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The Year of Our Lord 2007

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DateAgeBishopTitle
6 Jan76.1Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, C.I.C.M. †Cardinal, Archbishop of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
9 Jan88.4Nemesio Rivera Meza †Bishop Emeritus of Cajamarca, Peru
10 Jan81.0Hermann Josef Spital †Bishop Emeritus of Trier, Germany
12 Jan77.5Jairo Rui Matos da Silva †Bishop Emeritus of Bonfim, Baia, Brazil
12 Jan94.6Gérard-Paul-Louis-Marie de Milleville, C.S.Sp. †Archbishop Emeritus of Conakry {Konakry}, Guinea
13 Jan70.9John Joseph Kaising †Auxiliary Bishop of United States of America, Military
14 Jan66.2Anthony Giroux Meagher †Archbishop of Kingston, Ontario, Canada
15 Jan65.8Leon Augustine Tharmaraj †Bishop of Kottar, India
17 Jan80.3Paul Marie Nguyên Minh Nhât †Bishop Emeritus of Xuân Lôc, Viêt Nam
18 Jan71.4Cyril Baselios Malancharuvil, O.I.C. †Major Archbishop of Trivandrum (Malankarese), India
18 Jan77.8Bonaventure Patrick Paul, O.F.M. †Bishop Emeritus of Hyderabad in Pakistan
20 Jan54.8Johannes Gorantla †Bishop of Kurnool, India
1 Feb75.2Generoso C. Camiña, P.M.E. †Bishop Emeritus of Digos, Philippines
1 Feb85.9Antonio María Javierre Ortas, S.D.B. †Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
2 Feb88.1Ovidio Lari †Bishop Emeritus of Aosta, Italy
3 Feb77.2Peter Joseph Mallon †Archbishop Emeritus of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
4 Feb73.8Gerard Francis Loft, S.M. †Bishop Emeritus of Auki, Solomon Islands
16 Feb81.7Eustathe Joseph Mounayer †Archbishop Emeritus of Damas (Syrian), Syria
21 Feb96.4Ignace Antoine II Hayek †Patriarch Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon
24 Feb79.1Mathias Kappil †Bishop Emeritus of Punalur, India
24 Feb87.1Bernard Mabula †Bishop Emeritus of Singida, Tanzania
24 Feb84.6Augusto Trujillo Arango †Archbishop Emeritus of Tunja, Colombia
26 Feb89.0Bernard Henri René Jacqueline †Apostolic Pro-Nuncio Emeritus to Morocco
26 Feb77.9José Lambert Filho, C.S.S. †Archbishop Emeritus of Sorocaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil
28 Feb84.2Abdul-Ahad Sana †Bishop Emeritus of Alquoch (Chaldean), Iraq
5 Mar79.2José Ivo Lorscheiter †Bishop Emeritus of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
14 Mar82.8Miguel Angel Lecumberri Erburu, O.C.D. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Tumaco, Colombia
17 Mar94.2Frane Franić †Archbishop Emeritus of Split-Makarska, Croatia
18 Mar87.8Antonio Magnoni †Apostolic Pro-Nuncio Emeritus to Egypt, Arab Republic of
18 Mar86.4Patrick Laurence Murphy †Bishop Emeritus of Broken Bay, Australia
18 Mar81.2Michael Rozario †Archbishop Emeritus of Dhaka, Bangladesh
22 Mar79.6Marianus Arokiasamy †Archbishop Emeritus of Madurai, India
25 Mar58.0Eugenio Romero Pose †Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid, Spain
26 Mar71.2François de Sales Marie Adrien Saint-Macary †Archbishop of Rennes (, Dol, e Saint-Malo), France
27 Mar78.2John Aloysius Ward, O.F.M. Cap. †Archbishop Emeritus of Cardiff, Wales, Great Britain
2 Apr81.8Francesco Saverio Toppi, O.F.M. Cap. †Prelate Emeritus of Pompei o Beatissima Vergine Maria del SS.mo Rosario, Italy
3 Apr91.8Michael Joseph Murphy †Bishop Emeritus of Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
3 Apr83.7Félix María Torres Parra †Archbishop Emeritus of Barranquilla, Colombia
5 Apr75.4José Antonio Gentico †Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina
6 Apr88.2Stéphane Babaca (Babeka, Babaqa) †Archbishop Emeritus of Arbil {Erbil} (Chaldean), Iraq
6 Apr81.5James Joseph McGuinness †Bishop Emeritus of Nottingham, England, Great Britain
7 Apr69.1Luis Robles Díaz †Vice President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America
