| Date | Age | Bishop | Title |
| unknown | 86.3 | Pietro di Benedetto † | Archbishop of Reggio Calabria, Italy |
| unknown | | Nicholas Foran † | Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, Ireland |
| unknown | | Pedro Antonio Torres † | Bishop of Cartagena, Colombia |
| 9 Jan | 65.6 | Lorenzo Simonetti † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of S. Lorenzo in Panisperna |
| 11 Jan | 76.0 | Judas José Romo y Gamboa † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain |
| 21 Jan | 78.8 | Giuseppe Pecci † | Cardinal, Bishop of Gubbio, Italy |
| 28 Jan | 71.3 | Francisco Javier García Casarrubios y Melgar, O. Cist. † | Bishop of Tui, Spain |
| 1 Feb | 61.9 | Jean-Marie Graveran † | Bishop of Quimper [Cornouailles](-Léon), France |
| 1 Feb | 68.3 | Giovanni Serafini † | Cardinal, Priest of the Roman Curia - Other |
| 3 Feb | 75.3 | Mariano Martínez Robledo y Robledo † | Bishop of Guadix, Spain |
| 4 Feb | | Francisco Luna Pizzarro † | Archbishop of Lima, Peru |
| 15 Feb | 77.4 | Giuseppe Mancini † | Archbishop of Siena, Italy |
| 6 Mar | 56.5 | Ignatius Aloysius Reynolds † | Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina, USA |
| 2 Apr | 67.4 | Jean-François Crozier † | Bishop of Rodez, France |
| 8 Apr | 79.7 | Karl Anton Joseph Lüpke † | Auxiliary Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany |
| 10 Apr | 71.9 | Giuseppe Maria Maniscalco, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Caltagirone, Italy |
| 13 Apr | 86.0 | Carlo Oppizoni (Opizzoni) † | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Bologna, Italy |
| 30 Apr | 51.4 | Francis Joseph Nicholson, O.C.D. † | Bishop of Corfù, Greece |
| 29 May | | Francesco Brigante Colonna † | Bishop of Recanati-Loreto, Italy |
| 2 Jul | 72.1 | Johann Peter von Richarz † | Bishop of Augsburg, Germany |
| 14 Jul | | Michael Monaghan † | Bishop of Roseau, Dominica, Antilles |
| 17 Jul | 85.4 | Claude-Louis de Lesquen † | Bishop Emeritus of Rennes, France |
| 11 Aug | 56.9 | Tommaso Jederlinich † | Bishop of Dubrovnik (Ragusa), Croatia |
| 11 Aug | 75.8 | Maximos III Michel Mazloum † | Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Melkite), Syria |
| 12 Aug | 56.0 | Jean-François-Marie Cart † | Bishop of Nimes, France |
| 17 Aug | 54.8 | Dominique Galvano † | Bishop of Nice, France |
| 27 Sep | | Benito Fernández, O.F.M. † | Vicar Apostolic of Giamaica o Jamaica, Jamaica, Antilles |
| 28 Sep | | Théodore Abou-Karim † | Vicar Apostolic of Alexandria {Alessandria} (Coptic), Egypt |
| 2 Oct | 77.7 | Gennaro Pasca † | Bishop of Nola, Italy |
| 19 Oct | 48.0 | Ignacy Hołowinski † | Archbishop of Mohilev, Belarus |
| 5 Nov | 68.1 | Johann Franz Drepper † | Bishop of Paderborn, Germany |
| 13 Nov | 60.6 | James Oliver Van de Velde, S.J. † | Bishop of Natchez, Mississippi, USA |
| 4 Dec | 71.0 | Fermín Sánchez Artesoro, O.F.M. Cap. † | Bishop of Cuenca, Ecuador |
| 30 Dec | 66.2 | Louis-François Robin † | Bishop of Bayeux (-Lisieux), France |
| 31 Dec | 85.5 | Pedro Paulo de Figuereido da Cunha e Melo † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Braga, Portugal |