Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1969

Newly Elected Bishops (153)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
TanzaniaBishop Bernard Mabula

former Bishop of Singida (Tanzania)

1969.01.091969.05.04
HungaryBishop Jozsef Kacziba

former Titular Bishop of Cufruta

1969.01.101969.02.12
HungaryBishop József Udvardy

former Bishop of Szeged–Csanád (Hungary)

1969.01.101969.02.12
HungaryBishop Jozsef Vajda

former Auxiliary Bishop of Vác (Hungary)

1969.01.101969.02.12
HungaryBishop György Zemplén

former Auxiliary Bishop of Esztergom (Hungary)

1969.01.101969.02.12
IrelandArchbishop Joseph Cunnane

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tuam (Ireland)

1969.01.311969.03.17
USABishop Joseph Alphonse McNicholas

former Bishop of Springfield in Illinois (USA)

1969.01.311969.03.25
ChileBishop Fernando Errázuriz Gandarillas

former Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago (Chile)

1969.01.311969.05.04
ChileBishop Jorge Maria Hourton Poisson

former Auxiliary Bishop of Temuco (Chile)

1969.02.051969.04.20
USAArchbishop Cornelius Michael Power

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Portland in Oregon (USA)

1969.02.051969.05.01
AustraliaBishop Edward Francis Kelly, M.S.C.

former Bishop of Toowoomba (Australia)

1969.02.061969.03.25
MauritiusCardinal Jean Margéot

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Gabriele Arcangelo all’Acqua Traversa

former Bishop of Port-Louis (Mauritius)

1969.02.061969.05.04
SenegalBishop François-Xavier Dione

former Bishop of Thiès (Senegal)

1969.02.061969.05.15
BrazilBishop Jayme Henrique Chemello

former Bishop of Pelotas (Brazil)

1969.02.111969.04.20
PhilippinesBishop Victorino Cristobal Ligot

former Bishop of San Fernando de La Union (Philippines)

1969.02.121969.03.27
MexicoBishop Guillermo Ranzahuer González

former Bishop of San Andrés Tuxtla (Mexico)

1969.02.151969.03.22
CanadaCardinal Édouard Gagnon, P.S.S.

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Marcello

former Bishop of Saint-Paul (Canada)

former President of Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses

1969.02.191969.03.25
PolandBishop Wladysław Miziolek

former Auxiliary Bishop of Warszawa (Poland)

1969.02.191969.03.25
USABishop George Roche Evans

former Auxiliary Bishop of Denver (USA)

1969.02.241969.04.23
USABishop Lawrence Preston Joseph Graves

former Bishop of Alexandria–Shreveport (USA)

1969.02.241969.04.25
PhilippinesBishop Amado Paulino y Hernandez

former Auxiliary Bishop of Manila (Philippines)

1969.02.251969.05.27
PhilippinesBishop Felix Paz Perez

former Bishop of Imus (Philippines)

1969.02.251969.05.27
ItalyArchbishop Michele Cecchini

former Titular Archbishop of Aquileia

former Apostolic Nuncio to Austria

1969.02.261969.04.13
FranceBishop Lucien-Emile Bardonne

former Bishop of Châlons (France)

1969.02.271969.05.11
AustraliaBishop John Aloysius Morgan

former Military Vicar of Australia (Australia)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn (Australia)

1969.03.061969.04.28
AustraliaBishop John Steven Satterthwaite

former Bishop of Lismore (Australia)

1969.03.061969.05.01
South AfricaBishop Manfred Gottschalk, S.A.C.

former Bishop of Oudtshoorn (South Africa)

1969.03.061969.06.11
TanzaniaBishop Christopher Mwoleka

former Bishop of Rulenge (Tanzania)

1969.03.061969.06.19
ParaguayBishop Alejo del Carmen Obelar Colman, S.D.B.

former Vicar Apostolic of Chaco Paraguayo (Paraguay)

1969.03.061969.06.29
BrazilBishop Orlando Octacílio Dotti, O.F.M. Cap. (95)Bishop Orlando Octacílio Dotti, O.F.M. Cap. (95)

Bishop emeritus of Vacaria (Brazil)

