The Year of Our Lord 2014

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Date	Age	Bishop	Title
10 Jan	91.8	Salvatore Nicolosi †	Bishop Emeritus of Noto, Italy
11 Jan	80.5	Alphonsus Augustus Sowada, O.S.C. †	Bishop Emeritus of Agats, Indonesia
12 Jan	77.2	Francis Joseph Pierre Deniau †	Bishop Emeritus of Nevers, France
15 Jan	103.6	José de Jesús Garcia Ayala †	Bishop Emeritus of Campeche, México
20 Jan	96.0	John Mackey †	Bishop Emeritus of Auckland, New Zealand
25 Jan	77.5	Kurt Krenn †	Bishop Emeritus of Sankt Pölten, Austria
30 Jan	82.4	Benedict John Osta, S.J. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Patna, India
30 Jan	86.8	Cornelius John Pasichny, O.S.B.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Toronto (Ukrainian), Canada
1 Feb	77.0	Prospero Nale Arellano †	Prelate Emeritus of Libmanan, Philippines
3 Feb	87.4	Rosendo Álvarez Gastón †	Bishop Emeritus of Almería, Spain
4 Feb	86.7	Hubert Luthe †	Bishop Emeritus of Essen, Germany
8 Feb	72.3	Deogratias Muganwa Byabazaire †	Bishop of Hoima, Uganda
8 Feb	70.0	John Ikataere Rarikin, M.S.C. †	Superior of Funafuti, Tuvalu, Pacific (Oceania)
9 Feb	83.7	Pius Suh Awa †	Bishop Emeritus of Buéa, Cameroon
10 Feb	85.7	Pere Tena Garriga †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Barcelona, Spain
11 Feb	89.0	Léon Hégelé †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Strasbourg, France
12 Feb	74.1	Jean-Louis Giasson, P.M.E. †	Bishop Emeritus of Yoro, Honduras
13 Feb	91.1	Louis Nganga a Ndzando †	Bishop Emeritus of Lisala, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
14 Feb	88.9	Francisco José Arnáiz Zarandona, S.J. †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
27 Feb	82.0	Raymond James Boland †	Bishop Emeritus of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
4 Mar	79.6	Lawrence Patrick Henry †	Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town {Kaapstad}, South Africa
7 Mar	95.1	Javier Naranjo Villegas †	Bishop Emeritus of Santa Marta, Colombia
10 Mar	80.6	Francesco De Nittis †	Apostolic Nuncio
12 Mar	78.0	José da Cruz Policarpo †	Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus of Lisboa {Lisbon}, Portugal
12 Mar	73.2	Fortunatus M. Lukanima †	Bishop Emeritus of Arusha, Tanzania
16 Mar	87.1	Carlos Marcio Camus Larenas †	Bishop Emeritus of Linares, Chile
16 Mar	96.1	Joseph Fan Zhong-Liang, S.J. †	Bishop of Shanghai [Shanghai], China
17 Mar	87.1	José Delicado Baeza †	Archbishop Emeritus of Valladolid, Spain
24 Mar	85.3	Giuseppe Agostino †	Archbishop Emeritus of Cosenza-Bisignano, Italy
26 Mar	85.8	Wolfgang Kirchgässner †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
28 Mar	67.7	Michael Ernest Putney †	Bishop of Townsville, Australia
1 Apr	90.4	Andrew Joseph McDonald †	Bishop Emeritus of Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
2 Apr	97.3	Michael Pearse Lacey †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3 Apr	89.5	Pedro Fré, C.Ss.R. †	Bishop Emeritus of Barretos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
8 Apr	86.5	Emmanuel III (Emmanuel-Karim) Delly †	Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus of Babylon {Babilonia} (Chaldean), Iraq
9 Apr	66.9	Boniface Lele †	Archbishop Emeritus of Mombasa, Kenya
10 Apr	90.4	Ján Hirka †	Bishop Emeritus of Prešov (Prjašev) (Slovak), Slovakia
15 Apr	88.5	Robert-Casimir Tonyui Messan Dosseh-Anyron †	Archbishop Emeritus of Lomé, Togo
15 Apr	97.8	Anselmo Zarza Bernal †	Bishop Emeritus of León, Guanajuato, México
18 Apr	91.6	Ramón Malla Call †	Bishop Emeritus of Lleida, Spain
21 Apr	71.5	Francisco Ovidio Vera Intriago †	Auxiliary Bishop of Portoviejo, Ecuador
25 Apr	80.3	Boniface Nyema Dalieh †	Bishop Emeritus of Cape Palmas, Liberia
26 Apr	61.2	José Moreira Bastos Neto †	Bishop of Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
26 Apr	88.8	Protacio Guevarra Gungon †	Bishop Emeritus of Antipolo, Philippines
