Bishops Consecrated

in a.d. 1955

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Bishops (111)ElectedConsecratedAscending
ItalyArchbishop Alfredo Bruniera

former Vice-President of Pontifical Council “Cor unum”

1954.12.121955.01.02
ItalyArchbishop Luigi Punzolo

former Titular Archbishop of Sebastea

1954.12.061955.01.16
Costa RicaBishop Delfín Quesada Castro

former Bishop of San Isidro de El General (Costa Rica)

1954.10.221955.01.18
MonacoArchbishop Jean-Édouard-Lucien Rupp

former Bishop of Monaco (Monaco)

1954.10.281955.01.18
CanadaBishop Malcolm A. MacEachern

former Bishop of Charlottetown (Canada)

1954.11.271955.01.18
SpainBishop Eugenio Beitia Aldazabal

former Bishop of Santander (Spain)

1954.10.301955.01.30
BrazilBishop Otàvio Barbosa Aguiar

former Bishop of Palmeira dos Índios (Brazil)

1954.11.061955.01.30
USABishop Charles Garrett Maloney

former Auxiliary Bishop of Louisville (USA)

1954.12.301955.02.02
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Fenocchio

former Bishop of Pontremoli (Italy)

1954.12.111955.02.11
PhilippinesArchbishop Clovis Joseph Thibauld, P.M.E.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Davao (Philippines)

1954.12.291955.02.11
SpainArchbishop Emilio Benavent Escuín

former Archbishop Military Vicar of Spain (Spain)

1954.12.061955.02.13
USAArchbishop Nicholas Thomas Elko

former Bishop of Pittsburgh of the Ruthenians (USA)

former Archbishop ad personam

1955.02.051955.03.06
AustriaBishop Bruno Wechner

former Bishop of Feldkirch (Austria)

1954.12.311955.03.12
ItalyBishop Antonio Rosario Mennonna

former Bishop of Nardò (Italy)

1955.01.051955.03.13
ParaguayBishop Ramón Pastor Bogarín Argaña

former Bishop of San Juan Bautista (Paraguay)

1954.12.011955.03.19
SpainBishop Francisco Peralta y Ballabriga

former Bishop of Vitoria (Spain)

1955.01.101955.03.20
USABishop Joseph Aloysius Durick

former Bishop of Nashville (USA)

1954.12.301955.03.24
FranceBishop André-Jean-Baptiste Pioger

former Bishop of Séez (France)

1955.01.251955.03.25
FranceBishop Cyprien-Louis-Pierre-Clément Tourel

former Bishop of Montpellier (France)

1955.02.041955.03.25
FranceBishop Roger Michon

former Bishop of Chartres (France)

1955.02.121955.03.25
PortugalBishop Florentino de Andrade e Silva

former Bishop of Faro (Portugal)

1954.12.311955.03.27
Congo-KinshasaBishop André Creemers, O.S.C.

former Bishop of Bondo (Congo-Kinshasa)

1955.01.011955.04.11
IndonesiaArchbishop Antoine Henri van den Hurk, O.F.M. Cap.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Medan (Indonesia)

1955.01.011955.04.14
MyanmarBishop George Maung Kyaw

former Bishop of Bassein (Myanmar)

1955.01.011955.04.17
ColombiaArchbishop José Joaquín Flórez Hernández

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Ibagué (Colombia)

1955.03.071955.04.24
ItalyBishop Antonio Mistrorigo

former Bishop of Treviso (Italy)

1955.03.091955.04.25
FranceArchbishop Claude Dupuy

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Albi (France)

1955.03.071955.04.27
JapanCardinal Joseph Asajirō Satowaki (ヨゼフ 里脇 浅次郎)

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria della Pace

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Nagasaki 長崎 (Japan)

1955.02.251955.05.03
FranceBishop Pierre-Marie Lacointe

former Bishop of Beauvais (France)

1955.03.231955.05.07
ItalyArchbishop Felicissimo Stefano Tinivella, O.F.M.

former Archbishop of Ancona e Umana (Italy)

1955.03.091955.05.08
ItalyArchbishop Antonio Iannucci

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Pescara–Penne (Italy)

1955.03.201955.05.08
GermanyArchbishop Hermann Josef Schäufele

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany)

1955.04.111955.05.11
MozambiqueBishop Francisco Nuñes Teixeira

former Bishop of Quelimane (Mozambique)

1955.02.061955.05.13
NorwayBishop Johann Wember, M.S.F.

former Vicar Apostolic of Northern Norway (Norway)

1955.02.181955.05.15
NigeriaBishop Thomas McGettrick, S.P.S.

former Bishop of Abakaliki (Nigeria)

1955.01.011955.05.22
Congo-KinshasaBishop André Lefèbvre, S.J.

former Bishop of Kikwit (Congo-Kinshasa)

1955.02.251955.05.22
ItalyArchbishop Paolo Carta

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Sassari (Italy)

