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Jeremiah Doyle

Jeremiah Joseph Doyle (5 December 1849 – 1909), was an Irish born Catholic bishop, the bishop of Grafton.

Warnakulasurya Wadumestrige Devasritha Valence Mendis

Warnakulasurya Wadumestrige Devasritha Valence Mendis (born May 21, 1958 Koralawella, Sri Lanka) is the current Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chilaw since 2006.


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1550 in poetry

November 7 – Jón Arason (born 1484), Icelandic Roman Catholic bishop and poet, executed

30564 Olomouc

The citation accompanying the suggestion of the name and published in the Minor Planet Circular on 6 January 2003 said: "The city of Olomouc is the center of Hanakia in the heart of Moravia. The seat of Catholic bishops since 1063 and Moravian primates since 1777, it has been home to a university since 1573, now called Palacký University."

Agostino Falivene

Agostino Falivene born from Giffoni in the province of Salerno, of the Order of the Servants of Maria, was Roman Catholic bishop of the island of Capri from the 25 September 1528 to the 24 April 1534 in that Pope Paul III transfers it to the island of Ischia where he died in 1548.

Alphonse Joseph

Alphonse Joseph Glorieux (1844–1917), a Belgian missionary Roman Catholic bishop

Arason

Jón Arason (1484–1550), Icelandic Roman Catholic bishop and poet

Bernt Ivar Eidsvig

Eidsvig is the third Norwegian-born Catholic bishop in Norway since the Reformation, after Olaf Offerdahl (consecrated 6 April 1930, died 7 October the same year) and John Willem Gran (consecrated March 24, 1963, died March 20, 2008).

After completing licentiate studies at Heythrop College in London, Mr Eidsvig was ordained as a diocesan priest of Oslo Catholic Diocese of St. Olav's Cathedral in Oslo on June 20th, 1982 by the then Catholic Bishop of Oslo, John Willem Gran.

Bishop Butler

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

Bishop Kearney

Daniel O'Kearney (died 1778), Roman Catholic Bishop of Limerick, Ireland

Bishopric of the Forces

There is sometimes confusion between the holder of this post and the Anglican "Bishop to the Forces": for this reason the former is normally referred to as, "the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Forces".

Boetius Egan

Boetius MacEgan (died 1650), Roman Catholic bishop of Ross, Ireland

Bosco Puthur

Mar Bosco Puthur മാര്‍ ബോസ്കോ പുത്തൂര്‍ (b. 28 May 1946, Parappur, Kerala, India) is an East Syrian Catholic Bishop.

Chang Myon

His son John Chang-yik is the Roman Catholic bishop of Chuncheon and a former president of the South Korean Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Coal Strike of 1902

The employers were willing to accept a union leader as the "eminent sociologist," so Roosevelt named E. E. Clark, head of the railway conductors' union, as the "eminent sociologist" and, after Catholics exerted pressure, added a sixth, Catholic bishop John Lancaster Spalding, and Commissioner Wright as the seventh member.

Darnall's Chance

Two Carroll sons were prominent members of colonial and early United States society: Daniel Carroll became a politician in the Continental Congress and Maryland Senate, and member of the Constitutional Convention; and John Carroll became the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States, and founder of Georgetown University.

Diego Ladrón de Guevara

Doctor Diego Ladrón de Guevara Orozco Calderón (1641, Cifuentes, Spain—September 9, 1718) was a Roman Catholic bishop and Spanish colonial administrator.

Edward Daly

Edward Celestin Daly (1894–1964), Roman Catholic Bishop of Des Moines, Iowa, 1948–1964

Felice Leonardo

Since the death of Cardinal Ersilio Tonini, he also is the oldest Roman Catholic bishop from Italy.

Francis Kelly

Francis Martin Kelly (1886–1950), third Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Winona

Frederic Nausea

Frederic Nausea, born Friedrich Grau about 1496 in Waischenfeld, Germany; † 6 February 1552 in Trient, was the Catholic Bishop of the Archdiocese of Vienna.

