The Year of Our Lord 1950

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Date	Age	Bishop	Title
unknown		Cosma Alterio, S.D.B. †	Prefect of Alto Orinoco, Venezuela
unknown		Venceslao da Spoleto, O.F.M. Cap. †	Prefect of Alto Solimões, Brazil
unknown		Agostino Guérin, M. Afr. †	Prefect of N’Zérékoré, Guinea
unknown	66.0	Krizosztom Kelemen, O.S.B. †	Abbot of Pannonhalma, Hungary
unknown		Stephen Mlakic, M.C.C.I. †	Prefect of Bahr el-Gebel, Sudan
unknown	76.3	Giuseppe Potier, C.M. †	Prefect of Arauca, Colombia
unknown		Bruno Wolnik, S.J. †	Prefect of Broken Hill, Zambia
1 Jan	64.1	William Aloysius Griffin †	Bishop of Trenton, New Jersey, USA
8 Jan	72.4	Nicolás Corona y Corona †	Bishop of Papantla, Puebla, México
8 Jan	67.7	Andrej Skrábik †	Bishop of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
18 Jan	64.8	Alfonso Camillo de Romanis, O.S.A. †	Titular Bishop of Porphyreon
18 Jan	77.8	Elia Scedid †	Titular Archbishop of Cyrrhus per i Maroniti
31 Jan	70.4	Francesco Gardini †	Bishop of Bertinoro, Italy
5 Feb	42.5	James Thomas O'Dowd †	Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco, California, USA
7 Feb	64.7	William Francis Murphy †	Bishop of Saginaw, Michigan, USA
7 Feb	73.1	Bonifatius (Josef) Sauer, O.S.B. †	Abbot of Tokugen o Tokwon, Korea (South)
9 Feb	76.7	Franz Justus Rarkowski, S.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Germany, Military
10 Feb	84.5	Bl. Adolf Peter Szelazek †	Bishop of Lutsk, Ukraine
14 Feb	76.9	Jean-Camille Costes †	Bishop of Angers, France
14 Feb	81.1	Anselmo Filippo Pecci, O.S.B. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Acerenza-Matera, Italy
16 Feb	86.1	Jacob Naughton †	Bishop of Killala, Ireland
19 Feb	61.5	Henry John Poskitt †	Bishop of Leeds, England, Great Britain
25 Feb	64.3	Luigi Cammarata †	Prelate of Santa Lucia del Mela, Italy
26 Feb	64.9	Ignatius Arnoz, M.H.M. †	Vicar Apostolic of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
28 Feb	54.8	José Ignacio Márquez y Tóriz †	Archbishop of Puebla de los Angeles, Puebla, México
10 Mar	67.4	Marco Sigala †	Archbishop of Athenai {Athens}, Greece
14 Mar	76.0	Manoel da Silva Gomes †	Archbishop Emeritus of Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil
17 Mar	89.4	Prudencio Contardo Ibarra, C.SS.R. †	Bishop Emeritus of Temuco, Chile
23 Mar	86.8	Jules Girard, S.M.A. †	Vicar Apostolic of Delta del Nilo, Egypt
1 Apr	82.9	Christopher Edward Byrne †	Bishop of Galveston, Texas, USA
1 Apr	51.7	Leo Fabiano Fahey †	Coadjutor Bishop of Baker City, Oregon, USA
5 Apr	81.4	Edward Doorly †	Bishop of Elphin, Ireland
8 Apr	91.5	Théophile-Marie Louvard †	Bishop of Coutances (-Avranches), France
11 Apr	68.1	Ático Eusébio da Rocha †	Archbishop of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
12 Apr	79.1	Joseph Francis McGrath †	Bishop of Baker City, Oregon, USA
12 Apr	91.9	Joseph Francis Marie Sweens, M. Afr. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Victoria-Nyanza, Uganda
13 Apr	88.8	James Morrison †	Bishop of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
14 Apr	76.1	José Alves Martins †	Bishop Emeritus of Santiago de Cabo Verde
14 Apr	73.5	Louis Janssens, C.I.C.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Jehol [Jinzhou], China
14 Apr	71.0	Joannes van Cauwenbergh †	Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen, Belgium
22 Apr	72.4	John Timothy McNicholas, O.P. †	Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
25 Apr	71.9	João Irineu Joffily (Joffly) †	Archbishop Emeritus of Belém do Pará, Para, Brazil
26 Apr	84.3	Jules-Victor-Marie Pichon †	Bishop Emeritus of Les Cayes, Haïti
