Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1921

Newly Elected Bishops (86)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
Congo-KinshasaBishop Egide de Boeck, C.I.C.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Lisala (Congo-Kinshasa)

1921.01.041921.05.08
TurkiyeArchbishop Giovanni Battista Federico Vallega

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Izmir (Turkiye)

former Auditor General of Reverend Apostolic Camera

1921.01.241921.04.17
LebanonArchbishop Basilio Cattan (Greek-Melkite Rite)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Beirut–Gibail of the Greek-Melkites (Lebanon)

1921.02.111921.03.13
PeruBishop Sotero Redondo Herrero, O.E.S.A.

former Vicar Apostolic of San León del Amazonas (Peru)

1921.02.221922.09.17
ChinaBishop Martino Chiolino (林棟臣), P.I.M.E.

former Vicar Apostolic of Northern Honan 河南北境 (China)

1921.02.231921.10.02
UkraineBishop Josyf Botsian (Ukrainian Rite)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv–Halyč–Kamyanets of the Ukrainians (Ukraine)

1921.02.241914.09.21
IraqArchbishop Athanase Jules Benham Kalian (Syriac Rite)

former Archbishop of Baghdad of the Syriacs (Iraq)

1921.02.261922.04.30
GermanyBishop Ludwig Maria Hugo

former Bishop of Mainz (Germany)

1921.03.071921.04.10
GermanyBishop Johannes Scheifes

former Auxiliary Bishop of Münster (Germany)

1921.03.071921.04.24
SpainBishop Florencio Cerviño y González

former Bishop of Ourense (Spain)

1921.03.071921.12.27
CzechiaArchbishop Antonín Cyril Stojan

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Olomouc (Czechia)

1921.03.101921.04.03
ItalyArchbishop Pietro Benedetti

former Titular Archbishop of Tyrus

1921.03.101921.04.10
FranceBishop Charles-Albert-Joseph Lecomte

former Bishop of Amiens (France)

1921.03.101921.05.17
USABishop Augustus John Schwertner

former Bishop of Wichita (USA)

1921.03.101921.06.08
Costa RicaArchbishop Rafael Otón Castro Jiménez

former Metropolitan Archbishop of San José (Costa Rica)

1921.03.101921.08.02
SeychellesBishop Louis-Justin Gumy, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Port Victoria (Seychelles)

1921.03.101921.09.18
BrazilBishop Joaquim Ferreira de Melo

former Bishop of Pelotas (Brazil)

1921.03.151921.09.18
IndiaBishop Francis Vazhapilly (Syro-Malabar Rite)

former Bishop of Trichur of the Syro-Malabars (India)

1921.04.051921.07.06
FranceArchbishop Paul-Jules-Narcisse Rémond

former Archbishop-Bishop of Nice (France)

1921.04.091921.05.29
PolandBishop Vincenzo Tymieniecki

former Bishop of Łódź (Poland)

1921.04.111921.06.29
EnglandArchbishop Thomas Shine

former Bishop of Middlesbrough (England)

former Archbishop ad personam

1921.04.121921.06.29
ItalyArchbishop Giacomo Carabelli

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Siracusa (Italy)

1921.04.131921.05.22
GermanyArchbishop Franz Rudolf Bornewasser

former Archbishop-Bishop of Trier (Germany)

1921.04.231921.05.29
ItalyBishop Johannes Raffl

former Bishop of Brixen (Italy)

1921.04.281921.06.19
ItalyCardinal Federico Tedeschini

former Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati

former Datary of His Holiness of Apostolic Dataria

former Archpriest of Papal Basilica of Saint Peter

1921.04.301921.05.05
USABishop Emmanuel Boleslaus Ledvina

former Bishop of Corpus Christi (USA)

1921.04.301921.06.14
ItalyPatriarch Roberto Vicentini

former Patriarch of Antioch

1921.05.191921.05.19
ChinaBishop Auguste Gauthier (俄永垂), M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Beihai 北海 (China)

