Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1937

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Newly Elected Bishops (93)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
ItalyBishop Paolo Castiglioni

former Auxiliary Bishop of Milano (Italy)

1937.01.121937.02.07
ItalyBishop Guglielmo Grassi

former Titular Bishop of Tamiathis

1937.01.131937.02.24
ItalyBishop Federico Pezzullo

former Bishop of Policastro (Italy)

1937.01.231937.04.11
FranceBishop Joseph Evrard

former Bishop of Meaux (France)

1937.02.011937.04.08
VietnamBishop François-Arsène-Jean-Marie-Eugène Lemasle, M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Huê (Vietnam)

1937.02.041937.05.27
AustraliaArchbishop Justin Daniel Simonds

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Melbourne (Australia)

1937.02.181937.05.06
ChinaArchbishop Jean-Joseph-Georges Deymier (梅占魁), C.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Hangzhou 杭州 (China)

1937.02.181937.05.30
ItalyArchbishop Benigno Luciano Migliorini, O.F.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Lanciano (Italy)

former Bishop of Ortona (Italy)

1937.02.201937.03.07
GermanyArchbishop Heinrich Wienken

former Bishop of Meißen (Germany)

1937.02.221937.04.11
ItalyBishop Luciano Geraci

former Bishop-Prelate of Santa Lucia del Mela (Italy)

1937.03.061937.05.23
PolandBishop Juliusz Bieniek

former Auxiliary Bishop of Katowice (Poland)

1937.03.131937.04.25
ItalyBishop Innocenzo Alfredo Russo, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Bovino (Italy)

1937.03.131937.04.25
ItalyBishop Luciano Marcante

former Bishop of Valva (Italy)

former Bishop of Sulmona (Italy)

1937.03.141937.05.02
FranceBishop Guillaume-Marius Sembel

former Bishop of Dijon (France)

1937.03.151937.06.01
ItalyBishop Luigi Santa, I.M.C.

former Bishop of Rimini (Italy)

1937.03.151937.09.21
ChileBishop Jorge Larraín Cotapos

former Bishop of Chillán (Chile)

1937.03.201937.04.25
BrazilBishop José de Haas, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Araçuaí (Brazil)

1937.03.201937.07.25
MozambiqueBishop Manuel de Medeiros Guerreiro

former Bishop of Nampula (Mozambique)

1937.04.101937.08.15
IndiaArchbishop Silvestro Patrizio Mulligan, O.F.M. Cap.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Delhi and Simla (India)

1937.04.131937.05.23
ZimbabweBishop Ignazio Arnoz, M.H.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Bulawayo (Zimbabwe)

1937.04.131937.05.30
Trinidad and TobagoArchbishop Patrick Finbar Ryan, O.P.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago)

1937.04.131937.06.29
South AfricaBishop Emanuele Hanisch, C.M.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Umtata (South Africa)

1937.04.131937.06.29
ChinaBishop Theodor Breher (白化東 / 브레허 白화동 주교), O.S.B.

former Bishop of Yanji 延吉 (China)

1937.04.131937.09.05
FranceBishop Alfred Couderc

former Bishop of Viviers (France)

1937.04.261937.07.04
Sierra LeoneBishop Ambrose Kelly, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Freetown and Bo (Sierra Leone)

1937.05.181937.08.24
ChinaBishop Henry Ambrose Pinger (楊光被), O.F.M.

former Bishop of Zhoucun 周村 (China)

1937.05.181937.09.21
ChinaBishop Francisco Javier Ochoa Ullate (陳明理), O.A.R.

former Bishop of Shangqiu 商丘 (China)

1937.05.181937.10.31
AustraliaBishop Francis Augustin Henschke

former Bishop of Wagga Wagga (Australia)

1937.05.191937.08.15
USABishop Walter Andrew Foery

former Bishop of Syracuse (USA)

1937.05.261937.08.18
USAArchbishop Paul Clarence Schulte

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Indianapolis (USA)

1937.05.291937.09.21
IndonesiaBishop Jacques Pessers, S.V.D.

former Vicar Apostolic of Atambua (Indonesia)

1937.06.011937.10.28
GreeceArchbishop Antonio Gregorio Vuccino, A.A.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Corfu–Zakynthos–Kefalonia (Greece)

1937.06.091937.07.25
Burkina FasoBishop Louis-Joseph-Ephrem Groshenry, S.M.A.

former Vicar Apostolic of Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso)

1937.06.171937.09.14
ChinaBishop Adolph John Paschang (柏增), M.M.

former Bishop of Jiangmen 江門 (China)

1937.06.171937.11.30
SeychellesBishop Marcel Olivier Maradan, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Port Victoria (Seychelles)

1937.06.171937.12.06
VenezuelaArchbishop Rafael Ignacio Arias Blanco

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Caracas (Venezuela)

1937.06.211937.12.12
FranceCardinal Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant

former Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia

former Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina

former Grand Master of Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (Knights of the Holy Sepulchre)

1937.06.251937.07.25
HaitiBishop François-Joseph Person

former Bishop of Les Cayes (Haiti)

1937.06.261937.12.05
CanadaBishop Armand Clabaut, O.M.I.

former Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Baie d’Hudson (Canada)

1937.07.011937.08.21
MyanmarBishop Alfredo Lanfranconi, P.I.M.E.

former Bishop of Toungoo (Myanmar)

1937.07.011937.08.29
New CaledoniaBishop Edoardo Bresson, S.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Nouvelle-Calédonie (New Caledonia)

1937.07.011937.10.03
ChinaBishop John Baptist Wang Zeng-yi (王增義), C.M.

former Bishop of Anguo 安國 (China)

1937.07.011938.02.24
United Arab EmiratesBishop Giovanni Tirinnanzi, O.F.M. Cap.

former Vicar Apostolic of Arabia (United Arab Emirates)

1937.07.021937.10.28
IrelandBishop Patrick Lyons

former Bishop of Kilmore (Ireland)

1937.08.061937.10.03
USABishop George John Rehring

former Bishop of Toledo (USA)

1937.08.061937.10.07
IrelandBishop Michael Browne

former Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh (Ireland)

1937.08.061937.10.10
USABishop Duane Garrison Hunt

former Bishop of Salt Lake City (USA)

1937.08.061937.10.28
IndiaArchbishop Thomas Roberts, S.J.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bombay (India)

1937.08.121937.09.21
FranceBishop Felix Roeder

former Bishop of Beauvais (France)

1937.08.141937.10.20
TunisiaArchbishop Charles-Albert Gounot, C.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Carthage (Tunisia)

1937.08.141937.10.28
CanadaBishop Joseph Francis Ryan

former Bishop of Hamilton (Canada)

1937.08.161937.10.19
CanadaBishop Charles-Léo Nelligan

former Bishop of Pembroke (Canada)

former Military Vicar of Canada (Canada)

1937.08.161937.10.28
ItalyBishop Alfonso Camillo De Romanis, O.E.S.A.

former Sacristan of His Holiness of Prefecture of the Holy Apostolic Palaces

1937.08.201937.09.05
VenezuelaBishop Gregorio Adam Dalmau

former Bishop of Valencia (Venezuela)

1937.08.291937.10.31
ItalyArchbishop Aniello Calcara

former Archbishop of Cosenza (Italy)

1937.08.301937.10.03
ItalyBishop Raffaele Barbieri

former Bishop of Cassano all’Jonio (Italy)

1937.09.011937.10.24
ItalyBishop Francesco Canessa

former Titular Bishop of Sarepta

1937.09.041937.10.10
ItalyBishop Epimenio Giannico

former Bishop of Trivento (Italy)

1937.09.071937.10.24
JapanArchbishop Paul Aijirô Yamaguchi (パウロ 山口 愛次郎)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Nagasaki 長崎 (Japan)

1937.09.151937.11.07
ItalyBishop Vincenzo Del Signore

former Bishop of Fano (Italy)

1937.09.201937.10.24
ItalyBishop Giiuseppe Maria Palatucci, O.F.M. Conv.

former Bishop of Campagna (Italy)

1937.09.201937.11.28
ItalyArchbishop Leone Giacomo Ossola, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Novara (Italy)

1937.09.221937.10.17
HungaryBlessed Bishop Zoltán Lajos Meszlényi

former Auxiliary Bishop of Esztergom (Hungary)

1937.09.221937.10.28
IndiaBishop Jerome M. Fernandez

former Bishop of Quilon (India)

1937.09.251937.12.12
MexicoCardinal Miguel Darío Miranda Gómez

former Cardinal-Priest of Nostra Signora di Guadalupe a Monte Mario

former Metropolitan Archbishop of México (Mexico)

