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The Year of Our Lord 2017

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DateAgeBishopTitle
1 Jan94.8Hilarion Capucci, B.A. †Patriarchal Vicar Emeritus of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme} (Melkite Greek), Palestine
4 Jan97.1Anthony Tu Shi-hua, O.F.M. †Bishop of Puqi [Puchi], China
5 Jan85.1Alfonso Humberto Robles CotaBishop Emeritus of Tepic, Nayarit, México
8 Jan92.5Colin Cameron Davies, M.H.M. †Bishop Emeritus of Ngong, Kenya
9 Jan87.4Patrick Fernández FloresArchbishop Emeritus of San Antonio, Texas, USA
11 Jan90.3Robert Pierre SarrabèreBishop Emeritus of Aire et Dax, France
13 Jan94.4Gilberto AgustoniCardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Apostolic Signatura
20 Jan76.7José Luis Astigarraga Lizarralde, C.P. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Yurimaguas, Peru
21 Jan89.1José de Jesús Madera Uribe, M.Sp.S. †Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of United States of America, Military
21 Jan88.4Francesco Saverio SalernoSecretary Emeritus of the Apostolic Signatura
22 Jan88.9Pietro BottaccioliBishop Emeritus of Gubbio, Italy
22 Jan83.4Dominique Kimpinde AmandoBishop Emeritus of Kalemie-Kirungu, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
25 Jan97.4Martin Nicholas LohmullerAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
26 Jan91.5Paul LanneauAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}, Belgium
29 Jan84.3Stanisław Padewski, O.F.M. Cap. †Bishop Emeritus of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia, Ukraine
30 Jan92.1Cesar Castro Raval, S.V.D. †Bishop Emeritus of Bangued, Philippines
1 Feb86.7Albano Bortoletto CavallinArchbishop Emeritus of Londrina, Parana, Brazil
3 Feb92.8Carmelo Cassati, M.S.C. †Archbishop Emeritus of Trani-Barletta-Bisceglie (-Nazareth), Italy
6 Feb87.6José Gea EscolanoBishop Emeritus of Mondoñedo-Ferrol, Spain
7 Feb93.1Luis Alberto Luna Tobar, O.C.D. †Archbishop Emeritus of Cuenca, Ecuador
8 Feb86.3Georges El-Murr, B.C. †Archbishop Emeritus of Petra e Filadelfia (Melkite Greek), Jordan
8 Feb73.2Patrick Mumbure MutumeAuxiliary Bishop of Mutare, Zimbabwe
11 Feb89.9Jozef ZlatňanskýSecretary Emeritus of the Roman Curia - Other
12 Feb101.2Albert-Georges-Yves MalboisBishop Emeritus of Corbeil, France
14 Feb85.5Paul Nguyễn Văn HoàBishop Emeritus of Nha Trang, Viet Nam
14 Feb74.0Casimir Wang MiluBishop Emeritus of Tianshui [Tsinchow], China
16 Feb86.1Osmond Peter MartinBishop Emeritus of Belize City-Belmopan, Belize, Antilles
21 Feb90.9Desmond ConnellCardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Dublin, Ireland
23 Feb92.3Alfonso de Jesús Hinojosa BerronesBishop Emeritus of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México
28 Feb90.7Antônio Ribeiro de OliveiraArchbishop Emeritus of Goiânia, Goias, Brazil
1 Mar64.6Joseph Vũ Duy ThốngBishop of Phan Thiết, Viet Nam
6 Mar76.3Rudolf Deng MajakBishop of Wau, South Sudan
6 Mar84.6James Michael MoynihanBishop Emeritus of Syracuse, New York, USA
7 Mar87.3Tadeusz RybakBishop Emeritus of Legnica, Poland
12 Mar94.8Luigi BarbaritoApostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Great Britain
12 Mar85.4Jacques Louis Marie Joseph FiheyBishop Emeritus of Coutances (-Avranches), France
13 Mar89.8Eamon CaseyBishop Emeritus of Galway and Kilmacduagh, Ireland
18 Mar84.8Miloslav VlkCardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Praha {Prague}, Czechia
19 Mar82.2John Jeremiah McRaithBishop Emeritus of Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
23 Mar86.0William Henry KeelerCardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
25 Mar88.8Marcelo Pinto CarvalheiraArchbishop Emeritus of Paraíba, Brazil
