Bishops Consecrated

in a.d. 1940

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Bishops (82)ElectedConsecratedAscending
IranArchbishop Abel Zayia, C.M. (Chaldean Rite)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Urmyā of the Chaldeans (Iran)

former Archbishop-Bishop of Salmas of the Chaldeans (Iran)

1939.12.061940.01.01
USACardinal John Francis O’Hara, C.S.C.

former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Andrea e Gregorio al Monte Celio

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Philadelphia (USA)

1939.12.111940.01.15
CanadaBishop Arthur Douville

former Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe (Canada)

1939.11.301940.01.29
CanadaArchbishop Alexandre Vachon

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Ottawa (Canada)

1939.12.111940.02.02
CanadaBishop Henri Joseph Marie Belleau, O.M.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Baie de James (Canada)

1939.12.111940.02.03
VenezuelaBishop Francisco José Iturriza Guillén, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Coro (Venezuela)

1939.11.101940.02.18
South AfricaBishop Frederic Osterrath, O.S.B. Subl.

former Abbot Ordinary of Pietersburg (South Africa)

1939.11.141940.03.03
ItalyArchbishop Gioacchino Di Leo

former Archbishop-Bishop of Mazara del Vallo (Italy)

1940.02.051940.03.03
BelgiumBishop Louis Delmotte

former Bishop of Tournai (Belgium)

1940.01.241940.03.07
LithuaniaBishop Vincentas Borisevičius

former Bishop of Telšiai (Lithuania)

1940.02.031940.03.10
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
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Di Donna, O.SS.T.

former Bishop of Andria (Italy)

1940.02.021940.03.31
USABishop Joseph Moran Corrigan

former Titular Bishop of Bilta

1940.02.031940.04.02
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
Congo-KinshasaBishop Joseph Sak, S.D.B.

former Vicar Apostolic of Sakania (Congo-Kinshasa)

1939.11.141940.04.07
AustraliaArchbishop Matthew Beovich

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Adelaide (Australia)

1939.12.111940.04.07
CroatiaBishop Josip Lach

former Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb (Croatia)

1939.12.111940.04.07
NicaraguaBishop Isidro Augusto Oviedo y Reyes

former Bishop of León (Nicaragua)

1939.12.111940.04.07
ItalyCardinal Giuseppe Beltrami

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

1940.02.201940.04.07
USABishop Sidney Matthew Metzger

former Bishop of El Paso (USA)

1940.01.051940.04.10
ChinaArchbishop Domenico Luca Capozi (李路加), O.F.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Taiyuan 太原 (China)

1940.01.121940.04.14
USABishop George Joseph Donnelly

former Bishop of Kansas City (USA)

1940.03.191940.04.23
USABishop Albert Lewis Fletcher

former Bishop of Little Rock (USA)

1939.12.111940.04.25
Sri LankaBishop Edmund Peiris, O.M.I.

former Bishop of Chilaw (Sri Lanka)

1940.01.121940.04.25
FranceBishop Aimable Chassaigne

former Bishop of Tulle (France)

1940.02.061940.04.25
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
ItalyArchbishop Marco Giovanni Della Pietra, O.F.M.

former Archbishop of Ancona e Umana (Italy)

1940.03.251940.05.12
USAArchbishop Henry Joseph O’Brien

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Hartford (USA)

1940.03.191940.05.14
ItalyArchbishop Alberto Carinci

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Boiano–Campobasso (Italy)

1940.03.251940.05.19
LithuaniaBishop Vincentas Brizgys

former Auxiliary Bishop of Kaunas (Lithuania)

1940.04.021940.05.19
ChinaBishop Gerardo Faustino Herrero Garrote (王德純), O.S.A.

former Bishop of Changde 常德 (China)

1939.12.111940.05.26
ChinaArchbishop Secondino Petronio Lacchio (藍澤民), O.F.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Changsha 長沙 (China)

1940.01.121940.05.26
USABishop Vincent James Ryan

former Bishop of Bismarck (USA)

1940.03.191940.05.28
NigeriaBishop Patrick Joseph Kelly, S.M.A.

former Bishop of Benin City (Nigeria)

1939.12.111940.06.02
ChileBishop Hernán Frías Hurtado

former Bishop of Antofagasta (Chile)

1940.03.281940.06.02
RomaniaBlessed Bishop Vasile Aftenie (Romanian Rite)

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

1940.04.121940.06.05
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
IndiaArchbishop Thomas Pothacamury

