Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1941

Newly Elected Bishops (77)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
ItalyBishop Francesco Pieri

former Bishop of Orvieto (Italy)

1941.01.021941.01.26
FranceBishop Georges-Louis-Camille Debray

former Bishop of Meaux (France)

1941.01.151941.03.25
ColombiaBishop Nicasio Balisa y Melero, O.A.R.

former Vicar Apostolic of Casanare (Colombia)

1941.01.151941.08.24
HungaryBlessed Bishop Vilmos Apor

former Bishop of Győr (Hungary)

1941.01.211941.02.24
PeruBishop Fortunato Chirichigno Pontolido, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Piura (Peru)

1941.01.271941.03.02
AngolaBishop Daniel Gomes Junqueira, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Nova Lisboa (Angola)

1941.01.281941.06.01
Cabo VerdeBishop Faustino Moreira dos Santos, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde (Cabo Verde)

1941.01.281941.07.13
ItalyBishop Guiseppe Pietro Gagnor, O.P.

former Bishop of Alessandria (Italy)

1941.02.011941.03.19
USAArchbishop Joseph Thomas McGucken

former Metropolitan Archbishop of San Francisco (USA)

1941.02.041941.03.19
VietnamBishop Jean Cassaigne, M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Saigon (Vietnam)

1941.02.201941.06.24
ItalyBishop Giacinto Tamburini

former Bishop of Teano (Italy)

former Bishop of Calvi (Italy)

1941.03.061941.04.27
WalesBishop Daniel Joseph Hannon

former Bishop of Menevia (Wales)

1941.03.151941.05.01
BrazilArchbishop José de Medeiros Delgado

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Fortaleza (Brazil)

1941.03.151941.06.29
AustriaBishop Joseph Calasanz Fließer

former Bishop of Linz (Austria)

1941.03.191941.05.11
ChileArchbishop Arturo Mery Beckdorf

former Coadjutor Archbishop of La Serena (Chile)

1941.03.221941.05.11
CanadaBishop Edward Quentin Jennings

former Bishop of Fort William (Canada)

1941.03.221941.06.11
ChileBishop Roberto Moreira Martínez

former Bishop of Linares (Chile)

1941.03.221941.06.11
ItalyCardinal Carlo Confalonieri

former Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia

former Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina

former Archpriest of Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major

1941.03.271941.05.04
ItalyBishop Gustavo Bianchi

former Bishop of Monopoli (Italy)

1941.03.281941.05.25
BrazilArchbishop Henrique Hector Golland Trindade, O.F.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Botucatu (Brazil)

1941.03.291941.06.08
South AfricaBishop Joseph Grueter, C.M.M.

former Bishop of Mthatha (South Africa)

1941.04.031941.05.22
ThailandBishop Gaétan Pasotti, S.D.B.

former Vicar Apostolic of Rajaburi (Thailand)

1941.04.031941.06.24
IndiaBishop René-Jean-Baptiste-Germain Feuga, M.E.P.

former Bishop of Mysore (India)

1941.04.031941.07.02
GermanyCardinal Joseph Wendel

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria Nuova

former Metropolitan Archbishop of München und Freising (Germany)

former Military Vicar of Germany (Germany)

1941.04.041941.06.29
BrazilBishop Pedro Massa, S.D.B.

former Bishop-Prelate of Rio Negro (Brazil)

1941.04.051941.05.01
BrazilBishop Germán Vega Campón, O.S.A.

former Bishop-Prelate of Jataí (Brazil)

1941.04.191941.06.01
BrazilBishop Felipe Benito Condurú Pacheco

former Bishop of Parnaíba (Brazil)

1941.04.191941.07.06
ItalyArchbishop Vigilio da Valstagna Dalla Zuanna (Federico), O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Carpi (Italy)

1941.05.121941.06.08
GermanyBishop Heinrich Metzroth

former Auxiliary Bishop of Trier (Germany)

1941.05.121941.06.08
MozambiqueBishop Teófilo José Pereira de Andrade, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Nampula (Mozambique)

1941.05.121941.06.29
USABishop James Joseph Sweeney

former Bishop of Honolulu (USA)

1941.05.201941.07.25
CanadaArchbishop Georges Cabana

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Sherbrooke (Canada)

1941.05.241941.06.30
CanadaBishop Rosario L. Brodeur

former Bishop of Alexandria in Ontario (Canada)

1941.05.241941.06.30
CanadaBishop Joseph-Conrad Chaumont

former Auxiliary Bishop of Montréal (Canada)

1941.06.281941.08.15
CanadaBishop Lawrence-Patrick Whelan

former Auxiliary Bishop of Montréal (Canada)

1941.06.281941.08.15
ItalyArchbishop Giuseppe Misuraca

former Titular Archbishop of Cesarea in Cappadocia

1941.07.021941.07.20
CanadaBishop Michael O’Reilly

former Bishop of Saint George’s (Canada)

1941.07.051941.09.09
IrelandBishop Denis J. Moynihan

former Bishop of Kerry (Ireland)

1941.07.051941.09.21
MadagascarArchbishop Jean Wolff, C.S.Sp.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Diégo-Suarez (Madagascar)

