The Year of Our Lord 2012

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Date	Age	Bishop	Title
1 Jan	86.9	Alfredo Battisti †	Archbishop Emeritus of Udine, Italy
10 Jan	83.8	José Freire de Oliveira Neto †	Bishop Emeritus of Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
14 Jan	99.8	Antonio Mistrorigo †	Bishop Emeritus of Treviso, Italy
17 Jan	80.5	Colin Campbell †	Bishop Emeritus of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
19 Jan	83.7	Giovanni De Andrea †	Vice President Emeritus of the Labour Office of the Apostolic See
20 Jan	77.8	Robert Fortune Sanchez †	Archbishop Emeritus of Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
26 Jan	86.2	Juan Fremiot Torres Oliver †	Bishop Emeritus of Ponce, Puerto Rico
29 Jan	83.3	Gabriel Lawrence Sengol †	Bishop Emeritus of Tiruchirapalli, India
30 Jan	95.8	Eladio Acosta Arteaga, C.I.M. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Santa Fe de Antioquia, Colombia
31 Jan	90.8	Everardus Antonius M. Baaij, S.C.I. †	Bishop Emeritus of Aliwal, South Africa
31 Jan	88.6	Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2 Feb	81.7	Paul Consbruch †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Paderborn, Germany
4 Feb	67.7	Joseph Walter Estabrook †	Auxiliary Bishop of United States of America, Military
4 Feb	94.2	Pierre-Eugène Rouanet, S.M.A. †	Bishop Emeritus of Daloa, Côte d’Ivoire
4 Feb	83.8	Giovanni Volta †	Bishop Emeritus of Pavia, Italy
5 Feb	92.0	Lawrence Zhang Wenchang †	Apostolic Administrator of Kunming [Kunming], China
10 Feb	88.7	Filippo Giannini †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Roma {Rome}, Italy
10 Feb	84.0	Francisco de Guruceaga Iturriza †	Bishop Emeritus of La Guaira, Venezuela
13 Feb	74.3	Ladislau Biernaski, C.M. †	Bishop of São José dos Pinhais, Parana, Brazil
17 Feb	80.0	Joseph Faber MacDonald †	Bishop Emeritus of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
20 Feb	75.8	Edgardo Gabriel Storni †	Archbishop Emeritus of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, Argentina
21 Feb	89.2	Manuel Franco da Costa de Oliveira Falcão †	Bishop Emeritus of Beja, Portugal
26 Feb	85.0	Georg (Karl Maria) Holzherr, O.S.B. †	Abbot Emeritus of Maria Einsiedeln, Switzerland
27 Feb	67.3	Werner Guballa †	Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz, Germany
2 Mar	75.4	José Adolfo Mojica Morales †	Bishop Emeritus of Sonsonate, El Salvador
3 Mar	74.2	Stephen M. Tiru †	Bishop of Khunti, India
4 Mar	89.8	John Charles Reiss †	Bishop Emeritus of Trenton, New Jersey, USA
9 Mar	91.9	José Tomás Sánchez †	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Clergy
10 Mar	74.3	Hermín Negrón Santana †	Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico
12 Mar	69.1	Augustin Misago †	Bishop of Gikongoro, Rwanda
12 Mar	67.4	Wilson Abraham Moncayo Jalil †	Bishop of Santo Domingo en Ecuador
13 Mar	84.5	Hans Ludvig Martensen, S.J. †	Bishop Emeritus of København {Copenhagen}, Denmark
18 Mar	74.5	Anárghyros Printesis †	Apostolic Exarch Emeritus of Greece (Greek)
20 Mar	89.8	Ante Jurić †	Archbishop Emeritus of Split-Makarska, Croatia
21 Mar	88.7	John George Chedid †	Bishop Emeritus of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles (Maronite), California, USA
24 Mar	89.2	Edward Henryk Materski †	Bishop Emeritus of Radom, Poland
29 Mar	88.1	Paulino Reale Chirina †	Bishop Emeritus of Venado Tuerto, Argentina
3 Apr	79.2	Arduino Bertoldo †	Bishop Emeritus of Foligno, Italy
