Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1945

Newly Elected Bishops (79)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
UkraineBishop Grygory Balahurak, O.S.B.M. (Ukrainian Rite)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk of the Ukrainians (Ukraine)

19451945.04
UkraineBlessed Bishop Ivan Sleziuk (Іван Слезюк) (Ukrainian Rite)

former Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk of the Ukrainians (Ukraine)

19451945.04
UkraineBishop Stepans Vaprovyč (Ukrainian Rite)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk of the Ukrainians (Ukraine)

19451945.04
VietnamBishop Jean-Marie Mazé, M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Hung Hoá (Vietnam)

1945.01.111946.03.19
French GuianaBishop Alfred Aimé Léon Marie, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Cayenne (French Guiana)

1945.01.121945.05.01
ItalyArchbishop Gilla Vincenzo Gremigni, M.S.C.

former Archbishop-Bishop of Novara (Italy)

1945.01.181945.02.11
ItalyArchbishop Enrico Nicodemo

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bari e Canosa (Italy)

former Pontifical Delegate for the Basilica of Saint Nicholas of Bari

1945.01.221945.04.08
ItalyBishop Domenico Brizi

former Bishop of Osimo (Italy)

former Bishop of Cingoli (Italy)

1945.01.231945.02.11
ItalyBishop Lucio Crescenzi

former Bishop of Matelica (Italy)

former Bishop of Fabriano (Italy)

1945.01.231945.03.11
USABishop Joseph Patrick Donahue

former Auxiliary Bishop of New York (USA)

1945.01.271945.03.19
SpainBishop José Souto Vizoso

former Bishop of Palencia (Spain)

1945.02.031945.04.15
GermanyBishop Adolf Bolte

former Bishop of Fulda (Germany)

1945.02.221945.06.29
EnglandArchbishop Arthur Hughes, M. Afr.

former Titular Archbishop of Aprus

former Apostolic Internuncio to Egypt

1945.03.031945.05.20
USAArchbishop Edward Joseph Hunkeler

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Kansas City (USA)

1945.03.101945.05.01
USABishop Anthony John King Mussio

former Bishop of Steubenville (USA)

1945.03.101945.05.01
USABishop Francis Joseph Schenk

former Bishop of Duluth (USA)

1945.03.101945.05.24
USABishop Vincent Stanislaus Waters

former Bishop of Raleigh (USA)

1945.03.151945.05.15
USABishop James Louis Connolly

former Bishop of Fall River (USA)

1945.04.071945.05.24
CanadaArchbishop Joseph Gerald Berry

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Halifax (Canada)

1945.04.071945.06.07
CanadaArchbishop Thomas John Flynn

former Coadjutor Archbishop of Saint John’s, Newfoundland (Canada)

1945.04.071945.06.24
PeruBishop Daniel Figueroa Villón

former Bishop of Chiclayo (Peru)

1945.04.121945.05.20
USABishop Louis Francis Kelleher

former Auxiliary Bishop of Boston (USA)

1945.04.211945.06.08
NicaraguaBishop Carlos de la Trinidad Borge y Castrillo

former Auxiliary Bishop of Managua (Nicaragua)

1945.04.231945.05.27
Dominican RepublicCardinal Octavio Antonio Beras Rojas

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Sisto

former Military Vicar of Dominican Republic (Dominican Republic)

1945.05.021945.08.12
Dominican RepublicBishop Felipe Antonio Gallego Gorgojo, S.J.

former Auxiliary Bishop of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)

1945.05.021945.08.12
USABishop William Richard Arnold

former Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Vicariate of United States of America (USA)

1945.05.051945.10.11
CanadaBishop William Joseph Smith

former Bishop of Pembroke (Canada)

1945.05.191945.07.25
BrazilBishop Francisco Xavier Elias Pedro Paulo Rey, T.O.R.

former Bishop-Prelate of Guajará-Mirim (Brazil)

1945.05.191945.09.09
CanadaBishop Marie-Antoine Roy, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Edmundston (Canada)

1945.05.311945.08.15
FranceArchbishop Jean-Julien Weber, P.S.S.

former Bishop of Strasbourg (France)

former Archbishop ad personam

1945.06.011945.06.29
MexicoBishop José de Jesús Angulo del Valle y Navarro

former Bishop of Tabasco (Mexico)

1945.06.021945.06.29
ItalyBishop Michele Rateni

former Bishop of San Marco (Italy)

former Bishop of Bisignano (Italy)

1945.06.061945.08.19
EcuadorBishop Cándido Rada Senosiáin, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Guaranda (Ecuador)

1945.06.091945.08.12
IndiaBishop Thomas Tharayil (Syro-Malabar Rite)

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

1945.06.091945.10.07
VietnamBishop Thaddeus Lê Hữu Từ, O. Cist.

former Vicar Apostolic of Phát Diêm (Vietnam)

1945.06.141945.10.29
CanadaArchbishop Henri Routhier, O.M.I.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Grouard–McLennan (Canada)

1945.06.151945.09.08
ItalyBishop Domenico Bernareggi

former Auxiliary Bishop of Milano (Italy)

1945.06.161945.07.29
CanadaArchbishop Anthony Jordan, O.M.I.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Edmonton (Canada)

1945.06.221945.09.08
AustriaBishop Josef Köstner

former Bishop of Gurk (Austria)

