Bishops Consecrated

in a.d. 1953

Bishops (113)ElectedConsecratedAscending
GermanyBishop Joseph Zimmermann

former Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg (Germany)

1952.11.281953.01.25
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
GermanyBishop Isidor Markus Emanuel

former Bishop of Speyer (Germany)

1952.12.221953.02.01
USAArchbishop Celestine Joseph Damiano

former Archbishop-Bishop of Camden (USA)

1952.11.271953.02.11
ItalyBishop Giovanni Battista Pardini

former Bishop of Jesi (Italy)

1953.01.071953.02.22
ItalyBishop Artemio Prati

former Bishop of Carpi (Italy)

1952.12.311953.02.24
Sierra LeoneArchbishop Thomas Joseph Brosnahan, C.S.Sp.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Freetown and Bo (Sierra Leone)

1952.12.111953.03.07
PhilippinesBishop Patrick Shanley, O.C.D.

former Bishop-Prelate of Infanta (Philippines)

1953.02.171953.03.17
USABishop John Francis Hackett

former Auxiliary Bishop of Hartford (USA)

1952.12.101953.03.19
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
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
MexicoCardinal Ernesto Corripio Ahumada

former Cardinal-Priest of Immacolata al Tiburtino

former Metropolitan Archbishop of México (Mexico)

1952.12.271953.03.19
IndiaBishop Pablo Mariaselvam, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Vellore (India)

19531953.03.19
VietnamBishop Joseph Trương Cao Ðại

former Vicar Apostolic of Hai Phòng (Vietnam)

1953.01.081953.03.19
ItalyArchbishop Anacleto Cazzaniga

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Urbino (Italy)

1953.01.121953.03.19
ColombiaBishop Francisco Gallego Pérez

former Bishop of Cali (Colombia)

1953.02.031953.03.19
IndiaBishop Rajarethinam Arokiasamy Sundaram

former Bishop of Tanjore (India)

1953.02.041953.03.19
ItalyBishop Marino Bergonzini

former Bishop of Faenza (Italy)

former Bishop of Modigliana (Italy)

1953.02.121953.03.19
LesothoArchbishop Emanuel Mabathoama, O.M.I.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Maseru (Lesotho)

1952.12.111953.03.25
IndiaArchbishop Ambrose Rayappan

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore (India)

1953.01.081953.03.25
ItalyArchbishop Alberto Castelli

former Vice-President of Pontifical Commission of Justice and Peace

former Vice-President of Council of the Laity

1953.01.281953.03.25
GermanyBishop Wilhelm Sedlmeier

former Auxiliary Bishop of Rottenburg (Germany)

1953.02.071953.03.25
PeruBishop Gregorio Elias Olazar Muruaga, C.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Yurimaguas (Peru)

1952.12.111953.04.12
PortugalBishop Francisco Rendeiro, O.P.

former Bishop of Coimbra (Portugal)

1952.12.221953.04.12
NorwayBishop Johann Rüth, SS.CC.

former Vicar Apostolic of Central Norway (Norway)

1953.02.041953.04.12
ItalyBishop Enrico Romolo Compagnone, O.C.D.

former Bishop of Sezze (Italy)

former Bishop of Priverno (Italy)

former Bishop of Terracina–Latina (Italy)

1953.03.101953.04.12
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
ThailandBishop Francis Xavier Sanguon Souvannasri

former Bishop of Chanthaburi (Thailand)

1953.01.081953.04.22
IndonesiaArchbishop Adrianus Djajasepoetra, S.J.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Djakarta (Indonesia)

1953.02.181953.04.23
PortugalBishop Agostinho Joaquim Lopes de Moura, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Portalegre–Castelo Branco (Portugal)

1952.12.271953.04.26
PeruArchbishop Otoniel Alcedo Culquicóndor, S.D.B.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Ayacucho (Peru)

1953.02.171953.04.26
IndonesiaBishop Jan Antonius Klooster, C.M.

former Bishop of Surabaya (Indonesia)

1953.02.191953.05.01
PortugalBishop Manuel Alfonso de Carvalho

former Bishop of Angra (Portugal)

1953.02.101953.05.03
South AfricaBishop John Boekenfoehr, O.M.I.

former Bishop of Kimberley (South Africa)

1953.03.241953.05.03
USABishop Lawrence Bernard Brennan Casey

former Bishop of Paterson (USA)

1953.02.101953.05.05
GreeceArchbishop Marius Macrionitis, S.J.

former Archbishop of Athens (Greece)

1953.03.111953.05.10
BoliviaBishop Ubaldo Evaristo Cibrián Fernández, C.P.

former Bishop-Prelate of Corocoro (Bolivia)

1953.03.071953.05.17
ItalyBishop Luigi Cicuttini

former Bishop of Città di Castello (Italy)

1953.04.061953.05.17
ItalyArchbishop Ettore Cunial

former Vice-Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church of Apostolic Camera

1953.04.111953.05.17
BrazilArchbishop João Resende Costa, S.D.B.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Belo Horizonte (Brazil)

