| Date | Age | Bishop | Title |
| unknown | | Alban of Blackburn, O.F.M. Cap. † | Prefect of Jullundur, India |
| unknown | | Giovanni Schütte, S.V.D. † | Pro-Prefect of Sinsiang [Xinxiang], China |
| 5 Jan | 79.5 | Jean Baptiste Tran-Huu-Duc † | Bishop of Vinh, Viêt Nam |
| 7 Jan | 68.3 | Adolfo Binni † | Bishop of Nola, Italy |
| 14 Jan | 56.2 | Mesrob Terzian † | Auxiliary Bishop of Beirut {Bairut} (Armenian), Lebanon |
| 15 Jan | 84.2 | Joseph Gogué † | Archbishop of Bassorah {Basra} (Chaldean), Iraq |
| 19 Jan | 77.8 | Joseph Julian Oste, C.I.C.M. † | Bishop of Jehol [Jinzhou], China |
| 20 Jan | 85.4 | Antonio Bacci † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of S. Eugenio |
| 27 Jan | 89.1 | Peter Johannes Willekens, S.J. † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Djakarta, Indonesia |
| 31 Jan | 76.5 | Victor-Jean Perrin † | Bishop Emeritus of Arras (, Boulogne, e Saint-Omer), France |
| 18 Feb | 76.6 | Jaime de Barros Câmara † | Cardinal, Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 19 Feb | 79.0 | Bernard Theodore Espelage, O.F.M. † | Bishop Emeritus of Gallup, New Mexico, USA |
| 23 Feb | 76.9 | Xavier Geeraerts, M. Afr. † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Bukavu, Congo (Dem. Rep.) |
| 27 Feb | 87.9 | Daniel Llorente y Federico † | Bishop Emeritus of Segovia, Spain |
| 28 Feb | 63.4 | Joseph Mark Gopu † | Archbishop of Hyderabad, India |
| 7 Mar | 63.6 | Alberto Castelli † | Vice President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Laity |
| 9 Mar | 79.6 | Kyril Stefan Kurteff † | Exarch of Sofia (Byzantine), Bulgaria |
| 10 Mar | 70.5 | Edmund Nowicki † | Bishop of Gdańsk, Poland |
| 14 Mar | 58.2 | David John Cashman † | Bishop of Arundel and Brighton, England, Great Britain |
| 14 Mar | 87.8 | Evasio Colli † | Bishop of Parma (-Fontevivo), Italy |
| 29 Mar | 61.0 | Thomas Michel Bidawid † | Auxiliary Bishop of Baghdad (Chaldean), Iraq |
| 31 Mar | 83.9 | Michael Browne, O.P. † | Cardinal, Titular Archbishop of Idebessus |
| 1 Apr | 65.8 | Luigi Barbero † | Bishop of Vigevano, Italy |
| 9 Apr | 65.7 | Biagio Musto † | Bishop of Aquino, Sora, e Pontecorvo, Italy |
| 18 Apr | 75.1 | Pablo Tobar Gonzáles, C.M. † | Bishop of Cuttack, India |
| 21 Apr | 72.3 | Manuel de Jesús Serrano Abad † | Archbishop of Cuenca, Ecuador |
| 22 Apr | 84.6 | Stanislas Courbe † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Paris, France |
| 23 Apr | 81.4 | Saturnino Rubio y Montiél † | Bishop Emeritus of Osma-Soria, Spain |
| 24 Apr | 79.9 | Bernardo Merizalde Morales, O.A.R. † | Prelate Emeritus of Tumaco, Colombia |
| 26 Apr | 75.0 | Cesar Antonio Mosquera Corral † | Archbishop Emeritus of Guayaquil, Ecuador |
| 30 Apr | 92.4 | Pio Alberto Fariña Fariña † | Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de Chile |
| 7 May | 55.4 | Luigi Maffeo † | Archbishop of Italy, Military |
| 16 May | 75.7 | Grégoire-Pierre XV Agagianian † | Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus of Cilicia (Armenian), Lebanon |
| 19 May | 55.4 | Francisco Rendeiro, O.P. † | Bishop of Coimbra, Portugal |
| 30 May | 67.3 | Casimiro Morcillo González † | Archbishop of Madrid, Spain |
| 30 May | 62.4 | Clément Abdulla Eliane Rahal † | Archbishop of Damas (Syrian), Syria |
| 3 Jun | 68.2 | Guido Tonetti † | Bishop of Cuneo, Italy |
| 6 Jun | 90.6 | Louis Morel, C.I.C.M. † | Archbishop Emeritus of Suiyüan [Hohot], China |
| 14 Jun | 54.1 | Théophile Mbemba † | Archbishop of Brazzaville, Congo |
| 29 Jun | 72.6 | Emile-Charles-Raymond Pirolley † | Bishop of Nancy (-Toul), France |
| 30 Jun | 62.7 | Giovanni Battista Scapinelli di Léguigno † | Titular Bishop of Laodicea ad Libanum |
