Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1931

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Newly Elected Bishops (83)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
BoliviaBishop Bertoldo Bühl, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Oruro (Bolivia)

1931.01.031931.03.01
GermanyArchbishop Konrad Gröber

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany)

1931.01.131931.02.01
UkraineBlessed Bishop Mykolai Charnets’kyi (Миколай Чарнецький), C.SS.R. (Ukrainian Rite)

former Apostolic Exarch of Volhynia, Polesia and Pidliashia of the Ukrainians (Ukraine)

1931.01.161931.02.02
ColombiaCardinal Crisanto Luque Sánchez

former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Cosma e Damiano pro hac vice Title

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bogotá (Colombia)

former Military Vicar of Colombia (Colombia)

1931.01.161931.05.03
IrelandBishop Francis Wall

former Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin (Ireland)

1931.01.231931.05.26
GermanyBishop Joseph Vogt

former Bishop of Aachen (Germany)

1931.01.301931.03.19
MexicoArchbishop Guillermo Tritschler y Córdoba

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Monterrey (Mexico)

1931.01.301931.04.22
CanadaBishop Joseph-Louis-Aldée Desmarais

former Bishop of Amos (Canada)

1931.01.301931.04.22
CanadaArchbishop Joseph Anthony O’Sullivan

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Kingston (Canada)

1931.02.061931.05.07
PortugalArchbishop Manuel Marilla Ferreira da Silva

former Titular Archbishop of Cyzicus

1931.02.081931.06.29
ItalyArchbishop Arcangelo Mazzotti, O.F.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Sassari (Italy)

1931.02.121931.04.26
SpainArchbishop Francisco Javer Lauzurica y Torralba

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Oviedo (Spain)

1931.02.201931.04.26
NamibiaBishop Joseph Klemann, O.S.F.S.

former Vicar Apostolic of Great Namaqualand (Namibia)

1931.02.241931.04.19
NicaraguaBishop Juan Solá y Farrell, O.F.M. Cap.

former Vicar Apostolic of Bluefields (Nicaragua)

1931.02.241931.04.22
IndiaBishop Peter Francis Rayappa

former Bishop of Kumbakonam (India)

1931.02.241931.06.29
ZimbabweArchbishop Aston Sebastian Joseph Chichester, S.J.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Salisbury (Zimbabwe)

1931.03.041931.07.19
ItalyArchbishop Mario Vianello

former Archbishop of Perugia (Italy)

1931.03.061931.05.10
ItalyArchbishop Francesco de Filippis

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Brindisi (Italy)

former Bishop of Ostuni (Italy)

1931.03.191931.07.26
NetherlandsArchbishop Leo Peter Kierkels, C.P.

former Superior General of Congregation of the Passion (Passionists)

1931.03.231931.04.26
IndiaBishop Juan Vicente Arana Idígoras, O.C.D.

former Bishop of Vijayapuram (India)

1931.03.241931.06.29
ChinaBishop Boniface Yang Fu-jue (Yeung Fuk-tseuk) (楊福爵)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Guangzhou 廣州 (China)

1931.03.261931.07.26
ChinaArchbishop Joseph Zhou Ji-shi (周濟世), C.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Nanchang 南昌 (China)

1931.03.261931.08.02
ItalyArchbishop Giuseppe Rossino

former Secretary of Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities

1931.03.281931.04.19
ChileBishop Teodoro Eugenín Barrientos, SS.CC.

former Military Vicar of Chile (Chile)

1931.04.101931.05.31
BrazilBishop Florentino Simón y Garriga, C.M.F.

former Bishop-Prelate of São José de Alto Tocantins (Brazil)

1931.04.101931.06.21
ItalyArchbishop Ferdinando Bernardi

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Taranto (Italy)

1931.04.111931.06.28
ItalyBishop Teodoro Pallaroni

former Bishop of Sarsina (Italy)

1931.04.171931.06.07
USAArchbishop Urban John Vehr

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Denver (USA)

1931.04.171931.06.10
USAArchbishop Karl Joseph Alter

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Cincinnati (USA)

1931.04.171931.06.17
USABishop Thomas Kiely Gorman

former Bishop of Dallas (USA)

1931.04.241931.07.22
EcuadorBishop Emilio Cecco, C.S.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Napo (Ecuador)

1931.04.281931.05.24
ParaguayBishop Emilio Sosa Gaona, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Concepción (Paraguay)

1931.04.301932.05.15
AustraliaBishop Patrick Joseph Farrelly

former Bishop of Lismore (Australia)

1931.05.011931.08.30
BrazilBishop Aristides de Araújo Porto

former Bishop of Montes Claros (Brazil)

1931.05.081931.08.30
ItalyBishop Francesco Gardini

former Bishop of Bertinoro (Italy)

1931.05.091931.06.28
IndiaBishop Vittore Rosario Fernandes

former Bishop of Mangalore (India)

1931.05.161931.09.21
PortugalArchbishop Ernesto Sena de Oliveira

former Archbishop-Bishop of Coimbra (Portugal)

1931.05.271931.07.25
PortugalBishop João da Silva Campos Neves

former Bishop of Lamego (Portugal)

1931.05.271931.07.25
ItalyArchbishop Domenico Marsiglia

former Archbishop of Rossano (Italy)

1931.05.281931.07.05
ItalyArchbishop Egidio Lari

former Titular Archbishop of Tyrus

1931.06.011931.08.15
BoliviaBishop Tomás Aspe, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Cochabamba (Bolivia)

1931.06.081931.06.21
IndiaBishop Mathurin-Pie Le Ruyet, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Ajmer (India)