1945.06.251945.08.05
PeruBishop Carlos Alberto Arce Masías

former Bishop of Piura (Peru)

1945.07.061945.07.15
PeruBishop Alberto Maria Dettmann y Aragón, O.P.

former Bishop of Ica (Peru)

1945.07.061945.07.15
ItalyBishop Vincenzo Bonaventura Medori

former Bishop of Teano (Italy)

former Bishop of Calvi (Italy)

1945.07.171945.09.30
ItalyBishop Ezio Barbieri

former Bishop of Città della Pieve (Italy)

1945.07.211945.08.26
ItalyBishop Giulio Bianconi

former Bishop of Tarquinia (Italy)

former Bishop of Civitavecchia (Italy)

1945.07.251945.09.02
ItalyBishop Domenico Valerii

former Bishop of Marsi (Italy)

1945.08.091945.10.28
EnglandBishop Joseph Halsall

former Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool (England)

1945.08.111945.09.21
BrazilBishop José de Medeiros Leite

former Bishop of Oliveira (Brazil)

1945.08.141945.10.28
USABishop William Aloysius Scully

former Bishop of Albany (USA)

1945.08.211945.10.24
USABishop John Patrick Treacy

former Bishop of La Crosse (USA)

1945.08.221945.10.02
GuamBishop Apollinaris William Baumgartner (アポリナリス・バウムガートナー), O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Agaña (Guam)

1945.08.251945.09.18
NetherlandsArchbishop Martin Lucas, S.V.D.

former Titular Archbishop of Adulis

1945.09.141945.10.29
RussiaArchbishop Nikolay Avtonomov

former Titular Archbishop of Ratiaria

(1945.10.06)1930.05.18
ItalyCardinal Ernesto Ruffini

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Sabina

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Palermo (Italy)

1945.10.111945.12.08
Timor-LesteBishop Jaime Garcia Goulart

former Bishop of Díli (Timor-Leste)

1945.10.121945.10.28
SwitzerlandBishop François Charrière

former Bishop of Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg (Switzerland)

1945.10.201945.11.21
PolandBishop Franciszek Jop

former Bishop of Opole (Poland)

1945.10.241946.05.19
ItalyBishop Carlo Boiardi

former Bishop of Apuania (Italy)

1945.10.301946.01.27
ColombiaBishop Luis Pérez Hernández, C.I.M.

former Bishop of Cúcuta (Colombia)

1945.11.031946.01.06
FranceArchbishop Charles-Marie-Joseph-Henri de Provenchères

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Aix (France)

1945.11.031946.01.18
FranceBishop Louis-Sylvain Robin

former Bishop of Blois (France)

1945.11.031946.01.18
FranceBishop Victor-Jean Perrin

former Bishop of Arras (France)

1945.11.031946.01.19
TogoArchbishop Joseph-Paul Strebler, S.M.A.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Lomé (Togo)

1945.11.081946.06.29
BelgiumCardinal Leo Jozef Suenens

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Pietro in Vincoli

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Mechelen–Brussel (Belgium)

former Military Vicar of Belgium (Belgium)

1945.11.121945.12.16
USACardinal Lawrence Joseph Shehan

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Clemente

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Baltimore (USA)

1945.11.171945.12.12
ItalyArchbishop Egidio Bignamini

former Archbishop of Ancona e Umana (Italy)

1945.11.181945.12.02
SpainCardinal Fernando Quiroga y Palacios

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Agostino

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

1945.11.241946.03.24
ArgentinaArchbishop Ramón José Castellano

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Córdoba (Argentina)

1945.11.241946.04.28
SpainCardinal Vicente Enrique y Tarancón

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Giovanni Crisostomo a Monte Sacro Alto

former Archbishop of Madrid (Spain)

1945.11.251946.03.24
SpainBishop Máximo Yurramendi Alcáin

former Titular Bishop of Messene

former Apostolic Administrator of Ciudad Real (Spain)

1945.11.251946.03.31
NetherlandsArchbishop Joseph Wilhelmus Maria Baeten

former Bishop of Breda (Netherlands)

1945.11.301945.12.27
SpainCardinal José María Bueno y Monreal

former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia pro hac vice Title

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Sevilla (Spain)

1945.12.011946.03.19
Sri LankaCardinal Thomas Benjamin Cooray, O.M.I.

former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Nereo ed Achilleo

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

1945.12.141946.03.07
ItalyArchbishop Alfonso Carinci

former Protonotary Apostolic de numero of Prefecture of the Holy Apostolic Palaces

1945.12.151946.01.06
IrelandBishop Patrick O’Neill

former Bishop of Limerick (Ireland)

1945.12.151946.02.24
ScotlandBishop Kenneth Grant

former Bishop of Argyll and The Isles (Scotland)

1945.12.151946.02.27
ItalyArchbishop Benedetto Falcucci

former Bishop of Penne e Pescara (Italy)

1945.12.221946.02.11
FranceBishop Armand Coupel

former Bishop of Saint-Brieuc (France)

1945.12.291946.01.19
FranceBishop René-Joseph Piérard

former Bishop of Châlons (France)

1945.12.291946.03.19
AlgeriaBishop Bertrand Lacaste

former Bishop of Oran (Algeria)

1945.12.291946.03.25

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