Bishops Consecrated

in a.d. 1960

Bishops (136)ElectedConsecratedAscending
USAArchbishop Joseph Elias Tawil (Greek-Melkite Rite)

former Archbishop-Bishop of Newton of the Greek-Melkites (USA)

1959.08.291960.01.01
SyriaBishop Stéphane Bello (Chaldean Rite)

former Bishop of Aleppo of the Chaldeans (Syria)

1959.10.231960.01.10
MexicoBishop Samuel Ruiz García

former Bishop of San Cristóbal de Las Casas (Mexico)

1960.01.251960.01.25
FranceBishop Pierre-Marie-Henri-Baptiste Rougé

former Bishop of Nîmes (France)

1959.11.081960.02.02
PolandBishop Wincenty Urban

former Auxiliary Bishop of Wrocław (Poland)

1959.10.211960.02.07
ChileBishop Cesar Gerardo Vielmo Guerra, O.S.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Aysén (Chile)

1959.12.191960.02.07
USABishop James John Hogan

former Bishop of Altoona–Johnstown (USA)

1959.11.271960.02.25
USABishop Ernest John Primeau

former Bishop of Manchester (USA)

1959.11.271960.02.25
MexicoBishop José de la Soledad Torres y Castañeda

former Bishop of Ciudad Obregón (Mexico)

1959.11.281960.02.25
FranceArchbishop Marius-Félix-Antoine Maziers

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bordeaux (France)

1959.12.171960.02.25
GermanyBishop Alfons Karl Kempf

former Auxiliary Bishop of Würzburg (Germany)

1959.12.271960.02.25
ItalyBishop Renato Luisi

former Bishop of Nicastro (Italy)

1959.12.171960.02.28
IrelandArchbishop Thomas Morris

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Cashel (Ireland)

1959.12.211960.02.28
ChileArchbishop Manuel Sánchez Beguiristáin

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Concepción (Chile)

1959.12.171960.03.13
ItalyArchbishop Raffaele Pellecchia

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Sorrento (Italy)

former Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia (Italy)

1960.01.021960.03.13
USABishop Vincent Joseph Hines

former Bishop of Norwich (USA)

1959.11.271960.03.17
Papua New GuineaBishop Bernard Schilling, S.V.D.

former Vicar Apostolic of Goroka (Papua New Guinea)

1959.12.191960.03.19
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
ArgentinaBishop Victorio Manuel Bonamín, S.D.B.

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

1960.01.271960.03.20
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
VietnamBishop Dominique Ðinh Ðức Trụ

former Bishop of Thái Bính (Vietnam)

1960.03.051960.03.25
BrazilBishop Epaminondas José de Araújo

former Bishop of Palmeira dos Índios (Brazil)

1959.12.141960.03.27
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
FranceBishop Henri Gufflet

former Bishop of Limoges (France)

1959.12.161960.04.01
Papua New GuineaArchbishop George Elmer Bernarding, S.V.D.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Mount Hagen (Papua New Guinea)

1959.12.191960.04.21
VietnamBishop Pierre Nguyễn Huy Quang

former Bishop of Hung Hoá (Vietnam)

1960.03.051960.04.23
MadagascarArchbishop Gilbert Ramanantoanina, S.J.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Fianarantsoa (Madagascar)

1960.01.121960.04.24
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
ItalyBishop Alberto Scola

former Bishop of Norcia (Italy)

1960.03.281960.04.25
ChinaBishop Matthias Wu Guo-huan (吳國煥)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Hangzhou 杭州 (China)

(1958)1960.04.27
Papua New GuineaArchbishop Virgil Patrick Copas, M.S.C.

former Archbishop-Bishop of Kerema (Papua New Guinea)

1959.12.191960.04.27
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
ChadBishop Samuel-Louis-Marie-Antoine Gaumain, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Moundou (Chad)

1959.12.191960.04.28
ChinaBishop Zhang Ri-jin (張日進)

former Bishop of Yantai 煙臺 (China)

19601960.04.30
ChinaBishop Nicholas Shi Ling-ge (石麟閣)

former Bishop of Yanzhou 兗州 (China)

(1961)1960.05
MadagascarBishop François Vòllaro, O.SS.T.

former Bishop of Ambatondrazaka (Madagascar)

1959.12.191960.05.01
SpainBishop Jaime Flores Martin, H.S.O.D.

former Bishop of Barbastro (Spain)

