| Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unknown | 41.9 | Incardinated | Rosolino Bianchetti Boffelli | Priest of Quiché, Guatemala | Bishop of Zacapa y Santo Cristo de Esquipulas, Guatemala |
| 26.6 | Professed | Alex Thomas Kaliyanil, S.V.D. | Member of Society of the Divine Word | Archbishop of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe | |
| 49.8 | Resigned | Attilio Nicora | Auxiliary Bishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy | Cardinal, President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See | |
| 52.3 | Appointed | Franc Rodé, C.M. | Secretary of the Secretariat of Non-Believers | Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life | |
| 75.8 | Retired | Paul Joseph Schmitt † | Bishop of Metz, France | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 74.8 | Retired | Costantino Trapani, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Mazara del Vallo, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 1 Jan | 25.6 | Ordained Priest | Tomé Ferreira da Silva | Priest of Campanha, Minas Gerais, Brazil | Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 3 Jan | 55.8 | Appointed | José Ramón Gurruchaga Ezama, S.D.B. | Bishop of Huaraz, Peru | Bishop Emeritus of Lurín, Peru |
| 61.3 | Appointed | Lucas Moreira Neves, O.P. † | Titular Archbishop of Forum Novum | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil | |
| 4 Jan | 69.7 | Died | Paul Francis Anderson † | Bishop Emeritus of Duluth, Minnesota, USA | |
| 5 Jan | 60.3 | Appointed | Emilio Lorenzo Stehle | Prelate of Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Ecuador | Bishop Emeritus of Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Ecuador |
| 6 Jan | 64.4 | Ordained Bishop | Gilberto Agustoni | Titular Bishop of Caprulae | Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Apostolic Signatura |
| 50.9 | Ordained Bishop | George Biguzzi, S.X. | Bishop of Makeni, Sierra Leone | ||
| 47.4 | Ordained Bishop | Julio Edgar Cabrera Ovalle | Bishop of Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala | Bishop of Jalapa, Guatemala | |
| 51.1 | Ordained Bishop | Emmanuel A. Mapunda | Bishop of Mbinga, Tanzania | ||
| 63.0 | Ordained Bishop | William Jerome McCormack | Titular Bishop of Nicives | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of New York, New York, USA | |
| 64.8 | Ordained Bishop | Dino Monduzzi † | Titular Bishop of Capreae | Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Prefecture of the Papal Household | |
| 57.1 | Ordained Bishop | Franc Perko † | Archbishop of Beograd (-Smederevo), Serbia | Archbishop Emeritus | |
| 46.4 | Ordained Bishop | Benedict Dotu Sekey † | Bishop of Gbarnga, Liberia | ||
| 47.6 | Ordained Bishop | Dominic Su Haw Chiu | Bishop of Sibu, Malaysia | ||
| 51.4 | Ordained Bishop | Joseph Sangval Surasarang | Bishop of Chiang Mai, Thailand | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 8 Jan | 65.1 | Resigned | Oscar Garcia Urizar † | Bishop of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos, Guatemala | Bishop Emeritus |
| 9 Jan | 88.9 | Died | José de Jesús Martinez Vargas † | Bishop Emeritus of Armenia, Colombia | |
| 10 Jan | 27.5 | Ordained Priest | Alphonse Liguori Chaupa | Priest of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea | Bishop Emeritus of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea |
| 24.8 | Ordained Priest | Carmelo Cuttitta | Priest of Palermo, Italy | Auxiliary Bishop | |
| 31.6 | Ordained Deacon | Gerard Johannes Nicolaus de Korte | Deacon of Utrecht, Netherlands | Bishop of Groningen-Leeuwarden, Netherlands | |
| 11 Jan | 53.9 | Ordained Bishop | Martin Luluga | Titular Bishop of Aquae in Dacia | Bishop of Nebbi, Uganda |
