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The Year of Our Lord 1998

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DateAgeBishopTitle
1 Jan77.4Pedro Boxler †Bishop Emeritus of Gualeguaychú, Argentina
2 Jan88.9William Francis Kupfer, M.M. †Bishop Emeritus of Taichung, Taiwan
3 Jan73.6Giulio Salimei †Auxiliary Bishop of Roma {Rome}, Italy
5 Jan73.5Nicola Comparone †Bishop of Alife-Caiazzo, Italy
5 Jan61.9Alejandro Jiménez Lafeble †Bishop Emeritus of Valdivia, Chile
8 Jan82.0Albino Mensa †Archbishop Emeritus of Vercelli, Italy
9 Jan82.2Crisanto Darío Mata Cova †Archbishop Emeritus of Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela
10 Jan78.4Magín Camerino Torreblanca Reyes †Bishop Emeritus of Texcoco, México, México
13 Jan57.9Charles Kweku Sam †Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
14 Jan94.6Francis Gerard Kramer, O.F.M. †Bishop Emeritus of Lu An [Changzhi], China
16 Jan89.1Ernst Tewes, C.O. †Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of München und Freising {Munich}, Germany
18 Jan92.0Josef Schneider †Archbishop Emeritus of Bamberg, Germany
18 Jan73.5Giuseppe (Josip) Uhac †Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
22 Jan91.7Hendrick Joseph Cornelius Maria de Cocq, SS.CC. †Bishop Emeritus of Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Pacific (Oceania)
28 Jan89.8Bernard Joseph Flanagan †Bishop Emeritus of Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
1 Feb83.6Valentino Vailati †Archbishop Emeritus of Manfredonia-Vieste, Italy
5 Feb77.2Eduardo Francisco Pironio †Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Laity
5 Feb86.2Adolfo Servando Tortolo †Archbishop Emeritus of Paraná, Argentina
9 Feb86.0Emanuele Romano †Bishop Emeritus of Trapani, Italy
11 Feb84.5Laurentius Satoshi Nagae †Bishop Emeritus of Urawa, Japan
11 Feb72.6Luc Auguste Sangaré †Archbishop of Bamako, Mali
11 Feb87.9Willem van Bekkum, S.V.D. †Bishop Emeritus of Ruteng, Indonesia
13 Feb96.3René-Désiré-Romain Boisguérin, M.E.P. †Bishop Emeritus of Suifu [Yibin], China
16 Feb73.4Marcos Antônio Noronha †Bishop Emeritus of Itabira, Brazil
20 Feb80.4Francisco de Borja Valenzuela Ríos †Bishop Emeritus of Valparaíso, Chile
21 Feb87.8William Gordon Wheeler †Bishop Emeritus of Leeds, England, Great Britain
26 Feb74.7Marco Tulio Ramírez Roa †Bishop of San Cristóbal de Venezuela
28 Feb74.6Antonio Quarracino †Cardinal, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina
1 Mar63.6Jean Marie Julien Balland †Cardinal, Archbishop of Lyon (-Vienne), France
3 Mar89.6John Fergus O'Grady, O.M.I. †Bishop Emeritus of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
3 Mar80.4Henri Véniat, S.J. †Bishop Emeritus of Sarh, Chad
8 Mar86.4Luigi Boccadoro †Bishop Emeritus of Viterbo, Italy
12 Mar89.8Louis Lévesque †Archbishop Emeritus of Rimouski, Québec, Canada
13 Mar87.2Paul Etoga †Bishop Emeritus of Mbalmayo, Cameroon
13 Mar85.6Jacques-Eugène-Louis Ménager †Archbishop Emeritus of Reims, France
16 Mar78.3Antonio Mazza †Bishop Emeritus of Piacenza-Bobbio, Italy
16 Mar50.2Jacson Damasceno Rodrigues, C.SS.R. †Auxiliary Bishop of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
19 Mar77.9Samuel Seraphimov Djoundrine, A.A. †Bishop Emeritus of Nicopoli, Bulgaria
19 Mar63.2Jean-Baptiste Outhay Thepmany †Vicar Apostolic of Savannakhet, Laos
19 Mar81.7Alberto Trevisan, S.A.C. †Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
20 Mar74.2Jean Zoa †Archbishop of Yaoundé, Cameroon
22 Mar63.7John Richard Keating †Bishop of Arlington, Virginia, USA
24 Mar69.8António Ribeiro †Cardinal, Patriarch of Lisboa, Portugal
25 Mar60.9Neil E. Willard †Auxiliary Bishop of Montréal, Québec, Canada
27 Mar92.0John William Comber, M.M. †Official Emeritus of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
28 Mar59.3Luke Paul Matlatarea, M.S.C. †Bishop of Bereina, Papua New Guinea
