Bishops Consecrated

in a.d. 1946

Bishops (112)ElectedConsecratedAscending
ColombiaBishop Luis Pérez Hernández, C.I.M.

former Bishop of Cúcuta (Colombia)

1945.11.031946.01.06
ItalyArchbishop Alfonso Carinci

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

1945.12.151946.01.06
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
FranceBishop Armand Coupel

former Bishop of Saint-Brieuc (France)

1945.12.291946.01.19
ItalyBishop Carlo Boiardi

former Bishop of Apuania (Italy)

1945.10.301946.01.27
ItalyArchbishop Benedetto Falcucci

former Bishop of Penne e Pescara (Italy)

1945.12.221946.02.11
IrelandBishop Patrick O’Neill

former Bishop of Limerick (Ireland)

1945.12.151946.02.24
USABishop Charles Pasquale Greco

former Bishop of Alexandria (USA)

former Supreme Chaplain of Knights of Columbus

1946.01.151946.02.25
ScotlandBishop Kenneth Grant

former Bishop of Argyll and The Isles (Scotland)

1945.12.151946.02.27
ItalyBishop Maturino Blanchet, O.M.I.

former Bishop of Aosta (Italy)

1946.02.181946.03.03
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 Giuseppe D’Avack

former Archbishop of Camerino (Italy)

1946.02.181946.03.10
VietnamBishop Jean-Marie Mazé, M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Hung Hoá (Vietnam)

1945.01.111946.03.19
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
FranceBishop René-Joseph Piérard

former Bishop of Châlons (France)

1945.12.291946.03.19
ItalyBishop Giovanni Battista Piasentini

former Bishop of Chioggia (Italy)

1946.02.181946.03.19
USABishop Thomas Lawrence Noa

former Bishop of Marquette (USA)

1946.02.221946.03.19
SpainCardinal Fernando Quiroga y Palacios

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Agostino

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

1945.11.241946.03.24
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
AlgeriaBishop Bertrand Lacaste

former Bishop of Oran (Algeria)

1945.12.291946.03.25
ChinaBishop Francis Gerard Kramer (康濟民), O.F.M.

former Bishop of Lu’an 潞安 (China)

1946.02.071946.03.25
SpainBishop Máximo Yurramendi Alcáin

former Titular Bishop of Messene

former Apostolic Administrator of Ciudad Real (Spain)

1945.11.251946.03.31
USACardinal Albert Gregory Meyer

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Cecilia

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Chicago (USA)

1946.02.181946.04.11
ArgentinaArchbishop Ramón José Castellano

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Córdoba (Argentina)

1945.11.241946.04.28
SpainBishop Juan Pedro Zarranz y Pueyo

former Bishop of Plasencia (Spain)

1946.02.161946.04.28
CanadaBishop Lionel Scheffer, O.M.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Labrador (Canada)

1946.03.141946.04.28
ChinaBishop René-Désiré-Romain Boisguérin (林茂德), M.E.P.

former Bishop of Suifu 敘府 (China)

1946.01.101946.05.01
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
ItalyBishop Pietro Villa, F.S.C.I.

former Prefect Apostolic of Gondar (Ethiopia)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Ostia (Italy)

1946.03.251946.05.01
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
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 Franciszek Jop

former Bishop of Opole (Poland)

1945.10.241946.05.19
ItalyArchbishop Giacomo Palombella

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Matera (Italy)

1946.02.141946.05.19
PolandBishop Jan Stepa

former Bishop of Tarnów (Poland)

1946.03.041946.05.19
USABishop John Raphael Hagan

former Auxiliary Bishop of Cleveland (USA)

1946.04.271946.05.28
ChinaBishop Charles Joseph van Melckebeke (王守禮), C.I.C.M.

former Bishop of Ningxia 寧夏 (China)

1946.03.141946.05.30
BrazilArchbishop Rosalvo Costa Rêgo

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

1946.03.301946.06.09
SurinameBishop Stephanus Joseph Maria Magdalena Kuijpers, C.SS.R.

former Bishop of Paramaribo (Suriname)

1946.02.081946.06.10
ItalyCardinal Alfredo Pacini

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

1946.04.281946.06.11
HungaryBishop Karl Kalman Papp

former Bishop of Győr (Hungary)

1946.05.031946.06.16
ItalyArchbishop Giovanni Rizzo

former Archbishop of Rossano (Italy)

1946.05.281946.06.16
AustraliaBishop Andrew Gerard Tynan

former Bishop of Rockhampton (Australia)

1946.03.311946.06.20
ScotlandArchbishop James Donald Scanlan

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Glasgow (Scotland)

1946.04.271946.06.20
ChinaBishop Faustino M. Tissot (丁玉守), S.X.

former Bishop of Zhengzhou 鄭州 (China)

19461946.06.23
TogoArchbishop Joseph-Paul Strebler, S.M.A.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Lomé (Togo)

1945.11.081946.06.29
El SalvadorBishop Pedro Arnoldo Aparicio y Quintanilla, S.D.B.

former Bishop of San Vicente (El Salvador)

1946.02.221946.06.29
PolandBishop Franciszek Korszynski

former Auxiliary Bishop of Włocławek (Poland)

1946.05.021946.06.29
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
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
ItalyBishop Danio Bolognini

former Bishop of Cremona (Italy)

1946.06.181946.06.29
PeruBishop Enrique Alvarez González, O.P.

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

1946.03.141946.06.30
CzechiaBishop Karel Skoupy

former Bishop of Brno (Czechia)