| 12 Jan | 77.6 | Died | Victor Frederick Foley, S.M. † | Archbishop Emeritus of Suva, Fiji, Pacific (Oceania) | |
| 47.3 | Appointed | Camilo Diaz Gregorio | Auxiliary Bishop of Cebu, Philippines | Prelate of Batanes, Philippines | |
| 47.3 | Appointed | Camilo Diaz Gregorio | Titular Bishop of Girus | Prelate of Batanes, Philippines | |
| 42.3 | Appointed | Leopoldo Sumaylo Tumulak | Auxiliary Bishop of Cebu, Philippines | Bishop of Philippines, Military | |
| 42.3 | Appointed | Leopoldo Sumaylo Tumulak | Titular Bishop of Lesvi | Bishop of Philippines, Military | |
| 13 Jan | 49.0 | Appointed | José de Jesús Nuñez Viloria | Bishop of Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela | Bishop Emeritus |
| 74.6 | Retired | George Henry Speltz † | Bishop of Saint Cloud, Minnesota, USA | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 14 Jan | 51.9 | Died | Tobias Wunganayi Chiginya † | Bishop of Gweru, Zimbabwe | |
| 15 Jan | 78.3 | Died | Aníbal Muñoz Duque † | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Bogotá, Colombia | |
| 50.1 | Ordained Bishop | Ernesto Antolin Salgado | Titular Bishop of Buruni | Archbishop of Nueva Segovia, Philippines | |
| 16 Jan | 79.8 | Died | Marino Bergonzini † | Bishop Emeritus of Faenza-Modigliana, Italy | |
| 61.5 | Resigned | Ramón Mantilla Duarte, C.SS.R. † | Bishop of Ipiales, Colombia | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 51.6 | Appointed | Gustavo Martínez Frías † | Bishop of Ipiales, Colombia | Archbishop of Nueva Pamplona, Colombia | |
| 57.3 | Appointed | George Edward Rueger | Auxiliary Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, USA | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | |
| 57.3 | Appointed | George Edward Rueger | Titular Bishop of Maronana | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Worcester, Massachusetts, USA | |
| 17 Jan | 57.9 | Appointed | Luigi Conti | Apostolic Nuncio to Ecuador | Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Malta |
| 18 Jan | 60.2 | Ordained Bishop | Antuvan Marovitch † | Titular Bishop of Igilgili | Vicar Apostolic of Istanbul, Turkey |
| 19 Jan | 78.6 | Died | Agnellus Andrew, O.F.M. † | Vice President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission of Social Communications | |
| 20 Jan | 48.8 | Appointed | Daniel Mark Buechlein, O.S.B. | Bishop of Memphis, Tennessee, USA | Archbishop of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA |
| 75.1 | Retired | William Graham Connare † | Bishop of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 59.0 | Appointed | Maurice-Adolphe Gaidon | Bishop of Cahors, France | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 92.2 | Died | Charles Pasquale Greco † | Bishop Emeritus of Alexandria, Louisiana, USA | Bishop Emeritus of Alexandria, Louisiana, USA | |
| 21 Jan | 74.2 | Retired | Thomas McDonnell † | Bishop of Killala, Ireland | Bishop Emeritus |
| 22 Jan | 49.4 | Appointed | Michael Louis Fitzgerald, M. Afr. | Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue | Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt, Arab Republic of |
| 24 Jan | 54.9 | Appointed | Mario Enrique Ríos Mont, C.M. | Auxiliary Bishop of Guatemala | |
| 25 Jan | 48.2 | Ordained Bishop | Louis Kébreau, S.D.B. | Titular Bishop of Selendeta | Archbishop of Cap-Haïtien, Haïti |
| 49.1 | Ordained Bishop | Joseph Lafontant | Titular Bishop of Gilba | Auxiliary Bishop of Port-au-Prince, Haïti | |
| 31.0 | Ordained Priest | Victor Lyngdoh | Priest of Shillong, India | Bishop of Nongstoin, India | |
| 26 Jan | 74.3 | Retired | Anthony Rayappa Arulappa † | Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor), India | Archbishop Emeritus |
| 47.6 | Appointed | Alphonsus F. D'Souza, S.J. | Bishop of Raiganj, India | ||
| 68.4 | Appointed | Cornelius Elanjikal | Archbishop of Verapoly, India | Archbishop Emeritus | |
