The Year of Our Lord 1973

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Date	Age	Bishop	Title
unknown		Giuseppe Khantzian †	Ordinary of Greece (Armenian)
unknown	70.4	Joseph Li Taonan (Li Daonan) †	Bishop of Puqi [Puchi], China
unknown	84.6	Pietro Moretti, O.F.M. †	Prefect of Tongzhou [Tungchow], China
2 Jan	59.8	Alejandro Ayson Olalia †	Archbishop of Lipa, Philippines
2 Jan	68.2	Herman Gerard Te Riele, M.H.M. †	Prefect Emeritus of Malakal, Sudan
4 Jan	68.7	Pedro José (Giuseppe Pietro) Agostini, O. Cist. †	Abbot Emeritus of Claraval, Minas Gerais, Brazil
8 Jan	92.6	José Carlos de Aguirre †	Bishop of Sorocaba, Brazil
8 Jan	68.4	[Marc Yuan Wen-hua], O.F.M. †	Bishop of Wuchang [Wuchang], China
12 Jan	57.9	Prosper Paul Dodds, C.S.Sp. †	Bishop of Saint-Louis du Sénégal
13 Jan	89.4	Fernando Cento †	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
13 Jan	71.2	Gustave-André-Ferdinand Raballand, M.E.P. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Phnom-Penh, Cambodia
16 Jan	80.4	Vicente Juan Solís Fernández †	Bishop Emeritus of Alajuela, Costa Rica
20 Jan	94.3	Antonio Torrini †	Archbishop of Lucca, Italy
22 Jan	52.6	Antonio Silvio Zocchetta, O.F.M. †	Vicar Apostolic of Mogadiscio, Somalia
27 Jan	88.0	Istvan Hász †	Titular Bishop of Sura
29 Jan	87.6	Egidio Luigi Lanzo, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop of Saluzzo, Italy
29 Jan	90.4	Gaetano Mignani, C.M. †	Bishop of Ji’an [Kian], China
1 Feb	63.0	Fidel Mario Tubino Mongilardi †	Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru
2 Feb	85.0	Oreste Rauzi †	Auxiliary Bishop of Trento, Italy
10 Feb	92.7	Fidel García Martínez †	Bishop Emeritus of Calahorra y La Calzada, Spain
12 Feb	90.2	Innocenzo Alfredo Russo, O.F.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Bovino, Italy
15 Feb	89.0	Achille Liénart †	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Lille, France
15 Feb	79.0	Michael O’Reilly †	Bishop Emeritus of Saint George’s, Newfoundland, Canada
16 Feb	66.2	Luigi Cicuttini †	Bishop Emeritus of Città di Castello, Italy
16 Feb	69.0	Clarence Edward Elwell †	Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, USA
16 Feb	62.9	Paweł Latusek †	Auxiliary Bishop of Wrocław {Breslavia}, Poland
17 Feb	72.2	John Farmer Healy †	Bishop of Gibraltar
27 Feb	57.3	Altino Ribeiro de Santana †	Bishop of Beira, Mozambique
28 Feb	77.4	Thomas Niu Huiqing (Niu Hui-ching) †	Bishop of Yanggu [Yangku], China
7 Mar	60.0	Peter Han Kong-ryel †	Archbishop of Gwangju, Korea (South)
7 Mar	63.8	John Selby Spence †	Auxiliary Bishop of Washington, District of Columbia, USA
8 Mar	86.9	Benjamín de Arriba y Castro †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Tarragona, Spain
11 Mar	59.2	Edward Louis Fedders, M.M. †	Prelate of Juli, Peru
17 Mar	74.0	Giuseppe Antonio Ferretto †	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
20 Mar	79.0	Francesco Bottino †	Auxiliary Bishop of Torino {Turin}, Italy
23 Mar	68.3	Nicolas Kinsch, S.C.I. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Kisangani, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
26 Mar	78.6	Alphonse Marie Van den Bosch, C.Ss.R. †	Bishop Emeritus of Matadi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
29 Mar	67.6	György Zemplén, O. Cist. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Esztergom, Hungary
31 Mar	82.8	Venanzio Francesco Filippini, O.F.M. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Mogadiscio, Somalia
2 Apr	80.9	Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Bourges, France
7 Apr	65.2	Pompeu de Sá Leão y Seabra, C.S.Sp. †	Bishop of Malanje, Angola
7 Apr	77.6	John Charles McQuaid, C.S.Sp. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Dublin, Ireland
