Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1951

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Newly Elected Bishops (121)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
RomaniaBishop Gyözö Simon Macalik

former Auxiliary Bishop of Alba Iulia (Romania)

19511951
SpainBishop Pablo Gúrpide Beope

former Bishop of Bilbao (Spain)

1951.01.031951.09.23
ItalyBishop Pietro Zuccarino

former Bishop of Bobbio–San Colombano (Italy)

1951.01.051951.02.11
HaitiArchbishop Albert François Cousineau, C.S.C.

former Archbishop-Bishop of Cap-Haïtien (Haiti)

1951.01.101951.03.16
ItalyArchbishop Diego Venini

former Almoner of His Holiness of Office of Papal Charities

1951.01.121951.02.04
ItalyBishop Petrus Canisius Jean van Lierde, O.S.A.

former Vicar General for the Vatican City State of Roma (Italy)

1951.01.131951.02.25
CanadaArchbishop Maxim Hermaniuk, C.SS.R. (Ukrainian Rite)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Winnipeg of the Ukrainians (Canada)

1951.01.131951.06.29
FranceArchbishop René-Louis-Marie Stourm

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Sens (France)

1951.01.191951.04.02
EnglandCardinal John Carmel Heenan

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Silvestro in Capite

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Westminster (England)

1951.01.271951.03.12
ItalyBishop Agostino D’Arco

former Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia (Italy)

1951.02.031951.04.01
USABishop Joseph Lennox Federal

former Bishop of Salt Lake City (USA)

1951.02.051951.04.11
ItalyBishop Biagio Musto

former Bishop of Sora (Italy)

former Bishop of Pontecorvo (Italy)

former Bishop of Aquino (Italy)

1951.02.071951.04.22
MexicoBishop Arturo Vélez Martínez

former Bishop of Toluca (Mexico)

1951.02.081951.04.11
BoliviaBishop Cesar Benedetti, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Cuevo (Bolivia)

1951.02.081951.04.22
IndonesiaBishop Nicolas Pierre van der Westen, SS.CC.

former Bishop of Pangkal-Pinang (Indonesia)

1951.02.081951.05.20
ItalyCardinal Francesco Carpino

former Cardinal-Bishop of Albano

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Palermo (Italy)

1951.02.111951.04.08
ItalyBishop Pasquale Venezia

former Bishop of Avellino (Italy)

1951.02.111951.04.15
PhilippinesBishop Manuel Yap

former Bishop of Bacolod (Philippines)

1951.02.131951.05.01
SpainBishop Juan Ricote Alonso

former Bishop of Teruel (Spain)

1951.02.191951.05.20
BrazilBishop Luís António Palha Teixeira, O.P.

former Bishop-Prelate of Marabá (Brazil)

1951.02.201951.05.13
EthiopiaBishop Hailé Mariam Cahsai (Ethiopic Rite)

former Bishop of Adigrat of the Ethiopics (Ethiopia)

1951.02.241951.05.01
EritreaBishop Ghebre Jesus Jacob (Eritrean Rite)

former Apostolic Exarch of Asmara of the Eritreans (Eritrea)

1951.02.241951.05.01
ItalyBishop Dino Luigi Romoli, O.P.

former Bishop of Pescia (Italy)

1951.02.271951.04.25
IndonesiaArchbishop Gabriel Manek, S.V.D.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Endeh (Indonesia)

1951.03.081951.04.25
IndonesiaBishop Antonius Hubertus Thijssen, S.V.D.

former Bishop of Larantuka (Indonesia)

1951.03.081951.05.03
IndonesiaBishop Willemus van Bekkum, S.V.D.

former Bishop of Ruteng (Indonesia)

1951.03.081951.05.13
ComorosBishop Léon-Adolphe Messmer, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Ambanja (Madagascar)

former Apostolic Administrator of Comores (Comoros)

1951.03.081951.06.29
HungaryBishop Imre Szabó

former Auxiliary Bishop of Esztergom (Hungary)

1951.03.111951.04.29
HungaryBishop Imre Kisberk

former Bishop of Székesfehérvár (Hungary)

1951.03.111951.05.03
ArgentinaBishop Enrique Rau

former Bishop of Mar del Plata (Argentina)

