Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1966

Newly Elected Bishops (122)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
TurkiyeArchbishop Gabriel Batta (Chaldean Rite)

former Archbishop of Diarbekir of the Chaldeans (Turkiye)

1966.01.031966.03.25
FranceBishop Charles Paty

former Bishop of Luçon (France)

1966.01.031966.03.25
IraqArchbishop Thomas Michel Bidawid (Chaldean Rite)

former Archbishop of Ahvaz of the Chaldeans (Iran)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Baghdad of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

1966.01.061966.03.25
CanadaArchbishop James Francis Carney

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Vancouver (Canada)

1966.01.071966.02.11
USABishop Thomas Ambrose Tschoepe

former Bishop of Dallas (USA)

1966.01.121966.03.09
ItalyArchbishop Luigi Maffeo

former Archbishop Military Vicar of Italy (Italy)

1966.01.161966.03.06
FranceBishop Paul-Marie François Rousset, Prado

former Bishop of Saint-Étienne (France)

1966.01.241966.03.06
USABishop Justin Abraham Najmy, B.A. (Greek-Melkite Rite)

former Apostolic Exarch of United States of America of the Greek-Melkites (USA)

1966.01.271966.05.29
IndiaArchbishop Anthony Rayappa Arulappa

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (India)

1966.02.011966.03.25
JamaicaArchbishop Samuel Emmanuel Carter, S.J.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Kingston in Jamaica (Jamaica)

1966.02.011966.04.25
South KoreaBishop Thomas Stewart (박 토마), S.S.C.M.E.

former Bishop of Chunchon 춘천 (South Korea)

1966.02.011966.05.11
USAArchbishop John Joseph Thomas Ryan

former Archbishop Military Ordinary of United States of America (USA)

1966.02.071966.03.25
BrazilBishop Angelo Félix Mugnol

former Bishop of Bagé (Brazil)

1966.02.071966.04.24
ItalyArchbishop Dino Trabalzini

former Archbishop of Cosenza–Bisignano (Italy)

1966.02.111966.03.19
ItalyBishop Oscar Zanera

former Auxiliary Bishop of the Vicariate of Rome of Roma (Italy)

1966.02.111966.03.19
PeruArchbishop Ricardo Durand Flórez, S.J.

former Archbishop-Bishop of Callao (Peru)

1966.02.141966.03.25
USABishop James Edward Michaels (권야고보), S.S.C.M.E.

former Auxiliary Bishop of Wheeling–Charleston (USA)

1966.02.151966.04.14
South KoreaCardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan (김수환 스테파노 / 金壽宦)

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Felice da Cantalice a Centocelle

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Seoul 서울 (South Korea)

1966.02.151966.05.31
ItalyCardinal Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli, O.F.M.

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Sebastiano al Palatino pro hac vice Title

former Secretary of Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints

1966.02.191966.03.19
ItalyCardinal Giacomo Violardo

former Cardinal-Deacon of S. Eustachio

former Patron of Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta (Knights of Malta)

1966.02.191966.03.19
USACardinal Joseph Louis Bernardin

former Cardinal-Priest of Gesù Divin Lavoratore

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Chicago (USA)

1966.03.041966.04.26
USABishop Edward John Herrmann

former Bishop of Columbus (USA)

1966.03.041966.04.26
USABishop Joseph Gregory Vath

former Bishop of Birmingham (USA)

1966.03.041966.05.26
USAArchbishop Peter Leo Gerety

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Newark (USA)

1966.03.041966.06.01
Dominican RepublicBishop Roque Antonio Adames Rodríguez

former Bishop of Santiago de los Caballeros (Dominican Republic)

1966.03.141966.05.22
PolandArchbishop Bolesław Pylak

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Lublin (Poland)

1966.03.141966.05.29
JapanCardinal Peter Seiichi Shirayanagi (ペトロ 白柳誠一)

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Emerenziana a Tor Fiorenza

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tokyo 東京 (Japan)

1966.03.151966.05.08
South SudanBishop Domenico Ferrara, M.C.C.J.

former Prefect Apostolic of Mupoi (South Sudan)

1966.03.151966.05.29
HondurasBishop Jaime Brufau Maciá, C.M.

former Bishop of San Pedro Sula (Honduras)

