 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 |  |
Date of Death | Deceased Bishops (69) |
| 1940.01.03 |  Archbishop José Manuel Dámaso Rúiz y Rodríguez († 65)Metropolitan Archbishop of La Habana (Cuba) (1925.03.30 – 1940.01.03) |
| 1940.01.04 |  Saint Bishop Manuel González y García († 62) |
| 1940.01.09 |  Bishop Fernando Taddei, C.M. († 72)Bishop of Jacarezinho (Brazil) (1927.04.22 – 1940.01.09) |
| 1940.01.12 |  Bishop John March († 76)Bishop of Harbour Grace (Canada) (1906.09.04 – 1940.01.12) |
| 1940.01.14 |  Bishop John Henry Tihen († 78) |
| 1940.01.22 | Bishop Charles-Antonelli Lamarche († 69) Bishop of Chicoutimi (Canada) (1928.08.17 – 1940.01.22) |
| 1940.01.29 |  Bishop Paolino Ladeuze († 69)Titular Bishop of Tiberias (1928.10.21 – 1940.01.29) |
| 1940.01.30 |  Archbishop Pierre-Célestin Cézerac († 83)Metropolitan Archbishop of Albi (France) (1918.03.18 – 1940.01.30) |
| 1940.01.30 | Bishop Gustave-Lazare Garnier († 82) |
| 1940.01.31 | Bishop Justí Guitart i Vilardebó († 64) |
| 1940.02.07 | Bishop Paul Nègre († 86) Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Rodez (France) (1924.06.14 – 1925.02.05) |
| 1940.02.09 |  Archbishop Edward Joseph Byrne († 67)Metropolitan Archbishop of Dublin (Ireland) (1921.08.28 – 1940.02.09) |
| 1940.02.09 | Bishop Joseph Rumeau († 91) Bishop of Angers (France) ([1898.07.07] 1898.11.28 – 1940.02.09) |
| 1940.02.12 | Bishop Hyacinthe-Jean Chassagnon († 76) |
| 1940.02.15 |  Archbishop Abraham Elias, C.M. (Chaldean Rite) († 46)Metropolitan Archbishop of Sehna of the Chaldeans (Iran) (1938.09.06 – 1940.02.15) |
| 1940.02.16 |  Bishop Isidore-Marie-Joseph Dumortier, M.E.P. († 70)Vicar Apostolic of Saigon (Vietnam) (1925.12.17 – 1940.02.16) |
| 1940.02.16 |  Bishop Kazimieras Mikalojus Michalkiewicz († 75)Auxiliary Bishop of Vilnius (Lithuania) (1923.01.12 – 1940.02.16) |
| 1940.02.17 |  Bishop Epifanio Scianow (Bulgarian Rite) († 90)Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Macedonia of the Bulgarians (Greece) (1895.07.23 – 1924) |
| 1940.02.19 |  Archbishop Ettore Fronzi († 72)Archbishop emeritus of Camerino (Italy) (1918.12.14 – 1938.10.01) |
| 1940.02.28 |  Bishop Emanuele Hanisch, C.M.M. († 58)Vicar Apostolic of Umtata (South Africa) (1937.04.13 – 1940.02.28) |
| 1940.03.08 |  Archbishop Michael Kelly († 90)Metropolitan Archbishop of Sydney (Australia) (1911.08.17 – 1940.03.08) |
| 1940.03.14 | Bishop Giovanni Onorato Carcaterra, O.F.M. († 69) |
| 1940.03.18 |  Archbishop Gusztáv Károly Majláth († 75)Bishop emeritus of Alba Iulia (Romania) (1932.03.22 – 1938.05.28) |
| 1940.04.02 | Bishop René de Pontes († 37) |
| 1940.04.09 | Cardinal Jean Verdier, P.S.S. († 76) Cardinal-Priest of S. Balbina (1929.12.19 – 1940.04.09) Metropolitan Archbishop of Paris (France) (1929.11.18 – 1940.04.09) |
| 1940.04.14 | Bishop Nicola Cola († 70) Bishop of Nocera Umbra–Gualdo Tadino (Italy) (1915.01.02 – 1940.04.14) |
| 1940.04.14 |  Bishop Dionýz Njarady (Croatian Rite) († 65)Bishop of Križevci of the Croatians (Croatia) (1920.05.01 – 1940.04.14) |
| 1940.04.19 | Archbishop Hugh McSherry († 88) Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Cape of Good Hope, Eastern District (South Africa) (1896.10.01 – 1938.12.15) |
| 1940.04.21 | Bishop Giuseppe Marcozzi († 67) |
| 1940.04.24 | Archbishop Roberto Nogara († 60) |
| 1940.05.02 |  Bishop Šimon Bárta († 75)Bishop of České Budějovice (Czechia) (1920.12.16 – 1940.05.02) |
| 1940.05.12 |  Bishop Stefano Walczykiewicz († 53)Auxiliary Bishop of Lutsk (Ukraine) (1928.07.20 – 1940.05.12) |
| 1940.05.16 |  Patriarch Teotonio Emanuele Ribeira Vieira de Castro († 80)Metropolitan Archbishop of Goa and Daman (India) (1929.05.25 – 1940.05.16) |
| 1940.05.17 | Bishop Albino Pella († 74) Bishop of Casale Monferrato (Italy) (1915.04.02 – 1940.05.17) |
| 1940.05.20 |  Bishop Tomás Gregorio Camacho († 72) |
| 1940.05.22 | Archbishop Joseph-Guillaume-Laurent Forbes († 74) Metropolitan Archbishop of Ottawa (Canada) (1928.01.29 – 1940.05.22) |