1955.03.091955.05.22
ItalyArchbishop Giuseppe Schiavini

former Auxiliary Bishop of Milano (Italy)

1955.04.131955.05.22
CanadaArchbishop Paul Dumouchel, O.M.I.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Keewatin–Le Pas (Canada)

1955.02.251955.05.24
PhilippinesVenerable Archbishop Teofilo Camomot Bastida

former Coadjutor Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro (Philippines)

1955.03.231955.05.29
BrazilBishop Cesário Alexandre Minali, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop-Prelate of Carolina (Brazil)

1955.03.011955.06.05
FranceBishop Renato Fontenelle

former Titular Bishop of Theudalis

1955.03.251955.06.05
USABishop Edmund Joseph Reilly

former Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn (USA)

1955.03.151955.06.07
BrazilBishop Vicente de Paulo Araújo Matos

former Bishop of Crato (Brazil)

1955.04.211955.06.11
EnglandBishop Cyril Edward Restieaux

former Bishop of Plymouth (England)

1955.04.091955.06.14
PhilippinesBishop Charles Van den Ouwelant, M.S.C.

former Bishop of Surigao (Philippines)

1955.03.231955.06.21
BrazilArchbishop Antônio Ferreira de Macedo, C.SS.R.

former Coadjutor Archbishop of Aparecida (Brazil)

1955.04.201955.06.26
AngolaBishop Manuel António Pires

former Bishop of Kwito-Bié (Angola)

1955.03.071955.06.29
ParaguayBishop Julio Benigno Laschi González

former Auxiliary Bishop of Asunción (Paraguay)

1955.03.231955.06.29
South AfricaBishop Ernest Arthur Green

former Bishop of Port Elizabeth (South Africa)

1955.04.191955.06.29
BrazilArchbishop Vicente Ângelo José Marchetti Zioni

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Botucatu (Brazil)

1955.04.201955.06.29
BrazilBishop Luiz Felipe de Nadal

former Bishop of Uruguaiana (Brazil)

1955.05.091955.06.29
ChileBishop Antonio María Michelato Danese, O.S.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Aysén (Chile)

1955.05.081955.07.03
CroatiaBishop Andrija-Dusan Štambuk

former Auxiliary Bishop of Hvar–Brač–Vis (Croatia)

1955.05.141955.07.03
PeruBishop Angel Rodríguez Gamoneda, O.S.A.

former Vicar Apostolic of Iquitos (Peru)

1955.05.081955.07.10
GermanyArchbishop Josef Schneider

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bamberg (Germany)

1955.05.161955.07.13
ItalyCardinal Giuseppe Maria Sensi

former Cardinal-Priest of «Regina Apostolorum»

1955.05.211955.07.24
PhilippinesBishop Manuel Platon Del Rosario

former Bishop of Malolos (Philippines)

1955.05.241955.07.25
GermanyBishop Otto Spülbeck

former Bishop of Meißen (Germany)

1955.06.281955.07.25
CanadaBishop Thomas Joseph McCarthy

former Bishop of Saint Catharines (Canada)

1955.05.051955.08.01
VanuatuBishop Louis-Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Julliard, S.M.

former Bishop of Port-Vila (Vanuatu)

1955.01.011955.08.07
FranceBishop René-Fernand-Eugène Fourrey

former Bishop of Belley (France)

1955.06.021955.08.09
IndiaBishop Longinus Gabriel Pereira

former Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay (India)

1955.05.051955.08.11
MalaysiaArchbishop Dominic Vendargon

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

1955.02.251955.08.21
BrazilBishop Alonso Silveira de Mello, S.J.

former Bishop-Prelate of Diamantino (Brazil)

1955.06.131955.08.21
IndiaBishop Peter B. Pereira

former Bishop of Trivandrum (India)

1955.05.051955.08.24
MalaysiaBishop Francis Chan

former Bishop of Penang (Malaysia)

1955.02.251955.08.28
ColombiaCardinal José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Giovanni Crisostomo a Monte Sacro Alto

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Manizales (Colombia)

1955.06.141955.08.28
EthiopiaBishop Urbain-Marie Person, O.F.M. Cap.

former Vicar Apostolic of Harar (Ethiopia)

1955.07.031955.08.28
PeruBishop José Damase Laberge, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of San José de Amazonas (Peru)

1955.07.031955.09.08
PolandBishop Dominik Kaľata, S.J.

former Titular Bishop of Semta

1985.03.161955.09.09
PhilippinesBishop Gregorio Espiga e Infante, O.A.R.

former Vicar Apostolic of Palawan (Philippines)

1955.07.031955.09.10
LithuaniaBishop Petras Mazelis

former Bishop of Telšiai (Lithuania)

former Bishop-Prelate of Klaipėda (Lithuania)

1949.12.201955.09.11
LithuaniaArchbishop Julijonas Steponavicius

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Vilnius (Lithuania)

1955.05.221955.09.11
PolandCardinal Adam Kozłowiecki, S.J.

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Andrea al Quirinale

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Lusaka (Zambia)

