Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1929

Newly Elected Bishops (84)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
USABishop Robert John Armstrong

former Bishop of Sacramento (USA)

1929.01.041929.03.12
USABishop John Francis O’Hern

former Bishop of Rochester (USA)

1929.01.041929.03.19
ItalyCardinal Luigi Sincero

former Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina

former President of Pontifical Commission for the Authentic Interpretation of the Code of Canon Law

former President of Pontifical Commission for the Codification of Oriental Canon Law

former Secretary of Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Churches

1929.01.111929.01.13
GermanyBishop Nikolaus Bares

former Bishop of Berlin (Germany)

1929.01.151929.02.24
IndiaBishop Bernard James Sullivan, S.J.

former Bishop of Patna (India)

1929.01.151929.03.17
EthiopiaArchbishop Giovanni Maria Emilio Castellani, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Addis Abeba (Ethiopia)

1929.01.151929.04.02
ItalyArchbishop Francesco Petronelli

former Archbishop of Barletta (Italy)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Trani (Italy)

1929.01.181929.05.26
BrazilBishop Pio de Freitas Silveira, C.M.

former Bishop of Joinville (Brazil)

1929.01.251929.06.09
ArgentinaBishop Pedro Dionisio Tibiletti

former Bishop of San Luis (Argentina)

1929.01.251929.06.23
BelgiumBishop Justin Cawet

former Coadjutor Bishop of Namur (Belgium)

1929.01.281929.03.19
ChinaBishop Evarist Zhang Zhi-liang (張智良)

former Vicar Apostolic of Jining 集寧 (China)

1929.02.021929.04.14
ChinaBishop Edward Thomas Sheehan (徐安慶), C.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Yujiang 餘江 (China)

1929.02.041929.07.14
SpainBishop Manuel López Arana

former Titular Bishop of Curium

former Apostolic Administrator of Ciudad Rodrigo (Spain)

1929.02.051929.03.10
SpainArchbishop Luciano Pérez Platero

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Burgos (Spain)

1929.02.051929.06.09
SpainCardinal Manuel Arce y Ochotorena

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

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tarragona (Spain)

1929.02.051929.06.16
BangladeshBishop Giovanni Battista Anselmo, P.I.M.E.

former Bishop of Dinajpur (Bangladesh)

1929.02.071929.04.01
ItalyArchbishop Giovanni Costantini

former Bishop of La Spezia (Italy)

former Bishop of Brugnato (Italy)

former Bishop of Luni–Sarzana (Italy)

1929.02.081929.05.05
PhilippinesBishop William Finnemann, S.V.D.

former Prefect Apostolic of Mindoro (Philippines)

1929.02.081929.05.21
AustriaArchbishop Franz Kamprath

former Auxiliary Bishop of Wien (Austria)

1929.02.151929.03.31
PhilippinesBishop Cesare Maria Guerrero

former Bishop of San Fernando (Philippines)

1929.02.221929.05.24
PalestineBishop Francesco Fellinger

former Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem (Palestine)

1929.02.261929.04.07
HungaryBishop Stefano Hász

former Titular Bishop of Sura

1929.02.281929.04.28
BrazilArchbishop Marcolino Esmeraldo de Souza Dantas

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Natal (Brazil)

1929.03.011929.05.19
USABishop Aloysius Joseph Willinger, C.SS.R.

former Bishop of Monterey–Fresno (USA)

1929.03.081929.10.28
SloveniaBishop Gregorij Rožman

former Bishop of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

1929.03.171929.07.14
EgyptBishop Ange-Marie-Paul Hiral, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Port-Said (Egypt)

1929.03.181929.05.19
JapanBishop Wenceslaus Kinold (ヴェンチェスラオ・キノルド), O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Sapporo 札幌 (Japan)

1929.03.181929.06.09
TanzaniaBishop Burcardo Huwiler, M. Afr.

former Vicar Apostolic of Bubuka (Tanzania)

1929.03.181929.07.14
TanzaniaBishop Antoon Oomen, M. Afr.

former Vicar Apostolic of Mwanza (Tanzania)

1929.03.181929.07.21
HungaryBishop István Breyer

former Bishop of Győr (Hungary)

1929.04.051929.05.19
IrelandBishop Thomas Mulvany

former Bishop of Meath (Ireland)

1929.04.121929.06.30
CroatiaBishop Josip Marija Carevic

former Bishop of Dubrovnik (Croatia)

1929.04.131929.08.04
FranceCardinal Clément-Émile Roques

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Balbina

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Rennes (France)

1929.04.151929.06.24
FranceBishop Hippolyte Tréhiou

former Bishop of Vannes (France)

1929.04.151929.06.24
ItalyBishop Federico Emmanuel, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia (Italy)

1929.04.181929.05.19
UruguayArchbishop Miguel Paternain, C.SS.R.

former Bishop of Florida (Uruguay)

1929.04.201929.07.21
USAArchbishop Gerald Patrick Aloysius O’Hara

former Archbishop-Bishop of Savannah (USA)

1929.04.261929.05.20
SpainBishop Lino Rodrigo Ruesca

former Bishop of Huesca (Spain)

1929.05.011929.09.29
PolandArchbishop Walenty Dymek

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Poznań (Poland)

1929.05.101929.05.26
FranceCardinal Pierre-Marie Gerlier

former Cardinal-Priest of SS. Trinità al Monte Pincio

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Lyon (France)

1929.05.141929.07.02
AlbaniaArchbishop Pietro Gjura

former Archbishop of Durrës (Albania)

1929.05.151929.08.04
ChinaArchbishop Cyrill Rudolph Jarre (楊恩賚), O.F.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Jinan 濟南 (China)