1960.02.241960.05.01
FranceBishop Joseph-Marie-Goerges-Michel Goupy

former Bishop of Blois (France)

1960.02.061960.05.03
USABishop William Graham Connare

former Bishop of Greensburg (USA)

1960.02.231960.05.04
NigeriaBishop James Hagan, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Makurdi (Nigeria)

1948.03.201960.05.08
TanzaniaBishop Renatus Lwamosa Butibubage

former Bishop of Mwanza (Tanzania)

1959.12.191960.05.08
JapanBishop Dominic Yoshimatsu Noguchi (ドミニコ 野口由松)

former Bishop of Hiroshima 広島 (Japan)

1959.12.191960.05.08
TanzaniaBishop Joseph Kilasara, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Moshi (Tanzania)

1960.01.121960.05.08
ArgentinaBishop Leonardo Gregorio Gallardo Heredia

former Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de Cuyo (Argentina)

1960.02.131960.05.08
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
GhanaCardinal Peter Proeku Dery

former Cardinal-Deacon of S. Elena fuori Porta Prenestina

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tamale (Ghana)

1960.03.161960.05.08
MadagascarCardinal Jérôme Rakotomalala

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria Consolatrice al Tiburtino

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tananarive (Madagascar)

1960.04.041960.05.08
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
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
PakistanBishop Aloysius Louis Scheerer, O.P.

former Bishop of Multan (Pakistan)

1960.04.131960.05.08
USABishop Thomas Francis Maloney

former Auxiliary Bishop of Providence (USA)

1960.01.021960.05.11
FranceBishop Jean-Pierre-Georges Dozolme

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

1960.02.081960.05.11
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
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
BrazilArchbishop José d’Angelo Neto

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Pouso Alegre (Brazil)

1960.03.121960.05.26
Costa RicaArchbishop Carlos Humberto Rodríguez Quirós

former Metropolitan Archbishop of San José (Costa Rica)

1960.05.051960.05.26
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
PolandBishop Ignacy Ludwik Jeż

former Bishop of Koszalin–Kołobrzeg (Poland)

1960.04.201960.06.05
SpainBishop Anastasio Granados García

former Bishop of Palencia (Spain)

1960.04.301960.06.05
FranceArchbishop André Pailler

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Rouen (France)

1960.04.071960.06.14
ItalyBishop Umberto Luciano Altomare

former Bishop of Policastro (Italy)

former Bishop of Diano–Teggiano (Italy)

1960.03.311960.06.19
ColombiaArchbishop Héctor Rueda Hernández

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Medellín (Colombia)

1960.05.061960.06.19
MexicoArchbishop Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez

former Metropolitan Archbishop of San Luis Potosí (Mexico)

1960.04.201960.06.21
ScotlandBishop Stephen McGill, P.S.S.

former Bishop of Paisley (Scotland)

1960.04.041960.06.22
ItalyBishop Antonio Fustella

former Bishop of Saluzzo (Italy)

1960.05.131960.06.25
BrazilBishop Arturo Gerrit João Hermanus Maria Horsthuis, A.A.

former Bishop of Jales (Brazil)

1960.02.131960.06.29
SpainArchbishop José María Cirarda Lachiondo

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Pamplona y Tudela (Spain)

1960.04.091960.06.29
ItalyBishop Bruno Pelaia

former Bishop of Tricarico (Italy)

1960.04.191960.06.29
ItalyBishop Macario Tinti

former Bishop of Matelica (Italy)

former Bishop of Fabriano (Italy)

1960.05.171960.06.29
BrazilBishop Aniger de Francisco de Maria Melillo

former Bishop of Piracicaba (Brazil)

1960.05.291960.06.29
ColombiaBishop Jorge Alberto Giraldo Restrepo, C.I.M.

former Bishop of Pasto (Colombia)

1960.05.131960.07.10
BrazilBishop José Melhado Campos

former Bishop of Sorocaba (Brazil)

1960.05.291960.07.17
CanadaBishop William Edward Power

former Bishop of Antigonish (Canada)

1960.05.121960.07.20
BrazilBishop Clemente José Carlos de Gouvea Isnard, O.S.B.

former Bishop of Nova Friburgo (Brazil)

1960.04.231960.07.25
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
VenezuelaArchbishop Angel Pérez Cisneros

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Mérida (Venezuela)

1960.05.231960.07.25
BrazilBishop David Picão

former Bishop of Santos (Brazil)

