Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1952

Newly Elected Bishops (112)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
MontenegroArchbishop Aleksandar Tokić

former Archbishop of Bar (Montenegro)

1952.01.031952.04.27
IndonesiaBishop Petrus Marinus Arntz, O.S.C.

former Bishop of Bandung (Indonesia)

1952.01.101952.03.25
Congo-KinshasaBishop Xavier Geeraerts, M. Afr.

former Vicar Apostolic of Bukavu (Congo-Kinshasa)

1952.01.101952.03.25
ColombiaBishop Antonio Torasso, I.M.C.

former Vicar Apostolic of Florencia (Colombia)

1952.01.101952.04.20
TanzaniaBishop Patrick Winters, S.A.C.

former Bishop of Mbulu (Tanzania)

1952.01.101952.05.04
AlbaniaBishop Ernesto Çoba

former Titular Bishop of Midaëum

former Apostolic Administrator of Shkodrë (Albania)

1952.01.211952.04.20
USABishop Lambert Anthony Hoch

former Bishop of Sioux Falls (USA)

1952.01.231952.03.25
GermanyBishop Heinrich Baaken

former Auxiliary Bishop of Münster (Germany)

1952.01.261952.03.25
AlbaniaBishop Pjetër Dema

former Titular Bishop of Apollonias

1952.01.271952.04.20
ItalyArchbishop Pacifico M. Luigi Perantoni, O.F.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Lanciano (Italy)

former Bishop of Ortona (Italy)

1952.01.311952.03.09
FranceCardinal François Marty

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Luigi dei Francesi

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Paris (France)

1952.02.011952.05.01
PolandBishop Aleksander Moscicki

former Auxiliary Bishop of Łomża (Poland)

1952.02.061952.02.25
USABishop Joseph Mark McShea

former Bishop of Allentown (USA)

1952.02.081952.03.19
ItalyBishop Adolfo Binni

former Bishop of Nola (Italy)

1952.02.141952.03.19
ChinaBishop Joseph Wan Ci-zhang (萬次章), O.F.M.

former Bishop of Hengzhou 衡州 (China)

1952.02.141952.05.04
RwandaBishop Aloys Bigirumwami

former Bishop of Nyundo (Rwanda)

1952.02.141952.06.01
MalaysiaBishop Jan Vos, M.H.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Kuching (Malaysia)

1952.02.141952.06.12
PeruBishop Javier Miguel Ariz Huarte, O.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Maldonado (Peru)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Lima (Peru)

1952.02.211952.05.22
CroatiaArchbishop Mate Garković

former Archbishop of Zadar (Croatia)

1952.02.221952.03.30
CroatiaArchbishop Gabrijel Bukatko

former Archbishop of Beograd (Serbia)

1952.02.231952.04.27
BoliviaArchbishop Jorge Manrique Hurtado

former Metropolitan Archbishop of La Paz (Bolivia)

1952.02.231952.05.04
ItalyBishop Luigi Pirelli

former Bishop of Sovana–Pitigliano (Italy)

1952.02.261952.04.27
CanadaBishop Francis Joseph Klein

former Bishop of Calgary (Canada)

1952.02.281952.04.30
CanadaBishop Lionel Audet

former Auxiliary Bishop of Québec (Canada)

1952.02.281952.05.01
BrazilArchbishop Hélder Pessoa Câmara

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Olinda e Recife (Brazil)

1952.03.031952.04.20
BrazilBishop Luís Victor Sartori

former Bishop of Santa Maria (Brazil)

1952.03.041952.06.01
PhilippinesArchbishop Antonio Frondosa

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Capiz (Philippines)

1952.03.051952.05.28
ColombiaBishop Guillermo Escobar Vélez

former Bishop of Antioquía (Colombia)

1952.03.071952.04.27
MexicoBishop Sergio Méndez Arceo

former Bishop of Cuernavaca (Mexico)

1952.03.111952.04.30
AustraliaBishop Bryan Gallagher

former Bishop of Port Pirie (Australia)

1952.03.131952.06.11
LaosBishop Étienne-Auguste-Germain Loosdregt, O.M.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Vientiane (Laos)

1952.03.131952.06.30
MexicoBishop Francisco Orozco Lomelín

former Auxiliary Bishop of México (Mexico)

1952.03.191952.06.20
BangladeshBishop Raymond Larose, C.S.C.

former Bishop of Chittagong (Bangladesh)

1952.03.201952.07.02
IndiaBishop Amerigo Galbiati, P.I.M.E.

former Bishop of Jalpaiguri (India)

1952.03.201952.07.13
ItalyCardinal Paolo Bertoli

former Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati

former Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church of Apostolic Camera

1952.03.241952.05.11
ItalyArchbishop Giovanni Francesco Dadone

former Archbishop-Bishop of Fossano (Italy)

1952.03.281952.06.01
USABishop John Joseph Boardman

former Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn (USA)

1952.03.281952.06.11
MexicoBishop José Villalón Mercado

former Auxiliary Bishop of México (Mexico)