| 1940.05.25 |  Bishop Hermann Schoppelrey (史赫曼), S.V.D. († 63)Vicar Apostolic of Xinyangzhou 信陽州 (China) (1933.12.13 – 1940.05.25) |
| 1940.05.29 |  Bishop Valentin Wojciech († 72)Auxiliary Bishop of Wrocław (Poland) (1920.03.08 – 1940.05.29) |
| 1940.06.06 |  Archbishop John Pius Dowling, O.P. († 79)Metropolitan Archbishop of Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago) (1909.03.09 – 1940.06.06) |
| 1940.06.10 | Bishop Ludovic Joseph Legraive († 81) Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen (Belgium) (1907.10.17 – 1940.06.10) |
| 1940.06.15 |  Bishop Melquisedec del Canto Terán († 73)Bishop emeritus of San Felipe (Chile) (1925.12.14 – 1938.03.19) |
| 1940.06.20 |  Bishop Giovanni Giuseppe Santini, O.F.M. Cap. († 72)Prefect Apostolic emeritus of Rhaetia (Switzerland) (1918.09.13 – 1921) |
| 1940.06.23 | Bishop Alphonse-Emmanuel Deschamps († 65) Auxiliary Bishop of Montréal (Canada) (1925.02.20 – 1940.06.23) |
| 1940.06.28 | Bishop Angel Diego y Carbajal (翟德隆), O.E.S.A. († 72) Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Changde 常德 (China) (1924.12.03 – 1938.11.16) |
| 1940.07.16 | Bishop Martial-Pierre-Marie Jannin, M.E.P. († 73) Vicar Apostolic of Kontum (Vietnam) (1933.01.10 – 1940.07.16) |
| 1940.07.19 |  Bishop José Aníbal Verdaguer y Corominas († 63) |
| 1940.07.21 | Bishop Ernest François Geurts (武致中), C.M. († 77) Vicar Apostolic of Yongpingfu 永平府 (China) (1924.12.03 – 1940.07.21) |
| 1940.07.22 |  Bishop Francesco Fellinger († 75)Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem (Palestine) (1929.02.26 – 1940.07.22) |
| 1940.07.30 | Bishop Jonas de Araújo Batinga († 75) |
| 1940.08.06 |  Bishop Antonio Stoppani, F.S.C.I. († 67)Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Bahr el-Ghazal (South Sudan) (1917.06.13 – 1933) |
| 1940.08.13 | Bishop Patrick Joseph Barry († 71) Bishop of Saint Augustine (USA) (1922.02.22 – 1940.08.13) |
| 1940.08.22 | Cardinal Isidro Gomá y Tomás († 71) Cardinal-Priest of S. Pietro in Montorio (1935.12.19 – 1940.08.22) Metropolitan Archbishop of Toledo (Spain) (1933.04.12 – 1940.08.22) |
| 1940.08.26 | Archbishop Giovanni Battista della Pietra, S.J. († 68) Titular Archbishop of Chalcedon (1927.03.03 – 1940.08.26) |
| 1940.08.31 | Archbishop George Gauthier († 68) Metropolitan Archbishop of Montréal (Canada) (1939.09.20 – 1940.08.31) |
| 1940.09.04 | Bishop Palmyre-Georges Jansoone († 82) Auxiliary Bishop of Lille (France) (1927.01.14 – 1940.09.04) |
| 1940.09.08 | Archbishop Leonard Brindisi († 86) Metropolitan Archbishop of Corfu–Zakynthos–Kefalonia (Greece) (1919.07.03 – 1940.09.08) |
| 1940.09.08 | Archbishop Arthur Jerome Drossaerts († 77) Metropolitan Archbishop of San Antonio (USA) (1926.08.03 – 1940.09.08) |
| 1940.09.19 | Bishop Patrick Casey († 67) |
| 1940.09.22 | Bishop Joaquim Ferreira de Melo († 67) |
| 1940.09.28 |  Bishop István Breyer († 60) |
| 1940.10.22 | Bishop Auguste-Joseph-Marie Simeone († 77) |
| 1940.10.24 |  Bishop William Timothy Cotter († 73)Bishop of Portsmouth (England) (1910.11.24 – 1940.10.24) |
| 1940.10.25 | Bishop Sylvester Joseph Espelage (艾原道), O.F.M. († 63) Vicar Apostolic of Wuchang 武昌 (China) (1930.05.31 – 1940.10.25) |
| 1940.10.29 | Archbishop Celestino Endrici († 74) |
| 1940.10.30 |  Bishop Grégoire Haggiar, B.S. (Greek-Melkite Rite) († 65)Bishop of Akka of the Greek-Melkites (Israel) (1901.03.24 – 1940.10.30) |
| 1940.11.07 |  Archbishop Maximiliano Crespo Rivera († 79)Metropolitan Archbishop of Popayán (Colombia) (1923.11.15 – 1940.11.07) |
| 1940.11.09 | Bishop Stephen Peter Alencastre, SS.CC. († 64) Vicar Apostolic of Hawaiian Islands (USA) (1926.05.13 – 1940.11.09) |
| 1940.12.10 | Archbishop Thomas Francis Hickey († 79) Bishop emeritus of Rochester (USA) (1909.01.18 – 1928.10.30) |
| 1940.12.23 | Archbishop Tomasso Trussoni († 84) Archbishop emeritus of Cosenza (Italy) (1912.12.14 – 1934.04.09) |
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