The Year of Our Lord 1855

Bishop Events

May to August

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
May	16.7	Converted	Henry Schomberg Kerr, S.J. †	Superior of Zambese, Zimbabwe
2 May	22.0	Ordained Deacon	Joseph Georg von Ehrler †	Deacon of Würzburg, Germany	Bishop of Speyer, Germany
44.3	Appointed	Gabriele Chachathian (Sciasciatian) †	Archbishop of Mardin (Armenian), Turkey
23.0	Ordained Deacon	Franz Joseph von Stein †	Deacon of Würzburg, Germany	Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}, Germany
6 May	72.7	Died	Aristaces Azarian, C.M.Vd. †	Abbot General of Congregazione Mechitarista di Vienna
51.6	Ordained Bishop	Hipólito Casiano Flóres †	Bishop of Comayagua, Honduras
62.9	Ordained Bishop	Joannes Kraly †	Titular Bishop of Lycopolis	Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb, Croatia
10 May		Born	Giovanni Rossi, O.Ss.C.A. †		Auxiliary Bishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy
11 May	71.3	Died	Nicholas Foran †	Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, Ireland
13 May		Ordained Bishop	Michel Alexandrian †	Bishop of Jerusalem and Amman {Gerusalemme e Amman} (Armenian), Palestine
46.5	Ordained Bishop	Francesco Paolo Lettieri †	Bishop of Sant’Agata de’ Goti, Italy
44.3	Ordained Bishop	Gabriele Chachathian (Sciasciatian) †	Archbishop of Mardin (Armenian), Turkey
16 May	44.0	Selected	Giuseppe Formisano †	Bishop of Nola, Italy
17 May	27.4	Professed	Ephrem-Edouard-Lucien-Théoponte Garrelon, O.C.D. †	Member of Order of Discalced Carmelites	Vicar Apostolic of Mangalore, India
20 May	45.2	Ordained Bishop	François-Alexandre Roullet de la Bouillerie †	Bishop of Carcassonne, France	Coadjutor Archbishop of Bordeaux, France
	Born	Giuseppe Lagumina †		Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Palermo, Italy
21.3	Professed	Martin Marty, O.S.B. †	Member of Order of Saint Benedict	Bishop of Saint Cloud, Minnesota, USA
53.0	Ordained Bishop	Nicolas-Marie Sergent †	Bishop of Quimper [Cornouailles](-Léon), France
	Born	Santino Taveggia, P.I.M.E. †		Bishop of Dinajpur, Bangladesh
24 May	29.0	Ordained Priest	Henricus (Joseph-Gauthier-Henri) Smeulders, O. Cist. †	Priest of Order of Cistercians
26 May	26.5	Ordained Priest	Symphorien Charles-Jacques Mouard (Monard), O.F.M. Cap. †	Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin	Bishop of Lahore, Pakistan
29 May	70.0	Died	Ioannes Berčić †	Bishop of Šibenik (Knin), Croatia
47.5	Died	Francesco Brigante Colonna †	Bishop of Recanati e Loreto, Italy
31 May	41.7	Installed	David William Bacon †	Bishop of Portland, Maine, USA
63.8	Selected	Carlos Cristóvão Genuês Pereira †	Bishop of Faro {Algarve}, Portugal
1 Jun	50.3	Installed	Pietro Rota †	Bishop of Guastalla, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Mantova, Italy
2 Jun	26.2	Ordained Priest	Johannes Fidelis Battaglia †	Priest of Chur, Switzerland	Bishop Emeritus
23.6	Ordained Priest	Geremia Bonomelli †	Priest of Brescia, Italy	Bishop of Cremona, Italy
23.2	Ordained Priest	Pietro Caprotti, P.I.M.E. †	Priest of Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions	Bishop of Hyderabad, India
28.2	Ordained Priest	François Lagrange †	Priest	Bishop of Chartres, France
29.6	Ordained Priest	André Peyralbe, C.M. †	Priest of Congregation of the Mission	Pro-Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Honan {Ho-Nan}, China
29.6	Ordained Priest	Jean-Marcel Touvier, C.M. †	Priest of Congregation of the Mission	Vicar Apostolic of Abyssinia, Ethiopia
3 Jun	57.5	Ordained Bishop	Andreas Gollmayr †	Archbishop of Gorizia e Gradisca, Italy
	Born	Edmundus Sybrandus Luijpen (Luypen), S.J. †		Vicar Apostolic of Batavia, Indonesia
5 Jun	26.9	Ordained Priest	Jean-Pierre-Bernard Castillon †	Priest	Bishop of Dijon, France
9 Jun	69.9	Died	Lambert-François-Joseph de Hauregard †	Priest of Namur {Namen}, Belgium
11 Jun		Born	Leonard Ludwig Baumbach, C.P. †		Bishop Emeritus of Nicopoli, Bulgaria
	Born	John Joseph O’Connor †		Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA
20 Jun	36.4	Appointed	Luigi Ambrosi, M.E.M. †	Prefect of Hong Kong [Xianggang], China
68.6	Died	Raffaele Blundo †	Archbishop of Taranto, Italy
50.7	Resigned	Antonio Feliciani, O.F.M. †	Prefect of Hong Kong [Xianggang], China	Prefect Emeritus
22 Jun		Born	Ismaele Puirredón †		Bishop Emeritus of Puno, Peru
24 Jun	24.4	Ordained Priest	Victor-Lucien-Sulpice Lécot †	Priest	Cardinal, Archbishop of Bordeaux, France
25 Jun		Born	Guillermo Rojas y Arrieta, C.M. †		Archbishop of Panamá
27 Jun	22.4	Ordained Deacon	Fernando Antonio Arturo de Merino y Ramírez †	Deacon of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	Archbishop