1946.04.031946.06.30
PolandBishop Ignacy Swirski

former Bishop of Siedlce (Poland)

1946.04.121946.06.30
ItalyArchbishop Giuseppe Burzio

former Titular Archbishop of Gortyna

1946.05.081946.06.30
EgyptBishop Pietro Dib (Maronite Rite)

former Bishop of Cairo of the Maronites (Egypt)

1946.04.271946.07.05
ItalyBishop Vincenzo Gili

former Bishop of Cesena (Italy)

1946.03.221946.07.14
ItalyBishop Antonio Picconi

former Bishop of Vigevano (Italy)

1946.06.131946.07.25
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
ItalyArchbishop Luigi Arrigoni

former Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Syria

former Apostolic Nuncio to Peru

1946.05.311946.07.28
PolandBishop Kazimierz Jósef Kowalski

former Bishop of Chełmno (Poland)

1946.03.041946.08.04
SpainBishop Lorenzo Bereciartúa y Balerdi

former Bishop of San Sebastián (Spain)

1946.02.221946.08.11
ItalyBishop Donato Pafundi

former Bishop of Cerignola (Italy)

former Bishop of Ascoli Satriano (Italy)

1946.06.221946.08.15
BrazilBishop Luís Gonzaga Peluso

former Bishop of Cachoeiro de Itapemirim (Brazil)

1946.06.131946.08.18
USABishop Leo Ferdinand Dworschak

former Bishop of Fargo (USA)

1946.06.221946.08.22
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
USABishop Daniel Joseph Feeney

former Bishop of Portland in Maine (USA)

1946.06.221946.09.12
USABishop Edward Aloysius Fitzgerald

former Bishop of Winona (USA)

1946.08.031946.09.12
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
ChinaArchbishop Giuseppe Ferruccio Maurizio Rosà (羅錦章), O.F.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Hankou 漢口 (China)

1946.07.261946.09.22
PolandBishop Lucjan Bernacki

former Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno (Poland)

1946.09.041946.09.24
TanzaniaBishop Joseph Blomjous, M. Afr.

former Bishop of Mwanza (Tanzania)

1946.04.111946.10.06
ChileBishop Pio Alberto Fariña Fariña

former Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago (Chile)

1946.09.071946.10.06
FranceArchbishop Robert Picard de la Vacquerie

former Bishop of Orléans (France)

1946.07.161946.10.09
IrelandBishop Patrick Dunne

former Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin (Ireland)

1946.08.081946.10.11
GhanaBishop Joseph Gerald Holland, S.M.A.

former Bishop of Keta (Ghana)

1946.07.111946.10.13
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
BrazilBishop Francisco Prada Carrera, C.M.F.

former Bishop of Uruaçu (Brazil)

1946.09.031946.10.20
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
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
BrazilBishop Abel Ribeiro Camelo

former Bishop of Goiás (Brazil)

1946.07.061946.10.27
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
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
ItalyBishop Aurelio Marena

former Bishop of Ruvo (Italy)

former Bishop of Bitonto (Italy)

1946.08.251946.10.27
ItalyArchbishop Vincenzo Cavalla

former Archbishop of Matera (Italy)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Acerenza (Italy)

1946.09.081946.10.28
ItalyArchbishop Liberato Tosti

former Titular Archbishop of Leucas

1946.09.051946.11.03
USABishop Daniel Ivancho (Ruthenian Rite)

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

1946.08.291946.11.05
FranceArchbishop Martin-Marie-Stanislas Gillet, O.P.

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

1946.09.301946.11.17
CanadaBishop Benjamin Ibberson Webster

former Bishop of Peterborough (Canada)

1946.09.241946.11.21
LebanonArchbishop Ignace Ziadé (Maronite Rite)

former Archbishop of Beirut of the Maronites (Lebanon)

1946.04.271946.11.24
BrazilBishop Benedito Zorzi

former Bishop of Caxias do Sul (Brazil)

1946.08.031946.11.30
HungaryBishop Ladislao Bánáss

former Bishop of Veszprém (Hungary)

1946.09.041946.11.30
BrazilBishop João Batista Costa, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Porto Velho (Brazil)

1946.10.011946.11.30
SloveniaArchbishop Anton Vovk

former Archbishop of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

1946.09.151946.12.01
TanzaniaBishop James Holmes-Siedle, M. Afr.

former Bishop of Kigoma (Tanzania)

1946.07.291946.12.08
ItalyCardinal Giovanni Urbani

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Marco

former Patriarch of Venezia (Italy)

1946.10.261946.12.08
CzechiaCardinal Josef Beran

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Croce in Via Flaminia

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Praha (Czechia)

1946.11.041946.12.08
SloveniaBishop Maksimilijan Držecnik

former Bishop of Maribor (Slovenia)

1946.09.151946.12.15
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
BrazilBishop Gabriel Paulino Bueno Couto, O. Carm.

former Bishop of Jundiaí (Brazil)

1946.10.261946.12.15
ArgentinaBishop Emilio Antonio di Pasquo

former Bishop of Avellaneda (Argentina)

1946.11.021946.12.15
ArgentinaBishop Silvino Martínez

former Bishop of Rosario (Argentina)

1946.10.071946.12.21
BeninBishop André van den Bronk, S.M.A.

former Bishop of Parakou (Benin)

1946.07.301946.12.29

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