Bishops Consecrated

in a.d. 1954

Bishops (92)ElectedConsecratedAscending
CanadaBishop Aimé Décosse

former Bishop of Gravelbourg (Canada)

1953.11.031954.01.20
Dominican RepublicArchbishop Hugo Eduardo Polanco Brito

former Archbishop-Bishop of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia en Higüey (Dominican Republic)

1953.09.251954.01.31
ItalyCardinal Luigi Raimondi

former Cardinal-Deacon of Ss. Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari

former Prefect of Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints

1953.12.241954.01.31
BrazilBishop José de Almeida Batista Pereira

former Bishop of Guaxupé (Brazil)

1953.12.221954.02.02
NigeriaCardinal Dominic Ignatius Ekandem

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Marcello

former Archbishop-Bishop of Abuja (Nigeria)

1953.08.071954.02.07
IraqArchbishop Athanase Jean Daniel Bakose (Syriac Rite)

former Archbishop of Baghdad of the Syriacs (Iraq)

1953.12.021954.02.07
TuvaluBishop John Hubert Macey Rodgers, S.M.

former Bishop of Rarotonga (Cook Islands)

former Ecclesiastical Superior of Funafuti (Tuvalu)

1953.06.291954.02.11
BoliviaBishop Jorge Kilian Pflaum, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Ñuflo de Chávez (Bolivia)

1953.11.161954.02.14
PeruBishop Martin Fulgencio Elorza Legaristi, C.P.

former Bishop-Prelate of Moyobamba (Peru)

1949.01.151954.02.24
ItalyBishop Francesco Monaco

former Bishop of Caltanissetta (Italy)

1953.12.121954.02.24
USABishop Jerome Aloysius Daugherty Sebastian

former Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore (USA)

1953.12.221954.02.24
AustraliaArchbishop James Patrick Carroll

former Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney (Australia)

1954.01.061954.02.24
FranceArchbishop Louis Ferrand

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tours (France)

1954.01.111954.02.24
Northern IrelandBishop William J. Philbin

former Bishop of Down and Connor (Northern Ireland)

1953.12.221954.03.14
Congo-KinshasaBishop Jan van Cauwelaert, C.I.C.M.

former Bishop of Inongo (Congo-Kinshasa)

1954.01.061954.03.25
USABishop Joseph John Annabring

former Bishop of Superior (USA)

1954.01.271954.03.25
IndiaBishop Athanasios Cheriyan Polachirakal (Syro-Malankara Rite)

former Bishop of Tiruvalla of the Syro-Malankara (India)

1953.12.311954.04.22
BoliviaArchbishop José Armando Gutiérrez Granier

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Cochabamba (Bolivia)

1954.01.191954.04.25
South AfricaBishop Pius Bonaventura Dlamini

former Bishop of Umzimkulu (South Africa)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Mariannhill (South Africa)

1954.02.211954.04.26
South AfricaBishop Francis Clement van Hoeck, O.S.B. Subl.

former Abbot Ordinary of Pietersburg (South Africa)

1954.01.061954.05.01
GhanaBishop Antoon Konings, S.M.A.

former Bishop of Keta–Ho (Ghana)

1954.02.211954.05.01
ColombiaBishop Eusebio Septimio Mari, O.F.M. Cap.

former Vicar Apostolic of Riohacha (Colombia)

1954.02.211954.05.01
SpainArchbishop Felix Romero Menjibar

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Valladolid (Spain)

1954.01.161954.05.02
ItalyArchbishop Francesco Fasola

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Messina (Italy)

former Archimandrite of Santissimo Salvatore of the Italo-Albanese (Italy)

1954.03.081954.05.02
ColombiaArchbishop Alberto Uribe Urdaneta

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Cali (Colombia)

1953.12.191954.05.03
JapanBishop Peter Arikata Kobayashi (ペトロ 小林有方)

former Bishop of Sendai 仙台 (Japan)

1954.02.211954.05.03
IndonesiaBishop Wilhelmus Joannes Demarteau, M.S.F.

former Bishop of Banjarmasin (Indonesia)