| 4 Jul | 82.2 | Francesco Marchesani † | Bishop of Chiavari, Italy |
| 6 Jul | 62.7 | Carlos María Cafferata † | Bishop of San Luis, Argentina |
| 11 Jul | 86.8 | Cristoforo Arduino Terzi, O.F.M. † | Bishop Emeritus of Apuania, Italy |
| 19 Jul | 79.7 | Honoré Marie Van Waeyenbergh † | Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}, Belgium |
| 21 Jul | 90.8 | Simon Konrad (Josef) Landersdorfer, O.S.B. † | Bishop Emeritus of Passau, Germany |
| 22 Jul | 94.2 | José Maria Alcaráz y Alenda † | Bishop of Badajoz, Spain |
| 25 Jul | 77.2 | Edgar Anthony Haering, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Shohchow [Shuoxian], China |
| 4 Aug | 91.6 | Antonio Guízar y Valencia † | Archbishop Emeritus of Chihuahua, Chihuahua, México |
| 5 Aug | 71.1 | Jan Fondalinski † | Auxiliary Bishop of Łódź, Poland |
| 10 Aug | 80.7 | Federico Callori di Vignale † | Cardinal, Archbishop of the Roman Curia - Other |
| 10 Aug | 85.6 | Paolo Galeazzi † | Bishop of Grosseto, Italy |
| 10 Aug | 72.7 | Russell Joseph McVinney † | Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island, USA |
| 11 Aug | 80.3 | Manuel Pío López Estrada † | Archbishop Emeritus of Jalapa (Xalapa), Veracruz, México |
| 11 Aug | 71.9 | Enrique Rau † | Bishop of Mar del Plata, Argentina |
| 21 Aug | 87.9 | Amedeo Polidori † | Bishop Emeritus of Fossombrone, Italy |
| 26 Aug | 89.6 | Luigi Fogar † | Bishop Emeritus of Trieste-Koper (Capodistria), Italy |
| 29 Aug | 85.3 | Luigi Civardi † | Titular Bishop of Thespiae |
| 31 Aug | 91.9 | William Mark Duke † | Archbishop Emeritus of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| 2 Sep | 80.4 | Diego Maria Gómez Tamayo † | Archbishop Emeritus of Popayán, Colombia |
| 7 Sep | 65.7 | Victor Joseph Reed † | Bishop of Oklahoma City-Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA |
| 18 Sep | 58.0 | Jorge Kilian (Chiliano) Pflaum, O.F.M. † | Vicar Apostolic of Ñuflo de Chávez, Bolivia |
| 23 Sep | 64.5 | André Creemers, O.S.C. † | Bishop Emeritus of Bondo, Congo (Dem. Rep.) |
| 23 Sep | 75.7 | Ildefonso Rea, O.S.B. † | Abbot Emeritus of Montecassino, Italy |
| 28 Sep | 43.5 | Giocondo Maria Grotti, O.S.M. † | Prelate of Acre e Purus, Acre, Brazil |
| 29 Sep | 83.1 | Miguel Angel Builes Gómez † | Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia |
| 29 Sep | 85.7 | Emiliano José Lonati, O.F.M. Cap. † | Prelate Emeritus of São José do Grajaú, Brazil |
| 3 Oct | 88.6 | Luigi Rosa † | Bishop of Bagnoregio (Bagnorea), Italy |
| 28 Oct | 79.0 | Pierre Brot † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Paris, France |
| 31 Oct | 68.4 | William Michael Fitzgerald, O.P. † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Antilles |
| 13 Nov | 67.5 | Raymond Peter Hillinger † | Bishop Emeritus of Rockford, Illinois, USA |
| 23 Nov | 74.0 | Francis Xavier Muthappa † | Bishop of Coimbatore, India |
| 24 Nov | 64.7 | Raymond D'Mello † | Bishop Emeritus of Allahabad, India |
| 25 Nov | 84.0 | Patrick O’Boyle † | Bishop Emeritus of Killala, Ireland |
| 28 Nov | 70.9 | Carlos Riu Anglés † | Bishop Emeritus of Camagüey, Cuba |
| 7 Dec | 48.9 | Nikasius Kipengele † | Bishop of Mahenge, Tanzania |
| 7 Dec | 71.9 | Fernando Quiroga y Palacios † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| 9 Dec | 83.0 | Aurelio del Pino Gómez † | Bishop Emeritus of Lérida, Spain |
| 10 Dec | 71.2 | Bernhard Schräder † | Auxiliary Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany |
| 15 Dec | 66.6 | Ambrose De Battista, P.I.M.E. † | Bishop Emeritus of Vijayawada, India |
| 20 Dec | 63.4 | Anthony Jeremiah Pesce, C.P. † | Bishop of Dodoma, Tanzania |
| 23 Dec | 60.2 | Francisco Cedzich, S.V.D. † | Prelate of Alto Paraná, Paraguay |