| Date | Age | Bishop | Title |
| unknown | 36.3 | Marcellino Aramburu y Arandía, O.C.D. † | Bishop of Vijayapuram, India |
| unknown | 68.0 | Erminio Bonetta, P.I.M.E. † | Prefect of Kengtung, Myanmar |
| unknown | | Luigi Hopfgartner, M.H.M. † | Prefect of Sarawak, Malaysia |
| unknown | 69.5 | Marcellino Lardizábal Aguirrebengoa, I.E.M.E. † | Prefect of Sinú-San Jorge, Colombia |
| 3 Jan | 82.5 | Octaviano Pereira de Albuquerque † | Bishop of Campos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 6 Jan | 69.0 | Thomas de la Hoz, O.P. † | Prefect Emeritus of Formosa Island {Isola Formosa), Taiwan |
| 22 Jan | 72.6 | Paolo Tranquillo Silvestri, F.S.C.J. † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Khartoum, Sudan |
| 25 Jan | 51.5 | Máximo Yurramendi Alcáin † | Apostolic Administrator of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain |
| 27 Jan | 79.8 | Giovanni Tirinnanzi, O.F.M. Cap. † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Arabia, Yemen |
| 31 Jan | 68.0 | Carmelo Ballester y Nieto, C.M. † | Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| 5 Feb | 50.0 | Oubagaraswami Bernadotte † | Bishop of Coimbatore, India |
| 5 Feb | 76.2 | Abdallah Khoury † | Titular Archbishop of Arca in Phoenicia dei Maroniti |
| 10 Feb | 79.8 | Josef Kumpfmüller † | Bishop of Augsburg, Germany |
| 15 Feb | 79.2 | Henri Delalle, O.M.I. † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Natal, South Africa |
| 17 Feb | 65.2 | Athanase Jules Benham Kalian † | Archbishop of Baghdad (Syrian), Iraq |
| 18 Feb | 81.3 | Ernesto Maria Piovella † | Archbishop of Cagliari, Italy |
| 23 Feb | 66.9 | François Chaize, M.E.P. † | Vicar Apostolic of Hà Nôi, Viet Nam |
| 24 Feb | 74.5 | Gabriel Brunhes † | Bishop of Montpellier (-Lodève-Béziers-Agde-Saint-Pons-de-Thomières), France |
| 25 Feb | 85.5 | Sinforiano Bogarín † | Archbishop of Asunción, Paraguay |
| 27 Feb | 72.6 | Ivan Josip Tomazic † | Bishop of Lavant, Slovenia |
| 4 Mar | 78.4 | Johann Baptist Sproll † | Bishop of Rottenburg, Germany |
| 19 Mar | 63.5 | Nikollë Vinçenc Prennushi, O.F.M. † | Archbishop of Durrës (Durazzo), Albania |
| 20 Mar | 74.3 | François-Jean-Marie Serrand † | Bishop of Saint-Brieuc (-Tréguier), France |
| 23 Mar | 90.0 | Paul-Albert Faveau, C.M. † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Western Chekiang {Ce-Kiam Occidentale}, China |
| 23 Mar | 65.9 | Juan Sastre y Riutort, C.M. † | Vicar Apostolic of San Pedro Sula, Honduras |
| 10 Apr | 66.9 | Francisco Cavero y Tormo † | Bishop of Coria, Spain |
| 20 Apr | 60.5 | László Bánáss † | Bishop of Veszprém, Hungary |
| 26 Apr | 73.9 | Patrick Lyons † | Bishop of Kilmore, Ireland |
| 29 Apr | 60.3 | Dionisio Habib Naassani † | Archbishop of Alep [Beroea, Halab] (Syrian), Syria |
| 2 May | 81.0 | Giuseppe Angelucci † | Bishop of Città della Pieve, Italy |
| 8 May | 83.4 | John Joseph Carroll † | Bishop of Lismore, Australia |
| 9 May | 64.4 | Vittorio D’Alessi † | Bishop of Concordia (Sagittaria), Italy |
