| Date | Age | Bishop | Title |
| unknown | 78.0 | Gaudenzio Barlassina, I.M.C. † | Prefect Emeritus of Kaffa, Ethiopia |
| 4 Jan | 74.0 | Juan Manoel González Arbeláez † | Archbishop Emeritus of Popayán, Colombia |
| 12 Jan | 69.8 | Manuel Hurtado y García † | Bishop of Tarazona, Spain |
| 17 Jan | 65.4 | Armand Clabaut, O.M.I. † | Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Baie d’Hudson {Hudson Bay}, Manitoba, Canada |
| 25 Jan | 85.1 | Eliseu Van der Weijer, O. Carm. † | Prelate Emeritus of Paracatu, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| 27 Jan | 57.0 | Aloysius Louis Scheerer, O.P. † | Bishop of Multan, Pakistan |
| 2 Feb | 75.2 | Mario Civelli, P.I.M.E. † | Bishop of Jixian [Weihwei], China |
| 3 Feb | 60.0 | Pio Agostino Crivellari, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Trivento, Italy |
| 10 Feb | 65.1 | Giuseppe Burzio † | Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Cuba |
| 10 Feb | 58.8 | William Patrick Whelan, O.M.I. † | Archbishop of Bloemfontein, South Africa |
| 20 Feb | 75.4 | Paul Louis Marie Audren, M.E.P. † | Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Yünnanfu, China |
| 22 Feb | 66.7 | Joseph Kiwánuka, M. Afr. † | Archbishop of Rubaga, Uganda |
| 24 Feb | 96.6 | Dionigio Casaroli † | Archbishop of Gaeta, Italy |
| 3 Mar | 75.3 | Alfonso Castaldo † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy |
| 6 Mar | 78.4 | Charles Francis Buddy † | Bishop of San Diego, California, USA |
| 9 Mar | 52.8 | Joannes Antonius Eduardus van Dodewaard † | Bishop of Haarlem, Netherlands |
| 10 Mar | 74.1 | Alfonso Maria Corrado Ferroni (Ferrani), O.F.M. † | Bishop of Laohekou [Laohokow], China |
| 14 Mar | 71.5 | Vincenzo Lojali † | Bishop of Amelia, Italy |
| 14 Mar | 56.5 | James Cornelius van Miltenburg, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Hyderabad in Pakistan |
| 20 Mar | 82.5 | John Heffernan, C.S.Sp. † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Nairobi, Kenya |
| 7 Apr | 81.9 | Louis-Paul Rastouil † | Bishop of Limoges, France |
| 17 Apr | 72.3 | Antonio Bergamaschi † | Bishop of Monte Feltre, Italy |
| 21 Apr | 67.2 | Johann Lenhardt † | Auxiliary Bishop of Bamberg, Germany |
| 21 Apr | 83.2 | Igino Michelangelo Nuti, O.F.M. † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Egitto, Egypt |
| 24 Apr | 89.4 | James Joseph MacNamee † | Bishop of Ardagh (and Clonmacnois), Ireland |
| 9 May | 58.1 | Wilhelmus Marinus Bekkers † | Bishop of ’s Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), Netherlands |
| 14 May | 67.0 | Peregrin de la Fuente Néstar, O.P. † | Prelate of Batanes and the Babuyan Islands, Philippines |
| 16 May | 83.5 | Robert Constant Lagae, O.P. † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Niangara, Congo (Dem. Rep.) |
| 20 May | 80.1 | Faustino Baldini † | Bishop of Massa Marittima, Italy |
| 20 May | 64.5 | Miguel Nóvoa Fuente † | Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| 21 May | 71.7 | Petras Mazelis † | Bishop of Telšiai, Lithuania |
| 23 May | 70.0 | Martin Dewey McNamara † | Bishop of Joliet in Illinois, USA |
| 2 Jun | 66.9 | François Ayoub † | Archbishop of Alep [Beroea, Halab] (Maronite), Syria |
| 7 Jun | 83.1 | Armand Coupel † | Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Brieuc (-Tréguier), France |
| 16 Jun | 79.1 | William Thomas Porter, S.M.A. † | Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Coast, Ghana |
| 18 Jun | 78.6 | Ottone Raible, S.A.C. † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Kimberley in Western Australia |