| 61.8 | Appointed | Casimir Gnanadickam, S.J. † | Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor), India | ||
| 56.6 | Appointed | John Baptist Sequeira | Bishop of Chikmagalur, India | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 49.9 | Appointed | Gabriel Simo | Auxiliary Bishop of Douala, Cameroon | Auxiliary Bishop of Bafoussam, Cameroon | |
| 49.9 | Appointed | Gabriel Simo | Titular Bishop of Sereddeli | Auxiliary Bishop of Bafoussam, Cameroon | |
| 39.8 | Appointed | Simon-Victor Tonyé Bakot | Auxiliary Bishop of Douala, Cameroon | Archbishop of Yaoundé, Cameroon | |
| 39.8 | Appointed | Simon-Victor Tonyé Bakot | Titular Bishop of Siminina | Archbishop of Yaoundé, Cameroon | |
| 50.5 | Appointed | Benedict To Varpin | Coadjutor Archbishop of Madang, Papua New Guinea | Archbishop Emeritus | |
| 27 Jan | 49.5 | Appointed | John Thomas Steinbock | Bishop of Santa Rosa in California, USA | Bishop of Fresno, California, USA |
| 65.0 | Appointed | Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez | Bishop of San Luis Potosí, San Luís Potosí, México | Archbishop Emeritus of San Luis Potosí, San Luís Potosí, México | |
| 29 Jan | 62.8 | Appointed | Jorge Mario Avila del Aguila, C.M. † | Bishop of Jalapa, Guatemala | Bishop Emeritus |
| 56.7 | Appointed | William Edwin Franklin | Auxiliary Bishop of Dubuque, Iowa, USA | Bishop Emeritus of Davenport, Iowa, USA | |
| 56.7 | Appointed | William Edwin Franklin | Titular Bishop of Surista | Bishop Emeritus of Davenport, Iowa, USA | |
| 75.3 | Retired | Miguel Angel García y Aráuz † | Bishop of Jalapa, Guatemala | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 31 Jan | 52.7 | Appointed | José Lizares Estrada | Auxiliary Bishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México | |
| 25.7 | Ordained Priest | Bernabé de Jesús Sagastume Lemus, O.F.M. Cap. | Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin | Bishop of Santa Rosa de Lima, Guatemala | |
| 1 Feb | 53.3 | Died | Denis William Hanrahan † | Bishop of Christchurch, New Zealand | |
| 53.0 | Ordained Bishop | Adalberto Arturo Rosat, O.F.M. | Prelate of Aiquile, Bolivia | Prelate Emeritus | |
| 2 Feb | 25.8 | Ordained Priest | José Miguel Gómez Rodríguez | Priest of Manizales, Colombia | Bishop of Líbano-Honda, Colombia |
| 3 Feb | 47.2 | Appointed | Martin Gächter | Auxiliary Bishop of Basel, Switzerland | |
| 47.2 | Appointed | Martin Gächter | Titular Bishop of Betagbarar | Auxiliary Bishop of Basel, Switzerland | |
| 57.0 | Appointed | Amédée (Antoine-Marie) Grab, O.S.B. | Auxiliary Bishop of Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg (Freiburg), Switzerland | Bishop Emeritus of Chur, Switzerland | |
| 57.0 | Appointed | Amédée (Antoine-Marie) Grab, O.S.B. | Titular Bishop of Cenae | Bishop Emeritus of Chur, Switzerland | |
| 43.9 | Appointed | Juan de Dios Mataflorida Pueblos | Bishop of Kidapawan, Philippines | Bishop of Butuan, Philippines | |
| 4 Feb | 61.5 | Ordained Bishop | George Martin Kuzma † | Titular Bishop of Telmissus | Bishop Emeritus of Van Nuys (Ruthenian), California, USA |
| 5 Feb | 66.2 | Installed | Edward Thomas Hughes | Bishop of Metuchen, New Jersey, USA | Bishop Emeritus |
| 6 Feb | 54.1 | Appointed | José Belvino do Nascimento | Coadjutor Bishop of Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus of Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| 7 Feb | 56.4 | Ordained Bishop | Karl Reger | Titular Bishop of Árd Sratha | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Aachen, Germany |
| 9 Feb | 60.4 | Resigned | Juan Angel Belda Dardiñá | Bishop of León, Spain | Bishop Emeritus |