29 Jun	78.4	Died	Laurence O’Donnell †	Bishop of Galway, Ireland
30 Jun	22.0	Ordained Deacon	Vincenzo Molo †	Deacon of Milano {Milan}, Italy	Apostolic Administrator of Lugano, Switzerland
1 Jul	65.8	Died	József Krautmann †	Auxiliary Bishop of Esztergom, Hungary
2 Jul		Born	Henri Laurent Janssens, O.S.B. †		Titular Bishop of Bethsaida
72.1	Died	Johann Peter von Richarz †	Bishop of Augsburg, Germany
8 Jul		Born	Bernardo Giuseppe Doebbing, O.F.M. †		Bishop of Nepi e Sutri, Italy
39.3	Ordained Bishop	Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos †	Bishop of Tlaxcala (Puebla de los Angeles), México	Archbishop of México, Federal District
10 Jul	59.1	Appointed	Clément Bonnand, M.E.P. †	Apostolic Administrator of Coimbatore, India	Vicar Apostolic of Pondicherry, India
	Appointed	Joannes Salviani †	Bishop of Erzerum (Garin) (Armenian)
41.4	Appointed	William Vaughan †	Bishop of Plymouth, England, Great Britain
14 Jul	43.5	Died	Michael Monaghan †	Bishop of Roseau, Dominica, Antilles
50.7	Selected	Francisco de Asis Orueta y Castrillón, C.O. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru	Archbishop
62.3	Selected	José Manuel Pasquel y Losada †	Archbishop of Lima, Peru
15 Jul	21.2	Professed	Guglielmo Sanfelice D’Acquavella, O.S.B. †	Member of Order of Saint Benedict	Cardinal, Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy
17 Jul	85.4	Died	Claude-Louis de Lesquen †	Bishop Emeritus of Rennes, France
20 Jul	24.0	Ordained Deacon	Janos Majorosy †	Deacon of Kalocsa, Hungary	Auxiliary Bishop
22 Jul		Born	Pierre-Firmin Capmartin †		Bishop of Oran, Algeria
24.0	Ordained Priest	Janos Majorosy †	Priest of Kalocsa, Hungary	Auxiliary Bishop
31 Jul	23.1	Ordained Priest	Johannes Baptist Katschthaler †	Priest of Salzburg, Austria	Cardinal, Archbishop
1 Aug		Born	John Joseph Nilan †		Bishop of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
2 Aug		Born	Joseph John Fox †		Bishop Emeritus of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
50.5	Died	Salvatore Valentini †	Bishop of Amelia, Italy
3 Aug	57.0	Appointed	Dominic O’Brien †	Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, Ireland
4 Aug		Born	Emmanuel-Marie-Joseph-Anthelme Martin de Gibergues †		Bishop of Valence (-Die-Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux), France
5 Aug	27.5	Ordained Priest	Germanos François Chémali †	Priest	Archbishop of Alep [Beroea, Halab] (Maronite), Syria
7 Aug	69.4	Died	Gaspare Petocchi (Pettochi) †	Bishop of Nepi e Sutri, Italy
10 Aug	23.3	Ordained Priest	Franz Joseph von Stein †	Priest of Würzburg, Germany	Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}, Germany
11 Aug	56.8	Died	Toma Jedrlinić †	Bishop of Dubrovnik (Ragusa), Croatia
12 Aug	23.2	Ordained Priest	Franciszek Jaczewski †	Priest	Bishop of Lublin and Janów Podlaski (Podlaska o Janów), Poland
13 Aug	55.9	Died	Jean-François-Marie Cart †	Bishop of Nîmes, France
43.8	Selected	Raffaele Antonio Morisciano †	Bishop of Gravina e Irsina (Montepeloso), Italy	Bishop of Squillace, Italy
	Born	Giulio Tommasi †		Archbishop of Conza-Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi-Bisaccia, Italy
16 Aug	46.8	Appointed	Jakub (Iacobus) Bosagi, C.M.Vd. †	Abbot General of Congregazione Mechitarista di Vienna
17 Aug	54.8	Died	Dominique Galvano †	Bishop of Nice, France
51.6	Appointed	Eduardo Vásquez, O.P. †	Bishop of Panamá
18 Aug	22.7	Ordained Priest	Michael Joseph O’Farrell †	Priest	Bishop of Trenton, New Jersey, USA
19 Aug	68.6	Died	Francis Haly †	Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Ireland
20 Aug		Born	Ľudovit (Lajos) Baláš zo Sipeku (Balás de Sipek) †		Bishop of Rožňava, Slovakia
22 Aug	49.8	Appointed	Francesco Emilio Cugini †	Archbishop of Modena (e Nonantola), Italy
23 Aug		Born	Louis Philip Adélard Langevin, O.M.I. †		Archbishop of Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, Canada
75.8	Died	Maximos III Michel Mazloum †	Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Melkite Greek), Syria
61.1	Selected	János Nehiba †	Auxiliary Bishop of Kalocsa, Hungary
25 Aug	41.9	Selected	Petar Dujam Maupas †	Bishop of Šibenik (Knin), Croatia	Archbishop of Zadar (Zara), Croatia
26 Aug		Ordained Bishop	Joannes Salviani †	Bishop of Erzerum (Garin) (Armenian)
27 Aug		Born	Salvatore Meo †		Auxiliary Bishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy
30 Aug		Born	Adauto Aurélio de Miranda Henriques †		Archbishop of Paraíba, Brazil
31 Aug		Born	Sebastiano Nicotra †		Apostolic Nuncio
48.6	Appointed	Karl Pooten †	Archbishop of Bar (Antivari), Montenegro

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