26 Apr	77.8	Aloísio Roque Oppermann, S.C.I. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil
28 Apr	63.7	Damião António Franklin †	Archbishop of Luanda, Angola
2 May	91.3	Tomás Balduino, O.P. †	Bishop Emeritus of Goiás, Brazil
6 May	88.6	Livio Maritano †	Bishop Emeritus of Acqui, Italy
8 May	82.4	Homero Leite Meira †	Bishop Emeritus of Irecê, Bahia, Brazil
11 May	83.9	Gérard Drainville †	Bishop Emeritus of Amos, Québec, Canada
11 May	86.1	Celso Pereira de Almeida, O.P. †	Bishop Emeritus of Itumbiara, Goias, Brazil
12 May	88.8	Marco Cé †	Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus of Venezia {Venice}, Italy
12 May	76.0	Ruben Tolentino Profugo †	Bishop Emeritus of Lucena, Philippines
13 May	88.8	Altamiro Rossato, C.Ss.R. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
19 May	91.2	Eurico Dias Nogueira †	Archbishop Emeritus of Braga, Portugal
20 May	92.0	Paul-Émile Charbonneau †	Bishop Emeritus of Hull, Québec, Canada
25 May	81.0	Elmer Osmar Ramón Miani †	Bishop Emeritus of Catamarca, Argentina
1 Jun	85.0	Heinrich Fasching †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Sankt Pölten, Austria
2 Jun	90.3	Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy †	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
4 Jun	52.1	Joseph Befe Ateba †	Bishop of Kribi, Cameroon
6 Jun	84.3	Alejandro Antonio Buccolini, S.D.B. †	Bishop Emeritus of Río Gallegos, Argentina
7 Jun	67.3	Juan María Leonardi Villasmil †	Bishop of Punto Fijo, Venezuela
9 Jun	88.2	Bernard Agré †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
11 Jun	82.5	Vital João Geraldo Wilderink, O. Carm. †	Bishop Emeritus of Itaguaí, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
26 Jun	73.5	Moacyr José Vitti, C.S.S. †	Archbishop of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
27 Jun	96.5	Bernard Ferdinand Popp †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of San Antonio, Texas, USA
28 Jun	96.6	Antonio José Ramírez Salaverría †	Bishop Emeritus of Maturín, Venezuela
30 Jun	81.1	Petero Mataca †	Archbishop Emeritus of Suva, Fiji, Pacific (Oceania)
3 Jul	84.3	Guy Étienne Germain Gaucher, O.C.D. †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bayeux (-Lisieux), France
5 Jul	94.4	John Jobst, S.A.C. †	Bishop Emeritus of Broome, Australia
6 Jul	86.0	Estanislau Amadeu Kreutz †	Bishop Emeritus of Santo Ângelo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
14 Jul	100.9	Guillermo Leaden, S.D.B. †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Buenos Aires, Argentina
15 Jul	87.2	Pietro Giacomo Nonis †	Bishop Emeritus of Vicenza, Italy
21 Jul	83.3	Robert William Donnelly †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Toledo (in America), Ohio, USA
25 Jul	93.5	Pedro Luís António †	Bishop Emeritus of Kwito-Bié, Angola
26 Jul	93.4	Spiridon Mattar †	Bishop Emeritus of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo (Melkite Greek), Brazil
27 Jul	85.0	Francesco Marchisano †	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Labour Office of the Apostolic See
3 Aug	90.6	Edward Bede Clancy †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Sydney, Australia
3 Aug	93.8	Benedito de Ulhôa Vieira †	Archbishop Emeritus of Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil
8 Aug	78.1	Luciano Bux †	Bishop Emeritus of Oppido Mamertina-Palmi, Italy
8 Aug	83.3	Edmund John Patrick Collins, M.S.C. †	Bishop Emeritus of Darwin, Australia
8 Aug	78.7	Leonardo Zamora Legaspi, O.P. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Caceres (Nueva Caceres), Philippines
11 Aug	98.2	Armando Círio, O.S.I. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Cascavel, Parana, Brazil
11 Aug	83.7	Morkos Hakim, O.F.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Sohag (Coptic), Egypt
18 Aug	74.7	Paul Nguyễn Thanh Hoan †	Bishop Emeritus of Phan Thiết, Viet Nam
