Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1934

Newly Elected Bishops (85)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
ChileBishop Ramón Munita Eyzaguirre

former Bishop of San Felipe (Chile)

1934.01.221934.04.01
ItalyBishop Lorenzo Giacomo Inglese, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Anglona–Tursi (Italy)

1934.02.011934.04.15
ColombiaArchbishop Diego Maria Gómez Tamayo

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Popayán (Colombia)

1934.02.011934.05.06
Congo-KinshasaBishop Camille Verfaillie, S.C.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Stanleyville (Congo-Kinshasa)

1934.02.011934.05.27
IndiaBishop Louis-François Gayet, M.S.F.S.

former Bishop of Nagpur (India)

1934.02.011934.06.24
IndonesiaBishop Joannes Walter Panis, M.S.C.

former Vicar Apostolic of Manado (Indonesia)

1934.02.011934.06.24
ItalyBishop Igino Serci

former Bishop of Ozieri (Italy)

1934.02.021934.04.22
ItalyBishop Bernardo Bertoglio

former Bishop of Bobbio–San Colombano (Italy)

1934.02.031934.04.08
USAArchbishop Moses Elias Kiley

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Milwaukee (USA)

1934.02.101934.03.17
USAArchbishop William David O’Brien

former Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago (USA)

1934.02.101934.04.25
USAArchbishop Robert Emmet Lucey

former Metropolitan Archbishop of San Antonio (USA)

1934.02.101934.05.01
USAArchbishop Francis Patrick Keough

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Baltimore (USA)

1934.02.101934.05.22
GhanaBishop Oscar Morin, M. Afr.

former Vicar Apostolic of Navrongo (Ghana)

1934.02.261934.04.19
TanzaniaBishop Bernardo Gerardo Hilhorst, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Morogoro (Tanzania)

1934.02.261934.04.25
Congo-KinshasaBishop Joseph Vanderhoven, C.I.C.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Boma (Congo-Kinshasa)

1934.02.261934.05.01
Congo-KinshasaBishop Hildon-Georges-Marie Six, C.I.C.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Léopoldville (Congo-Kinshasa)

1934.02.261934.05.14
PanamaBishop José María Preciado y Nieva, C.M.F.

former Vicar Apostolic of Darién (Panama)

1934.02.261934.05.31
Congo-KinshasaBishop Camille-Paul Stappers, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Lulua (Congo-Kinshasa)

1934.02.261934.06.09
NigeriaArchbishop Leo Hale Taylor, S.M.A.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Lagos (Nigeria)

1934.02.261934.06.24
USABishop Stephen Joseph Donahue

former Auxiliary Bishop of New York (USA)

1934.03.051934.05.01
BrazilBishop José da Matha de Andrade y Amaral

former Bishop of Niterói (Brazil)

1934.03.241934.05.20
BrazilBishop Gastão Liberal Pinto

former Bishop of São Carlos do Pinhal (Brazil)

1934.03.241934.05.20
PolandBishop Teofilo Bromboszcz

former Auxiliary Bishop of Katowice (Poland)

1934.03.241934.06.03
USAArchbishop Gerald Thomas Bergan

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Omaha (USA)

1934.03.241934.06.13
ItalyCardinal Alfonso Castaldo

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Callisto

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Napoli (Italy)

former Bishop of Pozzuoli (Italy)

1934.03.271934.06.30
IndiaBishop Oscar Sevrin, S.J.

former Bishop of Raigarh–Ambikapur (India)

1934.04.091934.07.25
LiberiaBishop John Collins, S.M.A.

former Vicar Apostolic of Monrovia (Liberia)

1934.04.091934.09.30
SpainBlessed Bishop Manuel Borras Ferré

former Auxiliary Bishop of Tarragona (Spain)

1934.04.191934.07.22
LebanonCardinal Paul Pierre Méouchi (Maronite Rite)

former Cardinal-Patriarch

former Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites (Lebanon)

1934.04.291934.12.08
ItalyBishop Emiliano Cagnoni

former Bishop of Cefalù (Italy)

1934.05.051934.06.10
ItalyBishop Teodorico de Angelis

former Bishop of Nocera de’ Pagani (Italy)

1934.05.051934.06.24
ItalyBishop Giovanni Battista Girardi

former Bishop of Pavia (Italy)

1934.05.081934.06.18
ItalyBishop Cristoforo Arduino Terzi, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Apuania (Italy)

1934.05.111934.07.25
CanadaBishop Paul-Ernest-Anastase Forget

former Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Québec (Canada)

1934.05.121934.06.29
MexicoArchbishop José Ignacio Márquez y Tóriz

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Puebla de los Ángeles (Mexico)

1934.05.261934.08.12
CroatiaBlessed Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Zagreb (Croatia)

1934.05.281934.06.24
UgandaBishop François-Xavier Lacoursière, M. Afr.

former Bishop of Mbarara (Uganda)

1934.05.281934.07.25
ZambiaBishop Alexandre-Auguste-Laurent-Marie Roy, M. Afr.

former Vicar Apostolic of Bangweulu (Zambia)

1934.05.281934.09.08
Sri LankaBishop Nicholas Laudadio, S.J.

former Bishop of Galle (Sri Lanka)

1934.05.281934.09.30
ChinaBishop Cutbert Martin O’Gara (歐克瀾), C.P.

former Bishop of Yuanling 沅陵 (China)

1934.05.281934.10.28
CameroonBishop Paul Bouque, S.C.I.

former Bishop of Nkongsamba (Cameroon)

1934.05.281934.11.21
GermanyBishop Franz Xavier Eberle

former Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg (Germany)