1951.03.201951.07.01
ItalyBishop Emilio Pizzoni

former Bishop of Terracina (Italy)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Udine (Italy)

1951.03.271951.05.27
FranceBishop Emile-Charles-Raymond Pirolley

former Bishop of Nancy (France)

1951.03.271951.06.16
ItalyBishop Ilario Roatta

former Bishop of Sant’Agata de’ Goti (Italy)

1951.03.271951.06.17
PhilippinesArchbishop Gérard Mongeau, O.M.I.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Cotabato (Philippines)

1951.03.271951.06.29
CroatiaBishop Ćiril Banić

former Bishop of Šibenik (Croatia)

1951.03.281951.05.27
LibyaBishop Vitale Bonifacio Bertoli, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Tripoli (Libya)

1951.04.051951.05.20
ColombiaCardinal Aníbal Muñoz Duque

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Bartolomeo all’Isola

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bogotá (Colombia)

former Military Vicar of Colombia (Colombia)

1951.04.081951.05.27
ChinaBishop Peter Joseph Fan Xue-yan (范學淹)

former Bishop of Baoding 保定 (China)

1951.04.121951.06.24
ThailandBishop Pietro Luigi Carretto, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Surat Thani (Thailand)

1951.04.121951.06.29
ItalyArchbishop Raffaele Baratta

former Archbishop of Perugia (Italy)

1951.04.181951.06.10
PolandArchbishop Antoni Baraniak, S.D.B.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Poznań (Poland)

1951.04.261951.07.08
PolandBishop Teodoro Bensch

former Auxiliary Bishop of Wrocław (Poland)

1951.04.261954.09.21
PolandBishop Edmund Nowicki

former Bishop of Gdańsk (Poland)

1951.04.261954.09.21
PolandCardinal Bolesław Kominek

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Croce in Via Flaminia

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Wrocław (Poland)

1951.04.261954.10.10
GermanyBishop Josef Hiltl

former Auxiliary Bishop of Regensburg (Germany)

1951.04.281951.05.14
UgandaBishop John Francis Greif, M.H.M.

former Bishop of Tororo (Uganda)

1951.05.011951.07.25
ChinaBishop Francis Yi Xuan-hua (Yi Hsüan-hua) (易宣化)

former Bishop of Xiangyang 襄陽 (China)

1951.05.101951.05.17
ChinaBishop Joseph Li Dao-nan (李道南)

former Bishop of Puqi 蒲圻 (China)

1951.05.101951.06.24
TanzaniaBishop Anthony Jeremiah Pesce, C.P.

former Bishop of Dodoma (Tanzania)

1951.05.101951.07.15
ChinaBishop Louis Li Bo-yu (李伯漁)

former Bishop of Zhouzhi 盩厔 (China)

1951.05.101951.08.05
MicronesiaBishop Thomas John Feeney, S.J.

former Vicar Apostolic of Caroline and Marshall Islands (Micronesia)

1951.05.101951.09.08
ItalyArchbishop Giuseppe Amici

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Modena (Italy)

former Abbot nullius of Nonantola (Italy)

1951.05.151951.06.29
CroatiaBishop Stjepan Bauerlein

former Bishop of Đakovo i Srijem (Croatia)

1951.05.271951.06.29
USABishop John Baptist Franz

former Bishop of Peoria (USA)

1951.05.271951.08.29
USAArchbishop Fulton John Sheen

former Bishop of Rochester (USA)

1951.05.281951.06.11
ItalyArchbishop Natale Mosconi

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Ferrara (Italy)

1951.05.281951.06.17
NetherlandsCardinal Bernardus Johannes Alfrink

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Gioacchino ai Prati di Castello

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Utrecht (Netherlands)

former Military Vicar of Netherlands (Netherlands)

1951.05.281951.07.17
CanadaBishop Maxime Tessier

former Bishop of Timmins (Canada)

1951.05.281951.08.02
BrazilBishop Guido Maria Casullo

former Bishop of Cândido Mendes (Brazil)

1951.05.291951.07.15
USABishop Loras Thomas Lane

former Bishop of Rockford (USA)

