The Year of Our Lord 1941

Bishop Events

September to October

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

4 Sep Born José de Jesús Martínez Zepeda Bishop Emeritus of Irapuato, Guanajuato, México

7 Sep 37.3 Ordained Bishop Luís Gonzaga da Cunha Marelim, C.M. † Bishop of Caxias do Maranhão, Brazil Bishop Emeritus

Born Giuseppe Guerrini Bishop Emeritus of Saluzzo, Italy

39.9 Ordained Bishop Domenico Vendola † Bishop of Lucera, Italy Bishop Emeritus

9 Sep 47.5 Ordained Bishop Michael O’Reilly † Bishop of Saint George’s, Newfoundland, Canada Bishop Emeritus

12 Sep 75.6 Died Paolo Schirò † Titular Bishop of Benda

13 Sep Born Gianfranco Masserdotti, M.C.C.I. † Bishop of Balsas, Maranhão, Brazil

Born George Patrick Ziemann † Bishop Emeritus of Santa Rosa (in California), USA

14 Sep Born Héctor Guerrero Córdova, S.D.B. Prelate Emeritus of Mixes, Oaxaca, México

28.2 Ordained Priest [James Ping Leung Lin (Lin Binglian)] † Priest Bishop of Guangzhou [Canton], China

48.1 Ordained Bishop Stanislav Zela † Titular Bishop of Harpasa Auxiliary Bishop of Olomouc, Czechia

15 Sep 31.0 Appointed Pedro Aguilera Narbona † Bishop of Iquique, Chile Bishop Emeritus

47.1 Appointed Jaime de Barros Câmara † Archbishop of Belém do Pará, Brazil Cardinal, Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Born Domenico Umberto D’Ambrosio Archbishop Emeritus of Lecce, Italy

19 Sep Born Cornelius Schilder, M.H.M. Bishop Emeritus of Ngong, Kenya

Born Pedro Ercílio Simon † Archbishop Emeritus of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

20 Sep 25.6 Ordained Priest Enrique Alvear Urrutia † Priest of Santiago de Chile Bishop Emeritus of San Felipe, Chile

25.1 Ordained Priest Fernando (José Ismael) Errázuriz Gandarillas † Priest of Santiago de Chile Auxiliary Bishop

25.8 Ordained Priest Leonardo Gregorio Gallardo Heredia † Priest Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de Cuyo, Argentina

25.8 Ordained Priest Jacques Huỳnh Văn Của † Priest Coadjutor Bishop Emeritus of Phú Cường, Viet Nam

21 Sep 56.2 Ordained Bishop Denis J. Moynihan † Bishop of Ross, Ireland Bishop Emeritus of Kerry, Ireland

22 Sep 80.2 Died Nicolas Cadi † Archbishop Emeritus of Bosra e Haūrān (Melkite Greek), Syria

Born Colin David Campbell Bishop Emeritus of Dunedin, New Zealand

Born José Miguel Ángel Giles Vázquez † Bishop of Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero, México

47.6 Succeeded Urbain Etienne Morlion, M. Afr. † Vicar Apostolic of Baudouinville, Congo (Dem. Rep.) Bishop Emeritus of Baudouinville, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

Born Lucio Angelo Renna, O. Carm. Bishop Emeritus of San Severo, Italy

83.1 Retired Victor Roelens, M. Afr. † Vicar Apostolic of Baudouinville, Congo (Dem. Rep.) Vicar Apostolic Emeritus

23 Sep 65.7 Selected Christian Josef Caminada † Bishop of Chur, Switzerland

24 Sep 54.8 Appointed Paul Chevrier † Bishop of Cahors, France Bishop Emeritus

61.3 Appointed Auguste Joseph Gaudel † Bishop of Fréjus, France Bishop Emeritus of Fréjus-Toulon, France

45.8 Died François-Joseph Person † Bishop of Les Cayes, Haïti

25 Sep Born Diego Coletti Bishop Emeritus of Como, Italy

Born Anicetus Bongsu Antonius Sinaga, O.F.M. Cap. † Archbishop Emeritus of Medan, Indonesia