1960.05.141960.07.31
ItalyBishop Salvatore Sorrentino

former Bishop of Pozzuoli (Italy)

1960.06.161960.08.01
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
ArgentinaBishop Vicente Alfredo Aducci

former Auxiliary Bishop of Mercedes (Argentina)

1960.05.281960.08.14
UruguayBishop Orestes Santiago Nuti Sanguinetti, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Canelones (Uruguay)

1960.07.091960.08.21
BrazilArchbishop Armando Círio, O.S.J.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Cascavel (Brazil)

1960.05.141960.08.28
RomaniaBishop Vasile Cristea, A.A.

former Titular Bishop of Lebedus

1960.07.021960.09.08
FranceBishop Stéphane-Émile-Alfred Desmazières

former Bishop of Beauvais (France)

1960.06.231960.09.14
PolandBishop Julian Groblicki

former Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków (Poland)

1960.05.251960.09.18
TanzaniaArchbishop Marko Mihayo

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tabora (Tanzania)

1960.06.211960.09.18
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
BrazilBishop José Brandão de Castro, C.SS.R.

former Bishop of Propriá (Brazil)

1960.06.251960.09.21
UruguayBishop Humberto Tonna Zanotta

former Bishop of Florida (Uruguay)

1960.07.051960.09.24
New CaledoniaArchbishop Eugène Klein, M.S.C.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Nouméa (New Caledonia)

1960.06.141960.09.25
ScotlandBishop James Ward

former Auxiliary Bishop of Glasgow (Scotland)

1960.07.021960.09.28
U.S. Virgin IslandsBishop Edward John Harper, C.SS.R.

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

1960.07.231960.10.06
BangladeshArchbishop Theotonius Amal Ganguly, C.S.C.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Dacca (Bangladesh)

1960.09.031960.10.07
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
MadagascarBishop Joseph Zimmermann, M.S.F.

former Bishop of Morombe (Madagascar)

1960.05.281960.10.23
El SalvadorArchbishop Arturo Rivera Damas, S.D.B.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of San Salvador (El Salvador)

1960.07.301960.10.23
ItalyArchbishop Giuseppe Lenotti

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Foggia (Italy)

former Bishop of Troia (Italy)

former Bishop of Bovino (Italy)

1960.09.081960.10.23
ItalyCardinal Egano Righi-Lambertini

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Via

1960.07.091960.10.28
Puerto RicoBishop Alfredo José Isaac Cecilio Francesco Méndez-Gonzalez, C.S.C.

former Bishop of Arecibo (Puerto Rico)

1960.07.231960.10.28
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
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
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
ItalyArchbishop Giuseppe Mojoli

former Titular Archbishop of Larissa in Thessalia

1960.09.271960.10.28
TurkiyeArchbishop Serapione Uluhogian, C.A.M. (Armenian Rite)

former Abbot General of Congregation of the Mechitarists of Venice

1960.07.221960.10.30
HungaryBishop László Rózsavölgyi

former Titular Bishop of Lystra

19601960.11.05
ArgentinaBishop Benito Epifanio Rodríguez

former Auxiliary Bishop of Rosario (Argentina)

1960.09.231960.11.06
VietnamBishop Joseph-Marie Phạm Năng Tĩnh

former Bishop of Bùi Chu (Vietnam)

1960.03.051960.11.10
KenyaBishop Joseph Brendan Houlihan, S.P.S.

former Bishop of Eldoret (Kenya)

1959.10.131960.11.20
FranceArchbishop André-Georges Bontems

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

1960.09.131960.11.30
BulgariaBishop Simeon Kokov (Kokoff), O.F.M. Cap.

former Titular Bishop of Batnæ

former Apostolic Administrator of Sofia–Plovdiv (Bulgaria)

1958.04.201960.12.04
ItalyCardinal Giovanni Colombo

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

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Milano (Italy)

1960.10.251960.12.07
FranceBishop Garabed Amadouni (Armenian Rite)

former Vicar Apostolic of France of the Armenians (France)

1960.07.221960.12.18
USABishop Aloysius John Wycislo

former Bishop of Green Bay (USA)

1960.10.171960.12.21
USABishop Cletus Francis O’Donnell

former Bishop of Madison (USA)

1960.10.261960.12.21
EnglandBishop Thomas Holland

former Bishop of Salford (England)

1960.10.311960.12.21
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
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

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