Bishops Consecrated

in a.d. 1945

Bishops (68)ElectedConsecratedAscending
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
ThailandBishop Giacomo Luigi Cheng

former Vicar Apostolic of Chantaburi (Thailand)

1944.05.111945.02.11
ItalyArchbishop Gilla Vincenzo Gremigni, M.S.C.

former Archbishop-Bishop of Novara (Italy)

1945.01.181945.02.11
ItalyBishop Domenico Brizi

former Bishop of Osimo (Italy)

former Bishop of Cingoli (Italy)

1945.01.231945.02.11
SpainBishop Francisco Cavero y Tormo

former Bishop of Coria (Spain)

1944.12.091945.02.24
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
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
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
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
UkraineBlessed Bishop Symeon Lukach (Симеон Лукач) (Ukrainian Rite)1945.04
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
SpainBishop José Souto Vizoso

former Bishop of Palencia (Spain)

1945.02.031945.04.15
French GuianaBishop Alfred Aimé Léon Marie, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Cayenne (French Guiana)

1945.01.121945.05.01
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
SpainBishop Saturnino Rubio y Montiél

former Bishop of Osma–Soria (Spain)

1944.12.091945.05.06
USABishop Vincent Stanislaus Waters

former Bishop of Raleigh (USA)

1945.03.151945.05.15
EnglandArchbishop Arthur Hughes, M. Afr.

former Titular Archbishop of Aprus

former Apostolic Internuncio to Egypt

1945.03.031945.05.20
PeruBishop Daniel Figueroa Villón

former Bishop of Chiclayo (Peru)

1945.04.121945.05.20
USABishop Francis Joseph Schenk

former Bishop of Duluth (USA)

1945.03.101945.05.24
USABishop James Louis Connolly

former Bishop of Fall River (USA)

1945.04.071945.05.24
NicaraguaBishop Carlos de la Trinidad Borge y Castrillo

former Auxiliary Bishop of Managua (Nicaragua)

1945.04.231945.05.27
CanadaArchbishop Joseph Gerald Berry

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Halifax (Canada)

1945.04.071945.06.07
USABishop Louis Francis Kelleher

former Auxiliary Bishop of Boston (USA)

1945.04.211945.06.08
CanadaArchbishop Thomas John Flynn

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

1945.04.071945.06.24
GermanyBishop Adolf Bolte

former Bishop of Fulda (Germany)

1945.02.221945.06.29
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
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
CanadaBishop William Joseph Smith

former Bishop of Pembroke (Canada)

1945.05.191945.07.25
ItalyBishop Domenico Bernareggi

former Auxiliary Bishop of Milano (Italy)

1945.06.161945.07.29
AustriaBishop Josef Köstner

former Bishop of Gurk (Austria)

1945.06.251945.08.05
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
EcuadorBishop Cándido Rada Senosiáin, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Guaranda (Ecuador)

1945.06.091945.08.12
CanadaBishop Marie-Antoine Roy, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Edmundston (Canada)

1945.05.311945.08.15
BrazilBishop Salomão Barbosa Ferraz

former Titular Bishop of Eleutherna

1963.05.101945.08.15
ItalyBishop Michele Rateni

former Bishop of San Marco (Italy)

former Bishop of Bisignano (Italy)

1945.06.061945.08.19
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
CanadaArchbishop Henri Routhier, O.M.I.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Grouard–McLennan (Canada)

1945.06.151945.09.08
CanadaArchbishop Anthony Jordan, O.M.I.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Edmonton (Canada)

1945.06.221945.09.08
BrazilBishop Francisco Xavier Elias Pedro Paulo Rey, T.O.R.

former Bishop-Prelate of Guajará-Mirim (Brazil)

1945.05.191945.09.09
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
EnglandBishop Joseph Halsall

former Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool (England)

1945.08.111945.09.21
ItalyBishop Vincenzo Bonaventura Medori

former Bishop of Teano (Italy)

former Bishop of Calvi (Italy)

1945.07.171945.09.30
USABishop John Patrick Treacy

former Bishop of La Crosse (USA)

1945.08.221945.10.02
IndiaBishop Thomas Tharayil (Syro-Malabar Rite)

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

1945.06.091945.10.07
USABishop William Richard Arnold

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

1945.05.051945.10.11
USABishop William Aloysius Scully

former Bishop of Albany (USA)

1945.08.211945.10.24
ItalyBishop Domenico Valerii

former Bishop of Marsi (Italy)

1945.08.091945.10.28
BrazilBishop José de Medeiros Leite

former Bishop of Oliveira (Brazil)

1945.08.141945.10.28
Timor-LesteBishop Jaime Garcia Goulart

former Bishop of Díli (Timor-Leste)

1945.10.121945.10.28
VietnamBishop Thaddeus Lê Hữu Từ, O. Cist.

former Vicar Apostolic of Phát Diêm (Vietnam)

1945.06.141945.10.29
NetherlandsArchbishop Martin Lucas, S.V.D.

former Titular Archbishop of Adulis

1945.09.141945.10.29
SwitzerlandBishop François Charrière

former Bishop of Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg (Switzerland)

1945.10.201945.11.21
ItalyArchbishop Egidio Bignamini

former Archbishop of Ancona e Umana (Italy)

1945.11.181945.12.02
ItalyCardinal Ernesto Ruffini

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Sabina

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Palermo (Italy)

1945.10.111945.12.08
USACardinal Lawrence Joseph Shehan

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Clemente

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Baltimore (USA)

1945.11.171945.12.12
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
NetherlandsArchbishop Joseph Wilhelmus Maria Baeten

former Bishop of Breda (Netherlands)

1945.11.301945.12.27

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