Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1943

Newly Elected Bishops (68)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
USABishop William Tibertus McCarty, C.SS.R.

former Bishop of Rapid City (USA)

1943.01.021943.01.25
BrazilArchbishop Fernando Gomes dos Santos

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Goiânia (Brazil)

1943.01.091943.04.04
BrazilBishop Gregório Alonso Aparicio, O.A.R.

former Bishop-Prelate of Marajó (Brazil)

1943.01.091943.07.11
FranceBishop Henri-Marie-Joseph Pinson

former Bishop of Saint-Flour (France)

1943.01.121943.03.18
RwandaBishop Laurent-François Déprimoz, M. Afr.

former Vicar Apostolic of Kabgayi (Rwanda)

1943.01.121943.03.19
ChinaBishop Thomas Niu Hui-qing (牛會卿)

former Bishop of Yanggu 陽穀 (China)

1943.01.121943.04.04
NigeriaBishop Thomas Hughes, S.M.A.

former Bishop of Ondo (Nigeria)

1943.01.121943.05.09
GuadeloupeBishop Jean Gay, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Basse-Terre et Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe)

1943.01.131943.03.25
SpainBishop Manuel Hurtado y García

former Bishop of Tarazona (Spain)

1943.01.131943.05.02
BoliviaBishop Alonso Manuel Escalante, M.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Pando (Bolivia)

1943.01.131943.05.09
New ZealandBishop Hugh John O’Neill

former Coadjutor Bishop of Dunedin (New Zealand)

1943.01.181943.03.25
ItalyBishop Emilio Baroncelli

former Bishop of Recanati (Italy)

1943.01.251943.02.14
SpainArchbishop Casimiro Morcillo González

former Archbishop of Madrid (Spain)

1943.01.251943.05.09
IrelandBishop Daniel Cohalan

former Bishop of Waterford and Lismore (Ireland)

1943.01.301943.04.04
IrelandBishop Eugene O’Callaghan

former Bishop of Clogher (Ireland)

1943.01.301943.04.04
Congo-KinshasaBishop Frans van den Berghe, C.I.C.M.

former Bishop of Budjala (Congo-Kinshasa)

1943.02.091943.06.29
VenezuelaArchbishop Nicolás Eugenio Navarro

former Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas (Venezuela)

1943.02.211943.03.25
MexicoBishop Francisco Espino Porras

former Auxiliary Bishop of Chihuahua (Mexico)

1943.02.271943.06.13
SlovakiaBishop Eduard Nécsey

former Auxiliary Bishop of Nitra (Slovakia)

1943.03.121943.05.16
SyriaArchbishop Pierre Kamel Medawar, M.S.P. (Greek-Melkite Rite)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch of the Greek-Melkites (Syria)

1943.03.131943.06.06
SyriaPatriarch Maximos V Hakim (Greek-Melkite Rite)

former Patriarch of Antioch of the Greek-Melkites (Syria)

1943.03.131943.06.13
CanadaBishop Neil Nicholas Savaryn, O.S.B.M. (Ukrainian Rite)

former Bishop of Edmonton of the Ukrainians (Canada)

1943.04.031943.07.01
GermanyBishop Anton Scharnagl

former Auxiliary Bishop of München und Freising (Germany)

1943.04.101943.05.09
ItalyBishop Carlo Stoppa

former Bishop of Alba (Italy)

1943.04.171943.05.23
CzechiaBishop Joseph Martin Nathan

former Auxiliary Bishop of Olomouc (Czechia)

1943.04.171943.06.06
USABishop Joseph Aloysius Burke

former Bishop of Buffalo (USA)

1943.04.201943.06.29
MozambiqueBishop Sebastiano Soares de Resende

former Bishop of Beira (Mozambique)

1943.04.211943.08.15
ItalyBishop Dionisio Borra

former Bishop of Fossano (Italy)

1943.04.301943.06.29
NicaraguaBishop Matteo Aloisio Niedhammer y Yaeckle, O.F.M. Cap.

former Vicar Apostolic of Bluefields (Nicaragua)

1943.05.111943.06.29
ItalyBishop Francesco Giberti

former Bishop of Fidenza (Italy)

1943.05.121943.06.20
ItalyArchbishop Antonio Lanza

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Reggio Calabria (Italy)

former Bishop of Bova (Italy)

1943.05.121943.06.29
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Dell’Omo

former Bishop of Acqui (Italy)

1943.05.121943.06.29
HondurasArchbishop José de la Cruz Turcios y Barahona, S.D.B.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tegucigalpa (Honduras)

