Bishops Consecrated

in a.d. 1951

Bishops (124)ElectedConsecratedAscending
RomaniaBishop Gyözö Simon Macalik

former Auxiliary Bishop of Alba Iulia (Romania)

19511951
SlovakiaBishop Pavol Mária Hnilica, S.J.

former Titular Bishop of Rusadus

1964.05.131951.01.02
IrelandBishop Cornelius Lucey

former Bishop of Cork and Ross (Ireland)

1950.11.141951.01.14
GermanyBishop Johann Wilhelm Cleven

former Auxiliary Bishop of Köln (Germany)

1950.11.181951.01.28
MexicoArchbishop Octaviano Márquez y Tóriz

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Puebla de los Ángeles (Mexico)

1950.12.141951.02.03
SpainBishop Mariano Vega Mestre

former Bishop of Mondoñedo (Spain)

1950.10.051951.02.04
ItalyArchbishop Diego Venini

former Almoner of His Holiness of Office of Papal Charities

1951.01.121951.02.04
ItalyCardinal Sergio Pignedoli

former Cardinal-Deacon of S. Giorgio in Velabro

former President of Secretariat for Non-Christians

1950.12.221951.02.11
ItalyBishop Pietro Zuccarino

former Bishop of Bobbio–San Colombano (Italy)

1951.01.051951.02.11
ChinaArchbishop Dominic Deng Yi-ming (Tang Yee-ming) (鄧以明), S.J.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Guangzhou 廣州 (China)

1950.10.011951.02.13
LebanonBishop Lorenzo Sahag Koguian, C.A.M. (Armenian Rite)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Beirut of the Armenians (Lebanon)

1950.12.111951.02.22
USABishop Maurice Schexnayder

former Bishop of Lafayette in Louisiana (USA)

1950.12.111951.02.22
MexicoBishop Luis Cabrera Cruz

former Bishop of San Luis Potosí (Mexico)

1950.12.041951.02.24
ItalyArchbishop Corrado Mingo

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Monreale (Italy)

1950.12.171951.02.24
IrelandBishop Patrick O’Boyle

former Bishop of Killala (Ireland)

1950.12.121951.02.25
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
SpainBishop Angel Hidalgo Ibáñez

former Bishop of Jaca (Spain)

1950.10.051951.03.04
EnglandCardinal John Carmel Heenan

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Silvestro in Capite

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Westminster (England)

1951.01.271951.03.12
HaitiArchbishop Albert François Cousineau, C.S.C.

former Archbishop-Bishop of Cap-Haïtien (Haiti)

1951.01.101951.03.16
HungaryBishop János Bárd

former Auxiliary Bishop of Kalocsa (Hungary)

1950.11.201951.04.01
HungaryBishop Mihály Endrey-Eipel

former Bishop of Vác (Hungary)

1950.11.201951.04.01
UgandaBishop Giovanni Battista Cesana, M.C.C.J.

former Bishop of Gulu (Uganda)

1950.12.011951.04.01
ItalyBishop Agostino D’Arco

former Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia (Italy)

1951.02.031951.04.01
ZimbabweBishop Adolph Gregory Schmitt, C.M.M.

former Bishop of Bulawayo (Zimbabwe)

1950.12.231951.04.02
FranceArchbishop René-Louis-Marie Stourm

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Sens (France)

1951.01.191951.04.02
South AfricaBishop Alphonse Streit, C.M.M.

former Bishop of Mariannhill (South Africa)

1950.12.231951.04.03
IndiaBishop Alphonsus Beretta, P.I.M.E.

former Bishop of Warangal (India)

1950.12.231951.04.08
ItalyCardinal Francesco Carpino

former Cardinal-Bishop of Albano

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Palermo (Italy)

1951.02.111951.04.08
Congo-KinshasaBishop André Jacques, C.I.C.M.

former Bishop of Boma (Congo-Kinshasa)

1950.12.231951.04.11
USABishop Joseph Lennox Federal

former Bishop of Salt Lake City (USA)

1951.02.051951.04.11
MexicoBishop Arturo Vélez Martínez

former Bishop of Toluca (Mexico)

1951.02.081951.04.11
ItalyBishop Pasquale Venezia

former Bishop of Avellino (Italy)

1951.02.111951.04.15
VenezuelaBishop José Rincón Bonilla

former Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas (Venezuela)

1950.12.091951.04.22
ItalyBishop Biagio Musto

former Bishop of Sora (Italy)

former Bishop of Pontecorvo (Italy)

former Bishop of Aquino (Italy)