1941.07.081941.10.26
Burkina FasoBishop André-Joseph-Prosper Dupont, M. Afr.

former Bishop of Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso)

1941.07.081941.11.09
ChinaBishop Vitus Zhang Zuo-heng (Chang Tso-huan) (張作恆), S.V.D.

former Bishop of Xinyang 信陽 (China)

1941.07.081941.12.08
BrazilBishop Luís Gonzaga da Cunha Marelim, C.M.

former Bishop of Caxias do Maranhão (Brazil)

1941.07.191941.09.07
ItalyBishop Domenico Vendola

former Bishop of Lucera (Italy)

1941.07.211941.09.07
ItalyBishop Carlo Baldini, O.M.D.

former Bishop of Pienza (Italy)

former Bishop of Chiusi (Italy)

1941.07.311941.10.12
USABishop Laurence Julius FitzSimon

former Bishop of Amarillo (USA)

1941.08.021941.10.22
ChileBishop Alejandro Menchaca Lira

former Bishop of Temuco (Chile)

1941.08.091941.10.12
GermanyCardinal Lorenz Jäger

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Leone I

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Paderborn (Germany)

1941.08.101941.10.19
IndiaPatriarch José Vieira Alvernaz

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Goa and Daman (India)

1941.08.131941.12.01
ChileBishop Pedro Aguilera Narbona

former Bishop of Iquique (Chile)

1941.09.151942.01.04
FranceBishop Paul Chevrier

former Bishop of Cahors (France)

1941.09.241941.11.21
FranceBishop Auguste Joseph Gaudel

former Bishop of Fréjus–Toulon (France)

1941.09.241941.12.01
ItalyArchbishop Giuseppe De Nicola

former Auxiliary Bishop of Napoli (Italy)

1941.10.031941.10.26
FranceBishop Antoine-Marie Cazaux

former Bishop of Luçon (France)

1941.10.111941.12.08
FranceBishop Eugène-Joseph-Marie Le Bellec

former Bishop of Vannes (France)

1941.10.111941.12.11
IndonesiaBishop Jacobus Hubertus Goumans, O.S.C.

former Vicar Apostolic of Bandung (Indonesia)

1941.10.161942.04.22
IndonesiaBishop Michel Thomas Verhoeks, C.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Surabaia (Indonesia)

1941.10.161942.05.08
SwitzerlandBishop Christianus Caminada

former Bishop of Chur (Switzerland)

1941.10.171941.11.23
ItalyArchbishop Norberto Perini

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Fermo (Italy)

1941.10.221941.11.30
MartiniqueArchbishop Henri-Marie-François Varin de la Brunelière, C.S.Sp.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Fort-de-France–Saint-Pierre (Martinique)

1941.10.241942.01.21
AngolaBishop Antonio Ildefonse dos Santos Silva, O.S.B.

former Bishop of Silva Porto (Angola)

1941.11.031942.07.26
EcuadorBishop Maximiliano Spiller, C.S.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Napo (Ecuador)

1941.11.121941.12.28
JapanBishop Michael Wasaburo Urakawa (ミカエル 浦川 和三郎)

former Bishop of Sendai 仙台 (Japan)

1941.11.201942.01.18
BrazilBishop Ernesto de Paula

former Bishop of Piracicaba (Brazil)

1941.11.221942.01.04
PhilippinesArchbishop José Maria Cuenco

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Jaro (Philippines)

1941.11.221942.12.27
ChinaBishop Rombert Casimir Kowalski (郭時濟), O.F.M.

former Bishop of Wuchang 武昌 (China)

1941.11.241942.01.11
IraqBishop Jean Kurio (Chaldean Rite)

former Bishop of Amadiyah of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

1941.11.241942.02.01
JapanCardinal Paul Yashigoro Taguchi (パウロ 田口 芳五郎)

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Via

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Osaka 大阪 (Japan)

1941.11.251941.12.14
ItalyArchbishop Raffaele Mario Radossi, O.F.M. Conv.

former Archbishop of Spoleto (Italy)

1941.11.271942.01.25
USABishop Edward Gerard Hettinger

former Auxiliary Bishop of Columbus (USA)

1941.12.061942.02.24
USABishop Joseph Clement Willging

former Bishop of Pueblo (USA)

1941.12.061942.02.24
USABishop Peter William Bartholome

former Bishop of Saint Cloud (USA)

1941.12.061942.03.03
BelgiumBishop André Marie Charue

former Bishop of Namur (Belgium)

1941.12.121942.02.11
IndiaBishop Joseph-Alphonse Baud, M.S.F.S.

former Bishop of Visakhapatnam (India)

1941.12.231942.03.17
VietnamBishop Jean-Liévin-Joseph Sion, M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Kontum (Vietnam)

1941.12.231942.04.22
CubaCardinal Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Lorenzo in Lucina

former Metropolitan Archbishop of La Habana (Cuba)

1941.12.261942.02.24
CubaArchbishop Evelio Díaz y Cía

former Metropolitan Archbishop of La Habana (Cuba)

1941.12.261942.03.01
USABishop William Patrick O’Connor

former Bishop of Madison (USA)

1941.12.271942.03.07

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