1951.05.291951.08.20
IndiaBishop Hermann Westermann, S.V.D.

former Bishop of Sambalpur (India)

1951.06.141951.07.29
ChinaBishop Alphonsus Zong Huai-mo (宗懷謨), O.F.M.

former Bishop of Yantai 煙臺 (China)

1951.06.141951.07.29
ItalyBishop Luigi Boccadoro

former Bishop of Viterbo, Acquapendente, Bagnoregio, Montefiascone, Tuscania e San Martino al Monte Cimino (Italy)

1951.06.141951.09.08
VietnamBishop Jean-Baptiste Trần Hữu Ðức

former Bishop of Vinh (Vietnam)

1951.06.141951.09.16
AustriaArchbishop Josef Schoiswohl

former Bishop of Graz–Seckau (Austria)

1951.06.201951.09.02
ScotlandBishop Francis Raymond Walsh, M. Afr.

former Bishop of Aberdeen (Scotland)

1951.06.201951.09.12
ScotlandCardinal Gordon Joseph Gray

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Chiara a Vigna Clara

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh (Scotland)

1951.06.201951.09.21
Congo-BrazzavilleBishop Emile-Elie Verhille, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Fort-Rousset (Congo-Brazzaville)

1951.06.211951.12.21
ColombiaBishop Pedro José Rivera Mejía

former Bishop of Socorro y San Gil (Colombia)

1951.06.251951.09.09
PhilippinesBishop Peregrin de la Fuente Néstar, O.P.

former Bishop-Prelate of Batanes and the Babuyan Islands (Philippines)

1951.07.021951.09.29
CanadaBishop Gérard-Marie Coderre

former Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Québec (Canada)

1951.07.051951.09.12
CanadaBishop Émilien Frenette

former Bishop of Saint-Jérôme (Canada)

1951.07.051951.09.12
LibyaBishop Ernesto Aurelio Ghiglione, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Benghazi (Libya)

1951.07.051951.09.23
ColombiaBishop Norberto Forero y García

former Bishop of Santa Marta (Colombia)

1951.07.071951.09.09
BelgiumBishop Guillaume-Marie van Zuylen

former Bishop of Liège (Belgium)

1951.07.091951.09.08
USABishop Joseph Patrick Dougherty

former Bishop of Yakima (USA)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles (USA)

1951.07.091951.09.26
USABishop Robert Dermot O’Flanagan

former Bishop of Juneau (USA)

1951.07.091951.10.03
MexicoArchbishop Francisco Javier Nuño y Guerrero

former Archbishop-Bishop of San Juan de los Lagos (Mexico)

1951.07.101951.08.15
MalawiBishop Joseph Fady, M. Afr.

former Bishop of Lilongwe (Malawi)

1951.07.101951.09.09
PhilippinesBishop Wilhelm Josef Duschak, S.V.D.

former Vicar Apostolic of Calapan (Philippines)

1951.07.121951.09.21
JapanBishop Paul Yoshiyuki Furuya (パウロ 古屋義之)

former Bishop of Kyoto 京都 (Japan)

1951.07.121951.09.21
IndiaArchbishop Eugene D’Souza, M.S.F.S.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bhopal (India)

1951.07.121951.10.03
IndiaBishop Orestes Marengo, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Tezpur (India)

1951.07.121951.12.27
CanadaBishop Bruno Desrochers

former Bishop of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (Canada)

1951.07.131951.09.21
IranArchbishop Zaya Dachtou (Chaldean Rite)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Urmyā of the Chaldeans (Iran)

former Bishop of Salmas of the Chaldeans (Iran)

1951.07.141951.12.30
SpainBishop Francisco Miranda Vicente

former Auxiliary Bishop of Toledo (Spain)

1951.07.211951.10.07
FranceBishop Henri-Charles Dupont

former Auxiliary Bishop of Lille (France)

1951.07.241951.09.29
LebanonArchbishop Athanase Ach-Chaer, B.C. (Greek-Melkite Rite)

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

1951.07.281951.10.07
USABishop John Linus Paschang

former Bishop of Grand Island (USA)

1951.07.281951.10.09
ItalyCardinal Corrado Ursi

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Callisto

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Napoli (Italy)