10 May	50.8	Basilio Aftenie †	Auxiliary Bishop of Făgăraş şi Alba Iulia (Romanian), Romania
18 May	63.0	Gerald Shaughnessy, S.M. †	Bishop of Seattle, Washington, USA
22 May	72.8	Léon Klerlein, C.S.Sp. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Bethlehem, South Africa
22 May	79.3	Andrew Thomas (Joseph) McDonald, O.S.B. †	Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain
25 May	70.1	Marco Glaser †	Titular Bishop of Caesaropolis
2 Jun	81.8	John Thomas Kidd †	Bishop of London, Ontario, Canada
3 Jun	62.5	Albert-Paul Droulers †	Bishop of Amiens, France
3 Jun	78.3	Ismael Perdomo Borrero †	Archbishop of Bogotá, Colombia
19 Jun	51.8	Leo John Steck †	Auxiliary Bishop of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
23 Jun	45.3	Antonio Lanza †	Archbishop of Reggio Calabria, Italy
24 Jun	63.6	Francis Martin Kelly †	Bishop Emeritus of Winona, Minnesota, USA
5 Jul	49.2	John Alexander Matheson †	Bishop of Aberdeen, Scotland, Great Britain
21 Jul	55.6	Filippo Jacolino †	Bishop of Trapani, Italy
Aug	41.1	Alfréd Eross †	Titular Bishop of the unknown of Titular See
2 Aug	77.4	Alberto Costa †	Bishop of Lecce, Italy
2 Aug	76.4	Luigi Lavitrano †	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation of the Affairs of Religious
2 Aug	72.8	Giuseppe Rolla †	Bishop of Forli, Italy
12 Aug	54.7	Vincenzo Bonaventura Medori †	Bishop of Calvi e Teano, Italy
14 Aug	89.6	Angelo Simonetti †	Bishop of Pescia, Italy
18 Aug	91.8	John McCarthy †	Bishop of Sandhurst, Australia
26 Aug	65.6	Louis-François Gayet, M.S.F.S. †	Bishop of Nagpur, India
3 Sep	60.6	Gaétan Pasotti, S.D.B. †	Vicar Apostolic of Rajaburi, Thailand
18 Sep	63.5	Alcide Marina, C.M. †	Apostolic Nuncio to Lebanon
23 Sep	76.6	Edward Patrick Roche †	Archbishop of Saint John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
5 Oct	77.1	Thomas Addis Emmet, S.J. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Giamaica o Jamaica, Jamaica, Antilles
20 Oct	67.4	Liberato Tosti †	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Nicaragua
23 Oct	75.6	Silvestro Patrizio Mulligan, O.F.M. Cap. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Delhi and Simla, India
2 Nov	61.2	Theodor (Hermann) Breher, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Yenki [Yanji], China
8 Nov	57.5	Albini Lafortune †	Bishop of Nicolet, Québec, Canada
11 Nov	78.1	José de Jesús López y Gonzalez †	Bishop of Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, México
12 Nov	67.8	Bl. Hryhory Lakota †	Auxiliary Bishop of Przemyśl (Ukrainian), Poland
14 Nov	70.2	Georges-Alexandre Courchesne †	Archbishop of Rimouski, Québec, Canada
16 Nov	87.9	Marie-Joseph Cuaz, M.E.P. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Laos, Thailand
16 Nov	84.0	Ercolano Marini †	Archbishop Emeritus of Amalfi, Italy
18 Nov	76.2	Pierre-Henri-Noël Gubbels, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Ichang [Yichang], China
20 Nov	85.1	Tommaso Valeri, O.F.M. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Brindisi, Italy
25 Nov	62.1	Patrick Joseph Byrne, M.M. †	Apostolic Delegate to Korea
4 Dec	80.2	Johann Baptist Höcht †	Auxiliary Bishop of Regensburg, Germany
13 Dec	61.6	George Joseph Donnelly †	Bishop of Kansas City in Kansas, USA
13 Dec	78.9	Luigi Mazzini †	Bishop Emeritus of Anagni, Italy
21 Dec	70.3	Konrad Graf von Preysing Lichtenegg-Moos †	Cardinal, Bishop of Berlin, Germany
22 Dec	77.2	Hugh Charles Boyle †	Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
25 Dec	67.6	Camillo Vittorino Facchinetti, O.F.M. †	Vicar Apostolic of Tripoli, Libya

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