| Date of Death | Deceased Bishops (59) |
| 1949 | Bishop of Vijayapuram (India) (1948.05.13 – 1949) |
| 1949? | Vicar Apostolic of Heijo (North Korea) (1944.03.24 – 1949?) |
| 1949.01.03 | Archbishop-Bishop of Campos (Brazil) (1935.12.16 – 1949.01.03) |
| 1949.01.22 | Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Khartoum (Sudan) (1924.10.29 – 1930.07) |
| 1949.01.25 | Titular Bishop of Messene (1945.11.25 – 1949.01.25) Apostolic Administrator of Ciudad Real (Spain) (1945.11.25 – 1949.01.25) |
| 1949.01.27 | Vicar Apostolic of Arabia (United Arab Emirates) (1937.07.02 – 1949.01.27) |
| 1949.01.31 | Metropolitan Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) (1948.10.09 – 1949.01.31) |
| 1949.02.05 | Titular Archbishop of Arca in Armenia of the Maronites (1911.02.10 – 1949.02.05) |
| 1949.02.05 | Bishop of Coimbatore (India) (1940.04.09 – 1949.02.05) |
| 1949.02.09 | |
| 1949.02.15 | Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Natal (South Africa) (1903.12.19 – 1946.04.04) |
| 1949.02.17 | Archbishop of Baghdad of the Syriacs (Iraq) (1929.08.06 – 1949.02.17) |
| 1949.02.18 | Metropolitan Archbishop of Cagliari (Italy) (1920.03.08 – 1949.02.18) |
| 1949.02.22 | Vicar Apostolic of Hà Nôi (Vietnam) (1935.02.07 – 1949.02.22) |
| 1949.02.24 | Bishop of Montpellier (France) (1932.05.20 – 1949.02.24) |
| 1949.02.25 | Metropolitan Archbishop of Asunción (Paraguay) (1929.05.01 – 1949.02.25) |
| 1949.02.27 | |
| 1949.03.04 | Bishop of Rottenburg (Germany) ([1927.03.02] 1927.03.29 – 1949.03.04) |
| 1949.03.19 | Archbishop of Durrës (Albania) (1940.06.26 – 1949.03.19) Apostolic Administrator of Southern Albania (Albania) (1946 – 1949.03.19) |
| 1949.03.20 | Bishop of Saint-Brieuc (France) (1923.06.04 – 1949.03.20) |
| 1949.03.23 | Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Hangzhou 杭州 (China) (1910.05.10 – 1937.02.18) |
| 1949.03.23 | Vicar Apostolic of San Pedro Sula (Honduras) (1924.04.15 – 1949.03.23) |
| 1949.04.10 | |
| 1949.04.20 | |
| 1949.04.27 | |
| 1949.04.29 | Archbishop of Aleppo of the Syriacs (Syria) ([1932.03.05] 1933.03.13 – 1949.04.29) |
| 1949.05.02 | Bishop of Città della Pieve (Italy) (1910.08.29 – 1949.05.02) |
| 1949.05.08 | |
| 1949.05.09 | |
| 1949.05.11 | Bishop emeritus of Chiapas (Mexico) (1913.07.08 – 1920.03.08) Auxiliary Bishop of México (Mexico) (1920.03.08 – 1949.05.11) |
| 1949.05.26 | Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Kisumu (Kenya) (1936.03.09 – 1946) |
| 1949.05.26 | Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Coquilhatville (Congo-Kinshasa) (1932.03.15 – 1946) |
| 1949.05.30 | Cardinal-Priest of S. Onofrio (1935.12.19 – 1949.05.30) Metropolitan Archbishop of Paris (France) (1940.05.11 – 1949.05.30) |
| 1949.05.31 | |
| 1949.06.03 | Bishop of Shrewsbury (England) (1934.12.17 – 1949.06.03) |
| 1949.06.30 | |
| 1949.07.02 | Vicar Apostolic of Conakry (Guinea) (1949.05.12 – 1949.07.02) |
| 1949.07.06 | Bishop of Portalegre (Portugal) (1920.12.07 – 1949.07.06) |
| 1949.07.11 | Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Phát Diêm (Vietnam) (1935.09.03 – 1945.06.08) |
| 1949.07.12 | Titular Archbishop of Aprus (1947.08.23 – 1949.07.12) Apostolic Internuncio to Egypt (1947.08.23 – 1949.07.12) |
| 1949.08.09 | Bishop-Prelate emeritus of Bom Jesus do Piauí (Brazil) (1926.11.14 – 1928) |
| 1949.08.10 | Bishop emeritus of Xuanhua 宣化 (China) (1946.04.11 – 1947.11.20) |
| 1949.08.16 | |
| 1949.09.07 | Coadjutor Archbishop of Saint John’s, Newfoundland (Canada) (1945.04.07 – 1949.09.07) |
| 1949.09.16 | Vicar Apostolic of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) (1921.07.08 – 1949.09.16) |
| 1949.09.30 | |
| 1949.10.01 | Bishop of Southwark (England) (1904.03.12 – 1949.10.01) Archbishop ad personam (1937.12.18 – 1949.10.01) |
| 1949.10.01 | Apostolic Exarch emeritus of Canada of the Ukrainians (Canada) (1912.07.15 – 1928.11.09) Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv–Halyč–Kamyanets of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (1928 – 1949.10.01) |
| 1949.10.04 | Bishop of Fengxiang 鳳翔 (China) (1946.04.11 – 1949.10.04) |
| 1949.10.10 | Bishop of Springfield in Massachusetts (USA) (1921.06.16 – 1949.10.10) |
| 1949.10.13 | Metropolitan Archbishop of Manila (Philippines) (1916.09.06 – 1949.10.13) |
| 1949.10.27 | Bishop of Changanacherry of the Syro-Malabars (India) (1927.10.24 – 1949.10.27) |
| 1949.11.03 | Cardinal-Priest of S. Cecilia (1936.01.04 – 1949.11.03) Prefect of Sacred Congregation of the Council (1939.03.14 – 1949.11.03) |
| 1949.11.07 | |
| 1949.11.13 | Vicar Apostolic of Equatorial Nile (Uganda) (1934.12.10 – 1949.11.13) |
| 1949.12.04 | Vicar Apostolic of Boma (Congo-Kinshasa) (1934.02.26 – 1949.12.04) |
| 1949.12.09 | Vicar Apostolic of Bahama Islands (Bahamas) (1941.01.15 – 1949.12.09) |
| 1949.12.19 | Bishop of Port-Louis (Mauritius) (1926.04.16 – 1949.12.19) Archbishop ad personam (1933.08.01 – 1949.12.19) |
| 1949.12.31 | Secretary of Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities (1945 – 1949.12.31) |
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