| Date | Age | Bishop | Title |
| unknown | | Antonio Fonseca † | Bishop of Tivoli, Italy |
| unknown | | Bartolomeo Pucci Franceschi † | Bishop of Sansepolcro (Borgo San Sepolcro), Italy |
| unknown | | João de Sousa de Castelo-Branco † | Bishop of Elvas, Portugal |
| 25 Jan | 73.1 | José Pérez de Lanciego Eguiluz y Mirafuentes, O.S.B. † | Archbishop of México, Federal District |
| 7 Feb | 69.2 | Niccolò Caracciolo † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Capua, Italy |
| 12 Feb | 73.5 | Agostino Steffani † | Vicar Apostolic of Upper and Lower Saxony (Hanover), Germany |
| 20 Mar | 77.4 | Ulisse Giuseppe Gozzadini † | Cardinal, Bishop of Imola, Italy |
| 22 Mar | 64.0 | Lucas Conejero Molina † | Archbishop of Burgos, Spain |
| 17 Apr | 70.3 | Angel de Maldonado, O. Cist. † | Bishop of Antequera, Oaxaca, México |
| 5 May | 77.3 | Juan Antonio Muñoz Salcedo, O.S.H. † | Bishop of Mondoñedo, Spain |
| 14 May | | Crisóstomo Vargas, O. Cist. † | Bishop of Astorga, Spain |
| 20 May | 56.4 | Sebastián Foronda, O.S.A. † | Apostolic Administrator of Cebu, Philippines |
| 2 Jun | 68.4 | Juan Muñoz de la Cueva, O.SS.T. † | Bishop of Orense, Spain |
| 8 Jun | 74.4 | Martin de Ratabon † | Bishop Emeritus of Viviers (Aps), France |
| 9 Jun | 63.3 | François-Armand de Lorraine † | Bishop of Bayeux, France |
| 14 Jul | 49.5 | Franciszek Ignacy Wysocki † | Auxiliary Bishop-Elect of Chelmno (Culma), Poland |
| 14 Aug | 54.6 | Ernst August von Braunschweig-Lüneburg † | Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany |
| Sep | 59.7 | Francisco Sánchez Márquez, O.S. † | Bishop of the unknown of Titular See |
| 4 Sep | 84.7 | Rodrigo de Moura Telles † | Archbishop of Braga, Portugal |
| 11 Sep | | Martín Zalayeta Lizarza † | Bishop of León, Spain |
| 20 Sep | | François Perez † | Vicar Apostolic of Cochin {Cocincina}, Viêt Nam |
| 11 Oct | 71.4 | Ulrich Freiherr von Federspiel † | Bishop of Chur, Switzerland |
| 30 Oct | 54.5 | Francisco Mendigaño Armendáriz † | Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| 6 Nov | 48.9 | Andrés Murillo Velarde † | Bishop of Pamplona, Spain |
| 25 Nov | 66.1 | Louis François Rossius de Liboy † | Auxiliary Bishop of Liège, Belgium |
| 28 Nov | 63.9 | Luis Francisco Romero † | Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas, Bolivia |
| 22 Dec | | Edward Murphy † | Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland |