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The Year of Our Lord 1939

Necrology


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DateAgeBishopTitle
unknown54.3Fabiano Abrantowicz, M.I.C. †Exarch of Harbin [Harbin] (Byzantine), China
unknownBartolomeo Bechis, C.M. †Prefect of Tigrai, Ethiopia
unknown69.9Giuseppe Antonio Ferdinando Bussolari, O.F.M. Cap. †Archbishop of Modena (e Nonantola), Italy
unknown77.5Nicola CadiArchbishop of Bosra e Hauran (Melkite), Syria
unknown69.9Bernardin Castanié, C.I.M. †Prefect of Cook Islands, Pacific (Oceania)
unknown69.1Nicolas Charikiopoulos (Harikoupoulos)Bishop of Chios (Scio), Greece
unknown79.7Matteo Angelo FilipelloBishop of Ivrea, Italy
unknown77.6Thomas P. GilmartinArchbishop of Tuam, Ireland
unknown63.5Pietro GjuraArchbishop of Durrës, Albania
unknown65.3Giovanni Francesco Gnidovec, C.M. †Bishop of Skopje, Macedonia
unknown71.7Paul-Marie-Joseph Julliotte, SS.CC. †Prefect of Hainan [Hainan], China
unknown78.2Isacco KoudabacheArchbishop of Urmya {Rezayeh} (Chaldean), Iran
unknown77.6Antonio LaubitzAuxiliary Bishop of Gniezno-Poznań, Poland
unknown74.8Giuseppe Maria LeoArchbishop of Trani e Barletta (e Nazareth e Bisceglie), Italy
unknown62.3Francis LisowskiBishop of Tarnów, Poland
unknown76.1Giuseppe LojaconoBishop of Ariano, Italy
unknown47.5Bernard Francis Mayer, M.M. †Prefect of Wuchow [Wuzhou], China
unknownRomualdo Migliorini, O.S.M. †Prefect of Swaziland
unknownLuigi Mohn, M.C.C.I. †Prefect of Umtata, South Africa
unknown82.0Joseph Aloysius Murphy, S.J. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of British Honduras, Belize
unknown83.2Nicola PiccirilliArchbishop of Lanciano (e Ortona), Italy
unknown67.2Luigi Francesco Pierini, O.F.M. †Archbishop of Sucre, Bolivia
unknown64.8Gastone Antonio RasneurBishop of Tournai {Doornik}, Belgium
unknown58.3Alberto RomitaBishop of Boiano-Campobasso, Italy
unknown69.0Nándor RottBishop of Veszprém, Hungary
unknown51.8Tomás Antonio Sanmiguel DíazBishop of San Cristóbal de Venezuela
unknown52.9Gaudenzio Giacinto Stanchi, O.F.M. †Vicar Apostolic of Changsha [Changsha], China
unknownGiovanni Starcke, M.S.F. †Superior of Northern Norway {Norvegia Settentrionale}
unknown69.7Giovanni StavelAuxiliary Bishop of Olomouc, Czech Republic
unknownDamiano TchengPrefect of Chaotung [Zhaotong], China
unknown54.6Salvatore van Nuffel, O.S.B. †Prefect of Northern Transvaal {Transvaal Settentrionale}, South Africa
5 Jan72.0Bernard O'KaneBishop of Derry, Ireland
10 Jan70.1Santino Maria da Silva CoutinhoArchbishop of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
20 Jan94.1Juan Torres RibasBishop of Menorca, Spain
7 Feb57.8Bl. Anselmo Polanco y Fonteche, O.S.A. †Bishop of Teruel (-Albarracín), Spain
10 Feb58.6Arturo Jara Marquez, S.D.B. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Magallanes-Islas Malvinas, Chile
10 Feb81.7Ambrogio Damiano Achille RattiPope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
23 Feb89.1Eugène-Jacques GrellierBishop of Laval, France
3 Mar73.7Auguste-Maurice ClémentBishop of Monaco
3 Mar75.0Joseph-Lucien GirayBishop Emeritus of Cahors, France
5 Mar76.8Amando Agostino Bahlmann, O.F.M. †Prelate of Santarém, Para, Brazil
5 Mar57.9Filippo MantiniBishop of Cagli e Pergola, Italy
13 Mar69.9Alban Goodier, S.J. †Archbishop Emeritus of Bombay, India
20 Mar80.4Joseph Henry ConroyBishop of Ogdensburg, New York, USA
20 Mar63.7Bernard Joseph MahoneyBishop of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
1 Apr82.4Donato Raffaele Sbarretti TazzaCardinal, Secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office
