| Date | Age | Bishop | Title |
| 8 Jan | | Salvatore Spinelli, O.S.B. † | Archbishop of Salerno, Italy |
| 27 Jan | 79.1 | Francesco Brunone Fazzi † | Bishop of San Miniato, Italy |
| 28 Jan | 73.4 | José Joaquim Justiniano Mascarenhas Castello Branco † | Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 24 Feb | 84.3 | Jean-Baptiste du Plessis d'Argentré † | Bishop of Sées, France |
| 3 Mar | 65.8 | Edmund Maria Josef Graf Artz von und zu Vasegg † | Auxiliary Bishop of Wien {Vienna}, Austria |
| 8 Mar | 84.6 | Juan Domingo González de la Reguera † | Archbishop of Lima, Peru |
| 29 Mar | 57.4 | Pietro Luigi Rusconi † | Auxiliary Bishop of Cesena, Italy |
| 17 Apr | 62.5 | Ercole Teresi † | Archbishop of Monreale, Italy |
| 21 Apr | 65.8 | Anton Ferdinand von Rothkirch und Panthen † | Auxiliary Bishop of Wrocław, Poland |
| 29 Apr | 78.0 | Juan Llano Ponte † | Bishop of Oviedo, Spain |
| 17 Jun | 65.5 | Francesco Maria Cioja † | Bishop of Todi, Italy |
| 18 Jun | 69.9 | Kajetan Maria (Ignaz Judas Thaddäus) Reisach, C.R. † | Titular Bishop of Dibon |
| 25 Jun | 71.5 | Mikolaj Duchnowski † | Bishop of Foreign Diocese |
| 5 Sep | 67.3 | Tomás de Roa y Alarcón † | Bishop of Concepción, Chile |
| 13 Sep | 71.3 | Philipp Anton Schmidt † | Auxiliary Bishop of Speyer, Germany |
| 28 Sep | 80.8 | Christoph Franz Freiherr von Buseck † | Bishop of Bamberg, Germany |
| 13 Oct | 75.4 | Francisco Isidoro Gutiérrez Vigil † | Bishop of Astorga, Spain |
| 31 Oct | 54.9 | Eugenio de la Santísima Trinidad Sesé, O.R.S.A. † | Bishop of Santa Marta, Colombia |
| 5 Nov | 74.2 | Giovanni Andrea Archetti † | Cardinal, Bishop of Ascoli Piceno, Italy |
| 5 Nov | 81.4 | Johann Adam Behr † | Auxiliary Bishop of Bamberg, Germany |
| 16 Nov | 80.8 | Jean-Baptiste-Marie Champion de Cicé † | Bishop of Auxerre, France |
| 21 Nov | 70.7 | Victoriano López Gonzalo † | Bishop of Cartagena (en España) |
| 15 Dec | 65.3 | Cayetano Da Annunciação Brandão, T.O.R. † | Archbishop of Braga, Portugal |
| 16 Dec | 75.5 | Johann Nepomuk Augustin Reichsfreiherr von Hornstein zu Hohenstoffen † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany |