Bishops Consecrated

in a.d. 1939

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Bishops (80)ElectedConsecratedAscending
IndiaBishop Florencio Sanz Esparza, C.M.

former Bishop of Cuttack (India)

1937.06.011939.01.01
DenmarkBishop Johannes Theodor Suhr, O.S.B.

former Bishop of København (Denmark)

1938.12.131939.01.15
GermanyBishop Friedrich Hünermann

former Auxiliary Bishop of Aachen (Germany)

1938.12.031939.02.05
IrelandBishop James Staunton

former Bishop of Ferns (Ireland)

1938.12.101939.02.05
BrazilBishop Lorenz Zeller, O.S.B.

former Bishop-Prelate of Rio Branco (Brazil)

1939.01.071939.02.05
RomaniaVenerable Archbishop Áron Márton

former Bishop of Alba Iulia (Romania)

former Archbishop ad personam

1938.12.241939.02.12
USABishop Walter James Fitzgerald, S.J.

former Vicar Apostolic of Alaska (USA)

1938.12.141939.02.24
AustraliaBishop Thomas Absolem McCabe

former Bishop of Wollongong (Australia)

1938.12.131939.03.12
ItalyBishop Francesco Marchesani

former Bishop of Chiavari (Italy)

1939.01.301939.03.19
ItalyBishop Beniamino Socche

former Bishop of Reggio Emilia (Italy)

1939.02.041939.03.19
LebanonBishop Gabriel Naamo (Chaldean Rite)

former Bishop of Beirut of the Chaldeans (Lebanon)

1938.09.301939.04.02
BelizeBishop William Aloysius Rice, S.J.

former Vicar Apostolic of Belize (Belize)

1938.11.191939.04.16
ChinaBishop Patrick Cleary (利伯高), S.S.C.M.E.

former Bishop of Nancheng 南城 (China)

1938.12.131939.04.16
GuatemalaArchbishop Mariano Rossell y Arellano

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Guatemala (Guatemala)

former Bishop-Prelate of Santo Cristo de Esquipulas (Guatemala)

1939.01.081939.04.16
ItalyBishop Gaetano De Cicco

former Bishop of Sessa Aurunca (Italy)

1939.01.301939.04.16
ItalyBishop Adolfo Ciuchini, O. de M.

former Bishop of Alghero (Italy)

1939.03.031939.04.23
ItalyBishop Francesco Cogoni

former Bishop of Ozieri (Italy)

1939.03.031939.04.23
IranArchbishop Abraham Elias, C.M. (Chaldean Rite)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Sehna of the Chaldeans (Iran)

1938.09.061939.04.24
French PolynesiaArchbishop Paul-Laurent-Jean-Louis Mazé, SS.CC.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Papeete (French Polynesia)

1938.11.081939.04.30
EswatiniBishop Costantino Maria Attilio Barneschi, O.S.M.

former Bishop of Manzini (Eswatini)

1939.03.151939.04.30
IndiaBishop Domenico Grassi, P.I.M.E.

former Bishop of Vijayawada (India)

1938.12.031939.05.01
ColombiaBishop Frans Joseph Bruls Canisius, S.M.M.

former Bishop of Villavicencio (Colombia)

1939.01.071939.05.01
South KoreaBishop Jean-Germain Mousset (문제만 제르마노), M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Taiku 대구 (South Korea)

1938.12.131939.05.07
ItalyBishop Felice Beccaro

former Bishop of San Miniato (Italy)

1939.03.031939.05.07
HungaryBishop Miklós Dudás, O.S.B.M. (Hungarian Rite)

former Bishop of Hajdúdorog of the Hungarians (Hungary)

former Apostolic Exarch of Miskolc of the Hungarians (Hungary)

1939.03.251939.05.14
ColombiaBishop Luis Andrade Valderrama, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Antioquía (Colombia)

1939.03.031939.05.21
ChinaBishop Giobbe Chen Chi-ming (陳啓明), C.M.

former Bishop of Zhengding 正定 (China)

1939.01.051939.05.25
MexicoBishop Ignacio de Alba y Hernández

former Bishop of Colima (Mexico)

1939.04.291939.05.28
Cote d’IvoireArchbishop Jean-Baptiste Boivin, S.M.A.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire)

1939.03.151939.05.30
CameroonBishop Peter Rogan, M.H.M.

former Bishop of Buéa (Cameroon)

1939.03.151939.06.18
IraqArchbishop Armand-Etienne M. Blanquet du Chayla, O.C.D.

former Archbishop of Baghdad (Iraq)

1939.04.011939.06.29
USACardinal Richard James Cushing

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Susanna

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Boston (USA)

1939.06.101939.06.29
EnglandBishop Thomas Edward Flynn

former Bishop of Lancaster (England)

1939.06.121939.07.24
ItalyBishop Oreste Rauzi

former Auxiliary Bishop of Trento (Italy)

1939.06.171939.07.30
Bosnia and HerzegovinaArchbishop Smiljan Franjo Cekada

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Vrhbosna (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

1939.06.061939.08.06
IndonesiaBishop Antonius Everardo Giovanni Albers, O. Carm.

former Bishop of Malang (Indonesia)

1939.03.151939.08.10
PolandBlessed Bishop Michał Kozal

former Auxiliary Bishop of Włocławek (Poland)

1939.06.101939.08.13
CanadaArchbishop Joseph Charbonneau

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Montréal (Canada)

1939.06.221939.08.15
USAArchbishop William Otterwell Brady

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Saint Paul (USA)

1939.06.101939.08.24
USAArchbishop Thomas Arthur Connolly

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Seattle (USA)

