Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1932

Newly Elected Bishops (84)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
ParaguayBishop Karl Walter Vervoort, O.M.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Pilcomayo (Paraguay)

19321950.09.10
ArgentinaBishop Leopoldo Buteler

former Bishop of Río Cuarto (Argentina)

1932.01.081932.06.05
ChinaBishop John Zhang Bi-de (張弼德)

former Bishop of Zhaoxian 趙縣 (China)

1932.01.111932.04.24
GreeceBishop Timoteo Giorgio Raymundos, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Santorini (Greece)

1932.01.121932.03.06
AustraliaBishop Romuald Denis Hayes

former Bishop of Rockhampton (Australia)

1932.01.121932.04.03
IndiaBishop Marie-Louis-Joseph-Constantin Tournier, M.E.P.

former Bishop of Coimbatore (India)

1932.01.121932.04.13
GuyanaBishop George Weld, S.J.

former Vicar Apostolic of British Guiana (Guyana)

1932.01.121932.05.15
ChinaBishop Alfonso Maria Corrado Ferrani (費樂理), O.F.M.

former Bishop of Laohekou 老河口 (China)

1932.01.271932.05.29
ItalyArchbishop Luigi Centoz

former Vice-Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church of Apostolic Camera

1932.01.281932.02.14
NicaraguaArchbishop Vicente Alejandro González y Robleto

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Managua (Nicaragua)

1932.01.291932.05.01
ItalyPatriarch Carlo Agostini

former Patriarch of Venezia (Italy)

1932.01.301932.04.10
NetherlandsArchbishop Jozef Hubert Willem Lemmens

former Bishop of Roermond (Netherlands)

1932.02.051932.03.19
GermanyBishop Wilhelm Stockums

former Auxiliary Bishop of Köln (Germany)

1932.02.091932.04.20
IndiaVenerable Archbishop Geevarghese Ivanios Giorgio Tommaso Panickerveetil, O.I.C. (Syro-Malankara Rite)

former Metropolitan of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankara (India)

1932.02.131925.05.01
IndiaBishop Jacob Abraham Theophilos Kalapurakal (Syro-Malankara Rite)

former Bishop of Tiruvalla of the Syro-Malankara (India)

1932.02.131929.02.14
ItalyArchbishop Pietro Tagliapietra

former Archbishop of Spoleto (Italy)

1932.02.221932.05.01
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Franciolini

former Bishop of Cortona (Italy)

1932.03.021932.05.01
ItalyBishop Luigi Drago

former Bishop of Tarquinia (Italy)

former Bishop of Civitavecchia (Italy)

1932.03.031932.04.03
TanzaniaBishop John Heffernan, C.S.Sp.

former Vicar Apostolic of Zanzibar (Tanzania)

1932.03.151932.06.19
Congo-KinshasaBishop Edoardo van Goethem, M.S.C.

former Vicar Apostolic of Coquilhatville (Congo-Kinshasa)

1932.03.151933.04.25
BrazilBishop Luiz Scortegagna

former Bishop of Espírito Santo (Brazil)

1932.03.181932.07.31
Congo-KinshasaBishop Jean-Félix de Hemptinne, O.S.B.

former Vicar Apostolic of Katanga (Congo-Kinshasa)

1932.03.221932.07.24
SwitzerlandBishop Laurenz Matthias Vincenz

former Bishop of Chur (Switzerland)

1932.03.301932.05.22
ItalyBishop Beniamino Ubaldi

former Bishop of Gubbio (Italy)

1932.03.301932.06.29
ItalyBishop Nicola Colangelo

former Bishop of Nardò (Italy)

1932.04.041932.06.26
São Tomé and PríncipeArchbishop Moisés Alves de Pinho, C.S.Sp.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Luanda (Angola)

former Bishop of São Tomé e Príncipe (São Tomé and Príncipe)

