The Year of Our Lord 1977

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Date	Age	Bishop	Title
unknown		Leopold Grimard, C.S.Sp. †	Prefect of Idah, Nigeria
unknown		Enrique Alejandro Vallejo Bernal, C.M. †	Prefect of Tierradentro, Colombia
unknown		Henry J. Winkelmolen, C.S.Sp. †	Prefect of Same, Tanzania
4 Jan	57.0	Vasco Séirécov †	Bishop of Nicopoli, Bulgaria
7 Jan	74.7	Henri-Louis-Toussaint Vion †	Bishop Emeritus of Poitiers, France
12 Jan	92.2	James Edward Kearney †	Bishop Emeritus of Rochester, New York, USA
17 Jan	57.3	José Dalvit, M.C.C.I. †	Bishop Emeritus of São Mateus, Espirito Santo, Brazil
22 Jan	72.6	Franco Costa †	Bishop Emeritus of Crema, Italy
26 Jan	87.0	Salvatore Herrera y Pinto, O.F.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Puno, Peru
31 Jan	79.0	Giacomo Palombella †	Archbishop Emeritus of Matera, Italy
6 Feb	72.7	Carlos Guillermo Hartl de Laufen, O.F.M. Cap. †	Vicar Apostolic of Araucanía, Chile
26 Feb	58.1	Bernard Oguki-Atakpah †	Bishop Emeritus of Atakpamé, Togo
6 Mar	78.3	José de Medeiros Leite †	Bishop of Oliveira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
13 Mar	84.2	Thomas Lawrence Noa †	Bishop Emeritus of Marquette, Michigan, USA
17 Mar	63.2	Godfrey Okoye, C.S.Sp. †	Bishop of Enugu, Nigeria
19 Mar	72.1	Petru Plesca †	Titular Bishop of Voli
21 Mar	76.1	Giuseppe Amici †	Archbishop Emeritus of Modena (e Nonantola), Italy
23 Mar	50.2	Emile Biayenda †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Brazzaville, Congo
3 Apr	82.6	Pierre-Marie Théas †	Bishop Emeritus of Tarbes et Lourdes, France
5 Apr	72.6	Vicente Roig y Villalba, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop of Valledupar, Colombia
12 Apr	81.8	Vincent Ignatius Kennally, S.J. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Caroline and Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Pacific (Oceania)
14 Apr	88.8	Vittorio De Zanche †	Bishop of Concordia-Pordenone, Italy
14 Apr	67.1	Francisco Maria da Silva †	Archbishop of Braga, Portugal
17 Apr	64.2	William John Conway †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland
26 Apr	75.2	Floyd Lawrence Begin †	Bishop of Oakland, California, USA
3 May	68.2	Raffaele Pellecchia †	Archbishop of Sorrento, Italy
6 May	79.2	Henry Theophilus Klonowski †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
29 May	88.2	Juan José Aníbal Mena Porta †	Archbishop Emeritus of Asunción, Paraguay
8 Jun	68.0	Isaac Ghattas †	Bishop of Minya {Ermopoli Maggiore; Minieh} (Coptic), Egypt
15 Jun	71.8	Lawrence Bernard Brennan Casey †	Bishop Emeritus of Paterson, New Jersey, USA
15 Jun	67.4	Pierre-Marie-Henri-Baptiste Rougé †	Bishop of Nimes (-Uzès e Alès), France
26 Jun	70.6	Hermann Josef Schäufele †	Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
29 Jun	75.5	Luis Andrade Valderrama, O.F.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Antioquía, Colombia
30 Jun	68.2	Joseph Francis Donnelly †	Auxiliary Bishop of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
4 Jul	71.7	Mihály Endrey-Eipel †	Bishop of Vác, Hungary
4 Jul	80.0	John Michael Fearns †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of New York, New York, USA
4 Jul	75.8	Michel Olçomendy, M.E.P. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Singapore
6 Jul	77.4	Francesco Bertoglio †	Auxiliary Bishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy
7 Jul	84.6	Ugo Camozzo †	Archbishop Emeritus of Pisa, Italy
7 Jul	71.8	Benedetto Falcucci †	Bishop Emeritus of Penne e Pescara, Italy
11 Jul	63.3	Carlos Horacio Ponce de Léon †	Bishop of San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Argentina