1954.01.061954.05.05
USABishop Joseph Maria Pernicone

former Auxiliary Bishop of New York (USA)

1954.04.061954.05.05
SamoaBishop Giovanni Dieter, S.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Archipelago of the Navigators (Samoa)

1953.11.161954.05.19
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Garneri

former Bishop of Susa (Italy)

1954.03.251954.05.23
USABishop Clarence George Issenmann

former Bishop of Cleveland (USA)

1954.03.241954.05.25
EcuadorBishop Leonidas Eduardo Proaño Villalba

former Bishop of Riobamba (Ecuador)

1954.03.181954.05.26
KenyaBishop Lawrence Victor Bessone, I.M.C.

former Bishop of Meru (Kenya)

1954.03.031954.05.27
ItalyBishop Mario Longo Dorni

former Bishop of Pistoia (Italy)

1954.04.241954.06.06
USABishop Justin Joseph McCarthy

former Bishop of Camden (USA)

1954.03.271954.06.11
IraqBishop Souleyman Sayegh (Chaldean Rite)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Mossul of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

1953.11.271954.06.13
IraqArchbishop Ephrem Gogué (Chaldean Rite)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Kirkuk of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

1954.02.081954.06.13
IraqArchbishop Joseph Gogué (Chaldean Rite)

former Archbishop of Bassorah of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

1954.02.081954.06.13
SpainBishop Laureano Castán Lacoma

former Bishop of Sigüenza–Guadalajara (Spain)

1954.02.241954.06.13
Central African RepublicBishop Alphonse-Célestin-Basile Baud, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Berbérati (Central African Republic)

1954.04.101954.06.24
FranceBishop Xavier Morilleau

former Bishop of La Rochelle (France)

1954.05.051954.06.24
SpainBishop Pablo Barrachina Estevan

former Bishop of Orihuela–Alicante (Spain)

1954.03.311954.06.29
MexicoBishop José de Jesús Clemens Alba Palacios

former Bishop of Tehuantepec (Mexico)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Antequera (Mexico)

1954.04.051954.06.29
NigeriaBishop John J. Reddington, S.M.A.

former Bishop of Jos (Nigeria)

1954.04.101954.06.29
USAArchbishop Leo Christopher Byrne

former Coadjutor Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis (USA)

1954.05.211954.06.29
MadagascarBishop Jean David, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Majunga (Madagascar)

1954.02.211954.07.01
MyanmarArchbishop John Joseph U Win

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Mandalay (Myanmar)

1954.04.101954.07.18
BrazilArchbishop José Vicente Távora

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Aracaju (Brazil)

1954.06.231954.07.25
NigeriaArchbishop John MacCarthy, S.M.A.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Kaduna (Nigeria)

1953.06.291954.08.15
BrazilBishop Manuel Pereira da Costa

former Bishop of Campina Grande (Brazil)

1954.05.311954.08.15
BrazilCardinal Eugênio de Araújo Sales

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Gregorio VII

former Metropolitan Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

former Ordinary of Ordinariato para os Fiéis de Ritos Orientais no Brasil of the Eastern Rite (Brazil)

1954.06.011954.08.15
BrazilArchbishop Oscar de Oliveira

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Mariana (Brazil)

1954.05.251954.08.22
USABishop Jeremiah Francis Minihan

former Auxiliary Bishop of Boston (USA)

1954.05.211954.09.08
French PolynesiaBishop Louis-Bertrand Tirilly, SS.CC.

former Bishop of Taiohae (French Polynesia)

1953.11.161954.09.12
ItalyCardinal Ermenegildo Florit

former Cardinal-Priest of «Regina Apostolorum»

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Firenze (Italy)

1954.07.121954.09.12
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
USABishop John Joseph Scanlan

former Bishop of Honolulu (USA)

1954.07.081954.09.21
CroatiaCardinal Franjo Šeper

former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Pietro e Paolo a Via Ostiense

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Zagreb (Croatia)

former Prefect of Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

former President of Pontifical Biblical Commission

1954.07.221954.09.21
USABishop Jerome Daniel Hannan

former Bishop of Scranton (USA)

1954.08.171954.09.21
CyprusArchbishop Elie Farah (Maronite Rite)

former Archbishop of Cyprus of the Maronites (Cyprus)