11 Apr76.7James Joseph O’Brien †Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Westminster, England, Great Britain
12 Apr93.6Ismaele Mario Castellano, O.P. †Archbishop Emeritus of Siena-Colle di Val d’Elsa-Montalcino, Italy
18 Apr69.8Piero Biggio †Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Denmark
20 Apr71.0Ramón Godinez Flores †Bishop of Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, México
27 Apr57.5José Aníbal Casasola Sosa †Bishop of Zacapa y Santo Cristo de Esquipulas, Guatemala
27 Apr87.2Walter Joseph Schoenherr †Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Detroit, Michigan, USA
28 Apr88.3Federico Bonifacio Madersbacher Gasteiger, O.F.M. †Bishop Emeritus of San Ignacio de Velasco, Bolivia
29 Apr91.2Kazimierz Jan Majdański †Bishop Emeritus of Szczecin-Kamień, Poland
9 May83.4Lorenzo Rodolfo Guibord Lévesque, O.F.M. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of San José de Amazonas, Peru
10 May90.7Rafael Angel González Ramírez †Bishop Emeritus of Barinas, Venezuela
13 May84.5Pierre François Marie Joseph Duprey, M. Afr. †Secretary Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
19 May52.6Michel Visi †Bishop of Port-Vila, Vanuatu, Pacific (Oceania)
20 May92.2Marcello Morgante †Bishop Emeritus of Ascoli Piceno, Italy
30 May91.3Michael Joseph Dudick †Bishop Emeritus of Passaic (Ruthenian), New Jersey, USA
30 May95.7Baptist Mudartha †Bishop Emeritus of Allahabad, India
30 May86.5Lambertus Johannes van Heygen, C.S.Sp. †Archbishop Emeritus of Bertoua, Cameroon
31 May79.2Michel Marie Paul Saudreau †Bishop Emeritus of Le Havre, France
1 Jun72.0Augustine Cheong Myong-jo †Bishop of Pusan, Korea (South)
2 Jun96.7Marion Francis Forst †Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Kansas City in Kansas, USA
12 Jun93.1Marcelo Mendiharat Pommies †Bishop Emeritus of Salto, Uruguay
17 Jun87.9Angelo Felici †Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”
22 Jun86.5Jacques Mbali †Bishop Emeritus of Buta, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
24 Jun80.1Yves-Maria Guy Dubigeon †Bishop Emeritus of Sées, France
24 Jun94.4Rudolf Johannes Maria Koppmann, O.M.I. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Windhoek, Namibia
25 Jun87.5Adrian Mung'andu †Archbishop Emeritus of Lusaka, Zambia
29 Jun86.6Alojzij Šuštar †Archbishop Emeritus of Ljubljana, Slovenia
3 Jul53.6Pedro Sbalchiero Neto, M.S. †Bishop of Vacaria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
17 Jul91.2Alejo Benedicto Gilligan †Bishop Emeritus of Nueve de Julio, Argentina
19 Jul89.8Enrique Pélach y Feliú †Bishop Emeritus of Abancay, Peru
20 Jul88.7Quirino Adolfo Schmitz, O.F.M. †Bishop Emeritus of Teófilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil
21 Jul96.8João Resende (Rezende) Costa, S.D.B. †Archbishop Emeritus of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
22 Jul87.5Miguel Angel Araújo Iglesias †Bishop Emeritus of Mondoñedo-Ferrol, Spain
22 Jul87.5Juan Félix Pepén y Soliman †Bishop Emeritus of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia en Higüey, Dominican Republic
24 Jul79.4Hubert Patrick O’Connor, O.M.I. †Bishop Emeritus of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
24 Jul78.9Lawrence Khai Saen-Phon-On †Archbishop Emeritus of Thare and Nonseng, Thailand
29 Jul79.7Endre Kovács, O. Cist. †Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Eger, Hungary
2 Aug62.0Franco Dalla Valle, S.D.B. †Bishop of Juína, Mato Grosso, Brazil
5 Aug94.0Peter Saburo Hirata, P.S.S. †Bishop Emeritus of Fukuoka, Japan
5 Aug80.9Jean-Marie Lustiger †Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Paris, France
6 Aug73.0Lino Vomboemmel, O.F.M. †Bishop Emeritus of Santarém, Para, Brazil
