| Date | Age | Bishop | Title |
| 2 Jan | 85.6 | Manuel Guirao † | Bishop Emeritus of Santiago del Estero, Argentina |
| 2 Jan | 76.7 | Francis Keiichi Sato, O.F.M. † | Bishop Emeritus of Niigata, Japan |
| 3 Jan | 80.9 | Alberto Giglioli † | Bishop Emeritus of Montepulciano-Chiusi-Pienza, Italy |
| 3 Jan | 72.0 | Marc Leclerc † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Québec, Canada |
| 8 Jan | 70.8 | Yacoub Denha Scher † | Archbishop of Arbil {Erbil} (Chaldean), Iraq |
| 10 Jan | 76.7 | Jan Pieter Schotte, C.I.C.M. † | Cardinal, President of the Labour Office of the Apostolic See |
| 16 Jan | 70.5 | Paul Karatas † | Archbishop of Diarbekir (Amida) (Chaldean), Turkey |
| 18 Jan | 78.9 | Luigi Zanzottera, O.S.I. † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Huaraz, Peru |
| 19 Jan | 76.8 | Ricardo Antonio Suriñach Carreras † | Bishop Emeritus of Ponce, Puerto Rico |
| 29 Jan | 92.2 | Jean Hengen † | Archbishop Emeritus of Luxembourg |
| 29 Jan | 86.5 | Karl Heinz Jacoby † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Trier, Germany |
| 2 Feb | 94.0 | Armand François M. Le Bourgeois, C.I.M. † | Bishop Emeritus of Autun (-Châlon-sur-Saône-Mâcon-Cluny), France |
| 3 Feb | 101.6 | Corrado Bafile † | Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints |
| 3 Feb | 91.4 | Joseph Anthony De Palma, S.C.I. † | Bishop Emeritus of De Aar, South Africa |
| 4 Feb | 69.6 | Benito Gennaro Franceschetti † | Archbishop of Fermo, Italy |
| 8 Feb | 86.8 | Jackson Berenguer Prado † | Bishop Emeritus of Paulo Afonso, Baia, Brazil |
| 13 Feb | 80.5 | Saminini Arulappa † | Archbishop Emeritus of Hyderabad, India |
| 16 Feb | 89.7 | Aldo Del Monte † | Bishop Emeritus of Novara, Italy |
| 19 Feb | 65.3 | Efrén Ramos Salazar † | Bishop of Chilpancingo-Chilapa, Guerrero, México |
| 2 Mar | 91.3 | Eugenio Santiago Peyrou, S.D.B. † | Bishop Emeritus of Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina |
| 7 Mar | 81.5 | José Gottardi Cristelli, S.D.B. † | Archbishop Emeritus of Montevideo, Uruguay |
| 8 Mar | 92.4 | José Alves de Sà Trindade † | Bishop Emeritus of Montes Claros, Brazil |
| 8 Mar | 80.3 | Román Arrieta Villalobos † | Archbishop Emeritus of San José de Costa Rica |
| 8 Mar | 67.1 | Luciano Nervi, S.M.M. † | Bishop of Mangochi, Malawi |
| 12 Mar | 90.6 | Joseph Matthew Breitenbeck † | Bishop Emeritus of Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA |
| 14 Mar | 92.2 | Abele Conigli † | Bishop Emeritus of Teramo-Atri, Italy |
| 14 Mar | 77.1 | Giuseppe Torti † | Bishop Emeritus of Lugano, Switzerland |
| 19 Mar | 76.1 | Bogdan Bejze † | Auxiliary Bishop of Łódź, Poland |
| 21 Mar | 81.8 | Vekoslav Grmic † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Maribor, Slovenia |
| 29 Mar | 85.6 | Edward Dennis Head † | Bishop Emeritus of Buffalo, New York, USA |
| 1 Apr | 87.9 | Petrus Malachias van Diepen, O.S.A. † | Bishop Emeritus of Manokwari-Sorong, Indonesia |
| 2 Apr | 84.9 | Bl. Karol Józef Wojtyła † | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) |
| 9 Apr | 69.0 | Vicente Salgado y Garrucho † | Bishop Emeritus of Romblon, Philippines |
| 13 Apr | 76.6 | Alessandro Assolari, S.M.M. † | Bishop Emeritus of Mangochi, Malawi |
| 15 Apr | 77.2 | Joakim Herbut † | Bishop of Skopje, Macedonia |
| 22 Apr | 81.8 | Josef Plöger † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Köln {Cologne}, Germany |
| 25 Apr | 80.3 | Sennen Corrà † | Bishop Emeritus of Concordia-Pordenone, Italy |
| 26 Apr | 94.9 | Giustino Giulio Pastorino, O.F.M. † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Benghazi, Libya |