1934.06.021934.07.25
ItalyCardinal Gustavo Testa

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Girolamo dei Croati

former Pro-President of Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See

1934.06.041934.11.01
BelgiumBishop Stefane Carton de Wiart

former Bishop of Tournai (Belgium)

1934.06.161934.07.29
MexicoArchbishop Manuel Pío López Estrada

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Jalapa (Mexico)

1934.06.161934.08.05
GermanyArchbishop Joseph Godehard Machens

former Bishop of Hildesheim (Germany)

former Archbishop ad personam

1934.06.221934.07.25
ColombiaBishop Pablo Alegría Iriarte, O.A.R.

former Vicar Apostolic of Casanare (Colombia)

1934.07.091934.11.04
IndiaArchbishop Stephen Ferrando, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Shillong (India)

1934.07.091934.11.10
IndiaArchbishop Louis Mathias, S.D.B.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (India)

1934.07.091934.11.10
GuamBishop León Angel Olano y Urteaga, O.F.M. Cap.

former Vicar Apostolic of Guam (Guam)

1934.07.091935.05.05
IndonesiaBishop Pieter Jan Willekens, S.J.

former Vicar Apostolic of Djakarta (Indonesia)

1934.07.231934.10.03
CanadaArchbishop John Hugh MacDonald

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Edmonton (Canada)

1934.08.111934.10.25
ItalyCardinal Antonio Riberi (黎培理)

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Girolamo della Carità pro hac vice Title

1934.08.131934.10.28
RussiaBishop Jean Amoudru (Maurice-Marie-Félix Amoudru), O.P.

former Apostolic Administrator of Leningrad (Russia)

1934.08.151935.04.30
ItalyArchbishop Roberto Nogara

former Archbishop of Cosenza (Italy)

1934.08.221934.10.28
ItalyArchbishop Carlo Falcinelli

former Bishop of Jesi (Italy)

1934.09.061934.11.01
ArgentinaBishop Nicolás Esandi, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Viedma (Argentina)

1934.09.131935.02.17
ArgentinaBishop Carlos Francisco Hanlon, C.P.

former Bishop of Catamarca (Argentina)

1934.09.131935.02.17
ArgentinaBishop Enrique José Mühn, S.V.D.

former Bishop of Jujuy (Argentina)

1934.09.131935.02.17
ArgentinaArchbishop Francisco Vicentín

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Corrientes (Argentina)

1934.09.131935.02.25
ArgentinaBishop César Antonio Cáneva

former Bishop of Azul (Argentina)

1934.09.131935.02.25
ArgentinaArchbishop Zenobio Lorenzo Guilland

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Paraná (Argentina)

1934.09.131935.03.03
ArgentinaBishop Leandro Bautista Astelarra

former Bishop of Bahía Blanca (Argentina)

1934.09.131935.03.03
ArgentinaCardinal Antonio Caggiano

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Lorenzo in Panisperna

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

former Military Vicar of Argentina (Argentina)

1934.09.131935.03.17
ArgentinaBishop José Aníbal Verdaguer y Corominas

former Bishop of Mendoza (Argentina)

1934.09.131935.03.17
ArgentinaBishop Froilán Ferreira Reinafé

former Bishop of La Rioja (Argentina)

1934.09.131935.03.31
ArgentinaArchbishop Roberto José Tavella, S.D.B.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Salta (Argentina)

1934.09.201935.02.17
ItalyBishop Filippo Maria Cipriani

former Bishop of Città di Castello (Italy)

1934.09.291934.12.08
ItalyBishop Ferdinando Longinotti

former Bishop of San Severino (Italy)

former Bishop of Treia (Italy)

1934.10.221934.11.30
ChinaBishop Franz Hoowaarts (何方濟), S.V.D.

former Bishop of Caozhou 曹州 (China)

1934.11.121935.02.24
ItalyBishop Giacomo Rosso

former Bishop of Cuneo (Italy)

1934.11.141935.02.03
ItalyBishop Pietro Mozzanica

former Auxiliary Bishop of Milano (Italy)

1934.12.011934.12.23
AustraliaCardinal Norman Thomas Gilroy

former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Quattro Coronati

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Sydney (Australia)

1934.12.101935.03.17
MalawiBishop Joseph Ansgarius Julien, M. Afr.

former Vicar Apostolic of Nyassa (Malawi)

1934.12.101935.03.24
ChinaBishop Paul Bergan Misner (高其志), C.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Yujiang 餘江 (China)

1934.12.101935.03.25
RéunionBishop François-Emile-Marie Cléret de Langavant, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion (Réunion)

1934.12.101935.04.25
ChinaBishop Charles Vogel (荷敬謙), M.E.P.

former Bishop of Shantou 汕頭 (China)

1934.12.101935.05.01
UgandaBishop Angelo Negri, F.S.C.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Equatorial Nile (Uganda)

1934.12.101935.05.05
IndonesiaBishop Tarcisius Henricus Josephus van Valenberg, O.F.M. Cap.

former Vicar Apostolic of Pontianak (Indonesia)

1934.12.101935.05.05
ItalyBishop Angelo Soracco

former Bishop of Fossano (Italy)

1934.12.121935.03.19
ItalyArchbishop Giuseppe Mazzoli

former Titular Archbishop of Germa in Hellesponto

former Apostolic Delegate to Bulgaria

1934.12.151935.03.19
USABishop Raymond Augustine Kearney

former Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn (USA)

1934.12.221935.02.25
CanadaBishop Ralph Hubert Dignan

former Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie (Canada)

1934.12.221935.03.19
FranceBishop Marcel Fleury

former Bishop of Nancy (France)

1934.12.241935.02.11
FranceBishop Henri-Jean Houbaut

former Bishop of Bayonne (France)

1934.12.241935.02.14

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