| Date | Age | Bishop | Title |
| 9 Jan | 60.7 | Jean-Baptiste Charles Gazailhan † | Bishop Emeritus of Vannes, France |
| 14 Jan | 54.6 | John Gray † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Western District, Scotland, Great Britain |
| 14 Jan | 62.2 | John McGill † | Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA |
| 17 Jan | 75.2 | Louis-Charles Buquet † | Auxiliary Bishop of Paris, France |
| 21 Jan | 66.0 | László Bíró de Kezdi-Polany † | Bishop of Satu Mare {Szatmár}, Romania |
| 22 Jan | 66.3 | Francesco Emilio Cugini † | Archbishop of Modena (e Nonantola), Italy |
| 27 Jan | 67.5 | Nicolò Frangipane † | Bishop of Concordia (Sagittaria), Italy |
| 7 Feb | 61.7 | Martin John Spalding † | Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
| 18 Feb | 77.4 | William Placid Morris, O.S.B. † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Cape of Good Hope, Western District {Capo di Buona Speranza, Distretto Occidentale}, South Africa |
| 19 Feb | 63.0 | Domenico Giuseppe de Sousa Magelhaes † | Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa {Lisbon}, Portugal |
| 19 Feb | 88.1 | José Sebastian Goyeneche y Barreda † | Archbishop of Lima, Peru |
| 26 Feb | 67.0 | Giuseppe Novella, O.F.M. † | Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Houkouang, China |
| 1 Mar | 57.2 | Laurence Bonaventure Sheil, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Adelaide, Australia |
| 9 Mar | 68.9 | Antonio Salomone † | Archbishop of Salerno (-Acerno), Italy |
| 17 Mar | 64.1 | Romualdo Jimeno Ballesteros, O.P. † | Bishop of Cebu, Philippines |
| 21 Mar | 62.0 | Giacomo Giuseppe Jans † | Bishop of Aosta, Italy |
| 2 Apr | 79.8 | Juan Francisco Escalante y Moreno † | Auxiliary Bishop of Sonora, México |
| 6 Apr | 66.3 | François-Napoleon Libois, M.E.P. † | Prefect Emeritus of Kouangtong, China |
| 22 Apr | 76.9 | Mellon de Jolly † | Archbishop Emeritus of Sens (-Auxerre), France |
| 25 Apr | 58.4 | Joseph Feßler (Fessler) † | Bishop of Sankt Pölten, Austria |
| 13 May | 82.5 | Leonardo Todisco Grande † | Bishop of Ascoli Satriano e Cerignola, Italy |
| 14 May | 47.9 | Atanasio Zuber, O.F.M. Cap. † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Patna, India |
| 2 Jun | 62.6 | Philippe-Joseph Viard, S.M. † | Bishop of Wellington, New Zealand |
| 3 Jun | 73.2 | Antonio Boscarini † | Bishop of Urbania-Sant’Angelo in Vado, Italy |
| 21 Jun | 56.3 | Manuel del Conde y Blanco † | Bishop of San Luis Potosí, México |
| 22 Jun | 50.0 | Antonio Luis Jordá y Soler † | Bishop of Vic, Spain |
| 30 Jun | 91.0 | Cirilo de Alameda y Brea, O.F.M. † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Toledo, Spain |
| 7 Jul | 73.2 | Niccola Clarelli Parracciani † | Cardinal, Secretary of the Roman Curia - Other |
| 13 Jul | 72.8 | William Turner † | Bishop of Salford, England, Great Britain |
| 3 Aug | 74.1 | Felice Romano † | Bishop of Ischia, Italy |
| 10 Aug | | James Eustace Dupeyron, S.J. † | Vicar Apostolic of Giamaica o Jamaica, Jamaica, Antilles |
| 11 Aug | 80.9 | Edward Walsh † | Bishop of Ossory, Ireland |
| 14 Aug | 56.0 | Juan José Aragonés, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Nueva Segovia, Philippines |
| 27 Aug | 70.0 | Angelo Quaglia † | Cardinal, Priest of the Roman Curia - Other |
| 27 Aug | 93.1 | Giuseppe II Maria Traversi di Pereta † | Bishop of Massa Marittima, Italy |
| 9 Sep | 53.4 | Giuseppe Buscarini † | Bishop of Borgo San Donnino, Italy |
| 19 Sep | 72.1 | Patrício Xavier de Moura † | Bishop of Funchal, Portugal |
| 3 Oct | 58.2 | Alexander Goss † | Bishop of Liverpool, England, Great Britain |
| 10 Oct | 65.0 | Andrés Rosales y Muñoz † | Bishop of Almería, Spain |
| 11 Oct | 52.5 | Aloyse Kobès, C.S.Sp. † | Vicar Apostolic of Senegambia, Senegal |
| 18 Oct | 62.1 | Michael O’Connor, S.J. † | Bishop Emeritus of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 1 Nov | 61.2 | Giacomo Antonio Colli † | Bishop of Alessandria (della Paglia), Italy |
| 10 Nov | 82.8 | Giuseppe Durguth † | Auxiliary Bishop of Esztergom, Hungary |
| 14 Nov | 48.9 | Joseph-Clair Reyne † | Bishop of Guadeloupe et Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, Antilles |
| 16 Nov | 80.5 | Gaspard-Joseph Labis † | Bishop of Tournai {Doornik}, Belgium |
| 20 Nov | 71.2 | Mattei Augusto Mengacci † | Bishop of Civita Castellana, Orte e Gallese, Italy |
| 2 Dec | 59.6 | Giuseppe Valerga † | Patriarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine |
| 11 Dec | 63.1 | Ferdinand-Aimé-Augustin-Joseph Dupond, M.E.P. † | Vicar Apostolic of Eastern Siam {Siam Orientale}, Thailand |
| 29 Dec | 77.6 | Sigismondo Deáky † | Auxiliary Bishop of Győr (Raab), Hungary |