7 Aug92.1Domenico Caloyera, O.P. †Archbishop Emeritus of Izmir (Smirne), Turkey
10 Aug86.0Máximo André Biennès, T.O.R. †Bishop Emeritus of São Luíz de Cáceres, Mato Grosso, Brazil
15 Aug95.7Vicente Angelo José Marchetti Zioni †Archbishop Emeritus of Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil
16 Aug93.3Gerard Louis Frey †Bishop Emeritus of Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
18 Aug68.8Vicente C. Manuel, S.V.D. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of San Jose in Mindoro, Philippines
25 Aug89.6Edouard Gagnon, P.S.S. †Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Family
27 Aug78.4José Ramón Santos Iztueta Mendizábal, C.P. †Prelate Emeritus of Moyobamba, Peru
30 Aug89.8Augustine Harris †Bishop Emeritus of Middlesbrough, England, Great Britain
4 Sep93.7Teresio Ferraroni †Bishop Emeritus of Como, Italy
4 Sep95.5José Melgoza Osorio †Bishop Emeritus of Netzahualcóyotl, México
6 Sep87.0Robert Bell Clune †Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
9 Sep82.3Luigi Dossena †Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Slovakia
12 Sep91.2Giovanni Cogoni †Bishop Emeritus of Iglesias, Italy
14 Sep86.1Bernhard Huhn †Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Görlitz, Germany
14 Sep91.4José Manuel Santos Ascarza, O.C.D. †Archbishop Emeritus of Concepción (Santissima Concezione), Chile
18 Sep51.1Benyamin Yosef Bria †Bishop of Denpasar, Indonesia
26 Sep86.7Marco Petta, O.S.B.I. †Abbot Emeritus of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata, Italy
28 Sep96.5Adam Kozłowiecki, S.J. †Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Lusaka, Zambia
2 Oct67.7Gianni Danzi †Prelate of Loreto, Italy
10 Oct73.1Ambrose Battista De Paoli †Apostolic Nuncio to Australia
11 Oct83.7Ignatius D'Cunha †Bishop Emeritus of Aurangabad, India
16 Oct85.1Rosalio José Castillo Lara, S.D.B. †Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State
16 Oct93.2Ignacy Ludwik Jeż †Bishop Emeritus of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg, Poland
18 Oct91.2Juan Nicolasora Nilmar †Bishop Emeritus of Kalibo, Philippines
27 Oct83.8Antónios Varthalítis, A.A. †Archbishop Emeritus of Corfù, Zante e Cefalonia, Greece
3 Nov78.4Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville †Archbishop Emeritus of Birmingham, England, Great Britain
3 Nov78.3Joachim Phayao Manisap †Bishop Emeritus of Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
8 Nov77.7Stephen Fumio Hamao †Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples
14 Nov88.2Pablo Antonio Vega Mantilla †Bishop Emeritus of Juigalpa, Nicaragua
16 Nov90.8James Daniel Niedergeses †Bishop Emeritus of Nashville, Tennessee, USA
20 Nov73.3Germano Zaccheo †Bishop of Casale Monferrato, Italy
23 Nov79.6François Gourguillon †Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Reims, France
27 Nov71.7Nicodemus Kirima †Archbishop of Nyeri, Kenya
3 Dec81.0Henri Salina, C.R.A. †Abbot Emeritus of Saint-Maurice, Switzerland
6 Dec83.9Roger Mpungu †Bishop Emeritus of Muyinga, Burundi
12 Dec97.3Alfons Maria Stickler, S.D.B. †Cardinal, Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archives
13 Dec85.8Gaetano Michetti †Bishop Emeritus of Pesaro, Italy
15 Dec92.5Fernando Romo Gutiérrez †Bishop Emeritus of Torreón, Coahuila, México
20 Dec58.6Sebastião Assis de Figueiredo, O.F.M. †Bishop of Guiratinga, Mato Grosso, Brazil
20 Dec81.2Raphaël Nguyên Van Diêp †Coadjutor Bishop Emeritus of Vinh Long, Viêt Nam
23 Dec83.2Aloísio Leo Arlindo Lorscheider, O.F.M. †Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Aparecida, Sao Paulo, Brazil
25 Dec89.6Juan Alfredo Arzube †Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Los Angeles, California, USA

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