Bishops Consecrated

in a.d. 1952

Bishops (113)ElectedConsecratedAscending
ItalyBishop Guglielmo Bosetti

former Bishop of Fidenza (Italy)

1951.11.041952.01.06
CroatiaArchbishop Josip Pavlišić

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Rijeka–Senj (Croatia)

1951.12.131952.01.13
FranceBishop Marcel-Pierre-Armand Riopel

former Auxiliary Bishop of Rennes (France)

1951.10.231952.01.17
GermanyBishop Friedrich Maria Rintelen

former Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn (Germany)

1951.12.121952.01.24
ItalyBishop Vincenzo Radicioni

former Bishop of Ripatransone (Italy)

former Bishop of Montalto (Italy)

1951.12.101952.01.27
PhilippinesArchbishop Lino R. Gonzaga y Rasdesales

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Zamboanga (Philippines)

1951.11.121952.01.28
Burkina FasoBishop Jean-Marie Lesourd, M. Afr.

former Bishop of Nouna (Burkina Faso)

1951.10.181952.02.02
ColombiaBishop Buenaventura Jáuregui Prieto

former Bishop of Zipaquirá (Colombia)

1951.12.051952.02.02
ItalyBishop Biagio D’Agostino

former Bishop of Vallo di Lucania (Italy)

1951.12.151952.02.03
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
PolandBishop Aleksander Moscicki

former Auxiliary Bishop of Łomża (Poland)

1952.02.061952.02.25
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
ItalyArchbishop Pacifico M. Luigi Perantoni, O.F.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Lanciano (Italy)

former Bishop of Ortona (Italy)

1952.01.311952.03.09
IndiaBishop Ambrose De Battista, P.I.M.E.

former Bishop of Vijayawada (India)

1951.12.131952.03.19
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
FranceBishop André Jacquemin

former Bishop of Bayeux (France)

1951.12.201952.03.25
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
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
CroatiaArchbishop Mate Garković

former Archbishop of Zadar (Croatia)

1952.02.221952.03.30
ColombiaBishop Antonio Torasso, I.M.C.

former Vicar Apostolic of Florencia (Colombia)

1952.01.101952.04.20
AlbaniaBishop Ernesto Çoba

former Titular Bishop of Midaëum

former Apostolic Administrator of Shkodrë (Albania)

1952.01.211952.04.20
AlbaniaBishop Pjetër Dema

former Titular Bishop of Apollonias

1952.01.271952.04.20
BrazilArchbishop Hélder Pessoa Câmara

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Olinda e Recife (Brazil)

1952.03.031952.04.20
SpainArchbishop Pedro Cantero Cuadrado

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Zaragoza (Spain)

1951.12.191952.04.27
MontenegroArchbishop Aleksandar Tokić

former Archbishop of Bar (Montenegro)

1952.01.031952.04.27
CroatiaArchbishop Gabrijel Bukatko

former Archbishop of Beograd (Serbia)

1952.02.231952.04.27
ItalyBishop Luigi Pirelli

former Bishop of Sovana–Pitigliano (Italy)

1952.02.261952.04.27
ColombiaBishop Guillermo Escobar Vélez

former Bishop of Antioquía (Colombia)

1952.03.071952.04.27
CanadaBishop Francis Joseph Klein

former Bishop of Calgary (Canada)

1952.02.281952.04.30
MexicoBishop Sergio Méndez Arceo

former Bishop of Cuernavaca (Mexico)

1952.03.111952.04.30
MalaysiaBishop James Buis, M.H.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia)

1947.01.181952.05.01
FranceCardinal François Marty

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Luigi dei Francesi

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Paris (France)

1952.02.011952.05.01
CanadaBishop Lionel Audet

former Auxiliary Bishop of Québec (Canada)

1952.02.281952.05.01
TanzaniaBishop Patrick Winters, S.A.C.

former Bishop of Mbulu (Tanzania)

1952.01.101952.05.04
ChinaBishop Joseph Wan Ci-zhang (萬次章), O.F.M.

former Bishop of Hengzhou 衡州 (China)