1954.04.161954.09.26
ItalyBishop Pietro Fiordelli

former Bishop of Prato (Italy)

1954.07.071954.10.03
ItalyArchbishop Domenico Picchinenna

former Archbishop of Catania (Italy)

1954.07.021954.10.07
CanadaBishop Francis Valentine Allen

former Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto (Canada)

1954.07.021954.10.07
PolandCardinal Bolesław Kominek

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Croce in Via Flaminia

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Wrocław (Poland)

1951.04.261954.10.10
FranceCardinal Jean-Marie Villot

former Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati

former Secretary of State of Secretariat of State

former President of Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See

former Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church of Apostolic Camera

former Prefect of Council for the Public Affairs of the Church

former President of Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State

1954.09.021954.10.12
IndiaBishop Conrad Dubbelman, O. Praem.

former Bishop of Jabalpur (India)

1954.07.051954.10.19
Saint LuciaBishop Richard Lester Guilly, S.J.

former Bishop of Georgetown (Guyana)

1954.07.181954.10.24
BrazilBishop Camillo Faresin, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Guiratinga (Brazil)

1954.08.131954.10.24
USABishop Henry Edmund Donnelly

former Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit (USA)

1954.09.061954.10.26
USABishop John Anthony Donovan

former Bishop of Toledo (USA)

1954.09.061954.10.26
Burkina FasoBishop Joseph-Marie-Eugène Bretault, M. Afr.

former Bishop of Koudougou (Burkina Faso)

1954.06.271954.10.28
USABishop Robert Francis Joyce

former Bishop of Burlington (USA)

1954.07.081954.10.28
TanzaniaBishop Herman Jan van Elswijk, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Morogoro (Tanzania)

1954.07.181954.10.28
PhilippinesBishop Hernando Antiporda

former Auxiliary Bishop of Manila (Philippines)

1954.08.191954.10.28
PortugalBishop António de Campos

former Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa (Portugal)

1954.08.281954.10.28
BelgiumBishop Honoraat Maria van Waeyenbergh

former Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen–Brussel (Belgium)

1954.09.011954.10.28
ItalyArchbishop Ismaele Mario Castellano, O.P.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Siena–Colle di Val d’Elsa–Montalcino (Italy)

1954.08.241954.10.31
MexicoBishop Alfonso Tóriz Cobián

former Bishop of Querétaro (Mexico)

1954.08.241954.10.31
EcuadorArchbishop Manuel de Jesús Serrano Abad

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Cuenca (Ecuador)

1954.08.181954.11.13
SpainArchbishop Segundo Garcia de Sierra y Méndez

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Burgos (Spain)

1954.07.281954.11.14
GermanyBishop Johannes Pohlschneider

former Bishop of Aachen (Germany)

1954.08.301954.11.18
LebanonArchbishop Elias Zoghbi (Greek-Melkite Rite)

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

1954.09.021954.11.21
IranBishop John Baptist Apcar (Armenian Rite)

former Bishop of Ispahan of the Armenians (Iran)

1954.09.241954.11.21
IndiaBishop Francis Xavier Fenech, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Jhansi (India)

1954.07.051954.11.28
ItalyCardinal Umberto Mozzoni

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Eugenio pro hac vice Title

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

1954.11.131954.12.05
PortugalBishop João Pereira Venâncio, O.R.C.

former Bishop of Leiria (Portugal)

former Prior General of Order of Canons Regular of the Holy Cross

1954.09.301954.12.08
VenezuelaBishop José Humberto Paparoni

former Bishop of Barcelona (Venezuela)

1954.10.041954.12.08
SyriaBishop Joseph Gennangi (Armenian Rite)

former Bishop of Kameshli of the Armenians (Syria)

1954.10.211954.12.12
ItalySaint Pope Paul VI

former Supreme Pontiff

1954.11.011954.12.12
GermanyBishop Joseph Maria Reuß

former Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz (Germany)

1954.11.191954.12.21
ItalyBishop Gilberto Baroni

former Bishop of Reggio Emilia–Guastalla (Italy)

1954.12.041954.12.27

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