Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1908

Newly Elected Bishops (54)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
LebanonPatriarch Antoun II Boutros Arida (Maronite Rite)

former Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites (Lebanon)

19081908.06.18
BrazilArchbishop Manoel Antônio de Oliveira Lopes

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Maceió (Brazil)

1908.01.251908.09.06
VietnamBishop Eugène-Marie-Joseph Allys, M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Huê (Vietnam)

1908.01.301908.05.24
EnglandArchbishop Frederick William Keating

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Liverpool (England)

1908.02.051908.02.25
ItalyBishop Ildefonso Vincenzo Pisani, C.R.L.

former Bishop of Anglona–Tursi (Italy)

1908.02.051908.03.01
LebanonArchbishop Pietro Scebli (Maronite Rite)

former Archbishop of Beirut of the Maronites (Lebanon)

1908.02.111908.02.15
FranceBishop Adolphe-Yves-Marie Duparc

former Bishop of Quimper (France)

1908.02.111908.02.25
FranceCardinal Hector-Irénée Sévin

former Cardinal-Priest of SS. Trinità al Monte Pincio

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Lyon (France)

1908.02.111908.04.05
HungaryCardinal János Csernoch

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Eusebio

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Esztergom (Hungary)

1908.02.161908.05.10
ItalyBishop Giovanni Vincenzo Tasso, C.M.

former Bishop of Aosta (Italy)

1908.02.171908.05.28
Congo-KinshasaBishop Émile-Gabriel Grison, S.C.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Stanley Falls (Congo-Kinshasa)

1908.03.101908.10.11
BrazilBishop Agostinho Francisco Benassi

former Bishop of Niterói (Brazil)

1908.03.201908.05.10
ItalyBishop Franz Egger

former Bishop of Brixen (Italy)

1908.03.201908.06.14
MexicoBishop Leonardo Castellanos y Castellanos

former Bishop of Tabasco (Mexico)

1908.03.221908.09.27
ColombiaBishop Joseph-Marie-Désiré Guiot, S.M.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Los Llanos de San Martín (Colombia)

1908.03.241908.05.28
TurkiyeArchbishop Vincent Sardi di Rivisondoli

former Vicar Apostolic of Constantinopole (Turkiye)

former Assessor of Sacred Consistorial Congregation

1908.04.061908.05.10
CanadaArchbishop Paul-Eugène Roy

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Québec (Canada)

1908.04.081908.05.10
Bosnia and HerzegovinaArchbishop Ivan Šaric

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Vrhbosna (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

1908.04.081908.05.28
MalawiBishop Auguste Prézeau

former Vicar Apostolic of Shiré (Malawi)

1908.04.121908.10.04
MoroccoArchbishop Francisco María Cervera y Cervera, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Marruecos (Morocco)

1908.04.141908.05.24
CzechiaBishop Francesco Brusák

former Auxiliary Bishop of Praha (Czechia)

1908.05.011908.05.17
BrazilArchbishop João Batista Becker

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Porto Alegre (Brazil)

1908.05.031908.09.13
MyanmarBishop Emmanuel Segrada, P.I.M.E.

former Vicar Apostolic of Toungoo (Myanmar)

1908.05.101909.01.24
TurkiyeArchbishop Leone Kecegian (Armenian Rite)

former Archbishop of Sebaste of the Armenians (Turkiye)

1908.05.201908.06.21
USABishop Paul Peter Rhode

former Bishop of Green Bay (USA)

1908.05.221908.07.29
SwitzerlandArchbishop Bernard Christen von Andermatt, O.F.M. Cap.

former Minister General of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (Capuchin Franciscans)

1908.05.291908.06.14
ChileBishop Miguel Claro Vásquez

former Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago (Chile)

1908.06.011908.08.09
Northern IrelandBishop John Tohill

former Bishop of Down and Connor (Northern Ireland)

1908.06.091908.09.20
PolandBlessed Archbishop Antoni Julian Nowowiejski

former Bishop of Płock (Poland)

1908.06.121908.12.06
PhilippinesBishop James Jordan Carroll

former Bishop of Nueva Segovia (Philippines)

1908.06.211909.02.14
ItalyBishop Vittore Corvaia, O.S.B. Subl.

former Abbot Ordinary of Montevergine (Italy)

1908.07.121908.10.11
LithuaniaArchbishop Jan Feliks Cieplak

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Vilnius (Lithuania)

1908.07.121908.12.20
SpainBishop Manuel San Román y Elena

former Auxiliary Bishop of Burgos (Spain)

1908.07.121909.01.17
SwitzerlandBishop Georg Schmid von Grüneck

former Bishop of Chur (Switzerland)

1908.07.131908.10.04
FranceArchbishop Albert Nègre

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tours (France)

1908.07.141908.08.23
ChinaBishop Auguste-Jean-Gabriel Maurice (穆理思), O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Central Shaanxi 陝西中境 (China)

1908.07.281908.11.30
ItalyCardinal Enrico Sibilia

former Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto

1908.07.301908.10.11
EnglandBishop Hugh Singleton

former Bishop of Shrewsbury (England)

1908.08.011908.09.21
ItalyBishop Luigi Giacomo Baccini, O.F.M. Cap.

former Bishop of Sant’Angelo in Vado (Italy)

former Bishop of Urbania (Italy)

1908.08.181908.10.04
ItalyBishop Albino Pella

former Bishop of Casale Monferrato (Italy)

1908.08.191908.10.11
SpainBishop Laureano Vérez de Acevedo, S.J.

former Titular Bishop of Nyssa

1908.08.221908.10.16
ItalyArchbishop Ettore Fronzi

former Archbishop of Camerino (Italy)

1908.09.121908.09.27
USABishop Owen Patrick Bernard Corrigan

former Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore (USA)

1908.09.291909.01.10
CanadaBishop Élie-Anicet Latulipe

former Bishop of Haileybury (Canada)

1908.10.011908.11.30
CanadaBishop Alexander MacDonald

former Bishop of Victoria (Canada)

1908.10.011909.01.03
BrazilBishop Lúcio Antunes de Souza

former Bishop of Botucatu (Brazil)

1908.10.171908.11.15
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Foschiani

former Bishop of Feltre (Italy)

former Bishop of Belluno (Italy)

1908.10.241908.11.22
ItalyCardinal Tommaso Pio Boggiani, O.P.

former Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Lorenzo in Damaso in commendum

former Chancellor of Apostolic Chancery

1908.10.311908.11.22
ChileBishop Augusto Klinke Leier

former Auxiliary Bishop of San Carlos de Ancud (Chile)

1908.11.111909.02.21
PolandBishop Stefan Denisiewicz

former Auxiliary Bishop of Płock (Poland)

1908.11.301908.11.30
ItalyArchbishop Nicola Giannattasio

former Bishop of Nardò (Italy)

1908.11.301908.12.31
BrazilBishop Alberto José Gonçalves

former Bishop of Ribeirão Preto (Brazil)

1908.12.051909.02.02
ItalyBishop Emanuele Mignone

former Bishop of Arezzo (Italy)

1908.12.271909.06.29
ItalyBishop Luigi Ermini

former Bishop of Matelica (Italy)

former Bishop of Fabriano (Italy)

1908.12.301909.01.31

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