The Year of Our Lord 1915

Bishop Events

March to April

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

1 Mar Born Bruno Roberto D’Amore, O.S.B. † Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Montevergine, Italy

Born Marius-Félix-Antoine Maziers † Archbishop Emeritus of Bordeaux (-Bazas), France

3 Mar Born Aldo Gobbi † Auxiliary Bishop of Imola, Italy

5 Mar 55.6 Died Rudolf Hittmair † Bishop of Linz, Austria

54.2 Appointed Pietro La Fontaine † Cardinal, Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy

6 Mar Born Hermínio Malzone Hugo † Bishop Emeritus of Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil

7 Mar 52.7 Installed Francesco d’Errico † Bishop of Alghero, Italy Bishop Emeritus

54.9 Ordained Bishop Arnold Frans Diepen † Titular Bishop of Danaba Bishop of ’s-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), Netherlands

35.6 Ordained Bishop Vincent-François-Joseph Sage, M.E.P. † Titular Bishop of Cusae Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Southern Manchuria {Manciuria Meridionale}, China

9 Mar Born Felice Leonardo † Bishop Emeritus of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de’ Goti, Italy

61.1 Appointed Richard Sykes, S.J. † Prefect of Zambese, Zimbabwe Prefect Emeritus

68.1 Appointed Matteo Vido † Bishop of Tinos and Mykonos, Greece Archbishop of Naxos, Andros, Tinos e Mykonos, Greece

10 Mar 51.3 Appointed Quintino Rodrigues de Oliveira e Silva † Bishop of Crato, Ceara, Brazil

11 Mar Born Hervé-Maria Le Cléac’h, SS.CC. † Bishop Emeritus of Taiohae o Tefenuaenata, French Polynesia, Pacific (Oceania)

48.3 Appointed Adolphe Rayssac, M.E.P. † Apostolic Administrator of Canton [Guangzhou], China Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Swatow [Shantou], China

12 Mar Born Felicissimus Alphonse Raeymaeckers, O.F.M. Cap. † Bishop Emeritus of Lahore, Pakistan

13 Mar 36.5 Appointed Giuseppe Angelo Poli, O.F.M. Cap. † Coadjutor Bishop of Allahabad, India Bishop Emeritus

36.5 Appointed Giuseppe Angelo Poli, O.F.M. Cap. † Titular Bishop of Curium Bishop Emeritus of Allahabad, India

14 Mar 59.6 Died Joseph John Fox † Bishop Emeritus of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA

15 Mar 41.8 Appointed Manoel Antônio de Paiva (Payva) † Bishop of Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil Bishop of Garanhuns, Pernambuco, Brazil

72.0 Died Luigi Finoja † Bishop Emeritus of Catanzaro, Italy

37.2 Appointed Pierre Louis Marie Galibert, T.O.R. † Bishop of São Luíz de Cáceres, Mato Grosso, Brazil Bishop Emeritus

73.0 Died John Joseph Grimes, S.M. † Bishop of Christchurch, New Zealand

42.5 Appointed Paul-Louis-Joseph Lequien, C.S.Sp. † Bishop of Martinique (Fort-de-France e Saint Pierre), Antilles

Born Jérôme Razafindrazaka † Bishop Emeritus of Tamatave, Madagascar

16 Mar Born Philip James Benedict Harvey † Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Westminster, England, Great Britain

18 Mar 73.9 Died Francesco Paolo Carrano † Archbishop of Trani e Barletta (e Nazareth e Bisceglie), Italy

Born José (Giuseppe) Maritano, P.I.M.E. † Bishop Emeritus of Macapá, Amapa, Brazil

19 Mar 82.5 Died Antonio Agliardi † Cardinal, Chancellor of the Apostolic Chancery

Born Virgil Patrick Copas, M.S.C. † Bishop Emeritus of Kerema, Papua New Guinea

43.1 Installed Manuel Raimundo de Melo † Bishop of Caetité, Bahia, Brazil Bishop Emeritus

22.4 Professed Jozef Kerec, S.D.B. † Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Zhaotong [Chaotung], China

Born Joseph Sipendi † Bishop of Moshi, Tanzania

20 Mar 23.0 Ordained Priest Irzio Luigi Magliacani, O.F.M. Cap. † Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Arabia, Yemen

24.7 Ordained Priest Ildebrando Vannucci, O.S.B. † Priest of Order of Saint Benedict Abbot of San Paolo fuori le Mura, Italy

21 Mar 55.0 Ordained Bishop José Alves Matoso † Bishop of Guarda, Portugal

49.7 Ordained Bishop Angelo Cambiaso † Bishop of Albenga, Italy

55.9 Ordained Bishop Manuel Luís Coelho da Silva † Bishop of Coimbra, Portugal

23 Mar Born Marcello Morgante † Bishop Emeritus of Ascoli Piceno, Italy

25 Mar 23.9 Ordained Priest Diego María Gómez Tamayo † Priest Archbishop Emeritus of Popayán, Colombia

59.1 Ordained Bishop Franz Löbmann † Titular Bishop of Priene Vicar Apostolic of Saxonia (Saxony), Germany

Born José Rincón Bonilla † Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela

27 Mar 68.9 Died Jean-Marie-Léon Dizien † Bishop of Amiens, France

Born Manuel António Pires † Bishop Emeritus of Kwito-Bié, Angola

23.0 Ordained Priest Gabriel Martelino Reyes † Priest of Jaro o Santa Elisabetta, Philippines Archbishop of Manila, Philippines

30 Mar 68.8 Died Pancrazio Giorgi † Bishop of Segni, Italy

Born Alberto Gaudêncio Ramos † Archbishop Emeritus of Belém do Pará, Brazil

31 Mar 59.0 Died Jacques-Louis Monestès † Bishop of Dijon, France

3 Apr 22.5 Ordained Priest Gabriele Arosio, P.I.M.E. † Priest of Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions Prefect Emeritus of Neghelli, Ethiopia

22.4 Ordained Priest Giovanni Battista Bosio † Priest of Brescia, Italy Archbishop of Chieti, Italy

28.5 Ordained Priest Stanislas Courbe † Priest Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Paris, France

25.6 Ordained Priest Louis Francis Kelleher † Priest of Boston, Massachusetts, USA Auxiliary Bishop

27.8 Ordained Priest Jorge Antonio Larraín Cotapos † Priest of Santiago de Chile Bishop of Chillán, Chile

25.0 Ordained Priest Giuseppe Obert, P.I.M.E. † Priest of Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions Bishop Emeritus of Dinajpur, Bangladesh

4 Apr 24.6 Ordained Priest Giuseppe Pronti † Priest of Assisi, Italy Bishop of Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino, Italy

7 Apr 23.2 Ordained Priest Mattias Eder, O.S.F.S. † Priest of Oblates of St. Francis de Sales Prefect Emeritus of Great Namaqualand, Namibia

45.9 Appointed Carlo Gregorio Maria Grasso, O.S.B. † Archbishop of Salerno (-Acerno), Italy

8 Apr 95.0 Died Cesare Fedele Abbati (Abati), O.F.M. Ref. † Bishop Emeritus of Chios (Scio), Greece

45.4 Appointed Carmine Cesarano, C.Ss.R. † Bishop of Ozieri, Italy Bishop of Aversa, Italy

Born Luis Manresa Formosa, S.J. † Bishop Emeritus of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos, Guatemala

Born François Xavier Rajaonarivo † Bishop of Miarinarivo, Madagascar

Born Rudolf Joseph Manfred Staverman, O.F.M. † Bishop Emeritus of Djajapura, Indonesia

9 Apr Born Florentino de Andrade e Silva † Bishop Emeritus of Faro {Algarve}, Portugal

10 Apr 54.3 Appointed Francisco de Paula Mas y Oliver † Bishop of Gerona, Spain

11 Apr 48.1 Ordained Bishop Manuel Damasceno da Costa † Bishop of Angra, Portugal

56.9 Installed Luigi Maria Marelli † Bishop of Bergamo, Italy

12 Apr 43.2 Ordained Bishop Gabriel-Roch de Llobet † Bishop of Gap, France Archbishop of Avignon (-Apt, Cavaillon, Carpentras, Orange, e Vaison), France

Appointed Paulus de Lucignano, O.F.M. Cap. † Apostolic Administrator of Arabia, Yemen Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Born Ferdinando Palatucci † Archbishop Emeritus of Amalfi-Cava de’ Tirreni, Italy

49.7 Appointed Albino Pella † Bishop of Casale Monferrato, Italy

13 Apr 43.7 Appointed Wenceslas Joseph Kinold, O.F.M. † Prefect of Sapporo, Japan Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Sapporo, Japan

Born Lorenzo Vivaldo † Bishop of Massa Marittima-Piombino, Italy

15 Apr Born Bruno Torpigliani † Apostolic Nuncio

16 Apr 69.0 Appointed Angelo Maria Filippo Sinibaldi † Bishop of Segni, Italy

18 Apr 55.1 Installed José Alves Matoso † Bishop of Guarda, Portugal

58.2 Ordained Bishop Josip Lang † Titular Bishop of Alabanda Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb, Croatia

53.6 Ordained Bishop Dominik Premuš † Titular Bishop of Belgrado e Semendria o Smederevo Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb, Croatia

21 Apr 37.2 Appointed Rafael Edwards Salas † Titular Bishop of Dodona Vicar Apostolic of Chile, Military

45.9 Ordained Bishop Carlo Gregorio Maria Grasso, O.S.B. † Archbishop of Salerno (-Acerno), Italy

23 Apr 59.8 Died Leonard Ludwig Baumbach, C.P. † Bishop Emeritus of Nicopoli, Bulgaria

74.5 Died Benedetto Bonazzi, O.S.B. † Archbishop of Benevento, Italy

25 Apr 58.9 Ordained Bishop Simone Pietro Grassi † Bishop of Tortona, Italy

Born Joseph Sibomana † Bishop Emeritus of Kibungo, Rwanda

26 Apr 64.5 Died Camillo Tiberio † Bishop of Diano-Teggiano, Italy

28 Apr 67.5 Died Konstantyn Chekhovych (Czechowicz) † Bishop of Przemyśl, Sambor, et Sanok (Ukrainian), Poland

58.5 Ordained Bishop Thomas Francis Doran † Titular Bishop of Halicarnassus Auxiliary Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Mar		Born	Bruno Roberto D’Amore, O.S.B. †		Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Montevergine, Italy
	Born	Marius-Félix-Antoine Maziers †		Archbishop Emeritus of Bordeaux (-Bazas), France
3 Mar		Born	Aldo Gobbi †		Auxiliary Bishop of Imola, Italy
5 Mar	55.6	Died	Rudolf Hittmair †	Bishop of Linz, Austria
54.2	Appointed	Pietro La Fontaine †	Cardinal, Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy
6 Mar		Born	Hermínio Malzone Hugo †		Bishop Emeritus of Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
7 Mar	52.7	Installed	Francesco d’Errico †	Bishop of Alghero, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
54.9	Ordained Bishop	Arnold Frans Diepen †	Titular Bishop of Danaba	Bishop of ’s-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), Netherlands
35.6	Ordained Bishop	Vincent-François-Joseph Sage, M.E.P. †	Titular Bishop of Cusae	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Southern Manchuria {Manciuria Meridionale}, China
9 Mar		Born	Felice Leonardo †		Bishop Emeritus of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de’ Goti, Italy
61.1	Appointed	Richard Sykes, S.J. †	Prefect of Zambese, Zimbabwe	Prefect Emeritus
68.1	Appointed	Matteo Vido †	Bishop of Tinos and Mykonos, Greece	Archbishop of Naxos, Andros, Tinos e Mykonos, Greece
10 Mar	51.3	Appointed	Quintino Rodrigues de Oliveira e Silva †	Bishop of Crato, Ceara, Brazil
11 Mar		Born	Hervé-Maria Le Cléac’h, SS.CC. †		Bishop Emeritus of Taiohae o Tefenuaenata, French Polynesia, Pacific (Oceania)
48.3	Appointed	Adolphe Rayssac, M.E.P. †	Apostolic Administrator of Canton [Guangzhou], China	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Swatow [Shantou], China
12 Mar		Born	Felicissimus Alphonse Raeymaeckers, O.F.M. Cap. †		Bishop Emeritus of Lahore, Pakistan
13 Mar	36.5	Appointed	Giuseppe Angelo Poli, O.F.M. Cap. †	Coadjutor Bishop of Allahabad, India	Bishop Emeritus
36.5	Appointed	Giuseppe Angelo Poli, O.F.M. Cap. †	Titular Bishop of Curium	Bishop Emeritus of Allahabad, India
14 Mar	59.6	Died	Joseph John Fox †	Bishop Emeritus of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
15 Mar	41.8	Appointed	Manoel Antônio de Paiva (Payva) †	Bishop of Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil	Bishop of Garanhuns, Pernambuco, Brazil
72.0	Died	Luigi Finoja †	Bishop Emeritus of Catanzaro, Italy
37.2	Appointed	Pierre Louis Marie Galibert, T.O.R. †	Bishop of São Luíz de Cáceres, Mato Grosso, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
73.0	Died	John Joseph Grimes, S.M. †	Bishop of Christchurch, New Zealand
42.5	Appointed	Paul-Louis-Joseph Lequien, C.S.Sp. †	Bishop of Martinique (Fort-de-France e Saint Pierre), Antilles
	Born	Jérôme Razafindrazaka †		Bishop Emeritus of Tamatave, Madagascar
16 Mar		Born	Philip James Benedict Harvey †		Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Westminster, England, Great Britain
18 Mar	73.9	Died	Francesco Paolo Carrano †	Archbishop of Trani e Barletta (e Nazareth e Bisceglie), Italy
	Born	José (Giuseppe) Maritano, P.I.M.E. †		Bishop Emeritus of Macapá, Amapa, Brazil
19 Mar	82.5	Died	Antonio Agliardi †	Cardinal, Chancellor of the Apostolic Chancery
	Born	Virgil Patrick Copas, M.S.C. †		Bishop Emeritus of Kerema, Papua New Guinea
43.1	Installed	Manuel Raimundo de Melo †	Bishop of Caetité, Bahia, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
22.4	Professed	Jozef Kerec, S.D.B. †	Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco	Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Zhaotong [Chaotung], China
	Born	Joseph Sipendi †		Bishop of Moshi, Tanzania
20 Mar	23.0	Ordained Priest	Irzio Luigi Magliacani, O.F.M. Cap. †	Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Arabia, Yemen
24.7	Ordained Priest	Ildebrando Vannucci, O.S.B. †	Priest of Order of Saint Benedict	Abbot of San Paolo fuori le Mura, Italy
21 Mar	55.0	Ordained Bishop	José Alves Matoso †	Bishop of Guarda, Portugal
49.7	Ordained Bishop	Angelo Cambiaso †	Bishop of Albenga, Italy
55.9	Ordained Bishop	Manuel Luís Coelho da Silva †	Bishop of Coimbra, Portugal
23 Mar		Born	Marcello Morgante †		Bishop Emeritus of Ascoli Piceno, Italy
25 Mar	23.9	Ordained Priest	Diego María Gómez Tamayo †	Priest	Archbishop Emeritus of Popayán, Colombia
59.1	Ordained Bishop	Franz Löbmann †	Titular Bishop of Priene	Vicar Apostolic of Saxonia (Saxony), Germany
	Born	José Rincón Bonilla †		Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
27 Mar	68.9	Died	Jean-Marie-Léon Dizien †	Bishop of Amiens, France
	Born	Manuel António Pires †		Bishop Emeritus of Kwito-Bié, Angola
23.0	Ordained Priest	Gabriel Martelino Reyes †	Priest of Jaro o Santa Elisabetta, Philippines	Archbishop of Manila, Philippines
30 Mar	68.8	Died	Pancrazio Giorgi †	Bishop of Segni, Italy
	Born	Alberto Gaudêncio Ramos †		Archbishop Emeritus of Belém do Pará, Brazil
31 Mar	59.0	Died	Jacques-Louis Monestès †	Bishop of Dijon, France
3 Apr	22.5	Ordained Priest	Gabriele Arosio, P.I.M.E. †	Priest of Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions	Prefect Emeritus of Neghelli, Ethiopia
22.4	Ordained Priest	Giovanni Battista Bosio †	Priest of Brescia, Italy	Archbishop of Chieti, Italy
28.5	Ordained Priest	Stanislas Courbe †	Priest	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Paris, France
25.6	Ordained Priest	Louis Francis Kelleher †	Priest of Boston, Massachusetts, USA	Auxiliary Bishop
27.8	Ordained Priest	Jorge Antonio Larraín Cotapos †	Priest of Santiago de Chile	Bishop of Chillán, Chile
25.0	Ordained Priest	Giuseppe Obert, P.I.M.E. †	Priest of Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions	Bishop Emeritus of Dinajpur, Bangladesh
4 Apr	24.6	Ordained Priest	Giuseppe Pronti †	Priest of Assisi, Italy	Bishop of Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino, Italy
7 Apr	23.2	Ordained Priest	Mattias Eder, O.S.F.S. †	Priest of Oblates of St. Francis de Sales	Prefect Emeritus of Great Namaqualand, Namibia
45.9	Appointed	Carlo Gregorio Maria Grasso, O.S.B. †	Archbishop of Salerno (-Acerno), Italy
8 Apr	95.0	Died	Cesare Fedele Abbati (Abati), O.F.M. Ref. †	Bishop Emeritus of Chios (Scio), Greece
45.4	Appointed	Carmine Cesarano, C.Ss.R. †	Bishop of Ozieri, Italy	Bishop of Aversa, Italy
	Born	Luis Manresa Formosa, S.J. †		Bishop Emeritus of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos, Guatemala
	Born	François Xavier Rajaonarivo †		Bishop of Miarinarivo, Madagascar
	Born	Rudolf Joseph Manfred Staverman, O.F.M. †		Bishop Emeritus of Djajapura, Indonesia
9 Apr		Born	Florentino de Andrade e Silva †		Bishop Emeritus of Faro {Algarve}, Portugal
10 Apr	54.3	Appointed	Francisco de Paula Mas y Oliver †	Bishop of Gerona, Spain
11 Apr	48.1	Ordained Bishop	Manuel Damasceno da Costa †	Bishop of Angra, Portugal
56.9	Installed	Luigi Maria Marelli †	Bishop of Bergamo, Italy
12 Apr	43.2	Ordained Bishop	Gabriel-Roch de Llobet †	Bishop of Gap, France	Archbishop of Avignon (-Apt, Cavaillon, Carpentras, Orange, e Vaison), France
	Appointed	Paulus de Lucignano, O.F.M. Cap. †	Apostolic Administrator of Arabia, Yemen	Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
	Born	Ferdinando Palatucci †		Archbishop Emeritus of Amalfi-Cava de’ Tirreni, Italy
49.7	Appointed	Albino Pella †	Bishop of Casale Monferrato, Italy
13 Apr	43.7	Appointed	Wenceslas Joseph Kinold, O.F.M. †	Prefect of Sapporo, Japan	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Sapporo, Japan
	Born	Lorenzo Vivaldo †		Bishop of Massa Marittima-Piombino, Italy
15 Apr		Born	Bruno Torpigliani †		Apostolic Nuncio
16 Apr	69.0	Appointed	Angelo Maria Filippo Sinibaldi †	Bishop of Segni, Italy
18 Apr	55.1	Installed	José Alves Matoso †	Bishop of Guarda, Portugal
58.2	Ordained Bishop	Josip Lang †	Titular Bishop of Alabanda	Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb, Croatia
53.6	Ordained Bishop	Dominik Premuš †	Titular Bishop of Belgrado e Semendria o Smederevo	Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb, Croatia
21 Apr	37.2	Appointed	Rafael Edwards Salas †	Titular Bishop of Dodona	Vicar Apostolic of Chile, Military
45.9	Ordained Bishop	Carlo Gregorio Maria Grasso, O.S.B. †	Archbishop of Salerno (-Acerno), Italy
23 Apr	59.8	Died	Leonard Ludwig Baumbach, C.P. †	Bishop Emeritus of Nicopoli, Bulgaria
74.5	Died	Benedetto Bonazzi, O.S.B. †	Archbishop of Benevento, Italy
25 Apr	58.9	Ordained Bishop	Simone Pietro Grassi †	Bishop of Tortona, Italy
	Born	Joseph Sibomana †		Bishop Emeritus of Kibungo, Rwanda
26 Apr	64.5	Died	Camillo Tiberio †	Bishop of Diano-Teggiano, Italy
28 Apr	67.5	Died	Konstantyn Chekhovych (Czechowicz) †	Bishop of Przemyśl, Sambor, et Sanok (Ukrainian), Poland
58.5	Ordained Bishop	Thomas Francis Doran †	Titular Bishop of Halicarnassus	Auxiliary Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island, USA

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