Ordained Priest | Years | Name | Current Title |
| 26 May 1946 |
| Bishop José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra | Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, México |
| 27 Mar 1948 |
| Angelo Cardinal Acerbi | Apostolic Nuncio |
| 22 May 1948 |
| Archbishop Gaetano Bonicelli | Archbishop Emeritus of Siena-Colle di Val d’Elsa-Montalcino, Italy |
| 5 Dec 1948 |
| Bishop Manuel Edmilson da Cruz | Bishop Emeritus of Limoeiro do Norte, Ceara, Brazil |
| 6 Feb 1949 |
| Bishop Albert Jean Charles Ghislain Houssiau | Bishop Emeritus of Liège (Luik, Lüttich), Belgium |
| 19 Feb 1950 |
| Bishop Daniel Alphonse Omer Verstraete, O.M.I. | Bishop Emeritus of Klerksdorp, South Africa |
| 20 Mar 1950 |
| Archbishop Victorinus Youn Kong-hi | Archbishop Emeritus of Gwangju, Korea (South) |
| 25 Jun 1950 |
| Bishop Julian Andrzej Wojtkowski | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Warmia, Poland |
| 29 Jun 1950 |
| Archbishop Edoardo Rovida | Apostolic Nuncio |
| 3 Dec 1950 |
| Archbishop Heitor de Araújo Sales | Archbishop Emeritus of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil |
| 29 Mar 1951 |
| Jānis Cardinal Pujats | Archbishop Emeritus of Riga, Latvia |
| 1 Apr 1951 |
| Bishop Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña, O.F.M. | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Zamora en Ecuador |
| 29 Jun 1951 |
| Bishop Raúl Holguer López Mayorga | Bishop Emeritus of Latacunga, Ecuador |
| 22 Jul 1951 |
| Bishop Vincenzo Rimedio | Bishop Emeritus of Lamezia Terme, Italy |
| 2 Dec 1951 |
| Bishop Hildebrando Mendes Costa | Bishop Emeritus of Estância, Sergipe, Brazil |
| 16 Dec 1951 |
| Archbishop Pier Giuliano Tiddia | Archbishop Emeritus of Oristano, Italy |
| 8 Mar 1952 |
| Bishop Ignacio Nazareno Trejos Picado | Bishop Emeritus of San Isidro de El General, Costa Rica |
| 29 Mar 1952 |
| Bishop Jacques Marie Sébastien de Saint-Blanquat | Bishop Emeritus of Montauban, France |
| 7 Jun 1952 |
| Bishop Angelo Mascheroni | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Milano {Milan}, Italy |
| 24 Jun 1952 |
| Bishop Jacques Joseph Marie Despierre, Ist. del Prado | Bishop Emeritus of Carcassonne, France |
| 25 Jul 1952 |
| Bishop Ernst Franz Gerd Werner Dicke | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Aachen, Germany |
| 25 Jul 1952 |
| Bishop Vincenzo Zarri | Bishop Emeritus of Forli-Bertinoro, Italy |
| 20 Dec 1952 |
| Bishop Robert Joseph Banks | Bishop Emeritus of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA |
| 20 Dec 1952 |
| Archbishop Daniel Anthony Cronin | Archbishop Emeritus of Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
| 30 May 1953 |
| Bishop Dominic Anthony Marconi | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Newark, New Jersey, USA |
| 28 Jun 1953 |
| Salvatore Cardinal De Giorgi | Archbishop Emeritus of Palermo, Italy |
| 29 Jun 1953 |
| Bishop Giuseppe Di Falco | Bishop Emeritus of Sulmona-Valva, Italy |
| 29 Jun 1953 |
| Bishop Juan Luis Ysern de Arce | Bishop Emeritus of San Carlos de Ancud, Chile |
| 26 Jul 1953 |
| Walter Cardinal Brandmüller | President Emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, Roman Curia |
| 22 Aug 1953 |
| Bishop Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol | Bishop Emeritus of Cheju, Korea (South) |
| 19 Sep 1953 |
| Bishop Paolo Gillet | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Albano, Italy |
| 10 Oct 1953 |
| Friedrich Cardinal Wetter | Archbishop Emeritus of München und Freising {Munich}, Germany |
| 6 Dec 1953 |
| Archbishop Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto | Archbishop Emeritus of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil |
| 8 Dec 1953 |
| Bishop Benedito Francisco de Albuquerque | Bishop Emeritus of Itapipoca, Ceara, Brazil |
| 10 Jan 1954 |
| Bishop José Geraldo Oliveira do Valle, C.S.S. | Bishop Emeritus of Guaxupé, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| 2 May 1954 |
| Archbishop Blasco Francisco Collaço | Apostolic Nuncio |
| 27 Jun 1954 |
| Bishop José Agustín Ganuza García, O.A.R. | Prelate Emeritus of Bocas del Toro, Panama |
| 27 Jun 1954 |
| Bishop Victorio Oliver Domingo | Bishop Emeritus of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain |
| 4 Jul 1954 |
| Bishop Melchior Shi Hongzhen | Bishop of Tianjin [Tientsin], China |
| 1 Aug 1954 |
| Bishop Serafim de Sousa Ferreira e Silva | Bishop Emeritus of Leiria-Fátima, Portugal |
| 18 Sep 1954 |
| Bishop Miguel Caviedes Medina | Bishop Emeritus of Los Angeles, Chile |
| 26 Sep 1954 |
| Archbishop Peter Chung Hoan Ting | Archbishop Emeritus of Kuching, Malaysia |
| 17 Oct 1954 |
| Archbishop Denys Raboula Antoine Beylouni | Curial Bishop Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon |
| 17 Oct 1954 |
| Bishop Flavien Joseph Melki | Curial Bishop Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon |
| 31 Oct 1954 |
| Bishop Juan de Dios Caballero Reyes | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Durango, México |
| 5 Dec 1954 |
| Archbishop Armando Dini | Archbishop Emeritus of Campobasso-Boiano, Italy |
| 7 Dec 1954 |
| Bishop Jean Marie Louis Bonfils, S.M.A. | Bishop Emeritus of Nice, France |
| 8 Dec 1954 |
| Archbishop Edvaldo Gonçalves Amaral, S.D.B. | Archbishop Emeritus of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil |
| 8 Dec 1954 |
| Camillo Cardinal Ruini | Vicar General Emeritus of Roma {Rome}, Italy |
| 18 Dec 1954 |
| Paul Joseph Jean Cardinal Poupard | President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Roman Curia |
| 9 Apr 1955 |
| Bishop Paul-Marie Joseph André Guillaume | Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Dié, France |
| 29 May 1955 |
| Bishop Giulio Sanguineti | Bishop Emeritus of Brescia, Italy |
| 12 Jun 1955 |
| Bishop David Cremin | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Sydney, Australia |
| 26 Jun 1955 |
| Bishop Héctor Luis Lucas Peña Gómez | Bishop Emeritus of Holguín, Cuba |
| 29 Jun 1955 |
| Patriarch Michel Sabbah | Patriarch Emeritus of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine |
| 3 Jul 1955 |
| Archbishop Carmelo Ferraro | Archbishop Emeritus of Agrigento, Italy |
| 6 Aug 1955 |
| Bishop Bernhard Franz Kühnel Langer, M.S.C. | Prelate Emeritus of Caravelí, Peru |
| 7 Aug 1955 |
| Julián Cardinal Herranz Casado | President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, Roman Curia |
| 18 Sep 1955 |
| Archbishop Hubert Marie Pierre Dominique Barbier | Archbishop Emeritus of Bourges, France |
| 21 Nov 1955 |
| Archbishop Boutros Mouallem, S.M.S.P. | Archbishop Emeritus of Akka [San Giovanni d’Acri; Tolemaide] (Melkite Greek), Israel |
| 4 Dec 1955 |
| Archbishop Domingo Salvador Castagna | Archbishop Emeritus of Corrientes, Argentina |
| 8 Dec 1955 |
| Bishop José da Silva Chaves | Bishop Emeritus of Uruaçu (Uruassu), Goias, Brazil |
| 17 Dec 1955 |
| Bishop Ramón Buxarrais Ventura | Bishop Emeritus of Málaga, Spain |
| 17 Dec 1955 |
| Bishop William Joseph Winter | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 4 Feb 1956 |
| Bishop William Edwin Franklin | Bishop Emeritus of Davenport, Iowa, USA |
| 25 Feb 1956 |
| Bishop Thadeu Gomes Canellas | Bishop Emeritus of Osório, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
| 11 Mar 1956 |
| Bishop Johannes Antonius de Kok, O.F.M. | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Utrecht, Netherlands |
| 17 Mar 1956 |
| Bishop John Joseph Leibrecht | Bishop Emeritus of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA |
| 17 Mar 1956 |
| Bishop Alessandro Staccioli, O.M.I. | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Siena-Colle di Val d’Elsa-Montalcino, Italy |
| 26 Mar 1956 |
| Bishop Antonio Racelis Rañola | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Cebu, Philippines |
| 7 Apr 1956 |
| Ernest Cardinal Simoni | Priest of Shkodrë-Pult, Albania |
| 8 Apr 1956 |
| Bishop Orlando Octacílio Dotti, O.F.M. Cap. | Bishop Emeritus of Vacaria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
| 10 May 1956 |
| Bishop Leopold Nowak | Bishop Emeritus of Magdeburg, Germany |
| 26 May 1956 |
| Adam Joseph Cardinal Maida | Archbishop Emeritus of Detroit, Michigan, USA |
| 24 Jun 1956 |
| Bishop Angelo Daniel | Bishop Emeritus of Chioggia, Italy |
| 29 Jun 1956 |
| Bishop Giovanni (João) Zerbini, S.D.B. | Bishop Emeritus of Guarapuava, Parana, Brazil |
| 1 Jul 1956 |
| Bishop Raúl Corriveau, P.M.E. | Bishop Emeritus of Choluteca, Honduras |
| 1 Jul 1956 |
| Bishop Antônio de Souza, C.S.S. | Bishop Emeritus of Assis, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 27 Jul 1956 |
| Bishop Raymond Razakarinvony | Bishop Emeritus of Miarinarivo, Madagascar |
| 26 Aug 1956 |
| Bishop Arthur Luysterman | Bishop Emeritus of Gent {Ghent, Gand}, Belgium |
| 11 Oct 1956 |
| Archbishop Gérard Denis Auguste Defois | Bishop Emeritus of Lille, France |
| 30 Nov 1956 |
| Archbishop Pedro Rosales Dean | Archbishop Emeritus of Palo, Philippines |
| 30 Nov 1956 |
| Bishop Lucas Liu Hsien Tang (Liu Xiantang) | Bishop Emeritus of Hsinchu, Taiwan |
| 30 Nov 1956 |
| Archbishop Diosdado Aenlle Talamayan | Archbishop Emeritus of Tuguegarao, Philippines |
| 1 Dec 1956 |
| Bishop Bernard Cyril O’Grady, O.P. | Bishop Emeritus of Gizo, Solomon Islands |
| 22 Dec 1956 |
| Bishop Aldo Gerna, F.S.C.J. | Bishop Emeritus of São Mateus, Espirito Santo, Brazil |
| 27 Jan 1957 |
| Bishop José Carlos de Oliveira, C.Ss.R. | Bishop Emeritus of Rubiataba-Mozarlândia, Goias, Brazil |
| 3 Mar 1957 |
| Giovanni Battista Cardinal Re | Dean of the College of Cardinals, Roman Curia |
| 16 Mar 1957 |
| Francesco Cardinal Monterisi | Archpriest Emeritus of the Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura {Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls Basilica} |
| 16 Mar 1957 |
| José Cardinal Saraiva Martins, C.M.F. | Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Roman Curia |
| 19 Mar 1957 |
| Bishop Lawrence Primo Sabatini, C.S. | Bishop Emeritus of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada |
| 6 Apr 1957 |
| Walter Cardinal Kasper | President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Roman Curia |
| 28 Apr 1957 |
| Archbishop José Cardoso Sobrinho, O. Carm. | Archbishop Emeritus of Olinda e Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil |
| 28 Apr 1957 |
| Archbishop Henryk Józef Muszyński | Archbishop Emeritus of Gniezno, Poland |
| 3 May 1957 |
| Bishop Sylvester Donovan Ryan | Bishop Emeritus of Monterey in California, USA |
| 8 Jun 1957 |
| Bishop Edmond Carmody | Bishop Emeritus of Corpus Christi, Texas, USA |
| 9 Jun 1957 |
| Júlio Duarte Cardinal Langa | Bishop Emeritus of Xai-Xai, Mozambique |
| 15 Jun 1957 |
| Bishop Eugenio Binini | Bishop Emeritus of Massa Carrara-Pontremoli, Italy |
| 15 Jun 1957 |
| Bishop Paul Van den Berghe | Bishop Emeritus of Antwerpen {Antwerp}, Belgium |
| 23 Jun 1957 |
| Archbishop Alfons Nossol | Bishop Emeritus of Opole, Poland |