13 Apr	51.1	Mário Roberto Emmett Anglim, C.Ss.R. †	Prelate of Coari, Amazonas, Brazil
16 Apr	51.7	Curiacos Moussess †	Bishop of Amadiyah (Chaldean), Iraq
17 Apr	97.8	Bernardin Shlaku, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Pult (Pulati), Albania
27 Apr	90.7	Peter Francis Rayappa †	Bishop Emeritus of Kumbakonam, India
28 Apr	61.2	Alfonso Zaplana Bellizza †	Bishop of Tacna, Peru
29 Apr	45.1	Érico Ferrari †	Bishop of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2 May	65.6	Edward Louis Heston, C.S.C. †	President of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications
2 May	83.7	Joseph Rabbani †	Archbishop Emeritus of Homs (-Hama-Nabk) (Syrian), Syria
6 May	73.5	Fernando Guercilena, P.I.M.E. †	Bishop Emeritus of Kengtung, Myanmar
7 May	85.4	Arcadio María Larraona Saralegui, C.M.F. †	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation of (Sacred) Rites
7 May	83.3	Antonio Victor Pildáin y Zapiáin †	Bishop Emeritus of Islas Canarias {Canary Islands}, Spain
8 May	82.4	José Hascher, C.S.Sp. †	Prelate Emeritus of Juruá, Acre, Brazil
15 May	83.6	Raffaele Baratta †	Archbishop Emeritus of Perugia, Italy
16 May	79.7	Napoléon-Alexandre Labrie, C.I.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Golfe St-Laurent, Québec, Canada
19 May	87.4	Lino Rodrigo Ruesca †	Bishop of Huesca, Spain
21 May	85.3	Eugene O’Callaghan †	Bishop Emeritus of Clogher, Ireland
23 May	53.2	Francis Xavier Hsu Chen-ping (Xu Chengbin) †	Bishop of Hong Kong [Xianggang], China
23 May	78.5	Joseph Francis Flannelly †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of New York, New York, USA
2 Jun	77.9	John Edward Petit †	Bishop Emeritus of Menevia, Wales, Great Britain
12 Jun	53.3	Paulo José Tavares †	Bishop of Macau, China
21 Jun	78.2	Joseph Guffens, S.J. †	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Koango o Kwango, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
27 Jun	52.7	Léon Eugène Émile François Dixneuf †	Auxiliary Bishop of Rennes (-Dol-Saint-Malo), France
28 Jun	62.6	Jean-Ernest Ménard †	Bishop of Rodez (-Vabres), France
29 Jun	71.2	Jan Vos, M.H.M. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Kuching, Malaysia
30 Jun	70.0	Bl. Vasyl Vsevolod Velychkovsky, C.Ss.R. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv (Ukrainian), Ukraine
10 Jul	79.7	José García y Goldaraz †	Archbishop Emeritus of Valladolid, Spain
11 Jul	81.2	Cesare Zerba †	Cardinal, Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation of the Discipline of the Sacraments
13 Jul	86.7	William Patrick O’Connor †	Bishop Emeritus of Madison, Wisconsin, USA
21 Jul	52.3	Robert Chopard-Lallier, S.M.A. †	Prefect Emeritus of Parakou, Benin
22 Jul	85.1	Carlos de la Trinidad Borge y Castrillo †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Managua, Nicaragua
24 Jul	64.1	Aurelian (Josef) Bilgeri, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Eshowe, South Africa
25 Jul	87.2	Aloysius Joseph Willinger, C.Ss.R. †	Bishop Emeritus of Monterey in California, USA
1 Aug	72.8	Michael Alphonsus Harrington †	Bishop of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
2 Aug	80.4	José Souto Vizoso †	Bishop Emeritus of Palencia, Spain
6 Aug	84.5	Joseph Bonhomme, O.M.I. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Basutoland, Lesotho
9 Aug	68.0	Stjepan Bäuerlein †	Bishop of Djakovo o Bosna i Srijem, Croatia
10 Aug	55.7	Giuseppe Marafini †	Bishop of Veroli-Frosinone, Italy
14 Aug	70.0	Jeremiah Francis Minihan †	Auxiliary Bishop of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
14 Aug	78.6	Jan Nowicki †	Apostolic Administrator of Lviv, Ukraine
18 Aug	60.5	Leonard Philip Cowley †	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
18 Aug	59.8	Patrick Kla Juwle †	Vicar Apostolic of Cape Palmas, Liberia