| 60.9 | Appointed | Antonio Vilaplana Molina | Bishop of León, Spain | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 10 Feb | 59.8 | Appointed | William Henry Bullock | Bishop of Des Moines, Iowa, USA | Bishop Emeritus of Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
| 40.7 | Appointed | Washington Cruz, C.P. | Bishop of São Luís de Montes Belos, Goias, Brazil | Archbishop of Goiânia, Goias, Brazil | |
| 86.4 | Died | Léon-Adolphe Messmer, O.F.M. Cap. † | Bishop Emeritus of Ambanja, Madagascar | ||
| 75.9 | Retired | Estanislau Arnoldo Van Melis, C.P. † | Bishop of São Luís de Montes Belos, Goias, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 11 Feb | 59.9 | Appointed | Raffaele Castielli | Bishop of Lucera-Troia, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
| 75.7 | Retired | Antonio D'Erchia † | Bishop of Conversano-Monopoli, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 46.1 | Appointed | Bruno Schettino | Bishop of Teggiano-Policastro, Italy | Archbishop of Capua, Italy | |
| 12 Feb | 58.6 | Appointed | James Hannigan † | Bishop of Wrexham, Wales, Great Britain | |
| 57.6 | Appointed | Daniel Joseph Mullins | Bishop of Menevia, Wales, Great Britain | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 13 Feb | 49.7 | Appointed | Héctor Luis Gutiérrez Pabón | Auxiliary Bishop of Cali, Colombia | Bishop of Engativá, Colombia |
| 49.7 | Appointed | Héctor Luis Gutiérrez Pabón | Titular Bishop of Segia | Bishop of Engativá, Colombia | |
| 50.2 | Appointed | Roger Francis Crispian Hollis | Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham, England, Great Britain | Bishop of Portsmouth, England, Great Britain | |
| 50.2 | Appointed | Roger Francis Crispian Hollis | Titular Bishop of Cincari | Bishop of Portsmouth, England, Great Britain | |
| 46.4 | Appointed | Domenico Padovano | Bishop of Conversano-Monopoli, Italy | ||
| 15 Feb | 40.6 | Ordained Bishop | Piotr Skucha | Titular Bishop of Segisama | Auxiliary Bishop of Sosnowiec, Poland |
| 16 Feb | 46.9 | Appointed | José Luís Azcona Hermoso, O.A.R. | Prelate of Marajó, Para, Brazil | |
| 80.8 | Died | Alois Brems † | Bishop Emeritus of Eichstätt, Germany | ||
| 17 Feb | 75.5 | Retired | John Ahern † | Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland | Bishop Emeritus |
| 50.4 | Appointed | John Magee, S.P.S. | Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland | ||
| 18 Feb | 80.8 | Died | Jorge Carlos Carreras † | Bishop Emeritus of San Justo, Argentina | |
| 26.9 | Professed | Anthony Colin Fisher, O.P. | Member of Order of Friars Preachers | Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney, Australia | |
| 53.8 | Succeeded | João Oneres Marchiori | Bishop of Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil | ||
| 75.3 | Retired | Honorato Piazera, S.C.I. † | Bishop of Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 44.9 | Appointed | Braulio Sáez Garcia, O.C.D. | Auxiliary Bishop of Oruro, Bolivia | Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia | |
| 44.9 | Appointed | Braulio Sáez Garcia, O.C.D. | Titular Bishop of Tacapae | Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia | |
| 20 Feb | 31.0 | Ordained Priest | Bejoy Nicephorus D'Cruze, O.M.I. | Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate | Bishop of Khulna, Bangladesh |
| 65.8 | Died | Caesar Gatimu † | Bishop of Nyeri, Kenya | ||
| 51.7 | Ordained Bishop | Gustavo Martínez Frías † | Bishop of Ipiales, Colombia | Archbishop of Nueva Pamplona, Colombia | |
| 74.9 | Died | Joseph Parecattil † | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Ernakulam (Syro-Malabarese), India | ||
| 21 Feb | 67.4 | Appointed | Hans Hermann Groër, O.S.B. † | Vicar Apostolic of Austria, Faithful of Eastern Rite (Byzantine) | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Wien {Vienna}, Austria |