30 Mar81.5André Charles Lucien Loucheur, C.S.Sp. †Bishop Emeritus of Bafia, Cameroon
8 Apr89.9John Baptist Rosner, S.A.C. †Bishop Emeritus of Queenstown, South Africa
8 Apr84.4Pietro Santoro †Archbishop Emeritus of Campobasso-Boiano, Italy
12 Apr79.6Robert Ashta, O.F.M. †Bishop of Pult, Albania
15 Apr79.7José María Carrizo Villarreal †Bishop Emeritus of Chitré, Panama
17 Apr75.8Alberto Bovone †Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
22 Apr88.9Walter Kampe †Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Limburg, Germany
23 Apr74.8Francis Peter de Campo †Bishop of Port Pirie, Australia
23 Apr86.5Daniel-Joseph-Louis-Marie Pézeril †Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Paris, France
25 Apr80.6Joseph Kundukulam †Archbishop Emeritus of Trichur (Syro-Malabarese), India
26 Apr75.3Juan José Gerardi Conedera †Bishop Emeritus of Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala
29 Apr52.3Paul Lungu, S.J. †Bishop of Monze, Zambia
4 May64.4Gehard Jakob †Auxiliary Bishop of Trier, Germany
4 May76.1Ignacio María de Orbegozo y Goicoechea †Bishop of Chiclayo, Peru
6 May65.5John Joseph †Bishop of Faisalabad, Pakistan
9 May66.3Teodor Majkowicz †Bishop of Wrocław-Gdańsk (Ukrainian), Poland
11 May60.2Michel Paul Marie Moutel, P.S.S. †Archbishop of Tours, France
14 May57.2Jean-Baptiste Tiendrebeogo (Kiedrebeogo) †Bishop of Kaya, Burkina Faso
21 May76.9Arnold Ralph Cotey, S.D.S. †Bishop Emeritus of Nachingwea, Tanzania
22 May81.9Eric Gerard Perkins †Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Melbourne, Australia
23 May86.4Alphonsus Beretta, P.I.M.E. †Bishop Emeritus of Warangal, India
26 May80.0Sauveur Casanova †Bishop Emeritus of Ajaccio, France
30 May84.5José Vázquez Díaz, O. de M. †Bishop Emeritus of Bom Jesus do Gurguéia, Piaui, Brazil
1 Jun77.9Luigi Maverna †Archbishop Emeritus of Ferrara-Comacchio, Italy
9 Jun83.5Agostino Casaroli †Cardinal, Secretary Emeritus of the Secretariat of State
17 Jun93.9John Joseph Carberry †Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
20 Jun82.7Vittorio Ottaviani †Bishop Emeritus of Marsi, Italy
21 Jun84.7Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero, O.C.D. †Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Torino {Turin}, Italy
26 Jun89.8Jorge Kémérer, S.V.D. †Bishop Emeritus of Posadas, Argentina
27 Jun90.0Léon-Arthur-Auguste Elchinger †Bishop Emeritus of Strasbourg, France
27 Jun79.0João Aloysio Hoffmann †Bishop Emeritus of Erexim, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2 Jul62.7Jorge Eduardo Marskell, S.F.M. †Prelate of Itacoatiara, Amazonas, Brazil
7 Jul84.2Ignace Abdo Khalifé, S.J. †Bishop Emeritus of Saint Maron of Sydney (Maronite), Australia
8 Jul82.5Christophe Adimou †Archbishop Emeritus of Cotonou, Benin
9 Jul68.3Antonio Federico Gatti †Auxiliary Bishop of San Justo, Argentina
23 Jul82.7Vittorio Cecchi †Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Macerata-Tolentino-Recanati-Cingoli-Treia, Italy
23 Jul70.2Henri Goudreault, O.M.I. †Archbishop of Grouard-McLennan, Alberta, Canada
25 Jul82.3Abdul-Ahad Rabban, O.S.H. †Bishop of Aqra {Akra} (Chaldean), Iraq
26 Jul87.7Carlos Anasagasti Zulueta, O.F.M. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of El Beni o Beni, Bolivia
26 Jul78.0James Dominic Sangu †Bishop Emeritus of Mbeya, Tanzania
28 Jul81.0Manuel Augusto Cárdenas †Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Argentina, Faithful of the Oriental Rites
29 Jul85.8Fernando Azcárate y Freyre de Andrade, S.J. †Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of San Cristobal de la Habana, Cuba
30 Jul91.9Orestes Marengo, S.D.B. †Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Tura, India
31 Jul86.7Ioan Ploscaru †Bishop Emeritus of Lugoj (Romanian), Romania
31 Jul86.9Vito Roberti †Bishop Emeritus of Caserta, Italy
4 Aug86.7Thomas Joseph McDonough †Archbishop Emeritus of Louisville, Kentucky, USA