3 Apr	81.7	Michael Bzdel, C.Ss.R. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Winnipeg (Ukrainian), Manitoba, Canada
3 Apr	83.3	Efraím Basílio Krevey (Krevei), O.S.B.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of São João Batista em Curitiba (Ukrainian), Brazil
6 Apr	76.6	Felipe Fernández García †	Bishop Emeritus of San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife, Spain
7 Apr	81.5	Ignace Moussa I (Basile) Daoud †	Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon
10 Apr	89.6	Luis Aponte Martínez †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of San Juan de Puerto Rico
10 Apr	79.2	Leonardo Mario Bernacchi, O.F.M. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Camiri, Bolivia
11 Apr	83.9	Agustín Alejo (Aleido) Román Rodríguez †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Miami, Florida, USA
13 Apr	86.1	Mario Rizzi †	Apostolic Nuncio
16 Apr	82.2	Antoine Hamid Mourany †	Archbishop Emeritus of Damas (Maronite), Syria
18 Apr	91.6	José Cerviño Cerviño †	Bishop Emeritus of Tui-Vigo, Spain
21 Apr	78.9	Ramón Búa Otero †	Bishop Emeritus of Calahorra y La Calzada-Logroño, Spain
25 Apr	71.9	Jan Bernard Szlaga †	Bishop of Pelplin, Poland
3 May	75.9	František Tondra †	Bishop Emeritus of Spiš, Slovakia
4 May	73.9	Anthony Joseph O’Connell †	Bishop Emeritus of Palm Beach, Florida, USA
6 May	73.3	Félix Kouadjo †	Bishop of Bondoukou, Côte d’Ivoire
8 May	89.5	William Aquin Carew †	Apostolic Nuncio
13 May	106.1	Antoine Nguyễn Văn Thiện †	Bishop Emeritus of Vĩnh Long, Viet Nam
19 May	80.6	Isak Doera †	Bishop Emeritus of Sintang, Indonesia
24 May	88.5	Ermenegildus (Paul) Li Yi, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Changzhi [Luan], China
1 Jun	83.6	Juozas Tunaitis †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Vilnius, Lithuania
4 Jun	89.1	Ireneo García Alonso †	Bishop Emeritus of Albacete, Spain
4 Jun	80.2	Rodolfo Quezada Toruño †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Guatemala
6 Jun	83.0	Agostinho José (Benito) Sartori, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop Emeritus of Palmas-Francisco Beltrão, Parana, Brazil
11 Jun	81.8	Raymond Eid †	Archbishop Emeritus of Damas (Maronite), Syria
13 Jun	76.0	Luiz Gonzaga Bergonzini †	Bishop Emeritus of Guarulhos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
15 Jun	77.2	Albino Mamede Cleto †	Bishop Emeritus of Coimbra, Portugal
15 Jun	84.8	Albert Joseph Tsiahoana †	Archbishop Emeritus of Antsiranana, Madagascar
17 Jun	74.5	Anthony Ekezia Ilonu †	Bishop Emeritus of Okigwe, Nigeria
19 Jun	79.3	Aloysio José Leal Penna, S.J. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil
20 Jun	84.2	Alcides Mendoza Castro †	Archbishop Emeritus of Cuzco, Peru
21 Jun	70.1	Joviano de Lima Júnior, S.S.S. †	Archbishop of Ribeirão Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
21 Jun	90.7	Gilbert Blaize Rego †	Bishop Emeritus of Simla and Chandigarh, India
22 Jun	83.2	Sergio Goretti †	Bishop Emeritus of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino, Italy
24 Jun	97.9	Rudolf Schmid †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Augsburg, Germany
26 Jun	91.3	Angelo Cuniberti, I.M.C. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Florencia, Colombia
27 Jun	81.7	Jerónimo Tomás Abreu Herrera †	Bishop Emeritus of Mao-Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic
29 Jun	74.3	Mogale Paul Nkhumishe †	Bishop Emeritus of Polokwane, South Africa
29 Jun	76.1	José Sótero Valero Ruz †	Bishop Emeritus of Guanare, Venezuela
4 Jul	83.2	Vinzenz Guggenberger †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Regensburg, Germany
7 Jul	94.8	Paul Coussa †	Archbishop Emeritus of Baghdad (Armenian), Iraq
9 Jul	85.8	Mario de Leon Baltazar, O.P. †	Prelate Emeritus of Batanes and the Babuyan Islands, Philippines
9 Jul	91.6	Eugênio de Araújo Sales †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
9 Jul	79.8	René Joseph Rakotondrabé †	Bishop Emeritus of Toamasina, Madagascar
12 Jul	79.9	Pier Luigi Mazzoni †	Archbishop Emeritus of Gaeta, Italy
15 Jul	82.5	Manuel Eguiguren Galarraga, O.F.M. †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of El Beni o Beni, Bolivia
16 Jul	74.2	Joseph Nduhirubusa †	Bishop Emeritus of Ruyigi, Burundi
17 Jul	84.5	Ottorino Pietro Alberti †	Archbishop Emeritus of Cagliari, Italy
27 Jul	85.5	Emmanuel Otteh †	Bishop Emeritus of Issele-Uku, Nigeria
28 Jul	76.5	Vartan Achkarian, C.A.M. †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Beirut {Bairut} (Armenian), Lebanon
31 Jul	81.8	Lucien Charles Gilbert Daloz †	Archbishop Emeritus of Besançon, France
31 Jul	74.8	Stefan Siczek †	Auxiliary Bishop of Radom, Poland
1 Aug	83.7	Riccardo Ruotolo †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Manfredonia-Vieste-San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
13 Aug	97.4	Hervé-Maria Le Cléac’h, SS.CC. †	Bishop Emeritus of Taiohae o Tefenuaenata, French Polynesia, Pacific (Oceania)
21 Aug	89.7	Paul Bassim, O.C.D. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Beirut {Bairut}, Lebanon
22 Aug	74.4	José Foralosso, S.D.B. †	Bishop Emeritus of Marabá, Para, Brazil
22 Aug	88.7	Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, S.J. †	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
22 Aug	91.2	András József Szennay, O.S.B. †	Abbot Emeritus of Pannonhalma, Hungary
23 Aug	96.9	Paul Ch’eng Shih-kuang †	Bishop Emeritus of Tainan, Taiwan
25 Aug	92.2	Aurélio Granada Escudeiro †	Bishop Emeritus of Angra, Portugal
25 Aug	86.0	Eduardo Koaik †	Bishop Emeritus of Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil
27 Aug	67.4	Louis Ncamiso Ndlovu, O.S.M. †	Bishop of Manzini, eSwatini
28 Aug	93.8	Maffeo Giovanni Ducoli †	Bishop Emeritus of Belluno-Feltre, Italy
28 Aug	55.4	William Pascal Kikoti †	Bishop of Mpanda, Tanzania
31 Aug	91.0	Lucas Luis Dónnelly Carey, O. de M. †	Prelate Emeritus of Deán Funes, Argentina
31 Aug	85.5	Carlo Maria Martini, S.J. †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Milano {Milan}, Italy
1 Sep	85.2	Joseph Banchong Aribarg †	Bishop Emeritus of Nakhon Sawan, Thailand
4 Sep	77.2	Hélio Gonçalves Heleno †	Bishop Emeritus of Caratinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
8 Sep	85.4	Xavier-Marie Baronnet, S.J. †	Bishop Emeritus of Port Victoria o Seychelles
8 Sep	78.5	Luís d’Andrea, O.F.M. Conv. †	Bishop Emeritus of Caxias do Maranhão, Brazil
9 Sep	86.4	José Rodrigues de Souza, C.Ss.R. †	Bishop Emeritus of Juazeiro, Bahia, Brazil
18 Sep	88.9	Michel Joseph Kuehn †	Bishop Emeritus of Chartres, France
20 Sep	77.1	Fortunato Baldelli †	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
21 Sep	71.7	Bruno Schettino †	Archbishop of Capua, Italy
23 Sep	96.4	Albert Henry Ottenweller †	Bishop Emeritus of Steubenville, Ohio, USA
23 Sep	83.5	Michael Vincent Paschal Rowland, O.F.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Dundee, South Africa
25 Sep	79.0	Patrick Augustine Kalilombe, M. Afr. †	Bishop Emeritus of Lilongwe, Malawi