| 30 Apr | 90.0 | Ferdinando Palatucci † | Archbishop Emeritus of Amalfi-Cava de’ Tirreni, Italy |
| 4 May | 66.1 | Youhanna Fouad El-Hage † | Archbishop of Tripoli del Libano {Tarabulus} (Maronite) |
| 10 May | 87.6 | Héctor Enrique Santos Hernández, S.D.B. † | Archbishop Emeritus of Tegucigalpa, Honduras |
| 10 May | 87.9 | Manuel Talamás Camandari † | Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México |
| 13 May | 79.7 | Próspero Penados del Barrio † | Archbishop Emeritus of Guatemala |
| 16 May | 63.0 | Cornelio Galleo Wigwigan † | Vicar Apostolic of Bontoc-Lagawe, Philippines |
| 23 May | 64.9 | Roderick Wright † | Bishop Emeritus of Argyll and The Isles, Scotland, Great Britain |
| 24 May | 70.5 | Marian Oles † | Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Slovenia |
| 26 May | 76.6 | Brian David Usanga † | Archbishop Emeritus of Calabar, Nigeria |
| 29 May | 86.1 | Marco Caliaro, C.S. † | Bishop Emeritus of Sabina-Poggio Mirteto, Italy |
| 1 Jun | 65.5 | Thomas Kozhimala † | Bishop of Bhagalpur, India |
| 2 Jun | 95.8 | Andrea Pangrazio † | Archbishop Emeritus of Porto e Santa Rufina, Italy |
| 5 Jun | 94.6 | Guglielmo Motolese † | Archbishop Emeritus of Taranto, Italy |
| 7 Jun | 87.2 | Edward Anthony McCarthy † | Archbishop Emeritus of Miami, Florida, USA |
| 10 Jun | 77.6 | José Mario Escobar Serna † | Bishop Emeritus of Palmira, Colombia |
| 10 Jun | 88.8 | Joseph-Marie Raya † | Archbishop Emeritus of Akka [San Giovanni d’Acri; Tolemaide] (Melkite Greek), Israel |
| 14 Jun | 93.7 | James John Hogan † | Bishop Emeritus of Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 15 Jun | 63.5 | Paul Themba Mngoma † | Bishop Emeritus of Mariannhill, South Africa |
| 19 Jun | 90.4 | Aliprando Catani, O.S.B. † | Prior General Emeritus of Order of Saint Benedict |
| 21 Jun | 76.8 | Jaime Lachica Sin † | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Manila, Philippines |
| 22 Jun | 84.4 | Joseph Paul Barnabé Perrot, M. Afr. † | Bishop Emeritus of San, Mali |
| 23 Jun | 70.7 | Jean-Baptiste Gourion, O.S.B. † | Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine |
| 24 Jun | 78.6 | John Mendes † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Antilles |
| 26 Jun | 88.3 | Bernard Martin Ngaviliau, C.S.Sp. † | Bishop Emeritus of Zanzibar, Tanzania |
| 26 Jun | 74.7 | Manuel Samaniego Barriga † | Bishop of Cuautitlán, México, México |
| 1 Jul | 71.7 | Mansuet Dela Biyase † | Bishop of Eshowe, South Africa |
| 6 Jul | 84.8 | Pierre-Jean Trân Xuân Hap † | Bishop Emeritus of Vinh, Viet Nam |
| 9 Jul | 79.3 | Mario José Serra † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| 12 Jul | 70.9 | Joseph Patrick Delaney † | Bishop of Fort Worth, Texas, USA |
| 14 Jul | 77.5 | José Vicente Henriquez Andueza, S.D.B. † | Bishop Emeritus of Maracay, Venezuela |
| 14 Jul | 77.0 | Luigi Locati † | Vicar Apostolic of Isiolo, Kenya |
| 15 Jul | 81.0 | Abelardo Francisco Silva † | Bishop Emeritus of San Miguel, Argentina |
| 3 Aug | 95.9 | Dominic Aloysius Vendargon † | Archbishop Emeritus of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| 4 Aug | 86.8 | Firmin Martin Schmidt, O.F.M. Cap. † | Bishop Emeritus of Mendi, Papua New Guinea |
| 5 Aug | 85.6 | Jean Louis Joseph Dardel † | Bishop Emeritus of Clermont, France |
| 6 Aug | 77.6 | Charles-Remy Rakotonirina, S.J. † | Bishop of Farafangana, Madagascar |
| 14 Aug | 71.7 | Sylvester Monteiro † | Bishop of Aurangabad, India |
| 7 Sep | 64.0 | José Miguel Ángel Giles Vázquez † | Bishop of Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero, México |