1951.02.071951.04.22
BoliviaBishop Cesar Benedetti, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Cuevo (Bolivia)

1951.02.081951.04.22
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
HungaryBishop Imre Szabó

former Auxiliary Bishop of Esztergom (Hungary)

1951.03.111951.04.29
PhilippinesBishop Manuel Yap

former Bishop of Bacolod (Philippines)

1951.02.131951.05.01
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
IndonesiaBishop Antonius Hubertus Thijssen, S.V.D.

former Bishop of Larantuka (Indonesia)

1951.03.081951.05.03
HungaryBishop Imre Kisberk

former Bishop of Székesfehérvár (Hungary)

1951.03.111951.05.03
BrazilBishop Luís António Palha Teixeira, O.P.

former Bishop-Prelate of Marabá (Brazil)

1951.02.201951.05.13
IndonesiaBishop Willemus van Bekkum, S.V.D.

former Bishop of Ruteng (Indonesia)

1951.03.081951.05.13
GermanyBishop Josef Hiltl

former Auxiliary Bishop of Regensburg (Germany)

1951.04.281951.05.14
ChinaBishop Francis Yi Xuan-hua (Yi Hsüan-hua) (易宣化)

former Bishop of Xiangyang 襄陽 (China)

1951.05.101951.05.17
IndonesiaBishop Nicolas Pierre van der Westen, SS.CC.

former Bishop of Pangkal-Pinang (Indonesia)

1951.02.081951.05.20
SpainBishop Juan Ricote Alonso

former Bishop of Teruel (Spain)

1951.02.191951.05.20
LibyaBishop Vitale Bonifacio Bertoli, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Tripoli (Libya)

1951.04.051951.05.20
ChinaBishop Melchior Zhang Ke-xing (張克興)

former Bishop of Xiwanzi 西灣子 (China)

1949.11.031951.05.24
ItalyBishop Emilio Pizzoni

former Bishop of Terracina (Italy)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Udine (Italy)

1951.03.271951.05.27
CroatiaBishop Ćiril Banić

former Bishop of Šibenik (Croatia)

1951.03.281951.05.27
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
ItalyArchbishop Raffaele Baratta

former Archbishop of Perugia (Italy)

1951.04.181951.06.10
USAArchbishop Fulton John Sheen

former Bishop of Rochester (USA)

1951.05.281951.06.11
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
ItalyArchbishop Natale Mosconi

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Ferrara (Italy)

1951.05.281951.06.17
UgandaBishop Sisto Mazzoldi, M.C.C.J.

former Bishop of Moroto (Uganda)

1950.07.081951.06.24
ChinaBishop Peter Joseph Fan Xue-yan (范學淹)

former Bishop of Baoding 保定 (China)

1951.04.121951.06.24
ChinaBishop Joseph Li Dao-nan (李道南)

former Bishop of Puqi 蒲圻 (China)

1951.05.101951.06.24
CanadaArchbishop Maxim Hermaniuk, C.SS.R. (Ukrainian Rite)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Winnipeg of the Ukrainians (Canada)

1951.01.131951.06.29
ComorosBishop Léon-Adolphe Messmer, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Ambanja (Madagascar)

former Apostolic Administrator of Comores (Comoros)

1951.03.081951.06.29
PhilippinesArchbishop Gérard Mongeau, O.M.I.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Cotabato (Philippines)

1951.03.271951.06.29
ThailandBishop Pietro Luigi Carretto, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Surat Thani (Thailand)

1951.04.121951.06.29
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
ArgentinaBishop Enrique Rau

former Bishop of Mar del Plata (Argentina)

1951.03.201951.07.01
PolandArchbishop Antoni Baraniak, S.D.B.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Poznań (Poland)

1951.04.261951.07.08
TanzaniaBishop Anthony Jeremiah Pesce, C.P.

former Bishop of Dodoma (Tanzania)

1951.05.101951.07.15
BrazilBishop Guido Maria Casullo

former Bishop of Cândido Mendes (Brazil)

1951.05.291951.07.15
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
UgandaBishop John Francis Greif, M.H.M.

former Bishop of Tororo (Uganda)

1951.05.011951.07.25
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
CanadaBishop Maxime Tessier

former Bishop of Timmins (Canada)

1951.05.281951.08.02
ChinaBishop Louis Li Bo-yu (李伯漁)

former Bishop of Zhouzhi 盩厔 (China)

1951.05.101951.08.05
MexicoArchbishop Francisco Javier Nuño y Guerrero

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

1951.07.101951.08.15
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
USABishop Loras Thomas Lane

former Bishop of Rockford (USA)