1955.06.041955.09.11
ItalyBishop Antonio Ravagli

former Bishop of Modigliana (Italy)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Firenze (Italy)

1955.07.041955.09.11
South KoreaArchbishop John Baptist Sye Bong-kil (서정길 요한)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Daegu 대구 (South Korea)

1955.07.031955.09.15
IndonesiaBishop Jacques Henri Romeijn, M.S.F.

former Bishop of Samarinda (Indonesia)

1955.07.101955.09.15
SpainBishop José Bascuñana y López

former Bishop of Solsona (Spain)

1955.06.111955.09.18
ItalyBishop Siro Silvestri

former Bishop of La Spezia–Sarzana–Brugnato (Italy)

1955.07.211955.09.18
IndiaBishop Daniel Paul Arulswamy

former Bishop of Kumbakonam (India)

1955.05.051955.09.21
ScotlandBishop William Andrew Hart

former Bishop of Dunkeld (Scotland)

1955.05.271955.09.21
MexicoArchbishop Antonio López Aviña

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Durango (Mexico)

1955.06.211955.09.21
USABishop Bernard Joseph Topel

former Bishop of Spokane (USA)

1955.08.091955.09.21
PhilippinesArchbishop Patrick H. Cronin, S.S.C.M.E.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro (Philippines)

1955.05.241955.09.25
PanamaArchbishop Tomás Alberto Clavel Méndez

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Panamá (Panama)

1955.07.241955.09.25
KuwaitBishop Ubaldo Teofano Stella, O.C.D.

former Vicar Apostolic of Kuwait (Kuwait)

1954.12.021955.10.03
FranceArchbishop Jacques-Eugène-Louis Ménager

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Reims (France)

1955.06.231955.10.08
BrazilBishop Ladislau Paz, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Corumbá (Brazil)

1955.07.211955.10.12
IndiaCardinal Antony Padiyara (Syro-Malabar Rite)

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

former Major Archbishop of Ernakulam–Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars (India)

1955.07.031955.10.16
ChileArchbishop Eladio Vicuña Aránguiz

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Puerto Montt (Chile)

1955.08.281955.10.18
MozambiqueBishop Altino Ribeiro de Santana

former Bishop of Beira (Mozambique)

1955.07.271955.10.23
ItalyCardinal Pietro Parente

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Lorenzo in Lucina

former Archbishop of Perugia (Italy)

former Secretary of Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

1955.09.151955.10.23
PhilippinesBishop Epifanio Surban Belmonte

former Bishop of Dumaguete (Philippines)

1955.07.291955.10.24
AustraliaBishop John Joseph Rafferty

former Auxiliary Bishop of Perth (Australia)

1955.06.121955.10.26
EcuadorBishop Luis Alfredo Carvajal Rosales

former Bishop of Portoviejo (Ecuador)

1955.07.281955.10.28
ItalyBishop Giovanni Mocellini

former Bishop of Adria (Italy)

1955.08.261955.10.28
BrazilBishop Edmundo Luís Kunz

former Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre (Brazil)

1955.08.011955.10.30
CanadaBishop Laurent Morin

former Bishop of Prince Albert (Canada)

1955.09.081955.10.30
ItalyArchbishop Domenico Enrici

former Titular Archbishop of Ancusa

1955.09.171955.11.01
IndiaBishop Joseph Albert Rosario, M.S.F.S.

former Bishop of Amravati (India)

1955.05.081955.11.13
BrazilBishop Aristide Pirovano, P.I.M.E.

former Bishop-Prelate of Macapá (Brazil)

former Superior General of Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions

1955.07.211955.11.13
BrazilArchbishop Gérard-Paul-Louis-Marie de Milleville, C.S.Sp.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Conakry (Guinea)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Fortaleza (Brazil)

1955.05.081955.11.20
HaitiArchbishop François-Marie-Joseph Poirier

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Port-au-Prince (Haiti)

1955.07.031955.11.20
South SudanArchbishop Ireneus Wien Dud

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Juba (South Sudan)

1955.07.031955.11.20
South KoreaBishop Thomas F. Quinlan (구 토마), S.S.C.M.E.

former Bishop of Chunchon 춘천 (South Korea)

1955.09.201955.11.23
ItalyBishop Cesario D’Amato, O.S.B. Cas.

former Abbot Ordinary of San Paolo fuori le Mura (Italy)

former Vice-President of Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology

1955.11.071955.11.27
CameroonBishop Paul Etoga

former Bishop of Mbalmayo (Cameroon)

1955.07.031955.11.30
VietnamArchbishop Paul Nguyễn Văn Bình

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Thành-Phô Hô Chí Minh (Vietnam)

1955.09.201955.11.30
VietnamBishop Simon Hoà Nguyễn Văn Hiền

former Bishop of Đà Lat (Vietnam)

1955.09.201955.11.30
ChileArchbishop José Manuel Santos Ascarza, O.C.D.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Concepción (Chile)

1955.09.211955.12.04
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