| 13 Sep | 71.2 | Paul Jean-Marie Dossavi † | Bishop of Aného, Togo |
| 29 Sep | 82.0 | Gennaro Maria Prata Vuolo, S.D.B. † | Archbishop Emeritus of Cochabamba, Bolivia |
| 1 Oct | 88.0 | Matthieu Kanyama † | Bishop Emeritus of Kabinda, Congo (Dem. Rep.) |
| 6 Oct | 99.9 | Ettore Cunial † | Vice-Chamberlain Emeritus of the Apostolic Chamber |
| 7 Oct | 89.0 | Alberto Cosme do Amaral † | Bishop Emeritus of Leiria-Fátima, Portugal |
| 9 Oct | 62.9 | Charles Kambale Mbogha, A.A. † | Archbishop of Bukavu, Congo (Dem. Rep.) |
| 11 Oct | 97.3 | Aloysius John Wycislo † | Bishop Emeritus of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA |
| 15 Oct | 90.9 | Giuseppe (Joseph) Caprio † | Cardinal, Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem |
| 18 Oct | 80.1 | Bernard Charles Ratsimamotoana, M.S. † | Bishop Emeritus of Morondava, Madagascar |
| 25 Oct | 71.3 | Francesco Tommasiello † | Bishop of Teano-Calvi, Italy |
| 27 Oct | 93.5 | Leo Cornelli, O.S.B. † | Abbot General Emeritus of Order of Saint Benedict |
| 31 Oct | 88.7 | Antonio Sahagún López † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México |
| 6 Nov | 85.8 | José Antonio Infantes Florido † | Bishop Emeritus of Córdoba, Spain |
| 9 Nov | 93.8 | Stephen McGill, P.S.S. † | Bishop Emeritus of Paisley, Scotland, Great Britain |
| 13 Nov | 91.1 | Joseph Gustave Roland Prévost Godard, P.M.E. † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Pucallpa, Peru |
| 14 Nov | 76.6 | Geraldo do Espírito Santo Ávila † | Archbishop of Brazil, Military |
| 16 Nov | 81.0 | Francisco Garmendia Ayestarán † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of New York, New York, USA |
| 17 Nov | 99.0 | Gennaro Verolino † | President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology |
| 18 Nov | 89.9 | Matthias A. Chimole † | Bishop Emeritus of Lilongwe, Malawi |
| 19 Nov | 71.3 | Bernard Bududira † | Bishop of Bururi, Burundi |
| 20 Nov | 66.7 | Luis Gabriel Cuara Méndez † | Bishop of Veracruz, México |
| 22 Nov | 78.6 | Hélio Paschoal, C.S.S. † | Bishop Emeritus of Livramento de Nossa Senhora, Baia, Brazil |
| 24 Nov | 70.2 | Jean-Claude Hertzog † | Auxiliary Bishop of Bordeaux (-Bazas), France |
| 25 Nov | 76.6 | James McLoughlin † | Bishop Emeritus of Galway and Kilmacduagh, Ireland |
| 1 Dec | 63.6 | Vincenzo D’Addario † | Bishop of Teramo-Atri, Italy |
| 3 Dec | 82.3 | Lucien-Emile Bardonne † | Bishop Emeritus of Châlons, France |
| 5 Dec | 83.1 | Salvatore Di Salvo † | Bishop Emeritus of Nicosia, Italy |
| 6 Dec | 74.1 | Andraos Salama † | Bishop of Guizeh (Coptic), Egypt |
| 8 Dec | 85.8 | Leo Scheffczyk † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of San Francesco Saverio alla Garbatella |
| 9 Dec | 79.5 | Jude G. Cleary, O.S.B. † | Abbot Emeritus of Belmont-Mary Help of Christians, North Carolina, USA |
| 9 Dec | 90.9 | Josip Pavlišić † | Archbishop Emeritus of Rijeka-Senj, Croatia |
| 12 Dec | 81.6 | Joseph Eric D’Arcy † | Archbishop Emeritus of Hobart, Australia |
| 12 Dec | 53.3 | Max Takuira Matthew Mariu, S.M. † | Auxiliary Bishop of Hamilton in New Zealand |
| 18 Dec | 78.7 | Rómulo García † | Archbishop Emeritus of Bahía Blanca, Argentina |
| 19 Dec | 75.9 | Leobard D’Souza † | Archbishop Emeritus of Nagpur, India |
| 19 Dec | 82.2 | Antônio Carlos Mesquita † | Bishop Emeritus of São João del Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| 23 Dec | 79.9 | Francis Joseph MacKiernan † | Bishop Emeritus of Kilmore, Ireland |
| 29 Dec | 86.3 | Jožef Kvas † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Ljubljana, Slovenia |