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The Year of Our Lord 1971

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DateAgeBishopTitle
unknown[Anthony Gao Yong]Bishop of Fenyang [Fenyang], China
5 Jan79.5Jean Baptiste Trần Hữu ÐứcBishop of Vinh, Viet Nam
7 Jan68.3Adolfo BinniBishop of Nola, Italy
14 Jan56.1Mesrob J. Terzian, I.C.P.B. †Auxiliary Bishop of Beirut {Bairut} (Armenian), Lebanon
15 Jan84.2Joseph GoguéArchbishop of Bassorah {Basra} (Chaldean), Iraq
19 Jan77.8Joseph Julian Oste, C.I.C.M. †Bishop of Jinzhou [Jehol], China
20 Jan85.3Antonio BacciCardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Eugenio
27 Jan89.1Pieter Jan Willekens, S.J. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Djakarta, Indonesia
31 Jan76.4Victor-Jean PerrinBishop Emeritus of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer), France
18 Feb76.6Jaime de Barros CâmaraCardinal, Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
19 Feb79.0Bernard Theodore Espelage, O.F.M. †Bishop Emeritus of Gallup, New Mexico, USA
23 Feb76.8Xavier Geeraerts, M. Afr. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Bukavu, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
27 Feb87.8Daniel Llorente y FedericoBishop Emeritus of Segovia, Spain
28 Feb63.3Joseph Mark GopuArchbishop of Hyderabad, India
7 Mar63.5Alberto CastelliVice President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Laity
9 Mar79.6Kiril Stefan (Nikola) KurtevApostolic Exarch of Sofia (Bulgarian), Bulgaria
10 Mar70.4Edmund NowickiBishop of Gdańsk, Poland
14 Mar58.2David John CashmanBishop of Arundel and Brighton, England, Great Britain
14 Mar87.8Evasio ColliBishop of Parma (-Fontevivo), Italy
27 Mar74.6Denis (Omer) Strittmatter, O.S.B. †Abbot Emeritus of Order of Saint Benedict
29 Mar60.9Thomas Michel BidawidAuxiliary Bishop of Baghdad (Chaldean), Iraq
31 Mar83.9Michael David Browne, O.P. †Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of San Paolo alla Regola
1 Apr65.7Luigi BarberoBishop of Vigevano, Italy
9 Apr65.7Biagio MustoBishop of Aquino, Sora, e Pontecorvo, Italy
18 Apr75.1Pablo Tobar Gonzáles, C.M. †Bishop of Cuttack, India
21 Apr72.3Manuel de Jesús Serrano AbadArchbishop of Cuenca, Ecuador
22 Apr84.6Stanislas CourbeAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Paris, France
23 Apr81.4Saturnino Rubio y MontiélBishop Emeritus of Osma-Soria, Spain
24 Apr79.9Bernardo Merizalde Morales, O.A.R. †Prefect Emeritus of Tumaco, Colombia
26 Apr75.0Cesar Antonio Mosquera CorralArchbishop Emeritus of Guayaquil, Ecuador
30 Apr92.3Pio Alberto Fariña FariñaAuxiliary Bishop of Santiago de Chile
7 May55.3Luigi MaffeoArchbishop of Italy, Military
16 May75.6Grégoire-Pierre XV (François) AgagianianCardinal, Patriarch Emeritus of Cilicia (Armenian), Lebanon
19 May55.4Francisco Rendeiro, O.P. †Bishop of Coimbra, Portugal
30 May67.3Casimiro Morcillo GonzálezArchbishop of Madrid, Spain
30 May62.3Clément Abdulla Eliane RahalArchbishop of Damas (Syrian), Syria
3 Jun68.2Guido TonettiBishop of Cuneo, Italy
6 Jun90.6Louis Morel, C.I.C.M. †Archbishop Emeritus of Hohhot [Suiyüan], China
14 Jun54.1Théophile MbembaArchbishop of Brazzaville, Congo
29 Jun72.5Emile-Charles-Raymond PirolleyBishop of Nancy (-Toul), France
30 Jun62.7Giovanni Battista Scapinelli di LéguignoTitular Bishop of Laodicea ad Libanum
4 Jul82.2Francesco MarchesaniBishop of Chiavari, Italy
6 Jul62.6Carlos María CafferataBishop of San Luis, Argentina
