Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1964

Newly Elected Bishops (117)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
UkraineBishop Josaphat Josyf Fedoryk, O.S.B.M. (Ukrainian Rite)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk of the Ukrainians (Ukraine)

19641964
PalestineBishop Hanna Kaldany

former Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem (Palestine)

1964.01.041964.02.09
USAArchbishop Daniel Eugene Sheehan

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Omaha (USA)

1964.01.041964.03.19
FranceCardinal Jacques Martin

former Cardinal-Deacon of S. Cuore di Cristo Re

former Prefect of Prefecture of the Papal Household

1964.01.051964.02.11
EcuadorBishop José Gabriel Diaz Cueva

former Bishop of Azogues (Ecuador)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador)

1964.01.131964.03.03
MexicoBishop Felipe de Jesús Cueto González, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Tlalnepantla (Mexico)

1964.01.131964.04.01
USABishop Charles Borromeo McLaughlin

former Bishop of Saint Petersburg (USA)

1964.01.131964.04.15
KenyaBishop Joannes de Reeper, M.H.M.

former Bishop of Kisumu (Kenya)

1964.01.161964.03.19
Central African RepublicBishop Léon-Toussaint-Jean-Clément Chambon, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Bossangoa (Central African Republic)

1964.01.161964.05.01
ChadBishop Georges-Hilaire Dupont, O.M.I.

former Bishop of Pala (Chad)

1964.01.161964.05.01
ItalyArchbishop Enea Selis

former Archbishop of Cosenza (Italy)

1964.01.181964.03.19
PolandBishop Bogdan Marian Wincenty Sikorski

former Bishop of Płock (Poland)

1964.01.211964.04.05
EnglandBishop William Gordon Wheeler

former Bishop of Leeds (England)

1964.01.291964.03.19
EcuadorCardinal Pablo Muñoz Vega, S.J.

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Roberto Bellarmino

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Quito (Ecuador)

1964.02.071964.03.19
BeninBishop Patient Redois, S.M.A.

former Bishop of Natitingou (Benin)

1964.02.101964.05.07
Central African RepublicBishop Antoine Marie Maanicus, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Bangassou (Central African Republic)

1964.02.101964.05.11
MadagascarArchbishop Albert Joseph Tsiahoana

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Antsiranana (Madagascar)

1964.02.101964.06.14
Cook IslandsBishop Hendrick Joseph Cornelius Maria de Cocq, SS.CC.

former Bishop of Rarotonga (Cook Islands)

1964.02.101964.06.28
ItalyArchbishop Bruno Frattegiani

former Archbishop of Camerino–San Severino Marche (Italy)

1964.02.141964.04.19
CroatiaCardinal Franjo Kuharić

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Girolamo dei Croati

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Zagreb (Croatia)

1964.02.151964.05.03
PortugalArchbishop António de Castro Xavier Monteiro

former Archbishop-Bishop of Lamego (Portugal)

1964.02.221964.05.03
BrazilBishop Waldyr Calheiros Novaes

former Bishop of Barra do Piraí–Volta Redonda (Brazil)

1964.02.251964.05.01
BrazilBishop José Alberto Lopes de Castro Pinto

former Bishop of Guaxupé (Brazil)

1964.02.251964.05.01
BrazilBishop Alberto Trevisan, S.A.C.

former Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

1964.02.251964.05.17
USAArchbishop Thomas Andrew Donnellan

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Atlanta (USA)

1964.02.281964.04.09
USABishop Vincent Martin Leonard

former Bishop of Pittsburgh (USA)

1964.02.281964.04.21
PeruBishop Juan Conway McNabb, O.S.A.

former Bishop of Chulucanas (Peru)

1964.03.041967.06.17
ItalyBishop Carlo Colombo

former Auxiliary Bishop of Milano (Italy)

1964.03.071964.04.25
NigeriaBishop Lucas Olu Chukwuka Nwaezeapu

former Bishop of Warri (Nigeria)