20 Aug	86.9	Edmund Casimir Szoka †	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State
25 Aug	84.7	Ramón Echarren Istúriz †	Bishop Emeritus of Islas Canarias {Canary Islands}, Spain
25 Aug	93.5	John Wu Shi-zhen †	Archbishop of Nanchang [Nanchang], China
26 Aug	82.6	John Joseph Nevins †	Bishop Emeritus of Venice, Florida, USA
29 Aug	79.7	Simon Akwali Okafor †	Bishop Emeritus of Awka, Nigeria
6 Sep	66.2	Cirilo Bustamante Flores †	Bishop of San Diego, California, USA
12 Sep	86.6	Joseph Abangite Gasi †	Bishop Emeritus of Tombura-Yambio, South Sudan
14 Sep	97.9	Servílio Conti, I.M.C. †	Prelate Emeritus of Roraima, Brazil
21 Sep	89.7	John Crisostome Lan Shi †	Bishop Emeritus of Sanyuan [Sanyüan], China
23 Sep	90.4	John Baptist Wang Jin †	Bishop of Yuci [Yütze], China
28 Sep	78.6	José Luis Serna Alzate, I.M.C. †	Bishop Emeritus of Líbano-Honda, Colombia
29 Sep	90.9	Carlo Curis †	Apostolic Nuncio
8 Oct	79.7	Angelo Mottola †	Apostolic Nuncio
9 Oct	84.7	John Patrick Boles †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
13 Oct	70.5	José Hernán Sánchez Porras †	Bishop of Venezuela, Military
15 Oct	86.5	João Corso, S.D.B. †	Bishop Emeritus of Campos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
15 Oct	72.2	José Refugio Mercado Díaz †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, México
16 Oct	86.4	Patrick Paul D’Souza †	Bishop Emeritus of Varanasi, India
18 Oct	77.1	Paul Henry Walsh †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Rockville Centre, New York, USA
25 Oct	93.8	Peter Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop Emeritus of Naha, Japan
26 Oct	89.3	Manuel Revollo Crespo, C.M.F. †	Coadjutor Bishop Emeritus of Bolivia, Military
28 Oct	72.8	Mansour Hobeika †	Bishop of Zahleh (Maronite), Lebanon
31 Oct	90.9	Sofron Stefan Wasyl Mudry, O.S.B.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of Ivano-Frankivsk [Stanisławów] (Ukrainian), Ukraine
1 Nov	87.9	Alberto Johannes Först, O. Carm. †	Bishop Emeritus of Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
4 Nov	80.5	James Mwewa Spaita †	Archbishop Emeritus of Kasama, Zambia
9 Nov	87.3	Juan Antonio Flores Santana †	Archbishop Emeritus of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
11 Nov	98.0	Caetano Antônio Lima dos Santos, O.F.M. Cap. †
14 Nov	74.9	Henri Marie Raoul Brincard, C.R.S.A. †	Bishop of Le Puy-en-Velay, France
16 Nov	91.8	Javier Azagra Labiano †	Bishop Emeritus of Cartagena (en España)
19 Nov	81.8	Jeremiah Joseph Coffey †	Bishop Emeritus of Sale, Australia
19 Nov	91.1	Leonard James Olivier, S.V.D. †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Washington, District of Columbia, USA
19 Nov	75.1	Sebelio Peralta Alvarez †	Bishop of San Lorenzo, Paraguay
22 Nov	98.3	Fiorenzo Angelini †	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers
23 Nov	95.2	Joseph Francis Maguire †	Bishop Emeritus of Springfield in Massachusetts, USA
25 Nov	91.8	Joseph Thomas Dimino †	Archbishop Emeritus of United States of America, Military
3 Dec	84.5	Alfredo Ernest Novak, C.Ss.R. †	Bishop Emeritus of Paranaguá, Parana, Brazil
3 Dec	82.7	Patrick Edward O’Connor †	Superior Emeritus of Tokelau, Pacific (Oceania)
9 Dec	91.8	Jorge María Mejía †	Cardinal, Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archive
11 Dec	85.0	Georges Lagrange †	Bishop Emeritus of Gap, France
14 Dec	89.6	Anthony Edward Pevec †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Cleveland, Ohio, USA
17 Dec	87.4	Stephen Hector Youssef Doueihi †	Bishop Emeritus of Saint Maron of Brooklyn (Maronite), New York, USA
18 Dec	92.7	Claude Henri Edouard Frikart, C.I.M. †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Paris, France
26 Dec	86.1	Giuseppe Pittau, S.J. †	Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Institutes of Study)

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