1939.06.101939.08.24
IndiaBishop Guy-Léandre Le Floch, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Ajmer (India)

1939.06.131939.08.24
SlovakiaBishop Stefan Madarász

former Bishop of Košice (Slovakia)

1939.07.191939.08.24
ItalyArchbishop Guido Luigi Bentivoglio, O.C.S.O.

former Archbishop of Catania (Italy)

1939.07.271939.08.24
HungaryArchbishop Giulio Czapik

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Eger (Hungary)

1939.07.191939.08.27
IraqBishop Souleyman Kutchouk Ousta (Chaldean Rite)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Baghdad of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

1938.10.151939.09.08
FranceBishop Maurice-Auguste-Eugène Foin

former Auxiliary Bishop of Le Mans (France)

1939.06.101939.09.08
SlovakiaBishop Andrej Škrábik

former Bishop of Banská Bystrica (Slovakia)

1939.08.121939.09.17
ChinaBishop Frederic Anthony Donaghy (唐汝琪), M.M.

former Bishop of Wuzhou 梧州 (China)

1939.07.201939.09.21
EnglandBishop Henry Vincent Marshall

former Bishop of Salford (England)

1939.08.051939.09.21
Northern IrelandBishop Neil Farren

former Bishop of Derry (Northern Ireland)

1939.08.051939.10.01
ItalyBishop Raffaele Campelli

former Bishop of Pergola (Italy)

former Bishop of Cagli (Italy)

1939.08.081939.10.01
Papua New GuineaBishop Leo Isidore Scharmach, M.S.C.

former Vicar Apostolic of Rabaul (Papua New Guinea)

1939.06.131939.10.03
MadagascarBishop Alain-Sébastien Le Breton, S.M.M.

former Bishop of Tamatave (Madagascar)

1939.05.251939.10.07
ItalyBishop Giocchino Pedicini

former Bishop of Avellino (Italy)

1939.08.081939.10.08
USABishop William Joseph Condon

former Bishop of Great Falls (USA)

1939.08.051939.10.18
MexicoBishop Alberto Mendoza y Bedolla

former Bishop of Campeche (Mexico)

1939.07.151939.10.28
IndiaBishop Thomas Roch Agniswami, S.J.

former Bishop of Kottar (India)

1939.01.051939.10.29
UgandaArchbishop Joseph Kiwánuka, M. Afr.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Rubaga (Uganda)

1939.05.251939.10.29
IndiaBishop Louis La Ravoire Morrow, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Krishnagar (India)

1939.05.251939.10.29
MadagascarBishop Ignace Ramarosandratana

former Bishop of Miarinarivo (Madagascar)

1939.05.251939.10.29
South AfricaBishop James Colbert

former Vicar Apostolic of Port Elizabeth (South Africa)

1939.06.131939.10.29
ChinaBishop Jean Larregain (甘有為), M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Yunnanfu 雲南府 (China)

1939.06.131939.10.29
IndonesiaBishop Henri Martin Mekkelholt, S.C.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Palembang (Indonesia)

1939.06.131939.10.29
ChinaCardinal Thomas Tien Ken-sin (田耕莘), S.V.D.

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Via

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Beijing 北京 (China)

1939.07.111939.10.29
ChinaBishop Biagio Sigibaldo Kurz, O.F.M.

former Prefect Apostolic of Yongzhou 永州 (China)

1939.07.111939.10.29
Congo-KinshasaBishop Urbain Etienne Morlion, M. Afr.

former Bishop of Baudouinville (Congo-Kinshasa)

1939.07.111939.10.29
North KoreaBishop William Francis O’Shea, M.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Heijo (North Korea)

1939.07.111939.10.29
PakistanBishop Francesco Benedetto Cialeo, O.P.

former Bishop of Lyallpur (Pakistan)

1939.07.201939.10.29
BrazilArchbishop Alexandre Gonçalves do Amaral

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Uberaba (Brazil)

1939.08.051939.10.29
ItalyBishop Giovanni Lucato, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Venafro (Italy)

former Bishop of Isernia (Italy)

1939.09.131939.11.05
ChinaBishop Charles-Joseph Lemaire (惠化民), M.E.P.

former Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Jilin 吉林 (China)

1939.07.111939.11.15
ChileBishop Augusto Osvaldo Salinas Fuenzalida, SS.CC.

former Bishop of Linares (Chile)

1939.08.291939.11.26
VietnamBishop Félix-Maurice Hedde, O.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Lang Són et Cao Bang (Vietnam)

1939.07.111939.11.30
ScotlandBishop James Maguire

former Coadjutor Bishop of Dunkeld (Scotland)

1939.10.051939.11.30
FranceBishop Louis Chiron

former Bishop of Langres (France)

1939.10.061939.12.07
VanuatuBishop Jules Halbert, S.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of New Hebrides (Vanuatu)

1939.07.111939.12.10
VenezuelaBishop Pedro Pablo Tenreiro Francia

former Bishop of Guanare (Venezuela)

1939.08.301939.12.10
FranceBishop Edmund Vansteenberghe

former Bishop of Bayonne (France)

1939.10.061939.12.10
ScotlandArchbishop Donald Alphonsus Campbell

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Glasgow (Scotland)

1939.10.051939.12.14
UkraineCardinal Josyf Ivanovyce Slipyj (Ukrainian Rite)

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Atanasio

former Major Archbishop of Lviv–Halyč–Kamyanets of the Ukrainians (Ukraine)

former Apostolic Exarch of Velyka Ukraina (Ukraine)

1939.11.251939.12.22
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