Bishops Consecrated

in a.d. 1923

Bishops (73)ElectedConsecratedAscending
SyriaArchbishop Iwannis Gandour

former Titular Archbishop of Bostra

1950.12.121923
ItalyBishop Albino Morera

former Bishop of Civita–Tempio (Italy)

former Bishop of Ampurias (Italy)

1922.12.141923.01.06
SwedenArchbishop Johann Evangelist Müller

former Bishop of Stockholm (Sweden)

1922.10.091923.01.07
CzechiaBishop Josef Schinzel

former Auxiliary Bishop of Olomouc (Czechia)

1922.11.141923.01.07
ItalyBishop Alessandro Fontana

former Bishop of Ferentino (Italy)

1922.12.111923.01.21
ItalyBishop Alessandro Macchi

former Bishop of Como (Italy)

1922.12.111923.01.21
DenmarkBishop Josef Ludovico Brems, O. Praem.

former Vicar Apostolic of Denmark (Denmark)

1922.10.101923.01.25
MexicoBishop Nicolás Corona y Corona

former Bishop of Papantla (Mexico)

1922.12.111923.01.28
MexicoArchbishop Pascual Díaz y Barreto, S.J.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of México (Mexico)

1922.12.111923.02.02
MexicoBishop José de Jesús Manríquez y Zárate

former Bishop of Huejutla (Mexico)

1922.12.111923.02.04
UruguayBishop José Joaquín Manuel Eloy Arróspide Echeverría

former Bishop of Melo (Uruguay)

1922.07.211923.02.25
PeruBishop Francisco Rubén Berroa y Bernedo

former Bishop of Ica (Peru)

1922.08.121923.03.04
BrazilBishop José Pereira Alves

former Bishop of Niterói (Brazil)

1922.10.271923.03.04
LebanonBishop Joseph Kallas (Greek-Melkite Rite)

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

1923.05.231923.03.04
USAArchbishop John Alexander Floersh

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Louisville (USA)

1923.02.061923.04.08
BrazilArchbishop Ático Eusébio da Rocha

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Curitiba (Brazil)

1922.10.271923.04.15
BrazilArchbishop Emanuel Gomes de Oliveira, S.D.B.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Goiás (Brazil)

1922.10.271923.04.15
ItalyBishop Antonio Scarante

former Bishop of Faenza (Italy)

1922.12.111923.04.15
USABishop Andrew James Louis Brennan

former Bishop of Richmond (USA)

1923.02.231923.04.15
ItalyBishop Antonio Tommaso Videmari

former Bishop of Ogliastra (Italy)

1923.03.021923.04.23
CzechiaBishop Antonin Cech

former Auxiliary Bishop of Litoměřice (Czechia)

1923.01.031923.04.29
CanadaBishop François-Xavier Ross

former Bishop of Gaspé (Canada)

1922.12.111923.05.01
USABishop Daniel Joseph Curley

former Bishop of Syracuse (USA)

1923.02.191923.05.01
PolandBishop Joseph Deitmer

former Auxiliary Bishop of Wrocław (Poland)

1923.02.191923.05.01
ItalyArchbishop Andrea Taccone

former Bishop of Ruvo (Italy)

former Bishop of Bitonto (Italy)

1923.03.031923.05.06
HondurasArchbishop Agustín Hombach, C.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tegucigalpa (Honduras)

1923.02.031923.05.10
MexicoBishop Jenaro Méndez del Río

former Bishop of Huajuapan de León (Mexico)

1923.03.161923.05.20
CanadaCardinal Félix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, O.P.

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Pietro in Montorio

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Québec (Canada)

1923.03.091923.05.22
ItalyArchbishop Cornelio Sebastiano Cuccarollo, O.F.M. Cap.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Otranto (Italy)

1923.03.271923.05.22
LithuaniaBishop Kazimieras Mikalojus Michalkiewicz

former Auxiliary Bishop of Vilnius (Lithuania)

1923.01.121923.06.10
TanzaniaBishop Joseph Gabriel Zelger, O.F.M. Cap.

former Vicar Apostolic of Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania)

1923.01.291923.06.24
IrelandBishop Edward Doorly

former Bishop of Elphin (Ireland)

1923.04.051923.06.24
CanadaBishop Alphonse-Osias Gagnon

former Bishop of Sherbrooke (Canada)

1923.05.231923.06.29
MadagascarBishop Paul-Auguste-Marie Pichot, C.S.Sp.

former Vicar Apostolic of Majunga (Madagascar)

1923.03.161923.06.30
GhanaBishop Augustin Hermann, S.M.A.

former Vicar Apostolic of Lower Volta (Ghana)

1923.03.261923.07.13
TogoBishop Jean-Marie Cessou, S.M.A.

former Vicar Apostolic of Lomé (Togo)

1923.03.201923.07.15
USABishop Francis William Howard

former Bishop of Covington (USA)