29 Sep	89.4	Antônio Maria Mucciolo †	Archbishop Emeritus of Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil
30 Sep	81.9	Joseph Bernard Louis Willigers, M.H.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Jinja, Uganda
7 Oct	81.7	Roman Danylak †	Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Toronto (Ukrainian), Canada
14 Oct	100.6	Odorico Leovigildo Sáiz Pérez, O.F.M. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Requena, Peru
15 Oct	78.5	Patrick Ronald Cooney †	Bishop Emeritus of Gaylord, Michigan, USA
17 Oct	68.5	René-Marie Ehouzou, C.I.M. †	Bishop of Porto Novo, Benin
19 Oct	62.3	Raymond Dumais †	Bishop Emeritus of Gaspé, Québec, Canada
27 Oct	85.1	Eduardo Herrera Riera †	Bishop Emeritus of Carora, Venezuela
27 Oct	81.1	Felix Eugenio Mkhori †	Bishop Emeritus of Lilongwe, Malawi
28 Oct	90.7	Ernst Heinrich Karlen, C.M.M. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
28 Oct	78.9	George Riashi, B.C. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Tripoli del Libano {Tarabulus} (Melkite Greek)
31 Oct	84.6	Alfons Demming †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Münster, Germany
31 Oct	75.4	Faustino Sainz Muñoz †	Apostolic Nuncio
6 Nov	67.3	Aloysius Balina †	Bishop of Shinyanga, Tanzania
6 Nov	102.6	Joseph Oliver Bowers, S.V.D. †	Bishop Emeritus of Saint John’s-Basseterre, Virgin Islands (British), Antilles
6 Nov	94.5	[Samuel Guo Chuan-zhen], O.F.M. †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Jinan [Tsinan], China
8 Nov	80.4	Patrick Francis Sheehan, O.S.A. †	Bishop Emeritus of Kano, Nigeria
12 Nov	83.7	Michael (Michel) Hrynchyshyn, C.Ss.R. †	Apostolic Exarch Emeritus of France (Ukrainian)
14 Nov	84.5	Luiz Eugênio Pérez †	Bishop Emeritus of Jaboticabal, Sao Paulo, Brazil
15 Nov	71.4	José Song Sui-Wan, S.D.B. †	Bishop Emeritus of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas, Brazil
20 Nov	92.8	Pedro Bantigue y Natividad †	Bishop Emeritus of San Pablo, Philippines
3 Dec	74.0	Jules Mikhael Al-Jamil †	Auxiliary Bishop of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon
3 Dec	85.6	Leo Rajendram Antony †	Bishop Emeritus of Trincomalee-Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
4 Dec	73.6	José Alves da Costa, D.C. †	Bishop Emeritus of Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
4 Dec	86.7	Massimo Giustetti †	Bishop Emeritus of Biella, Italy
5 Dec	95.8	Wilhelmus Joannes (Guillaume Jean) Demarteau, M.S.F. †	Bishop Emeritus of Banjarmasin, Indonesia
8 Dec	57.0	Ambrose Madtha †	Apostolic Nuncio to Côte d’Ivoire
9 Dec	89.6	Ivan Ljavinec †	Apostolic Exarch Emeritus of Czech Republic (Ruthenian)
10 Dec	83.5	Jacques André Marie Jullien †	Archbishop Emeritus of Rennes (-Dol-Saint-Malo), France
11 Dec	97.2	Pedro Reginaldo Lira †	Bishop Emeritus of San Francisco, Argentina
11 Dec	84.5	Walter Francis Sullivan †	Bishop Emeritus of Richmond, Virginia, USA
12 Dec	92.1	Augustin Sagna †	Bishop Emeritus of Ziguinchor, Senegal
13 Dec	74.7	Jan Blaha †	Bishop of the Titular See
16 Dec	96.8	John Chen Shi-zhong †	Bishop of Yibin [Suifu], China
25 Dec	92.1	Edward Thomas Hughes †	Bishop Emeritus of Metuchen, New Jersey, USA
25 Dec	81.5	Rudolf Müller †	Bishop Emeritus of Görlitz, Germany
27 Dec	93.1	Maurice Paul Delorme, Ist. del Prado †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Lyon (-Vienne), France
27 Dec	79.5	Paul Khoarai †	Bishop Emeritus of Leribe, Lesotho
29 Dec	94.9	Ignacy Marcin Tokarczuk †	Archbishop Emeritus of Przemyśl, Poland

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