1964.03.101964.05.24
ItalyArchbishop Bartolomeo Santo Quadri

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Modena–Nonantola (Italy)

1964.03.171964.05.07
CubaBishop Fernando Azcárate y Freyre de Andrade, S.J.

former Auxiliary Bishop of La Habana (Cuba)

1964.03.171964.05.17
CubaBishop Alfredo Ignacio Llaguno Canals

former Auxiliary Bishop of La Habana (Cuba)

1964.03.171964.05.17
USABishop William Joseph McDonald

former Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco (USA)

1964.03.171964.05.19
USABishop John Selby Spence

former Auxiliary Bishop of Washington (USA)

1964.03.171964.05.19
ChileCardinal Carlos Oviedo Cavada, O. de M.

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria della Scala pro hac vice Title

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Santiago (Chile)

1964.03.211964.06.07
ChileBishop Luis Yáñez Ruiz Tagle

former Bishop of Los Ángeles (Chile)

1964.03.211964.06.21
ArgentinaBlessed Cardinal Eduardo Francisco Pironio

former Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina–Poggio Mirteto

former President of Pontifical Council for the Laity

1964.03.241964.05.31
BrazilArchbishop Romeu Alberti

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Ribeirão Preto (Brazil)

1964.03.251964.05.24
Congo-KinshasaArchbishop Pierre Wijnants, M.S.C.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Mbandaka–Bikoro (Congo-Kinshasa)

1964.04.211964.06.29
CanadaBishop Jules Leguerrier, O.M.I.

former Bishop of Moosonee (Canada)

1964.04.211964.06.29
EcuadorBishop Jorge Francisco Mosquera Barreiro, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Zamora (Ecuador)

1964.04.211964.07.12
USABishop George Theodore Boileau, S.J.

former Coadjutor Bishop of Fairbanks (USA)

1964.04.211964.07.31
FinlandBishop Paul Verschuren, S.C.I.

former Bishop of Helsinki (Finland)

1964.04.211964.08.16
BrazilBishop Mário Roberto Emmett Anglim, C.SS.R.

former Bishop-Prelate of Coari (Brazil)

1964.04.241966.06.02
BrazilBishop Luiz Roberto Gomes de Arruda, T.O.R.

former Bishop-Prelate of Guajará-Mirim (Brazil)

1964.04.241966.08.15
USABishop Pius Anthony Benincasa

former Auxiliary Bishop of Buffalo (USA)

1964.05.081964.06.29
SlovakiaBishop Pavol Mária Hnilica, S.J.

former Titular Bishop of Rusadus

1964.05.131951.01.02
FranceBishop Adrien-Edmond-Maurice Gand

former Bishop of Lille (France)

1964.05.191964.07.02
USABishop Stanislaus Joseph Brzana

former Bishop of Ogdensburg (USA)

1964.05.241964.06.29
BelgiumBishop Leonce Albert van Peteghem

former Bishop of Gent (Belgium)

1964.05.281964.06.29
UruguayBishop Edmondo Quaglia Martínez

former Bishop of Minas (Uruguay)

1964.05.291964.07.25
NetherlandsCardinal Johannes Willebrands

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Sebastiano alle Catacombe

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Utrecht (Netherlands)

former Camerlengo of College of Cardinals

1964.06.041964.06.28
ItalyBishop Ernesto Camagni

former Chancellor of Apostolic Briefs of Secretariat of State

1964.06.041964.06.28
ItalyBishop Giovanni Fallani

former President of Permanent Commission for the Protection of Historical and Artistic Monuments of the Holy See

1964.06.041964.06.28
LuxembourgBishop Pierre Salmon, O.S.B.

former Abbot of Abbey of St. Jerome for the Revision and Emendation of the Vulgate

1964.06.041964.06.28
PanamaBishop Daniel Enrique Núñez Núñez

former Bishop of David (Panama)

