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The Year of Our Lord 1973

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DateAgeBishopTitle
unknownGiuseppe KhantzianOrdinary of Greece (Armenian)
unknown70.4Joseph Li Taonan (Li Daonan)Bishop of Puqi [Puchi], China
unknown84.6Pietro Moretti, O.F.M. †Prefect of Tongzhou [Tungchow], China
2 Jan59.8Alejandro Ayson OlaliaArchbishop of Lipa, Philippines
2 Jan68.2Herman Gerard Te Riele, M.H.M. †Prefect Emeritus of Malakal, Sudan
4 Jan68.7Pedro José (Giuseppe Pietro) Agostini, O. Cist. †Abbot Emeritus of Claraval, Minas Gerais, Brazil
8 Jan92.6José Carlos de AguirreBishop of Sorocaba, Brazil
8 Jan68.4[Marc Yuan Wen-hua], O.F.M. †Bishop of Wuchang [Wuchang], China
12 Jan57.9Prosper Paul Dodds, C.S.Sp. †Bishop of Saint-Louis du Sénégal
13 Jan89.4Fernando CentoCardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
13 Jan71.2Gustave-André-Ferdinand Raballand, M.E.P. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Phnom-Penh, Cambodia
16 Jan80.4Vicente Juan Solís FernándezBishop Emeritus of Alajuela, Costa Rica
20 Jan94.3Antonio TorriniArchbishop of Lucca, Italy
22 Jan52.6Antonio Silvio Zocchetta, O.F.M. †Vicar Apostolic of Mogadiscio, Somalia
27 Jan88.0Istvan HászTitular Bishop of Sura
29 Jan87.6Egidio Luigi Lanzo, O.F.M. Cap. †Bishop of Saluzzo, Italy
29 Jan90.4Gaetano Mignani, C.M. †Bishop of Ji’an [Kian], China
1 Feb63.0Fidel Mario Tubino MongilardiAuxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru
2 Feb85.0Oreste RauziAuxiliary Bishop of Trento, Italy
10 Feb92.7Fidel García MartínezBishop Emeritus of Calahorra y La Calzada, Spain
12 Feb90.2Innocenzo Alfredo Russo, O.F.M. †Bishop Emeritus of Bovino, Italy
15 Feb89.0Achille LiénartCardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Lille, France
15 Feb79.0Michael O’ReillyBishop Emeritus of Saint George’s, Newfoundland, Canada
16 Feb66.2Luigi CicuttiniBishop Emeritus of Città di Castello, Italy
16 Feb69.0Clarence Edward ElwellBishop of Columbus, Ohio, USA
16 Feb62.9Pawel LatusekAuxiliary Bishop of Wrocław {Breslavia}, Poland
17 Feb72.2John Farmer HealyBishop of Gibraltar
27 Feb57.3Altino Ribeiro de SantanaBishop of Beira, Mozambique
28 Feb77.4Thomas Niu Huiqing (Niu Hui-ching)Bishop of Yanggu [Yangku], China
7 Mar60.0Peter Han Kong-ryelArchbishop of Gwangju, Korea (South)
7 Mar63.8John Selby SpenceAuxiliary Bishop of Washington, District of Columbia, USA
8 Mar86.9Benjamín de Arriba y CastroCardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Tarragona, Spain
11 Mar59.2Edward Louis Fedders, M.M. †Prelate of Juli, Peru
17 Mar74.0Giuseppe Antonio FerrettoCardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
20 Mar79.0Francesco BottinoAuxiliary Bishop of Torino {Turin}, Italy
23 Mar68.3Nicolas Kinsch, S.C.I. †Archbishop Emeritus of Kisangani, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
26 Mar78.6Alphonse Marie Van den Bosch, C.SS.R. †Bishop Emeritus of Matadi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
29 Mar67.6György Zemplén, O. Cist. †Auxiliary Bishop of Esztergom, Hungary
31 Mar82.8Venanzio Francesco Filippini, O.F.M. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Mogadiscio, Somalia
2 Apr80.9Joseph-Charles LefèbvreCardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Bourges, France
7 Apr65.2Pompeu de Sá Leão y Seabra, C.S.Sp. †Bishop of Malanje, Angola
7 Apr77.6John Charles McQuaid, C.S.Sp. †Archbishop Emeritus of Dublin, Ireland
13 Apr51.1Mário Roberto Emmett Anglim, C.SS.R. †Prelate of Coari, Amazonas, Brazil
16 Apr51.7Curiacos MoussessBishop of Amadiyah (Chaldean), Iraq
17 Apr97.8Bernardin Shlaku, O.F.M. †Bishop of Pult (Pulati), Albania
27 Apr90.7Peter Francis RayappaBishop Emeritus of Kumbakonam, India
28 Apr61.2Alfonso Zaplana BellizzaBishop of Tacna, Peru
29 Apr45.1Érico FerrariBishop of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2 May65.6Edward Louis Heston, C.S.C. †President of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications
2 May83.7Joseph RabbaniArchbishop Emeritus of Homs (-Hama-Nabk) (Syrian), Syria
6 May73.5Fernando Guercilena, P.I.M.E. †Bishop Emeritus of Kengtung, Myanmar
7 May85.4Arcadio María Larraona Saralegui, C.M.F. †Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation of (Sacred) Rites
7 May83.3Antonio Victor Pildáin y ZapiáinBishop Emeritus of Islas Canarias {Canary Islands}, Spain
8 May82.4José Hascher, C.S.Sp. †Prelate Emeritus of Juruá, Acre, Brazil
15 May83.6Raffaele BarattaArchbishop Emeritus of Perugia, Italy
16 May79.7Napoléon-Alexandre Labrie, C.I.M. †Bishop Emeritus of Golfe St-Laurent, Québec, Canada
19 May87.4Lino Rodrigo RuescaBishop of Huesca, Spain
21 May85.3Eugene O’CallaghanBishop Emeritus of Clogher, Ireland
23 May53.2Francis Xavier Hsu Chen-ping (Xu Chengbin)Bishop of Hong Kong [Xianggang], China
23 May78.5Joseph Francis FlannellyAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of New York, New York, USA
2 Jun77.9John Edward PetitBishop Emeritus of Menevia, Wales, Great Britain
12 Jun53.3Paulo José TavaresBishop of Macau, China
21 Jun78.2Joseph Guffens, S.J. †Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Koango o Kwango, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
27 Jun52.7Léon Eugène Émile François DixneufAuxiliary Bishop of Rennes (-Dol-Saint-Malo), France
28 Jun62.6Jean-Ernest MénardBishop of Rodez (-Vabres), France
29 Jun71.2Jan Vos, M.H.M. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Kuching, Malaysia
30 Jun70.0Bl. Vasyl Vsevolod Velychkovsky, C.SS.R. †Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv (Ukrainian), Ukraine
10 Jul79.7José García y GoldarazArchbishop Emeritus of Valladolid, Spain
11 Jul81.2Cesare ZerbaCardinal, Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation of the Discipline of the Sacraments
13 Jul86.7William Patrick O’ConnorBishop Emeritus of Madison, Wisconsin, USA
21 Jul52.3Robert Chopard-Lallier, S.M.A. †Prefect Emeritus of Parakou, Benin
22 Jul85.1Carlos de la Trinidad Borge y CastrilloAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Managua, Nicaragua
24 Jul64.1Aurelian (Josef) Bilgeri, O.S.B. †Bishop of Eshowe, South Africa
25 Jul87.2Aloysius Joseph Willinger, C.SS.R. †Bishop Emeritus of Monterey in California, USA
1 Aug72.8Michael Alphonsus HarringtonBishop of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
2 Aug80.4José Souto VizosoBishop Emeritus of Palencia, Spain
6 Aug84.5Joseph Bonhomme, O.M.I. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Basutoland, Lesotho
9 Aug68.0Stjepan BäuerleinBishop of Djakovo o Bosna i Srijem, Croatia
10 Aug55.7Giuseppe MarafiniBishop of Veroli-Frosinone, Italy
14 Aug70.0Jeremiah Francis MinihanAuxiliary Bishop of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
14 Aug78.6Jan NowickiApostolic Administrator of Lviv, Ukraine
18 Aug60.5Leonard Philip CowleyAuxiliary Bishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
18 Aug59.8Patrick Kla JuwleVicar Apostolic of Cape Palmas, Liberia
24 Aug90.7David Francis Hickey, S.J. †Bishop Emeritus of Belize
24 Aug75.5Pietro ZuccarinoBishop of Bobbio (-Abbey of San Colombano), Italy
27 Aug85.1Biagio BudelacciAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Frascati, Italy
27 Aug67.5Enrico NicodemoArchbishop of Bari (-Canosa), Italy
27 Aug89.0Juan (Matías) Solá y Farrell, O.F.M. Cap. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Bluefields, Nicaragua
29 Aug68.3Vladimiro Borić Crnošija, S.D.B. †Bishop of Punta Arenas, Chile
31 Aug57.0Fernando (José Ismael) Errázuriz GandarillasAuxiliary Bishop of Santiago de Chile
3 Sep65.0Rufino Jiao SantosCardinal, Archbishop of Manila, Philippines
5 Sep67.4Simon Hoà Nguyễn Văn HiềnBishop of Ðà Lạt, Viet Nam
9 Sep57.8Joseph BabanaBishop of Zaku (Chaldean), Iraq
16 Sep89.5William Theodore HeardCardinal, Dean Emeritus of the Roman Rota
18 Sep88.7Alexandre Poncet, S.M. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Wallis et Futuna, Wallis and Futuna, Pacific (Oceania)
19 Sep82.3Urban John VehrArchbishop Emeritus of Denver, Colorado, USA
28 Sep69.0Pierre Joseph François d’Alcantara Sintas, O.F.M. Cap. †Prefect Emeritus of Berbérati, Central African Republic
30 Sep81.0Alfonso María ButelerArchbishop of Mendoza, Argentina
30 Sep75.7Alexandre-Joseph-Charles Derouineau, M.E.P. †Archbishop of Kunming [Kunming], China
8 Oct61.3Henry MurphyBishop of Limerick, Ireland
14 Oct44.6Armando Amaral Dos SantosBishop of Benguela, Angola
15 Oct63.1Claude Rolland, M.S. †Bishop of Antsirabé, Madagascar
21 Oct68.1James WardAuxiliary Bishop of Glasgow, Scotland, Great Britain
22 Oct61.3Antonio Hernández GallegosBishop of Tabasco, México
24 Oct72.8Costantino StellaArchbishop Emeritus of L’Aquila, Italy
26 Oct82.1José Borgatti, S.D.B. †Bishop of Viedma, Argentina
31 Oct78.7Marie Pierre Jean Cassaigne, M.E.P. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Saigon, Viet Nam
4 Nov76.0Francis John Doyle, M.S.C. †Bishop Emeritus of Sideia, Papua New Guinea
6 Nov73.7George AlapattBishop Emeritus of Trichur (Syro-Malabar), India
11 Nov65.6Thomas Edward GillAuxiliary Bishop of Seattle, Washington, USA
14 Nov70.4Juan Pedro Zarranz y PueyoBishop of Plasencia, Spain
17 Nov83.6Daniel Henrique Hostin, O.F.M. †Bishop of Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil
18 Nov74.3Peter Thomas McKeefryCardinal, Archbishop of Wellington, New Zealand
22 Nov81.3Pedro Pablo (Luis Reinaldo) Andrade Sánchez, O.F.M. †Prefect Emeritus of Galápagos, Ecuador
25 Nov96.8Giuseppe Placido Maria Nicolini, O.S.B. †Bishop of Assisi, Italy
29 Nov58.7Aldo GobbiAuxiliary Bishop of Imola, Italy
2 Dec77.8Bl. Ivan SleziukBishop of Stanislaviv (Ukrainian), Ukraine
7 Dec58.9Thomas Patrick Collins, M.M. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Pando, Bolivia
13 Dec84.9Giuseppe BeltramiCardinal, Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Netherlands
13 Dec79.8Blasius Sigibald Kurz, O.F.M. †Prefect of Lingling [Yungchow], China
13 Dec87.2Manuel Jerónimo Yerena y CamarenaBishop Emeritus of Huejutla, Hidalgo, México
14 Dec85.8Johannes Baptist NeuhäuslerAuxiliary Bishop of München und Freising {Munich}, Germany
17 Dec90.8Amleto Giovanni CicognaniCardinal, Secretary Emeritus of the Secretariat of State
26 Dec65.4Nicholas Hettinga, M.H.M. †Bishop Emeritus of Rawalpindi, Pakistan
31 Dec93.8Vincent Victor Dereere, O.C.D. †Bishop Emeritus of Trivandrum, India

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