| 21 Jun | 90.4 | Josip Srebrnič † | Bishop of Krk (Veglia), Croatia |
| 22 Jun | 65.5 | Manuel Larraín Errazuriz † | Bishop of Talca, Chile |
| 26 Jun | 77.2 | Julián Pedro Martínez † | Bishop Emeritus of Paraná, Argentina |
| 3 Jul | 77.9 | Paul Raymond-Marie-Marcel Piquet, M.E.P. † | Bishop of Nha Trang, Viêt Nam |
| 10 Jul | 63.3 | Joseph Rodgers † | Bishop of Killaloe, Ireland |
| 11 Jul | 55.3 | Jorge Ramón Chalup † | Bishop of Gualeguaychú, Argentina |
| 14 Jul | 65.9 | Ernesto Camagni † | Official of the Roman Curia - Other |
| 14 Jul | 81.6 | Jean Larrart, M.E.P. † | Archbishop of Guiyang [Kweyang], China |
| 19 Jul | 74.4 | Joaquín Anselmo María Albareda y Ramoneda, O.S.B. † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of S. Apollinare alle Terme Neroniane-Alessandrine |
| 21 Jul | 69.4 | Enrique José Mühn, S.V.D. † | Bishop Emeritus of Jujuy, Argentina |
| 27 Jul | 61.9 | Jean Louis Joseph Collignon, O.M.I. † | Bishop of Les Cayes, Haïti |
| 28 Jul | 80.4 | Károly Kolman Papp † | Bishop of Győr (Raab), Hungary |
| 6 Aug | 63.5 | Paolo Pappalardo † | Official Emeritus of the Secretariat of State |
| 9 Aug | 73.3 | José Nepote-Fus, I.M.C. † | Prelate Emeritus of Roraima, Roraima, Brazil |
| 12 Aug | 84.8 | Hubert Joseph Paulissen, S.M.A. † | Bishop Emeritus of Kumasi, Ghana |
| 26 Aug | 76.7 | Robert Stephen Dehler, C. R. † | Vicar Apostolic of Bermuda Islands, Antilles |
| 31 Aug | 61.9 | Alfred Cuthbert Gumbinger, O.F.M. Cap. † | Archbishop of Izmir (Smirne), Turkey |
| 19 Sep | 78.2 | José de Jesús Angulo del Valle y Navarro † | Bishop of Tabasco, México |
| 20 Sep | 61.7 | Emanuel Mabathoama, O.M.I. † | Archbishop of Maseru, Lesotho |
| 21 Sep | 67.5 | Agostino D’Arco † | Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia, Italy |
| 22 Sep | 88.2 | Edward Francis Hoban † | Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
| 22 Sep | 90.0 | Joseph Alfred Langlois † | Bishop of Valleyfield, Québec, Canada |
| 3 Oct | 63.6 | Lionel Scheffer, O.M.I. † | Vicar Apostolic of Labrador, Québec, Canada |
| 8 Oct | 91.8 | Joseph-Conrad Chaumont † | Auxiliary Bishop of Montréal, Québec, Canada |
| 12 Oct | 86.4 | Santiago Caragnan Sancho † | Archbishop of Nueva Segovia, Philippines |
| 16 Oct | 66.3 | Manuel Yap † | Bishop of Bacolod, Philippines |
| 25 Oct | 59.3 | Marco Libardoni, O.S.I. † | Prelate of Huarí, Peru |
| 5 Nov | 88.2 | Heinrich Roleff † | Auxiliary Bishop of Münster, Germany |
| 12 Nov | 73.8 | John Chang Pi-te † | Bishop Emeritus of Zhaoxian [Chaohsien], China |
| 17 Nov | 77.9 | Antonio Tani † | Archbishop Emeritus of Urbino, Italy |
| 22 Nov | 78.7 | Pavao Butorac † | Bishop of Dubrovnik (Ragusa), Croatia |
| 24 Nov | 64.2 | Abel Ribeiro Camelo † | Bishop of Goiás, Goias, Brazil |
| 26 Nov | 87.7 | Gallus (Bernhard) Steiger, O.S.B. † | Abbot Emeritus of Peramiho, Tanzania |
| 6 Dec | 87.0 | Jean Delay † | Archbishop Emeritus of Marseille, France |
| 8 Dec | 58.2 | Francis Xavier Esser, O.S.F.S. † | Bishop of Keimoes, South Africa |
| 19 Dec | 53.2 | Edward Thaddeus Lawton, O.P. † | Bishop of Sokoto, Nigeria |
| 19 Dec | 57.2 | Pablo Ramírez Taboada, SS.CC. † | Bishop of Huacho, Peru |
| 21 Dec | 79.3 | Egidio Bignamini † | Archbishop of Ancona e Numana, Italy |
| 23 Dec | 62.1 | John Anthony Kyne † | Bishop of Meath, Ireland |
| 25 Dec | 80.7 | John van Sambeek, M. Afr. † | Bishop Emeritus of Kigoma, Tanzania |
| 30 Dec | 81.1 | Pietro Ciriaci † | Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation of the Council |
| 30 Dec | 67.0 | Martin Fulgencio Elorza Legaristi, C.P. † | Prelate of Moyobamba, Peru |