Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1940

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Newly Elected Bishops (80)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
USABishop Sidney Matthew Metzger

former Bishop of El Paso (USA)

1940.01.051940.04.10
ItalyBishop Secondo Bologna

former Bishop of Boiano–Campobasso (Italy)

1940.01.081940.03.31
BrazilArchbishop Manuel da Silveira d’Elboux

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Curitiba (Brazil)

1940.01.101940.03.31
ChinaArchbishop Domenico Luca Capozi (李路加), O.F.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Taiyuan 太原 (China)

1940.01.121940.04.14
Sri LankaBishop Edmund Peiris, O.M.I.

former Bishop of Chilaw (Sri Lanka)

1940.01.121940.04.25
ChinaArchbishop Secondino Petronio Lacchio (藍澤民), O.F.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Changsha 長沙 (China)

1940.01.121940.05.26
BelgiumBishop Louis Delmotte

former Bishop of Tournai (Belgium)

1940.01.241940.03.07
BrazilBishop Aureliano de Matos

former Bishop of Limoeiro do Norte (Brazil)

1940.01.301940.09.29
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Di Donna, O.SS.T.

former Bishop of Andria (Italy)

1940.02.021940.03.31
ItalyArchbishop Cristoforo Demonico Carullo, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi (Italy)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Conza (Italy)

former Bishop of Bisaccia (Italy)

former Bishop of Lacedonia (Italy)

1940.02.021940.04.28
LithuaniaBishop Vincentas Borisevičius

former Bishop of Telšiai (Lithuania)

1940.02.031940.03.10
USABishop Joseph Moran Corrigan

former Titular Bishop of Bilta

1940.02.031940.04.02
ItalyArchbishop Gioacchino Di Leo

former Archbishop-Bishop of Mazara del Vallo (Italy)

1940.02.051940.03.03
FranceBishop Aimable Chassaigne

former Bishop of Tulle (France)

1940.02.061940.04.25
FranceCardinal Joseph-Marie-Eugène Martin

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Teresa al Corso d’Italia

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Rouen (France)

1940.02.091940.04.02
ChinaBishop Raymond Aloysius Lane (林化東), M.M.

former Bishop of Fushun 撫順 (China)

former Superior General of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America (Maryknoll Fathers)

1940.02.131940.06.11
ItalyCardinal Giuseppe Beltrami

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria Liberatrice a Monte Testaccio pro hac vice Title

1940.02.201940.04.07
USABishop George Joseph Donnelly

former Bishop of Kansas City (USA)

1940.03.191940.04.23
USAArchbishop Henry Joseph O’Brien

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Hartford (USA)

1940.03.191940.05.14
USABishop Vincent James Ryan

former Bishop of Bismarck (USA)

1940.03.191940.05.28
ItalyArchbishop Marco Giovanni Della Pietra, O.F.M.

former Archbishop of Ancona e Umana (Italy)

1940.03.251940.05.12
ItalyArchbishop Alberto Carinci

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Boiano–Campobasso (Italy)

1940.03.251940.05.19
ChileBishop Hernán Frías Hurtado

former Bishop of Antofagasta (Chile)

1940.03.281940.06.02
LithuaniaBishop Vincentas Brizgys

former Auxiliary Bishop of Kaunas (Lithuania)

1940.04.021940.05.19
IndiaArchbishop Thomas Pothacamury

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bangalore (India)

1940.04.091940.06.29
IndiaBishop Ubagaraswani Bernadotte

former Bishop of Coimbatore (India)

1940.04.091940.07.25
Cote d’IvoireBishop Alphonse Charles Kirmann, S.M.A.

former Vicar Apostolic of Sassandra (Cote d’Ivoire)

1940.04.091940.09.22
RomaniaBlessed Bishop Vasile Aftenie (Romanian Rite)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Făgăraş şi Alba Iulia of the Romanians (Romania)

1940.04.121940.06.05
IraqArchbishop Nersès Tayroyan (Armenian Rite)

former Archbishop of Baghdad of the Armenians (Iraq)

1940.05.031940.10.27
USAArchbishop Thomas Aloysius Boland

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Newark (USA)

1940.05.211940.07.25
CanadaBishop Joseph-Georges-Arthur Melançon

former Bishop of Chicoutimi (Canada)

1940.05.241940.07.23
PanamaArchbishop Francisco Beckmann, C.M.F.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Panamá (Panama)

1940.05.251940.07.07
RomaniaBlessed Bishop Ioan Suciu (Romanian Rite)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Oradea Mare of the Romanians (Romania)

1940.05.251940.07.22
PhilippinesBishop Giovanni Vrakking, M.S.C.

former Bishop of Surigao (Philippines)

1940.05.251940.09.21
BrazilBishop Eliseu van der Weijer, O. Carm.

former Bishop-Prelate of Paracatu (Brazil)

1940.05.251940.10.27
ChinaBishop William Charles Quinn (光一幸), C.M.

former Bishop of Yujiang 餘江 (China)

1940.05.281940.10.03
VietnamBishop Jean-Marie Phan Ðình Phùng

former Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Phát Diêm (Vietnam)

1940.05.281940.12.03
FranceArchbishop Emile Maurice Guerry

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Cambrai (France)

1940.05.311940.07.25
CanadaBishop John Michael O’Neill

former Bishop of Grand Falls (Canada)

