Bishops Consecrated

in a.d. 1944

Bishops (66)ElectedConsecratedAscending
UkraineBishop Olexandr Chira (Ruthenian Rite)

former Bishop of Mukačeve of the Ruthenians (Ukraine)

19441944
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Stella

former Bishop of La Spezia (Italy)

former Bishop of Brugnato (Italy)

1943.11.131944.01.06
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
PeruArchbishop Leonardo José Rodriguez Ballón, O.F.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Arequipa (Peru)

1943.12.301944.02.06
MexicoBishop Lino Aguirre Garcia

former Bishop of Culiacán (Mexico)

1944.01.221944.03.12
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Della Cioppa

former Bishop of Alife (Italy)

1943.07.171944.03.19
ChinaArchbishop Alexandre-Joseph-Charles Derouineau (德為能), M.E.P.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Kunming 昆明 (China)

1943.12.081944.03.19
MexicoArchbishop Lucio Torreblanca

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Durango (Mexico)

1944.01.221944.03.20
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
LithuaniaBishop Pranciskus Ramanauskas

former Auxiliary Bishop of Telšiai (Lithuania)

1944.02.281944.04.09
MexicoArchbishop Fernando Ruiz y Solózarno

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Yucatán (Mexico)

1944.01.221944.04.16
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
ItalyArchbishop Giuseppe Zaffonato

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Udine (Italy)

1944.02.061944.04.23
ChinaBishop Pietro Ermenegildo Focaccia (富濟才), O.F.M.

former Bishop of Yuci 榆次 (China)

1944.03.091944.04.30
IndiaBishop George Alapatt (Syro-Malabar Rite)

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

1944.03.111944.05.01
EnglandBishop Edward Ellis

former Bishop of Nottingham (England)

1944.03.181944.05.01
ItalyCardinal Giuseppe Siri

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria della Vittoria

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Genova–Bobbio (Italy)

1944.03.141944.05.07
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 Charles-Eugène Parent

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Rimouski (Canada)

1944.03.111944.05.24
BoliviaBishop Juan Niccolai, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Tarija (Bolivia)

1944.02.201944.05.28
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
Northern IrelandBishop Eugene O’Doherty

former Bishop of Dromore (Northern Ireland)

1944.03.111944.05.28
CanadaBishop James Boyle

former Bishop of Charlottetown (Canada)

1944.03.181944.06.06
IranArchbishop Joseph Cheikho (Chaldean Rite)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Sehna of the Chaldeans (Iran)

1944.05.221944.06.11
PhilippinesVenerable Bishop Alfredo Maria Obviar y Aranda

former Bishop of Lucena (Philippines)

1944.03.111944.06.29
North KoreaBishop Francis Hong Yong-ho (홍용호 프란치스코 / 洪龍浩)

former Vicar Apostolic of Heijo (North Korea)

1944.03.241944.06.29
CanadaArchbishop Philip Francis Pocock

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto (Canada)

1944.04.071944.06.29
AustraliaBishop Patrick Francis Lyons

former Bishop of Sale (Australia)

1944.03.161944.07.02
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
FranceBishop Frédéric Duc

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

1944.05.301944.07.25
FijiArchbishop Victor Frederick Foley, S.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Suva (Fiji)

1944.05.111944.08.06
ColombiaArchbishop Bernardo Botero Alvarez, C.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Nueva Pamplona (Colombia)

1944.07.051944.08.24
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
GuatemalaBishop Raimundo María Julián Manguán-Martín y Delgado, O.P.

former Bishop of Vera Paz (Guatemala)

1944.05.261944.09.03
BrazilArchbishop José Newton de Almeida Baptista

former Archbishop Military Ordinary of Brazil (Brazil)

1944.06.101944.09.03
ColombiaArchbishop Emilio de Brigard Ortiz

former Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá (Colombia)

1944.07.291944.09.03
SpainBishop Jaime Font y Andreu

former Bishop of San Sebastián (Spain)

1944.03.291944.09.10
SpainArchbishop José López Ortiz, O.S.A.

former Archbishop Military Vicar of Spain (Spain)

1944.07.101944.09.21
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
SpainBishop Luis Almarcha Hernández

former Bishop of León (Spain)

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

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

1944.07.101944.10.22
PolandBishop Stanisław Czajka

former Auxiliary Bishop of Częstochowa (Poland)

1944.08.051944.10.28
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
ThailandBishop Henri-Albert Thomine, M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Laos (Thailand)

1944.07.131944.11.12
SpainBishop Francisco Blanco Nájera

former Bishop of Ourense (Spain)

1944.08.081944.11.12
LebanonArchbishop Joseph Bakhache (Syriac Rite)

former Patriarchal Vicar of Antioch of the Syriacs (Lebanon)

1944.10.151944.11.12
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
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
BrazilBishop Henrique Gelain

former Bishop of Vacaria (Brazil)

1944.07.291944.12.10
USABishop Michael Joseph Ready

former Bishop of Columbus (USA)

1944.11.111944.12.14
ChinaBishop Ferdinando Fulgenzio Pasini (班錫宜), O.F.M.

former Bishop of Sanyuan 三原 (China)

1944.07.131944.12.17
VenezuelaBishop Ángel Turrado Moreno, O.F.M. Cap.

former Vicar Apostolic of Machiques (Venezuela)

1944.09.041944.12.17
MaltaBishop Joseph Pace

former Bishop of Gozo (Malta)

1944.11.011944.12.17
UkraineBlessed Bishop Petro Pavlo Oros (Ruthenian Rite)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Mukačeve of the Ruthenians (Ukraine)

19441944.12.19
FranceBishop Auguste Jauffrés

former Bishop of Tarentaise (France)

1944.08.281944.12.21
USABishop Henry Joseph Grimmelsman

former Bishop of Evansville (USA)

1944.11.111944.12.21

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