1966.03.151966.06.29
Burkina FasoBishop Denis Martin Tapsoba, M. Afr.

former Bishop of Ouahigouya (Burkina Faso)

1966.03.151966.10.16
BrazilBishop Friedrich Helmel, S.V.D.

former Bishop of Guarapuava (Brazil)

1966.03.191966.05.19
FranceBishop Armand-François Le Bourgeois, C.I.M.

former Bishop of Autun (France)

1966.03.221966.06.05
BrazilBishop José Fernandes Veloso

former Bishop of Petrópolis (Brazil)

1966.03.231966.05.22
ItalyBishop Francesco Sanmartino

former Auxiliary Bishop of Torino (Italy)

1966.04.071966.04.25
USACardinal Humberto Sousa Medeiros

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Susanna

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Boston (USA)

1966.04.141966.06.09
BrazilBishop Bruno Maldaner

former Bishop of Frederico Westphalen (Brazil)

1966.04.151966.06.29
Dominican RepublicArchbishop Juan Antonio Flores Santana

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Santiago de los Caballeros (Dominican Republic)

1966.04.241966.06.12
BrazilCardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns, O.F.M.

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Antonio da Padova in Via Tuscolana

former Metropolitan Archbishop of São Paulo (Brazil)

1966.05.021966.07.03
ColombiaBishop Miguel Ángel Lecumberri Erburu, O.C.D.

former Vicar Apostolic of Tumaco (Colombia)

1966.05.031966.07.31
TanzaniaBishop James Dominic Sangu

former Bishop of Mbeya (Tanzania)

1966.05.031966.09.11
IrelandBishop Patrick Lennon

former Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin (Ireland)

1966.05.141966.07.03
SpainCardinal Angel Suquía Goicoechea

former Cardinal-Priest of Gran Madre di Dio

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Madrid (Spain)

1966.05.171966.07.16
PakistanBishop Ernest Bertrand Boland, O.P.

former Bishop of Multan (Pakistan)

1966.05.171966.07.25
Congo-KinshasaArchbishop Emmanuel Kataliko

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bukavu (Congo-Kinshasa)

1966.05.171966.10.11
Congo-KinshasaBishop Albert Onyembo Lomandjo, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Kindu (Congo-Kinshasa)

1966.05.171966.12.11
ItalyArchbishop Luigi Rovigatti

former Vicegerent for the Vicariate of Rome of Roma (Italy)

1966.05.231966.06.29
BrazilArchbishop Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto (99)Archbishop Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto (99)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Curitiba (Brazil)

1966.05.301966.08.28
ColombiaArchbishop Félix María Torres Parra

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Barranquilla (Colombia)

1966.06.041966.07.24
NigeriaBishop James Timothy Kieran Cotter, O.S.A.

former Bishop of Maiduguri (Nigeria)

1966.06.071966.09.08
BoliviaBishop Jesús Agustín López de Lama, C.P.

former Bishop-Prelate of Corocoro (Bolivia)

1966.06.101966.09.04
ItalyCardinal Giovanni Benelli

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Prisca

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Firenze (Italy)

1966.06.111966.09.11
Congo-KinshasaArchbishop Martin-Léonard Bakole wa Ilunga

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Kananga (Congo-Kinshasa)

1966.06.211966.09.18
BrazilBishop Heinrich Rüth, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Cruzeiro do Sul (Brazil)

1966.06.211966.10.02
ItalyVenerable Bishop Bernardino Maria Dino Piccinelli, O.S.M.

former Auxiliary Bishop of Ancona (Italy)

1966.06.231966.07.10
ChileBishop Cirilo Polidoro van Vlierberghe, O.F.M.

former Bishop-Prelate of Illapel (Chile)

1966.06.271966.08.28
CanadaBishop Paul Francis Reding

former Bishop of Hamilton (Canada)

1966.07.021966.09.14
AngolaBishop Américo Henriques

former Bishop of Nova Lisboa (Angola)

1966.07.031966.10.11
USABishop Vincent Madeley Harris

former Bishop of Austin (USA)

1966.07.041966.09.28
GermanyBishop Adolf Kindermann

former Auxiliary Bishop of Hildesheim (Germany)

1966.07.111966.09.08
BrazilArchbishop Luciano José Cabral Duarte

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Aracaju (Brazil)