Giovanni Battista Cantalicio

Giovanni Battista Valentini, (Cantalicio) ( Cantalice, circa 1450 - Rome, 1515 ), was an Italian humanist, author and Catholic bishop.

Herranz

José María Izuzquiza Herranz (1925–2011), Roman Catholic bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Jaén en Peru, Peru

James Cassidy

James Edwin Cassidy (1869–1951), American Roman Catholic bishop in Massachusetts

Jan Paul Lenga

Jan Paul Lenga (born on March 28, 1950, in Horodok, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine) is a former Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Karaganda.

John D'Arcy

John Michael D'Arcy (1932–2013), American Roman Catholic bishop

John Langdon Down

He was descended on his father's side from an Irish family, his great-great grandfather having been Catholic bishop of Derry.

John McCormack

John Brendan McCormack (born 1935), Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Manchester, New Hampshire

Joseph Lessard

Lessard won a seat to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec as a Conservative candidate in 1890 in the district of Maskinongé with the support of local Catholic Bishop Louis-François Richer Laflèche.

Joseph-Hormisdas Legris

The same year, Catholic Bishop Louis-François Richer Laflèche used his influence to help local candidates of the Conservative Party being elected.

Józef Michalik

Józef Michalik (born April 20, 1941 in Zambrów) is a Polish Roman Catholic bishop, the diocesan Bishop of the Zielona Góra-Gorzów diocese in 1986-1993 (to 1992 of Gorzów), Archbishop of Przemyśl in 1993, and the President of the Polish Episcopal Conference since 2004.

Larry McMahon

:For the Roman Catholic Bishop of Hartford, see Lawrence Stephen McMahon.

Mark Lenard

In The Radicals (1990), which recounted the beginnings of the Swiss Anabaptist movement in the 1520s, he played a composite historical character, Eberhard Hoffman, a Catholic bishop who serves as prosecutor in the trial of his former abbot Michael Sattler.

Máté Hidvégi

Hidvegi was the editor of the biography of Áron Márton (Roman Catholic bishop of Alba Julia, Transylvania, which has been officially included into the canonization files of Aron Marton by the Vatican) and the book The Lord by Romano Guardini, translated by Aron Marton with an introduction by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (the present Pope).

Michael Kenny

Michael Hughes Kenny (1937–1995), Roman Catholic bishop of Juneau, Alaska

Michael O'Farrell

Michael J. O'Farrell (1832–1894), Irish-born Roman Catholic bishop; first Bishop of Trenton

Pandolfini

Niccolò Pandolfini (1440-1518), Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal

Paul Broca

He also advocated secular education for women and famously opposed Félix-Antoine-Philibert Dupanloup (1802–1878), Roman Catholic bishop of Orléans, who wanted to keep control of women’s education.

Prignani

Francesco Moricotti Prignani (died 1394), Italian Roman Catholic bishop and Cardinal

Richard Doerflinger

Richard Doerflinger is Associate Director of Pro-Life Activities at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Richard Miles

Richard Pius Miles (1791–1860), Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville, 1838–1860

Sergio Pagano

Sergio Pagano B (born 6 November 1948 in Genoa) is a Roman Catholic bishop and the Prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives.

Steib

J. Terry Steib, the current Roman Catholic Bishop of Memphis, Tennessee

Thomas Brennan

Thomas Francis Brennan (1855–1916), American Catholic bishop; 1st Catholic bishop of Dallas 1891–1893

Vancea

Ioan Vancea (1820–1892), Austro-Hungarian Greek-Catholic bishop

Varlet

Dominique Marie Varlet (1678–1742), Roman Catholic bishop during the church's Post Reformation Netherlands period

Vincenzo Di Mauro

Vincenzo Di Mauro (born 1 Dec 1951) is an Italian Catholic Bishop, Archbishop-Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Vigevano, and prior to that was an official of the Roman Curia.

Yanta

John Yanta (born 1931), Roman Catholic bishop in the United States