1932.04.071932.07.17
French PolynesiaBishop Julien-Marie Nouailles, SS.CC.

former Vicar Apostolic of Tahiti Islands (French Polynesia)

1932.04.261932.08.28
ItalyArchbishop Antonio Tani

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Urbino (Italy)

1932.05.011932.06.03
UkraineBishop Olexander Stojka (Ruthenian Rite)

former Bishop of Mukačeve of the Ruthenians (Ukraine)

1932.05.031932.07.12
ItalyBishop Francesco Niccoli

former Bishop of Colle di Val d’Elsa (Italy)

1932.05.121932.06.26
USABishop James Augustine McFadden

former Bishop of Youngstown (USA)

1932.05.121932.09.08
EnglandBishop John Francis McNulty

former Bishop of Nottingham (England)

1932.05.131932.06.11
USABishop Joseph Edward McCarthy

former Bishop of Portland in Maine (USA)

1932.05.131932.08.24
FranceBishop Gabriel Brunhes

former Bishop of Montpellier (France)

1932.05.201932.08.20
ChinaBishop Joseph-Louis-Adhémar Lapierre (石俊聲), P.M.E.

former Bishop of Siping 四平 (China)

1932.05.241932.08.04
CameroonBishop Mathurin-Marie Le Mailloux, C.S.Sp.

former Vicar Apostolic of Douala (Cameroon)

1932.05.271932.09.08
KenyaBishop Gorgonio Brandsma, M.H.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Kisumu (Kenya)

1932.05.271933.11.07
EnglandArchbishop Edward Myers

former Coadjutor Archbishop of Westminster (England)

1932.06.101932.07.25
CanadaArchbishop Peter Joseph Monahan

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Regina (Canada)

1932.06.101932.08.10
TurkiyeBishop Dionisio Leonida Varouhas (Greek Rite)

former Apostolic Exarch of Istanbul of the Greeks (Turkiye)

1932.06.111932.07.10
ChinaBishop Francesco Joosten, C.I.C.M.

former Bishop of Datong 大同 (China)

1932.06.141932.08.28
ItalyArchbishop Pacifico Giulio Vanni (萬九樓), O.F.M.

former Archbishop-Bishop of Sovana–Pitigliano (Italy)

1932.06.141932.10.23
VietnamBishop Eugenio Artaraz Emaldi, O.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Bac Ninh (Vietnam)

1932.06.141932.11.06
ItalyBishop Umberto Ugliengo

former Bishop of Susa (Italy)

1932.06.241932.08.14
ItalyBishop Stanislao Amilcare Battistelli, C.P.

former Bishop of Teramo (Italy)

former Bishop of Atri (Italy)

1932.06.241932.08.21
ItalyArchbishop Demetrio Moscato

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Salerno (Italy)

1932.06.241932.09.08
ItalyBishop Domenico Dell’Aquila

former Bishop-Prelate of Altamura (Italy)

former Bishop-Prelate of Acquaviva delle Fonti (Italy)

1932.06.271932.08.28
CroatiaBishop Ivan Starcevic

former Bishop of Senj–Modruš (Croatia)

1932.07.011932.08.28
USABishop James Edward Kearney

former Bishop of Rochester (USA)

1932.07.011932.10.28
BelarusBishop Kazimierz Bukraba

former Bishop of Pinsk (Belarus)

1932.07.101932.08.21
NorwayBishop Jacques Mangers, S.M.

former Bishop of Oslo (Norway)

1932.07.121932.08.24
IndonesiaBishop Mattias Leonardus Trudon Brans, O.F.M. Cap.

former Vicar Apostolic of Medan (Indonesia)

1932.07.121933.02.05
ItalyArchbishop Francesco Imberti

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Vercelli (Italy)

1932.07.231932.09.11
PhilippinesArchbishop Gabriele Martelino Reyes

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Manila (Philippines)

1932.07.291932.10.11
BrazilCardinal Carlos Carmelo de Vasconcelos Motta

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Pancrazio

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Aparecida (Brazil)