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bangalore (India)

1940.04.091940.06.29
PanamaArchbishop Francisco Beckmann, C.M.F.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Panamá (Panama)

1940.05.251940.07.07
CanadaBishop John Michael O’Neill

former Bishop of Grand Falls (Canada)

1940.06.081940.07.07
RomaniaBlessed Bishop Ioan Suciu (Romanian Rite)

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

1940.05.251940.07.22
CanadaBishop Joseph-Georges-Arthur Melançon

former Bishop of Chicoutimi (Canada)

1940.05.241940.07.23
IndiaBishop Ubagaraswani Bernadotte

former Bishop of Coimbatore (India)

1940.04.091940.07.25
USAArchbishop Thomas Aloysius Boland

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Newark (USA)

1940.05.211940.07.25
FranceArchbishop Emile Maurice Guerry

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Cambrai (France)

1940.05.311940.07.25
LithuaniaBishop Vincenzo Padolskis

former Coadjutor Bishop of Vilkaviškis (Lithuania)

1940.07.181940.08.04
Costa RicaBishop Juan Vicente Solís Fernández

former Bishop of Alajuela (Costa Rica)

1940.07.031940.08.18
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Angrisani

former Bishop of Casale Monferrato (Italy)

1940.07.011940.08.25
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
ArgentinaBishop José Weimann, C.SS.R.

former Bishop of Santiago del Estero (Argentina)

1940.08.011940.09.08
MexicoBishop Manuel Jerónimo Yerena y Camarena

former Bishop of Huejutla (Mexico)

1940.07.171940.09.15
PhilippinesBishop Giovanni Vrakking, M.S.C.

former Bishop of Surigao (Philippines)

1940.05.251940.09.21
Cote d’IvoireBishop Alphonse Charles Kirmann, S.M.A.

former Vicar Apostolic of Sassandra (Cote d’Ivoire)

1940.04.091940.09.22
HungaryBishop Vince Kovács

former Auxiliary Bishop of Vác (Hungary)

1940.07.201940.09.22
ItalyBishop Egidio Luigi Lanzo, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Saluzzo (Italy)

1940.08.091940.09.22
BrazilBishop Aureliano de Matos

former Bishop of Limoeiro do Norte (Brazil)

1940.01.301940.09.29
GermanyBishop Joseph Ferche

former Auxiliary Bishop of Köln (Germany)

1940.08.161940.09.29
ItalyBishop Pietro Ossola

former Bishop of Ripatransone (Italy)

former Bishop of Montalto (Italy)

1940.08.211940.09.29
ChinaBishop William Charles Quinn (光一幸), C.M.

former Bishop of Yujiang 餘江 (China)

1940.05.281940.10.03
South AfricaBishop Henry Joseph Thünemann, O.S.F.S.

former Bishop of Keimoes (South Africa)

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

former Vicar Apostolic of San Ramón (Peru)

1940.07.101940.10.04
USAArchbishop Joseph Patrick Hurley

former Bishop of Saint Augustine (USA)

former Archbishop ad personam

1940.08.161940.10.06
USABishop Bernard Theodore Espelage, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Gallup (USA)

1940.07.201940.10.09
BrazilBishop Eliseu Maria Coroli, B.

former Bishop-Prelate of Guamá (Brazil)

1940.08.101940.10.13
MexicoBishop José Abraham Martínez Betancourt

former Bishop of Tacámbaro (Mexico)

1940.07.171940.10.20
ItalyBishop Vittorio De Zanche

former Bishop of Concordia–Pordenone (Italy)

1940.08.091940.10.24
IraqArchbishop Nersès Tayroyan (Armenian Rite)

former Archbishop of Baghdad of the Armenians (Iraq)

1940.05.031940.10.27
BrazilBishop Eliseu van der Weijer, O. Carm.

former Bishop-Prelate of Paracatu (Brazil)

1940.05.251940.10.27
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
IndonesiaArchbishop Albertus Soegijapranata, S.J.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Semarang (Indonesia)

former Military Vicar of Indonesia (Indonesia)

1940.08.011940.11.06
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
VietnamBishop Jean-Marie Phan Ðình Phùng

former Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Phát Diêm (Vietnam)

1940.05.281940.12.03
MexicoBishop Salvador Martinez Silva

former Auxiliary Bishop of Zamora (Mexico)

1940.08.101940.12.11
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
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