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Agnelo Gracias

Agnelo Rufino Gracias (born 30 July 1939) is the Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bombay.

Archbishop Spyridon of America

In 1985 the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate elected him titular bishop of Apamea, assigning him as an auxiliary bishop to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Austria and Exarchate of Italy, as it was then known.

Bernard Longley

On 4 January 2003 Longley was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster and Titular Bishop of Zarna by Pope John Paul II.

Bruno Maldaner

Maldaner was ordained a Priest at the age of 26 and appointed Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Brazil and Titular Bishop of Aquae in Mauretania on April 15, 1966.

Casae Calanae

The see's current bishop is Richard Higgins, an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA.

Daniel M. Buechlein

Auxiliary Bishop Christopher J. Coyne served as the Apostolic Administrator until October 18, 2012 when Pope Benedict appointed Joseph William Tobin, C.Ss.R. Archbishop-Elect of Indianapolis.

Denis J. Madden

On May 10, 2005, Madden was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore and Titular Bishop of Baia by Pope Benedict XVI; he was that pope's first episcopal appointment in the United States.

F. Richard Spencer

On May 22, 2010, Spencer was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese for the Military Services and titular bishop of Auzia by Pope Benedict XVI.

Francis Edward Hyland

On October 15, 1949, Hyland was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, Georgia, and Titular Bishop of Gomphi by Pope Pius XII.

Franz Karl Joseph Fürst von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst

Franz Joseph Xaver Karl Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (27 November 1745, Waldenburg - 9 October 1819, Augsburg) was a Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop and bishop of Augsburg (the first after it ceased to be the Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg), as well as vicar general of Neuwürttemberg.

George Joseph Finnigan

The co-consecrators were Bishops John F. Noll of Fort Wayne and Edward Francis Hoban, Auxiliary bishop of Chicago.

Giulio Bevilacqua

Giulio Bevilacqua, Orat (November 14, 1881 – May 6, 1965) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop of Brescia from 1965 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.

On February 15, 1965, Bevilacqua was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Brescia and Titular Archbishop of Gaudiaba by Paul VI, in advance of his elevation to the College of Cardinals.

Guillermo Leaden

On May 28, 1975 he was appointed Titular Bishop of Theudalis and Auxiliary Bishop of the Buenos Aires and was ordained August 8, 1975.

Herbert Vaughan

Three were later called as bishops in addition to Herbert: Roger became Archbishop of Sydney, Australia; Francis became Bishop of Menevia, Wales; John became titular bishop of Sebastopolis and auxiliary bishop in Salford, England.

Holy Cross Church, Frankfurt-Bornheim

At November 11, 2012 the quinquennial anniversary of the centre of meditation was celebrated with the auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg Dr. Thomas Löhr and a lecture by the journalist and theologian Klaus Hofmeister of the Hessischer Rundfunk.

Jan Cieplak

After several years as a seminary instructor, in 1908 he became the auxiliary bishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mohilev and titular bishop of Evaria.

Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel

Gobel was ordained a Catholic priest in 1750 and then became a member of the cathedral chapter of the Prince-Bishopric of Basel, Nicolas de Montjoie, based in Porrentruy, In 1771 he was appointed the auxiliary bishop of the diocese for the section that was situated in French territory, being named by the Holy See as a titular bishop in partibus of Lydda.

John Stephen Cummins

On February 26, 1974, Cummins was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento and titular bishop of Lambaesis by Pope Paul VI.

José Domínguez Rodríguez

Bishop José Maximino Eusebio Domínguez y Rodríguez (29 May 1915 in Havana, Cuba - 11 December 1986 in Matanzas, Cuba) was Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Matanzas (1961–1987) and Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Havana (1960–1961).

José Palmeira Lessa

On June 21, 1982, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro and titular bishop of Sita.

Joseph-Aurèle Plourde

In 1964 he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Alexandria in Ontario and in 1967, he was made Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ottawa.

Juan Nepomuceno Terrero y Escalada

He served as auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires from 1898 till 1900, when he became bishop of La Plata.

On April 21, 1898, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and titular bishop of Dercos.