1953.02.231953.05.24
BrazilBishop Othon Motta

former Bishop of Campanha (Brazil)

1953.03.101953.05.24
SyriaArchbishop Pietro Sfair (Maronite Rite)

former Titular Archbishop of Nisibis of the Maronites

1953.03.111953.05.24
NicaraguaBishop Marco Antonio García y Suárez

former Bishop of Granada (Nicaragua)

1953.03.171953.05.24
ColombiaBishop Gustavo Posada Peláez, M.X.Y.

former Bishop of Istmina–Tadó (Colombia)

1953.03.241953.05.24
ColombiaBishop Gerardo Valencia Cano, M.X.Y.

former Vicar Apostolic of Buenaventura (Colombia)

1953.03.241953.05.24
Congo-KinshasaBishop Georges Désiré Raeymaeckers, O. Praem.

former Bishop of Buta (Congo-Kinshasa)

1953.02.041953.05.26
FranceBishop Pierre-Abel-Louis Chappot de la Chanonie

former Bishop of Clermont (France)

1953.03.171953.05.26
ColombiaBishop Pedro Grau y Arola, C.M.F.

former Vicar Apostolic of Quibdó (Colombia)

1953.03.241953.05.31
HaitiBishop Rémy Augustin, S.M.M.

former Bishop of Port-de-Paix (Haiti)

1953.04.081953.05.31
MadagascarBishop Alphonse-Marie-Victor Fresnel, C.M.

former Bishop of Fort-Dauphin (Madagascar)

1953.02.041953.06.04
Congo-KinshasaBishop Georges Kettel, C.I.C.M.

former Bishop of Kabinda (Congo-Kinshasa)

1953.03.241953.06.04
BeninBishop Noël Boucheix, S.M.A.

former Bishop of Porto Novo (Benin)

1953.03.111953.06.10
GermanyBishop Josef Freusberg

former Auxiliary Bishop of Fulda (Germany)

1953.04.121953.06.11
FranceBishop Jean-Ernest Ménard

former Bishop of Rodez (France)

1953.04.141953.06.11
FranceArchbishop Jean-Emmanuel Marquès

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Albi (France)

1953.04.141953.06.24
MonacoBishop Gilles-Henri-Alexis Barthe

former Bishop of Fréjus–Toulon (France)

1953.05.131953.06.24
ItalyBishop Virginio Dondeo

former Bishop of Todi (Italy)

former Bishop of Orvieto (Italy)

1953.05.291953.06.27
CameroonArchbishop Yves-Joseph-Marie Plumey, O.M.I.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Garoua (Cameroon)

1953.03.241953.06.29
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Pullano

former Bishop of Patti (Italy)

1953.04.221953.06.29
ItalyBishop Costantino Caminada

former Bishop of Ferentino (Italy)

1953.05.221953.06.29
ItalyBishop Vincenzo De Chiara

former Bishop of Tropea (Italy)

former Bishop of Nicotera (Italy)

former Bishop of Mileto (Italy)

1953.04.301953.07.12
HondurasBishop Antonio Capdevilla Ferrando, C.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of San Pedro Sula (Honduras)

1953.03.241953.07.19
BrazilBishop Zacarias Rolim de Moura

former Bishop of Cajazeiras (Brazil)

1953.04.271953.07.26
ItalyBishop Maurizio Raspini

former Bishop of Oppido Mamertina (Italy)

1953.05.091953.07.26
ItalyCardinal Sebastiano Baggio

former Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri–Segni

former Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church of Apostolic Camera

former Patron of Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta (Knights of Malta)

1953.06.301953.07.26
ItalyBishop Aldo Forzoni

former Bishop of Massa (Italy)

1953.05.141953.08.09
ThailandBishop Michael Mongkhol On Prakhongchit

former Vicar Apostolic of Thare (Thailand)

1953.05.071953.08.19
TurkiyeArchbishop Giacomo Testa

former President of Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy

1953.06.181953.08.26
CanadaBishop Albert Leménager

former Bishop of Yarmouth (Canada)

1953.07.061953.08.31
USACardinal John Joseph Krol

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria della Mercede e S. Adriano a Villa Albani pro hac vice Title

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Philadelphia (USA)

1953.07.111953.09.02
ItalyArchbishop Clemente Gaddi

former Archbishop-Bishop of Bergamo (Italy)

1953.06.241953.09.06
USABishop Francis Joseph Green

former Bishop of Tucson (USA)

1953.05.291953.09.07
BoliviaBishop Carlos Anasagasti Zulueta, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of El Beni (Bolivia)

1953.06.291953.09.13
ColombiaArchbishop Alfredo Rubio Diaz

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Nueva Pamplona (Colombia)

1953.07.071953.09.13
SwitzerlandArchbishop Raffaele Forni

former Titular Archbishop of Ægina

1953.07.311953.09.13
VenezuelaBishop Segundo García Fernández, S.D.B.

former Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Ayacucho (Venezuela)