26 Sep Born Gerulfus Kherubim Pareira, S.V.D. Bishop Emeritus of Maumere, Indonesia

28 Sep Born Lucas Van Looy, S.D.B. Bishop Emeritus of Gent {Ghent, Gand}, Belgium

29 Sep Born Hans-Jochen Jaschke Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Hamburg, Germany

Born Barry Philip Jones † Bishop of Christchurch, New Zealand

73.3 Died Carlos Silva Cotapos † Bishop Emeritus of Talca, Chile

2 Oct Born Michael Gregory Campbell, O.S.A. Bishop Emeritus of Lancaster, England, Great Britain

3 Oct 60.0 Appointed Gerardo Anaya y Diez de Bonilla † Bishop of San Luis Potosí, México

Born Cándido Cárdenas Villalba Bishop Emeritus of Benjamín Aceval, Paraguay

65.5 Appointed Giuseppe De Nicola † Auxiliary Bishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy

65.5 Appointed Giuseppe De Nicola † Titular Bishop of Pergamum Auxiliary Bishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy

Born José Palmeiro Mendes, O.S.B. Abbot Emeritus of Nossa Senhora do Monserrate do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

57.8 Died Georg Weig, S.V.D. † Vicar Apostolic of Tsingtao [Qingdao], China

4 Oct 34.3 Appointed Nivardo Maria (Francesco) Buttarazzi, O. Cist. † Abbot of Order of Cistercians

5 Oct 25.2 Ordained Priest Albert Louis Descamps † Priest Secretary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission

7 Oct Born Manual Pelino Domingues Bishop Emeritus of Santarém, Portugal

8 Oct 76.9 Died Lorenzo Lauri † Cardinal, Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary

9 Oct Born Deogratias Muganwa Byabazaire † Bishop of Hoima, Uganda

10 Oct Born Francis Kallarakal Archbishop Emeritus of Verapoly, India

55.4 Died Leon Wetmański † Auxiliary Bishop of Płock, Poland

11 Oct 44.3 Appointed Antoine-Marie Cazaux † Bishop of Luçon, France Bishop Emeritus

51.6 Appointed Eugène-Joseph-Marie Le Bellec † Bishop of Vannes, France Bishop Emeritus

Born Vincent Marius Joseph Peiris Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Colombo, Sri Lanka

12 Oct 40.5 Ordained Bishop Carlo Baldini, O.M.D. † Bishop of Chiusi e Pienza, Italy

38.1 Ordained Bishop Alejandro Menchaca Lira † Bishop of Temuco, Chile Bishop Emeritus

15 Oct 67.3 Appointed Nicola Canali † Cardinal, Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary

25.1 Ordained Priest Rafael Angel González Ramírez † Priest Bishop Emeritus of Barinas, Venezuela

Born Wojciech Ziemba Archbishop Emeritus of Warmia, Poland

16 Oct 75.7 Died Paul Justin Cawet † Coadjutor Bishop of Namur {Namen}, Belgium

58.0 Appointed Jacques Hubert Goumans, O.S.C. † Titular Bishop of Lauzadus Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Bandung, Indonesia

58.0 Appointed Jacques Hubert Goumans, O.S.C. † Vicar Apostolic of Bandung, Indonesia Vicar Apostolic Emeritus

48.5 Appointed Michel Thomas Verhoeks, C.M. † Titular Bishop of Eleutheropolis in Palaestina Vicar Apostolic of Surabaia, Indonesia

48.5 Appointed Michel Thomas Verhoeks, C.M. † Vicar Apostolic of Surabaia, Indonesia

17 Oct 65.7 Confirmed Christian Josef Caminada † Bishop of Chur, Switzerland

76.0 Died Claude-Marie Chanrion, S.M. † Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Nouvelle-Calédonie, New Caledonia, Pacific (Oceania)

64.9 Died Carlos Labbé Márquez † Bishop Emeritus of Iquique, Chile

Appointed Julio Tadeo Ramírez Ortiz † Vicar Apostolic of Chile, Military

18 Oct Born Leo Murphy Drona, S.D.B. Bishop Emeritus of San Pablo, Philippines

19 Oct 49.0 Ordained Bishop Lorenz Jäger (Jaeger) † Archbishop of Paderborn, Germany Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

