Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1925

Newly Elected Bishops (56)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
ItalyCardinal Gaetano Cicognani

former Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati

former Pro-Prefect of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura

1925.01.111925.02.01
CanadaBishop John Thomas Kidd

former Bishop of London (Canada)

1925.02.061925.05.06
GhanaBishop Ernest Hauger, S.M.A.

former Vicar Apostolic of Gold Coast (Ghana)

1925.02.131925.05.24
CanadaBishop Alphonse-Emmanuel Deschamps

former Auxiliary Bishop of Montréal (Canada)

1925.02.201925.04.21
ItalySaint Pope John XXIII

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

1925.03.031925.03.19
ItalyBishop Ettore Lodi

former Auxiliary Bishop of Bologna (Italy)

1925.03.061925.03.25
BelgiumCardinal Jozef-Ernest van Roey

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Ara Coeli

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Mechelen (Belgium)

former Military Vicar of Belgium (Belgium)

1925.03.121926.04.25
EritreaArchbishop Celestino Annibale Cattaneo, O.F.M. Cap.

former Vicar Apostolic of Eritrea (Eritrea)

1925.03.241925.04.19
ItalyCardinal Paolo Giobbe

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Vallicella

former Patron of Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta (Knights of Malta)

1925.03.301925.04.26
SlovakiaBishop Józef Čársky

former Bishop of Rožňava (Slovakia)

former Apostolic Administrator of Košice na Slovensku (Slovakia)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Košice (Slovakia)

1925.03.301925.06.14
SlovakiaBishop Pavol Jantausch

former Apostolic Administrator of Trnava (Slovakia)

1925.03.301925.06.14
FranceBishop Jean-Baptiste Thomas

former Bishop of Langres (France)

1925.03.301925.06.24
USABishop William Joseph Hafey

former Bishop of Scranton (USA)

1925.04.061925.06.24
CroatiaBishop Isidoro Sain, O.S.B.

former Bishop of Rijeka–Opatija (Croatia)

1925.04.251926.08.08
FranceBishop Pierre Patau

former Auxiliary Bishop of Perpignan–Elne (France)

1925.05.011925.07.02
BrazilBishop Henrique César Fernandes Mourão, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Cafelândia (Brazil)

1925.05.011925.10.18
BrazilBishop Basilio Manuel Olimpo Pereira, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Amazonas (Brazil)

1925.05.011925.10.25
BrazilBishop André Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti

former Bishop of Taubaté (Brazil)

1925.05.011925.10.28
RomaniaBishop Mihai Robu

former Bishop of Iaşi (Romania)

1925.05.071925.09.20
VietnamBishop François Chaize, M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Hà Nôi (Vietnam)

1925.05.121925.11.22
UgandaBishop John William Campling, M.H.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Upper Nile (Uganda)

1925.05.131925.08.24
South AfricaBishop David O’Leary, O.M.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Johannesburg (South Africa)

1925.05.131925.09.08
FranceBishop François-Marie Picaud

former Bishop of Bayeux (France)

1925.05.151925.07.01
FranceBishop Georges-Marie-Eugène Audollent

former Bishop of Blois (France)

1925.05.151925.07.16
FranceBishop Charles Challiol

former Bishop of Rodez (France)

1925.05.151925.08.10
FranceBishop Norbert-Georges-Pierre Rousseau

former Bishop of Le Puy-en-Velay (France)

1925.05.151925.09.08
SpainCardinal Agustín Parrado García

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Agostino

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Granada (Spain)

1925.05.201925.08.16
PolandBishop Władysław Szcześniak

former Auxiliary Bishop of Warszawa (Poland)

1925.05.251925.07.19
ItalyArchbishop Constantino Aiutti

former Titular Archbishop of Phasis

former Apostolic Delegate to Indochina

1925.05.281925.06.29
PhilippinesBishop Francesco Sales Reyes y Alicante

former Bishop of Nueva Caceres (Philippines)

1925.06.201925.09.19
USAArchbishop Edwin Vincent Byrne

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Santa Fe (USA)

1925.06.231925.11.30
SwitzerlandBishop Joseph Ambühl

former Bishop of Basel (Switzerland)

1925.06.301925.09.27
PeruBishop Francisco Miguel Irazola y Galarza, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Ucayali (Peru)

1925.07.141926.02.07
MauritiusArchbishop Jacques Leen, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Port-Louis (Mauritius)

former Archbishop ad personam

1925.07.151925.09.13
South AfricaBishop Bernard Cornelius O’Riley

former Vicar Apostolic of Cape of Good Hope, Western District (South Africa)

1925.07.151926.01.06
USAArchbishop Edmond John Fitzmaurice

former Bishop of Wilmington (USA)

1925.07.241925.11.30
SwitzerlandBishop Giovanni Giuseppe Santini, O.F.M. Cap.

former Prefect Apostolic of Rhaetia (Switzerland)

1925.07.301925.11.01
ChileBishop Miguel León Prado

former Bishop of Linares (Chile)

1925.10.181925.12.27
PolandVenerable Cardinal August Hlond, S.D.B.

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria della Pace

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Warszawa (Poland)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Gniezno (Poland)

1925.10.281926.01.03
FranceCardinal Jules-Géraud Saliège

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Pudenziana

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Toulouse (France)

1925.10.291926.01.06
FranceArchbishop Emmanuel Coste

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Aix (France)

1925.10.291926.01.12
SlovakiaBishop Michal Bubnič

former Bishop of Rožňava (Slovakia)

1925.10.311925.12.08
EnglandBishop Thomas Henshaw

former Bishop of Salford (England)

1925.12.141925.12.21
ChileBishop Melquisedec del Canto Terán

former Bishop of San Felipe (Chile)

1925.12.141925.12.27
ChileBishop Rafael Lira Infante

former Bishop of Valparaíso (Chile)

1925.12.141926.01.03
ItalyArchbishop Giacomo Montanelli

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Vercelli (Italy)

1925.12.141926.01.17
PolandBishop Teodoro Kubina

former Bishop of Częstochowa (Poland)

1925.12.141926.02.02
FranceBishop Alexandre-Philibert Poirier

former Bishop of Tarbes et Lourdes (France)

1925.12.141926.02.11
SpainBishop José Vila y Martínez

former Bishop of Gerona (Spain)

1925.12.141926.02.24
SpainBlessed Bishop Manuel Medina y Olmos

former Bishop of Guadix (Spain)

1925.12.141926.05.23
BrazilBishop Guilherme Müller

former Bishop of Barra do Piraí (Brazil)

1925.12.141926.08.22
USABishop Thomas Anthony Welch

former Bishop of Duluth (USA)

1925.12.171926.02.03
VietnamBishop Isidore-Marie-Joseph Dumortier, M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Saigon (Vietnam)

1925.12.171926.03.25
USABishop Maurice Francis McAuliffe

former Bishop of Hartford (USA)

1925.12.171926.04.28
GabonBishop Louis-Michel-François Tardy, C.S.Sp.

former Vicar Apostolic of Gabon (Gabon)

1925.12.181926.01.25
KenyaBishop Giuseppe Perrachon, I.M.C.

former Vicar Apostolic of Nyeri (Kenya)

1925.12.181926.04.11

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