Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1960

Newly Elected Bishops (142)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
ChinaBishop Fang Zhi-gang (方志剛)

former Bishop of Yongjia 永嘉 (China)

(1960)1960.04.27
ChinaBishop Shu Qi-shui (舒其誰)

former Bishop of Ningbo 寧波 (China)

(1960)1960.04.27
ChinaBishop Aloysius Zhang Jia-shu (張家樹), S.J.

former Bishop of Shanghai 上海 (China)

(1960)1960.04.27
ChinaBishop Zhang Ri-jin (張日進)

former Bishop of Yantai 煙臺 (China)

19601960.04.30
HungaryBishop László Rózsavölgyi

former Titular Bishop of Lystra

19601960.11.05
ItalyArchbishop Raffaele Pellecchia

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Sorrento (Italy)

former Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia (Italy)

1960.01.021960.03.13
USABishop Marion Francis Forst

former Bishop of Dodge City (USA)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Kansas City (USA)

1960.01.021960.03.24
USABishop James William Malone

former Bishop of Youngstown (USA)

1960.01.021960.03.24
USABishop Thomas Francis Maloney

former Auxiliary Bishop of Providence (USA)

1960.01.021960.05.11
MadagascarArchbishop Gilbert Ramanantoanina, S.J.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Fianarantsoa (Madagascar)

1960.01.121960.04.24
TanzaniaBishop Joseph Kilasara, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Moshi (Tanzania)

1960.01.121960.05.08
CubaBishop Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Rozas

former Bishop of Pinar del Río (Cuba)

1960.01.161960.03.27
ItalyBishop Nicola Cavanna

former Bishop of Asti (Italy)

1960.01.201960.03.27
MexicoBishop Samuel Ruiz García

former Bishop of San Cristóbal de Las Casas (Mexico)

1960.01.251960.01.25
ArgentinaBishop Victorio Manuel Bonamín, S.D.B.

former Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Vicariate of Argentina (Argentina)

1960.01.271960.03.20
FranceBishop Joseph-Marie-Goerges-Michel Goupy

former Bishop of Blois (France)

1960.02.061960.05.03
FranceBishop Jean-Pierre-Georges Dozolme

former Bishop of Le Puy-en-Velay (France)

1960.02.081960.05.11
ItalyCardinal Corrado Bafile

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Portico pro hac vice Title

former Prefect of Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints

1960.02.131960.03.19
ArgentinaArchbishop Moisés Julio Blanchoud

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Salta (Argentina)

1960.02.131960.04.24
BrazilBishop Belchior Joaquim da Silva Neto, C.M.

former Bishop of Luz (Brazil)

1960.02.131960.04.24
ArgentinaBishop Leonardo Gregorio Gallardo Heredia

former Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de Cuyo (Argentina)

1960.02.131960.05.08
BrazilBishop Arturo Gerrit João Hermanus Maria Horsthuis, A.A.

former Bishop of Jales (Brazil)

1960.02.131960.06.29
USABishop William Graham Connare

former Bishop of Greensburg (USA)

1960.02.231960.05.04
SpainBishop Jaime Flores Martin, H.S.O.D.

former Bishop of Barbastro (Spain)

1960.02.241960.05.01
Congo-KinshasaBishop Joseph Mikararanga Busimba

former Bishop of Goma (Congo-Kinshasa)

1960.03.011960.05.08
Solomon IslandsBishop Eusebius John Crawford, O.P.

former Bishop of Gizo (Solomon Islands)

1960.03.011960.05.08
AustraliaBishop Thomas William Muldoon

former Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney (Australia)

1960.03.011960.05.08
VietnamBishop Dominique Ðinh Ðức Trụ

former Bishop of Thái Bính (Vietnam)

1960.03.051960.03.25
VietnamBishop Pierre Nguyễn Huy Quang

former Bishop of Hung Hoá (Vietnam)

