Newly Elected Bishops

in a.d. 1957

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Newly Elected Bishops (121)ElectedAscendingConsecrated
BrazilArchbishop João José da Mota e Albuquerque

former Metropolitan Archbishop of São Luís do Maranhão (Brazil)

1957.01.041957.04.28
GrenadaBishop Justin James Field, O.P.

former Bishop of Saint George’s in Grenada (Grenada)

1957.01.141957.03.25
Saint LuciaBishop Charles Alphonse Gachet, F.M.I.

former Bishop of Castries (Saint Lucia)

1957.01.141957.05.05
IraqPatriarch Raphael I Bidawid (Chaldean Rite)

former Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

1957.01.201957.10.06
ParaguayBishop Johannes Wiesen, S.V.D.

former Bishop-Prelate of Encarnación (Paraguay)

1957.01.211964.03.19
ItalyBishop Secondo Tagliabue

former Bishop of Anglona–Tursi (Italy)

1957.01.251957.03.19
PeruBishop Valeriano Ludovico Arroyo Paniego, O.F.M.

former Vicar Apostolic of Requena (Peru)

1957.01.261957.04.28
South KoreaArchbishop Harold William Henry (현 하롤드), S.S.C.M.E.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Gwangju 광주 (South Korea)

1957.01.261957.05.11
KenyaBishop Eugene Joseph Butler, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Mombasa (Kenya)

1957.01.261957.05.11
NamibiaBishop Rudolf Johannes Maria Koppmann, O.M.I.

former Vicar Apostolic of Windhoek (Namibia)

1957.01.261957.05.11
South KoreaBishop Bartholomew Kim Hyeon-bae (김현배 바르톨로메오)

former Vicar Apostolic of Jeonju 전주 (South Korea)

1957.01.261957.05.21
South KoreaBishop John A. Choi Jae-seon (최재선 요한)

former Bishop of Busan 부산 (South Korea)

1957.01.261957.05.30
NigeriaArchbishop John Kwao Amuzu Aggey

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Lagos (Nigeria)

1957.01.261957.08.04
BrazilBishop Hermínio Malzone Hugo

former Bishop of Governador Valadares (Brazil)

1957.01.291957.05.05
ArgentinaArchbishop Guillermo Bolatti

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Rosario (Argentina)

1957.02.021957.03.31
GermanyBishop Heinrich Maria Janssen

former Bishop of Hildesheim (Germany)

1957.02.031957.05.14
ParaguayBishop Aníbal Maricevich Fleitas

former Bishop of Concepción (Paraguay)

1957.02.051957.05.19
ItalyBishop Giuseppe Olivotti

former Auxiliary Bishop of Venezia (Italy)

1957.02.101957.03.19
AustraliaArchbishop James William Gleeson

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Adelaide (Australia)

1957.02.151957.05.21
NigeriaBishop John of the Cross Anyogu

former Bishop of Enugu (Nigeria)

1957.02.151957.06.09
ZimbabweBishop Donal Raymond Lamont, O. Carm.

former Bishop of Umtali (Zimbabwe)

1957.02.151957.06.16
ItalyBishop Marcello Morgante

former Bishop of Ascoli Piceno (Italy)

1957.02.161957.03.19
IraqBishop Thomas Reis (Chaldean Rite)

former Bishop of Zaku of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

1957.03.021957.05.12
GhanaArchbishop John Kodwo Amissah

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Cape Coast (Ghana)

1957.03.071957.06.16
USAArchbishop George Joseph Biskup

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Indianapolis (USA)

1957.03.091957.04.24
ItalyBishop Carmelo Canzonieri

former Bishop of Caltagirone (Italy)

1957.03.111957.05.12
ItalyArchbishop Aurelio Signora

former Bishop-Prelate of Pompei (Italy)

1957.03.121957.04.25
ArgentinaBishop Agustín Adolfo Herrera

former Bishop of San Francisco (Argentina)

1957.03.131957.05.11
ArgentinaBishop Miguel Raspanti, S.D.B.

former Bishop of Morón (Argentina)

