| Date | Age | Bishop | Title |
| unknown | | Giovanni Cito † | Bishop of Lettere-Gragnano, Italy |
| unknown | | Pedro Portocarrero y Guzmán † | Patriarch of West Indies, Spain |
| unknown | | José de Santa Maria Saldanha, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Porto, Portugal |
| 14 Jan | 83.0 | Alexander Dunbar Winchester (Winster) † | Prefect Emeritus of Scotland, Great Britain |
| 18 Jan | 81.6 | Daniel de Cosnac † | Archbishop of Aix, France |
| 18 Jan | 76.0 | Jean-Baptiste de Sade † | Bishop of Cavaillon, France |
| 8 Feb | 79.2 | Matthias Starck † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Mainz, Germany |
| 11 Feb | 75.1 | François Letellier † | Bishop of Digne, France |
| Mar | 58.1 | Benito Noriega, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Acerra (Cerenthia, Acerrae), Italy |
| 3 Mar | 47.2 | Sigmund Carl Reichsgraf von Castel-Barco † | Bishop of Chiemsee, Germany |
| 8 Apr | 71.8 | Francesco Nerli (Jr.) † | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Assisi, Italy |
| 6 May | 85.0 | Bl. François de Laval de Montmorency † | Bishop Emeritus of Québec, Québec, Canada |
| 15 May | | Manuel de Escalante Colombres y Mendoza † | Bishop of Michoacán, Michoacán, México |
| 28 Jun | 78.5 | Melchor de Liñán y Cisneros † | Archbishop of Lima, Peru |
| 12 Jul | 51.4 | Johannes Petrus Verhorst † | Auxiliary Bishop of Trier, Germany |
| 12 Aug | 66.2 | Guillermo Goñalons, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Solsona, Spain |
| 28 Aug | | Antonio de León y Becerra † | Bishop of Arequipa, Peru |
| 8 Oct | 75.6 | Giacomo Antonio Morigia, B. † | Cardinal, Bishop of Pavia, Italy |
| 8 Oct | | Charles-Nicolas Taffoureau de Fontaine † | Bishop of Alet, France |
| 29 Oct | | Louis-Alphonse de Valbelle † | Bishop of Saint-Omer, France |
| Nov | | Giuseppe Cianti † | Bishop of Nepi e Sutri, Italy |
| 16 Dec | 82.0 | Juan de Ortega Cano Montañez y Patiño † | Archbishop of México, Federal District |
| 24 Dec | 79.0 | Otto de la Bourde † | Bishop of Gurk, Austria |