24 Aug	90.7	David Francis Hickey, S.J. †	Bishop Emeritus of Belize
24 Aug	75.5	Pietro Zuccarino †	Bishop of Bobbio (-Abbey of San Colombano), Italy
27 Aug	85.1	Biagio Budelacci †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Frascati, Italy
27 Aug	67.5	Enrico Nicodemo †	Archbishop of Bari (-Canosa), Italy
27 Aug	89.0	Juan (Matías) Solá y Farrell, O.F.M. Cap. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Bluefields, Nicaragua
29 Aug	68.3	Vladimiro Borić Crnošija, S.D.B. †	Bishop of Punta Arenas, Chile
31 Aug	57.0	Fernando (José Ismael) Errázuriz Gandarillas †	Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de Chile
3 Sep	65.0	Rufino Jiao Santos †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Manila, Philippines
5 Sep	67.4	Simon Hoà Nguyễn Văn Hiền †	Bishop of Ðà Lạt, Viet Nam
9 Sep	57.8	Joseph Babana †	Bishop of Zaku (Chaldean), Iraq
16 Sep	89.5	William Theodore Heard †	Cardinal, Dean Emeritus of the Roman Rota
18 Sep	88.7	Alexandre Poncet, S.M. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Wallis et Futuna, Wallis and Futuna, Pacific (Oceania)
19 Sep	82.3	Urban John Vehr †	Archbishop Emeritus of Denver, Colorado, USA
28 Sep	69.0	Pierre Joseph François d’Alcantara Sintas, O.F.M. Cap. †	Prefect Emeritus of Berbérati, Central African Republic
30 Sep	81.0	Alfonso María Buteler †	Archbishop of Mendoza, Argentina
30 Sep	75.7	Alexandre-Joseph-Charles Derouineau, M.E.P. †	Archbishop of Kunming [Kunming], China
8 Oct	61.3	Henry Murphy †	Bishop of Limerick, Ireland
14 Oct	44.6	Armando Amaral Dos Santos †	Bishop of Benguela, Angola
15 Oct	63.1	Claude Rolland, M.S. †	Bishop of Antsirabé, Madagascar
21 Oct	68.1	James Ward †	Auxiliary Bishop of Glasgow, Scotland, Great Britain
22 Oct	61.3	Antonio Hernández Gallegos †	Bishop of Tabasco, México
24 Oct	72.8	Costantino Stella †	Archbishop Emeritus of L’Aquila, Italy
26 Oct	82.1	José Borgatti, S.D.B. †	Bishop of Viedma, Argentina
31 Oct	78.7	Marie Pierre Jean Cassaigne, M.E.P. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Saigon, Viet Nam
4 Nov	76.0	Francis John Doyle, M.S.C. †	Bishop Emeritus of Sideia, Papua New Guinea
6 Nov	73.7	George Alapatt †	Bishop Emeritus of Trichur (Syro-Malabar), India
11 Nov	65.6	Thomas Edward Gill †	Auxiliary Bishop of Seattle, Washington, USA
14 Nov	70.4	Juan Pedro Zarranz y Pueyo †	Bishop of Plasencia, Spain
17 Nov	83.6	Daniel Henrique Hostin, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil
18 Nov	74.3	Peter Thomas McKeefry †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Wellington, New Zealand
22 Nov	81.3	Pedro Pablo (Luis Reinaldo) Andrade Sánchez, O.F.M. †	Prefect Emeritus of Galápagos, Ecuador
25 Nov	96.8	Giuseppe Placido Maria Nicolini, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Assisi, Italy
29 Nov	58.7	Aldo Gobbi †	Auxiliary Bishop of Imola, Italy
2 Dec	77.8	Bl. Ivan Sleziuk †	Bishop of Stanislaviv (Ukrainian), Ukraine
7 Dec	58.9	Thomas Patrick Collins, M.M. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Pando, Bolivia
13 Dec	84.9	Giuseppe Beltrami †	Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio
13 Dec	79.8	Blasius Sigibald Kurz, O.F.M. †	Prefect of Lingling [Yungchow], China
13 Dec	87.2	Manuel Jerónimo Yerena y Camarena †	Bishop Emeritus of Huejutla, Hidalgo, México
14 Dec	85.8	Johannes Baptist Neuhäusler †	Auxiliary Bishop of München und Freising {Munich}, Germany
17 Dec	90.8	Amleto Giovanni Cicognani †	Cardinal, Secretary Emeritus of the Secretariat of State
26 Dec	65.4	Nicholas Hettinga, M.H.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Rawalpindi, Pakistan
31 Dec	93.8	Vincent Victor Dereere, O.C.D. †	Bishop Emeritus of Trivandrum, India

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