22 Oct 46.7 Ordained Bishop Laurence Julius FitzSimon † Bishop of Amarillo, Texas, USA

53.3 Appointed Norberto Perini † Archbishop of Fermo, Italy Archbishop Emeritus

23 Oct 62.5 Died Louis-Joseph-Arthur Melanson † Archbishop of Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada

24 Oct 38.1 Installed Alejandro Menchaca Lira † Bishop of Temuco, Chile Bishop Emeritus

Born Peter Takeo Okada † Archbishop Emeritus of Tōkyō, Japan

40.8 Appointed Henri-Marie-François Varin de la Brunelière, C.S.Sp. † Bishop of Martinique (Fort-de-France e Saint Pierre), Antilles Archbishop Emeritus of Fort-de-France (e Saint Pierre), Martinique, Antilles

26 Oct 23.3 Ordained Priest Pablo Correa León † Priest of Bogotá, Colombia Bishop Emeritus of Cúcuta, Colombia

27.4 Ordained Priest José Eugênio Corrêa † Priest of Juiz de Fora, Brazil Bishop Emeritus of Caratinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil

65.5 Ordained Bishop Giuseppe De Nicola † Titular Bishop of Pergamum Auxiliary Bishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy

28.3 Ordained Priest Venmani S. Selvanather † Priest of Salem, India Archbishop Emeritus of Pondicherry and Cuddalore, India

36.5 Ordained Bishop Edmond-Marie-Jean Wolff, C.S.Sp. † Titular Bishop of Phatanus Archbishop Emeritus of Diégo-Suarez, Madagascar

27 Oct Born Jesús Esteban Sádaba Pérez, O.F.M. Cap. Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Aguarico, Ecuador

28 Oct Born Jean Charles Émile Gardin, C.S.Sp. Bishop Emeritus of Impfondo, Congo

85.7 Died Thomas Louis Heylen, O. Praem. † Bishop of Namur {Namen}, Belgium

29 Oct Born Yvon-Joseph Moreau, O.C.S.O. Bishop Emeritus of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Québec, Canada

