 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 |  |
Date of Death | Deceased Bishops (82) |
| 1951.01.01 |  Archbishop Giuseppe Migone († 75)Almoner of His Holiness of Office of Papal Charities (1935.12.19 – 1951.01.01) |
| 1951.01.03 |  Bishop Gregorio Bahabaninian (Armenian Rite) († 84)Bishop of Ancyra of the Armenians (Turkiye) (1911.08.27 – 1951.01.03) |
| 1951.01.08 |  Bishop Alexander Chulaparambil (Syro-Malabar Rite) († 73)Bishop of Kottayam of the Syro-Malabars (India) (1923.12.21 – 1951.01.08) |
| 1951.01.13 | Cardinal Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani († 79) Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (1948.02.16 – 1951.01.13) Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati (1936.06.15 – 1951.01.13) Prefect of Sacred Congregation of Ceremonies (1948.02.16 – 1951.01.13) President of Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology (1931 – 1951.01.13) Archpriest of Papal Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran (1931.05.26 – 1951.01.13) Vicar General for the Vicariate of Rome of Roma (Italy) (1931.02.09 – 1951.01.13) Secretary of Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office (1939.04.30 – 1951.01.13) |
| 1951.01.17 |  Bishop Francis Hennemann, S.A.C. († 68)Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Cape Town (South Africa) (1939.06.13 – 1949) |
| 1951.01.19 | Bishop Lorenzo Giacomo Inglese, O.F.M. Cap. († 66) Bishop emeritus of Anglona–Tursi (Italy) (1935.05.05 – 1945.09.12) |
| 1951.01.19 |  Bishop Heinrich Metzroth († 57)Auxiliary Bishop of Trier (Germany) (1941.05.12 – 1951.01.19) |
| 1951.01.23 |  Bishop Arthur Doubleday († 85) |
| 1951.01.28 |  Archbishop Petar Dujam Munzani († 60)Archbishop emeritus of Zadar (Croatia) (1933.03.16 – 1948.12.11) |
| 1951.02.07 |  Archbishop Florent-Michel-Marie-Joseph du Bois de la Villerabel († 73)Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Aix (France) (1940.05.11 – 1944.12.13) |
| 1951.02.13 |  Bishop Teodoro Kubina († 70)Bishop of Częstochowa (Poland) (1925.12.14 – 1951.02.13) |
| 1951.02.18 |  Bishop Pieter Adriaan Willem Hopmans († 85)Bishop of Breda (Netherlands) (1914.09.08 – 1951.02.18) |
| 1951.02.21 |  Bishop John Baptist Wang Zeng-yi (王增義), C.M. († 66) |
| 1951.02.24 | Bishop Domenico Della Vedova († 75) |
| 1951.03.09 | Bishop Petrus Legge († 68) |
| 1951.03.14 | Bishop Antonio Tommaso Videmari († 89) Bishop emeritus of Ogliastra (Italy) (1923.03.02 – 1925.02.13) |
| 1951.03.16 | Bishop Karol Miecislao Radonski († 67) Bishop emeritus of Włocławek (Poland) (1929.04.05 – 1950.04.22) |
| 1951.03.18 |  Archbishop Abel Zayia, C.M. (Chaldean Rite) († 80)Metropolitan Archbishop of Urmyā of the Chaldeans (Iran) (1939.12.06 – 1951.03.18) Archbishop-Bishop of Salmas of the Chaldeans (Iran) (1939.12.06 – 1951.03.18) |
| 1951.03.20 |  Bishop Laurent Tétrault, M. Afr. († 46)Vicar Apostolic of Bubuka (Tanzania) (1947.11.13 – 1951.03.20) |
| 1951.03.25 |  Archbishop George Joseph Caruana († 68)Bishop emeritus of San Juan de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico) (1924.11.21 – 1925.12.22) |
| 1951.03.28 | Bishop Jules-Marie-Victor Courcoux († 80) |
| 1951.04.03 | Bishop Francis Liu Jin-wen (Liu Chiu-wen) (劉錦文) († 78) Bishop emeritus of Fenyang 汾陽 (China) (1946.04.11 – 1948.01.15) |
| 1951.04.05 | Bishop Giovanni Rosi († 78) Bishop of Montefiascone (Italy) (1910.12.19 – 1951.04.05) |
| 1951.04.06 |  Bishop Augusto Sieffert, C.SS.R. († 77)Bishop emeritus of La Paz (Bolivia) (1924.11.15 – 1934.02.24) |