1952.04.011952.08.03
ItalyBishop Carlo Ferrari

former Bishop of Mantova (Italy)

1952.04.171952.06.15
BrazilBishop Joaquim de Lange, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop-Prelate of Tefé (Brazil)

1952.04.181952.07.06
BrazilBishop José Nepote-Fus, I.M.C.

former Bishop-Prelate of Roraima (Brazil)

1952.04.181952.07.06
HondurasBishop Carlos Luis Geromini

former Bishop of Santa Rosa de Copán (Honduras)

1952.04.201952.06.08
VenezuelaBishop Alejandro Fernández Feo-Tinoco

former Bishop of San Cristóbal de Venezuela (Venezuela)

1952.04.231952.08.24
ItalyBishop Joseph Gargitter

former Bishop of Bolzano–Bressanone (Italy)

1952.04.261952.05.18
ItalyBishop Fortunato Zoppas

former Bishop of Nocera de’ Pagani (Italy)

1952.04.261952.06.08
PhilippinesBishop Flaviano Ariola

former Bishop of Legazpi (Philippines)

1952.05.151952.08.06
IndiaBishop Frans Simons, S.V.D.

former Bishop of Indore (India)

1952.05.151952.08.06
Cote d’IvoireBishop Emile Durrheimer, S.M.A.

former Bishop of Katiola (Cote d’Ivoire)

1952.05.151952.08.16
MalawiBishop Lawrence Pullen Hardman, S.M.M.

former Bishop of Zomba (Malawi)

1952.05.151952.09.07
PeruCardinal Juan Landázuri Ricketts, O.F.M.

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Ara Coeli

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Lima (Peru)

1952.05.181952.08.24
USAArchbishop Robert Joseph Dwyer

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Portland in Oregon (USA)

1952.05.191952.08.05
ItalyArchbishop Egidio Negrin

former Archbishop-Bishop of Treviso (Italy)

1952.05.241952.06.29
BoliviaArchbishop Luis Aníbal Rodríguez Pardo

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia)

1952.06.061952.10.05
CanadaArchbishop Louis Lévesque

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Rimouski (Canada)

1952.06.091952.08.15
FranceBishop Félix-Marie-Honoré Verdet

former Bishop of La Rochelle (France)

1952.06.101952.07.12
BrazilBishop José Adelino Dantas

former Bishop of Ruy Barbosa (Brazil)

1952.06.101952.09.14
PolandBishop Tomas Wilczynski

former Auxiliary Bishop of Lublin (Poland)

1952.06.121952.06.29
CanadaBishop Philip Lussier, C.SS.R.

former Bishop of Saint-Paul (Canada)

1952.06.161952.08.17
VietnamBishop Paul-Léon Seitz, M.E.P.

former Bishop of Kontum (Vietnam)

1952.06.191952.10.03
Congo-KinshasaBishop Willem van Kester, M.H.M.

former Bishop of Basankusu (Congo-Kinshasa)

1952.06.191952.10.11
IndiaBishop Michael Arattukulam

former Bishop of Alleppey (India)

1952.06.191952.12.07
IndiaBishop Alexander Edezath

former Bishop of Cochin (India)

1952.06.191952.12.07
ItalyArchbishop Guglielmo Motolese

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Taranto (Italy)

1952.06.211952.10.07
GermanyArchbishop Eugen Viktor Paul Seiterich

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany)

1952.06.231952.09.03
FranceBishop Pierre Brot

former Auxiliary Bishop of Paris (France)

1952.06.241952.10.11
USABishop Leo Richard Smith

former Bishop of Ogdensburg (USA)

1952.06.301952.09.24
AustriaCardinal Franz König

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Eusebio

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Wien (Austria)

1952.07.031952.08.31
IndiaBishop Basil Salvador Theodore Peres

former Bishop of Mangalore (India)

1952.07.031952.10.28
CanadaBishop Léo Blais

former Bishop of Prince Albert (Canada)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Montréal (Canada)

1952.07.041952.08.28
BoliviaBishop Bernardo Leonardo Fey Schneider, C.SS.R.

former Bishop of Potosí (Bolivia)

1952.07.091952.09.07
PhilippinesArchbishop Teopisto Valderrama Alberto

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Caceres (Philippines)

1952.07.101952.10.07
SenegalBishop Prosper Dodds, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Saint-Louis du Sénégal (Senegal)

1952.07.101952.10.26
IndiaArchbishop Joseph Bartholomew Evangelisti, O.F.M. Cap.

former Archbishop-Bishop of Meerut (India)

1952.07.101952.10.28
PeruBishop Alfonso Zaplana Bellizza

former Bishop of Tacna (Peru)

1952.07.141952.09.14
UruguayBishop José Maria Cavallero Gómez

former Bishop of Minas (Uruguay)

1952.07.161952.10.26
ColombiaBishop Miguel Antonio Medina y Medina

former Bishop of Montería (Colombia)

