Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1944

Newly Elected Bishops (68)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
UkraineBishop Olexandr Chira (Ruthenian Rite)

former Bishop of Mukačeve of the Ruthenians (Ukraine)

19441944
UkraineBlessed Bishop Petro Pavlo Oros (Ruthenian Rite)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Mukačeve of the Ruthenians (Ukraine)

19441944.12.19
SpainBishop Juan Hervás y Benet

former Prior nullius of Ciudad Real (Spain)

former Bishop of Mallorca (Spain)

1944.01.131944.04.23
BrazilBishop Inácio Krause (葛樂才), C.M.

former Bishop of Shunde 順德 (China)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Curitiba (Brazil)

1944.01.131944.04.23
MexicoBishop Lino Aguirre Garcia

former Bishop of Culiacán (Mexico)

1944.01.221944.03.12
MexicoArchbishop Lucio Torreblanca

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Durango (Mexico)

1944.01.221944.03.20
MexicoArchbishop Fernando Ruiz y Solózarno

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Yucatán (Mexico)

1944.01.221944.04.16
ItalyArchbishop Giuseppe Zaffonato

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Udine (Italy)

1944.02.061944.04.23
BoliviaBishop Juan Niccolai, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Tarija (Bolivia)

1944.02.201944.05.28
LithuaniaBishop Pranciskus Ramanauskas

former Auxiliary Bishop of Telšiai (Lithuania)

1944.02.281944.04.09
HungaryVenerable Cardinal József Mindszenty

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Stefano al Monte Celio

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Esztergom (Hungary)

1944.03.031944.03.25
HungaryArchbishop Endre Hamvas

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Kalocsa (Hungary)

1944.03.031944.03.25
HungaryBishop Sándor Kovács

former Bishop of Szombathely (Hungary)

1944.03.031944.03.25
ChinaBishop Pietro Ermenegildo Focaccia (富濟才), O.F.M.

former Bishop of Yuci 榆次 (China)

1944.03.091944.04.30
JapanBishop Dominic Senyemon Fukahori (ドミニコ 深堀 仙右衛門)

former Bishop of Fukuoka 福岡 (Japan)

1944.03.091944.05.28
IndiaBishop George Alapatt (Syro-Malabar Rite)

former Bishop of Trichur of the Syro-Malabars (India)

1944.03.111944.05.01
CanadaArchbishop Charles-Eugène Parent

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Rimouski (Canada)

1944.03.111944.05.24
Northern IrelandBishop Eugene O’Doherty

former Bishop of Dromore (Northern Ireland)

1944.03.111944.05.28
PhilippinesVenerable Bishop Alfredo Maria Obviar y Aranda

former Bishop of Lucena (Philippines)

1944.03.111944.06.29
ItalyCardinal Giuseppe Siri

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria della Vittoria

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Genova–Bobbio (Italy)

1944.03.141944.05.07
AustraliaBishop Patrick Francis Lyons

former Bishop of Sale (Australia)

1944.03.161944.07.02
EnglandBishop Edward Ellis

former Bishop of Nottingham (England)

1944.03.181944.05.01
CanadaBishop James Boyle

former Bishop of Charlottetown (Canada)

1944.03.181944.06.06
North KoreaBishop Francis Hong Yong-ho (홍용호 프란치스코 / 洪龍浩)

former Vicar Apostolic of Heijo (North Korea)

1944.03.241944.06.29
SpainBishop León Villuendas Polo, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Teruel (Spain)

1944.03.291944.07.16
SpainArchbishop Luis Alonso Muñoyerro

former Archbishop Military Vicar of Spain (Spain)

1944.03.291944.07.23
SpainBishop Jaime Font y Andreu

former Bishop of San Sebastián (Spain)

1944.03.291944.09.10
ItalyBishop Girolamo Bartolomeo Bortignon, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Padova (Italy)

1944.04.041944.05.14
ItalyBishop Vittorio D’Alessi

former Bishop of Concordia (Italy)

1944.04.051944.05.18
CanadaArchbishop Philip Francis Pocock

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto (Canada)

1944.04.071944.06.29
FijiArchbishop Victor Frederick Foley, S.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Suva (Fiji)

1944.05.111944.08.06
ThailandBishop Giacomo Luigi Cheng

former Vicar Apostolic of Chantaburi (Thailand)

1944.05.111945.02.11
GuatemalaBishop Miguel Ángel García y Aráuz

former Bishop of Jalapa (Guatemala)

1944.05.161944.09.03
GuatemalaBishop Rafael González Estrada

former Auxiliary Bishop of Guatemala (Guatemala)

1944.05.161944.09.03
IranArchbishop Joseph Cheikho (Chaldean Rite)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Sehna of the Chaldeans (Iran)

1944.05.221944.06.11
GuatemalaBishop Raimundo María Julián Manguán-Martín y Delgado, O.P.

former Bishop of Vera Paz (Guatemala)

1944.05.261944.09.03
FranceBishop Frédéric Duc

former Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (France)

1944.05.301944.07.25
BrazilArchbishop José Newton de Almeida Baptista

former Archbishop Military Ordinary of Brazil (Brazil)

1944.06.101944.09.03
ColombiaArchbishop Bernardo Botero Alvarez, C.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Nueva Pamplona (Colombia)

1944.07.051944.08.24
SpainArchbishop José López Ortiz, O.S.A.

former Archbishop Military Vicar of Spain (Spain)

1944.07.101944.09.21
SpainBishop Luis Almarcha Hernández

former Bishop of León (Spain)

1944.07.101944.09.24
LebanonBishop Basilio Antonio Leone Kilzi, B.A. (Greek-Melkite Rite)

former Bishop of Bāniyās of the Greek-Melkites (Lebanon)

1944.07.101944.10.22
ThailandBishop Henri-Albert Thomine, M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Laos (Thailand)

1944.07.131944.11.12
ChinaBishop Ferdinando Fulgenzio Pasini (班錫宜), O.F.M.

former Bishop of Sanyuan 三原 (China)

1944.07.131944.12.17
ColombiaArchbishop Emilio de Brigard Ortiz

former Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá (Colombia)

1944.07.291944.09.03
BrazilBishop Henrique Gelain

former Bishop of Vacaria (Brazil)

1944.07.291944.12.10
PolandBishop Stanisław Czajka

former Auxiliary Bishop of Częstochowa (Poland)

1944.08.051944.10.28
SpainBishop Francisco Blanco Nájera

former Bishop of Ourense (Spain)

1944.08.081944.11.12
SpainBishop Ramón Sanahuja y Marcé

former Bishop of Cartagena (Spain)

1944.08.101944.11.19
SpainArchbishop José García y Goldaraz

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Valladolid (Spain)

1944.08.101944.11.26
FranceBishop Auguste Jauffrés

former Bishop of Tarentaise (France)

1944.08.281944.12.21
EnglandBishop Humphrey Bright

former Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham (England)

1944.08.311944.10.28
GermanyBishop Bernhard Stein

former Bishop of Trier (Germany)

1944.09.021944.11.05
VenezuelaBishop Ángel Turrado Moreno, O.F.M. Cap.

former Vicar Apostolic of Machiques (Venezuela)

1944.09.041944.12.17
UkraineBlessed Bishop Teodor Jurij Romża (Теодор Ю́рій Ро́мжа / Romzsa Tódor) (Ruthenian Rite)

former Titular Bishop of Appia

former Apostolic Administrator of Mukačeve of the Ruthenians (Ukraine)

1944.09.081944.09.21
LebanonArchbishop Joseph Bakhache (Syriac Rite)

former Patriarchal Vicar of Antioch of the Syriacs (Lebanon)

1944.10.151944.11.12
ItalyArchbishop Carlo Alberto Ferrero di Cavallerleone

former Archbishop Military Vicar of Italy (Italy)

former Prelate of Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta (Knights of Malta)

1944.10.281944.11.30
MaltaBishop Joseph Pace

former Bishop of Gozo (Malta)

1944.11.011944.12.17
ChinaBishop Joseph Mary Yuan Ke-zhi (Yüen K’ai-chih) (袁克治)

former Bishop of Zhumadian 駐馬店 (China)

1944.11.091945.03.04
USABishop Michael Joseph Ready

former Bishop of Columbus (USA)

1944.11.111944.12.14
USABishop Henry Joseph Grimmelsman

former Bishop of Evansville (USA)

1944.11.111944.12.21
USABishop Edward Francis Ryan

former Bishop of Burlington (USA)

1944.11.111945.01.03
USABishop John George Bennett

former Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana (USA)

1944.11.111945.01.10
USABishop William Theodore Mulloy

former Bishop of Covington (USA)

1944.11.181945.01.10
SpainBishop Francisco Cavero y Tormo

former Bishop of Coria (Spain)

1944.12.091945.02.24
SpainBishop Saturnino Rubio y Montiél

former Bishop of Osma–Soria (Spain)

1944.12.091945.05.06
Congo-KinshasaBishop Richard Cleire, M. Afr.

former Bishop of Kasongo (Congo-Kinshasa)

1944.12.141945.03.04
ColombiaBishop Vicente Roig y Villalba, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Valledupar (Colombia)

1944.12.151945.03.11

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