1953.05.071953.09.20
ItalyBishop Augusto Gianfranceschi

former Bishop of Sarsina (Italy)

former Bishop of Cesena (Italy)

1953.07.281953.09.20
ItalyBishop Primo Gasbarri

former Bishop of Grosseto (Italy)

1953.07.301953.09.20
ZambiaBishop Firmin Courtemanche, M. Afr.

former Bishop of Chipata (Zambia)

1953.05.071953.09.21
South SudanArchbishop Agostino Baroni, M.C.C.J.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Khartoum (Sudan)

1953.06.291953.09.21
Congo-KinshasaArchbishop Félix Scalais, C.I.C.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Léopoldville (Congo-Kinshasa)

1953.06.291953.09.21
ItalyCardinal Silvio Angelo Pio Oddi

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Agata de’ Goti pro hac vice Title

former Pontifical Legate for the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi

1953.07.301953.09.27
GermanyCardinal Franz Hengsbach

former Cardinal-Priest of Nostra Signora di Guadalupe a Monte Mario

former Bishop of Essen (Germany)

1953.08.201953.09.29
ItalyArchbishop Agostino Saba

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Sassari (Italy)

1953.08.251953.10.04
ItalyArchbishop Andrea Pangrazio

former Archbishop-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina (Italy)

1953.08.261953.10.04
USABishop Edward Vincent Dargin

former Auxiliary Bishop of New York (USA)

1953.08.251953.10.05
USABishop Walter Philip Kellenberg

former Bishop of Rockville Centre (USA)

1953.08.251953.10.05
MexicoArchbishop Emilio Abascal y Salmerón

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Jalapa (Mexico)

1953.07.251953.10.11
MyanmarArchbishop Victor Bazin, M.E.P.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Rangoon (Myanmar)

1953.05.071953.10.18
FranceCardinal Alexandre-Charles Renard

former Cardinal-Priest of SS. Trinità al Monte Pincio

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Lyon (France)

1953.08.191953.10.19
AustraliaBishop William Joseph Brennan

former Bishop of Toowoomba (Australia)

1953.08.071953.10.21
ArgentinaBishop José Borgatti, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Viedma (Argentina)

1953.08.281953.10.25
ItalyArchbishop Romolo Carboni

former Titular Archbishop of Sidon

1953.09.281953.10.25
AustraliaCardinal James Robert Knox

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Vallicella

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Melbourne (Australia)

former President of Pontifical Council for the Family

1953.07.201953.11.08
USAArchbishop Coleman Francis Carroll

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Miami (USA)

1953.08.251953.11.10
ItalyArchbishop Salvatore Siino

former Titular Archbishop of Perge

former Apostolic Nuncio to Philippines

1953.10.271953.11.29
USABishop Bernard Joseph Flanagan

former Bishop of Worcester (USA)

1953.09.011953.11.30
IndiaBishop Michael Rodrigues

former Bishop of Belgaum (India)

1953.09.191953.11.30
ItalyArchbishop Alfredo Vozzi

former Archbishop of Amalfi (Italy)

1953.09.251953.11.30
IndiaCardinal Joseph Parecattil (Syro-Malabar Rite)

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria «Regina Pacis» a Monte Verde

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Ernakulam of the Syro-Malabars (India)

former President of Pontifical Commission for the Revision of Code of Oriental Canon Law

1953.10.281953.11.30
ItalyArchbishop Arrigo Pintonello

former Archbishop-Bishop of Sezze (Italy)

former Archbishop-Bishop of Priverno (Italy)

former Archbishop-Bishop of Terracina–Latina (Italy)

1953.11.041953.11.30
TanzaniaBishop Eberhard Spiess, O.S.B.

former Abbot Ordinary of Peramiho (Tanzania)

1953.09.231953.12.03
VenezuelaCardinal José Humberto Quintero Parra

former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Andrea e Gregorio al Monte Celio

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Caracas (Venezuela)

1953.09.071953.12.06
ItalyBishop Agostino Ernesto Castrillo, O.F.M.

former Bishop of San Marco (Italy)

former Bishop of Bisignano (Italy)

1953.09.171953.12.13
BrazilBishop Expedito Eduardo de Oliveira

former Bishop of Patos (Brazil)

1953.10.011953.12.13
ItalyBishop Carlo Bandini

former Bishop of Sarsina (Italy)

1953.10.171953.12.20
ItalyBishop Placido Maria Cambiaghi, B.

former Bishop of Novara (Italy)

1953.11.151953.12.20
ItalyBishop Domenico Bornigia

former Bishop of Sansepolcro (Italy)

1953.11.271953.12.21
ItalyCardinal Opilio Rossi

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Lorenzo in Lucina

former President of Commission of Cardinals for the Pontifical Shrines of Pompeii, Loreto and Bari

1953.11.211953.12.27
USABishop Raymond Peter Hillinger

former Bishop of Rockford (USA)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago (USA)

1953.11.031953.12.29

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