The Year of Our Lord 1779

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Date	Age	Bishop	Title
unknown	68.5	Juan José Priego y Caro, O.P. †	Bishop of Paraguay (o Ssma Assunzione)
unknown		Domenico di Valdagno, O.F.M. Ref. †	Vicar Apostolic of Smirne, Turkey
9 Jan	66.4	Andrea Ratti †	Titular Archbishop of Hadrianopolis in Haemimonto
17 Jan	77.8	Kazimierz Rokitnicki †	Auxiliary Bishop of Płock, Poland
2 Feb	67.5	Antonio Leli †	Auxiliary Bishop of Sabina, Italy
3 Feb	51.7	Marco Giuseppe Cornaro (Corner) †	Bishop of Vicenza, Italy
3 Feb	67.0	Jean-Louis de La Marthonie de Caussade †	Bishop of Meaux, France
8 Feb	71.1	Andrés Pérez Bermúdez, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Jaca, Spain
9 Feb	62.0	Giuseppe Francesco Maria della Torre †	Bishop of Albenga, Italy
11 Feb	71.2	Giuseppe Antonio Piperni †	Bishop of Caiazzo, Italy
18 Feb	71.0	Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim †	Bishop of Würzburg, Germany
2 Mar	49.8	Ignaz Franz Stanislaus von Spaur †	Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
2 Mar	63.2	Franz Xaver Twrdy †	Auxiliary Bishop of Praha {Prague}, Czechia
11 Mar	81.9	Louis-César-Constantin de Rohan-Guémené-Montbazon †	Cardinal, Bishop of Strasbourg, France
23 Mar	70.9	Antonio Gómez de la Torre y Jaraveitia †	Bishop of Jaén, Spain
24 Mar	40.3	Girolamo Enrico Beltramini-Miazzi †	Bishop of Feltre, Italy
6 Apr	78.9	Niccolò Borgia †	Bishop of Aversa, Italy
7 Apr	66.4	Giuseppe Maria de Leone †	Bishop of Penne e Atri, Italy
8 Apr	100.2	Jean Estefan †	Archbishop Emeritus of Beirut {Bairut} (Maronite), Lebanon
23 Apr	80.9	Diego Antonio de Parada †	Archbishop of Lima, Peru
9 May	52.3	John MacDonald †	Vicar Apostolic of Highland District, Scotland, Great Britain
21 May	58.8	Johann Ignace von Franken-Siersdorf †	Vicar Apostolic of Upper and Lower Saxony (Hanover, Northern Germany), Germany
24 May	61.7	Lev Sheptytskyi (Szeptycki), O.S.B.M. †	Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine
9 Jun	55.5	Atanazy Andrzej Szeptycki (Sheptyskyi), O.S.B.M. †	Bishop of Przemyśl, Sambor, et Sanok (Ukrainian), Poland
26 Jun	66.6	Juan Manuel Argüelles †	Bishop of Palencia, Spain
30 Jun	76.3	José Francisco Losada Quiroga †	Bishop of Mondoñedo, Spain
15 Jul	75.2	Claudio Sanz Torres y Ruiz Castañedo †	Bishop of Almería, Spain
24 Jul	66.7	Adam Joseph Ernest Bernclau von Schönreith †	Auxiliary Bishop of Regensburg, Germany
Aug	69.5	Giovanni Pergolini †	Bishop of Urbania e Sant’Angelo in Vado, Italy
7 Aug	59.2	György Richvaldszky †	Auxiliary Bishop of Esztergom, Hungary
9 Aug	75.4	Antônio de São José Moura Marinho, O.E.S.A. †	Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
29 Aug	76.5	Miguel da Anunciação (da Cunha), O.E.S.A. †	Bishop of Coimbra, Portugal
14 Sep	73.4	Miguel de Bulhões e Souza, O.P. †	Bishop of Leiria, Portugal
25 Sep		Alexander Irwin †	Bishop of Killala, Ireland
28 Sep	66.7	Joseph de Saint-André de Marnays de Vercel †	Bishop of (Saint-Lizier de) Couserans (or Conserans), France
Oct	62.4	Giuseppe Vincentini †	Apostolic Nuncio to Naples, Italy
16 Oct	79.8	Bonaventure Bauyn †	Bishop of Uzés, France
17 Oct	63.4	Bartolomeo Bitozzi †	Bishop of Ripatransone, Italy
29 Oct	52.3	Antonio de Torres, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Sessa Aurunca, Italy
11 Nov	52.3	Miguel García San Esteban, O.P. †	Bishop of Nueva Segovia, Philippines
19 Nov	68.6	Franz Anton Xaver von Scheben †	Auxiliary Bishop of Worms, Germany
28 Nov	83.9	Manuel Pérez Minayo y Zumeda †	Bishop of Badajoz, Spain
Dec	65.4	Władysław Wierusz Walknowski (Walichnowski) †	Auxiliary Bishop of Poznań, Poland
11 Dec	87.1	Alessandro Albani †	Cardinal, Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archive
26 Dec	71.5	Johann Philipp Karl Anton von Fechenbach zu Laudenbach †	Titular Bishop of Taenarum
27 Dec	54.5	Juan Antonio Sánchez, O.F.M. Disc. †	Bishop of Linares o Nueva León, Nuevo León, México

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