30 Oct 77.4 Died Sigismund Waitz † Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria

31 Oct 76.7 Died Daniel Foley † Bishop of Ballarat, Australia

64.8 Appointed Enrique Pla y Deniel † Cardinal, Archbishop of Toledo, Spain

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
4 Sep		Born	José de Jesús Martínez Zepeda		Bishop Emeritus of Irapuato, Guanajuato, México
7 Sep	37.3	Ordained Bishop	Luís Gonzaga da Cunha Marelim, C.M. †	Bishop of Caxias do Maranhão, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	Born	Giuseppe Guerrini		Bishop Emeritus of Saluzzo, Italy
39.9	Ordained Bishop	Domenico Vendola †	Bishop of Lucera, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
9 Sep	47.5	Ordained Bishop	Michael O’Reilly †	Bishop of Saint George’s, Newfoundland, Canada	Bishop Emeritus
12 Sep	75.6	Died	Paolo Schirò †	Titular Bishop of Benda
13 Sep		Born	Gianfranco Masserdotti, M.C.C.I. †		Bishop of Balsas, Maranhão, Brazil
	Born	George Patrick Ziemann †		Bishop Emeritus of Santa Rosa (in California), USA
14 Sep		Born	Héctor Guerrero Córdova, S.D.B.		Prelate Emeritus of Mixes, Oaxaca, México
28.2	Ordained Priest	[James Ping Leung Lin (Lin Binglian)] †	Priest	Bishop of Guangzhou [Canton], China
48.1	Ordained Bishop	Stanislav Zela †	Titular Bishop of Harpasa	Auxiliary Bishop of Olomouc, Czechia
15 Sep	31.0	Appointed	Pedro Aguilera Narbona †	Bishop of Iquique, Chile	Bishop Emeritus
47.1	Appointed	Jaime de Barros Câmara †	Archbishop of Belém do Pará, Brazil	Cardinal, Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	Born	Domenico Umberto D’Ambrosio		Archbishop Emeritus of Lecce, Italy
19 Sep		Born	Cornelius Schilder, M.H.M.		Bishop Emeritus of Ngong, Kenya
	Born	Pedro Ercílio Simon †		Archbishop Emeritus of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
20 Sep	25.6	Ordained Priest	Enrique Alvear Urrutia †	Priest of Santiago de Chile	Bishop Emeritus of San Felipe, Chile
25.1	Ordained Priest	Fernando (José Ismael) Errázuriz Gandarillas †	Priest of Santiago de Chile	Auxiliary Bishop
25.8	Ordained Priest	Leonardo Gregorio Gallardo Heredia †	Priest	Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de Cuyo, Argentina
25.8	Ordained Priest	Jacques Huỳnh Văn Của †	Priest	Coadjutor Bishop Emeritus of Phú Cường, Viet Nam
21 Sep	56.2	Ordained Bishop	Denis J. Moynihan †	Bishop of Ross, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus of Kerry, Ireland
22 Sep	80.2	Died	Nicolas Cadi †	Archbishop Emeritus of Bosra e Haūrān (Melkite Greek), Syria
	Born	Colin David Campbell		Bishop Emeritus of Dunedin, New Zealand
	Born	José Miguel Ángel Giles Vázquez †		Bishop of Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero, México
47.6	Succeeded	Urbain Etienne Morlion, M. Afr. †	Vicar Apostolic of Baudouinville, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Bishop Emeritus of Baudouinville, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
	Born	Lucio Angelo Renna, O. Carm.		Bishop Emeritus of San Severo, Italy
83.1	Retired	Victor Roelens, M. Afr. †	Vicar Apostolic of Baudouinville, Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
23 Sep	65.7	Selected	Christian Josef Caminada †	Bishop of Chur, Switzerland
24 Sep	54.8	Appointed	Paul Chevrier †	Bishop of Cahors, France	Bishop Emeritus
61.3	Appointed	Auguste Joseph Gaudel †	Bishop of Fréjus, France	Bishop Emeritus of Fréjus-Toulon, France
45.8	Died	François-Joseph Person †	Bishop of Les Cayes, Haïti
25 Sep		Born	Diego Coletti		Bishop Emeritus of Como, Italy
	Born	Anicetus Bongsu Antonius Sinaga, O.F.M. Cap. †		Archbishop Emeritus of Medan, Indonesia
26 Sep		Born	Gerulfus Kherubim Pareira, S.V.D.		Bishop Emeritus of Maumere, Indonesia
28 Sep		Born	Lucas Van Looy, S.D.B.		Bishop Emeritus of Gent {Ghent, Gand}, Belgium
29 Sep		Born	Hans-Jochen Jaschke		Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Hamburg, Germany
	Born	Barry Philip Jones †		Bishop of Christchurch, New Zealand
73.3	Died	Carlos Silva Cotapos †	Bishop Emeritus of Talca, Chile
2 Oct		Born	Michael Gregory Campbell, O.S.A.		Bishop Emeritus of Lancaster, England, Great Britain
3 Oct	60.0	Appointed	Gerardo Anaya y Diez de Bonilla †	Bishop of San Luis Potosí, México
	Born	Cándido Cárdenas Villalba		Bishop Emeritus of Benjamín Aceval, Paraguay
65.5	Appointed	Giuseppe De Nicola †	Auxiliary Bishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy
65.5	Appointed	Giuseppe De Nicola †	Titular Bishop of Pergamum	Auxiliary Bishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy
	Born	José Palmeiro Mendes, O.S.B.		Abbot Emeritus of Nossa Senhora do Monserrate do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