1943.05.281943.08.15
USAArchbishop Bryan Joseph McEntegart

former Bishop of Brooklyn (USA)

former Archbishop ad personam

1943.06.051943.08.03
CanadaBishop John Roderick MacDonald

former Bishop of Antigonish (Canada)

1943.06.051943.08.24
ItalyBishop Carlo Zinato

former Bishop of Vicenza (Italy)

1943.06.081943.07.25
RomaniaBishop Marcu Glaser

former Auxiliary Bishop of Iaşi (Romania)

1943.06.101943.07.25
SpainBishop Jesús Mérida Pérez

former Bishop of Astorga (Spain)

1943.06.101943.09.12
SpainBishop Inocencio Rodríguez Díez

former Bishop of Cuenca (Spain)

1943.06.101943.09.19
SpainArchbishop Enrique Delgado y Gómez

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Pamplona (Spain)

1943.06.101943.10.03
SpainBishop Rafael Alvarez Lara

former Bishop of Mallorca (Spain)

1943.06.101943.10.24
ItalyBishop Domenico Fiori

former Auxiliary Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto (Italy)

1943.06.191943.07.26
SyriaArchbishop Isidore Fattal (Greek-Melkite Rite)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Aleppo of the Greek-Melkites (Syria)

1943.06.201943.08.01
FranceBishop Stanislas Courbe

former Auxiliary Bishop of Paris (France)

1943.06.221943.08.17
FranceBishop Paul-Louis Touzé

former Auxiliary Bishop of Paris (France)

1943.06.221943.08.17
FranceBishop Maurice-Paul-Jules Rousseau

former Bishop of Laval (France)

1943.06.221943.08.25
SwitzerlandBishop Lois-Séverin Haller, C.R.A.

former Abbot Ordinary of Saint-Maurice d’Agaune (Switzerland)

former Abbot Ordinary of Swiss Congregation of Canons Regular of Saint Maurice of Agaune

1943.06.261943.08.10
BrazilBishop Delfim Ribeiro Guedes

former Bishop of São João del Rei (Brazil)

1943.06.261943.10.03
USAArchbishop James Peter Davis

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Santa Fe (USA)

1943.07.031943.10.06
IndiaBishop Ignatius Mummadi

former Bishop of Guntur (India)

1943.07.131943.10.28
BoliviaBishop Giovanni Claudel, C.SS.R.

former Vicar Apostolic of Reyes (Bolivia)

1943.07.141943.09.12
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Della Cioppa

former Bishop of Alife (Italy)

1943.07.171944.03.19
BrazilArchbishop João Batista Portocarrero Costa

former Bishop of Mossoró (Brazil)

former Coadjutor Archbishop of Olinda e Recife (Brazil)

1943.07.311943.11.07
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Gori

former Bishop of Sutri (Italy)

former Bishop of Nepi (Italy)

1943.08.171943.10.03
ItalyBishop Antonio Bagnoli

former Bishop of Fiesole (Italy)

1943.08.171943.10.07
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Battaglia

former Bishop of Faenza (Italy)

1943.08.211943.10.10
ItalyArchbishop Ilario Alcini

former Titular Archbishop of Nicæa

1943.08.231943.10.03
ArgentinaArchbishop Germiniano Esorto

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bahía Blanca (Argentina)

1943.08.231943.10.31
ArgentinaArchbishop Tomás Juan Carlos Solari

former Metropolitan Archbishop of La Plata (Argentina)

1943.08.231943.11.11
GermanyBishop Johannes Joseph van der Velden

former Bishop of Aachen (Germany)

1943.09.071943.10.10
USABishop Francis Joseph Haas

former Bishop of Grand Rapids (USA)

1943.09.261943.11.18
GermanyBishop Artur Michael Landgraf

former Auxiliary Bishop of Bamberg (Germany)

1943.10.171943.11.21
FranceBishop Julien Le Couëdic

former Bishop of Troyes (France)

1943.11.041944.01.18
VietnamBishop Paul-Raymond-Marie-Marcel Piquet, M.E.P.

former Bishop of Nha Trang (Vietnam)

1943.11.111944.01.18
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Stella

former Bishop of La Spezia (Italy)

former Bishop of Brugnato (Italy)

1943.11.131944.01.06
SyriaArchbishop Pierre Chami, M.S.P. (Greek-Melkite Rite)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bosra–Hauran of the Greek-Melkites (Syria)

1943.11.131944.10.22
ChinaArchbishop Alexandre-Joseph-Charles Derouineau (德為能), M.E.P.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Kunming 昆明 (China)

1943.12.081944.03.19
PeruArchbishop Leonardo José Rodriguez Ballón, O.F.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Arequipa (Peru)

1943.12.301944.02.06

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