1952.07.161952.10.28
ScotlandBishop Joseph Michael McGee

former Bishop of Galloway (Scotland)

1952.07.191952.11.11
GermanyBishop Walter Kampe

former Auxiliary Bishop of Limburg (Germany)

1952.07.201952.09.07
ItalyBishop Luigi Barbero

former Bishop of Vigevano (Italy)

1952.07.261952.10.07
USABishop James Johnston Navagh

former Bishop of Paterson (USA)

1952.07.291952.09.24
CanadaArchbishop Paul Bernier

former Archbishop-Bishop of Gaspé (Canada)

1952.08.071952.09.12
TaiwanArchbishop Joseph Guo Ruo-shi (Kuo Joshih) (郭若石), C.D.D.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Taipei 臺北 (Taiwan)

former Superior General of Congregation of the Disciples of the Lord

1952.08.071952.10.26
SwitzerlandBishop François-Nestor Adam, C.R.B.

former Bishop of Sion (Switzerland)

1952.08.081952.10.12
USABishop Joseph Howard Hodges

former Bishop of Wheeling–Charleston (USA)

1952.08.081952.10.15
FranceArchbishop Joseph-Martin Urtasun

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Avignon (France)

1952.08.101952.10.28
SpainBishop Jacinto Argaya Goicoechea

former Bishop of San Sebastián (Spain)

1952.08.151952.10.26
SpainBishop Ramón Masnou Boixeda

former Bishop of Vic (Spain)

1952.08.151952.11.23
SpainBishop Antonio Añoveros Ataún

former Bishop of Bilbao (Spain)

1952.08.251952.10.12
CanadaBishop Michael Alphonsus Harrington

former Bishop of Kamloops (Canada)

1952.08.271952.11.20
BelgiumBishop Paul Constant Schoenmaekers

former Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen–Brussel (Belgium)

1952.09.081952.10.26
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Carraro

former Bishop of Verona (Italy)

1952.09.291952.11.01
SpainBishop Angel Temiño Sáiz

former Bishop of Ourense (Spain)

1952.10.081952.11.30
IndiaArchbishop Benedict Varghese Gregorios Thangalathil, O.I.C. (Syro-Malankara Rite)

former Metropolitan of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankara (India)

1952.10.251953.01.29
SpainBishop Abilio del Campo y de la Bárcena

former Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada–Logroño (Spain)

1952.10.291952.11.30
Costa RicaArchbishop Rubén Odio Herrera

former Metropolitan Archbishop of San José (Costa Rica)

1952.10.301952.12.12
USAArchbishop Celestine Joseph Damiano

former Archbishop-Bishop of Camden (USA)

1952.11.271953.02.11
Antigua and BarbudaBishop Joseph Oliver Bowers, S.V.D.

former Bishop of Saint John’s–Basseterre (Antigua and Barbuda)

1952.11.271953.04.22
BoliviaBishop Thomas Joseph Danehy, M.M.

former Titular Bishop of Bita

former Apostolic Administrator sede plena of Pando (Bolivia)

1952.11.271953.04.22
GermanyBishop Joseph Zimmermann

former Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg (Germany)

1952.11.281953.01.25
USABishop John Francis Hackett

former Auxiliary Bishop of Hartford (USA)

1952.12.101953.03.19
Sierra LeoneArchbishop Thomas Joseph Brosnahan, C.S.Sp.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Freetown and Bo (Sierra Leone)

1952.12.111953.03.07
RussiaBishop Benedict Takahiko Tomizawa (ベネディクト 冨澤孝彦)

former Bishop of Sapporo 札幌 (Japan)

1952.12.111953.03.19
LesothoArchbishop Emanuel Mabathoama, O.M.I.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Maseru (Lesotho)

1952.12.111953.03.25
PeruBishop Gregorio Elias Olazar Muruaga, C.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Yurimaguas (Peru)

1952.12.111953.04.12
IndiaBishop Francis Arthur Carvalho

former Auxiliary Bishop of Madras and Mylapore (India)

1952.12.131953.03.19
PortugalBishop Domingos da Apresentação Fernandes

former Bishop of Aveiro (Portugal)

1952.12.131953.03.19
ColombiaArchbishop Rubén Isaza Restrepo

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Cartagena (Colombia)

1952.12.181953.03.19
GermanyBishop Isidor Markus Emanuel

former Bishop of Speyer (Germany)

1952.12.221953.02.01
PortugalBishop Francisco Rendeiro, O.P.

former Bishop of Coimbra (Portugal)

1952.12.221953.04.12
MexicoCardinal Ernesto Corripio Ahumada

former Cardinal-Priest of Immacolata al Tiburtino

former Metropolitan Archbishop of México (Mexico)

1952.12.271953.03.19
PortugalBishop Agostinho Joaquim Lopes de Moura, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Portalegre–Castelo Branco (Portugal)

1952.12.271953.04.26
ItalyBishop Artemio Prati

former Bishop of Carpi (Italy)

1952.12.311953.02.24

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