| Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unknown | 64.9 | Appointed | Paul Antaki † | Patriarchal Exarch of Egypt and Sudan (Melkite Greek) | Protosyncellus Emeritus of Egypt and Sudan (Melkite Greek) |
| Died | Giuseppe Boeris, C.R.S. † | Superior General Emeritus of Clerks Regular of Somasca | |||
| 34.2 | Incardinated | Francisco Cerro Chaves | Priest of Valladolid, Spain | Bishop of Coria-Cáceres, Spain | |
| 20.6 | Professed | Patrick Chilekwa Chisanga, O.F.M. Conv. | Member of Order of Friars Minor Conventual | Bishop of Mansa, Zambia | |
| 70.3 | Resigned | Maurizio Benvenuto Maria Contorni, O.S.B. † | Abbot of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Italy | Abbot Emeritus | |
| 62.5 | Resigned | Viktor Josef Dammertz, O.S.B. | Abbot Primate of Order of Saint Benedict | Bishop Emeritus of Augsburg, Germany | |
| 55.0 | Appointed | Nikólaos Foskolos | Apostolic Administrator of Rhodos {Rhodes}, Greece | Archbishop Emeritus of Athēnai {Athens}, Greece | |
| 71.4 | Resigned | Paolo Giannini, O.S.B.I. † | Abbot of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata (Italo-Albanese), Italy | Abbot Emeritus | |
| 47.7 | Converted | Alan Stephen Hopes | Bishop of East Anglia, England, Great Britain | ||
| 58.0 | Appointed | Grégoire III (Loutfi) Laham, B.S. | Patriarchal Exarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme} (Melkite Greek), Palestine | Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Melkite Greek), Syria | |
| 64.5 | Died | Alberto Lee López, O.F.M. † | Prefect of Guapi, Colombia | ||
| 53.6 | Appointed | Iván Antonio Marín López | Secretary of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum” | Archbishop of Popayán, Colombia | |
| 31.9 | Incardinated | Joaquim Giovanni Mol Guimarães | Priest of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil | Auxiliary Bishop | |
| 35.0 | Solemn Professed | Donato Ogliari, O.S.B. | Priest of Order of Saint Benedict | Abbot of Montecassino, Italy | |
| 87.1 | Died | Antoni Sagrera Gayá, C.R. † | Superior General Emeritus of Congregation of Clerics Regular | ||
| 32.1 | Incardinated | Alexis Touably Youlo | Priest of San Pedro-en-Côte d’Ivoire | Bishop of Agboville, Côte d’Ivoire | |
| 4 Jan | 65.6 | Appointed | Rafael Garcia González † | Bishop of León, Guanajuato, México | |
| 48.3 | Ordained Bishop | Juan Godayol Colom, S.D.B. | Prelate of Ayaviri, Peru | Prelate Emeritus | |
| 75.5 | Retired | Anselmo Zarza Bernal † | Bishop of León, Guanajuato, México | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 50.0 | Appointed | Alejo Zavala Castro | Bishop of Tlapa, Guerrero, México | Bishop of Chilpancingo-Chilapa, Guerrero, México | |
| 5 Jan | 46.8 | Ordained Bishop | Carlos Jesús Patricio Baladrón Valdés | Titular Bishop of Cibaliana | Bishop Emeritus of Guantánamo-Baracoa, Cuba |
| 6 Jan | 51.4 | Ordained Bishop | Benjamin D. de Jesus, O.M.I. † | Titular Bishop of Bladia | Vicar Apostolic of Jolo, Philippines |
| 73.5 | Ordained Bishop | Ernesto Maria Fiore † | Titular Archbishop of Novi | Dean Emeritus of the Roman Rota | |
| 54.3 | Ordained Bishop | Michael Louis Fitzgerald, M. Afr. | Titular Bishop of Nepte | Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Egypt, Arab Republic of | |
| 65.4 | Ordained Bishop | John Joseph Glynn † | Titular Bishop of Monteverde | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of United States of America, Military | |
| 42.6 | Ordained Bishop | Juan Matogo Oyana, C.M.F. | Bishop of Ebebiyin, Equatorial Guinea | Bishop of Bata, Equatorial Guinea | |
| 53.8 | Ordained Bishop | Philippe Nkiere Keana, C.I.C.M. | Coadjutor Bishop of Bondo, Congo (Dem. Rep.) | Bishop of Inongo, Congo (Dem. Rep.) | |
| 47.7 | Ordained Bishop | Rino Passigato | Titular Archbishop of Nova Caesaris | Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal | |
| 65.0 | Ordained Bishop | Henri Salina, C.R.A. † | Titular Bishop of Mons in Mauretania | Abbot Emeritus of Saint-Maurice, Switzerland | |
| 54.7 | Ordained Bishop | Gastone Simoni | Bishop of Prato, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 43.5 | Ordained Bishop | Petar Šolic † | Titular Bishop of Mauriana | Auxiliary Bishop of Split-Makarska, Croatia | |
| 59.5 | Ordained Bishop | Iñaki Mallona Txertudi, C.P. | Bishop of Arecibo, Puerto Rico | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 7 Jan | 53.9 | Appointed | Marko Culej † | Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb, Croatia | Bishop of Varaždin, Croatia |
| 53.9 | Appointed | Marko Culej † | Titular Bishop of Limata | Bishop of Varaždin, Croatia | |
| 8 Jan | 52.1 | Appointed | João Bosco Oliver de Faria | Bishop of Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil | Archbishop of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| 70.7 | Died | Miguel Roca Cabanellas † | Archbishop of Valencia, Spain | ||
| 75.4 | Retired | Jorge Scarso, O.F.M. Cap. | Bishop of Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 9 Jan | 76.0 | Died | Constantino Maradei Donato † | Bishop Emeritus of Barcelona, Venezuela | |
| 48.0 | Appointed | Christian Werner | Coadjutor Bishop of Austria, Military | Bishop | |
| 48.0 | Appointed | Christian Werner | Titular Bishop of Aeca | Bishop of Austria, Military | |
| 10 Jan | 70.4 | Died | Edward Thomas O’Meara † | Archbishop of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA | |
| 11 Jan | 34.3 | Appointed | Milan Chautur, C.SS.R. | Auxiliary Bishop of Prešov (Prjašev) (Slovakian), Slovakia | Bishop of Košice (Slovakian), Slovakia |
| 34.3 | Appointed | Milan Chautur, C.SS.R. | Titular Bishop of Cresima | Bishop of Košice (Slovakian), Slovakia | |
| 30.9 | Ordained Priest | Peter Loy Chong | Priest of Suva, Fiji, Pacific (Oceania) | Archbishop | |
| 63.1 | Appointed | Michael Ambrose Griffiths, O.S.B. † | Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, England, Great Britain | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 64.5 | Resigned | Hugh Lindsay † | Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, England, Great Britain | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 75.0 | Retired | Michel Louis Marie Joseph Mondésert † | Auxiliary Bishop of Grenoble, France | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | |
| 12 Jan | 55.4 | Ordained Bishop | Alfredo Petit Vergel | Titular Bishop of Buslacena | Auxiliary Bishop of San Cristobal de la Habana, Cuba |
| 15 Jan | 51.2 | Appointed | Lorenzo Baldisseri | Titular Archbishop of Diocletiana | Cardinal, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops |
| 51.2 | Appointed | Lorenzo Baldisseri | Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti | Cardinal, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops | |
| 44.8 | Appointed | Juan Vargas Aruquipa | Auxiliary Bishop of Coroico, Bolivia | Bishop | |
| 44.8 | Appointed | Juan Vargas Aruquipa | Titular Bishop of Bita | Bishop of Coroico, Bolivia | |
| 16 Jan | 36.7 | Ordained Priest | Joseph Tran Văn Toan | Priest of Long Xuyên, Viet Nam | Auxiliary Bishop |
| 17 Jan | 49.0 | Appointed | Ciriaco Benavente Mateos | Bishop of Coria-Cáceres, Spain | Bishop of Albacete, Spain |