2 Apr68.7Vicente Castellanos y NúñezBishop Emeritus of Tulancingo, Hidalgo, México
8 Apr43.3Louis Perera, O.M.I. †Bishop-Elect of Chilaw, Sri Lanka
10 Apr81.0Joseph Damian SchmittBishop of Fulda, Germany
14 Apr62.3Josef MutschlechnerVicar Apostolic Emeritus of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
18 Apr76.1José Américo OrzaliArchbishop of San Juan de Cuyo, Argentina
23 Apr76.1Domenico MarianiCardinal, President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See
9 May66.2Henryk Ignacy PrzeździeckiBishop of Siedlce, Poland
12 May82.1Isidore-Marie-Victor Douceré, S. M. †Vicar Apostolic of New Hebrides {Isole Nouve Ebridi}, Vanuatu, Pacific (Oceania)
16 May48.1Luis Calixto Leiva CharryBishop of Barranquilla, Colombia
16 May75.1Alexis Lemaître, M. Afr. †Archbishop of Carthage, Tunisia
18 May56.3Emile BarthèsAuxiliary Bishop of Albi (-Castres-Lavaur), France
5 Jun50.6Firmin LamyBishop of Langres, France
28 Jun66.7Andrew KillianArchbishop of Adelaide, Australia
6 Jul73.5Osvaldo Waller, S.M.A. †Prefect Emeritus of Eastern Nigeria {Nigeria Orientale}
17 Jul59.3Henri-Jean HoubautBishop of Bayonne (-Lescar e Oloron), France
20 Jul81.0Timothy J. CorbettBishop Emeritus of Crookston, Minnesota, USA
20 Jul76.9Augustin Henninghaus, S.V.D. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Southern Shantung {Scian-Ton Meridionale}, China
24 Jul67.1Eduardo José Herberhold, O.F.M. †Bishop of Ilhéus, Baia, Brazil
25 Jul87.6Eduard Baron von der RoppArchbishop of Mohilev, Belarus
8 Aug78.8Isaac-Jesu-Yab Khoudabache (Koudabache)Archbishop of Urmya {Rezayeh} (Chaldean), Iran
17 Aug74.8Henry Lécroart, S.J. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Sienhsien [Xianxian], China
11 Sep63.3Pablo Alegría Iriarte, O.A.R. †Vicar Apostolic of Casanare, Colombia
13 Sep72.2Angelo Maria DolciCardinal, Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Romania
20 Sep83.9Louis Joseph Napoléon Paul BruchésiArchbishop of Montréal, Québec, Canada
29 Sep65.2Joseph-François-Marie JulliotBishop Emeritus of Les Gonaïves, Haïti
1 Oct69.0François David (Daoud)Bishop of Amadiyah (Chaldean), Iraq
2 Oct67.3George William MundeleinCardinal, Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois, USA
2 Oct68.2Norbert-Georges-Pierre RousseauBishop of Le Puy-en-Velay, France
2 Oct68.8Augustus John SchwertnerBishop of Wichita, Kansas, USA
7 Oct64.8Joseph-Jean-Baptiste HalléBishop of Hearst, Ontario, Canada
8 Oct71.4Jean CastelBishop of Tulle, France
11 Oct70.0Joseph Wilfrid DwyerBishop of Wagga Wagga, Australia
14 Oct64.0Odilon Fages, O.S.F.S. †Vicar Apostolic of Orange River, South Africa
25 Oct79.2Francis Edward Joseph MostynArchbishop of Cardiff, Wales, Great Britain
1 Nov64.8René-Pierre MignenArchbishop of Rennes (, Dol, e Saint-Malo), France
5 Nov51.7Eli-Antoine DurandBishop of Montauban, France
14 Nov65.9Laurence William YouensBishop of Northampton, England, Great Britain
23 Nov69.6Auguste Declercq, C.I.C.M. †Vicar Apostolic of Kasaï Superiore, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
30 Nov65.0Leopoldo Lara y TorresBishop Emeritus of Tacámbaro, Michoacán, México
4 DecSouleyman Kutchouk OustaAuxiliary Bishop of Babylon {Babilonia} (Chaldean), Iraq
7 Dec82.6Jean-Pierre-Alexandre Marcou, M.E.P. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Phát Diêm, Viêt Nam
14 Dec62.9Rafael Otón Castro JiménezArchbishop of San José de Costa Rica
19 Dec70.3Emile-Fernand Sauvant, M. Afr. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Bamako, Mali

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