1957.03.131957.05.12
ArgentinaArchbishop Carlos Mariano Pérez Eslava, S.D.B.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Salta (Argentina)

1957.03.131957.05.19
ArgentinaBishop Filemón Castellano

former Bishop of Lomas de Zamora (Argentina)

1957.03.131957.05.19
BrazilBishop Antônio Batista Fragoso

former Bishop of Crateús (Brazil)

1957.03.131957.05.30
ArgentinaBishop Jorge Kémérer, S.V.D.

former Bishop of Posadas (Argentina)

1957.03.131957.06.08
ArgentinaArchbishop Jorge Mayer

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bahía Blanca (Argentina)

1957.03.131957.06.09
ArgentinaBishop Antonio María Aguirre

former Bishop of San Isidro (Argentina)

1957.03.131957.06.09
ArgentinaBishop Jorge Ramón Chalup

former Bishop of Gualeguaychú (Argentina)

1957.03.131957.06.09
ArgentinaBishop Alberto Deane, C.P.

former Bishop of Villa María (Argentina)

1957.03.131957.06.29
ItalyBishop Francesco Brustia

former Bishop of Mondovì (Italy)

1957.03.141957.05.05
PhilippinesArchbishop Emilio Cinense y Abera

former Metropolitan Archbishop of San Fernando (Philippines)

1957.03.151957.05.11
ItalyBishop Francesco Ricceri

former Bishop of Trapani (Italy)

1957.03.161957.04.28
ItalyArchbishop Orazio Semeraro

former Bishop of Cariati (Italy)

former Coadjutor Archbishop of Brindisi (Italy)

1957.03.221957.05.10
IrelandBishop John Ahern

former Bishop of Cloyne (Ireland)

1957.03.301957.06.09
BrazilBishop Gregório Warmeling

former Bishop of Joinville (Brazil)

1957.04.031957.06.29
USAArchbishop James Vincent Casey

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Denver (USA)

1957.04.051957.04.24
MozambiqueBishop José dos Santos Garcia, S.M.P.

former Bishop of Porto Amélia (Mozambique)

1957.04.051957.06.16
BrazilBishop Almir Marques Ferreira

former Bishop of Uberlândia (Brazil)

1957.04.091957.08.05
GhanaBishop Gabriel Champagne, M. Afr.

former Bishop of Tamale (Ghana)

1957.04.121957.06.09
FranceBishop René-Jean-Prosper-Bruno Boudon

former Bishop of Mende (France)

1957.04.121957.07.02
Congo-KinshasaBishop Jean Fryns, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Kindu (Congo-Kinshasa)

1957.04.121957.07.07
PeruBishop Ignacio María de Orbegozo y Goicoechea, Opus Dei

former Bishop of Chiclayo (Peru)

1957.04.121964.01.25
USABishop Glennon Patrick Flavin

former Bishop of Lincoln (USA)

1957.04.171957.05.30
SwitzerlandBishop Joseph Hasler

former Bishop of Sankt Gallen (Switzerland)

1957.04.181957.05.26
ColombiaArchbishop Augusto Trujillo Arango

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tunja (Colombia)

1957.04.251957.06.09
PhilippinesArchbishop Teodulfo Sabugai Domingo

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Tuguegarao (Philippines)

1957.04.291957.07.02
BrazilBishop Jerônimo Mazzarotto

former Auxiliary Bishop of Curitiba (Brazil)

1957.04.291957.07.21
BrazilArchbishop João Batista da Mota e Albuquerque

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Vitória (Brazil)

1957.04.291957.07.25
ArgentinaBishop Raúl Marcelo Pacífico Scozzina, O.F.M.

former Bishop of Formosa (Argentina)

1957.05.071957.07.21
MexicoBishop Manuel Talamás Camandari

former Bishop of Ciudad Juárez (Mexico)

1957.05.211957.09.08
BrazilArchbishop José Pedro de Araújo Costa

former Bishop of Caetité (Brazil)

former Coadjutor Archbishop of Uberaba (Brazil)

1957.05.251957.09.15
BrazilArchbishop José Maria Pires

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Paraíba (Brazil)

1957.05.251957.09.22
PolandBishop Andrzej Wronka

former Auxiliary Bishop of Wrocław (Poland)

1957.05.301957.12.29
PolandBishop Piotr Gołębiewski

former Auxiliary Bishop of Sandomierz (Poland)

1957.06.031957.07.28
PolandBishop Stanisław Jakiel

former Auxiliary Bishop of Przemyśl (Poland)

1957.06.031957.08.04
PolandBishop Jan Fondaliński

former Auxiliary Bishop of Łódź (Poland)

1957.06.031957.09.08
PolandBishop Szczepan Sobalkowski

former Auxiliary Bishop of Kielce (Poland)

1957.06.031958.02.11
ArgentinaBishop José Agustín Marozzi

former Bishop of Resistencia (Argentina)

1957.06.121957.08.18
ArgentinaCardinal Raúl Francisco Primatesta

former Cardinal-Priest of Beata Maria Addolorata a piazza Buenos Aires

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Córdoba (Argentina)

1957.06.141957.08.15
IraqArchbishop André Sana (Chaldean Rite)

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Kirkuk of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

1957.06.201957.10.06
GambiaBishop Michael Joseph Moloney, C.S.Sp.

former Bishop of Banjul (Gambia)

1957.06.241958.05.04
USABishop Edward Joseph Maginn

former Auxiliary Bishop of Albany (USA)

1957.06.271957.09.12
GermanyBishop Josef Stangl

former Bishop of Würzburg (Germany)

1957.06.271957.09.12
USABishop Walter William Curtis

former Bishop of Bridgeport (USA)

1957.06.271957.09.24
USABishop Martin Walter Stanton

former Auxiliary Bishop of Newark (USA)

1957.06.271957.09.24
Congo-KinshasaBishop Camille Vandekerckhove, C.M.

former Bishop of Bikoro (Congo-Kinshasa)

1957.06.281958.04.20
TanzaniaBishop John James Rudin, M.M.

former Bishop of Musoma (Tanzania)

1957.07.051957.10.03
Papua New GuineaBishop Alfred Matthew Stemper, M.S.C.

former Bishop of Kavieng (Papua New Guinea)

1957.07.051957.10.28
IndonesiaArchbishop Herculanus Joannes Maria van der Burgt, O.F.M. Cap.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Pontianak (Indonesia)

1957.07.131957.10.27
GuatemalaBishop Humberto Lara Mejía, C.M.

former Bishop of Santa Cruz del Quiché (Guatemala)

1957.07.191957.10.27
ItalyBishop Felice Leonardo

former Bishop of Cerreto Sannita–Telese–Sant’Agata de’ Goti (Italy)

1957.07.221957.09.29
GermanyBishop Helmut Hermann Wittler

former Bishop of Osnabrück (Germany)

1957.07.221957.10.02
ItalyArchbishop Luigi Maria Carli

former Archbishop of Gaeta (Italy)

1957.07.311957.09.21
EnglandArchbishop George Patrick Dwyer

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Birmingham (England)

1957.08.031957.09.24
PeruBishop Edward Louis Fedders, M.M.

former Bishop-Prelate of Juli (Peru)

1957.08.031963.12.12
FranceCardinal Paul Gouyon

former Cardinal-Priest of Natività di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo a Via Gallia

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Rennes (France)

1957.08.061957.10.07
FranceBishop Alfred-Joseph Atton

former Bishop of Langres (France)

1957.08.081957.10.09
CanadaBishop Albert Sanschagrin, O.M.I.

former Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe (Canada)

1957.08.121957.09.14
EnglandBishop James Cunningham

former Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle (England)

1957.08.191957.11.02
BrazilBishop José Eugênio Corrêa

former Bishop of Caratinga (Brazil)

1957.08.191957.11.10
BrazilBishop Wilson Laus Schmidt

former Bishop of Chapecó (Brazil)

1957.09.051957.12.08
HondurasBishop Evelio Domínguez Recinos

former Auxiliary Bishop of Tegucigalpa (Honduras)

1957.09.111957.12.27
PortugalArchbishop David de Sousa, O.F.M.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Évora (Portugal)