1929.05.181929.07.25
CanadaArchbishop Basile Vladimir Ladyka, O.S.B.M. (Ukrainian Rite)

former Apostolic Exarch of Manitoba of the Ukrainians (Canada)

1929.05.201929.07.14
MyanmarBishop Frédéric-Joseph-Marie Provost, M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Southern Burma (Myanmar)

1929.05.201929.11.21
AustraliaBishop James Byrne

former Bishop of Toowoomba (Australia)

1929.05.281929.09.01
IndiaBishop William Bouter, M.H.M.

former Bishop of Nellore (India)

1929.05.281929.09.08
Northern IrelandBishop Daniel Mageean

former Bishop of Down and Connor (Northern Ireland)

1929.05.291929.08.25
IcelandBishop Martino Meulenberg, S.M.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Islanda (Iceland)

1929.05.301929.07.25
ItalyBishop Giovanni Jeremich

former Auxiliary Bishop of Venezia (Italy)

1929.05.311929.07.25
AustraliaBishop John Aloysius Coleman

former Bishop of Armidale (Australia)

1929.05.311929.09.08
AustraliaBishop Edmund Joseph Gleeson, C.SS.R.

former Bishop of Maitland (Australia)

1929.05.311929.09.15
ItalyCardinal Francesco Borgongini Duca

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Vallicella

former Pontifical Delegate for the Shrine of the Holy House of Loreto

former Pontifical Administrator of the Patriarchal Basilica of Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls

1929.06.071929.06.29
FranceArchbishop Louis-Joseph Fillon

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bourges (France)

1929.06.211929.09.24
EnglandArchbishop Thomas Leighton Williams

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Birmingham (England)

1929.06.231929.07.25
ItalyBlessed Cardinal Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, O.S.B. Cas.

former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Silvestro e Martino ai Monti

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Milano (Italy)

1929.06.261929.07.21
ItalyArchbishop Ercole Attuoni

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Fermo (Italy)

1929.07.151929.08.11
TurkiyeArchbishop Giovanni Battista Dellepiane

former Titular Archbishop of Stauropolis

former Apostolic Nuncio to Austria

1929.07.181929.11.30
ScotlandArchbishop Andrew Thomas McDonald, O.S.B.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh (Scotland)

1929.07.191929.09.24
BrazilBishop Daniel Henrique Hostin, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Lages (Brazil)

1929.08.021929.09.29
BrazilBishop Antonio Colturato, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Botucatu (Brazil)

1929.08.021929.10.04
BelgiumBishop Henri Lamiroy

former Bishop of Brugge (Belgium)

1929.08.061929.10.14
USAArchbishop Ivan Bucko (Ukrainian Rite)

former Auxiliary Bishop of United States of America of the Ukrainians (USA)

1929.09.161929.10.20
ItalyArchbishop Luigi Bondini, O.F.M. Conv.

former Titular Archbishop of Perge

1929.09.291929.10.20
FranceArchbishop Antonin-Fernand Drapier, O.P.

former Titular Archbishop of Neocæsarea in Ponto

1929.10.071929.12.22
FranceArchbishop Jean-Joseph-Aimé Moussaron

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Albi (France)

1929.10.091930.01.06
MexicoBishop Leopoldo Díaz y Escudero

former Bishop of Chilapa (Mexico)

1929.11.051930.02.09
FranceArchbishop Virgile-Joseph Béguin

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Auch (France)

1929.11.151930.01.14
FranceCardinal Jean Verdier, P.S.S.

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Balbina

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Paris (France)

1929.11.181929.12.29
UkraineBishop Ivan Latyševskyj (Ukrainian Rite)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk of the Ukrainians (Ukraine)

1929.11.241930.01.26
TurkiyeArchbishop Eduardo Tonna

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Izmir (Turkiye)

1929.11.261930.02.09
ChinaBishop Paul Wang Wen-cheng (王文成)

former Bishop of Shunqing 順慶 (China)

1929.12.021930.02.24
USABishop Joseph Henry Albers

former Bishop of Lansing (USA)

1929.12.161929.12.27
CzechiaBishop Jan Remiger

former Auxiliary Bishop of Praha (Czechia)

1929.12.161930.02.02
Sri LankaArchbishop Pierre-Guillaume Marque, O.M.I.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

1929.12.161930.02.11
BrazilBishop Antônio Mazzarotto

former Bishop of Ponta Grossa (Brazil)

1929.12.161930.02.23
ChinaBishop Francis Xavier Wang Ze-pu (Wang Tse-pu) (王澤浦)

former Bishop of Wanxian 萬縣 (China)

1929.12.161930.02.24
MexicoCardinal José Garibi Rivera

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Onofrio

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Guadalajara (Mexico)

1929.12.161930.05.07
ChinaBishop Jean-Baptiste-Michel-Marie-Louis Pénicaud (賁德馨), M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Beihai 北海 (China)

1929.12.161930.11.09
GermanyBishop Franz Joseph Fischer

former Auxiliary Bishop of Rottenburg (Germany)

1929.12.191930.02.24
South AfricaArchbishop Herman Joseph Meysing, O.M.I.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bloemfontein (South Africa)

1929.12.191930.03.19
Congo-KinshasaBishop Edoardo Luigi Antonio Leys, M. Afr.

former Vicar Apostolic of Kivu (Congo-Kinshasa)

1929.12.191930.04.21
CanadaBishop Joseph-Wilfrid Guy, O.M.I.

former Bishop of Gravelbourg (Canada)

1929.12.191930.05.01
VietnamBishop Augustin-Marie Tardieu, M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Quinhon (Vietnam)

1929.12.191930.05.01
ChinaBishop Tommaso Berutti (柏露梯), S.J.

former Vicar Apostolic of Bengbu 蚌埠 (China)

1929.12.191930.06.08

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