9 Aug90.8Damián Nicolau Roig, T.O.R. †Prelate Emeritus of Huamachuco, Peru
22 Aug93.7Nicola Riezzo †Archbishop Emeritus of Otranto, Italy
27 Aug70.1Bernard Francis Pappin †Auxiliary Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada
28 Aug93.2Rajarethinam Arokiasamy Sundaram †Bishop Emeritus of Tanjore, India
2 Sep75.9Vincent de Paul Pham Van Du †Bishop of Lang Són et Cao Bang, Viêt Nam
4 Sep87.5Eldon Bernard Schuster †Bishop Emeritus of Great Falls-Billings, Montana, USA
4 Sep62.0Gerardo Eusebio Sueldo †Bishop of Santiago del Estero, Argentina
10 Sep67.6Rafael Montiano Lim †Bishop of Boac, Philippines
12 Sep62.4Hendrik Joseph Alois Bomers, C.M. †Bishop of Haarlem, Netherlands
13 Sep88.7Alois Grillmeier, S.J. †Cardinal, Priest of Society of Jesus
16 Sep68.1José Vittorio Tommasí †Bishop of Nueve de Julio, Argentina
17 Sep72.7Marcel Bam'ba Gongoa †Bishop Emeritus of Bondo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
21 Sep86.5Clarence James Duhart, C.SS.R. †Bishop Emeritus of Udon Thani, Thailand
21 Sep93.2Domenico Ferrara, M.C.C.I. †Prefect Emeritus of Mupoi, Sudan
22 Sep69.6Vitalis Djebarus, S.V.D. †Bishop of Denpasar, Indonesia
26 Sep73.2Giovanni Maria Sartori †Archbishop of Trento, Italy
28 Sep83.9Aurelio Sorrentino †Archbishop Emeritus of Reggio Calabria-Bova, Italy
2 Oct80.5Renatus Lwamosa Butibubage †Bishop Emeritus of Mwanza, Tanzania
2 Oct90.3Joseph Khiamsun Nittayo †Archbishop Emeritus of Bangkok, Thailand
6 Oct78.6Kornél Pataky (Pataki) †Bishop Emeritus of Győr, Hungary
13 Oct76.2Mariano Gaviola y Garcés †Archbishop Emeritus of Lipa, Philippines
16 Oct77.8Michel Kien Samophithak †Archbishop Emeritus of Thare and Nonseng, Thailand
25 Oct76.7François-Marie Morvan, C.S.Sp. †Bishop Emeritus of Cayenne (Cajenna), French Guyana, Antilles
30 Oct90.4Segundo Garcia de Sierra y Méndez †Archbishop Emeritus of Burgos, Spain
2 Nov68.9Oriano Quilici †Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland
3 Nov70.5Paulos Philoxinos Ayyamkulangara †Auxiliary Bishop of Trivandrum (Malankarese), India
6 Nov78.2Elias Nijmé, B.A. †Archbishop Emeritus of Tripoli del Libano {Tarabulus} (Melkite), Lebanon
10 Nov70.5Antonio Ferrándiz Morales, O.F.M. Cap. †Prefect of San Andrés y Providencia, Colombia
13 Nov60.8Mário Zanetta †Bishop of Paulo Afonso, Baia, Brazil
15 Nov80.2Enzo Ceccarelli Catraro, S.D.B. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Puerto Ayacucho, Venezuela
15 Nov96.7Leo Aloysius Pursley †Bishop Emeritus of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, USA
23 Nov87.7Estanislau Arnoldo Van Melis, C.P. †Bishop Emeritus of São Luís de Montes Belos, Goias, Brazil
26 Nov76.5Djuro Kokša †Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb, Croatia
28 Nov85.3Frederick William Freking †Bishop Emeritus of La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
28 Nov93.2Hemaiagh Pierre XVII Ghedighian, C.A.M. †Patriarch Emeritus of Cilicia (Armenian), Lebanon
1 Dec80.6Jean-François Mathieu Arrighi †Vice President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Family
2 Dec84.8Ferdinando Maggioni †Bishop Emeritus of Alessandria (della Paglia), Italy
2 Dec69.9Américo do Couto Oliveira †Bishop of Lamego, Portugal
6 Dec80.5Vicente de Paulo Araújo Matos †Bishop Emeritus of Crato, Ceara, Brazil
6 Dec74.4João (Giovanni) Gazza, S.X. †Bishop Emeritus of Aversa, Italy
7 Dec88.0Demetrio Mansilla Reoyo †Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain
7 Dec71.9Carlos Oviedo Cavada, O. de M. †Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Santiago de Chile
15 Dec99.2Giuseppe Garneri †Bishop Emeritus of Susa, Italy
17 Dec64.1Alberto Jover Piamonte †Archbishop of Jaro, Philippines
29 Dec90.6André-Pierre Duirat, S.M.A. †Bishop Emeritus of Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire
29 Dec62.4Patras Yusaf †Bishop of Multan, Pakistan

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