Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1912

Newly Elected Bishops (71)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
ItalyBishop Alberto Costa

former Bishop of Lecce (Italy)

1912.01.041912.04.28
FranceBishop Joseph-Marie-François-Xavier Métreau

former Bishop of Tulle (France)

1912.01.151912.03.19
MontenegroArchbishop Nikola Dobrečić

former Archbishop of Bar (Montenegro)

1912.01.161912.03.10
USABishop Patrick Aloysius Alphonsus McGovern

former Bishop of Cheyenne (USA)

1912.01.191912.04.11
FranceBishop Adolphe-Casimir David

former Auxiliary Bishop of Montpellier (France)

1912.01.201912.02.26
ColombiaArchbishop Leonida Medina

former Bishop of Socorro y San Gil (Colombia)

1912.01.221912.06.29
ItalyCardinal Raffaele Scapinelli di Leguigno

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Girolamo dei Croati

former Datary of His Holiness of Apostolic Dataria

1912.01.301912.02.25
USAArchbishop Austin Dowling

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Saint Paul (USA)

1912.01.311912.04.25
ItalyCardinal Giovanni Bonzano, P.I.M.E.

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Susanna

former Rector Magnificus of Pontifical Athenaeum of the Propagation of Faith

1912.02.021912.03.03
MartiniqueBishop Joseph Félix François Malleret, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Fort-de-France–Saint-Pierre (Martinique)

1912.02.031912.03.19
MexicoBishop Vicente Castellanos y Núñez

former Bishop of Tulancingo (Mexico)

1912.02.071912.04.21
FranceBishop Emmanuel-Marie-Joseph-Anthelme Martin de Gibergues

former Bishop of Valence (France)

1912.02.071912.05.01
TongaBishop Joseph-Felix Blanc, S.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Tonga Islands (Tonga)

1912.02.171912.06.29
NigeriaBishop Ferdinand Terrien, S.M.A.

former Vicar Apostolic of Bight of Benin (Nigeria)

1912.03.011912.07.01
GreeceArchbishop Louis Petit

former Archbishop of Athens (Greece)

1912.03.041912.04.25
USABishop Joseph Henry Conroy

former Bishop of Ogdensburg (USA)

1912.03.111912.05.01
PanamaArchbishop Guillermo Rojas y Arrieta, C.M.

former Archbishop of Panamá (Panama)

1912.03.211912.08.18
IrelandBishop Michael Higgins

former Auxiliary Bishop of Tuam (Ireland)

1912.03.231912.06.16
HungaryBishop Győző Horváth

former Auxiliary Bishop of Kalocsa (Hungary)

1912.03.261912.04.14
ItalyBishop Rocco Caliandro

former Bishop of Termoli (Italy)

1912.03.281912.04.21
ItalyArchbishop Giacomo Ghio

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Urbino (Italy)

1912.03.281912.05.19
Sri LankaBishop Bede Beekmeyer, O.S.B. Silv.

former Bishop of Kandy (Sri Lanka)

1912.04.191912.06.30
ItalyArchbishop Raffaele Santi

former Bishop of Montefeltro (Italy)

1912.04.221912.08.15
UgandaBishop Johannes Biermans, M.H.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Upper Nile (Uganda)

1912.04.241912.09.01
ChinaBishop Paul-Marie Dumond (杜保祿), C.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Nanchang 南昌 (China)

1912.04.271912.06.30
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBishop Alojzije Mišić, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Mostar–Duvno (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

1912.04.291912.06.18
HungaryArchbishop Antal Papp (Hungarian Rite)

former Apostolic Exarch of Miskolc of the Hungarians (Hungary)

1912.04.291912.10.14
CanadaBishop Patrick-Thomas Ryan

former Bishop of Pembroke (Canada)

1912.05.031912.07.25
MexicoBishop Manuel Fulcheri y Pietrasanta

former Bishop of Zamora (Mexico)

1912.05.061912.09.08
CanadaArchbishop James Morrison

former Bishop of Antigonish (Canada)

former Archbishop ad personam

1912.05.251912.09.04
GuadeloupeBishop Pierre-Louis Genoud, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Guadeloupe et Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe)

1912.05.311912.07.02
JapanArchbishop Jean-Pierre Rey (ジャン・ピエール・レイ), M.E.P.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tokyo 東京 (Japan)

1912.06.011912.07.25
Solomon IslandsBishop Jean-Ephrem Bertreux, S.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of South Solomons (Solomon Islands)

1912.06.011912.10.28
JapanBishop Jean-Claude Combaz (ジャン・クロード・コンバス), M.E.P.

former Bishop of Nagasaki 長崎 (Japan)

1912.06.031912.09.08
ScotlandArchbishop Donald Louis Mackintosh

former Coadjutor Archbishop of Glasgow (Scotland)

1912.06.111912.07.02
GermanyArchbishop Johann Jacobus von Hauck

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bamberg (Germany)

1912.06.181912.07.25
EnglandArchbishop John McIntyre

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Birmingham (England)