| 1951.04.18 | Bishop Henri-Marie-Joseph Pinson († 65) Bishop of Saint-Flour (France) (1943.01.12 – 1951.04.18) |
| 1951.04.21 | Archbishop Saverio Ritter († 67) Titular Archbishop of Ægina (1935.08.05 – 1951.04.21) |
| 1951.04.29 |  Bishop Martin Kheberich († 81)Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Spiš (Slovakia) (1915.12.19 – 1946) |
| 1951.05.07 |  Archbishop Miguel de Lima Valverde († 78)Metropolitan Archbishop of Olinda e Recife (Brazil) (1922.02.10 – 1951.05.07) |
| 1951.05.09 | Archbishop Ettore Felici († 70) Titular Archbishop of Corinthus (1927.11.06 – 1951.05.09) Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland (1949.09.02 – 1951.05.09) |
| 1951.05.09 | Bishop Domenico Grassi, P.I.M.E. († 63) Bishop of Vijayawada (India) (1938.12.03 – 1951.05.09) |
| 1951.05.13 |  Bishop Juan José Marcos Zapata († 84)Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de Cuyo (Argentina) (1913.05.30 – 1951.05.13) |
| 1951.05.17 |  Bishop James Edwin Cassidy († 81)Bishop of Fall River (USA) (1934.07.28 – 1951.05.17) |
| 1951.05.24 | Archbishop Adalberto Accioli Sobral († 63) Metropolitan Archbishop of São Luís do Maranhão (Brazil) (1947.01.18 – 1951.05.24) |
| 1951.05.31 | Cardinal Dennis Joseph Dougherty († 85) Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Nereo ed Achilleo (1921.03.10 – 1951.05.31) Metropolitan Archbishop of Philadelphia (USA) (1918.05.01 – 1951.05.31) |
| 1951.06.03 |  Archbishop Gerald C. Murray, C.SS.R. († 65)Bishop emeritus of Saskatoon (Canada) (1934.04.18 – 1944.01.08) Coadjutor Archbishop of Winnipeg (Canada) (1944.01.08 – 1951.06.03) |
| 1951.06.11 | Bishop Cipriano Cassini (趙信義), S.J. († 56) |
| 1951.06.18 | Bishop Jean-Joseph Pays († 69) Bishop of Carcassonne (France) (1932.08.16 – 1951.06.18) |
| 1951.06.28 |  Bishop José de Jesús Manríquez y Zárate († 66)Bishop emeritus of Huejutla (Mexico) (1922.12.11 – 1939.07.01) |
| 1951.07.16 |  Bishop Stephen Anthony Appelhans, S.V.D. († 45)Vicar Apostolic of Eastern New Guinea (Papua New Guinea) (1948.07.08 – 1951.07.16) |
| 1951.07.21 | Cardinal Adam Stefan Stanisław Bonfatiusz Józef Sapieha († 84) Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria Nuova (1946.02.22 – 1951.07.21) Metropolitan Archbishop of Kraków (Poland) (1925.10.28 – 1951.07.21) |
| 1951.07.31 | Archbishop Carlo Margotti († 60) Metropolitan Archbishop of Gorizia e Gradisca (Italy) (1934.07.25 – 1951.07.31) |
| 1951.07.31 |  Bishop Angelo Maria Navarro († 80)Bishop of Santa Rosa de Copán (Honduras) (1928.12.17 – 1951.07.31) |
| 1951.08.07 |  Bishop Ivan Garufaloff, C.R. (Bulgarian Rite) († 63)Apostolic Exarch emeritus of Sofia of the Bulgarians (Bulgaria) (1942.07.06 – 1951.04.27) |
| 1951.08.07 |  Bishop Francesco Solano Muente y Campos, O.F.M. († 52)Bishop emeritus of Ayacucho (Peru) (1936.05.30 – 1939.07.21) |
| 1951.08.12 | Bishop Gustavo Bianchi († 66) |
| 1951.08.13 | Bishop Melchior Sun De-zhen (Souen) (孫德禎), C.M. († 81) Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Anguo 安國 (China) (1929.07.13 – 1936.02.07) |
| 1951.08.18 | Bishop Celestin Ibáñez y Aparicio (易興化), O.F.M. († 78) Bishop emeritus of Yan’an 延安 (China) (1946.04.11 – 1949.01.13) |
| 1951.08.19 |  Bishop Jean-Liévin-Joseph Sion, M.E.P. († 61)Vicar Apostolic of Kontum (Vietnam) (1941.12.23 – 1951.08.19) |
| 1951.08.22 | Bishop Paolo Ceslao Rydzewski († 58) Auxiliary Bishop of Łomża (Poland) (1946.12.06 – 1951.08.22) |
| 1951.08.23 | Archbishop Ernesto Eugenio Filippi († 72) Metropolitan Archbishop of Monreale (Italy) (1925.04.06 – 1951.08.23) |
| 1951.08.26 | Bishop Giovanni Battista Chiappe († 77) |