1921.06.011922.05.25
ItalyBishop Felice Cribellati

former Bishop of Tropea (Italy)

former Bishop of Nicotera (Italy)

1921.06.091921.06.29
BelgiumBishop Laurent Janssens (Henricus Antonius), O.S.B.

former Rector Magnificus of Pontifical Athenaeum of Saint Anselm

1921.06.131921.06.19
ItalyBishop Giovanni Pranzini

former Bishop of Carpi (Italy)

1921.06.131921.06.26
ItalyArchbishop Cesare Boccoleri

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Modena (Italy)

former Abbot nullius of Nonantola (Italy)

1921.06.131921.06.29
ItalyBishop Giovanni Piccioni

former Bishop of Massa Marittima e Populonia (Italy)

1921.06.131921.07.24
ItalyBishop Umberto Rossi

former Bishop of Asti (Italy)

1921.06.131921.08.14
ItalyArchbishop Filippo Cortesi

former Titular Archbishop of Siraces

former Apostolic Nuncio to Poland

1921.06.131921.08.21
GermanyBishop Alois Hartl

former Auxiliary Bishop of München und Freising (Germany)

1921.06.131921.09.04
USABishop Hugh Charles Boyle

former Bishop of Pittsburgh (USA)

1921.06.161921.06.29
USABishop Thomas Mary O’Leary

former Bishop of Springfield in Massachusetts (USA)

1921.06.161921.09.08
PolandBishop Edward Komar

former Auxiliary Bishop of Tarnów (Poland)

1921.06.161921.09.11
CanadaBishop Joseph-Henri-Jean-Marie Prud’homme

former Bishop of Prince Albert (Canada)

1921.06.161921.10.28
MexicoBishop Silvino Ramírez y Cuera

former Vicar Apostolic of California Inferiore (Mexico)

1921.06.191921.11.13
SpainBishop Jaime Viladrich y Gaspar

former Auxiliary Bishop of Burgos (Spain)

1921.06.261921.07.25
MaliBishop Emile-Fernand Sauvant, M. Afr.

former Vicar Apostolic of Bamako (Mali)

1921.07.081921.08.10
EgyptBishop Jules Girard, S.M.A.

former Vicar Apostolic of Delta del Nilo (Egypt)

1921.07.081921.10.23
Burkina FasoBishop Joanny Thévenoud, M. Afr.

former Vicar Apostolic of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

1921.07.081922.05.01
SpainBishop Bernardo Martínez y Noval, O.E.S.A.

former Bishop of Almería (Spain)

1921.07.181921.11.30
ItalyArchbishop Ernesto Eugenio Filippi

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Monreale (Italy)

1921.07.221921.08.07
ItalyBishop Antonio Micozzi

former Bishop of Teramo (Italy)

1921.07.221921.08.07
ItalyCardinal Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini (剛恆毅)

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Lorenzo in Damaso

former Chancellor of Apostolic Chancery

1921.07.221921.08.24
SpainBishop Mateo Colom y Canals, O.E.S.A.

former Bishop of Huesca (Spain)

1921.07.291921.08.24
FranceCardinal Alfred-Henri-Marie Baudrillart, C.O.

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Bernardo alle Terme

1921.07.291921.10.28
GuatemalaArchbishop Luis Javier Muñoz y Capurón, S.J.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Guatemala (Guatemala)

1921.07.301921.08.24
PortugalBishop Agostino de Jesus e Souza

former Bishop of Porto (Portugal)

1921.08.041921.12.08
Puerto RicoArchbishop George Joseph Caruana

former Bishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)

1921.08.051921.10.28
IraqArchbishop François de Berré, O.P.

former Archbishop of Baghdad (Iraq)

1921.08.091922.03.19
USACardinal Samuel Alphonse Stritch

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Agnese fuori le mura

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Chicago (USA)

former Pro-Prefect of Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith

1921.08.101921.11.30
IndiaArchbishop Ferdinand Périer, S.J.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Calcutta (India)