| 18 Jan | 46.0 | Appointed | Antoine Audo, S.J. | Bishop of Alep [Beroea, Halab] (Chaldean), Syria | |
| 62.6 | Appointed | Osório Bebber, O.F.M. Cap. | Prelate of Coxim, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus of Joaçaba, Santa Catarina, Brazil | |
| 67.0 | Resigned | Cesar C. Raval, S.V.D. | Bishop of Bangued, Philippines | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 21 Jan | 75.6 | Retired | Jean Jérôme Hamer, O.P. † | Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life | Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus |
| 64.8 | Appointed | Eduardo Martínez Somalo | Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life | Cardinal, Chamberlain Emeritus of the Apostolic Chamber | |
| 23 Jan | 51.7 | Appointed | Antoine Ntalou | Archbishop of Garoua, Cameroon | |
| 49.3 | Appointed | Jean-Berchmans Nterere † | Coadjutor Bishop of Muyinga, Burundi | Bishop | |
| 58.6 | Appointed | Joseph James Potocnak, S.C.I. | Bishop of De Aar, South Africa | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 65.7 | Appointed | Andrew Tsien Chih-ch’un † | Bishop of Hwalien, Taiwan | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 59.2 | Appointed | Raphaël Marie Ze † | Bishop of Sangmélima, Cameroon | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 24 Jan | 70.9 | Appointed | Antonio María Javierre Ortas, S.D.B. † | Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments | Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus |
| 46.2 | Ordained Bishop | Vincent Gerard Nichols | Titular Bishop of Othona | Cardinal, Archbishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain | |
| 68.1 | Appointed | Wolodymyr Walter Paska † | Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia (Ukrainian), Pennsylvania, USA | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | |
| 68.1 | Appointed | Wolodymyr Walter Paska † | Titular Bishop of Tigillava | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Philadelphia (Ukrainian), Pennsylvania, USA | |
| 25 Jan | 30.4 | Professed (Perpetual Vows) | Peter Chung Soon-taek, O.C.D. | Member of Order of Discalced Carmelites | Auxiliary Bishop of Seoul, Korea (South) |
| 51.8 | Ordained Bishop | Dante Lafranconi | Bishop of Savona-Noli, Italy | Bishop of Cremona, Italy | |
| 30.4 | Ordained Priest | Jacques Danka Longa | Priest of Sokodé, Togo | Bishop of Kara, Togo | |
| 59.5 | Installed | Iñaki Mallona Txertudi, C.P. | Bishop of Arecibo, Puerto Rico | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 26 Jan | 63.7 | Ordained Bishop | François Gourguillon † | Titular Bishop of Suas | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Reims, France |
| 28 Jan | 46.5 | Appointed | Gerald Richard Barnes | Auxiliary Bishop of San Bernardino, California, USA | Bishop |
| 46.5 | Appointed | Gerald Richard Barnes | Titular Bishop of Mons Faliscus | Bishop of San Bernardino, California, USA | |
| 64.2 | Installed | Daniel Anthony Cronin | Archbishop of Hartford, Connecticut, USA | Archbishop Emeritus | |
| 70.8 | Died | Dominic Ðinh Huy Quang † | Auxiliary Bishop of Bac Ninh, Viet Nam | ||
| 75.8 | Retired | Albert Henry Ottenweller † | Bishop of Steubenville, Ohio, USA | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 61.4 | Appointed | Sylvester Donovan Ryan | Bishop of Monterey in California, USA | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 65.3 | Appointed | Gilbert Ignatius Sheldon | Bishop of Steubenville, Ohio, USA | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 29 Jan | 69.7 | Died | Gerald Thomas Mahon, M.H.M. † | Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, England, Great Britain | |
| 30 Jan | 55.5 | Installed | John Alexius Bathersby | Archbishop of Brisbane, Australia | Archbishop Emeritus |
| 29.4 | Ordained Priest | Timothy Yu Gyoung-chon | Priest of Seoul, Korea (South) | Auxiliary Bishop | |
| 31 Jan | 59.3 | Appointed | Rinaldo Fidel Brédice | Bishop of Santa Rosa, Argentina | Bishop Emeritus |
| 80.3 | Died | Ioan Chertes † | Titular Archbishop of Cantanus | ||
| 88.3 | Died | Rudolf Graber † | Bishop Emeritus of Regensburg, Germany | ||
| 1 Feb | 78.0 | Died | Maurice John Dingman † | Bishop Emeritus of Des Moines, Iowa, USA | |
| 62.5 | Appointed | Czeslaw Domin † | Bishop of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg, Poland | ||
| 42.2 | Appointed | Stanisław Gądecki | Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno, Poland | Archbishop of Poznań, Poland | |
| 42.2 | Appointed | Stanisław Gądecki | Titular Bishop of Rubicon | Archbishop of Poznań, Poland | |
| 77.5 | Retired | Ignacy Ludwik Jeż † | Bishop of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg, Poland | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 69.7 | Died | James Joseph Komba † | Archbishop of Songea, Tanzania | ||
| 77.1 | Retired | Wladyslaw Miziolek † | Auxiliary Bishop of Warszawa {Warsaw}, Poland | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | |
| 77.0 | Retired | Franciszek Musiel † | Auxiliary Bishop of Częstochowa, Poland | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | |
| 76.9 | Retired | Waclaw Skomorucha † | Auxiliary Bishop of Siedlce, Poland | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | |
| 76.7 | Retired | Stanislaw Smolenski † | Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków {Cracow}, Poland | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | |
| 2 Feb | 24.3 | Professed | Waldo Rubén Barrionuevo Ramírez, C.SS.R. | Member of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer | Auxiliary Bishop of Reyes, Bolivia |
| 39.2 | Ordained Bishop | Edmond Djitangar | Bishop of Sarh, Chad | ||
| 43.1 | Ordained Bishop | Johannes Liku Ada’ | Titular Bishop of Amantia | Archbishop of Makassar, Indonesia | |
| 64.6 | Installed | Hubert Luthe † | Bishop of Essen, Germany | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 48.0 | Ordained Bishop | Christian Werner | Titular Bishop of Aeca | Bishop of Austria, Military | |
| 5 Feb | 72.2 | Died | Joseph Khoury † | Archbishop of Tyr (Maronite), Lebanon | |
| 6 Feb | 84.2 | Died | Sergio Méndez Arceo † | Bishop Emeritus of Cuernavaca, Morelos, México | |
| 7 Feb | 55.7 | Ordained Bishop | Luiz Gonzaga Bergonzini † | Bishop of Guarulhos, Sao Paulo, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus |
| 9 Feb | 51.9 | Ordained Bishop | Mario Eusebio Mestril Vega | Titular Bishop of Cediae | Bishop of Ciego de Ávila, Cuba |
| 11 Feb | 74.5 | Retired | Manuel Augusto Cárdenas † | Auxiliary Bishop of Argentina, Faithful of the Eastern Rites | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus |
| 65.7 | Appointed | Jorge Maria Hourton Poisson † | Auxiliary Bishop of Temuco, Chile | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | |
| 63.9 | Appointed | Ferenc Keszthelyi, O. Cist. † | Bishop of Vác, Hungary | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 75.8 | Retired | Izidor István Marosi † | Bishop of Vác, Hungary | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 49.3 | Appointed | Rubén Salazar Gómez | Bishop of Cúcuta, Colombia | Cardinal, Archbishop of Bogotá, Colombia | |