Juozas Tunaitis

Juozas Tunaitis (October 25, 1928, Davainiškis – June 1, 2012, Vilnius), was the Roman Catholic titular bishop of Sousse, Tunisia (1991–2012) and the auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vilnius, Lithuania (1991–2010).

Leon Lemmens

Leon Lemmens (born March 16, 1954 in Boorsem, Maasmechelen, Belgium) is a Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Belgium.

Luis Alberto Fernández Alara

On Januari 24, 2009, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and titular bishop of Carpi.

Manuel Tato

He served as auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires from 1948 till 1961, when he became bishop of Santiago del Estero.

Mario José Serra

He served as auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires from 1975 till 2002.

On May 28, 1975, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and titular bishop of Mentesa.

Michael Francis Burbidge

On June 21, 2002, Burbidge was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia and Titular Bishop of Cluain Iraird by Pope John Paul II.

Nicolas Eugene Walsh

On August 10, 1976, he resigned as Bishop of Yakima for health reasons; he was named auxiliary bishop of Seattle and titular bishop of Volsinium on the same date.

Paciano Aniceto

He served various parishes under the Diocese of San Fernando (elevated to an Archdiocese on March 17, 1975 by Pope Paul VI.) He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Tuguegarao City and Titular Bishop of Tlos on April 7, 1979.

Richard Moth

In 2001, upon the elevation of the Vicar General, Mgr Canon John Hine, to be an Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark, Mgr Moth was named Vicar General and Chancellor of the Archdiocese.

Robert Brom

On Wednesday, January 4, 2012, the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, announced that Pope Benedict XVI had appointed Auxiliary Bishop Cirilo Flores of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange as the Coadjutor Bishop to Bishop Brom in the Diocese of San Diego.

Roberto González Nieves

He remained there until 1988, when he was appointed by the Holy See as an auxiliary bishop of Boston to work under Cardinal Archbishop Bernard Francis Law.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan

Cardinal Scola is assisted by a Vicar General, the Auxiliary Bishop Mario Delpini, and two other Auxiliary Bishops, Erminio De Scalzi and Luigi Stucchi.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan

Francis J. Kane - an Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago is the current Titular Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie.

Seaán Ó hEidhin

He worked as a suffragan or auxiliary bishop in Worcester (1443), London, (1443–1448), Exeter (1447), and was at the time of his death vicar of West Thurrock, near London.

Thomas Francis Brennan

Two years later, on February 1, 1893, he was transferred to the titular see of Utilla, and was made Auxiliary to Bishop Thomas James Power of St. John's, Newfoundland.

Tomás Juan Carlos Solari

He served as auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires from 1943 till 1948, when he became archbishop of La Plata.

On August 23, 1943, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and titular bishop of Aulon.

Vicente Bokalic Iglic

On March 15, 2010, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and titular bishop of Summa.

William Benedict Friend

On 31 August 1979, Pope John Paul II appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Alexandria-Shreveport, and that same day was named bishop of the titular see of Pomaria.

William McDermott

On 19 May 1976 he was appointed, by Pope Paul VI, Titular Bishop of Thucca in Mauretania and Auxiliary Bishop for the Diocese of Huancavelica.


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Alexandru Mesian

In 1994 he was consecrated auxiliary bishop for the Lugoj Diocese, advancing to bishop in 1996 with the retirement of Ioan Ploscaru.

Antonio José González Zumárraga

He was made auxiliary bishop of Quito on May 17, 1969 (with the titular diocese of Tagarata) and was consecrated as bishop in Quito on June 15, 1969 by Cardinal Pablo Muñoz Vega, SJ, Archbishop of Quito.

Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Syracuse

The formal dedication took place on October 3, 1999, with Syracuse Bishop James Moynihan reading the Papal bull and Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Costello acting as Celebrant.

Bishop Butler

Christopher Butler (b. 1902), Catholic Bishop of Nova Barbara and Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Westminster

Bishop Kearney

Raymond Augustine Kearney (1902–1956), Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn, United States

Bishop Maginn High School

Bishop Maginn is named after the former Auxiliary Bishop of Albany Edward Joseph Maginn.

Bishop of Paisley

Upon the death of Bishop Black in March 1968 the Rt Rev Stephen McGill was translated by Pope Paul VI from the see of Argyll and the Isles and remained in Paisley until his retirement in March 1988 whereupon he was succeeded by the Rt Rev John Mone an auxiliary bishop of Glasgow and an appointee of Pope John Paul II.

Brian Ashby

Ashby was consecrated Bishop at the age of 41 (one of the youngest bishops to take office) on 5 August 1964 in Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, Christchurch by Archbishop McKeefry of Wellington and the co-consecrators Archbishop Liston of Auckland and Bishop Snedden (Auxiliary Bishop of Wellington).

Brian Joseph Dunn

On 21 November 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Auxiliary Bishop Dunn to be Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Antigonish, as the permanent replacement for the former Bishop Raymond Lahey.

Catholic Bishops' Conference of Hungary

László Bíró, Military Ordinary (2008 - ; 1994 - 2008 Auxiliary Bishop of Kalocsa-Kecskemét)

Dimas Lara Barbosa

Lara Barbosa received his episcopal consecration on the following August 2 from Eusébio Oscar Scheid, archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, with the bishop of São José dos Campos, José Nelson Westrupp, and the auxiliary bishop of Brasília, Raymundo Damasceno Assis, serving as co-consecrators.

Diosdado Talamayan

He was appointed as the Auxiliary Bishop of Tuguegarao on October 20, 1983 and was ordained also as the Titular Bishop of Girus on January 12, 1984.

Eduardo Boza-Masvidal

He was chosen by Pope John XXIII as Titular Bishop of Vinda and Auxiliary Bishop San Cristobal de la Habana (Havana) on March 31, 1960.

Gerhard Wagner

Gerhard Maria Wagner (born 1954), Austrian priest, designated auxiliary bishop of Linz

Gumbleton

Thomas Gumbleton, a retired Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit.

Guy Gaucher

A few months later, 7 May 1987, he was named auxiliary bishop of Bayeux-Lisieux in residence at Lisieux.

John Joseph Nevins

On January 25, 1979, he was appointed by Pope John Paul II as Auxiliary Bishop of Miami and as Titular Bishop of Rusticiana.

Joseph Frans Lescrauwaet

Lescrauwaet resigned as auxiliary bishop of Haarlem on 22 March 1995.

Lescrauwaet was appointed auxiliary bishop of Diocese of Haarlem on 19 October 1983 as well as Titular Bishop of Turres Concordiae and was ordained bishop on 14 January 1984.

Joseph Khoury

On April 29, 1993, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of the now vacant seat of Chonochora, then was consecrated as Bishop on September 4 of that year by Cardinal Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir and the bishops Roland Aboujaoudé and Gabriel Toblé.

Lemmens

Leon Lemmens (born 1954), Belgian Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop

Ludwig Schwarz

Schwarz has also had to deal with some controversy over the nomination of Gerhard Maria Wagner as auxiliary bishop of the diocese, whose selection by the Congregation for Bishops was rejected by many of the liberal deans in Austria.

Manuel Duran Moreno

On December 20, 1976, Pope Paul VI elevated Father Moreno to the Episcopacy of the Catholic Church, and on February 17, 1977, Bishop Moreno was consecrated by the late Cardinal Manning as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Meletie Covaci

Born in Macedonia, he was a priest of the Greek-Catholic Church in Diosig when, in 1748, Pope Benedict XIV named him auxiliary bishop of the Latin Rite Oradea Diocese, in charge of its Romanian Greek-Catholic parishes.

Miguel Gatan Purugganan

Pope Paul VI appointed him on 23 January 1971 to the Titular Bishop of Egnatia and ordered him to auxiliary bishop in Nueva Segovia.

Norbert Trelle

Trelle received his episcopal consecration on the following May 1 from Joachim Cardinal Meisner, archbishop of Cologne, with the auxiliary bishop emiritus of Cologne, Augustinus Frotz, and the auxiliary bishop of Cologne, Klaus Dick, serving as co-consecrators.

Richard John Garcia

In 1997, while serving as the pastor of Saint Leo the Great Parish in San Jose and as the diocesan director for vocations, Pope John Paul II named Garcia titular bishop of Bapara and auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento.

Robert Anthony Daniels

Until his appointment to that see by Pope Benedict XVI, on Tuesday, March 1, 2011, he had been Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of London, Ontario, Canada.

