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Date	Age	Bishop	Title
5 Jan	72.4	David Albin Zywiec Sidor, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop of Siuna, Nicaragua
6 Jan	85.3	Zacarías Ortiz Rolón, S.D.B. †	Bishop Emeritus of Concepción (Santissima Concezione) en Paraguay
10 Jan	95.0	Dante Frasnelli Tarter, O.S.I. †	Prelate Emeritus of Huarí, Peru
17 Jan	66.6	Fernando Miguel Gil Eisner †	Bishop of Salto, Uruguay
17 Jan	83.6	Stanisław Stefanek, S. Chr. †	Bishop Emeritus of Łomża, Poland
24 Jan	81.5	José Luis Castro Medellín, M. S. F. †	Bishop Emeritus of Tacámbaro, Michoacán, México
29 Jan	100.2	Georges-Hilaire Dupont, O.M.I. †	Bishop Emeritus of Pala, Chad
31 Jan	86.0	Alexander Joseph Brunett †	Archbishop Emeritus of Seattle, Washington, USA
2 Feb	71.1	Enemésio Ângelo Lazzaris, F.D.P. †	Bishop of Balsas, Maranhão, Brazil
3 Feb	93.1	William John McNaughton, M.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Incheon {Inch’on}, Korea (South)
6 Feb	84.5	Gioacchino Illiano †	Bishop Emeritus of Nocera Inferiore-Sarno, Italy
13 Feb	91.5	Charles James McDonnell †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Newark, New Jersey, USA
14 Feb	61.8	Peter Iorzuul Adoboh †	Bishop of Katsina-Ala, Nigeria
17 Feb	91.7	Lorenzo León Alvarado, O. de M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Huacho, Peru
20 Feb	67.9	Peter Louis Cakü †	Bishop of Kengtung, Myanmar
21 Feb	69.1	Ilídio Pinto Leandro †	Bishop Emeritus of Viseu, Portugal
25 Feb	86.3	Valerian D’Souza †	Bishop Emeritus of Poona, India
26 Feb	79.2	Andrea Mugione †	Archbishop Emeritus of Benevento, Italy
27 Feb	89.6	Eduardo Alas Alfaro †	Bishop Emeritus of Chalatenango, El Salvador
2 Mar	90.7	Viktor Josef Dammertz, O.S.B. †	Bishop Emeritus of Augsburg, Germany
6 Mar	76.3	Peter David Gregory Smith †	Archbishop Emeritus of Southwark, England, Great Britain
9 Mar	83.6	John Alexius Bathersby †	Archbishop Emeritus of Brisbane, Australia
11 Mar	90.4	Sebastião Roque Rabelo Mendes †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
15 Mar	87.8	Gilbert Espinosa Chávez †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of San Diego, California, USA
20 Mar	89.6	Belarmino Correa Yepes, M.X.Y. †	Bishop Emeritus of San José del Guaviare, Colombia
20 Mar	65.0	Justin Mulenga †	Bishop of Mpika, Zambia
21 Mar	70.7	Soundaraj Periyanayagam, S.D.B. †	Bishop of Vellore, India
22 Mar	85.6	Daniel Edward Pilarczyk †	Archbishop Emeritus of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
25 Mar	85.4	Henk Kronenberg, S.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
25 Mar	100.3	Joseph Ma Zhongmu (Tegusbeleg) †	Bishop Emeritus of Yinchuan [Ningsia], China
25 Mar	67.7	Angelo Moreschi, S.D.B. †	Vicar Apostolic of Gambella, Ethiopia
31 Mar	88.2	Raphael Simon Ndingi Mwana’a Nzeki †	Archbishop Emeritus of Nairobi, Kenya
3 Apr	97.9	Giovanni Paolo Gibertini, O.S.B. †	Bishop Emeritus of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy
6 Apr	95.5	Stephen Sulyk †	Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia (Ukrainian), Pennsylvania, USA
9 Apr	70.0	Clément-Joseph Hannouche †	Bishop of Le Caire {Cairo} (Syrian), Egypt
10 Apr	87.3	Nicholas Marcus Fernando †	Archbishop Emeritus of Colombo, Sri Lanka
11 Apr	88.2	Mariano De Nicolò †	Bishop Emeritus of Rimini, Italy
11 Apr	75.2	Alojz Uran †	Archbishop Emeritus of Ljubljana, Slovenia
12 Apr	75.8	Camillo Ballin, M.C.C.I. †	Vicar Apostolic of Northern Arabia, Bahrain
14 Apr	70.5	Aldo di Cillo Pagotto, S.S.S. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Paraíba, Brazil
14 Apr	61.0	Miguel Ángel D’Annibale †	Bishop of San Martín, Argentina
15 Apr	74.4	Dorick McGowan Wright †	Bishop Emeritus of Belize City-Belmopan, Belize, Antilles
15 Apr	100.4	Aldo Mongiano, I.M.C. †	Bishop Emeritus of Roraima, Brazil
15 Apr	82.7	Gérard Mulumba Kalemba †	Bishop Emeritus of Mweka, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
17 Apr	82.2	Paul Collin †	Patriarchal Exarch Emeritus of Jerusalem (Chaldean), Palestine
23 Apr	94.6	Patrick Leo McCartie †	Bishop Emeritus of Northampton, England, Great Britain
26 Apr	85.1	Emilio Simeón Allué Carcasona, S.D.B. †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
28 Apr	91.5	Silas Silvius Njiru †	Bishop Emeritus of Meru, Kenya
29 Apr	83.4	Philippe Jean Louis Breton †	Bishop Emeritus of Aire et Dax, France
29 Apr	75.3	Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, S.M.O.M. †	Grand Master of Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta
30 Apr	96.3	Manuel da Silva Vieira Pinto †	Archbishop Emeritus of Nampula, Mozambique
1 May	77.6	Mathew Anikuzhikattil †	Bishop Emeritus of Idukki (Syro-Malabar), India
7 May	87.3	Eugenio Ravignani †	Bishop Emeritus of Trieste, Italy
7 May	98.8	Joseph Zhu Baoyu †	Bishop Emeritus of Nanyang [Nanyang], China
12 May	84.1	Felice Cece †	Archbishop Emeritus of Sorrento-Castellammare di Stabia, Italy
12 May	84.1	Renato Corti †	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Novara, Italy
13 May	100.9	Gérard Dionne †	Bishop Emeritus of Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada
14 May	80.1	Czesław Stanula, C.Ss.R. †	Bishop Emeritus of Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil
18 May	88.6	Vincent Malone †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Liverpool, England, Great Britain
23 May	93.0	Johann Weber †	Bishop Emeritus of Graz-Seckau, Austria
25 May	85.9	Paolo Mietto, C.S.I. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Napo, Ecuador
26 May	88.6	Oscar Lino Lopes Fernandes Braga †	Bishop Emeritus of Benguela, Angola
1 Jun	78.7	Pedro Ercílio Simon †	Archbishop Emeritus of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2 Jun	94.0	Desmond Charles Moore, M.S.C. †	Bishop Emeritus of Alotau-Sideia, Papua New Guinea
2 Jun	93.1	Jacques Moïse Eugène Noyer †	Bishop Emeritus of Amiens, France
3 Jun	78.1	Mário Rino Sivieri †	Bishop Emeritus of Propriá, Sergipe, Brazil
5 Jun	87.9	James Albert Murray †	Bishop Emeritus of Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
5 Jun	71.4	George Vance Murry, S.J. †	Bishop of Youngstown, Ohio, USA
6 Jun	96.7	Andrea Veggio †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Verona, Italy
9 Jun	85.2	Youssef Mohsen Béchara †	Archbishop Emeritus of Antélias (Maronite), Lebanon
9 Jun	85.6	Francis Lagan †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Derry, Ireland
11 Jun	90.5	John Basil Meeking †	Bishop Emeritus of Christchurch, New Zealand
12 Jun	92.7	Lino Esterino Garavaglia, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop Emeritus of Cesena-Sarsina, Italy
13 Jun	67.9	Théophile Philippe Barakat †	Archbishop of Homs (-Hama-Nabk) (Syrian), Syria
15 Jun	88.3	Anton Schlembach †	Bishop Emeritus of Speyer, Germany
16 Jun	75.3	Valério Breda, S.D.B. †	Bishop of Penedo, Alagoas, Brazil
21 Jun	104.7	Manuel José Bernardino Piñera Carvallo †	Archbishop Emeritus of La Serena, Chile
23 Jun	80.8	Jesus Armamento Dosado, C.M. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Ozamiz, Philippines
23 Jun	91.2	Francisco Javier Prado Aránguiz, SS.CC. †	Bishop Emeritus of Rancagua, Chile
23 Jun	78.6	César Bosco Vivas Robelo †	Bishop Emeritus of León en Nicaragua
26 Jun	87.9	Pierre-Antoine-Jean Bach, M.E.P. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Savannakhet, Laos
26 Jun	78.5	Julianus Kemo Sunarko, S.J. †	Bishop Emeritus of Purwokerto, Indonesia
27 Jun	86.0	Giuseppe Matarrese †	Bishop Emeritus of Frascati, Italy
1 Jul	92.0	Pedro Luis Ronchino, S.D.B. †	Bishop Emeritus of Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina
2 Jul	73.5	Teodoro Enrique Pino Miranda †	Bishop of Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, México
4 Jul	77.2	Angelo Fagiani †	Archbishop Emeritus of Camerino-San Severino Marche, Italy
6 Jul	79.0	Zithulele Patrick Mvemve †	Bishop Emeritus of Klerksdorp, South Africa
8 Jul	72.5	José Antonio Pérez Sánchez, O.F.M. †	Prelate Emeritus of Jesús María (del Nayar), Nayarit, México
11 Jul	84.1	Edward Urban Kmiec †	Bishop Emeritus of Buffalo, New York, USA
13 Jul	69.6	Moses Montu Costa, C.S.C. †	Archbishop of Chattogram, Bangladesh
13 Jul	79.9	Camilo Lorenzo Iglesias †	Bishop Emeritus of Astorga, Spain
14 Jul	67.8	Milan Šašik, C.M. †	Bishop of Mukachevo (Munkács) (Ruthenian), Ukraine
15 Jul	88.8	Oscar Hugh Lipscomb †	Archbishop Emeritus of Mobile, Alabama, USA
15 Jul	66.5	Eugenio Scarpellini †	Bishop of El Alto, Bolivia
17 Jul	92.6	Pierre-Marie Coty †	Bishop Emeritus of Daloa, Côte d’Ivoire
17 Jul	80.7	Zenon Grocholewski †	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Institutes of Study)
18 Jul	57.2	Henrique Soares da Costa †	Bishop of Palmares, Pernambuco, Brazil
18 Jul	96.2	Manuel Cruz Sobreviñas †	Bishop Emeritus of Imus, Philippines
19 Jul	73.8	Louis Dicaire †	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint-Jean-Longueuil, Québec, Canada
24 Jul	87.3	Bernard Mosiuoa Mohlalisi, O.M.I. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Maseru, Lesotho
26 Jul	91.7	Rafael Barraza Sánchez †	Bishop Emeritus of Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México
1 Aug	82.7	Getúlio Teixeira Guimarães, S.V.D. †	Bishop Emeritus of Cornélio Procópio, Parana, Brazil
3 Aug	85.3	Lorenzo Chiarinelli †	Bishop Emeritus of Viterbo, Italy
5 Aug	86.7	John of the Cross Chang-yik †	Bishop Emeritus of Ch’unch’ŏn, Korea (South)
8 Aug	92.4	Pedro Casaldáliga Plá, C.M.F. †	Prelate Emeritus of São Félix, Mato Grosso, Brazil
10 Aug	85.4	Luis Abilio Sebastiani Aguirre, S.M. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Ayacucho o Huamanga, Peru
12 Aug	86.6	Francisco José Cox Huneeus, P. Schönstatt †
12 Aug	91.1	François-Mathurin Gourvès †	Bishop Emeritus of Vannes, France