1923.03.261923.07.15
ItalyBishop Girolamo Cardinale

former Bishop of Verona (Italy)

1923.05.251923.07.15
SpainBlessed Bishop Narciso de Esténaga y Echevarría

former Prior nullius of Ciudad Real (Spain)

1922.12.141923.07.22
IrelandBishop William MacNeely

former Bishop of Raphoe (Ireland)

1923.04.211923.07.22
PortugalBishop João de Oliveira Matos Ferreira

former Auxiliary Bishop of Guarda (Portugal)

1922.12.111923.07.25
ChileBishop Martín Rucker Sotomayor

former Bishop of Chillán (Chile)

1923.03.161923.07.25
AustraliaBishop Richard Ryan, C.M.

former Bishop of Sale (Australia)

1923.01.301923.07.29
Papua New GuineaBishop Gerard Vesters, M.S.C.

former Vicar Apostolic of Rabaul (Papua New Guinea)

1923.02.161923.08.05
FranceBishop François-Jean-Marie Serrand

former Bishop of Saint-Brieuc (France)

1923.06.041923.08.06
ItalyVenerable Cardinal Elia Dalla Costa

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Marco

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Firenze (Italy)

1923.05.251923.08.12
FinlandBishop Johannes Michael Buckx, S.C.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Finland (Finland)

1923.05.231923.08.15
EgyptArchbishop Victor Colombanus Dreyer, O.F.M. Cap.

former Vicar Apostolic of Canal of Suez (Egypt)

1923.06.271923.08.16
MicronesiaBishop Santiago López de Rego y Labarta, S.J.

former Vicar Apostolic of Mariana, Caroline, and Marshall Islands (Micronesia)

1923.05.251923.08.26
PeruBishop Fedel María Cosió y Medyna

former Bishop of Puno (Peru)

1923.01.071923.09.02
CroatiaBishop Quirino Clemente Bonefačić

former Bishop of Split (Croatia)

former Bishop of Makarska (Croatia)

1923.06.061923.09.02
PeruBishop Sabas Sarasola Esparza, O.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Urubamba y Madre de Dios (Peru)

1923.06.131923.09.02
ChinaArchbishop Antoine-Pierre-Jean Fourquet (魏暢茂), M.E.P.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Guangzhou 廣州 (China)

1923.02.201923.09.16
ItalyBishop Ludovico Cattaneo

former Bishop of Ascoli Piceno (Italy)

1923.09.151923.09.16
IndiaBishop Francesco Tiburzio Roche, S.J.

former Bishop of Tuticorin (India)

1923.06.121923.09.23
MexicoArchbishop Luis María Martínez y Rodríguez

former Metropolitan Archbishop of México (Mexico)

1923.06.081923.09.30
HungaryBishop Endre Kriston

former Auxiliary Bishop of Eger (Hungary)

1923.08.231923.09.30
SpainBishop Miguel de los Santos Serra y Sucarrats

former Bishop of Segorbe (Spain)

1922.12.141923.10.07
SloveniaArchbishop Luigi Fogar

former Bishop of Trieste (Italy)

former Bishop of Koper (Slovenia)

1923.07.091923.10.14
CanadaBishop Louis Rhéaume, O.M.I.

former Bishop of Timmins (Canada)

1923.06.081923.10.18
VenezuelaArchbishop Lucas Guillermo Castillo Hernández

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Caracas (Venezuela)

1923.01.191923.10.21
ArgentinaArchbishop Julio Campero y Aráoz

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Salta (Argentina)

1923.06.111923.10.21
VenezuelaBishop Miguel Antonio Mejía

former Bishop of Santo Tomás de Guayana (Venezuela)

1923.06.191923.10.21
VenezuelaBishop Francisco Antonio Granadillo

former Bishop of Valencia (Venezuela)

1923.06.221923.10.21
VenezuelaBishop Tomás Antonio Sanmiguel Díaz

former Bishop of San Cristóbal de Venezuela (Venezuela)

1923.06.221923.10.21
RussiaBishop Karol Slivosky

former Bishop of Vladivostok (Russia)

1923.02.021923.10.28
USAArchbishop Daniel James Gercke

former Bishop of Tucson (USA)

1923.06.211923.11.06
BrazilArchbishop Severino Vieira de Melo

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Teresina (Brazil)

1923.06.081923.11.25
MexicoBishop Serafín María Armora y González

former Bishop of Ciudad Victoria–Tamaulipas (Mexico)

1923.08.031923.11.30
ItalyBishop Lorenzo Del Ponte

former Bishop of Acqui (Italy)

1923.09.051923.11.30
CroatiaArchbishop Josep Srebrnic

former Bishop of Krk (Croatia)

former Archbishop ad personam

1923.09.151923.12.08
FranceBishop Louis-Marie Ricard

former Bishop of Nice (France)

1923.10.261923.12.15
CzechiaArchbishop Leopold Prečan

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Olomouc (Czechia)

1923.11.101923.12.30

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