1912.06.241912.07.30
TanzaniaBishop Henri Léonard, M. Afr.

former Vicar Apostolic of Tabora (Tanzania)

1912.06.261912.08.10
CanadaArchbishop George Gauthier

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Montréal (Canada)

1912.06.281912.08.24
USABishop John Joseph McCort

former Bishop of Altoona (USA)

1912.06.281912.09.17
AustraliaArchbishop Daniel Mannix

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Melbourne (Australia)

former Military Vicar of Australia (Australia)

1912.07.011912.10.06
GreeceBishop Antonio Macrioniti

former Bishop of Syros (Greece)

1912.07.021912.09.29
UkraineBlessed Bishop Mykyta Budka (Микита Будка) (Ukrainian Rite)

former Apostolic Exarch of Canada of the Ukrainians (Canada)

former Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv–Halyč–Kamyanets of the Ukrainians (Ukraine)

1912.07.151912.10.13
CanadaBishop Edward Alfred Leblanc

former Bishop of Saint John, New Brunswick (Canada)

1912.08.021912.12.10
GermanyBishop Heinrich Hähling von Lanzenauer

former Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn (Germany)

1912.08.051912.10.24
FranceBishop Raymond-Marie-Turiaf de La Porte

former Bishop of Le Mans (France)

1912.08.121912.10.09
ChinaBishop Jean-Louis Clerc-Renaud (田), C.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Yujiang 餘江 (China)

1912.08.191912.11.03
AustraliaBishop Joseph Shiel

former Bishop of Rockhampton (Australia)

1912.08.191913.01.26
ItalyArchbishop Pietro Pacifici, C.R.S.

former Archbishop of Spoleto (Italy)

1912.08.201912.10.27
ChinaBishop Salvador-Pierre Walleser (法來善), O.F.M. Cap.

former Vicar Apostolic of Qinzhou 秦州 (China)

1912.08.211912.12.08
BrazilBishop Raymond Dominique Carrerot, O.P.

former Bishop of Porto Nacional (Brazil)

1912.08.261912.10.10
ItalyBishop Carlo Pensa

former Bishop of Penne (Italy)

former Bishop of Atri (Italy)

1912.08.271912.09.08
ItalyBishop Emilio Poletti

former Bishop of Bagnoregio (Italy)

1912.08.281912.09.29
IraqArchbishop Atanasio Giorgio (Cyrille) Dallal (Syriac Rite)

former Archbishop of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq)

1912.09.041912.11.24
SyriaBishop Moisé Sarkis (Syriac Rite)

former Titular Bishop of Arethusus of the Syriacs

1912.09.141912.11.24
LebanonCardinal Ignace Gabriel I Tappouni (Syriac Rite)

former Cardinal-Patriarch

former Patriarch of Antioch of the Syriacs (Lebanon)

1912.09.141913.01.19
TurkiyeBlessed Bishop Flaviano Michele Melki (Syriac Rite)

former Bishop of Gazireh of the Syriacs (Turkiye)

1912.09.141913.01.19
USAArchbishop Edward Joseph Hanna

former Metropolitan Archbishop of San Francisco (USA)

1912.10.221912.12.04
AustraliaBishop Patrick Phelan

former Bishop of Sale (Australia)

1912.11.021913.03.02
GermanyBishop Adam Senger

former Auxiliary Bishop of Bamberg (Germany)

1912.12.021913.01.12
ItalyBishop Silvio Gasperini

former Bishop of Anagni (Italy)

1912.12.021913.03.02
MexicoBishop Antonio Hernández y Rodríguez

former Bishop of Tabasco (Mexico)

1912.12.021913.04.06
ItalyBishop Natale Serafino

former Bishop of Chiavari (Italy)

1912.12.021913.05.30
GabonBishop Louis Jean Martrou, C.S.Sp.

former Vicar Apostolic of Gabon (Gabon)

1912.12.101913.02.24
VietnamBishop André-Léonce-Joseph Eloy, M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Vinh (Vietnam)

1912.12.111913.04.13
VietnamBishop Victor-Charles Quinton, M.E.P.

former Vicar Apostolic of Western Cochin (Vietnam)

1912.12.121913.04.15
BulgariaBishop Cleto Vincenzo Pejov, O.F.M. Cap.

former Vicar Apostolic of Sofia–Plovdiv (Bulgaria)

1912.12.131913.03.02
ItalyArchbishop Tomasso Trussoni

former Archbishop of Cosenza (Italy)

1912.12.141913.01.05
RomaniaBlessed Bishop Valeriu Traian Frenţiu (Romanian Rite)

former Bishop of Oradea Mare of the Romanians (Romania)

1912.12.141913.01.14
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBishop Josip Stepan Garić, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Banjaluka (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

1912.12.141913.02.20
FranceArchbishop Joseph-Marie Tissier

former Bishop of Châlons (France)

former Archbishop ad personam

1912.12.201913.02.24

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