Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1946

Newly Elected Bishops (109)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
ChinaBishop Faustino M. Tissot (丁玉守), S.X.

former Bishop of Zhengzhou 鄭州 (China)

19461946.06.23
ChinaBishop René-Désiré-Romain Boisguérin (林茂德), M.E.P.

former Bishop of Suifu 敘府 (China)

1946.01.101946.05.01
USABishop Charles Pasquale Greco

former Bishop of Alexandria (USA)

former Supreme Chaplain of Knights of Columbus

1946.01.151946.02.25
ChinaBishop Francis Gerard Kramer (康濟民), O.F.M.

former Bishop of Lu’an 潞安 (China)

1946.02.071946.03.25
SurinameBishop Stephanus Joseph Maria Magdalena Kuijpers, C.SS.R.

former Bishop of Paramaribo (Suriname)

1946.02.081946.06.10
ItalyArchbishop Giacomo Palombella

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Matera (Italy)

1946.02.141946.05.19
SpainBishop Juan Pedro Zarranz y Pueyo

former Bishop of Plasencia (Spain)

1946.02.161946.04.28
SpainCardinal Arturo Tabera Araoz, C.M.F.

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Pietro in Montorio

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Pamplona (Spain)

former Prefect of Sacred Congregation for the Religious and Secular Institutes

1946.02.161946.05.05
ItalyBishop Maturino Blanchet, O.M.I.

former Bishop of Aosta (Italy)

1946.02.181946.03.03
ItalyArchbishop Giuseppe D’Avack

former Archbishop of Camerino (Italy)

1946.02.181946.03.10
ItalyBishop Giovanni Battista Piasentini

former Bishop of Chioggia (Italy)

1946.02.181946.03.19
USACardinal Albert Gregory Meyer

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Cecilia

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Chicago (USA)

1946.02.181946.04.11
USABishop Thomas Lawrence Noa

former Bishop of Marquette (USA)

1946.02.221946.03.19
CanadaCardinal Maurice Roy

former Cardinal-Priest of Nostra Signora del SS. Sacramento e Santi Martiri Canadesi

former Military Vicar of Canada (Canada)

1946.02.221946.05.01
CanadaBishop Georges-Léon Landry

former Bishop of Hearst (Canada)

1946.02.221946.05.01
El SalvadorBishop Pedro Arnoldo Aparicio y Quintanilla, S.D.B.

former Bishop of San Vicente (El Salvador)

1946.02.221946.06.29
SpainBishop Lorenzo Bereciartúa y Balerdi

former Bishop of San Sebastián (Spain)

1946.02.221946.08.11
PolandBlessed Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Trastevere

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Warszawa (Poland)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Gniezno (Poland)

1946.03.041946.05.12
PolandBishop Jan Stepa

former Bishop of Tarnów (Poland)

1946.03.041946.05.19
PolandBishop Kazimierz Jósef Kowalski

former Bishop of Chełmno (Poland)

1946.03.041946.08.04
CanadaBishop Lionel Scheffer, O.M.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Labrador (Canada)

1946.03.141946.04.28
ChinaBishop Charles Joseph van Melckebeke (王守禮), C.I.C.M.

former Bishop of Ningxia 寧夏 (China)

1946.03.141946.05.30
PeruBishop Enrique Alvarez González, O.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Urubamba y Madre de Dios (Peru)

1946.03.141946.06.30
ItalyBishop Vincenzo Gili

former Bishop of Cesena (Italy)

1946.03.221946.07.14
ItalyBishop Pietro Villa, F.S.C.I.

former Prefect Apostolic of Gondar (Ethiopia)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Ostia (Italy)

1946.03.251946.05.01
BrazilArchbishop Rosalvo Costa Rêgo

former Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

1946.03.301946.06.09
AustraliaBishop Andrew Gerard Tynan

former Bishop of Rockhampton (Australia)

1946.03.311946.06.20
CzechiaBishop Karel Skoupy

former Bishop of Brno (Czechia)

1946.04.031946.06.30
TanzaniaBishop Joseph Blomjous, M. Afr.

former Bishop of Mwanza (Tanzania)

1946.04.111946.10.06
PolandBishop Ignacy Swirski

former Bishop of Siedlce (Poland)

1946.04.121946.06.30
USABishop John Raphael Hagan

former Auxiliary Bishop of Cleveland (USA)

1946.04.271946.05.28
ScotlandArchbishop James Donald Scanlan

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Glasgow (Scotland)

1946.04.271946.06.20
EgyptBishop Pietro Dib (Maronite Rite)

former Bishop of Cairo of the Maronites (Egypt)

1946.04.271946.07.05
LebanonArchbishop Ignace Ziadé (Maronite Rite)

former Archbishop of Beirut of the Maronites (Lebanon)

1946.04.271946.11.24
ItalyCardinal Alfredo Pacini

former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Angeli Custodi a Città Giardino pro hac vice Title