1 Apr82.1Antonio CilibertiArchbishop Emeritus of Catanzaro-Squillace, Italy
4 Apr86.0Clóvis Frainer, O.F.M. Cap. †Archbishop Emeritus of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
6 Apr93.4Newton Holanda GurgelBishop Emeritus of Crato, Ceara, Brazil
6 Apr77.5Michael Bernard McPartland, S.M.A. †Prefect Emeritus of Falkland Islands o Malvinas
11 Apr86.8Edward FrancisBishop Emeritus of Sivagangai, India
11 Apr86.0José Ramón Gurruchaga Ezama, S.D.B. †Bishop Emeritus of Lurín, Peru
13 Apr90.8Georges RolBishop Emeritus of Angoulême, France
19 Apr94.9Antun BogetićBishop Emeritus of Poreč i Pula, Croatia
20 Apr97.4Andreas Anicetus Wang Chong YiArchbishop Emeritus of Guiyang [Kweyang], China
22 Apr80.0Attilio NicoraCardinal, President Emeritus of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See
28 Apr68.8Edouard MathosBishop of Bambari, Central African Republic
29 Apr90.3Diego Natale BonaBishop Emeritus of Saluzzo, Italy
2 May80.8George Hugh NiederauerArchbishop Emeritus of San Francisco, California, USA
2 May74.8Barry Alexander Anthony Wood, O.M.I. †Auxiliary Bishop of Durban, South Africa
5 May79.0Amancio Escapa Aparicio, O.C.D. †Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
6 May77.3Youssef Anis Abi-Aad, Ist. del Prado †Archbishop Emeritus of Alep [Beroea, Halab] (Maronite), Syria
7 May85.7Thomas Anthony WhiteApostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Fiji, Pacific (Oceania)
9 May84.1Brian James Barnes, O.F.M. †Archbishop Emeritus of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
15 May89.6Thomas Vose DailyBishop Emeritus of Brooklyn, New York, USA
16 May90.7Emilio Lorenzo StehleBishop Emeritus of Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Ecuador
19 May100.1Hubertus Cornelis Antonius ErnstBishop Emeritus of Breda, Netherlands
20 May82.5Miguel Mykycej, F.D.P. †Bishop Emeritus of Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires (Ukrainian), Argentina
20 May88.7William Clifford NewmanAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
23 May78.5Olivier Jean-Marie Michel de Berranger, Ist. del Prado †Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Denis, France
30 May94.0Daniel William Kucera, O.S.B. †Archbishop Emeritus of Dubuque, Iowa, USA
30 May86.9José Carlos Melo, C.M. †Archbishop Emeritus of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
31 May58.0Jean-Marie Benoît BallaBishop of Bafia, Cameroon
31 May84.2Lubomyr Husar, M.S.U. †Cardinal, Major Archbishop Emeritus of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine
2 Jun63.2Léon LemmensAuxiliary Bishop of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}, Belgium
3 Jun70.3David Raymond ChobyBishop of Nashville, Tennessee, USA
6 Jun70.5Andrew FrancisBishop Emeritus of Multan, Pakistan
9 Jun88.8John Liu Shingong (Shigong)Bishop of Jining [Tsining], China
14 Jun88.7Kuriakose KunnacherryArchbishop Emeritus of Kottayam (Syro-Malabar), India
17 Jun68.5Rodolfo Fontiveros BeltranBishop of San Fernando de La Union, Philippines
17 Jun72.7Leopoldo Sumaylo TumulakBishop of Philippines, Military
18 Jun89.4Octavio Betancourt ArangoBishop Emeritus of Garzón, Colombia
19 Jun81.1Ivan Cornelius DiasCardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
22 Jun88.2John Raphael QuinnArchbishop Emeritus of San Francisco, California, USA
27 Jun84.1João Oneres MarchioriBishop Emeritus of Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil
5 Jul83.5Joachim MeisnerCardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
6 Jul91.0Giovanni Bernardo Gremoli, O.F.M. Cap. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Arabia, Yemen
13 Jul88.6Giovanni Battista Franzoni
21 Jul91.4Clímaco Jacinto Zarauz CarrilloBishop Emeritus of Azogues, Ecuador
23 Jul95.7József SzendiArchbishop Emeritus of Veszprém, Hungary
25 Jul91.9Jean-Pierre-Dominique Zévaco, C.M. †Bishop Emeritus of Tôlagnaro, Madagascar
26 Jul74.4Giovanni Battista PichierriArchbishop of Trani-Barletta-Bisceglie (-Nazareth), Italy
3 Aug100.3Giovanni BenedettiBishop Emeritus of Foligno, Italy
4 Aug77.0Raffaele CalabroBishop Emeritus of Andria, Italy
5 Aug83.3Dionigi TettamanziCardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Milano {Milan}, Italy
8 Aug70.5Julio César Bonino BoninoBishop of Tacuarembó, Uruguay
9 Aug80.1Robert Joseph ShaheenBishop Emeritus of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles (Maronite), California, USA
11 Aug83.3Luiz Vicente Bernetti, O.A.D. †Bishop Emeritus of Apucarana, Parana, Brazil
13 Aug92.7Savino Bernardo Maria Cazzaro Bertollo, O.S.M. †Archbishop Emeritus of Puerto Montt, Chile
13 Aug91.6Sylvester Li Jiantang (Liu Jiantang)Bishop Emeritus of Taiyuan [Taiyüan], China
14 Aug86.6Paul Xie Ting ZheBishop of Xinjiang-Urumqi [Sinkiang], China
17 Aug75.3Francis Xavier DiLorenzoBishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA
18 Aug88.3Michele Di Simone, C.P. †Prefect Emeritus of Sekadau, Indonesia
19 Aug73.9Mario Roberto CassariApostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Malta
22 Aug88.5Nestor AssogbaArchbishop Emeritus of Cotonou, Benin
22 Aug92.5Matthew Kia Yen-wenArchbishop Emeritus of Taipei, Taiwan
27 Aug89.6Maurice Rigobert Marie-SainteArchbishop Emeritus of Fort-de-France (e Saint Pierre), Martinique, Antilles
27 Aug98.4José Maria PiresArchbishop Emeritus of Paraíba, Brazil
1 Sep85.0Cormac Murphy-O’ConnorCardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Westminster, England, Great Britain
1 Sep92.6Štefan VrablecAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bratislava-Trnava, Slovakia
4 Sep96.4José Trinidad Sepúlveda Ruiz-VelascoBishop Emeritus of San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, México
6 Sep79.2Carlo CaffarraCardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Bologna, Italy
9 Sep81.9Velasio De Paolis, C.S. †Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See
11 Sep69.0António Francisco dos SantosBishop of Porto, Portugal
11 Sep89.2José Trinidad Medel PérezArchbishop Emeritus of Durango, México
13 Sep78.5Kazimierz RyczanBishop Emeritus of Kielce, Poland
14 Sep83.3Marcel Paul HerriotBishop Emeritus of Soissons (-Laon-Saint-Quentin), France
15 Sep85.4Izidoro Kosinski, C.M. †Bishop Emeritus of Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
24 Sep90.6Manuel da Silva MartinsBishop Emeritus of Setúbal, Portugal
25 Sep83.0Matthew Hu XiandeBishop of Ningbo [Ningpo], China
27 Sep92.5Edmond-Marie-Henri AbeléBishop Emeritus of Digne (-Riez-Sisteron), France
29 Sep85.1Anthony Leopold Raymond PeirisBishop Emeritus of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka
2 Oct84.2Marcel Germain PerrierBishop Emeritus of Pamiers (-Couserans-Mirepoix), France
5 Oct85.7François Xavier Nguyễn Văn SangBishop Emeritus of Thái Bình, Viet Nam
7 Oct85.1Patrick NairBishop Emeritus of Meerut, India
7 Oct90.3Wacław Józef ŚwierzawskiBishop Emeritus of Sandomierz, Poland
11 Oct87.3Paolo (Pietro) Lunardon, O.S.B. †Abbot Emeritus of San Paolo fuori le Mura, Italy
13 Oct81.1Herbert Nikolaus Lenhof, S.A.C. †Bishop Emeritus of Queenstown, South Africa
14 Oct93.1Fulgence Werner Le Roy, O.S.B. †Bishop Emeritus of Pietersburg, South Africa
15 Oct67.7Xavier Johnsai MunyonganiBishop of Gweru, Zimbabwe
18 Oct86.6Ricardo Jamin VidalCardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Cebu, Philippines
19 Oct62.6Castor Paul MsemwaBishop of Tunduru-Masasi, Tanzania
21 Oct74.6Juan de Dios Mataflorida PueblosBishop of Butuan, Philippines
22 Oct80.5Geraldo João Paulo Roger VerdierBishop Emeritus of Guajará-Mirim, Rondonia, Brazil
24 Oct78.2Michael Patrick DriscollBishop Emeritus of Boise City, Idaho, USA
25 Oct92.6Joseph Mahn ErieBishop Emeritus of Bassein, Myanmar
30 Oct67.3Cornelius Kipng’eno Arap KorirBishop of Eldoret, Kenya
4 Nov84.3Savarinathan Michael AugustineArchbishop Emeritus of Pondicherry and Cuddalore, India
6 Nov96.1Jacques LandriaultBishop Emeritus of Timmins, Ontario, Canada
6 Nov97.8Andrés Sapelak, S.D.B. †Bishop Emeritus of Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires (Ukrainian), Argentina
12 Nov86.7Bernard Louis Auguste Paul PanafieuCardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Marseille, France
17 Nov96.8Lucas Ly Jing Feng (Li Jingfeng)Bishop of Fengxiang [Fengsiang], China
19 Nov92.2Andrea Cordero Lanza di MontezemoloCardinal, Archpriest Emeritus of the Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura {Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls Basilica}
19 Nov88.4Léon Lesambo NdamwizeBishop Emeritus of Inongo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
20 Nov87.7István KonkolyBishop Emeritus of Szombathely, Hungary
22 Nov84.1Vartan Kechichian, C.A.M. †Coadjutor Ordinary Emeritus of Eastern Europe {Europa Orientale} (Armenian)
24 Nov80.6Gabriel SimoAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bafoussam, Cameroon
25 Nov79.9Sotìr FerraraBishop Emeritus of Piana degli Albanesi (Italo-Albanese), Italy
25 Nov85.7Rosendo Huesca PachecoArchbishop Emeritus of Puebla de los Ángeles, México
26 Nov79.7José Doth de OliveiraBishop Emeritus of Iguatu, Ceara, Brazil
26 Nov88.6Vicente García BernalBishop Emeritus of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, México
26 Nov80.0Christian Vicente Fernandez NoelBishop Emeritus of Talibon, Philippines
26 Nov92.3Giuseppe Pietro (José Pedro) Pozzi, S.D.B. †Bishop Emeritus of Alto Valle del Río Negro, Argentina
28 Nov84.7Rafael Llano CifuentesBishop Emeritus of Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
5 Dec64.6Elenito de los Reyes GalidoBishop of Iligan, Philippines
6 Dec76.9Dominic Mai Thanh LươngAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Orange in California, USA
7 Dec89.9Matthias Yu ChengxinCoadjutor Bishop Emeritus of Hanzhong [Hanchung], China
8 Dec66.2Carlos María FranziniArchbishop of Mendoza, Argentina
10 Dec94.9Antonio Riboldi, I.C. †Bishop Emeritus of Acerra, Italy
12 Dec93.2Alphonsus Liguori PenneyArchbishop Emeritus of Saint John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
13 Dec90.5John Joseph GerryAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Brisbane, Australia
13 Dec87.2André Haddad, B.S. †Archbishop Emeritus of Zahleh e Furzol (Melkite Greek), Lebanon
18 Dec84.9George Yod Phimphisan, C.SS.R. †Bishop Emeritus of Udon Thani, Thailand
20 Dec86.1Bernard Francis LawCardinal, Archpriest Emeritus of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}
23 Dec90.3William George CurlinBishop Emeritus of Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
23 Dec91.8Héctor Morera VegaBishop Emeritus of Tilarán, Costa Rica
25 Dec83.0Stanisław KędzioraAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Warszawa-Praga, Poland
26 Dec78.3Pavel HájekBishop
26 Dec91.1Francis Joseph WalmsleyBishop Emeritus of Great Britain, Military
28 Dec89.8Giulio EinaudiApostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Croatia
28 Dec89.5Rubens Augusto de Souza EspínolaBishop Emeritus of Paranavaí, Parana, Brazil
29 Dec83.8Vicente Rodrigo Cisneros DuránArchbishop Emeritus of Cuenca, Ecuador
31 Dec84.6Clément FecteauBishop Emeritus of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Québec, Canada
31 Dec92.1Luís Herbst, C.S.Sp. †Bishop Emeritus of Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil

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