1960.03.051960.04.23
VietnamBishop Joseph-Marie Phạm Năng Tĩnh

former Bishop of Bùi Chu (Vietnam)

1960.03.051960.11.10
VietnamBishop Vincent de Paul Phạm Văn Dụ

former Bishop of Lang Són et Cao Bang (Vietnam)

1960.03.051979.03.01
BrazilArchbishop José d’Angelo Neto

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Pouso Alegre (Brazil)

1960.03.121960.05.26
GhanaCardinal Peter Proeku Dery

former Cardinal-Deacon of S. Elena fuori Porta Prenestina

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tamale (Ghana)

1960.03.161960.05.08
ItalyBishop Alberto Scola

former Bishop of Norcia (Italy)

1960.03.281960.04.25
ItalyArchbishop Albino Mensa

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Vercelli (Italy)

1960.03.281960.05.22
USABishop George Albert Hammes

former Bishop of Superior (USA)

1960.03.281960.05.24
SpainBishop Francisco Planas Muntaner

former Bishop of Ibiza (Spain)

1960.03.281960.05.29
FranceBishop Maurice-Jean-Fernand-Alexis Pourchet

former Bishop of Saint-Flour (France)

1960.03.281960.05.31
CubaBishop Eduardo Tomás Boza Masvidal

former Auxiliary Bishop of La Habana (Cuba)

1960.03.311960.05.15
CubaBishop José Maximino Eusebio Domínguez y Rodríguez

former Bishop of Matanzas (Cuba)

1960.03.311960.05.15
ItalyBishop Umberto Luciano Altomare

former Bishop of Policastro (Italy)

former Bishop of Diano–Teggiano (Italy)

1960.03.311960.06.19
MadagascarCardinal Jérôme Rakotomalala

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria Consolatrice al Tiburtino

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tananarive (Madagascar)

1960.04.041960.05.08
ScotlandBishop Stephen McGill, P.S.S.

former Bishop of Paisley (Scotland)

1960.04.041960.06.22
Cote d’IvoireCardinal Bernard Yago

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Crisogono

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire)

1960.04.051960.05.08
MalaysiaBishop Anthony Denis Galvin, M.H.M.

former Bishop of Miri (Malaysia)

1960.04.051960.05.08
MadagascarBishop François Xavier Rajaonarivo

former Bishop of Miarinarivo (Madagascar)

1960.04.051960.05.08
FranceArchbishop André Pailler

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Rouen (France)

1960.04.071960.06.14
Burkina FasoCardinal Paul Zoungrana, M. Afr.

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Camillo de Lellis

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

1960.04.081960.05.08
SpainArchbishop José María Cirarda Lachiondo

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Pamplona y Tudela (Spain)

1960.04.091960.06.29
PakistanBishop Aloysius Louis Scheerer, O.P.

former Bishop of Multan (Pakistan)

1960.04.131960.05.08
ItalyBishop Bruno Pelaia

former Bishop of Tricarico (Italy)

1960.04.191960.06.29
PolandBishop Ignacy Ludwik Jeż

former Bishop of Koszalin–Kołobrzeg (Poland)

1960.04.201960.06.05
MexicoArchbishop Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez

former Metropolitan Archbishop of San Luis Potosí (Mexico)

1960.04.201960.06.21
BrazilBishop Clemente José Carlos de Gouvea Isnard, O.S.B.

former Bishop of Nova Friburgo (Brazil)

1960.04.231960.07.25
SpainBishop Anastasio Granados García

former Bishop of Palencia (Spain)

1960.04.301960.06.05
TaiwanBishop Paul Cheng Shi-guang (Ch’eng Shih-kuang) (成世光)

former Bishop of Tainan 臺南 (Taiwan)

1960.05.031960.07.25
ColombiaBishop Eloy Tato Losada, I.E.M.E.

former Bishop of Magangué (Colombia)

1960.05.031960.07.25
Costa RicaArchbishop Carlos Humberto Rodríguez Quirós

former Metropolitan Archbishop of San José (Costa Rica)

1960.05.051960.05.26
ColombiaArchbishop Héctor Rueda Hernández

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Medellín (Colombia)

1960.05.061960.06.19
CanadaBishop William Edward Power

former Bishop of Antigonish (Canada)

1960.05.121960.07.20
ItalyBishop Antonio Fustella

former Bishop of Saluzzo (Italy)

1960.05.131960.06.25
ColombiaBishop Jorge Alberto Giraldo Restrepo, C.I.M.

former Bishop of Pasto (Colombia)

1960.05.131960.07.10
BrazilBishop David Picão

former Bishop of Santos (Brazil)

1960.05.141960.07.31
BrazilArchbishop Armando Círio, O.S.J.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Cascavel (Brazil)

1960.05.141960.08.28
ItalyBishop Macario Tinti

former Bishop of Matelica (Italy)

former Bishop of Fabriano (Italy)

1960.05.171960.06.29
VenezuelaArchbishop Angel Pérez Cisneros

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Mérida (Venezuela)

1960.05.231960.07.25
PolandBishop Julian Groblicki

former Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków (Poland)

1960.05.251960.09.18
ArgentinaBishop Vicente Alfredo Aducci

former Auxiliary Bishop of Mercedes (Argentina)

1960.05.281960.08.14
MadagascarBishop Joseph Zimmermann, M.S.F.

former Bishop of Morombe (Madagascar)

1960.05.281960.10.23
BrazilBishop Aniger de Francisco de Maria Melillo

former Bishop of Piracicaba (Brazil)

1960.05.291960.06.29
BrazilBishop José Melhado Campos

former Bishop of Sorocaba (Brazil)

1960.05.291960.07.17
BrazilBishop Gentil Diniz Barreto

former Bishop of Mossoró (Brazil)

1960.06.111960.09.21
Papua New GuineaBishop Leo Lemay, S.M.

former Bishop of Bougainville (Papua New Guinea)

1960.06.141960.09.21
New CaledoniaArchbishop Eugène Klein, M.S.C.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Nouméa (New Caledonia)

1960.06.141960.09.25
ItalyBishop Salvatore Sorrentino

former Bishop of Pozzuoli (Italy)

1960.06.161960.08.01
TanzaniaArchbishop Marko Mihayo

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tabora (Tanzania)

1960.06.211960.09.18
FranceBishop Stéphane-Émile-Alfred Desmazières

former Bishop of Beauvais (France)

1960.06.231960.09.14
BrazilBishop José Brandão de Castro, C.SS.R.

former Bishop of Propriá (Brazil)

1960.06.251960.09.21
LithuaniaBishop Czesław Sipović, M.I.C.

former Superior General of Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Marian Fathers)

1960.07.021960.08.04
RomaniaBishop Vasile Cristea, A.A.

former Titular Bishop of Lebedus

1960.07.021960.09.08
ScotlandBishop James Ward

former Auxiliary Bishop of Glasgow (Scotland)

1960.07.021960.09.28
UruguayBishop Humberto Tonna Zanotta

former Bishop of Florida (Uruguay)

1960.07.051960.09.24
UruguayBishop Orestes Santiago Nuti Sanguinetti, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Canelones (Uruguay)

1960.07.091960.08.21
ItalyCardinal Egano Righi-Lambertini

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Via

1960.07.091960.10.28
TurkiyeArchbishop Serapione Uluhogian, C.A.M. (Armenian Rite)

former Abbot General of Congregation of the Mechitarists of Venice

1960.07.221960.10.30
FranceBishop Garabed Amadouni (Armenian Rite)

former Vicar Apostolic of France of the Armenians (France)

1960.07.221960.12.18
FranceBishop Vladimiro Malanczuk, C.SS.R. (Ukrainian Rite)

former Apostolic Exarch of France of the Ukrainians (France)

1960.07.221961.02.19
U.S. Virgin IslandsBishop Edward John Harper, C.SS.R.

former Bishop of Saint Thomas (U.S. Virgin Islands)

1960.07.231960.10.06
Puerto RicoCardinal Luis Aponte Martínez

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria Madre della Provvidenza a Monte Verde

former Metropolitan Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)

1960.07.231960.10.12
Puerto RicoBishop Alfredo José Isaac Cecilio Francesco Méndez-Gonzalez, C.S.C.

former Bishop of Arecibo (Puerto Rico)

1960.07.231960.10.28
El SalvadorArchbishop Arturo Rivera Damas, S.D.B.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of San Salvador (El Salvador)

1960.07.301960.10.23
ParaguayArchbishop Ismael Blas Rolón Silvero, S.D.B.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Asunción (Paraguay)

1960.08.021966.01.23
USAArchbishop Francis James Furey

former Metropolitan Archbishop of San Antonio (USA)

1960.08.171960.12.22
USABishop Cletus Joseph Benjamin

former Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia (USA)

1960.08.171960.12.22
BrazilBishop Carlos Schmitt, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Dourados (Brazil)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Lages (Brazil)

1960.08.291960.10.28
ItalyBishop Francesco Bertoglio

former Auxiliary Bishop of Milano (Italy)

1960.09.011960.10.28
BangladeshArchbishop Theotonius Amal Ganguly, C.S.C.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Dacca (Bangladesh)

1960.09.031960.10.07
ItalyCardinal Pericle Felici

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Apollinare alle Terme Neroniane-Alessandrine pro hac vice Title

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

former Prefect of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura

former President of Pontifical Commission for the Interpretation of the Decrees of the Second Vatican Council

1960.09.031960.10.28
ItalyCardinal Dino Staffa

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria sopra Minerva

former Prefect of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura

1960.09.031960.10.28
ItalyArchbishop Giuseppe Lenotti

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Foggia (Italy)

former Bishop of Troia (Italy)

former Bishop of Bovino (Italy)

1960.09.081960.10.23
FranceArchbishop André-Georges Bontems

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Chambéry–Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne–Tarentaise (France)

1960.09.131960.11.30
USABishop Edward Ernest Swanstrom

former Auxiliary Bishop of New York (USA)

1960.09.141960.10.28
USAArchbishop Joseph Francis McGeough

former Titular Archbishop of Hemesa

1960.09.171960.10.28
ArgentinaBishop Benito Epifanio Rodríguez

former Auxiliary Bishop of Rosario (Argentina)

1960.09.231960.11.06
ItalyArchbishop Giuseppe Mojoli

former Titular Archbishop of Larissa in Thessalia

1960.09.271960.10.28
USABishop Aloysius John Wycislo

former Bishop of Green Bay (USA)

1960.10.171960.12.21
GreeceArchbishop Ioánnis Perrís

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Naxos–Andros–Tinos–Mykonos (Greece)

1960.10.241961.01.12
IraqArchbishop Emmanuel Daddi (Chaldean Rite)

former Archbishop of Mossul of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

1960.10.241961.03.19
ItalyCardinal Giovanni Colombo

former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Silvestro e Martino ai Monti

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Milano (Italy)

1960.10.251960.12.07
USABishop Cletus Francis O’Donnell

former Bishop of Madison (USA)

1960.10.261960.12.21
PolandBishop Stefan Barela

former Bishop of Częstochowa (Poland)

1960.10.261961.01.08
PolandBishop Walenty Wójcik

former Auxiliary Bishop of Sandomierz–Radom (Poland)

1960.10.261961.02.02
PolandBishop Edward Jan Muszynski

former Auxiliary Bishop of Kielce (Poland)

1960.10.261961.08.27
EnglandBishop Thomas Holland

former Bishop of Salford (England)

