Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1924

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Newly Elected Bishops (78)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
Sierra LeoneBishop Bartholomew Stanley Wilson, C.S.Sp.

former Vicar Apostolic of Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone)

1924.01.041924.06.09
GermanyBishop Josef Hammels

former Auxiliary Bishop of Köln (Germany)

1924.01.141924.02.24
HaitiBishop Jean-Marie Jan

former Bishop of Cap-Haïtien (Haiti)

1924.01.151924.03.30
Sri LankaBishop Alfred-Jean Guyomard, O.M.I.

former Bishop of Jaffna (Sri Lanka)

1924.01.161924.03.09
ItalyArchbishop Giovanni Battista Peruzzo, C.P.

former Bishop of Agrigento (Italy)

former Archbishop ad personam

1924.01.181924.02.10
IndonesiaBishop Anton Pieter Franz van Velsen, S.J.

former Vicar Apostolic of Batavia (Indonesia)

1924.01.211924.05.13
BoliviaBishop Angelo Cesare Vigiani, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Chaco (Bolivia)

1924.01.211924.07.06
EnglandBishop William Francis Brown

former Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark (England)

1924.01.291924.03.12
BelgiumBishop Gaston Antoine Rasneur

former Bishop of Tournai (Belgium)

1924.01.301924.03.25
FranceBishop Auguste Grumel

former Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (France)

1924.02.031924.03.27
AustraliaArchbishop Andrew Killian

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Adelaide (Australia)

1924.02.261924.06.15
AustraliaBishop John Barry

former Bishop of Goulburn (Australia)

1924.03.011924.06.29
ItalyCardinal Maurilio Fossati, O.Ss.G.C.N.

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Marcello

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Torino (Italy)

1924.03.241924.04.27
AlgeriaBishop Emile-Jean-François Thiénard

former Bishop of Constantine (Algeria)

1924.03.241924.05.01
CanadaBishop Fabien-Zoël Decelles

former Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe (Canada)

1924.03.241924.05.22
IrelandBishop John Dignan

former Bishop of Clonfert (Ireland)

1924.03.241924.06.01
BrazilBishop José Maria Perreira Lara

former Bishop of Caratinga (Brazil)

1924.03.271925.02.11
FranceBishop Jean-Camille Costes

former Bishop of Angers (France)

1924.04.031924.06.24
FranceBishop Joseph Freri

former Titular Bishop of Constantia

1924.04.091924.10.28
ColombiaArchbishop José Ignacio López Umaña

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Cartagena (Colombia)

1924.04.101924.08.03
ColombiaArchbishop Pedro Maria Rodríguez Andrade

former Bishop of Ibagué (Colombia)

1924.04.101924.08.03
CzechiaBishop Giuseppe Kupka

former Bishop of Brno (Czechia)

1924.04.101924.09.07
HondurasBishop Juan Sastre y Riutort, C.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of San Pedro Sula (Honduras)

1924.04.151924.08.10
SpainBishop Félix Bilbao y Ugarriza

former Bishop of Tortosa (Spain)

1924.04.231924.12.27
MonacoBishop Auguste-Maurice Clément

former Bishop of Monaco (Monaco)

1924.04.251924.07.02
ItalyCardinal Oreste Giorgi

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Cosmedin pro hac vice Title

former Major Penitentiary of Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary

1924.04.261924.04.27
USABishop Stephen Peter Alencastre, SS.CC.

former Vicar Apostolic of Hawaiian Islands (USA)

1924.04.291924.08.24
ChinaBishop Louis-Nestor Renault (唐靄鐸), M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Suifu 敘府 (China)

1924.04.291924.09.21
ItalyArchbishop Egisto Domenico Melchiori

former Bishop of Tortona (Italy)

former Archbishop ad personam

1924.05.021924.06.15
Congo-KinshasaBishop Charles Alphonse Armand Vanuytven, O. Praem.

former Vicar Apostolic of Buta (Congo-Kinshasa)

1924.05.061924.09.11
USAArchbishop John Francis Noll

former Bishop of Fort Wayne (USA)

former Archbishop ad personam

1924.05.121925.06.30
USAArchbishop Konštantín Bohačevskyj (Ukrainian Rite)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Philadelphia of the Ukrainians (USA)

1924.05.201924.06.15
USABishop Basil Takach (Ruthenian Rite)

former Apostolic Exarch of United States of America of the Ruthenians (USA)

1924.05.201924.06.15
FranceCardinal Alexis-Henri-Marie Lépicier, O.S.M.

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Susanna

former Prefect of Sacred Congregation of Religious

1924.05.221924.05.29
USABishop Joseph Casimir Plagens

former Bishop of Grand Rapids (USA)

1924.05.221924.09.30
ColombiaVenerable Bishop Miguel Ángel Builes Gómez

former Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos (Colombia)

1924.05.271924.08.03
MexicoArchbishop Pedro Vera y Zuria

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Puebla de los Ángeles (Mexico)

1924.05.271924.08.24
MaltaArchbishop Michael Gonzi

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Malta (Malta)

1924.06.131924.07.20
CzechiaBishop Josef Bombera

former Titular Bishop of Hieropolis

1924.06.131924.10.05
ItalyBishop Oddo Bernacchia

former Bishop of Termoli (Italy)