21 Aug	86.8	Antonio Bayter Abud, M.X.Y. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Inírida, Colombia
25 Aug	79.8	Laurent Akran Mandjo †	Bishop Emeritus of Yopougon, Côte d’Ivoire
25 Aug	76.5	Hippolyte Louis Jean Simon †	Archbishop Emeritus of Clermont, France
26 Aug	85.7	Oscar Valero Cruz †	Archbishop Emeritus of Lingayen-Dagupan, Philippines
26 Aug	90.4	Victor Hugo Martínez Contreras †	Archbishop Emeritus of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán, Guatemala
2 Sep	75.9	Agustín Roberto Radrizzani, S.D.B. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Mercedes-Luján, Argentina
2 Sep	88.7	Adrianus Johannes Simonis †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Utrecht, Netherlands
3 Sep	95.0	Michael Joseph Cleary, C.S.Sp. †	Bishop Emeritus of Banjul, Gambia
5 Sep	94.0	Marian Franciszek Jaworski †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Lviv, Ukraine
6 Sep	86.5	Paul Chittilapilly †	Bishop Emeritus of Thamarasserry (Syro-Malabar), India
8 Sep	76.9	Joseph Chennoth †	Apostolic Nuncio to Japan
8 Sep	84.1	Benedict To Varpin †	Archbishop Emeritus of Madang, Papua New Guinea
12 Sep	67.8	Linus Okok Okwach †	Bishop Emeritus of Homa Bay, Kenya
14 Sep	69.9	Petko Jordanov Christov, O.F.M. Conv. †	Bishop of Nicopoli, Bulgaria
18 Sep	74.1	Anacleto Cordeiro Gonçalves de Oliveira †	Bishop of Viana do Castelo, Portugal
24 Sep	86.6	Capistrano Francisco (William Charles) Heim, O.F.M. †	Prelate Emeritus of Itaituba, Para, Brazil
24 Sep	79.1	John Joseph Myers †	Archbishop Emeritus of Newark, New Jersey, USA
27 Sep	85.8	Mario Luis Bautista Maulión †	Archbishop Emeritus of Paraná, Argentina
4 Oct	72.7	Giovanni D’Alise †	Bishop of Caserta, Italy
13 Oct	84.5	Claude Feidt †	Archbishop Emeritus of Aix (-Arles), France
14 Oct	85.5	José Augusto Martins Fernandes Pedreira †	Bishop Emeritus of Viana do Castelo, Portugal
15 Oct	80.0	Antonio Ángel Algora Hernando †	Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Real, Spain
16 Oct	99.0	Odore Joseph Gendron †	Bishop Emeritus of Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
18 Oct	85.3	Agostino Giuseppe Delfino, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop Emeritus of Berbérati, Central African Republic
20 Oct	83.2	Bogdan Józef Wojtuś †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Gniezno, Poland
24 Oct	82.5	Paul Zingtung Grawng †	Archbishop Emeritus of Mandalay, Myanmar
27 Oct	62.6	Jan Niemiec †	Auxiliary Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Ukraine
28 Oct	88.5	Anthony Soter Fernandez †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
28 Oct	67.3	Štefan Sečka †	Bishop of Spiš, Slovakia
29 Oct	81.9	Józef Zawitkowski †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Łowicz, Poland
30 Oct	91.7	Ambrogio Ravasi, I.M.C. †	Bishop Emeritus of Marsabit, Kenya
31 Oct	94.9	Arturo Lona Reyes †	Bishop Emeritus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, México
7 Nov	79.1	Anicetus Bongsu Antonius Sinaga, O.F.M. Cap. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Medan, Indonesia
8 Nov	74.0	Benedito Roberto, C.S.Sp. †	Archbishop of Malanje, Angola
11 Nov	80.6	Francesc-Xavier Ciuraneta Aymí †	Bishop Emeritus of Lleida, Spain
14 Nov	80.8	Gerald Nicholas Dino †	Bishop Emeritus of Holy Protection of Mary of Phoenix (Ruthenian), Arizona, USA
