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Giovanni Urbani, 58, was appointed by Pope John to succeed him as Patriarch of Venice—the first native Venetian to be made patriarch in 150 years. He served as an artilleryman in World War I, though he was noted more for praising the Lord than passing the ammunition, and he tirelessly organized seminars and study groups for the soldiers. Later, Urbani became top national ecclesiastical adviser to the Catholic Action movement, traveled all over Italy organizing parish priests in a grass-roots light against Communism. In 1955 he was made Bishop of Verona, with the personal title of archbishop.
José M. Bueno y Monreal, 54, native of Saragossa, Spain, was attorney general of the Madrid-Alcalá diocese during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Pius XII gave him one of the church's most delicate and difficult assignments by appointing him in 1954 archbishop coadjutor to the late Pedro Cardinal Segura, the terrible-tempered, reactionary Archbishop of Seville. Cardinal Segura refused to see him, tried to block Monreal's every effort to liberalize Segura's restrictions (such as forbidding Catholics to attend "public spectacles'').
William Godfrey, 69, son of a Liverpool haulage contractor, is a scholarly, somewhat remote man who headed the English College in Rome from 1930 to 1937. In 1938 he was appointed apostolic delegate to Britain, the first papal delegate to that country since the Reformation. In World War II Archbishop Godfrey also served as chargé d'affaires in the Polish government in exile. In 1953 he was made Archbishop of Liverpool, and three years later became Archbishop of Westminster and Primate of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales.
Paul Marie A. Richaud, 71, was born in Versailles, and in 1938 became Bishop of Laval, near Rennes. A zealous promoter of Catholic Action and the French boy scout movement, he was named Bishop of Bordeaux in 1950, appropriately is noted in that wine-producing region for his fine cellar.
Julius Doepfner, 45, youngest member of the College of Cardinals (TIME, Dec. 1). Born in Hausen, near Würzburg, he was ordained only a few weeks after World War II began, returned to Germany, became vice rector of the training college for priests in Würzburg. In 1943 Pius XII appointed him Bishop of Würzburg and last year Bishop of Berlin, where he won the sympathy of refugees and young people, took a firm stance against Communism.
Francis Koenig, 53, Archbishop of Vienna since 1956, is, like Pope John, a farmer's son and a linguist. As a priest in Nazi-ruled Austria, he was in constant trouble with the Nazis over their claim that the state alone should be responsible for youth. During World War II he was a familiar figure at Allied P.W. camps. An authority on the ancient religions of Mithraism and Zoroastrianism, Koenig has written several books, articles and a dictionary on this subject. Said one of his friends last week: "Vienna has gained a cardinal but lost a scholar."