1964.06.041964.08.02
ColombiaBishop Julio Franco Arango

former Bishop of Duitama (Colombia)

1964.06.041964.08.15
CanadaBishop Adrien André Maria Cimichella, O.S.M.

former Auxiliary Bishop of Montréal (Canada)

1964.06.051964.07.16
SpainArchbishop Maximino Romero de Lema

former Bishop of Ávila (Spain)

former Secretary of Congregation for Clergy

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

1964.06.151964.07.19
SpainBishop José Guerra Campos

former Bishop of Cuenca (Spain)

1964.06.151964.07.26
AustraliaBishop Douglas Joseph Warren

former Bishop of Wilcannia–Forbes (Australia)

1964.06.161964.07.27
NigeriaBishop Edward Thaddeus Lawton, O.P.

former Bishop of Sokoto (Nigeria)

1964.06.161964.08.15
CameroonBishop Albert Ndongmo

former Bishop of Nkongsamba (Cameroon)

1964.06.161964.08.16
Burkina FasoBishop Marcel Chauvin, C.SS.R.

former Bishop of Fada N’Gourma (Burkina Faso)

1964.06.161964.12.20
ItalyArchbishop Angelo Palmas

former Titular Archbishop of Vibiana

1964.06.171964.06.28
BrazilBishop Adriano Jaime Miriam Veigle, T.O.R.

former Bishop-Prelate of Borba (Brazil)

1964.06.181966.06.09
FranceBishop Jean-Marie-Clément Badré

former Bishop of Bayeux (France)

1964.06.221964.09.03
ItalyBishop Giovanni Bianchi

former Bishop of Pescia (Italy)

1964.06.221964.09.08
ArgentinaBishop Eugenio Santiago Peyrou, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Comodoro Rivadavia (Argentina)

1964.06.241964.08.16
NigeriaBishop Auguste Delisle, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Lokoja (Nigeria)

1964.07.061964.08.24
IndiaArchbishop Hubert D’Rosario, S.D.B.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Shillong (India)

1964.07.061964.09.06
SpainBishop Mauro Rubio Repullés

former Bishop of Salamanca (Spain)

1964.07.071964.08.15
PortugalBishop Alberto Cosme do Amaral

former Bishop of Leiria–Fátima (Portugal)

1964.07.081964.08.23
PortugalArchbishop Eurico Dias Nogueira

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Braga (Portugal)

1964.07.101964.12.06
New ZealandBishop Brian Patrick Ashby

former Bishop of Christchurch (New Zealand)

1964.07.111964.08.05
SloveniaBishop Janez Jenko

former Bishop of Koper (Slovenia)

1964.07.171964.09.06
ItalyArchbishop Luigi Bellotti

former Titular Archbishop of Voncariana

1964.07.181964.10.04
BrazilBishop Pedro Paulo Koop, M.S.C.

former Bishop of Lins (Brazil)

1964.07.271964.09.08
CanadaArchbishop Joseph-Aurèle Plourde

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Ottawa (Canada)

1964.07.301964.08.26
CanadaArchbishop Antoine Hacault

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Saint-Boniface (Canada)

1964.07.301964.09.08
BrazilBishop Francisco Xavier Nierhoff, M.S.F.

former Bishop of Floresta (Brazil)

1964.08.041964.11.29
CanadaBishop Michael Rusnak, C.SS.R. (Slovak Rite)

former Bishop of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto of the Slovaks (Canada)

1964.08.251965.01.02
CanadaBishop Gaston Hains

former Bishop of Amos (Canada)

1964.08.281964.10.18
ItalyArchbishop Bruno Torpigliani

former Titular Archbishop of Malliana

1964.09.011964.10.25
ItalyBishop Renato Spallanzani

former Bishop of Palestrina (Italy)

1964.09.081964.10.11
HondurasBishop Marcel Gérin y Boulay, P.M.E.

former Bishop of Choluteca (Honduras)