Robert Joseph Hermann

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Hermann represented the Archbishop in overseeing the parishes in five deaneries: Northeast St. Louis County, Northwest St. Louis County, Festus, St. Charles County and Washington.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne

Bishop Tim Costelloe SDB was appointed as an auxiliary bishop in April 2007 with responsibility for the northern region of the archdiocese.

Vincent Long Van Nguyen OFM Conv, auxiliary bishop for the western region and former assistant superior general for the Conventual Franciscans for Asia and Oceania

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec

On Tuesday, February 22, 2011, Vatican Information Service (VIS) and Catholic News Service (CNS), announced that Pope Benedict XVI had named the 53-year-old Bishop Gérald Cyprien Lacroix, until then an Auxiliary Bishop (assistant bishop) of Quebec (since 2009), as the new Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec and Primate of Canada.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalookan

Upon Bishop Iñiguez's resignation, Diocese of Antipolo Auxiliary Bishop Francisco M. De Leon was appointed Apostolic Administrator of the diocese, and will continue to serve such appointment until a residential bishop is appointed by the Pope.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Laredo

On July 3, 2000, the Diocese of Laredo was created by His Holiness Pope John Paul II and made Auxiliary Bishop James Anthony Tamayo, from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, the First Bishop of Laredo.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen

# Paul Gregory Bootkoski (2002– ) (appointed auxiliary bishop of Newark on July 8, 1997; ordained a bishop on September 5, 1997; appointed bishop of Metuchen in 2002)

Roman Catholic Diocese of Zárate-Campana

Oscar Sarlinga, who as Auxiliary Bishop of Mercedes-Lujan, (from April 12, 2003) was appointed diocesan bishop of Zarate-Campana, on February 3, 2006, by Pope Benedict XVI, having taken possession of the diocese on February 18 that year.

Rubén Isaza Restrepo

He was, at the time, the youngest bishop in Colombia since he was Auxiliary Bishop of Cartagena, who began to lead the diocese February 20, 1955 at the consecration of His Excellence Paolo Bertoli, an ambassador of His Holiness Pius XII.

Saint Stephen Diocesan Seminary, Honolulu

Prior to his elevation to the episcopate as auxiliary bishop of Honolulu, Msgr. Joseph Ferrario, was a professor of Greek and Latin at Saint Stephen's.

Szilárd Bogdánffy

Dr. Szilárd Bogdánffy was consecrated as bishop of Oradea of the Latins and auxiliary bishop of Satu Mare on February 14, 1949 by Gerald Patrick O’Hara, Regent of the Apostolic Nunciature to Bucharest.

Teemu Sippo

In June 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Bishop of Helsinki, succeeding Josef Wrobel, who had been appointed auxiliary bishop of Lublin.

Teurnia

Víctor René Rodríguez Gómez, Titular Bishop of Tiburnia 13 May 2006 – 25 October 2012; born 17 November 1950 in San Martín de las Pirámides; appointed Titular Bishop of Tiburnia and Auxiliary Bishop of Texcoco, 13 May 2006; ordained Bishop of Tiburnia 25 July 2006; appointed Bishop Valle de Chalco, 25 October 2012.

Theotonius Amal Ganguly

In 1960, Ganguly was consecrated a bishop and dually appointed the Titular Bishop of Oliva as well as the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Dhaka.

Tomás Juan Carlos Solari

Solari received his episcopal consecration on the following November 11 from Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello, archbishop of Buenos Aires, with the auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires, Antonio Rocca, and the auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires, Miguel de Andrea, serving as co-consecrators.

William J. Winter

It was announced on February 25, 2011 that Pope Benedict XVI had appointed the Reverend Father William J. Waltersheid, Secretary for the Clergy and the Consecrated Life of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as Bishop Winter's replacement as Auxiliary Bishop-elect of Pittsburgh, where he will serve as an assistant to Bishop David Zubik.

William P. Callahan

Bishop Richard Sklba (a Milwaukee auxiliary bishop) and Archbishop John Myers (Archbishop of Newark, who had previously been Bishop of Peoria, where Callahan had served) were the co-consecrators.

William Winter

William J. Winter (born 1930), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Pittsburgh