| 1951.08.26 | Bishop Heinrich Gleumes († 54) Auxiliary Bishop of Münster (Germany) (1948.10.08 – 1951.08.26) |
| 1951.09.01 |  Bishop Kidanè-Maryam Cassà (Eritrean Rite) († 65)Ordinary emeritus of Eritrea of the Eritreans (Eritrea) (1930.07.04 – 1951.02.24) |
| 1951.09.03 | Archbishop Martin-Marie-Stanislas Gillet, O.P. († 75) Master of the Order emeritus of Order of Preachers (Dominicans) (1929 – 1946.09.30) |
| 1951.09.03 |  Bishop Enrico Valtorta (恩理覺), P.I.M.E. († 68)Bishop of Hong Kong 香港 (Hong Kong) (1946.04.11 – 1951.09.03) |
| 1951.09.09 | Bishop Michele Raffaele Camerlengo, O.F.M. († 65) |
| 1951.10.17 | Archbishop Leone Giacomo Ossola, O.F.M. Cap. († 64) |
| 1951.10.17 | Bishop Vincenzo Celli († 81) Auxiliary Bishop of Pompei (Italy) (1927.04.08 – 1951.10.17) |
| 1951.10.19 | Bishop Nicolás De Carlo († 69) Bishop of Resistencia (Argentina) (1940.08.01 – 1951.10.19) |
| 1951.10.24 |  Bishop Casimiro Lladoc († 58)Bishop of Bacolod (Philippines) (1933.06.23 – 1951.10.24) |
| 1951.10.25 |  Bishop Franciszek-Piotr Bučys, M.I.C. († 79)Superior General emeritus of Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Marian Fathers) (1939 – 1951.05.14) |
| 1951.11.03 |  Bishop Canuto José Reyes y Balladares († 88) |
| 1951.11.08 | Bishop Patrick Aloysius Alphonsus McGovern († 79) |
| 1951.11.10 | Archbishop Joseph Henry Leo Schlarman († 72) Bishop of Peoria (USA) (1930.04.19 – 1951.11.10) Archbishop ad personam (1951.06.17 – 1951.11.10) |
| 1951.11.10 | Bishop Vincent James Ryan († 67) |
| 1951.11.11 | Bishop Ceslao Sokołowski († 74) Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Siedlce (Poland) (1919.07.25 – 1946) |
| 1951.11.18 | Bishop Franz Xavier Eberle († 77) Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg (Germany) (1934.06.02 – 1951.11.18) |
| 1951.11.19 | Bishop José Baréa († 58) |
| 1951.11.24 | Bishop Leon-Jean-Marie De Smedt (石德懋), C.I.C.M. († 69) Bishop of Xiwanzi 西灣子 (China) (1946.04.11 – 1951.11.24) |
| 1951.11.25 | Bishop Camille Pic († 74) |
| 1951.11.27 |  Bishop Ilarino Felder, O.F.M. Cap. († 84)Titular Bishop of Geras (1938.04.12 – 1951.11.27) |
| 1951.12.01 | Bishop Luiz Scortegagna († 70) Bishop of Espírito Santo (Brazil) (1933.07.28 – 1951.12.01) |
| 1951.12.03 |  Bishop Gerardo Wantenaar, M.H.M. († 65)Vicar Apostolic of Basankusu (Congo-Kinshasa) (1948.07.08 – 1951.12.03) |
| 1951.12.05 | Archbishop José Guadalupe Ortíz y López († 83) Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Monterrey (Mexico) (1929.09.20 – 1940.05.02) |
| 1951.12.05 | Archbishop Ignacio Placencia y Moreira († 84) Archbishop-Bishop of Zacatecas (Mexico) (1922.10.27 – 1951.12.05) |
| 1951.12.08 | Bishop Joseph-Wilfrid Guy, O.M.I. († 68) Bishop emeritus of Gravelbourg (Canada) (1937.06.02 – 1942.11.07) |
| 1951.12.10 |  Blessed Bishop Anton Durcovici († 63) |
| 1951.12.14 |  Archbishop Atanasio Giorgio (Cyrille) Dallal (Syriac Rite) († 75)Archbishop of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq) (1926.07.31 – 1951.12.14) |
| 1951.12.16 | Bishop William Francis Brown († 89) Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark (England) (1924.01.29 – 1951.12.16) |
| 1951.12.17 | Archbishop Heinrich Döring (ハインリヒ・デーリング), S.J. († 92) Archbishop-Bishop emeritus of Poona (India) (1927.07.14 – 1948.01.15) |
| 1951.12.18 |  Bishop Jean Saint-Pierre († 67)Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Carthage (Tunisia) (1930.05.28 – 1937.08) |
| 1951.12.20 | Archbishop Franz Rudolf Bornewasser († 85) Archbishop-Bishop of Trier (Germany) (1944.01.04 – 1951.12.20) |
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