11 Jul86.7Cristoforo Arduino Terzi, O.F.M. †Bishop Emeritus of Apuania, Italy
19 Jul79.6Honoré Marie Van WaeyenberghAuxiliary Bishop of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}, Belgium
21 Jul90.8Simon Konrad (Josef) Landersdorfer, O.S.B. †Bishop Emeritus of Passau, Germany
22 Jul94.2José Maria Alcaráz y AlendaBishop of Badajoz, Spain
25 Jul77.2Edgar Anton Häring, O.F.M. †Bishop of Shuoxian [Shohchow], China
4 Aug91.6Antonio Guízar y ValenciaArchbishop Emeritus of Chihuahua, México
5 Aug71.0Jan FondalinskiAuxiliary Bishop of Łódź, Poland
10 Aug80.6Federico Callori di VignaleCardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of San Giovanni Bosco in via Tuscolana
10 Aug85.6Paolo GaleazziBishop of Grosseto, Italy
10 Aug72.7Russell Joseph McVinneyBishop of Providence, Rhode Island, USA
11 Aug80.2Manuel Pío López EstradaArchbishop Emeritus of Jalapa (Xalapa), Veracruz, México
11 Aug87.8Amedeo PolidoriBishop Emeritus of Fossombrone, Italy
11 Aug71.8Enrique RauBishop of Mar del Plata, Argentina
26 Aug89.5Luigi FogarBishop Emeritus of Trieste e Capodistria (Trst i Koper), Italy
29 Aug85.2Luigi CivardiTitular Bishop of Thespiae
31 Aug91.8William Mark DukeArchbishop Emeritus of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2 Sep80.3Diego María Gómez TamayoArchbishop Emeritus of Popayán, Colombia
7 Sep65.7Victor Joseph ReedBishop of Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
18 Sep57.9Jorge Kilian (Chiliano) Pflaum, O.F.M. †Vicar Apostolic of Ñuflo de Chávez, Bolivia
23 Sep64.5André Creemers, O.S.C. †Bishop Emeritus of Bondo, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
23 Sep75.6Ildefonso (Matteo Renato) Rea, O.S.B. †Abbot Emeritus of Montecassino, Italy
28 Sep43.5Giocondo Maria Grotti, O.S.M. †Prelate of Acre e Purus, Acre, Brazil
29 Sep83.0Miguel Ángel Builes GómezBishop of Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia
29 Sep85.6Emiliano Giuseppe Lonati, O.F.M. Cap. †Prelate Emeritus of São José do Grajaú, Brazil
3 Oct88.5Luigi RosaBishop of Bagnoregio (Bagnorea), Italy
15 Oct82.7Maurus (Josef) Riha, O.S.B. †Abbot Emeritus of Order of Saint Benedict
28 Oct78.9Pierre BrotAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Paris, France
31 Oct68.4William Michael Fitzgerald, O.P. †Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Antilles
13 Nov67.5Raymond Peter HillingerBishop Emeritus of Rockford, Illinois, USA
18 Nov58.5Johannes Schütte, S.V.D. †Superior General Emeritus of Society of the Divine Word
23 Nov73.9Francis Xavier MuthappaBishop of Coimbatore, India
24 Nov64.6Raymond D’MelloBishop Emeritus of Allahabad, India
25 Nov83.9Patrick O’BoyleBishop Emeritus of Killala, Ireland
26 Nov87.6Bl. Giacomo Alberione, S.S.P. †Superior General Emeritus of Society of St. Paul
28 Nov70.8Carlos Riu AnglésBishop Emeritus of Camagüey, Cuba
7 Dec48.9Nikasius KipengeleBishop of Mahenge, Tanzania
7 Dec71.8Fernando Quiroga y PalaciosCardinal, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
8 Dec83.0Aurelio del Pino GómezBishop Emeritus of Lérida, Spain
10 Dec71.2Bernhard SchräderAuxiliary Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany
15 Dec66.5Ambrogio De Battista, P.I.M.E. †Bishop Emeritus of Vijayawada, India
20 Dec63.3Anthony Jeremiah Pesce, C.P. †Bishop of Dodoma, Tanzania
22 Dec60.2Franciszek Cedzich, S.V.D. †Prelate of Alto Paraná, Paraguay

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