1946.04.281946.06.11
PolandBishop Franciszek Korszynski

former Auxiliary Bishop of Włocławek (Poland)

1946.05.021946.06.29
HungaryBishop Karl Kalman Papp

former Bishop of Győr (Hungary)

1946.05.031946.06.16
PolandBishop Zygmunt Choromański

former Auxiliary Bishop of Warszawa (Poland)

1946.05.071946.06.29
PolandBishop Wacław Majewski

former Auxiliary Bishop of Warszawa (Poland)

1946.05.071946.06.29
ItalyBishop Pietro Raimondi

former Bishop of Crotone (Italy)

1946.05.081946.06.29
ItalyArchbishop Giuseppe Burzio

former Titular Archbishop of Gortyna

1946.05.081946.06.30
IndiaCardinal Valerian Gracias

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Via Lata pro hac vice Title

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bombay (India)

1946.05.161946.06.29
ItalyArchbishop Giovanni Rizzo

former Archbishop of Rossano (Italy)

1946.05.281946.06.16
ItalyArchbishop Luigi Arrigoni

former Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Syria

former Apostolic Nuncio to Peru

1946.05.311946.07.28
ItalyBishop Antonio Picconi

former Bishop of Vigevano (Italy)

1946.06.131946.07.25
BrazilBishop Luís Gonzaga Peluso

former Bishop of Cachoeiro de Itapemirim (Brazil)

1946.06.131946.08.18
DominicaBishop Antoon Demets, C.SS.R.

former Coadjutor Bishop of Roseau (Dominica)

1946.06.131946.08.24
Papua New GuineaBishop André Sorin, M.S.C.

former Vicar Apostolic of Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea)

1946.06.131946.08.24
BrazilCardinal Avelar Brandão Vilela

former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Bonifacio ed Alessio

former Metropolitan Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia (Brazil)

1946.06.131946.10.27
NicaraguaBishop Octavio José Calderón y Padilla

former Bishop of Matagalpa (Nicaragua)

1946.06.131947.01.26
BrazilCardinal Alfredo Vicente Scherer

former Cardinal-Priest of Nostra Signora de La Salette

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Porto Alegre (Brazil)

1946.06.131947.02.23
ItalyBishop Danio Bolognini

former Bishop of Cremona (Italy)

1946.06.181946.06.29
EnglandBishop George Brunner

former Bishop of Middlesbrough (England)

1946.06.221946.07.25
CanadaBishop James Michael Hill

former Bishop of Victoria (Canada)

1946.06.221946.07.25
ItalyBishop Donato Pafundi

former Bishop of Cerignola (Italy)

former Bishop of Ascoli Satriano (Italy)

1946.06.221946.08.15
USABishop Leo Ferdinand Dworschak

former Bishop of Fargo (USA)

1946.06.221946.08.22
USABishop Daniel Joseph Feeney

former Bishop of Portland in Maine (USA)

1946.06.221946.09.12
PhilippinesCardinal Julio Rosales y Ras

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Cuore di Gesù agonizzante a Vitinia

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Cebu (Philippines)

1946.06.291946.09.21
BrazilBishop Abel Ribeiro Camelo

former Bishop of Goiás (Brazil)

1946.07.061946.10.27
GhanaBishop Joseph Gerald Holland, S.M.A.

former Bishop of Keta (Ghana)

1946.07.111946.10.13
KenyaArchbishop John Joseph McCarthy, C.S.Sp.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Nairobi (Kenya)

1946.07.111946.10.27
Burkina FasoBishop Louis-Marie-Joseph Durrieu, M. Afr.

former Bishop of Ouahigouya (Burkina Faso)

1946.07.111946.10.27
FranceArchbishop Robert Picard de la Vacquerie

former Bishop of Orléans (France)

1946.07.161946.10.09
LatviaBishop Kazimirs Dulbinskis

former Auxiliary Bishop of Riga (Latvia)

1946.07.191947.07.25
LatviaBishop Peters Strods

former Auxiliary Bishop of Riga (Latvia)

1946.07.191947.07.25
ChinaArchbishop Giuseppe Ferruccio Maurizio Rosà (羅錦章), O.F.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Hankou 漢口 (China)

1946.07.261946.09.22
TanzaniaBishop James Holmes-Siedle, M. Afr.

former Bishop of Kigoma (Tanzania)

1946.07.291946.12.08
BeninBishop André van den Bronk, S.M.A.

former Bishop of Parakou (Benin)

1946.07.301946.12.29
USABishop Edward Aloysius Fitzgerald

former Bishop of Winona (USA)

1946.08.031946.09.12
USACardinal Timothy Manning

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Lucia a Piazza d’Armi

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Los Angeles (USA)

1946.08.031946.10.15
MexicoArchbishop Manuel Martín del Campo Padilla

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Morelia (Mexico)

1946.08.031946.10.27
BrazilBishop Jorge Marcos de Oliveira

former Bishop of Santo André (Brazil)

1946.08.031946.10.27
BrazilBishop Benedito Zorzi

former Bishop of Caxias do Sul (Brazil)

1946.08.031946.11.30
IrelandBishop Patrick Dunne

former Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin (Ireland)

1946.08.081946.10.11
ItalyBishop Aurelio Marena

former Bishop of Ruvo (Italy)

former Bishop of Bitonto (Italy)

1946.08.251946.10.27
USABishop Daniel Ivancho (Ruthenian Rite)

former Apostolic Exarch of United States of America of the Ruthenians (USA)

1946.08.291946.11.05
BrazilBishop Francisco Prada Carrera, C.M.F.

former Bishop of Uruaçu (Brazil)

1946.09.031946.10.20
PolandBishop Lucjan Bernacki

former Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno (Poland)

1946.09.041946.09.24
HungaryBishop Ladislao Bánáss

former Bishop of Veszprém (Hungary)

1946.09.041946.11.30
ItalyArchbishop Liberato Tosti

former Titular Archbishop of Leucas

1946.09.051946.11.03
ChileBishop Pio Alberto Fariña Fariña

former Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago (Chile)

1946.09.071946.10.06
ItalyArchbishop Vincenzo Cavalla

former Archbishop of Matera (Italy)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Acerenza (Italy)

1946.09.081946.10.28
SloveniaArchbishop Anton Vovk

former Archbishop of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

1946.09.151946.12.01
SloveniaBishop Maksimilijan Držecnik

former Bishop of Maribor (Slovenia)

1946.09.151946.12.15
PeruArchbishop Aurelio Macedonio Guerriero

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Trujillo (Peru)

1946.09.201946.10.20
PeruArchbishop Federico Pérez Silva, C.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Trujillo (Peru)

1946.09.201946.10.20
CanadaBishop Benjamin Ibberson Webster

former Bishop of Peterborough (Canada)

1946.09.241946.11.21
FranceArchbishop Martin-Marie-Stanislas Gillet, O.P.

former Master of the Order of Order of Preachers (Dominicans)

1946.09.301946.11.17
BrazilBishop João Batista Costa, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Porto Velho (Brazil)

1946.10.011946.11.30
ArgentinaCardinal Juan Carlos Aramburu

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

1946.10.071946.12.15
ArgentinaBishop Silvino Martínez

former Bishop of Rosario (Argentina)

1946.10.071946.12.21
RussiaBishop Paolo Meletijew

former Titular Bishop of Heracleopolis magna

1946.10.261943.07.12
ItalyCardinal Giovanni Urbani

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Marco

former Patriarch of Venezia (Italy)

1946.10.261946.12.08
BrazilBishop Gabriel Paulino Bueno Couto, O. Carm.

former Bishop of Jundiaí (Brazil)

1946.10.261946.12.15
BrazilArchbishop Geraldo de Proença Sigaud, S.V.D.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Diamantina (Brazil)

1946.10.291947.05.01
ArgentinaBishop Emilio Antonio di Pasquo

former Bishop of Avellaneda (Argentina)

1946.11.021946.12.15
AlgeriaCardinal Léon-Étienne Duval

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Balbina

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Alger–Iulia Caesarea (Algeria)

1946.11.031947.02.11
CzechiaCardinal Josef Beran

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Croce in Via Flaminia

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Praha (Czechia)

1946.11.041946.12.08
SlovakiaBlessed Bishop Vasil Hopko (Slovak Rite)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Prešov of the Slovaks (Slovakia)

1946.11.091947.05.11
ItalyBishop Luigi Cammarata

former Bishop-Prelate of Santa Lucia del Mela (Italy)

1946.12.041947.03.02
PolandBishop Paolo Ceslao Rydzewski

former Auxiliary Bishop of Łomża (Poland)

1946.12.061947.04.13
AustraliaBishop Bernard Denis Stewart

former Bishop of Sandhurst (Australia)

1946.12.121947.02.11
CameroonBishop Pierre Bonneau, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Douala (Cameroon)

1946.12.121947.02.16
IndiaBishop Albert Conrad de Vito, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Lucknow (India)

1946.12.121947.02.16
PolandBishop Franciszek Jedwabski

former Auxiliary Bishop of Poznań (Poland)

1946.12.121947.03.02
South AfricaArchbishop Denis Eugene Hurley, O.M.I.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Durban (South Africa)

1946.12.121947.03.19
ItalyArchbishop Gaetano Pollio (陽霖), P.I.M.E.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Salerno (Italy)

former Bishop of Campagna (Italy)

1946.12.121947.04.13
PolandBishop Karol Pekala

former Auxiliary Bishop of Tarnów (Poland)

1946.12.141947.03.16
PolandBishop Michał Klepacz

former Bishop of Łódź (Poland)

1946.12.201947.04.13

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