 In the following years, 175 new churches were built on his initiative.In 1950 on the occasion of the Christian Jubilee, Pope Pius XII made him an Archbishop.Buchberger was an honorary member of a Catholic Corporation, Katholische Studentenverbindung Südmark (Akademischer Görresverein) in Munich, which is member of the Kartellverband katholischer deutscher Studentenvereine (KV).