12 Jul	63.4	Pierre Kimbondo †	Bishop Emeritus of Kisantu, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
16 Jul	88.0	Francesco Roberti †	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Apostolic Signatura
26 Jul	72.5	Coleman Francis Carroll †	Archbishop of Miami, Florida, USA
26 Jul	77.7	Arturo Duque Villegas †	Archbishop Emeritus of Manizales, Colombia
1 Aug	75.5	Giacomo Cannonero †	Bishop of Asti, Italy
2 Aug	88.7	Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira †	Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus of Lisboa, Portugal
2 Aug	86.4	Robert Emmet Lucey †	Archbishop Emeritus of San Antonio, Texas, USA
6 Aug	62.7	Erasmo Hinojosa Hurtado †	Archbishop of Piura, Peru
7 Aug	71.0	Dino Staffa †	Cardinal, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura
9 Aug	57.3	Jean Bassoul, B.S. †	Archbishop of Homs (-Hama-Jabrud) (Melkite), Syria
13 Aug	90.6	Nicanor Roberto Aguirre Baus †	Bishop Emeritus of Loja, Ecuador
14 Aug	73.4	Albert Vincent D'Souza †	Archbishop Emeritus of Calcutta, India
16 Aug	77.6	Basile Pierre Charles Habra †	Bishop of Le Caire {Cairo} (Syrian), Egypt
17 Aug	76.7	Thomas Joseph Riley †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
19 Aug	77.6	Pierre Khuât-Vañ-Tao †	Bishop of Hai Phòng, Viêt Nam
20 Aug	73.6	Antonio Baraniak, S.D.B. †	Archbishop of Poznań, Poland
23 Aug	92.0	Karl Joseph Alter †	Archbishop Emeritus of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
27 Aug	76.3	Jean Gay, C.S.Sp. †	Bishop Emeritus of Basse-Terre (et Pointe-à-Pitre), Guadeloupe, Antilles
Sep	39.9	Joseph Chhmar Salas †	Vicar Apostolic of Phnom-Penh, Cambodia
2 Sep	57.5	Theotonius Amal Ganguly, C.S.C. †	Archbishop of Dacca, Bangladesh
2 Sep	91.0	Bernardo Regno, O.S.B. †	Bishop Emeritus of Kandy, Sri Lanka
25 Sep	76.6	Roberto Ronca †	Prelate Emeritus of Pompei o Beatissima Vergine Maria del SS.mo Rosario, Italy
29 Sep	68.6	Athanasios Cheriyan Polachirakal †	Bishop of Tiruvalla (Malankarese), India
1 Oct	80.5	Martin Walter Stanton †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Newark, New Jersey, USA
4 Oct	63.1	Ippolito Rotoli †	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Japan
7 Oct	68.3	Francis Valentine Allen †	Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
21 Oct	81.7	Norman Thomas Gilroy †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Sydney, Australia
21 Oct	76.5	Luigi Rinaldi †	Bishop Emeritus of San Marco e Bisignano, Italy
9 Nov	90.9	Ferdinando Longinotti †	Bishop Emeritus of San Severino (-Treia), Italy
13 Nov	89.6	Hugo Edward Ryan †	Bishop Emeritus of Townsville, Australia
22 Nov	82.6	Luigi Traglia †	Cardinal, Dean of the College of Cardinals
25 Nov	86.2	André-Gustave-Émile Leclerc †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Paris, France
30 Nov	70.4	Giuseppe Pullano †	Bishop of Patti, Italy
2 Dec	57.2	Francisco Esteves Dias, O.S.B. †	Bishop Emeritus of Luso, Angola
2 Dec	74.9	Emile-Elie Verhille, C.S.Sp. †	Bishop Emeritus of Fort-Rousset, Congo
2 Dec	70.9	Leonardo Viera Contreras †	Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, México
5 Dec	50.6	Louis Charpenet, O.M.I. †	Bishop of Yagoua, Cameroon
9 Dec	89.5	Norberto Perini †	Archbishop Emeritus of Fermo, Italy
10 Dec	77.9	João Batista Muniz, C.SS.R. †	Bishop Emeritus of Barra (do Rio Grande), Baia, Brazil
13 Dec	66.4	Francisco Ferreira Arreola †	Bishop of Texcoco, México, México
20 Dec	79.5	André Marie Charue †	Bishop Emeritus of Namur {Namen}, Belgium
20 Dec	83.2	Conrad Dubbelman, O. Praem. †	Bishop Emeritus of Jabalpur, India
29 Dec	82.1	Georges-Léon Landry †	Bishop Emeritus of Hearst, Ontario, Canada

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