1957.09.231957.11.10
VenezuelaArchbishop Domingo Roa Pérez

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Maracaibo (Venezuela)

1957.10.031957.11.24
BelgiumBishop Jean-Baptiste Musty

former Auxiliary Bishop of Namur (Belgium)

1957.10.041957.11.30
ItalyBishop Filippo Aglialoro

former Auxiliary Bishop of Palermo (Italy)

1957.10.051957.11.30
USABishop Frederick William Freking

former Bishop of La Crosse (USA)

1957.10.101957.11.30
ArgentinaArchbishop Juan José Iriarte

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Resistencia (Argentina)

1957.10.231957.12.27
FranceBishop Léon-Arthur-Auguste Elchinger

former Bishop of Strasbourg (France)

1957.10.261958.01.16
SwitzerlandBishop Johannes Vonderach

former Bishop of Chur (Switzerland)

1957.10.311957.12.08
USABishop John Michael Fearns

former Auxiliary Bishop of New York (USA)

1957.11.041957.12.10
LithuaniaCardinal Vincentas Sladkevičius, M.I.C.

former Cardinal-Priest of Spirito Santo alla Ferratella

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Kaunas (Lithuania)

1957.11.141957.12.25
MadagascarBishop Jules-Joseph Puset, P.S.S.

former Bishop of Tamatave (Madagascar)

1957.11.141958.01.26
EcuadorBishop Angelo Barbisotti, F.S.C.J.

former Vicar Apostolic of Esmeraldas (Ecuador)

1957.11.141958.02.02
Equatorial GuineaBishop Francisco Gómez Marijuán, C.M.F.

former Bishop of Malabo (Equatorial Guinea)

1957.11.141958.06.15
IndonesiaBishop Theodorus van den Tillaart, S.V.D.

former Bishop of Atambua (Indonesia)

1957.11.141958.06.29
PeruBishop Federico Kaiser Depel, M.S.C.

former Bishop-Prelate of Caravelí (Peru)

1957.11.211963.12.07
New ZealandCardinal Reginald John Delargey

former Cardinal-Priest of Immacolata al Tiburtino

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Wellington (New Zealand)

1957.11.251958.02.27
USABishop Leonard Philip Cowley

former Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis (USA)

1957.11.281958.01.29
USABishop Alphonse James Schladweiler

former Bishop of New Ulm (USA)

1957.11.281958.01.29
ArgentinaBishop Enrique Principe

former Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Fe (Argentina)

1957.11.281958.03.16
Timor-LesteBishop José Joaquim Ribeiro

former Bishop of Díli (Timor-Leste)

1957.11.301958.04.27
São Tomé and PríncipeArchbishop Manuel Nuñes Gabriel

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Luanda (Angola)

1957.12.051957.12.21
USABishop Howard Joseph Carroll

former Bishop of Altoona–Johnstown (USA)

1957.12.051958.01.02
USABishop Victor Joseph Reed

former Bishop of Oklahoma City–Tulsa (USA)

1957.12.051958.03.05
PolandBishop Jan Jaroszewicz

former Bishop of Kielce (Poland)

1957.12.101958.02.11
FranceBishop Vincent-Marie Favé

former Auxiliary Bishop of Quimper (France)

1957.12.121958.02.24
FranceArchbishop Charles-Marie-Paul Vignancour

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Bourges (France)

1957.12.181958.03.19
FranceArchbishop Émile André Jean-Marie Maury

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Reims (France)

1957.12.201958.02.03
MexicoBishop Francisco Ferreira Arreola

former Bishop of Texcoco (Mexico)

1957.12.211958.03.19
ChadArchbishop Paul-Pierre-Yves Dalmais, S.J.

former Metropolitan Archbishop of N’Djaména (Chad)

1957.12.241958.04.13
JapanBishop Lawrence Satoshi Nagae (ラウレンチオ 長江 恵)

former Bishop of Urawa 浦和 (Japan)

1957.12.241958.04.13
MadagascarBishop Camille-Antoine Chilouet, C.M.

former Bishop of Farafangana (Madagascar)

1957.12.241958.07.02
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