1966.07.141966.10.02
MexicoBishop Antonio Sahagún López

former Bishop of Linares (Mexico)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Guadalajara (Mexico)

1966.07.181966.09.21
MexicoArchbishop Manuel Pérez-Gil y González

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tlalnepantla (Mexico)

1966.07.181966.10.18
USABishop John Bernard McDowell

former Auxiliary Bishop of Pittsburgh (USA)

1966.07.191966.09.08
ItalyArchbishop Michele Mincuzzi

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Lecce (Italy)

1966.07.191966.10.02
SpainArchbishop Miguel Roca Cabanellas

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Valencia (Spain)

1966.07.201966.10.02
PhilippinesBishop Julio Xavier Labayen, O.C.D.

former Bishop-Prelate of Infanta (Philippines)

1966.07.261966.09.08
GuatemalaBishop Gerardo Humberto Flores Reyes

former Bishop of Vera Paz (Guatemala)

1966.07.261966.10.07
GuatemalaArchbishop Próspero Penados del Barrio

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Guatemala (Guatemala)

1966.07.281966.11.19
BotswanaBishop Urban Charles Joseph Murphy, C.P.

former Bishop of Gaborone (Botswana)

1966.08.051966.09.14
UgandaCardinal Emmanuel Kiwanuka Nsubuga

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria Nuova

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Kampala (Uganda)

1966.08.051966.10.30
ItalyBishop Plinio Pascoli

former Auxiliary Bishop of the Vicariate of Rome of Roma (Italy)

1966.08.051966.10.30
NigeriaArchbishop Brian David Usanga

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Calabar (Nigeria)

1966.08.051966.12.04
South AfricaArchbishop Joseph Patrick Fitzgerald, O.M.I.

former Archbishop-Bishop of Johannesburg (South Africa)

1966.08.061966.10.18
USABishop James Louis Flaherty

former Auxiliary Bishop of Richmond (USA)

1966.08.081966.10.15
BrazilBishop Manuel Edmilson da Cruz (101)Bishop Manuel Edmilson da Cruz (101)

Bishop emeritus of Limoeiro do Norte (Brazil)

1966.08.081966.11.06
ItalyBishop Alberto Ablondi

former Bishop of Livorno (Italy)

1966.08.091966.10.01
NetherlandsBishop Theodorus Henricus Johannes Zwartkruis

former Bishop of Haarlem (Netherlands)

1966.08.181966.10.15
HaitiArchbishop François-Wolff Ligondé

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

1966.08.201966.10.28
HaitiBishop Jean-Jacques Claudius Angénor

former Bishop of Les Cayes (Haiti)

1966.08.201966.10.28
HaitiBishop Emmanuel Constant

former Bishop of Les Gonaïves (Haiti)

1966.08.201966.10.28
HaitiBishop Jean-Baptiste Décoste

former Bishop of Hinche (Haiti)

1966.08.201966.10.28
FranceBishop Joseph Gustave François Wicquart

former Bishop of Coutances (France)

1966.09.021966.10.11
ChileBishop Gabriel Larraín Valdivieso

former Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago (Chile)

1966.09.121966.11.03
FranceBishop Jean François Marie Streiff

former Bishop of Nevers (France)

1966.09.211966.11.21
IndiaBishop Ignatius Salvador D’Souza

former Bishop of Baroda (India)

1966.09.291966.11.30
ColombiaBishop Livio Reginaldo Fischione, O.F.M. Cap.

former Vicar Apostolic of Riohacha (Colombia)

1966.09.291966.12.12
SenegalBishop Augustin Sagna

former Bishop of Ziguinchor (Senegal)

1966.09.291967.01.15
Congo-KinshasaBishop Timothée Pirigisha Mukombe

former Bishop of Kasongo (Congo-Kinshasa)

1966.09.291967.03.05
Congo-KinshasaBishop Ioseph Mulolwa Songolo

former Bishop of Kalemie–Kirungu (Congo-Kinshasa)

1966.09.291967.04.09
FranceBishop Robert Marie-Joseph François de Provenchères

former Bishop of Créteil (France)

1966.10.091966.11.20
FranceBishop Jacques Marie Delarue

former Bishop of Nanterre (France)