1969.03.121969.05.25
BrazilBishop Tito Buss

former Bishop of Rio do Sul (Brazil)

1969.03.121969.08.03
PeruBishop Luis Baldo Riva, C.SS.R.

former Bishop-Prelate of Chuquibamba (Peru)

1969.03.131969.04.20
PeruBishop Luigi Zanzottera, O.S.J.

former Auxiliary Bishop of Huaraz (Peru)

1969.03.131969.04.20
PeruBishop Jesús Mateo Calderón Barrueto, O.P.

former Bishop of Puno (Peru)

1969.03.131969.04.27
PeruBishop Lorenzo Unfried Gimpel, M.C.C.J.

former Bishop of Tarma (Peru)

1969.03.131969.05.11
ItalyArchbishop Cleto Bellucci

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Fermo (Italy)

1969.03.151969.05.14
USABishop Emil John Mihalik (Ruthenian Rite)

former Bishop of Parma of the Ruthenians (USA)

1969.03.221969.06.12
MexicoBishop José Maclovio Vásquez Silos

former Bishop of Autlán (Mexico)

1969.03.251969.05.18
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Lanave

former Bishop of Andria (Italy)

1969.03.291969.05.18
FranceCardinal Roger Etchegaray

former Cardinal-Bishop of Porto–Santa Rufina

former President of Committee for the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000

1969.03.291969.05.27
EnglandBishop Alan Charles Clark

former Bishop of East Anglia (England)

1969.03.311969.05.13
BrazilBishop Antônio do Carmo Cheuiche, O.C.D.

former Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre (Brazil)

1969.04.021969.06.29
SpainBishop Juan Antonio del Val Gallo

former Bishop of Santander (Spain)

1969.04.041969.05.15
SpainArchbishop Antonio Montero Moreno

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Mérida–Badajoz (Spain)

1969.04.041969.05.17
CanadaArchbishop Joseph Neil MacNeil

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Edmonton (Canada)

1969.04.091969.06.24
FranceCardinal Jean-Guenolé-Marie Daniélou, S.J.

former Cardinal-Deacon of S. Saba

1969.04.111969.04.19
ItalyCardinal Mario Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Giovanni Battista Decollato pro hac vice Title

former Prefect of Prefecture of the Apostolic Palaces

1969.04.111969.04.20
ItalyCardinal Sergio Guerri

former Cardinal-Priest of SS. Nome di Maria al Foro Traiano pro hac vice Title

former Pro-President of Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State

1969.04.111969.04.27
LithuaniaBishop Antanas Louis Deksnys

former Titular Bishop of Lavello

1969.04.121969.06.15
PolandBishop Edmund Ilcewicz

former Auxiliary Bishop of Lublin (Poland)

1969.04.141969.05.15
NicaraguaBishop Manuel Salazar y Espinoza

former Bishop of León (Nicaragua)

1969.04.141969.06.29
BrazilBishop Francisco Hélio Campos

former Bishop of Viana (Brazil)

1969.04.141969.07.06
FranceBishop Eugène-Georges-Joseph Lecrosnier

former Bishop of Belfort–Montbéliard (France)

1969.04.211969.06.21
CubaArchbishop Francisco Ricardo Oves Fernández

former Metropolitan Archbishop of La Habana (Cuba)

1969.04.251969.07.16
ItalyBishop Luigi Dardani

former Bishop of Imola (Italy)

1969.04.281969.05.25
ItalyCardinal Ersilio Tonini

former Cardinal-Priest of SS. Redentore a Valmelaina

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Ravenna–Cervia (Italy)

1969.04.281969.06.02
MexicoBishop Manuel Samaniego Barriga

former Bishop of Cuautitlán (Mexico)

1969.04.301969.08.06
GuatemalaBishop José Julio Aguilar García

former Bishop of Santa Cruz del Quiché (Guatemala)

1969.05.091971.02.15
EcuadorCardinal Antonio José González Zumárraga

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Via

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Quito (Ecuador)

1969.05.171969.06.15
EcuadorArchbishop Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín, Opus Dei

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador)