1964.09.091967.04.23
HungaryArchbishop József Bánk

former Archbishop-Bishop of Vác (Hungary)

1964.09.151964.10.28
HungaryArchbishop Pavol Brezanóczy

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Eger (Hungary)

1964.09.151964.10.28
HungaryArchbishop József Ijjas

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Kalocsa (Hungary)

1964.09.151964.10.28
HungaryBishop József Cserháti

former Bishop of Pécs (Hungary)

1964.09.151964.10.28
FranceBishop Jean-Félix-Albert-Marie Vilnet

former Bishop of Lille (France)

1964.09.241964.12.13
FranceBishop Pierre-Auguste-Marie Boussard

former Bishop of Vannes (France)

1964.09.241965.02.01
TogoBishop Bernard Oguki-Atakpah

former Bishop of Atakpamé (Togo)

1964.09.291964.12.03
MadagascarBishop Bernard Charles Ratsimamotoana, M.S.

former Bishop of Morondava (Madagascar)

1964.09.291964.12.03
Congo-KinshasaBishop Marcel Evariste van Rengen, C.I.

former Bishop of Mweka (Congo-Kinshasa)

1964.09.291964.12.03
EcuadorBishop Alberto Zambrano Palacios, O.P.

former Bishop of Loja (Ecuador)

1964.09.291964.12.03
MaliBishop Joseph Paul Barnabé Perrot, M. Afr.

former Bishop of San (Mali)

1964.09.291965.01.09
MaliBishop Georges Biard, M. Afr.

former Bishop of Mopti (Mali)

1964.09.291965.02.02
Congo-KinshasaBishop Gabriel Ukec

former Bishop of Bunia (Congo-Kinshasa)

1964.09.291965.06.06
USABishop George Henry Guilfoyle

former Bishop of Camden (USA)

1964.10.171964.11.30
IrelandBishop Donald J. Herlihy

former Bishop of Ferns (Ireland)

1964.10.301964.11.15
ColombiaArchbishop Miguel Angel Arce Vivas

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Popayán (Colombia)

1964.10.311964.12.27
PolandBishop Tadeusz Stanisław Szwagrzyk

former Auxiliary Bishop of Częstochowa (Poland)

1964.11.031965.02.07
Puerto RicoBishop Juan Fremiot Torres Oliver

former Bishop of Ponce (Puerto Rico)

1964.11.041964.12.21
AustraliaBishop Lawrence Patrick Moran

former Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne (Australia)

1964.11.091964.12.03
USABishop Joseph Francis Donnelly

former Auxiliary Bishop of Hartford (USA)

1964.11.091965.01.28
MyanmarArchbishop Gabriel Thohey Mahn-Gaby

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Yangon (Myanmar)

1964.11.091965.02.02
LatviaCardinal Julijans Vaivods

former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Quattro Coronati

1964.11.101964.11.18
IndiaArchbishop Leobard D’Souza

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Nagpur (India)

1964.11.121964.12.03
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Marafini

former Bishop of Veroli–Frosinone (Italy)

1964.11.141964.12.13
FranceBishop Gabriel-Marie-Joseph Matagrin

former Bishop of Grenoble (France)

1964.11.151965.01.10
PolandCardinal Władysław Rubin

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

former Prefect of Congregation for the Oriental Churches

1964.11.171964.11.29
UgandaArchbishop James Odongo

former Military Director of Uganda (Uganda)

1964.11.251965.02.16
EnglandBishop Joseph Francis Cleary

former Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham (England)

1964.12.081965.01.25
ScotlandBishop Francis Alexander Spalding Warden Thomson

former Bishop of Motherwell (Scotland)

1964.12.081965.02.24
ScotlandBishop Michael Foylan

former Bishop of Aberdeen (Scotland)

1964.12.081965.03.25
Bishop Franz Brazys, M.I.C.

former Titular Bishop of Zella

1964.12.221965.02.14

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