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DateAgeBishopTitle
unknown64.0Etienne Apikian †Bishop of Trabzon (Trebisonda) (Armenian), Turkey
unknown73.0Silvano de Stefano, O.S.B. †Abbot of Santissima Trinità di Cava de’ Tirreni, Italy
unknown67.5Gabriele Neviani, O.F.M. Ref. †Bishop Emeritus of Sapë, Albania
Jan74.0Stefanos Awad (Evodio) †Bishop of Tripoli del Libano {Tarabulus} (Maronite)
Jan67.9Ruggero Augusto Catizone †Auxiliary Bishop of Catanzaro, Italy
4 Jan65.0Stefan Aleksander Zwierowicz †Bishop of Sandomierz, Poland
8 Jan84.7Sigismondo Brandolini Rota †Bishop of Ceneda, Italy
9 Jan84.0Gábor Szele †Auxiliary Bishop of Eger, Hungary
10 Jan86.0Adolphe-Josué-Frédéric Fiard †Bishop of Montauban, France
13 Jan70.8Francesco Bacchini †Bishop of Terni, Italy
25 Jan62.0Antonio Sebastião Valente †Patriarch of East Indies, India
26 Jan72.0Rocco Tornatore, M.E.P. †Vicar Apostolic of Eastern Burma {Birmania Orientale}, Myanmar
28 Jan88.9François-Marie-Benjamin Richard de la Vergne †Cardinal, Archbishop of Paris, France
4 Feb59.4Serafino Angelini †Bishop of Avellino, Italy
8 Feb56.4Antun Maurović †Bishop of Senj (-Modruš), Croatia
10 Feb72.8Alfonso Maria Giordano, C.Ss.R. †Bishop Emeritus of Calvi e Teano, Italy
16 Feb76.4Jean-Élie Mellus, O.S.H. †Bishop of Mardin (Chaldean), Turkey
19 Feb79.0John Leonard †Vicar Apostolic of Cape of Good Hope, Western District {Capo di Buona Speranza, Distretto Occidentale}, South Africa
21 Feb84.1Ignacio Antonio Parra †Bishop of Nueva Pamplona, Colombia
28 Feb69.9Giocondo (Matthaeus) de Nittis, O.F.M. Ref. †Bishop of Castellaneta, Italy
8 Mar61.7Henry Henry †Bishop of Down and Connor, Ireland
16 Mar68.1Gustave Augustin Rouxel †Auxiliary Bishop of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
17 Mar70.1Giovanni Battista Casali del Drago †Cardinal, Titular Patriarch of Constantinople
20 Mar51.8François-Nicolas-Alphonse Kunemann, C.S.Sp. †Vicar Apostolic of Senegambia, Senegal
22 Mar78.5Raffaele Capone, C.Ss.R. †Bishop of Muro Lucano, Italy
29 Mar50.9Athanasius Klemens Götte, O.F.M. †Vicar Apostolic of Northern Shensi {Scen-Si Settentrionale}, China
30 Mar80.6Próspero María Alarcón y Sánchez de la Barquera †Archbishop of México, Federal District
18 Apr75.3Henri-Charles-Dominique Denéchau †Bishop of Tulle, France
21 Apr78.3Franciszek Malczyński †Bishop of Lezhë {Lesh, Alessio}, Albania
25 Apr62.5Gennaro Portanova †Cardinal, Archbishop of Reggio Calabria, Italy
26 Apr70.6Celestino del Frate †Archbishop of Camerino, Italy
2 May73.4Mieczyslaw Leonard Pallulon †Bishop of Žemaičiai (Samogizia o Tels; Żmudź), Lithuania
7 May79.8William Benedict Scarisbrick, O.S.B. †Bishop Emeritus of Port-Louis, Mauritius
11 May81.4Rafael Sabás Camacho y García †Bishop of Querétaro, México
13 May64.1Samuel Webster Allen †Bishop of Shrewsbury, England, Great Britain
13 May67.4John Frederick Ignatius Horstmann †Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio, USA
14 May52.1Annibale Lupi †Bishop of Comacchio, Italy
15 May61.9Manuel Antonio López de Mesa Enthwistle †Bishop of Antioquía, Colombia
16 May74.8Mariano Jaime Casanova Casanova †Archbishop of Santiago de Chile
17 May62.5Peter Bourgade (Bougarde) †Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
18 May82.6Antonio Polin †Bishop of Adria, Italy
17 Jun80.3Enrico de Dominis (Dominicis) †Archbishop of Amalfi, Italy
18 Jun68.9Giuseppe Ricciardi †Bishop of Nardò, Italy
11 Jul77.0Alfred Allen Paul Curtis †Bishop Emeritus of Wilmington, Delaware, USA
17 Jul81.8Andreas Thiel †Bishop of Warmia (Ermland), Poland
22 Jul81.6Carlo Nocella †Cardinal, Titular Patriarch of Constantinople
28 Jul62.5Josephus Franciscus van der Stappen †Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen, Belgium
9 Aug62.2Pal Szmrecsányi †Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad}, Romania
17 Aug68.7José Cueto y Díez de la Maza, O.P. †Bishop of Islas Canarias {Canary Islands}, Spain
18 Aug77.5Marcello Mazzanti †Bishop of Pistoia e Prato, Italy
23 Aug79.5Julien-François-Pierre Carmené †Bishop Emeritus of Martinique (Fort-de-France e Saint Pierre), Antilles
31 Aug74.8Giacomo Matteo (Jacques Mattieu) Ahmndahño (Akmardakno) †Bishop of Gazireh (Gezira) (Syrian), Turkey
4 Sep69.4Benedetto Tommasi †Archbishop of Siena, Italy
24 Sep45.0Giovanni Maria Giuseppe Santarelli †Archbishop of Urbino, Italy
26 Sep62.5Mariano Delmiro Encarnación Soler Vidal †Archbishop of Montevideo, Uruguay
27 Sep69.2Jader Bertini †Bishop of Montalcino, Italy
27 Sep64.8Carlo Caputo †Bishop Emeritus of Aversa, Italy
5 Oct69.0Michael Tierney †Bishop of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
7 Oct70.2Federico Foschi †Bishop of Cervia, Italy
15 Oct65.6Giovanni Gigante †Auxiliary Bishop of Lecce, Italy
26 Oct69.4François-Désiré Mathieu †Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Toulouse (-Narbonne), France
27 Oct74.1Salvador Casañas y Pagés †Cardinal, Bishop of Barcelona, Spain
Nov71.4Sahag (Isaac) Hagian †Archbishop Emeritus of Sivas {Sebaste} (and Tokat {Toqat}) (Armenian), Turkey
2 Nov78.0Gaudêncio José Pereira †Bishop of Portalegre, Portugal
5 Nov76.0Maximilian Gereon von Galen †Auxiliary Bishop of Münster, Germany
14 Nov73.1Antonio Ruiz-Cabal y Rodríguez †Bishop Emeritus of Pamplona, Spain
18 Nov73.3Jean-Pierre Pagis †Bishop Emeritus of Verdun, France
21 Nov88.3Ludovico Marangoni, O.F.M. Conv. †Bishop of Chioggia, Italy
2 Dec63.8Franz von Sales Maria Doppelbauer †Bishop of Linz, Austria
19 Dec77.9Victor-Lucien-Sulpice Lécot †Cardinal, Archbishop of Bordeaux, France
22 Dec65.0John Stephen Michaud †Bishop of Burlington, Vermont, USA

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