| 13 Feb | 66.3 | Resigned | Robert-Casimir Tonyui Messan Dosseh-Anyron † | Archbishop of Lomé, Togo | Archbishop Emeritus |
| 15 Feb | 51.5 | Installed | Benjamin D. de Jesus, O.M.I. † | Vicar Apostolic of Jolo, Philippines | |
| 53.9 | Ordained Bishop | José Foralosso, S.D.B. † | Bishop of Guiratinga, Mato Grosso, Brazil | Bishop Emeritus of Marabá, Para, Brazil | |
| 46.7 | Appointed | Felipe Padilla Cardona | Bishop of Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, México | Bishop of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, México | |
| 18 Feb | 58.6 | Appointed | Michael Augustine | Archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore, India | Archbishop Emeritus |
| 78.6 | Retired | Venmani S. Selvanather † | Archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore, India | Archbishop Emeritus | |
| 20 Feb | 30.2 | Ordained Priest | Anthony Poola | Priest of Cuddapah, India | Bishop of Kurnool, India |
| 22 Feb | 54.0 | Ordained Bishop | Marko Culej † | Titular Bishop of Limata | Bishop of Varaždin, Croatia |
| 54.0 | Succeeded | John Gabriel † | Bishop of Pathein, Myanmar | ||
| 52.3 | Installed | João Bosco Oliver de Faria | Bishop of Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil | Archbishop of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
| 75.0 | Retired | Joseph Valerius Sequeira † | Bishop of Pathein, Myanmar | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 28.2 | Ordained Priest | Herman Willebrordus Woorts | Priest of Utrecht, Netherlands | Auxiliary Bishop | |
| 23 Feb | 54.8 | Installed | Gastone Simoni | Bishop of Prato, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
| 25 Feb | 67.4 | Appointed | Leonard James Wall † | Archbishop of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | Archbishop Emeritus |
| 26 Feb | 48.7 | Appointed | Héctor Rubén Aguer | Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina | Archbishop of La Plata, Argentina |
| 48.7 | Appointed | Héctor Rubén Aguer | Titular Bishop of Lamdia | Archbishop of La Plata, Argentina | |
| 46.2 | Appointed | Rubén Oscar Frassia | Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina | Bishop of Avellaneda-Lanús, Argentina | |
| 46.2 | Appointed | Rubén Oscar Frassia | Titular Bishop of Caeciri | Bishop of Avellaneda-Lanús, Argentina | |
| 66.5 | Died | José Alberto Llaguno Farias, S.J. † | Vicar Apostolic of Tarahumara, Chihuahua, México | ||
| 27 Feb | 90.4 | Died | Jerome M. Fernandez † | Bishop Emeritus of Quilon, India | |
| 62.6 | Died | Charles McDonald Renfrew † | Auxiliary Bishop of Glasgow, Scotland, Great Britain | ||
| 29 Feb | 51.8 | Ordained Bishop | José Luis Astigarraga Lizarralde, C.P. | Titular Bishop of Buleliana | Vicar Apostolic of Yurimaguas, Peru |
| 79.2 | Died | Joseph A. Carroll † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Dublin, Ireland | ||
| 34.4 | Ordained Bishop | Milan Chautur, C.SS.R. | Titular Bishop of Cresima | Bishop of Košice (Slovakian), Slovakia | |
| 64.0 | Appointed | Giulio Einaudi | Apostolic Nuncio to Croatia | Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus | |
| 76.6 | Retired | Tomás Enrique Márquez Gómez † | Bishop of San Felipe, Venezuela | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 47.7 | Appointed | Nelson Antonio Martinez Rust | Bishop of San Felipe, Venezuela | ||
| 71.6 | Died | Felix Paz Perez † | Bishop of Imus, Philippines | ||
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