1951.07.291951.09.30
SpainArchbishop José Pont y Gol

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tarragona (Spain)

1951.08.011951.11.30
AustraliaArchbishop Lancelot John Goody

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Perth (Australia)

1951.08.021951.11.01
GermanyBishop Matthias Wehr

former Bishop of Trier (Germany)

1951.08.031951.10.29
LebanonArchbishop Jules Georges Kandela (Syriac Rite)

former Archbishop of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch of the Syriacs (Lebanon)

1951.08.151951.08.15
ChinaArchbishop Francis Wang Xue-ming (王學明)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Suiyuan 綏遠 (China)

1951.08.191951.10.07
FranceBishop Paul-Léon-Jean Chevalier

former Bishop of Le Mans (France)

1951.08.211951.10.11
BrazilBishop José Joaquim Gonçalves

former Bishop of Cornélio Procópio (Brazil)

1951.08.221951.12.08
ItalyArchbishop Gennaro Verolino

former President of Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology

1951.09.051951.10.07
IrelandArchbishop John Dooley, S.S.C.M.E.

former Titular Archbishop of Macra

1951.10.181951.12.21
Burkina FasoBishop Jean-Marie Lesourd, M. Afr.

former Bishop of Nouna (Burkina Faso)

1951.10.181952.02.02
MexicoBishop Salvador Quezada Limón

former Bishop of Aguascalientes (Mexico)

1951.10.201951.12.08
FranceBishop Marcel-Pierre-Armand Riopel

former Auxiliary Bishop of Rennes (France)

1951.10.231952.01.17
Cote d’IvoireBishop André-Pierre Duirat, S.M.A.

former Bishop of Bouaké (Cote d’Ivoire)

1951.10.261956.12.08
ItalyCardinal Antonio Poma

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Luca a Via Prenestina

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bologna (Italy)

1951.10.281951.12.09
ItalyBishop Luigi Carlo Borromeo

former Bishop of Pesaro (Italy)

1951.11.041951.12.02
ItalyBishop Guglielmo Bosetti

former Bishop of Fidenza (Italy)

1951.11.041952.01.06
PhilippinesArchbishop Lino R. Gonzaga y Rasdesales

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Zamboanga (Philippines)

1951.11.121952.01.28
ColombiaBishop Buenaventura Jáuregui Prieto

former Bishop of Zipaquirá (Colombia)

1951.12.051952.02.02
ItalyBishop Vincenzo Radicioni

former Bishop of Ripatransone (Italy)

former Bishop of Montalto (Italy)

1951.12.101952.01.27
GermanyBishop Friedrich Maria Rintelen

former Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn (Germany)

1951.12.121952.01.24
CroatiaArchbishop Josip Pavlišić

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Rijeka–Senj (Croatia)

1951.12.131952.01.13
TanzaniaCardinal Laurean Rugambwa

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Francesco d’Assisi a Ripa Grande

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania)

1951.12.131952.02.10
ChinaBishop Pacific Li Huan-de (李宣德), O.F.M.

former Bishop of Yan’an 延安 (China)

1951.12.131952.02.10
JapanBishop Luke Katsusaburo Arai (ルカ 荒井 勝三郎)

former Bishop of Yokohama 横浜 (Japan)

1951.12.131952.02.24
TanzaniaBishop Alfred Lanctôt, M. Afr.

former Bishop of Rulenge (Tanzania)

1951.12.131952.03.06
IndiaArchbishop Niclas Kujur, S.J.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Ranchi (India)

1951.12.131952.03.09
IndiaBishop Ambrose De Battista, P.I.M.E.

former Bishop of Vijayawada (India)

1951.12.131952.03.19
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBishop Carlo Celik

former Titular Bishop of Dionysias

former Apostolic Administrator of Banjaluka (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

1951.12.151951.12.16
ItalyBishop Biagio D’Agostino

former Bishop of Vallo di Lucania (Italy)

1951.12.151952.02.03
SpainArchbishop Pedro Cantero Cuadrado

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Zaragoza (Spain)

1951.12.191952.04.27
FranceBishop André Jacquemin

former Bishop of Bayeux (France)

1951.12.201952.03.25
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