The Year of Our Lord 1991

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Date	Age	Bishop	Title
1 Jan	80.4	José Filípe do Carmo Colaço †	Bishop Emeritus of Santiago de Cabo Verde
1 Jan	71.6	Jerome Arthur (Gerolamo) Pechillo, T.O.R. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA
2 Jan	74.3	Geraldo Claudio Luiz Micheletto Pellanda, C.P. †	Bishop of Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brazil
3 Jan	82.5	Alphonse-Gérard Bannwarth †	Bishop Emeritus of Soissons (-Laon-Saint-Quentin), France
4 Jan	79.1	Stanislav Lenič †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Ljubljana, Slovenia
7 Jan	82.9	Peter Kelleter, C.S.Sp. †	Bishop Emeritus of Bethlehem, South Africa
8 Jan	87.5	Aimé Décosse †	Bishop Emeritus of Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan, Canada
14 Jan	80.1	Raimundo Cesare Bergamin, S.X. †	Bishop Emeritus of Padang, Indonesia
21 Jan	86.7	Léo Blais †	Bishop Emeritus of Prince-Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada
21 Jan	78.6	Patrick Mulligan †	Bishop Emeritus of Clogher, Ireland
22 Jan	54.3	Antonio Bianchin †	Titular Bishop of Vannida
22 Jan	76.7	Antonio Kühner y Kühner, M.F.S.C. †	Bishop of Huánuco, Peru
23 Jan	71.5	Giovanni Mariani †	Apostolic Nuncio
25 Jan	83.7	Justin Diraviam †	Archbishop Emeritus of Madurai, India
25 Jan	94.4	Joseph Alphonse Dutil, M.S. †	Superior General Emeritus of Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette
25 Jan	74.1	Gilbert Ramanantoanina, S.J. †	Archbishop of Fianarantsoa, Madagascar
27 Jan	73.0	Sebhat-Leab Worku, S.D.B. †	Bishop Emeritus of Adigrat (Ethiopian), Ethiopia
29 Jan	88.8	Augusto Gianfranceschi †	Bishop Emeritus of Cesena, Italy
2 Feb	90.9	Paul Yoshiyuki Furuya †	Bishop Emeritus of Kyōto, Japan
5 Feb	83.2	Pedro de Arrupe y Gondra, S.J. †	Superior General Emeritus of Society of Jesus
6 Feb	68.3	John Paul Elford †	Priest of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
10 Feb	59.6	William Joseph Foley †	Archbishop of Perth, Australia
11 Feb	81.8	Carlo Colombo †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Milano {Milan}, Italy
12 Feb	87.9	John Evangelist McBride, O.F.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Kokstad, South Africa
13 Feb	65.7	Ernesto Alvarez Alvarez, S.D.B. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Cuenca, Ecuador
14 Feb	59.8	Jerzy Dąbrowski †	Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno, Poland
18 Feb	86.7	Miguel Raspanti, S.D.B. †	Bishop Emeritus of Morón, Argentina
19 Feb	77.2	Patrick Henry Cronin, S.S.C.M.E. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Cagayan de Oro, Philippines
20 Feb	64.2	Patricio Maqui Lopez †	Auxiliary Bishop of Nueva Segovia, Philippines
23 Feb	75.6	Leo Thomas Maher †	Bishop Emeritus of San Diego, California, USA
25 Feb	78.4	Joseph Francis Cleary †	Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham, England, Great Britain
26 Feb	90.1	Josef Schoiswohl †	Bishop Emeritus of Graz-Seckau, Austria
7 Mar	78.3	Raymond Joseph Gallagher †	Bishop Emeritus of Lafayette in Indiana, USA
13 Mar	79.2	Gaetano Pollio, P.I.M.E. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Salerno (-Acerno), Italy
16 Mar	76.8	Francis Jules Joseph Marie Barbu †	Bishop Emeritus of Quimper [Cornouailles](-Léon), France
16 Mar	83.3	James Darcy Freeman †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Sydney, Australia
25 Mar	85.3	Marcel-François Joseph Marie Lefebvre, C.S.Sp. †	Bishop Emeritus of Tulle, France
1 Apr	82.7	Jesús Antonio Castro Becerra †	Bishop Emeritus of Palmira, Colombia
8 Apr	79.4	[Joseph Huang Zi-yu] †	Bishop of Xiamen [Hsiamen, Amoy], China
18 Apr	91.5	Thomas Arthur Connolly †	Archbishop Emeritus of Seattle, Washington, USA
20 Apr	76.4	Emmanuel Kiwanuka Nsubuga †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Kampala, Uganda
21 Apr	93.3	Ángel María Ocampo Berrio, S.J. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Tunja, Colombia
22 Apr	83.2	Victor Van Beurden, SS.CC. †	Bishop Emeritus of Kole, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
24 Apr	78.1	Matija Matiša Zvekanović †	Bishop Emeritus of Subotica, Serbia
26 Apr	86.8	Antônio de Castro Mayer †	Bishop Emeritus of Campos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
26 Apr	66.0	Thaddeus Anthony Shubsda †	Bishop of Monterey in California, USA
27 Apr	79.8	Pasquale Venezia †	Bishop Emeritus of Avellino, Italy
30 Apr	79.3	Michel-Henri Canonne, A.A. †	Bishop Emeritus of Tuléar, Madagascar
1 May	86.0	Críspulo Benítez Fontúrvel †	Archbishop Emeritus of Barquisimeto, Venezuela
1 May	89.0	José Lázaro Neves, C.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Assis, Sao Paulo, Brazil
7 May	81.7	Theodorus van den Tillaart, S.V.D. †	Bishop Emeritus of Atambua, Indonesia
11 May	81.0	Antoon Konings, S.M.A. †	Bishop Emeritus of Keta-Ho, Ghana
15 May	89.3	André Lefèbvre, S.J. †	Bishop Emeritus of Kikwit, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
15 May	70.1	Carlos José Santi Brugia, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Matagalpa, Nicaragua
16 May	67.8	Philip Ekka, S.J. †	Bishop Emeritus of Raipur, India
18 May	81.4	Nicholas Thomas Elko †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
3 Jun	93.9	James Joseph Gerrard †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Fall River, Massachusetts, USA
11 Jun	77.5	George Henry Guilfoyle †	Bishop Emeritus of Camden, New Jersey, USA
12 Jun	92.0	Giovanni Battista Cesana, M.C.C.I. †	Bishop Emeritus of Gulu, Uganda
15 Jun	68.1	Pietro Rossano †	Auxiliary Bishop of Roma {Rome}, Italy
18 Jun	79.6	Julijonas Steponavičius †	Archbishop of Vilnius, Lithuania
20 Jun	78.5	Justo Goizueta Gridilla, O.A.R. †	Prelate Emeritus of Madera, Chihuahua, México
24 Jun	80.7	Franz Hengsbach †	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Essen, Germany
27 Jun	66.3	Roger Joseph Bourrat †	Bishop Emeritus of Rodez (-Vabres), France
28 Jun	63.2	Atilano Vidal Núñez †	Bishop of Santa Rosa, Argentina
7 Jul	64.8	Rafael María Nze Abuy, C.M.F. †	Archbishop of Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
9 Jul	81.4	José Salazar López †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
12 Jul	77.0	Francis John Mugavero †	Bishop Emeritus of Brooklyn, New York, USA
13 Jul	90.5	[Paul Li De-pei (Li Dipei, Li Debei)] †	Bishop Emeritus of Tianjin [Tientsin], China
17 Jul	74.4	Joseph Gargitter †	Bishop Emeritus of Bolzano-Bressanone {Bozen-Brixen}, Italy
17 Jul	74.7	Harold Robert Perry, S.V.D. †	Auxiliary Bishop of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
21 Jul	75.8	Oskar Formánek, S.J. †	Bishop
27 Jul	88.2	Maximiliano Spiller, C.S.I. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Napo, Ecuador
31 Jul	77.4	João (Jean) Chedid, O.M.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo (Maronite), Brazil
1 Aug	91.8	Augusto Osvaldo Salinas Fuenzalida, SS.CC. †	Bishop Emeritus of Linares, Chile
2 Aug	86.2	Raimundo de Castro e Silva †	Bishop Emeritus of Oeiras, Brazil
2 Aug	70.5	John Francis Whealon †	Archbishop of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
8 Aug	78.0	Luis Eduardo Henríquez Jiménez †	Archbishop Emeritus of Valencia en Venezuela
10 Aug	70.6	Pedro Filipak †	Bishop of Jacarezinho, Parana, Brazil
10 Aug	51.4	Afonso Nteka, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop of Mbanza Congo, Angola
11 Aug	72.8	Miguel González Ibarra †	Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, México
12 Aug	88.3	Matthias Buchholz, M.S.C. †	Prefect Emeritus of Shiqian [Shihtsien], China
16 Aug	75.5	Raymond James Vonesh †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Joliet in Illinois, USA
18 Aug	96.9	Patrick Joseph Kelly, S.M.A. †	Bishop Emeritus of Benin City, Nigeria
19 Aug	90.2	Faustino M. Tissot, S.X. †	Bishop Emeritus of Zhengzhou [Chengchow], China
21 Aug	80.8	Antonio Giuseppe Angioni †	Bishop Emeritus of Pavia, Italy
22 Aug	84.5	William J. Philbin †	Bishop Emeritus of Down and Connor, Ireland
22 Aug	85.3	Orazio Semeraro †	Coadjutor Archbishop Emeritus of Brindisi, Italy
24 Aug	76.7	Cesare Zacchi †	President Emeritus of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
27 Aug	89.0	Georges-Louis Mercier, M. Afr. †	Bishop Emeritus of Laghouat, Algeria
27 Aug	91.7	Gioacchino Muccin †	Bishop Emeritus of Belluno e Feltre, Italy
3 Sep	78.5	Yves-Joseph-Marie Plumey, O.M.I. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Garoua, Cameroon
4 Sep	95.5	Henri-Marie de Lubac, S.J. †	Cardinal, Priest of Society of Jesus
5 Sep	84.0	Emilio Tagle Covarrubias †	Bishop Emeritus of Valparaíso, Chile
7 Sep	62.0	Charles Edwin Herzig †	Bishop of Tyler, Texas, USA
7 Sep	64.7	León Kruk †	Bishop of San Rafael, Argentina
9 Sep	85.7	Rafael Grovas Felix †	Bishop of Caguas, Puerto Rico
14 Sep	75.2	František Vaňák †	Archbishop of Olomouc, Czechia
15 Sep	82.4	Clement Thottungal, C.M.I. †	Bishop Emeritus of Sagar (Syro-Malabar), India
16 Sep	95.6	François-Emile-Marie Cléret de Langavant, C.S.Sp. †	Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion
18 Sep	80.1	John Anthony Donovan †	Bishop Emeritus of Toledo (in America), Ohio, USA
19 Sep	81.0	Ángel Temiño Sáiz †	Bishop Emeritus of Orense, Spain
22 Sep	68.8	John Kodwo Amissah †	Archbishop of Cape Coast, Ghana
27 Sep	70.0	Rubén Buitrago Trujillo, O.A.R. †	Bishop of Zipaquirá, Colombia
27 Sep	77.7	Karl Moser †	Auxiliary Bishop of Wien {Vienna}, Austria
4 Oct	70.7	Clément Georges Schelhoth †	Archbishop Emeritus of Damas (Syrian), Syria
6 Oct	60.6	Ven. Alphonse Paul Gallegos, O.A.R. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Sacramento, California, USA
17 Oct	85.4	Kazimirs Dulbinskis †	Auxiliary Bishop of Riga, Latvia
19 Oct	93.0	Hieroteo de la Santissima Virgen del Carmen Valbuena Alvarez, O.C.D. †	Prefect Emeritus of Esmeraldas, Ecuador
29 Oct	83.0	Jean-Baptiste-Étienne Sauvage †	Bishop Emeritus of Annecy, France
3 Nov	71.8	Paul Shi Chunjie †	Auxiliary Bishop of Baoding [Paoting, Ching-Yüan], China
5 Nov	78.5	Jan Lebeda †	Auxiliary Bishop of Praha {Prague}, Czechia
11 Nov	82.0	Victorio Manuel Bonamín, S.D.B. †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Argentina, Military
13 Nov	87.5	Paul-Émile Léger, P.S.S. †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Montréal, Québec, Canada
15 Nov	79.2	Giovanni Proni †	Bishop Emeritus of Forli-Bertinoro, Italy
17 Nov	80.5	Thomas Austin Murphy †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
22 Nov	60.8	Concordio Maria Sarte †	Bishop of Legazpi, Philippines
26 Nov	76.6	Alberto Gaudêncio Ramos †	Archbishop Emeritus of Belém do Pará, Brazil
28 Nov	84.7	Joseph Mark McShea †	Bishop Emeritus of Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
28 Nov	61.8	Emilio Vallebuona Merea, S.D.B. †	Archbishop of Huancayo, Peru
30 Nov	86.1	Isidor Markus Emanuel †	Bishop Emeritus of Speyer, Germany
5 Dec	77.3	Elias Shaheen (Chahine) †	Archbishop Emeritus of Saint-Maron de Montréal (Maronite), Canada
7 Dec	79.3	Aldo Forzoni †	Bishop Emeritus of Massa, Italy
11 Dec	79.5	Filippo Pocci †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Roma {Rome}, Italy
13 Dec	86.6	Ilario Roatta †	Bishop Emeritus of Sant’Agata de’ Goti, Italy
15 Dec	65.0	Antuvan Marovitch †	Vicar Apostolic of Istanbul, Turkey
16 Dec	86.2	Argimiro Alvaro García Rodríguez, O.F.M. Cap. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Tucupita, Venezuela
17 Dec	83.1	Simon N’Zita Wa Ne Malanda †	Bishop Emeritus of Matadi, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
21 Dec	87.6	Luís Gonzaga da Cunha Marelim, C.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Caxias do Maranhão, Brazil
21 Dec	83.8	Francis Han Tingbi (Ting-pi) †	Bishop of Hongdong [Hungtung], China
21 Dec	69.5	Pierre Jean Marie Kervennic †	Bishop of Saint-Brieuc (-Tréguier), France
30 Dec	92.8	Domenico Luca Capozi, O.F.M. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Taiyuan [Taiyüan], China
31 Dec	73.1	Edilberto Dinkelborg, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Oeiras-Floriano, Piaui, Brazil
31 Dec	79.6	Michael Joseph Moloney, C.S.Sp. †	Bishop Emeritus of Banjul, Gambia

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