michel-Marie-Joseph du Bois de la Villerabel

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Aix (France)

1920.05.071920.06.20
TanzaniaBishop Joseph-Marie Birraux, M. Afr.

former Vicar Apostolic of Tanganyika (Tanzania)

former Superior General of Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers)

1920.04.221920.06.23
EnglandBishop Arthur Doubleday

former Bishop of Brentwood (England)

1920.05.071920.06.23
ItalyArchbishop Giuseppe di Girolamo

former Bishop of Lucera (Italy)

1920.04.211920.06.27
ItalyBishop Domenico Del Buono

former Bishop of Ruvo (Italy)

former Bishop of Bitonto (Italy)

1920.05.291920.06.27
ChinaBishop Goffredo Frederix (費達德), C.I.C.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Ningxia 寧夏 (China)

1920.03.051920.06.29
CroatiaBishop Antonio Akšmovic

former Bishop of Bosnia i Srijem (Croatia)

1920.04.221920.06.29
FranceBishop Désiré-Marie-Joseph-Antelne-Martin Paget

former Bishop of Valence (France)

1920.04.221920.06.29
ItalyBishop Claudio Angelo Giuseppe Calabrese

former Bishop of Aosta (Italy)

1920.05.071920.07.11
PortugalBishop Marcellino António Maria Franco

former Bishop of Faro (Portugal)

1920.05.151920.07.18
PortugalBishop Giuseppe Alves Correia da Silva

former Bishop of Leiria (Portugal)

1920.05.151920.07.25
GermanyArchbishop Kaspar Klein

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Paderborn (Germany)

1920.06.191920.08.01
ItalyCardinal Clemente Micara

former Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria sopra Minerva in commendum

former President of Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology

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

1920.05.071920.08.08
RomaniaArchbishop Alexandru Theodor Cisar

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bucureşti (Romania)

1920.04.221920.08.15
GreeceBishop George Calavassy (Greek Rite)

former Apostolic Exarch of Greece of the Greeks (Greece)

1920.07.131920.08.15
LatviaArchbishop Antonijs Springovičs

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Riga (Latvia)

1920.04.141920.08.22
ItalyBishop Domenico Mezzadri

former Bishop of Chioggia (Italy)

1920.07.021920.08.22
ItalyArchbishop Lorenzo Schioppa

former Titular Archbishop of Mocissus

former Apostolic Internuncio to Netherlands

1920.08.201920.08.22
HungaryBishop István Zadravecz, O.F.M.

former Military Ordinary of Hungary (Hungary)

1920.03.231920.08.24
FranceCardinal Charles-Henri-Joseph Binet

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Prisca

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Besançon (France)

1920.06.161920.08.24
BrazilArchbishop Ranulfo da Silva Farias

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Maceió (Brazil)

1920.04.221920.09.12
ItalyCardinal Luigi Maglione

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Pudenziana

former Secretary of State of Secretariat of State

former President of Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See

former Prefect of Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs

1920.09.011920.09.26
ItalyCardinal Francesco Marmaggi

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Cecilia

former Prefect of Sacred Congregation of the Council

1920.09.011920.09.26
USAArchbishop Thomas Edmund Molloy

former Bishop of Brooklyn (USA)

former Archbishop ad personam

1920.06.281920.10.03
ItalyBishop Michele Cerrati

former Titular Bishop of Lydda

1920.09.151920.10.03
BoliviaBishop Celestino Loza

former Bishop of La Paz (Bolivia)

1920.06.201920.10.10
EcuadorBishop Domingo Comin, S.D.B.

former Vicar Apostolic of Méndez (Ecuador)

1920.03.051920.10.17
PhilippinesBishop José Clos y Pagés, S.J.

former Bishop of Zamboanga (Philippines)

1920.05.071920.10.17
EcuadorBishop Guillermo José Harris y Morales

former Bishop of Loja (Ecuador)

1920.05.071920.10.17
ChileBishop Prudencio Contardo Ibarra, C.SS.R.

former Bishop of Temuco (Chile)

1920.06.151920.10.21
FranceBishop Constantin-Marie-Joseph Chauvin

former Bishop of Évreux (France)

1920.07.301920.10.28
IrelandArchbishop Edward Joseph Byrne

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Dublin (Ireland)

1920.08.191920.10.28
GermanyArchbishop Karl Fritz

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany)

1920.10.121920.10.28
BrazilBishop Manoel Nunes Coelho

former Bishop of Luz (Brazil)

1920.06.101920.11.14
SpainPatriarch Raimondo Pérez y Rodríguez

former Bishop of Cádiz y Ceuta (Spain)

1920.08.211920.11.28
AustraliaBishop Michael O’Farrell, O. de M.

former Bishop of Bathurst (Australia)

1920.06.161920.11.30
IndonesiaBishop Arnoldus Johannes Hubertus Aerts, M.S.C.

former Vicar Apostolic of Dutch New Guinea (Indonesia)

1920.07.201920.11.30
USABishop Patrick Joseph James Keane

former Bishop of Sacramento (USA)

1920.09.101920.12.04
CanadaBishop Henry Thomas Renouf

former Bishop of Saint George’s (Canada)

1920.09.271920.12.08
New ZealandArchbishop James Michael Liston

former Bishop of Auckland (New Zealand)

former Archbishop ad personam

1920.04.221920.12.12
New ZealandBishop James Whyte

former Bishop of Dunedin (New Zealand)

1920.04.221920.12.12
SyriaArchbishop Basile Khoury (Greek-Melkite Rite)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Homs of the Greek-Melkites (Syria)

1920.11.201920.12.12
SpainBishop Miguel de los Santos Díaz y Gómara

former Bishop of Cartagena (Spain)

1920.07.081920.12.21
ItalyArchbishop Giuseppe Lagumina

former Auxiliary Bishop of Palermo (Italy)

1920.12.161920.12.26
Solomon IslandsBishop Louis-Marie Raucaz, S.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of South Solomons (Solomon Islands)

1920.07.131920.12.27
PortugalBishop Manuel Domingos Maria Frutuoso, O.P.

former Bishop of Portalegre (Portugal)

1920.12.071920.12.27
ItalyArchbishop Ernesto Cozzi

former Titular Archbishop of Philippopolis

former Apostolic Delegate to Albania

1920.12.161920.12.27

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