15 Nov	86.8	Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Quito, Ecuador
16 Nov	97.0	Henryk Roman Gulbinowicz †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Wrocław {Breslavia}, Poland
18 Nov	86.5	Iwannis Louis Awad †	Apostolic Exarch Emeritus of Venezuela (Syrian)
21 Nov	98.7	Jožef Smej †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Maribor, Slovenia
22 Nov	69.8	Gonzalo Galván Castillo †	Bishop Emeritus of Autlán, Jalisco, México
23 Nov	87.9	Marco Virgilio Ferrari †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Milano {Milan}, Italy
24 Nov	104.7	Damián Iguacén Borau †	Bishop Emeritus of San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife, Spain
25 Nov	76.8	Uriah Adolphus Ashley Maclean †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Panamá
26 Nov	82.6	Benjamín Jiménez Hernández †	Bishop Emeritus of Culiacán, Sinaloa, México
26 Nov	81.8	Alfonso Milián Sorribas †	Bishop Emeritus of Barbastro-Monzón, Spain
26 Nov	74.8	Louis Nzala Kianza †	Bishop Emeritus of Popokabaka, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
28 Nov	91.5	Bonifácio Piccinini, S.D.B. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil
29 Nov	89.0	José Rafael Barquero Arce †	Bishop Emeritus of Alajuela, Costa Rica
29 Nov	88.7	Marco Dino Brogi, O.F.M. †	Apostolic Nuncio
1 Dec	91.3	Henri Antoine Marie Teissier †	Archbishop Emeritus of Alger, Algeria
4 Dec	89.6	James Odongo †	Archbishop Emeritus of Tororo, Uganda
9 Dec	90.3	José Mario Ruiz Navas †	Archbishop Emeritus of Portoviejo, Ecuador
10 Dec	77.4	Rafael Ramón Conde Alfonzo †	Bishop Emeritus of Maracay, Venezuela
12 Dec	80.0	Victor Gnanapragasam, O.M.I. †	Vicar Apostolic of Quetta, Pakistan
14 Dec	68.2	José María de la Torre Martín †	Bishop of Aguascalientes, México
14 Dec	71.5	Tarcisius Gervazio Ziyaye †	Archbishop of Lilongwe, Malawi
16 Dec	89.3	Peter Yariyok Jatau †	Archbishop Emeritus of Kaduna, Nigeria
16 Dec	90.7	Joseph Kyeong Kap-ryong †	Bishop Emeritus of Daejeon {Taejon}, Korea (South)
16 Dec	65.3	Stephen Tjephe †	Bishop of Loikaw, Myanmar
17 Dec	94.8	Jacó (Jacob) Roberto Hilgert †	Bishop Emeritus of Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
18 Dec	79.1	Peter Takeo Okada †	Archbishop Emeritus of Tōkyō, Japan
19 Dec	81.3	Mile Bogović †	Bishop Emeritus of Gospić-Senj, Croatia
20 Dec	74.1	Anthony Mathias Banzi †	Bishop of Tanga, Tanzania
20 Dec	87.1	Florencio Olvera Ochoa †	Bishop Emeritus of Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
22 Dec	68.3	Rubén Tierrablanca Gonzalez, O.F.M. †	Vicar Apostolic of Istanbul, Turkey
22 Dec	86.3	Antonio Vacca †	Bishop Emeritus of Alghero-Bosa, Italy
26 Dec	83.1	Sergio Giovanni Pintor †	Bishop Emeritus of Ozieri, Italy
28 Dec	72.4	Paul Sueo Hamaguchi †	Bishop of Oita, Japan
29 Dec	89.3	Gregory Obinna Ochiagha †	Bishop Emeritus of Orlu, Nigeria
29 Dec	83.3	Geoffrey James Robinson †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Sydney, Australia
31 Dec	99.4	Andreas Han Jingtao (Han Qian) †	Bishop of Siping [Szepingkai], China
31 Dec	83.3	Floribert Songasonga Mwitwa †	Archbishop Emeritus of Lubumbashi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

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