1940.06.081940.07.07
CanadaBishop Joseph-Marie Trocellier, O.M.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Mackenzie (Canada)

1940.06.261940.09.08
AlbaniaBishop Giorgio Volaj

former Bishop of Sapë (Albania)

1940.06.261940.09.08
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Angrisani

former Bishop of Casale Monferrato (Italy)

1940.07.011940.08.25
Costa RicaBishop Juan Vicente Solís Fernández

former Bishop of Alajuela (Costa Rica)

1940.07.031940.08.18
South AfricaBishop Henry Joseph Thünemann, O.S.F.S.

former Bishop of Keimoes (South Africa)

1940.07.091940.10.03
PeruBishop León Bonaventura de Uriarte Bengoa, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of San Ramón (Peru)

1940.07.101940.10.04
MexicoBishop Manuel Jerónimo Yerena y Camarena

former Bishop of Huejutla (Mexico)

1940.07.171940.09.15
MexicoBishop José Abraham Martínez Betancourt

former Bishop of Tacámbaro (Mexico)

1940.07.171940.10.20
LithuaniaBishop Vincenzo Padolskis

former Coadjutor Bishop of Vilkaviškis (Lithuania)

1940.07.181940.08.04
HungaryBishop Vince Kovács

former Auxiliary Bishop of Vác (Hungary)

1940.07.201940.09.22
USABishop Bernard Theodore Espelage, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Gallup (USA)

1940.07.201940.10.09
FranceBishop Lucien-Sidroine Lebrun

former Bishop of Autun (France)

1940.07.261940.10.03
FranceBishop Pierre-Marie Théas

former Bishop of Tarbes et Lourdes (France)

1940.07.261940.10.03
ArgentinaBishop José Weimann, C.SS.R.

former Bishop of Santiago del Estero (Argentina)

1940.08.011940.09.08
IndonesiaArchbishop Albertus Soegijapranata, S.J.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Semarang (Indonesia)

former Military Vicar of Indonesia (Indonesia)

1940.08.011940.11.06
ItalyBishop Egidio Luigi Lanzo, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Saluzzo (Italy)

1940.08.091940.09.22
ItalyBishop Vittorio De Zanche

former Bishop of Concordia–Pordenone (Italy)

1940.08.091940.10.24
BrazilBishop Eliseu Maria Coroli, B.

former Bishop-Prelate of Guamá (Brazil)

1940.08.101940.10.13
MexicoBishop Salvador Martinez Silva

former Auxiliary Bishop of Zamora (Mexico)

1940.08.101940.12.11
GermanyBishop Joseph Ferche

former Auxiliary Bishop of Köln (Germany)

1940.08.161940.09.29
USAArchbishop Joseph Patrick Hurley

former Bishop of Saint Augustine (USA)

former Archbishop ad personam

1940.08.161940.10.06
ItalyBishop Pietro Ossola

former Bishop of Ripatransone (Italy)

former Bishop of Montalto (Italy)

1940.08.211940.09.29
ItalyBishop Felice Bonomini

former Bishop of Como (Italy)

1940.08.281940.10.27
LebanonVenerable Bishop Cirillo Giovanni Zohrabian, O.F.M. Cap. (Armenian Rite)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Beirut of the Armenians (Lebanon)

1940.08.291940.10.27
FranceBishop Auguste-Léon-Alexis Cesbron

former Bishop of Annecy (France)

1940.09.301940.11.30
FranceArchbishop Emile-Arsène Blanchet

former Bishop of Saint-Dié (France)

1940.10.061940.11.30
ArgentinaArchbishop Alfonso María Buteler

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Mendoza (Argentina)

1940.10.111940.12.01
CzechiaBishop Stanislav Zela

former Auxiliary Bishop of Olomouc (Czechia)

1940.10.111941.09.14
IrelandArchbishop John Charles McQuaid, C.S.Sp.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Dublin (Ireland)

1940.11.061940.12.27
FranceBishop Jean-Marie Vittoz

former Auxiliary Bishop of Grenoble (France)

1940.11.091940.12.27
USACardinal James Francis McIntyre

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Anastasia

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Los Angeles (USA)

1940.11.161941.01.08
PortugalArchbishop Emanuele Trindade Salgueiro

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Évora (Portugal)

1940.11.231941.02.24
BoliviaBishop Augustin Arce Mostajo

former Bishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Sucre (Bolivia)

1940.12.031941.02.16
CanadaBishop Albini LeBlanc

former Bishop of Gaspé (Canada)

1940.12.141941.02.11
EnglandBishop Thomas Leo Parker

former Bishop of Northampton (England)

1940.12.141941.02.11
PeruCardinal Juan Gualberto Guevara

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Eusebio

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Lima (Peru)

1940.12.151941.03.02
PeruArchbishop Mariano Jacinto Valdivia y Ortiz

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Huancayo (Peru)

1940.12.151941.03.02
PeruBishop Vittorio Alvarez, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Ayacucho (Peru)

1940.12.151941.03.02
PeruBishop Teodosio Moreno Quintana

former Bishop of Huaraz (Peru)

1940.12.151941.03.02
BrazilBishop Francisco do Borja Pereira do Amaral

former Bishop of Taubaté (Brazil)

1940.12.211941.02.16
USABishop Francis Joseph Magner

former Bishop of Marquette (USA)

1940.12.211941.02.24
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