1921.08.101921.12.21
GermanyBishop Christian Schreiber

former Bishop of Berlin (Germany)

1921.08.121921.09.14
USABishop John Joseph Dunn

former Auxiliary Bishop of New York (USA)

1921.08.191921.10.28
USABishop Michael Joseph Crane

former Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia (USA)

1921.08.201921.09.19
ItalyBishop Settimio Quadraroli

former Bishop of Teramo (Italy)

1921.08.261921.11.06
ItalyArchbishop Pietro Pomares y de Morant

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bari e Canosa (Italy)

1921.08.271921.11.01
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Petrone

former Bishop of Pozzuoli (Italy)

1921.09.231921.10.28
AlbaniaArchbishop Francesco Melchiori, O.F.M.

former Archbishop of Durrës (Albania)

1921.09.281921.11.20
ItalyBishop Pasquale Gioia, C.R.S.

former Bishop of Terlizzi (Italy)

former Bishop of Molfetta (Italy)

former Bishop of Giovinazzo (Italy)

1921.09.301921.11.01
ItalyBishop Bruno Occhiuto

former Bishop of Cassano all’Jonio (Italy)

1921.11.171921.12.11
ItalyPatriarch Luca Ermenegildo Pasetto, O.F.M. Cap.

former Patriarch of Alexandria

former Secretary of Sacred Congregation of Religious

1921.11.211921.11.27
ItalyArchbishop Mario Giardini, B.

former Archbishop of Ancona e Umana (Italy)

1921.11.211921.12.08
FranceArchbishop Jules Tiberghien

former Titular Archbishop of Nicæa

1921.11.211921.12.08
EnglandBishop Dudley Charles Cary-Elwes

former Bishop of Northampton (England)

1921.11.211921.12.15
USAArchbishop Edward Francis Hoban

former Bishop of Cleveland (USA)

former Archbishop ad personam

1921.11.211921.12.21
FranceBishop Daniel Champavier

former Bishop of Marseille (France)

1921.11.211921.12.21
AlbaniaBishop Joseph Gionali

former Bishop of Sapë (Albania)

1921.11.211922.01.15
FranceArchbishop Louis-Joseph Gaillard

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tours (France)

1921.11.211922.01.25
ItalyBishop Nicolao Milone

former Bishop of Alessandria (Italy)

1921.11.211922.04.22
IraqBishop Théophile Joseph Georgi (Syriac Rite)

former Titular Bishop of Arethusa of the Syriacs

1921.11.211922.04.30
PeruBishop Ottavio Ortiz Arrieta, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Chachapoyas (Peru)

1921.11.211922.06.11
ArgentinaBishop Rafael Canale Oberti

former Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Fe (Argentina)

1921.11.251922.07.02
SpainBlessed Bishop Cruz Laplana y Laguna

former Bishop of Cuenca (Spain)

1921.11.301922.03.26
USABishop Joseph Gabriel Pinten

former Bishop of Grand Rapids (USA)

1921.11.301922.05.03
Costa RicaBishop Agustín Blessing Presinger, C.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Limón (Costa Rica)

1921.12.161922.05.01
MexicoArchbishop Guglielmo Piani, S.D.B.

former Auxiliary Bishop of México (Mexico)

1921.12.161922.05.14
ChinaArchbishop Jean-Marie-Michel Blois (衛忠藩), M.E.P.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Shenyang 瀋陽 (China)

1921.12.191922.05.28
EgyptBishop Igino Nuti, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Egypt (Egypt)

1921.12.201922.03.19
NicaraguaBishop Agustin Nicolas Tijerino y Loáisiga

former Bishop of León (Nicaragua)

1921.12.211922.04.23
ItalyCardinal Carlo Cremonesi

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Lorenzo in Lucina

former Bishop-Prelate of Beatissima Vergine Maria del Santissimo Rosario (Italy)

former Almoner of His Holiness of Office of Papal Charities

1921.12.291922.01.08

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