1952.02.141952.05.04
BoliviaArchbishop Jorge Manrique Hurtado

former Metropolitan Archbishop of La Paz (Bolivia)

1952.02.231952.05.04
ItalyCardinal Paolo Bertoli

former Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati

former Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church of Apostolic Camera

1952.03.241952.05.11
ItalyBishop Joseph Gargitter

former Bishop of Bolzano–Bressanone (Italy)

1952.04.261952.05.18
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
PhilippinesArchbishop Antonio Frondosa

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Capiz (Philippines)

1952.03.051952.05.28
RwandaBishop Aloys Bigirumwami

former Bishop of Nyundo (Rwanda)

1952.02.141952.06.01
BrazilBishop Luís Victor Sartori

former Bishop of Santa Maria (Brazil)

1952.03.041952.06.01
ItalyArchbishop Giovanni Francesco Dadone

former Archbishop-Bishop of Fossano (Italy)

1952.03.281952.06.01
HondurasBishop Carlos Luis Geromini

former Bishop of Santa Rosa de Copán (Honduras)

1952.04.201952.06.08
ItalyBishop Fortunato Zoppas

former Bishop of Nocera de’ Pagani (Italy)

1952.04.261952.06.08
AustraliaBishop Bryan Gallagher

former Bishop of Port Pirie (Australia)

1952.03.131952.06.11
USABishop John Joseph Boardman

former Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn (USA)

1952.03.281952.06.11
MalaysiaBishop Jan Vos, M.H.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Kuching (Malaysia)

1952.02.141952.06.12
ItalyBishop Carlo Ferrari

former Bishop of Mantova (Italy)

1952.04.171952.06.15
MexicoBishop Francisco Orozco Lomelín

former Auxiliary Bishop of México (Mexico)

1952.03.191952.06.20
ItalyArchbishop Egidio Negrin

former Archbishop-Bishop of Treviso (Italy)

1952.05.241952.06.29
PolandBishop Tomas Wilczynski

former Auxiliary Bishop of Lublin (Poland)

1952.06.121952.06.29
LaosBishop Étienne-Auguste-Germain Loosdregt, O.M.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Vientiane (Laos)

1952.03.131952.06.30
BangladeshBishop Raymond Larose, C.S.C.

former Bishop of Chittagong (Bangladesh)

1952.03.201952.07.02
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
FranceBishop Félix-Marie-Honoré Verdet

former Bishop of La Rochelle (France)

1952.06.101952.07.12
IndiaBishop Amerigo Galbiati, P.I.M.E.

former Bishop of Jalpaiguri (India)

1952.03.201952.07.13
MexicoBishop José Villalón Mercado

former Auxiliary Bishop of México (Mexico)

1952.04.011952.08.03
USAArchbishop Robert Joseph Dwyer

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Portland in Oregon (USA)

1952.05.191952.08.05
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
CanadaArchbishop Louis Lévesque

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Rimouski (Canada)

1952.06.091952.08.15
Cote d’IvoireBishop Emile Durrheimer, S.M.A.

former Bishop of Katiola (Cote d’Ivoire)

1952.05.151952.08.16
CanadaBishop Philip Lussier, C.SS.R.

former Bishop of Saint-Paul (Canada)

1952.06.161952.08.17
VenezuelaBishop Alejandro Fernández Feo-Tinoco

former Bishop of San Cristóbal de Venezuela (Venezuela)

1952.04.231952.08.24
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
CanadaBishop Léo Blais

former Bishop of Prince Albert (Canada)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Montréal (Canada)

1952.07.041952.08.28
AustriaCardinal Franz König

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Eusebio

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Wien (Austria)

1952.07.031952.08.31
GermanyArchbishop Eugen Viktor Paul Seiterich

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany)

1952.06.231952.09.03
MalawiBishop Lawrence Pullen Hardman, S.M.M.

former Bishop of Zomba (Malawi)

1952.05.151952.09.07
BoliviaBishop Bernardo Leonardo Fey Schneider, C.SS.R.

former Bishop of Potosí (Bolivia)