57.8	Died	Georg Weig, S.V.D. †	Vicar Apostolic of Tsingtao [Qingdao], China
4 Oct	34.3	Appointed	Nivardo Maria (Francesco) Buttarazzi, O. Cist. †	Abbot of Order of Cistercians
5 Oct	25.2	Ordained Priest	Albert Louis Descamps †	Priest	Secretary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission
7 Oct		Born	Manual Pelino Domingues		Bishop Emeritus of Santarém, Portugal
8 Oct	76.9	Died	Lorenzo Lauri †	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary
9 Oct		Born	Deogratias Muganwa Byabazaire †		Bishop of Hoima, Uganda
10 Oct		Born	Francis Kallarakal		Archbishop Emeritus of Verapoly, India
55.4	Died	Leon Wetmański †	Auxiliary Bishop of Płock, Poland
11 Oct	44.3	Appointed	Antoine-Marie Cazaux †	Bishop of Luçon, France	Bishop Emeritus
51.6	Appointed	Eugène-Joseph-Marie Le Bellec †	Bishop of Vannes, France	Bishop Emeritus
	Born	Vincent Marius Joseph Peiris		Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Colombo, Sri Lanka
12 Oct	40.5	Ordained Bishop	Carlo Baldini, O.M.D. †	Bishop of Chiusi e Pienza, Italy
38.1	Ordained Bishop	Alejandro Menchaca Lira †	Bishop of Temuco, Chile	Bishop Emeritus
15 Oct	67.3	Appointed	Nicola Canali †	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary
25.1	Ordained Priest	Rafael Angel González Ramírez †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Barinas, Venezuela
	Born	Wojciech Ziemba		Archbishop Emeritus of Warmia, Poland
16 Oct	75.7	Died	Paul Justin Cawet †	Coadjutor Bishop of Namur {Namen}, Belgium
58.0	Appointed	Jacques Hubert Goumans, O.S.C. †	Titular Bishop of Lauzadus	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Bandung, Indonesia
58.0	Appointed	Jacques Hubert Goumans, O.S.C. †	Vicar Apostolic of Bandung, Indonesia	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
48.5	Appointed	Michel Thomas Verhoeks, C.M. †	Titular Bishop of Eleutheropolis in Palaestina	Vicar Apostolic of Surabaia, Indonesia
48.5	Appointed	Michel Thomas Verhoeks, C.M. †	Vicar Apostolic of Surabaia, Indonesia
17 Oct	65.7	Confirmed	Christian Josef Caminada †	Bishop of Chur, Switzerland
76.0	Died	Claude-Marie Chanrion, S.M. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Nouvelle-Calédonie, New Caledonia, Pacific (Oceania)
64.9	Died	Carlos Labbé Márquez †	Bishop Emeritus of Iquique, Chile
	Appointed	Julio Tadeo Ramírez Ortiz †	Vicar Apostolic of Chile, Military
18 Oct		Born	Leo Murphy Drona, S.D.B.		Bishop Emeritus of San Pablo, Philippines
19 Oct	49.0	Ordained Bishop	Lorenz Jäger (Jaeger) †	Archbishop of Paderborn, Germany	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
22 Oct	46.7	Ordained Bishop	Laurence Julius FitzSimon †	Bishop of Amarillo, Texas, USA
53.3	Appointed	Norberto Perini †	Archbishop of Fermo, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
23 Oct	62.5	Died	Louis-Joseph-Arthur Melanson †	Archbishop of Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
24 Oct	38.1	Installed	Alejandro Menchaca Lira †	Bishop of Temuco, Chile	Bishop Emeritus
	Born	Peter Takeo Okada †		Archbishop Emeritus of Tōkyō, Japan
40.8	Appointed	Henri-Marie-François Varin de la Brunelière, C.S.Sp. †	Bishop of Martinique (Fort-de-France e Saint Pierre), Antilles	Archbishop Emeritus of Fort-de-France (e Saint Pierre), Martinique, Antilles
26 Oct	23.3	Ordained Priest	Pablo Correa León †	Priest of Bogotá, Colombia	Bishop Emeritus of Cúcuta, Colombia
27.4	Ordained Priest	José Eugênio Corrêa †	Priest of Juiz de Fora, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus of Caratinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
65.5	Ordained Bishop	Giuseppe De Nicola †	Titular Bishop of Pergamum	Auxiliary Bishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy
28.3	Ordained Priest	Venmani S. Selvanather †	Priest of Salem, India	Archbishop Emeritus of Pondicherry and Cuddalore, India
36.5	Ordained Bishop	Edmond-Marie-Jean Wolff, C.S.Sp. †	Titular Bishop of Phatanus	Archbishop Emeritus of Diégo-Suarez, Madagascar
27 Oct		Born	Jesús Esteban Sádaba Pérez, O.F.M. Cap.		Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Aguarico, Ecuador
28 Oct		Born	Jean Charles Émile Gardin, C.S.Sp.		Bishop Emeritus of Impfondo, Congo
85.7	Died	Thomas Louis Heylen, O. Praem. †	Bishop of Namur {Namen}, Belgium
29 Oct		Born	Yvon-Joseph Moreau, O.C.S.O.		Bishop Emeritus of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Québec, Canada
30 Oct	77.4	Died	Sigismund Waitz †	Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria
31 Oct	76.7	Died	Daniel Foley †	Bishop of Ballarat, Australia
64.8	Appointed	Enrique Pla y Deniel †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Toledo, Spain

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