Bishops Consecrated

in a.d. 1943

Bishops (73)ElectedConsecratedAscending
USABishop William Tibertus McCarty, C.SS.R.

former Bishop of Rapid City (USA)

1943.01.021943.01.25
USAArchbishop Martin John O’Connor

former President of Pontifical Commission for Social Communications

1942.11.141943.01.27
SyriaArchbishop François Ayoub (Maronite Rite)

former Archbishop of Aleppo of the Maronites (Syria)

1942.11.281943.02.14
ItalyBishop Emilio Baroncelli

former Bishop of Recanati (Italy)

1943.01.251943.02.14
USABishop John Joseph Boylan

former Bishop of Rockford (USA)

1942.11.211943.02.17
CanadaBishop Marc Lacroix, O.M.I.

former Bishop of Churchill–Baie d’Hudson (Canada)

1942.12.181943.02.22
MexicoArchbishop Fortino Gómez León

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Antequera (Mexico)

1942.11.211943.02.24
CanadaBishop Georges-Léon Pelletier

former Bishop of Trois-Rivières (Canada)

1942.12.051943.02.24
AustraliaArchbishop Ernest Victor Tweedy

former Archbishop of Hobart (Australia)

1942.12.171943.03.07
SpainArchbishop Rafael García y García de Castro

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Granada (Spain)

1942.12.291943.03.07
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
GuadeloupeBishop Jean Gay, C.S.Sp.

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

1943.01.131943.03.25
New ZealandBishop Hugh John O’Neill

former Coadjutor Bishop of Dunedin (New Zealand)

1943.01.181943.03.25
VenezuelaArchbishop Nicolás Eugenio Navarro

former Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas (Venezuela)

1943.02.211943.03.25
SpainBishop Emeterio Echeverria Barrena

former Prior nullius of Ciudad Real (Spain)

1942.12.291943.03.28
SpainBishop Ramon Iglésias i Navarri

former Bishop of Urgell (Spain)

1942.12.291943.04.04
BrazilArchbishop Fernando Gomes dos Santos

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Goiânia (Brazil)

1943.01.091943.04.04
ChinaBishop Thomas Niu Hui-qing (牛會卿)

former Bishop of Yanggu 陽穀 (China)

1943.01.121943.04.04
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
SpainBishop Manuel Hurtado y García

former Bishop of Tarazona (Spain)

1943.01.131943.05.02
NigeriaBishop Thomas Hughes, S.M.A.

former Bishop of Ondo (Nigeria)

1943.01.121943.05.09
BoliviaBishop Alonso Manuel Escalante, M.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Pando (Bolivia)

1943.01.131943.05.09
SpainArchbishop Casimiro Morcillo González

former Archbishop of Madrid (Spain)

1943.01.251943.05.09
GermanyBishop Anton Scharnagl

former Auxiliary Bishop of München und Freising (Germany)

1943.04.101943.05.09
SlovakiaBishop Eduard Nécsey

former Auxiliary Bishop of Nitra (Slovakia)

1943.03.121943.05.16
ItalyBishop Carlo Stoppa

former Bishop of Alba (Italy)

1943.04.171943.05.23
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
CzechiaBishop Joseph Martin Nathan

former Auxiliary Bishop of Olomouc (Czechia)

1943.04.171943.06.06
MexicoBishop Francisco Espino Porras

former Auxiliary Bishop of Chihuahua (Mexico)

1943.02.271943.06.13
SyriaPatriarch Maximos V Hakim (Greek-Melkite Rite)

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

1943.03.131943.06.13
ItalyBishop Francesco Giberti

former Bishop of Fidenza (Italy)

1943.05.121943.06.20
Congo-KinshasaBishop Frans van den Berghe, C.I.C.M.

former Bishop of Budjala (Congo-Kinshasa)

1943.02.091943.06.29
USABishop Joseph Aloysius Burke

former Bishop of Buffalo (USA)

1943.04.201943.06.29
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
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
CanadaBishop Neil Nicholas Savaryn, O.S.B.M. (Ukrainian Rite)

former Bishop of Edmonton of the Ukrainians (Canada)

1943.04.031943.07.01
IcelandBishop Johánnes Gunnarsson, S.M.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Islanda (Iceland)

1942.02.231943.07.07
BrazilBishop Gregório Alonso Aparicio, O.A.R.

former Bishop-Prelate of Marajó (Brazil)

1943.01.091943.07.11
RussiaBishop Paolo Meletijew

former Titular Bishop of Heracleopolis magna

1946.10.261943.07.12
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
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
USAArchbishop Bryan Joseph McEntegart

former Bishop of Brooklyn (USA)

former Archbishop ad personam

1943.06.051943.08.03
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
MozambiqueBishop Sebastiano Soares de Resende

former Bishop of Beira (Mozambique)

1943.04.211943.08.15
HondurasArchbishop José de la Cruz Turcios y Barahona, S.D.B.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tegucigalpa (Honduras)

1943.05.281943.08.15
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
CanadaBishop John Roderick MacDonald

former Bishop of Antigonish (Canada)

1943.06.051943.08.24
FranceBishop Maurice-Paul-Jules Rousseau

former Bishop of Laval (France)

1943.06.221943.08.25
SpainBishop Jesús Mérida Pérez

former Bishop of Astorga (Spain)

1943.06.101943.09.12
BoliviaBishop Giovanni Claudel, C.SS.R.

former Vicar Apostolic of Reyes (Bolivia)

1943.07.141943.09.12
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
BrazilBishop Delfim Ribeiro Guedes

former Bishop of São João del Rei (Brazil)

1943.06.261943.10.03
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Gori

former Bishop of Sutri (Italy)

former Bishop of Nepi (Italy)

1943.08.171943.10.03
ItalyArchbishop Ilario Alcini

former Titular Archbishop of Nicæa

1943.08.231943.10.03
USAArchbishop James Peter Davis

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Santa Fe (USA)

1943.07.031943.10.06
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
GermanyBishop Johannes Joseph van der Velden

former Bishop of Aachen (Germany)

1943.09.071943.10.10
SpainBishop Rafael Alvarez Lara

former Bishop of Mallorca (Spain)

1943.06.101943.10.24
IndiaBishop Ignatius Mummadi

former Bishop of Guntur (India)

1943.07.131943.10.28
ArgentinaArchbishop Germiniano Esorto

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bahía Blanca (Argentina)

1943.08.231943.10.31
BrazilArchbishop João Batista Portocarrero Costa

former Bishop of Mossoró (Brazil)

former Coadjutor Archbishop of Olinda e Recife (Brazil)

1943.07.311943.11.07
ArgentinaArchbishop Tomás Juan Carlos Solari

former Metropolitan Archbishop of La Plata (Argentina)

1943.08.231943.11.11
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

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