1952.07.091952.09.07
GermanyBishop Walter Kampe

former Auxiliary Bishop of Limburg (Germany)

1952.07.201952.09.07
CanadaArchbishop Paul Bernier

former Archbishop-Bishop of Gaspé (Canada)

1952.08.071952.09.12
BrazilBishop José Adelino Dantas

former Bishop of Ruy Barbosa (Brazil)

1952.06.101952.09.14
PeruBishop Alfonso Zaplana Bellizza

former Bishop of Tacna (Peru)

1952.07.141952.09.14
USABishop Leo Richard Smith

former Bishop of Ogdensburg (USA)

1952.06.301952.09.24
USABishop James Johnston Navagh

former Bishop of Paterson (USA)

1952.07.291952.09.24
VietnamBishop Paul-Léon Seitz, M.E.P.

former Bishop of Kontum (Vietnam)

1952.06.191952.10.03
BoliviaArchbishop Luis Aníbal Rodríguez Pardo

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

1952.06.061952.10.05
ItalyArchbishop Guglielmo Motolese

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Taranto (Italy)

1952.06.211952.10.07
PhilippinesArchbishop Teopisto Valderrama Alberto

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Caceres (Philippines)

1952.07.101952.10.07
ItalyBishop Luigi Barbero

former Bishop of Vigevano (Italy)

1952.07.261952.10.07
Congo-KinshasaBishop Willem van Kester, M.H.M.

former Bishop of Basankusu (Congo-Kinshasa)

1952.06.191952.10.11
FranceBishop Pierre Brot

former Auxiliary Bishop of Paris (France)

1952.06.241952.10.11
SwitzerlandBishop François-Nestor Adam, C.R.B.

former Bishop of Sion (Switzerland)

1952.08.081952.10.12
SpainBishop Antonio Añoveros Ataún

former Bishop of Bilbao (Spain)

1952.08.251952.10.12
USABishop Joseph Howard Hodges

former Bishop of Wheeling–Charleston (USA)

1952.08.081952.10.15
SenegalBishop Prosper Dodds, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Saint-Louis du Sénégal (Senegal)

1952.07.101952.10.26
UruguayBishop José Maria Cavallero Gómez

former Bishop of Minas (Uruguay)

1952.07.161952.10.26
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
SpainBishop Jacinto Argaya Goicoechea

former Bishop of San Sebastián (Spain)

1952.08.151952.10.26
BelgiumBishop Paul Constant Schoenmaekers

former Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen–Brussel (Belgium)

1952.09.081952.10.26
IndiaBishop Basil Salvador Theodore Peres

former Bishop of Mangalore (India)

1952.07.031952.10.28
IndiaArchbishop Joseph Bartholomew Evangelisti, O.F.M. Cap.

former Archbishop-Bishop of Meerut (India)

1952.07.101952.10.28
ColombiaBishop Miguel Antonio Medina y Medina

former Bishop of Montería (Colombia)

1952.07.161952.10.28
FranceArchbishop Joseph-Martin Urtasun

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Avignon (France)

1952.08.101952.10.28
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Carraro

former Bishop of Verona (Italy)

1952.09.291952.11.01
ScotlandBishop Joseph Michael McGee

former Bishop of Galloway (Scotland)

1952.07.191952.11.11
CanadaBishop Michael Alphonsus Harrington

former Bishop of Kamloops (Canada)

1952.08.271952.11.20
SpainBishop Ramón Masnou Boixeda

former Bishop of Vic (Spain)

1952.08.151952.11.23
SpainBishop Angel Temiño Sáiz

former Bishop of Ourense (Spain)

1952.10.081952.11.30
SpainBishop Abilio del Campo y de la Bárcena

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

1952.10.291952.11.30
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
Costa RicaArchbishop Rubén Odio Herrera

former Metropolitan Archbishop of San José (Costa Rica)

1952.10.301952.12.12
PolandBishop Antoni Pawłowski

former Bishop of Włocławek (Poland)

1950.04.221952.12.27

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