1932.07.291932.10.30
USACardinal Francis Joseph Spellman

former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Giovanni e Paolo

former Metropolitan Archbishop of New York (USA)

former Military Vicar of United States of America (USA)

1932.07.301932.09.08
ItalyBishop Ferdinando Ricca

former Bishop of Trapani (Italy)

1932.08.121932.12.21
ItalyBishop Salvatore Russo

former Bishop of Acireale (Italy)

1932.08.131932.10.23
FranceArchbishop Frédéric Edouard Camille Lamy

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Sens (France)

1932.08.161932.09.29
FranceBishop Jean-Joseph Pays

former Bishop of Carcassonne (France)

1932.08.161932.10.07
FranceBishop Emile Barthès

former Auxiliary Bishop of Albi (France)

1932.08.161932.10.15
FranceBishop Patrice Flynn

former Bishop of Nevers (France)

1932.08.161932.10.18
FranceBishop Auguste-Callixte-Jean Bonnabel

former Bishop of Gap (France)

1932.08.161932.10.26
FranceBishop Georges-Auguste Louis

former Bishop of Périgueux (France)

1932.08.161932.11.09
SwitzerlandBishop Bernard Alexis Burquier, C.R.A.

former Abbot Ordinary of Saint-Maurice d’Agaune (Switzerland)

former Abbot Ordinary of Swiss Congregation of Canons Regular of Saint Maurice of Agaune

1932.08.221932.09.21
GermanyCardinal Konrad von Preysing Lichtenegg-Moos

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Agata de’ Goti pro hac vice Title

former Bishop of Berlin (Germany)

1932.09.091932.10.28
GermanyBishop Petrus Legge

former Bishop of Meißen (Germany)

1932.09.091932.10.28
ItalyBishop Paolo Galeazzi

former Bishop of Grosseto (Italy)

1932.09.161932.10.30
ItalyBishop Giacomo Zaffrani

former Bishop of Guastalla (Italy)

1932.09.161932.10.30
BrazilBishop Idílio José Soares

former Bishop of Santos (Brazil)

1932.09.161932.11.30
ItalyArchbishop Pietro Capizzi

former Bishop of Caltagirone (Italy)

1932.09.161933.01.08
AustriaCardinal Theodor Innitzer

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Crisogono

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Wien (Austria)

1932.09.191932.10.16
ItalyBishop Sebastiano Briacca

former Bishop of Mondovì (Italy)

1932.10.051932.11.20
PortugalBishop Luís António de Almeida

former Bishop of Bragança e Miranda (Portugal)

1932.10.071932.12.08
ArgentinaCardinal Nicolás Fasolino

former Cardinal-Priest of Beata Maria Addolorata a piazza Buenos Aires

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Santa Fe (Argentina)

1932.10.201932.12.21
ArgentinaBishop Vicente Peira

former Bishop of Catamarca (Argentina)

1932.10.201932.12.21
GermanyBishop Augustinus Philipp Baumann

former Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn (Germany)

1932.10.281932.12.21
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Rolla

former Bishop of Forlì (Italy)

1932.11.251933.01.08
CanadaArchbishop Louis-Joseph-Arthur Melanson

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Moncton (Canada)

1932.11.251933.02.22
VietnamBishop Francisco Gomez de Santiago, O.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Hai Phòng (Vietnam)

1932.11.281933.03.19
GhanaBishop Hubert Joseph Paulissen, S.M.A.

former Bishop of Kumasi (Ghana)

1932.11.291933.02.11
TanzaniaBishop Joseph James Byrne, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Moshi (Tanzania)

1932.11.291933.03.20
IndiaArchbishop Joseph Attipetty

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Verapoly (India)

1932.11.291933.06.11
USABishop Daniel Francis Desmond

former Bishop of Alexandria (USA)

1932.12.161933.01.05

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