| 11 May | 73.7 | Maximino Ruiz y Flores † | Bishop Emeritus of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas), México |
| 26 May | 72.4 | Nicolas Stam, M.H.M. † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Kisumu, Kenya |
| 26 May | 76.2 | Edouard van Goethem, M.S.C. † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Coquilhatville, Congo (Dem. Rep.) |
| 30 May | 75.2 | Emmanuel Célestin Suhard † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Paris, France |
| 31 May | 92.2 | John Toner † | Bishop of Dunkeld, Scotland, Great Britain |
| 3 Jun | 78.8 | Ambrose James Moriarty † | Bishop of Shrewsbury, England, Great Britain |
| 30 Jun | 93.2 | José Amador Velasco y Peña † | Bishop of Colima, México |
| 2 Jul | 73.0 | Raymond-René Lerouge, C.S.Sp. † | Vicar Apostolic of Conakry, Guinea |
| 6 Jul | 82.4 | Manuel Domingos Maria Rosa Fructuoso, O.P. † | Bishop of Portalegre, Portugal |
| 11 Jul | 80.9 | Jean-Baptiste Tong Nguyên Ba † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Phát Diêm, Viet Nam |
| 12 Jul | 46.9 | Arthur Hughes, M. Afr. † | Apostolic Internuncio to Egypt, Arab Republic of |
| 9 Aug | 62.1 | Ramón Harrison Abello, O. de M. † | Prelate Emeritus of Bom Jesus do Piauí, Piaui, Brazil |
| 16 Aug | 64.6 | Marcel Fleury † | Bishop of Nancy (-Toul), France |
| 23 Aug | 50.4 | Joseph Ciamgioenpuo (Chang Yuin-po) † | Bishop Emeritus of Xuanhua [Süanhwa], China |
| 7 Sep | 57.4 | Thomas John Flynn † | Coadjutor Archbishop of Saint John’s, Newfoundland, Canada |
| 16 Sep | 71.5 | Joanny Thévenoud, M. Afr. † | Vicar Apostolic of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso |
| 22 Sep | 69.8 | Kassian Haid, O. Cist. † | Abbot of Wettingen-Mehrerau, Austria |
| 30 Sep | 56.5 | Ricardo Chávez Alcazar † | Bishop of Oruro, Bolivia |
| 1 Oct | 85.3 | Peter Emmanuel Amigo † | Bishop of Southwark, England, Great Britain |
| 1 Oct | 72.3 | Bl. Nykyta Budka † | Bishop Emeritus of Canada (Ukrainian) |
| 4 Oct | 57.6 | Sylvester Philip Wang Tao-nan (Uamtaonan), O.F.M. † | Bishop of Fengxiang [Fengsiang], China |
| 10 Oct | 74.2 | Thomas Mary O’Leary † | Bishop of Springfield, Massachusetts, USA |
| 13 Oct | 75.2 | Michael James O’Doherty † | Archbishop of Manila, Philippines |
| 27 Oct | 57.5 | James Kalacherry (Kalassery) † | Bishop of Changanacherry (Syro-Malabarese), India |
| 3 Nov | 73.2 | Francesco Marmaggi † | Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation of the Council |
| 7 Nov | 64.3 | Miguel de los Santos Díaz y Gómara † | Bishop of Cartagena (en España) |
| 13 Nov | 60.0 | Angelo Negri, F.S.C.J. † | Vicar Apostolic of Nilo Equatoriale, Uganda |
| 4 Dec | 61.1 | Jozef Vanderhoven, C.I.C.M. † | Vicar Apostolic of Boma, Congo (Dem. Rep.) |
| 9 Dec | 80.1 | John Bernard Kevenhoerster, O.S.B. † | Vicar Apostolic of Bahama Islands, Bahamas, Antilles |
| 19 Dec | 62.0 | James Leen, C.S.Sp. † | Bishop of Port-Louis, Mauritius |
| 31 Dec | 70.0 | Giuseppe Rossino † | Secretary of the Congregation of Seminaries and Universities |