Bishops Consecrated

in a.d. 1937

Bishops (88)ElectedConsecratedAscending
ItalyCardinal Luigi Traglia

former Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia

former Cardinal-Bishop of Albano

former Chancellor of Apostolic Chancery

1936.12.211937.01.06
ItalyArchbishop Francesco Pascucci

former Pro-Vicar General for the Vicariate of Rome of Roma (Italy)

1936.12.201937.01.10
ItalyBishop Domenico Ettorre

former Bishop of Nocera Umbra–Gualdo Tadino (Italy)

1936.11.191937.01.14
EcuadorArchbishop Cesar Antonio Mosquera Corral

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador)

1936.09.181937.01.24
SwitzerlandBishop Franz von Streng

former Bishop of Basel (Switzerland)

1936.11.301937.01.24
ItalyBishop Carlo Rossi

former Bishop of Biella (Italy)

1936.12.071937.01.31
EnglandBishop Joseph McCormack

former Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle (England)

1936.12.301937.02.04
ItalyBishop Paolo Castiglioni

former Auxiliary Bishop of Milano (Italy)

1937.01.121937.02.07
SpainBishop Antonio Pildáin y Zapiáin

former Bishop of Islas Canarias (Spain)

1936.05.181937.02.14
ItalyBishop Guglielmo Grassi

former Titular Bishop of Tamiathis

1937.01.131937.02.24
CanadaBishop John Christopher Cody

former Bishop of London (Canada)

1936.12.091937.02.25
TurkiyeArchbishop Paul Kiredjian (Armenian Rite)

former Archbishop of Istanbul of the Armenians (Turkiye)

1936.03.021937.02.28
TanzaniaBishop John van Sambeek, M. Afr.

former Bishop of Kigoma (Tanzania)

1936.11.191937.03.07
SerbiaArchbishop Josip Ujčić

former Archbishop of Beograd (Serbia)

former Apostolic Administrator of Jugoslavenska Banat (Serbia)

1936.11.281937.03.07
ItalyBishop Nicola Canino

former Bishop of Oppido Mamertina (Italy)

1936.12.301937.03.07
ItalyArchbishop Benigno Luciano Migliorini, O.F.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Lanciano (Italy)

former Bishop of Ortona (Italy)

1937.02.201937.03.07
ChinaBishop Theodore Schu (舒德祿), S.V.D.

former Bishop of Yanzhou 兗州 (China)

1936.11.191937.04.04
MadagascarArchbishop Xavier Ferdinand J. Thoyer, S.J.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Fianarantsoa (Madagascar)

1936.12.231937.04.04
BurundiArchbishop Antoine Grauls, M. Afr.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Gitega (Burundi)

1936.12.231937.04.05
FranceBishop Joseph Evrard

former Bishop of Meaux (France)

1937.02.011937.04.08
ChinaBishop Cipriano Cassini (趙信義), S.J.

former Bishop of Bengbu 蚌埠 (China)

1936.12.231937.04.11
ItalyBishop Federico Pezzullo

former Bishop of Policastro (Italy)

1937.01.231937.04.11
GermanyArchbishop Heinrich Wienken

former Bishop of Meißen (Germany)

1937.02.221937.04.11
ItalyBishop Bartolomeo Mangino

former Bishop of Caserta (Italy)

1936.12.301937.04.18
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
ChileBishop Jorge Larraín Cotapos

former Bishop of Chillán (Chile)

1937.03.201937.04.25
Congo-KinshasaBishop Enrico van Schingen, S.J.

former Vicar Apostolic of Kwango (Congo-Kinshasa)

1936.12.171937.05.02
ItalyBishop Luciano Marcante

former Bishop of Valva (Italy)

former Bishop of Sulmona (Italy)

1937.03.141937.05.02
AustraliaArchbishop Justin Daniel Simonds

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Melbourne (Australia)

1937.02.181937.05.06
ItalyBishop Luciano Geraci

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

1937.03.061937.05.23
IndiaArchbishop Silvestro Patrizio Mulligan, O.F.M. Cap.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Delhi and Simla (India)

1937.04.131937.05.23
VietnamBishop François-Arsène-Jean-Marie-Eugène Lemasle, M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Huê (Vietnam)

1937.02.041937.05.27
SpainBishop Manuel Moll y Salord

former Bishop of Tortosa (Spain)

1936.06.251937.05.30
ChinaArchbishop Jean-Joseph-Georges Deymier (梅占魁), C.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Hangzhou 杭州 (China)

1937.02.181937.05.30
ZimbabweBishop Ignazio Arnoz, M.H.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Bulawayo (Zimbabwe)

1937.04.131937.05.30
FranceBishop Guillaume-Marius Sembel

former Bishop of Dijon (France)

1937.03.151937.06.01
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
FranceBishop Alfred Couderc

former Bishop of Viviers (France)

1937.04.261937.07.04
BrazilBishop José de Haas, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Araçuaí (Brazil)

1937.03.201937.07.25
GreeceArchbishop Antonio Gregorio Vuccino, A.A.

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

1937.06.091937.07.25
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
Congo-KinshasaBishop Louis-Georges-Firmin Demol, C.I.C.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Kasaï Supérieur (Congo-Kinshasa)

1936.01.231937.07.26
MozambiqueBishop Manuel de Medeiros Guerreiro

former Bishop of Nampula (Mozambique)

1937.04.101937.08.15
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
CanadaBishop Armand Clabaut, O.M.I.