1924.06.241924.10.05
USABishop Francis Clement Kelley

former Bishop of Oklahoma City–Tulsa (USA)

1924.06.251924.10.02
USABishop Richard Oliver Gerow

former Bishop of Natchez–Jackson (USA)

1924.06.251924.10.15
BrazilBishop José Carlos de Aguirre

former Bishop of Sorocaba (Brazil)

1924.07.041924.12.08
BrazilBishop Carlos Duarte Costa ▼

former Bishop of Botucatu (Brazil)

1924.07.041924.12.08
BrazilBishop Inocêncio Engelke, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Campanha (Brazil)

1924.07.041924.12.12
BrazilBishop Justino José de Sant’Ana

former Bishop of Juiz de Fora (Brazil)

1924.07.041925.01.20
BrazilVenerable Archbishop Antônio de Almeida Lustosa, S.D.B.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Fortaleza (Brazil)

1924.07.041925.02.11
CanadaBishop Joseph-Alfred Langlois

former Bishop of Valleyfield (Canada)

1924.07.141924.09.23
PalestineBishop Godric Kean

former Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem (Palestine)

1924.07.141924.10.19
UkraineBishop Péter Gebé (Ruthenian Rite)

former Bishop of Mukačeve of the Ruthenians (Ukraine)

1924.07.161924.08.03
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Ballerini

former Bishop of Pavia (Italy)

1924.07.261924.10.28
ItalyBishop Massimo Rinaldi

former Bishop of Rieti (Italy)

1924.08.021925.03.19
EnglandBishop Michael Francis Glancey

former Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham (England)

1924.08.051924.09.29
GermanyBishop Wilhelm Burger

former Auxiliary Bishop of Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany)

1924.09.011924.10.28
GermanyBishop Matthias Ehrenfried

former Bishop of Würzburg (Germany)

1924.09.301924.12.01
North MacedoniaBishop Giovanni Francesco Gnidovec, C.M.

former Bishop of Skopje (North Macedonia)

1924.10.291924.11.30
SerbiaArchbishop Ivan Rafael Rodić, O.F.M.

former Archbishop of Beograd (Serbia)

former Apostolic Administrator of Jugoslavenska Banat (Serbia)

1924.10.291924.12.07
SudanBishop Paolo Tranquillo Silvestri, F.S.C.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Khartoum (Sudan)

1924.10.291924.12.07
FranceArchbishop Jean-Justin-Michel Girbeau

former Bishop of Nîmes (France)

former Archbishop ad personam

1924.11.081924.12.16
PolandBishop Antonio Laubitz

former Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno (Poland)

1924.11.081925.01.18
BoliviaArchbishop Abel Isidoro Antezana y Rojas, C.M.F.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of La Paz (Bolivia)

1924.11.131925.03.15
BoliviaBishop Julio Garret

former Bishop of Cochabamba (Bolivia)

1924.11.131925.03.15
BoliviaBishop Cleto Loayza Gumiel

former Bishop of Potosí (Bolivia)

1924.11.151925.03.15
BoliviaBishop Augusto Sieffert, C.SS.R.

former Bishop of La Paz (Bolivia)

1924.11.151925.03.15
BoliviaBishop Ramón Font y Farrés, C.M.F.

former Bishop of Tarija (Bolivia)

1924.11.171925.03.15
ChinaBishop Paul-Leon-Cornelius Montaigne (滿德胎), C.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Beijing 北京 (China)

1924.11.251925.04.19
ChinaArchbishop Theodor Buddenbrock (濮登博), S.V.D.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Lanzhou 蘭州 (China)

1924.11.251925.06.07
PolandBishop Stanislaw Wojciech Okoniewski

former Bishop of Chełmno (Poland)

1924.12.141926.04.25
ItalyArchbishop Serafino Cimino, O.F.M.

former Minister General of Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans)

1924.12.181925.01.11
EnglandBishop Joseph Thorman

former Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle (England)

1924.12.181925.01.27
BelgiumArchbishop Louis-Joseph Kerkhofs

former Bishop of Liège (Belgium)

1924.12.181925.02.11
Congo-KinshasaBishop Natale de Cleene, C.I.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Léopoldville (Congo-Kinshasa)

1924.12.181925.02.24
EnglandBishop Thomas Wulstan Pearson, O.S.B.

former Bishop of Lancaster (England)

1924.12.181925.02.24
SpainBishop Silverio Velasco Pérez

former Titular Bishop of Ticelia

former Apostolic Administrator of Ciudad Rodrigo (Spain)

1924.12.181925.05.03
Congo-KinshasaBishop Robert Costanzo Lagae, O.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Niangara (Congo-Kinshasa)

1924.12.181925.06.11
SpainBishop Albino González y Menédez Reigada, O.P.

former Bishop of Córdoba (Spain)

1924.12.181925.07.19
BrazilBishop Pedro Pascual Miguel y Martínez, O. de M.

former Bishop-Prelate of Bom Jesus do Piauí (Brazil)

1924.12.181925.07.26
BrazilBishop Sebastião Tomás, O.P.

former Bishop-Prelate of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia (Brazil)

1924.12.181925.11.15
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