1951.05.291951.08.20
SlovakiaCardinal Ján Chryzostom Korec, S.J.

former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Fabiano e Venanzio a Villa Fiorelli

former Bishop of Nitra (Slovakia)

1990.02.061951.08.24
USABishop John Baptist Franz

former Bishop of Peoria (USA)

1951.05.271951.08.29
AustriaArchbishop Josef Schoiswohl

former Bishop of Graz–Seckau (Austria)

1951.06.201951.09.02
MicronesiaBishop Thomas John Feeney, S.J.

former Vicar Apostolic of Caroline and Marshall Islands (Micronesia)

1951.05.101951.09.08
ItalyBishop Luigi Boccadoro

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

1951.06.141951.09.08
BelgiumBishop Guillaume-Marie van Zuylen

former Bishop of Liège (Belgium)

1951.07.091951.09.08
ColombiaBishop Pedro José Rivera Mejía

former Bishop of Socorro y San Gil (Colombia)

1951.06.251951.09.09
ColombiaBishop Norberto Forero y García

former Bishop of Santa Marta (Colombia)

1951.07.071951.09.09
MalawiBishop Joseph Fady, M. Afr.

former Bishop of Lilongwe (Malawi)

1951.07.101951.09.09
ScotlandBishop Francis Raymond Walsh, M. Afr.

former Bishop of Aberdeen (Scotland)

1951.06.201951.09.12
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
VietnamBishop Jean-Baptiste Trần Hữu Ðức

former Bishop of Vinh (Vietnam)

1951.06.141951.09.16
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
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
CanadaBishop Bruno Desrochers

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

1951.07.131951.09.21
SpainBishop Pablo Gúrpide Beope

former Bishop of Bilbao (Spain)

1951.01.031951.09.23
LibyaBishop Ernesto Aurelio Ghiglione, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Benghazi (Libya)

1951.07.051951.09.23
USABishop Joseph Patrick Dougherty

former Bishop of Yakima (USA)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles (USA)

1951.07.091951.09.26
PhilippinesBishop Peregrin de la Fuente Néstar, O.P.

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

1951.07.021951.09.29
FranceBishop Henri-Charles Dupont

former Auxiliary Bishop of Lille (France)

1951.07.241951.09.29
ItalyCardinal Corrado Ursi

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Callisto

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Napoli (Italy)

1951.07.291951.09.30
USABishop Robert Dermot O’Flanagan

former Bishop of Juneau (USA)

1951.07.091951.10.03
IndiaArchbishop Eugene D’Souza, M.S.F.S.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bhopal (India)

1951.07.121951.10.03
SpainBishop Francisco Miranda Vicente

former Auxiliary Bishop of Toledo (Spain)

1951.07.211951.10.07
LebanonArchbishop Athanase Ach-Chaer, B.C. (Greek-Melkite Rite)

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

1951.07.281951.10.07
ChinaArchbishop Francis Wang Xue-ming (王學明)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Suiyuan 綏遠 (China)

1951.08.191951.10.07
ItalyArchbishop Gennaro Verolino

former President of Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology

1951.09.051951.10.07
USABishop John Linus Paschang

former Bishop of Grand Island (USA)

1951.07.281951.10.09
FranceBishop Paul-Léon-Jean Chevalier

former Bishop of Le Mans (France)

1951.08.211951.10.11
GermanyBishop Matthias Wehr

former Bishop of Trier (Germany)

1951.08.031951.10.29
AustraliaArchbishop Lancelot John Goody

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Perth (Australia)

1951.08.021951.11.01
SpainArchbishop José Pont y Gol

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tarragona (Spain)

1951.08.011951.11.30
ItalyBishop Luigi Carlo Borromeo

former Bishop of Pesaro (Italy)

1951.11.041951.12.02
BrazilBishop José Joaquim Gonçalves

former Bishop of Cornélio Procópio (Brazil)

1951.08.221951.12.08
MexicoBishop Salvador Quezada Limón

former Bishop of Aguascalientes (Mexico)

1951.10.201951.12.08
ItalyCardinal Antonio Poma

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Luca a Via Prenestina

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bologna (Italy)

1951.10.281951.12.09
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBishop Carlo Celik

former Titular Bishop of Dionysias

former Apostolic Administrator of Banjaluka (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

1951.12.151951.12.16
Congo-BrazzavilleBishop Emile-Elie Verhille, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Fort-Rousset (Congo-Brazzaville)

1951.06.211951.12.21
IrelandArchbishop John Dooley, S.S.C.M.E.

former Titular Archbishop of Macra

1951.10.181951.12.21
IndiaBishop Orestes Marengo, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Tezpur (India)

1951.07.121951.12.27
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

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