1931.06.081931.10.28
AustraliaBishop Thomas Martin Fox

former Bishop of Wilcannia–Forbes (Australia)

1931.06.091931.09.20
JapanBishop Albert Henri Charles Breton (アルベルト・ブルトン), M.E.P.

former Bishop of Fukuoka 福岡 (Japan)

1931.06.091931.09.29
CanadaBishop Pierre-Armand-Albert-Lucien Fallaize, O.M.I.

former Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Mackenzie (Canada)

1931.06.231931.09.13
ItalyArchbishop Andrea Cesarano

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Manfredonia (Italy)

1931.06.301931.08.15
ItalyBishop Massimiliano Massimiliani

former Bishop of Modigliana (Italy)

1931.06.301931.08.15
ItalyArchbishop Agostino Mancinelli

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Benevento (Italy)

1931.06.301931.09.06
Congo-KinshasaBishop Alfonso Verwimp, S.J.

former Bishop of Kisantu (Congo-Kinshasa)

1931.07.021931.10.28
ItalyBishop Romolo Genuardi

former Auxiliary Bishop of Palermo (Italy)

1931.07.031931.08.15
PolandBishop Franciszek Barda

former Bishop of Przemyśl (Poland)

1931.07.101931.08.30
LibyaBishop Candido Domenico Moro, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Benghazi (Libya)

1931.07.141931.09.21
SomaliaBishop Francesco Fulgenzio Lazzati, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Mogadishu (Somalia)

1931.07.141931.11.08
BrazilBishop Antônio Reis

former Bishop of Santa Maria (Brazil)

1931.07.311931.12.13
ChileArchbishop José Horacio Campillo Infante

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Santiago (Chile)

1931.08.111931.09.06
BrazilArchbishop Francisco de Assis Pires

former Bishop of Crato (Brazil)

1931.08.111931.12.06
Papua New GuineaBishop Joseph Lörks, S.V.D.

former Vicar Apostolic of Central New Guinea (Papua New Guinea)

1931.08.221933.12.17
ItalyBishop Vittorio Consigliere, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Cerignola (Italy)

former Bishop of Ascoli Satriano (Italy)

1931.09.011931.11.08
ItalyBishop Francesco Potenza

former Bishop of Castellaneta (Italy)

1931.09.011932.01.03
FranceBishop Clément Joseph Mathieu

former Bishop of Aire et Dax (France)

1931.09.121931.10.28
ItalyBishop Amedeo Polidori

former Bishop of Fossombrone (Italy)

1931.09.231931.11.15
ItalyBishop Antonio Mantiero

former Bishop of Treviso (Italy)

1931.09.261931.11.15
ItalyBishop Domenico Argnani

former Bishop of Macerata (Italy)

former Bishop of Tolentino (Italy)

1931.09.301931.12.06
ItalyBishop Nicolò Frazioli

former Bishop of Bosa (Italy)

1931.09.301931.12.06
ItalyBishop Giovanni Giorgis

former Bishop of Susa (Italy)

1931.09.301931.12.08
FranceArchbishop Pierre-Marie Durieux

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Chambéry (France)

1931.10.051931.12.08
ParaguayBishop Agustín Rodríguez

former Military Vicar of Paraguay (Paraguay)

1931.10.191932.05.15
CzechiaArchbishop Antonin Alois Weber

former Bishop of Litoměřice (Czechia)

1931.10.221931.11.22
CzechiaBishop Maurizio Picha

former Bishop of Hradec Králové (Czechia)

1931.10.221931.11.22
PortugalBishop António Valente da Fonseca

former Bishop of Vila Real (Portugal)

1931.10.231932.02.21
CuraçaoBishop Pietro Giovanni Umberto Verriet, O.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Curaçao (Curaçao)

1931.11.131932.01.06
MexicoBishop Luis Guízar y Barragán

former Bishop of Saltillo (Mexico)

1931.11.271932.02.07
CameroonArchbishop René Graffin, C.S.Sp.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Yaoundé (Cameroon)

1931.12.141932.03.19
ChinaBishop Gaspare Schotte (石揚休), C.I.C.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Ningxia 寧夏 (China)

1931.12.141932.04.10
ChinaBishop Leon-Jean-Marie De Smedt (石德懋), C.I.C.M.

former Bishop of Xiwanzi 西灣子 (China)

1931.12.141932.04.17
ItalyBishop Carlo Re, I.M.C.

former Bishop of Civita–Tempio (Italy)

former Bishop of Ampurias (Italy)

1931.12.141932.05.29
CanadaBishop Louis-Eugène-Arsène Turquetil, O.M.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Baie d’Hudson (Canada)

1931.12.151932.02.23
ColombiaBishop Joaquín Alcaide y Bueso, O.F.M. Cap.

former Vicar Apostolic of Goajira (Colombia)

1931.12.151932.05.01
ItalyArchbishop Adriano Bernareggi

former Bishop of Bergamo (Italy)

former Archbishop ad personam

1931.12.161932.01.24
EnglandBishop William Lee

former Bishop of Clifton (England)

1931.12.181932.01.26
EnglandBishop Ambrose James Moriarty

former Bishop of Shrewsbury (England)

1931.12.181932.01.28
USABishop Stanislaus Vincent Bona

former Bishop of Green Bay (USA)

1931.12.181932.02.25
EcuadorBishop Alessandro Pasquel

former Bishop of Ibarra (Ecuador)

1931.12.181932.06.29
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