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The Year of Our Lord 1879

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DateAgeBishopTitle
unknown86.0Emmanuele Francesco Barrutia y CroquerAuxiliary Bishop of Guatemala
3 Jan63.0Djordje MarčićBishop of Kotor (Cattaro), Montenegro
5 Jan48.0James McDevittBishop of Raphoe, Ireland
14 Jan76.1Claude-Marie MagninBishop of Annecy, France
25 Jan58.0Manuel Ulloa y CalvoBishop of Nicaragua
29 Jan80.3Antonio Benedetto AntonucciCardinal, Bishop of Ancona e Numana, Italy
7 Feb88.0[Vasyl Luzhynskyi (Luzynskyj)]Archbishop
14 Feb63.1Salvatore Silvestri, C.SS.R. †Bishop of Conversano, Italy
19 Feb56.9Thomas Patrick Roger FoleyCoadjutor Bishop of Chicago, Illinois, USA
27 Feb63.6Filippo Maria Guidi, O.P. †Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Bologna, Italy
10 Mar65.3Carlos María Colina y RubioBishop of Tlaxcala (Puebla de los Angeles), México
11 Mar77.1Pedro José Chávez PonceBishop of Puno, Peru
19 Mar58.3Anastasio Laterza, O. Carm. †Bishop of Boiano, Italy
21 Mar65.3Giovanni Battista CerrutiBishop of Savona e Noli, Italy
26 Mar62.7Paolo di NiquesaBishop of Aquino, Sora, e Pontecorvo, Italy
27 Mar67.1Hilarion Sillani (Silani), O.S.B. †Vicar Apostolic of Colombo, Sri Lanka
31 Mar72.0Benedetto Riccabona de ReinchenfelsBishop of Trento, Italy
6 Apr69.4Vinzenz GasserBishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
8 Apr80.0Casimir-Alexis-Joseph WicartBishop Emeritus of Laval, France
17 Apr56.2Kaspar (Balthasar) Willi, O.S.B. †Bishop of Chur, Switzerland
26 Apr73.4Carlo Luigi MorichiniCardinal, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura
29 Apr75.1Teobaldo (Vincentius Joseph Cirillus) Cesari, O. Cist. †Abbot General Emeritus of Order of Cistercians
2 May80.4Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Léonard BerteaudBishop Emeritus of Tulle, France
6 May69.4Alessandro ValsecchiCoadjutor Bishop of Bergamo, Italy
8 May49.9Germán de Ascensión Villalvazo y RodríguezBishop of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas), México
13 May74.3Patrick FallonBishop of Kilmacduagh, Ireland
30 May67.3Raffaele Pucci-SistiBishop of Montalcino, Italy
4 Jun77.5Pietro Luigi SperanzaBishop of Bergamo, Italy
9 Jun58.7Louis-Désiré-César BatailleBishop of Amiens, France
10 Jun58.3Giovanni Felix JacovacciAuxiliary Bishop of Palestrina, Italy
17 Jun73.9Domenico Carafa della Spina di TraettoCardinal, Archbishop of Benevento, Italy
16 Jul67.1Konrad MartinBishop of Paderborn, Germany
27 Jul71.5Anđeo Kraljević, O.F.M. Obs. †Vicar Apostolic of Herzegovina
30 Jul40.4Martin-Jean Pontvianne, M.E.P. †Vicar Apostolic of Northern Cochin {Cocincina Settentrionale}, Viet Nam
31 Jul61.1Francisco Gainza Escobás, O.P. †Bishop of Nueva Caceres, Philippines
1 Aug47.4John O’BrienBishop of Kingston, Ontario, Canada
2 Aug54.5Léon (Michel Rey-Golliet) des Avanchers, O.F.M. Cap. †Prefect Emeritus of Seychelles
12 Aug74.5Valentino BaranowskiBishop of Lublin, Poland
17 Aug72.7Petrus Maria VranckenVicar Apostolic Emeritus of Batavia, Indonesia
18 Aug55.1Antonino MoranaBishop of Caltagirone, Italy
24 Aug72.2Théodore Alexis Joseph de MontpellierBishop of Ličge, Belgium
26 Aug76.1José Caixal y EstradéBishop of Urgell, Spain
29 Aug80.8Niccola Crispigni (Grispigni)Bishop of Foligno, Italy
3 Sep70.1István JunákAuxiliary Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad}, Romania
11 Sep62.7Pietro GiovineArchbishop of Acerenza e Matera, Italy
17 Sep52.7Charles-Amable de la Tour d’Auvergne LauraguaisArchbishop of Bourges, France
26 Sep68.1Colin Francis MacKinnonBishop Emeritus of Arichat, Nova Scotia, Canada
28 Sep62.0Filippo ManettiAbbot of Subiaco, Italy
30 Sep93.7Josif SokolskiArchbishop of Bulgarian United Church (Constantinople) (Bulgarian)
5 Oct63.5Eugenio Roberto GallettiBishop of Alba (Pompea), Italy
24 Oct77.0Antonio IzzoBishop of Isernia e Venafro, Italy
29 Oct71.2Domonkos Zichy-VásonkeöBishop Emeritus of Veszprém, Hungary
6 Nov65.7Joaquim Gonçalves de AzevedoArchbishop of Săo Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
16 Nov92.6Carlo Giuseppe Benedetto Mercy d’ArgenteauApostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Bavaria
24 Nov74.4Federico Maria ZinelliBishop of Treviso, Italy
5 Dec70.0Michał (Mykhaylo) Kuzemśki (Kuzemskyi)Bishop of Chełm and Bełz (Ukrainian), Poland
8 Dec57.7Luigi Barbato Pasca di MaglianoBishop of Alife, Italy
16 Dec70.9Benedetto AugustoBishop of Lacedonia, Italy
24 Dec85.0Louis-Charles FéronBishop of Clermont, France
29 Dec68.7Félix María Arrieta y Llano, O.F.M. Cap. †Bishop Emeritus of Cádiz y Ceuta, Spain
31 Dec70.1Gesualdo VitaliBishop of Ferentino, Italy

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