| 22 Feb | 56.9 | Ordained Bishop | Joseph Pastor Neelankavil, C.M.I. | Bishop of Sagar (Syro-Malabarese), India | Bishop Emeritus |
| 23 Feb | 41.2 | Ordained Bishop | Carl Anthony Fisher, S.S.J. † | Titular Bishop of Tlos | Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, California, USA |
| 67.3 | Died | Umberto Florenzani † | Bishop of Anagni-Alatri, Italy | ||
| 43.9 | Ordained Bishop | Armando Xavier Ochoa | Titular Bishop of Sitifis | Bishop of El Paso, Texas, USA | |
| 45.4 | Ordained Bishop | George Patrick Ziemann † | Titular Bishop of Obba | Bishop Emeritus of Santa Rosa in California, USA | |
| 24 Feb | 57.5 | Ordained Bishop | Charles Edwin Herzig † | Bishop of Tyler, Texas, USA | |
| 75.8 | Retired | Jorge Manrique Hurtado † | Archbishop of La Paz, Bolivia | Archbishop Emeritus | |
| 65.0 | Installed | Norman Francis McFarland | Bishop of Orange in California, USA | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 74.2 | Retired | Alejandro Mestre Descals, S.J. † | Coadjutor Archbishop of La Paz, Bolivia | Coadjutor Archbishop Emeritus of Sucre, Bolivia | |
| 82.5 | Died | Henri-Marie-Ernest-Désiré Pinault, M.E.P. † | Bishop Emeritus of Chengtu [Chengdu], China | ||
| 46.3 | Ordained Bishop | Jean-Louis Plouffe | Titular Bishop of Lamzella | Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada | |
| 50.7 | Appointed | Luis Sáinz Hinojosa, O.F.M. | Archbishop of La Paz, Bolivia | Auxiliary Bishop of Cochabamba, Bolivia | |
| 88.8 | Died | Wilhelm Sedlmeier † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Rottenburg, Germany | ||
| 25 Feb | 57.4 | Ordained Bishop | George Edward Rueger | Titular Bishop of Maronana | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Worcester, Massachusetts, USA |
| 26 Feb | 49.9 | Appointed | José María Arancibia | Auxiliary Bishop of Córdoba, Argentina | Archbishop of Mendoza, Argentina |
| 49.9 | Appointed | José María Arancibia | Titular Bishop of Pumentum | Archbishop of Mendoza, Argentina | |
| 57.0 | Ordained Bishop | Mathew Vattackuzhy | Bishop of Kanjirapally (Syro-Malabarese), India | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 27 Feb | 42.3 | Appointed | Joseph Paul Pierre Morissette | Auxiliary Bishop of Québec, Québec, Canada | Bishop of Saint-Jérôme, Québec, Canada |
| 42.3 | Appointed | Joseph Paul Pierre Morissette | Titular Bishop of Mesarfelta | Bishop of Saint-Jérôme, Québec, Canada | |
| 58.8 | Appointed | Edoardo Ricci † | Bishop of San Miniato, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 28 Feb | 55.9 | Ordained Bishop | José Ramón Gurruchaga Ezama, S.D.B. | Bishop of Huaraz, Peru | Bishop Emeritus of Lurín, Peru |
| 51.8 | Appointed | Gerardo Pierro | Bishop of Avellino, Italy | Archbishop of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno, Italy | |
| 24.6 | Professed | José Elías Rauda Gutiérrez, O.F.M. | Member of Order of Friars Minor | Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Ana, El Salvador | |
| 59.5 | Appointed | Alberto Tricarico | Titular Archbishop of Sistroniana | Official Emeritus of the Secretariat of State | |
| 59.5 | Appointed | Alberto Tricarico | Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Singapore | Official Emeritus of the Secretariat of State | |
| 59.5 | Appointed | Alberto Tricarico | Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Thailand | Official Emeritus of the Secretariat of State | |
| 59.5 | Appointed | Alberto Tricarico | Apostolic Delegate to Laos | Official Emeritus of the Secretariat of State | |
| 59.5 | Appointed | Alberto Tricarico | Apostolic Delegate to Malaysia | Official Emeritus of the Secretariat of State | |
| 75.7 | Retired | Pasquale Venezia † | Bishop of Avellino, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
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