1937.10.011937.12.08
ItalyBishop Salvatore Rotolo, S.D.B.

former Bishop-Prelate of Altamura (Italy)

former Bishop-Prelate of Acquaviva delle Fonti (Italy)

1937.10.051937.10.31
USABishop Eugene Joseph McGuinness

former Bishop of Oklahoma City–Tulsa (USA)

1937.10.131937.12.21
LebanonArchbishop Joseph Malouf, M.S.P. (Greek-Melkite Rite)

former Archbishop of Baalbek of the Greek-Melkites (Lebanon)

1937.10.261937.10.26
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Perniciaro (Italo-Albanese Rite)

former Bishop of Piana degli Albanesi of the Italo-Albanese (Italy)

1937.10.261938.01.16
ItalyCardinal Efrem Forni

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Croce in Gerusalemme

1937.11.261938.02.20
Central African RepublicBishop Marcel-Auguste-Marie Grandin, C.S.Sp.

former Vicar Apostolic of Bangui (Central African Republic)

1937.12.021938.01.18
JapanCardinal Peter Tatsuo Doi (ペトロ 土井辰雄)

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Antonio da Padova in Via Merulana

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tokyo 東京 (Japan)

1937.12.021938.02.13
CambodiaBishop Jean-Baptiste-Maximilien Chabalier, M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Phnom Penh (Cambodia)

1937.12.021938.02.24
IndiaBishop Leone Proserpio, S.J.

former Bishop of Calicut (India)

1937.12.021938.03.13
Congo-KinshasaBishop Frédéric Marie Blessing, O.S.C.

former Vicar Apostolic of Bondo (Congo-Kinshasa)

1937.12.021938.03.19
ChinaBishop Francis Xavier Zhao Zhen-sheng (趙振聲), S.J.

former Bishop of Xianxian 獻縣 (China)

1937.12.021938.03.27
KiribatiBishop Octave-Marie Terrienne, M.S.C.

former Vicar Apostolic of Gilbert Islands (Kiribati)

1937.12.021938.06.25
ChinaBishop Charles Weber (萬賓來), S.V.D.

former Bishop of Yizhou 沂州 (China)

1937.12.021938.10.16
TurkiyeArchbishop Joseph Emmanuel Descuffi, C.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Izmir (Turkiye)

1937.12.031938.02.20
USABishop Stephen Stanislaus Woznicki

former Bishop of Saginaw (USA)

1937.12.131938.01.25
ItalyArchbishop Adelchi Albanesi

former Bishop of Viterbo (Italy)

former Abbot nullius of San Martino al Monte Cimino (Italy)

former Bishop of Tuscania (Italy)

former Archbishop ad personam

1937.12.131938.01.30
ItalyArchbishop Giacinto Giovanni Ambrosi, O.F.M. Cap.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Gorizia e Gradisca (Italy)

1937.12.131938.02.02
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Ruotolo

former Bishop of Ugento–Santa Maria di Leuca (Italy)

1937.12.131938.02.20
CanadaArchbishop Philippe-Servulo Desranleau

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Sherbrooke (Canada)

1937.12.131938.02.24
IrelandArchbishop Joseph Walsh

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tuam (Ireland)

1937.12.161938.01.02
EcuadorBishop Giuseppe Felix Heredia Zurita, S.J.

former Bishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador)

1937.12.161938.02.06
FranceBishop Étienne Bornet

former Auxiliary Bishop of Lyon (France)

1937.12.161938.02.24
USABishop Francis Ridgley Cotton

former Bishop of Owensboro (USA)

1937.12.161938.02.24
PhilippinesBishop Michele Acebedo y Flores

former Bishop of Calbayog (Philippines)

1937.12.161938.03.25
USABishop Bartholomew Joseph Eustace

former Bishop of Camden (USA)

1937.12.161938.03.25
PhilippinesBishop Manuel Mascariñas y Morgia

former Bishop of Tagbilaran (Philippines)

1937.12.161938.03.25
EcuadorBishop Nicanor Roberto Aguirre Baus

former Bishop of Loja (Ecuador)

1937.12.161938.05.08
BrazilBishop José Selva, S.D.B.

former Bishop-Prelate of Registro do Araguaia (Brazil)

1937.12.271938.04.24
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