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

1937.07.011937.08.21
Sierra LeoneBishop Ambrose Kelly, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Freetown and Bo (Sierra Leone)

1937.05.181937.08.24
MyanmarBishop Alfredo Lanfranconi, P.I.M.E.

former Bishop of Toungoo (Myanmar)

1937.07.011937.08.29
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
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
Burkina FasoBishop Louis-Joseph-Ephrem Groshenry, S.M.A.

former Vicar Apostolic of Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso)

1937.06.171937.09.14
ItalyBishop Luigi Santa, I.M.C.

former Bishop of Rimini (Italy)

1937.03.151937.09.21
ChinaBishop Henry Ambrose Pinger (楊光被), O.F.M.

former Bishop of Zhoucun 周村 (China)

1937.05.181937.09.21
USAArchbishop Paul Clarence Schulte

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Indianapolis (USA)

1937.05.291937.09.21
IndiaArchbishop Thomas Roberts, S.J.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bombay (India)

1937.08.121937.09.21
New CaledoniaBishop Edoardo Bresson, S.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Nouvelle-Calédonie (New Caledonia)

1937.07.011937.10.03
IrelandBishop Patrick Lyons

former Bishop of Kilmore (Ireland)

1937.08.061937.10.03
ItalyArchbishop Aniello Calcara

former Archbishop of Cosenza (Italy)

1937.08.301937.10.03
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
ItalyBishop Francesco Canessa

former Titular Bishop of Sarepta

1937.09.041937.10.10
ItalyArchbishop Leone Giacomo Ossola, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Novara (Italy)

1937.09.221937.10.17
CanadaBishop Joseph Francis Ryan

former Bishop of Hamilton (Canada)

1937.08.161937.10.19
FranceBishop Felix Roeder

former Bishop of Beauvais (France)

1937.08.141937.10.20
ItalyBishop Raffaele Barbieri

former Bishop of Cassano all’Jonio (Italy)

1937.09.011937.10.24
ItalyBishop Epimenio Giannico

former Bishop of Trivento (Italy)

1937.09.071937.10.24
ItalyBishop Vincenzo Del Signore

former Bishop of Fano (Italy)

1937.09.201937.10.24
LebanonArchbishop Joseph Malouf, M.S.P. (Greek-Melkite Rite)

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

1937.10.261937.10.26
IndonesiaBishop Jacques Pessers, S.V.D.

former Vicar Apostolic of Atambua (Indonesia)

1937.06.011937.10.28
United Arab EmiratesBishop Giovanni Tirinnanzi, O.F.M. Cap.

former Vicar Apostolic of Arabia (United Arab Emirates)

1937.07.021937.10.28
USABishop Duane Garrison Hunt

former Bishop of Salt Lake City (USA)

1937.08.061937.10.28
TunisiaArchbishop Charles-Albert Gounot, C.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Carthage (Tunisia)

1937.08.141937.10.28
CanadaBishop Charles-Léo Nelligan

former Bishop of Pembroke (Canada)

former Military Vicar of Canada (Canada)

1937.08.161937.10.28
HungaryBlessed Bishop Zoltán Lajos Meszlényi

former Auxiliary Bishop of Esztergom (Hungary)

1937.09.221937.10.28
ChinaBishop Francisco Javier Ochoa Ullate (陳明理), O.A.R.

former Bishop of Shangqiu 商丘 (China)

1937.05.181937.10.31
VenezuelaBishop Gregorio Adam Dalmau

former Bishop of Valencia (Venezuela)

1937.08.291937.10.31
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
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 Giiuseppe Maria Palatucci, O.F.M. Conv.

former Bishop of Campagna (Italy)

1937.09.201937.11.28
ChinaBishop Adolph John Paschang (柏增), M.M.

former Bishop of Jiangmen 江門 (China)

1937.06.171937.11.30
HaitiBishop François-Joseph Person

former Bishop of Les Cayes (Haiti)

1937.06.261937.12.05
SeychellesBishop Marcel Olivier Maradan, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Port Victoria (Seychelles)

1937.06.171937.12.06
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
VenezuelaArchbishop Rafael Ignacio Arias Blanco

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Caracas (Venezuela)

1937.06.211937.12.12
IndiaBishop Jerome M. Fernandez

former Bishop of Quilon (India)

1937.09.251937.12.12
USABishop Eugene Joseph McGuinness

former Bishop of Oklahoma City–Tulsa (USA)

1937.10.131937.12.21

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