1966.10.091966.11.20
HaitiBishop Charles-Édouard Peters, S.M.M.

former Bishop of Jérémie (Haiti)

1966.10.171966.10.28
USABishop James Louis Schad

former Auxiliary Bishop of Camden (USA)

1966.10.181966.12.08
GermanyArchbishop Bruno Wüstenberg

former Titular Archbishop of Tyrus

former Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Netherlands

1966.10.241966.12.21
PortugalBishop António dos Reis Rodrigues

former Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa (Portugal)

1966.10.251967.01.08
BrazilBishop José Francisco Versiani Velloso

former Bishop of Itumbiara (Brazil)

1966.10.271967.01.25
BrazilBishop James Collins, C.SS.R.

former Bishop of Miracema do Tocantins (Brazil)

1966.10.271967.09.14
BrazilArchbishop Juvenal Roriz, C.SS.R.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Juiz de Fora (Brazil)

1966.10.271967.10.11
BrazilArchbishop Gilberto Pereira Lopes

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Campinas (Brazil)

1966.11.031966.12.18
Papua New GuineaBishop Gérard-Joseph Deschamps, S.M.M.

former Bishop of Bereina (Papua New Guinea)

1966.11.151967.01.21
Papua New GuineaBishop Paschal Sweeney, C.P.

former Bishop of Vanimo (Papua New Guinea)

1966.11.151967.01.25
Papua New GuineaBishop Henry Anthony A. van Lieshout, C.M.M.

former Bishop of Lae (Papua New Guinea)

1966.11.151967.03.05
Papua New GuineaBishop John Edward Cohill, S.V.D.

former Bishop of Goroka (Papua New Guinea)

1966.11.151967.03.11
Burkina FasoBishop Anthyme Bayala

former Bishop of Koudougou (Burkina Faso)

1966.11.151967.04.01
IndonesiaBishop Petrus Malachias van Diepen, O.S.A.

former Bishop of Manokwari–Sorong (Indonesia)

1966.11.151967.06.04
PhilippinesBishop Teotimo C. Pacis, C.M.

former Bishop of Legazpi (Philippines)

1966.11.181967.01.25
PhilippinesBishop Albert van Overbeke, C.I.C.M.

former Bishop of Bayombong (Philippines)

1966.11.181969.11.30
ChileBishop Sergio Otoniel Contreras Navia

former Bishop of Temuco (Chile)

1966.11.211966.12.27
EnglandBishop Basil Christopher Butler, E.B.C.

former Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster (England)

1966.11.291966.12.21
MexicoBishop Alfonso Reyes Ramos

former Bishop of Ciudad Valles (Mexico)

1966.11.291967.02.24
VenezuelaBishop Mariano José Parra León

former Bishop of Cumaná (Venezuela)

1966.11.301967.01.22
VenezuelaBishop Angel Adolfo Polachini Rodriguez

former Bishop of Guanare (Venezuela)

1966.11.301967.04.30
PhilippinesArchbishop Manuel S. Salvador

former Bishop of Palo (Philippines)

former Coadjutor Archbishop of Cebu (Philippines)

1966.12.031967.01.19
PhilippinesBishop Bienvenido M. Lopez

former Auxiliary Bishop of Manila (Philippines)

1966.12.031967.01.22
PortugalBishop Manuel Franco da Costa de Oliveira Falcão

former Bishop of Beja (Portugal)

1966.12.061967.01.22
PortugalBishop Domingos de Pinho Brandão

former Auxiliary Bishop of Porto (Portugal)

1966.12.061967.01.29
ItalyBishop Teresio Ferraroni

former Bishop of Como (Italy)

1966.12.071967.01.08
USABishop Thomas Joseph Mardaga

former Bishop of Wilmington (USA)

1966.12.091967.01.25
BrazilBishop Tiago Gerardo Cloin, C.SS.R.

former Bishop of Barra (Brazil)

1966.12.091967.01.28
EnglandBishop John Gerard McClean

former Bishop of Middlesbrough (England)

1966.12.101967.02.24
TanzaniaBishop Adriani Mkoba

former Bishop of Morogoro (Tanzania)

1966.12.151967.07.02
FranceBishop Victor-Julien-André Gouet

former Auxiliary Bishop of Paris (France)

1966.12.301967.02.27

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