1960.10.311960.12.21
UruguayArchbishop Carlos Parteli Keller

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Montevideo (Uruguay)

1960.11.031960.12.27
BelgiumBishop Albert Louis Descamps

former Ordinary of Ordinariaat voor buitenlandse studenten in België (Belgium)

former Secretary of Pontifical Biblical Commission

1960.11.031960.12.27
USABishop David Monas Maloney

former Bishop of Wichita (USA)

1960.11.051961.01.04
GermanyBishop Karl Gnädinger

former Auxiliary Bishop of Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany)

1960.11.051961.01.12
AustraliaArchbishop Francis Roberts Rush

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Brisbane (Australia)

1960.11.071961.02.08
BrazilBishop Geraldo Claudio Luiz Micheletto Pellanda, C.P.

former Bishop of Ponta Grossa (Brazil)

1960.11.091961.02.11
CanadaBishop Paul-Émile Charbonneau

former Bishop of Hull (Canada)

1960.11.151961.01.18
CanadaBishop Joseph Raymond Windle

former Bishop of Pembroke (Canada)

1960.11.151961.01.18
CanadaArchbishop Jean-Marie Fortier

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Sherbrooke (Canada)

1960.11.151961.01.23
Congo-KinshasaBishop Simon N’Zita Wa Ne Malanda

former Bishop of Matadi (Congo-Kinshasa)

1960.11.151961.02.12
BoliviaBishop Thomas Patrick Collins, M.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Pando (Bolivia)

1960.11.151961.03.07
GabonBishop François Ndong

former Bishop of Oyem (Gabon)

1960.11.151961.07.02
VietnamArchbishop Philippe Nguyễn Kim Ðiền, P.F.J.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Huê (Vietnam)

1960.11.241961.01.22
VietnamBishop Michel Nguyễn Khắc Ngữ

former Bishop of Long Xuyên (Vietnam)

1960.11.241961.01.22
VietnamBishop Antoine Nguyễn Văn Thiện

former Bishop of Vinh Long (Vietnam)

1960.11.241961.01.22
VietnamBishop Joseph Trần Văn Thiện

former Bishop of My Tho (Vietnam)

1960.11.241961.01.22
BrazilBishop Elias Coueter

former Bishop of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo of the Greek-Melkites (Brazil)

1960.11.251961.02.05
AlgeriaBishop Gaston-Marie Jacquier

former Auxiliary Bishop of Alger–Iulia Caesarea (Algeria)

1960.12.041961.03.06
ItalyArchbishop Valentino Vailati

former Archbishop of Manfredonia–Vieste (Italy)

1960.12.081961.03.06
BrazilBishop José Costa Campos

former Bishop of Divinópolis (Brazil)

1960.12.091961.02.24
BoliviaArchbishop Gennaro Maria Prata Vuolo, S.D.B.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Cochabamba (Bolivia)

1960.12.091961.04.09
ArgentinaBlessed Bishop Enrique Ángel Angelelli Carletti

former Bishop of La Rioja (Argentina)

1960.12.121961.03.12
LiberiaArchbishop Francis Carroll, S.M.A.

former Vicar Apostolic of Monrovia (Liberia)

1960.12.201961.05.21
ItalyBishop Tito Mancini

former Auxiliary Bishop of Ostia (Italy)

1960.12.221961.01.29
BrazilBishop Quirino Adolfo Schmitz, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Teófilo Otoni (Brazil)

1960.12.221961.04.25
BelgiumBishop Leo-Karel Jozef De Kesel

former Auxiliary Bishop of Gent (Belgium)

1960.12.281961.02.24
UruguayBishop Enrico Lorenzo Cabrera Urdangarin

former Bishop of Mercedes (Uruguay)

1960.12.311961.02.11
SpainCardinal Marcelo González Martín

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Agostino

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Toledo (Spain)

1960.12.311961.03.05

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