Lorenzo Maria Balconi

On 18 February 1928, Pope Pius XI appointed Balconi the Vicar Apostolic of Hanzhong and the Titular Bishop of Mylasa.^[2] On 17 May, he was ordained to the episcopacy by Bishop Flaminio Belotti. In March 1934, he resigned the office of vicar apostolic, and assumed in a ceremony in Hong Kong the position of Superior General of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, being appointed by Pius XI.^[1]

On 3 August 1939, Pope Pius XII appointed him Titular Archbishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia.^[3] He returned to Italy to direct PIME, and assumed the responsibility of founding the Missionaries of the Immaculate Conception. In his later years, he followed the activities of the order, and died in Milan on 10 April 1969.^[1]

• "Archbishop Lorenzo Maria Balconi, P.I.M.E." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. ^{[self-published]}