1969.05.171969.06.15
AustriaArchbishop Josip Žabkar

former Titular Archbishop of Virunum

1969.05.171969.06.30
NetherlandsBishop Johann Bernard Wilhelm Maria Möller

former Bishop of Groningen (Netherlands)

1969.05.211969.06.28
KenyaBishop Emile Njeru

former Auxiliary Bishop of Eldoret (Kenya)

1969.05.221969.08.01
ItalyCardinal Pio Laghi

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Pietro in Vincoli

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

1969.05.241969.06.22
BoliviaBishop Alfonso Nava Carreón

former Auxiliary Bishop of Sucre (Bolivia)

1969.05.261969.08.02
South KoreaBishop René Marie Albert Dupont (두봉 레나도), M.E.P.

former Bishop of Andong 안동 (South Korea)

1969.05.291969.07.25
GabonArchbishop André Fernand Anguilé

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Libreville (Gabon)

1969.05.291969.08.01
KenyaArchbishop Raphael S. Ndingi Mwana’a Nzeki

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Nairobi (Kenya)

1969.05.291969.08.01
UgandaBishop Barnabas R. Halem ’Imana

former Bishop of Kabale (Uganda)

1969.05.291969.08.01
NigeriaBishop William Mahony, S.M.A.

former Bishop of Ilorin (Nigeria)

1969.05.291969.08.01
CameroonBishop Jean-Marie-Joseph-Augustin Pasquier, O.M.I.

former Bishop of Ngaoundéré (Cameroon)

1969.05.291969.08.01
NigeriaBishop Anthony Saliu Sanusi

former Bishop of Ijebu-Ode (Nigeria)

1969.05.291969.08.01
IndonesiaBishop Alphonsus Augustus Sowada, O.S.C.

former Bishop of Agats (Indonesia)

1969.05.291969.11.23
BelgiumArchbishop Henri Lemaître

former Titular Archbishop of Tongeren

1969.05.301969.07.20
USABishop Francis John Dunn

former Auxiliary Bishop of Dubuque (USA)

1969.06.011969.08.27
ColombiaBishop Augusto Aristizábal Ospina

former Bishop of Jericó (Colombia)

1969.06.021969.07.20
SpainCardinal Ricardo María Carles Gordó

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria Consolatrice al Tiburtino

former Archbishop of Barcelona (Spain)

1969.06.061969.08.03
CanadaBishop Edgar Godin

former Bishop of Bathurst (Canada)

1969.06.091969.07.25
AustriaBishop Johann Weber

former Bishop of Graz–Seckau (Austria)

1969.06.101969.09.28
ItalyArchbishop Luigi Barbarito

former Titular Archbishop of Fiorentino

1969.06.111969.08.10
BelgiumArchbishop Joseph Mees

former Titular Archbishop of Ieper

1969.06.141969.06.30
PhilippinesBishop Francisco Funaay Claver, S.J.

former Vicar Apostolic of Bontoc–Lagawe (Philippines)

1969.06.181969.08.22
Burkina FasoBishop Constantin Guirma

former Bishop of Kaya (Burkina Faso)

1969.06.261969.08.01
UgandaBishop John Baptist Kakubi

former Bishop of Mbarara (Uganda)

1969.06.261969.08.01
UgandaBishop Serapio Bwemi Magambo

former Bishop of Fort Portal (Uganda)

1969.06.261969.08.01
AustraliaBishop Peter Quinn

former Bishop of Bunbury (Australia)

1969.06.261969.08.27
Saint LuciaArchbishop Patrick Webster, O.S.B.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Castries (Saint Lucia)

1969.06.261969.08.31
ThailandBishop Robert Ratna Bamrungtrakul

former Bishop of Chiang Mai (Thailand)

1969.06.261969.09.07
LibyaBishop Guido Attilio Previtali, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Tripoli (Libya)

1969.06.261969.09.07
JapanBishop Aloysius Nobuo Soma (アロイジオ 相馬信夫)

former Bishop of Nagoya 名古屋 (Japan)

1969.06.261969.09.15
IndiaArchbishop Joseph Mittathany

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Imphal (India)

1969.06.261969.09.27
IndiaBishop Denzil Reginald D’Souza

former Bishop of Aizawl (India)

1969.06.261969.11.23
USABishop Michael Francis McAuliffe

former Bishop of Jefferson City (USA)

1969.07.021969.08.18
FranceBishop Pierre Bertrand Chagué

former Bishop of Gap (France)

1969.07.021969.09.20
ItalyArchbishop Ubaldo Calabresi

former Titular Archbishop of Fondi

1969.07.031969.09.28
UgandaBishop Albert Edward Baharagate Akiiki

former Bishop of Hoima (Uganda)

1969.07.071969.08.01
AustriaBishop Karl Moser

former Auxiliary Bishop of Wien (Austria)

1969.07.091969.10.12
PhilippinesBishop Antonino Nepomuceno, O.M.I.

former Auxiliary Bishop of Cotabato (Philippines)

1969.07.111969.08.31
ItalyArchbishop Ernesto Gallina

former Titular Archbishop of Trevi

1969.07.121969.08.10
IrelandBishop Eamon Casey

former Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh (Ireland)

1969.07.171969.11.09
ArgentinaBishop Alejo Benedicto Gilligan

former Bishop of Nueve de Julio (Argentina)

1969.07.191969.10.04
Congo-KinshasaBishop Barthélémy Malunga

former Bishop of Kamina (Congo-Kinshasa)

1969.07.241969.11.29
ColombiaBishop Joaquín García Ordóñez

former Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos (Colombia)

1969.07.281969.08.30
ColombiaBishop Alfonso Sánchez Peña, C.M.F.

former Bishop-Prelate of Alto Sinú (Colombia)

1969.07.281969.10.05
SpainArchbishop José Delicado Baeza

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Valladolid (Spain)

1969.08.041969.09.28
PolandBishop Julian Andrzej Wojtkowski

former Auxiliary Bishop of Warmia (Poland)

1969.08.171969.08.22
USABishop Leo Joseph Brust

former Auxiliary Bishop of Milwaukee (USA)

1969.08.221969.10.16
IraqArchbishop Paul Coussa (Armenian Rite)

former Archbishop of Baghdad of the Armenians (Iraq)

1969.08.261969.12.21
ItalyArchbishop Carlo Minchiatti

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Benevento (Italy)

1969.08.301969.11.09
AustriaArchbishop Alois Wagner

former Vice-President of Pontifical Council “Cor unum”

1969.09.011969.10.26
BrazilBishop Daniel Arnaldo Tomasella, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Marília (Brazil)

1969.09.061969.12.08
USABishop Harold Joseph Dimmerling

former Bishop of Rapid City (USA)

1969.09.111969.10.30
FranceArchbishop Achille Marie Joseph Glorieux

former Secretary of Council of the Laity

1969.09.191969.11.09
North MacedoniaBishop Joakim Herbut

former Apostolic Exarch of Macedonia of the Macedonians (North Macedonia)

former Bishop of Skopje (North Macedonia)

1969.10.021969.12.21
North MacedoniaBishop Nikë Prela

former Auxiliary Bishop of Skopje–Prizren (North Macedonia)

1969.10.021969.12.21
MicronesiaBishop Martin Joseph Neylon, S.J.

former Bishop of Caroline Islands (Micronesia)

1969.10.021970.02.02
SurinameBishop Aloysius Ferdinandus Zichem, C.SS.R.

former Bishop of Paramaribo (Suriname)

1969.10.021970.02.08
ItalyArchbishop Enrico Manfredini

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bologna (Italy)

1969.10.041969.11.04
USABishop Joseph Lloyd Hogan

former Bishop of Rochester (USA)

1969.10.061969.11.28
EnglandBishop Hugh Lindsay

former Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle (England)

1969.10.131969.12.11
CanadaBishop Guy Bélanger

former Bishop of Valleyfield (Canada)

1969.10.171969.11.23
USABishop George Edward Lynch

former Auxiliary Bishop of Raleigh (USA)

1969.10.201970.01.06
TanzaniaArchbishop Mario Epifanio Abdallah Mgulunde

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tabora (Tanzania)

1969.10.231970.02.15
IraqArchbishop Stéphane Babaca (Chaldean Rite)

former Archbishop of Erbil of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

1969.10.281969.12.06
GermanyBishop Hubert Luthe

former Bishop of Essen (Germany)

1969.10.281969.12.14
ItalyBishop Bernardo Citterio

former Auxiliary Bishop of Milano (Italy)

1969.11.041969.12.07
SpainBishop Rafael Torija de la Fuente

former Bishop of Ciudad Real (Spain)

1969.11.041969.12.14
ItalyArchbishop Giuliano Agresti

former Archbishop of Lucca (Italy)

1969.11.071969.12.21
LithuaniaArchbishop Liudas Povilonis, M.I.C.

former Coadjutor Apostolic Administrator of Kaunas (Lithuania)

former Coadjutor Apostolic Administrator of Vilkaviškis (Lithuania)

1969.11.071969.12.21
LithuaniaBishop Romualdas Krikšciunas

former Auxiliary Bishop of Kaunas (Lithuania)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Vilkaviškis (Lithuania)

1969.11.071969.12.21
SpainBishop Javier Osés Flamarique

former Bishop of Huesca (Spain)

1969.11.101969.12.08
IndiaBishop Sebastian Mankuzhikary (Syro-Malabar Rite)

former Bishop of Thamarasserry of the Syro-Malabars (India)

1969.11.151970.01.06
JapanBishop Paul Shinichi Itonaga (パウロ 糸永真一)

former Bishop of Kagoshima 鹿児島 (Japan)

1969.11.151970.01.18
JapanBishop Peter Takaaki Hirayama (ペトロ 平山高明)

former Bishop of Oita 大分 (Japan)

1969.11.151970.01.25
KenyaBishop Tiberius Charles Mugendi

former Bishop of Kisii (Kenya)

1969.11.151970.02.24
SpainBishop Ricardo Blanco Granda

former Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid (Spain)

1969.11.171969.12.21
SpainBishop Ramón Echarren Istúriz

former Bishop of Islas Canarias (Spain)

1969.11.171969.12.21
PhilippinesBishop Reginald Edward Vincent Arliss, C.P.

former Bishop-Prelate of Marbel (Philippines)

1969.11.181970.01.30
GhanaArchbishop Peter Kwasi Sarpong (93)Archbishop Peter Kwasi Sarpong (93)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Kumasi (Ghana)

1969.11.201970.03.08
ItalyArchbishop Luciano Storero

former Titular Archbishop of Tigimma

former Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland

1969.11.221970.02.01
CanadaArchbishop William Aquin Carew

former Titular Archbishop of Telde

1969.11.271970.01.04
IrelandBishop Patrick Mulligan

former Bishop of Clogher (Ireland)

1969.11.281970.01.18
SpainArchbishop Teodoro Cardenal Fernández

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Burgos (Spain)

1969.12.011970.01.25
PhilippinesBishop Salvador Lazo Lazo

former Bishop of San Fernando de La Union (Philippines)

1969.12.011970.02.03
USABishop Francis Raymond Shea

former Bishop of Evansville (USA)

1969.12.011970.02.03
BrazilBishop Cândido Lorenzo González, O. de M.

former Bishop of São Raimundo Nonato (Brazil)

1969.12.051970.03.19
SpainBishop Antonio Palenzuela Velázquez

former Bishop of Segovia (Spain)

1969.12.111970.02.22
CameroonArchbishop Simon Tonyé

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Douala (Cameroon)

1969.12.121970.02.01
ItalyBishop Santo Bergamo

former Bishop of Oppido Mamertina–Palmi (Italy)

1969.12.151970.01.25
ItalyArchbishop Settimio Todisco

former Archbishop of Brindisi–Ostuni (Italy)

1969.12.151970.02.15
TanzaniaBishop Alphonse Daniel Nsabi

former Bishop of Kigoma (Tanzania)

1969.12.151970.02.22
Papua New GuineaBishop William Kevin Rowell, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Aitape (Papua New Guinea)

1969.12.151970.02.24
TanzaniaBishop Maurus Gervase Komba

former Bishop of Tanga (Tanzania)

1969.12.151970.03.15

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