 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 |  |
Date of Death | Deceased Bishops (58) |
| 1955.01.04 |  Bishop Vittore Rosario Fernandes († 73) |
| 1955.01.08 |  Bishop James Colbert († 56)Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Port Elizabeth (South Africa) (1939.06.13 – 1948.12.09) |
| 1955.01.15 |  Blessed Bishop Titu Liviu Chinezu (Romanian Rite) († 50)Auxiliary Bishop of Făgăraş şi Alba Iulia of the Romanians (Romania) (1949 – 1955.01.15) |
| 1955.01.18 | Bishop Severios Giuseppe Valakuzhyil (Syro-Malankara Rite) († 60) Bishop of Tiruvalla of the Syro-Malankara (India) (1950.07.25 – 1955.01.18) |
| 1955.01.19 |  Bishop Anton Scharnagl († 77)Auxiliary Bishop of München und Freising (Germany) (1943.04.10 – 1955.01.19) |
| 1955.01.28 |  Bishop Pjetër Dema († 74)Titular Bishop of Apollonias (1952.01.27 – 1955.01.28) |
| 1955.02.03 |  Bishop Paul-Ernest-Anastase Forget († 69)Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Québec (Canada) (1934.05.12 – 1955.02.03) |
| 1955.02.04 |  Bishop Jules Halbert, S.M. († 68)Vicar Apostolic emeritus of New Hebrides (Vanuatu) (1939.07.11 – 1954.12) |
| 1955.02.15 |  Bishop Alfonso Ferrandina († 85)Auxiliary Bishop of Napoli (Italy) (1938.04.13 – 1955.02.15) |
| 1955.02.26 |  Bishop Luis Adriano Díaz Melo († 82)Bishop emeritus of Cali (Colombia) (1927.04.13 – 1947.11.13) |
| 1955.03.02 |  Archbishop Virgile-Joseph Béguin († 82)Metropolitan Archbishop of Auch (France) (1934.12.24 – 1955.03.02) |
| 1955.03.25 |  Bishop Alphonse Charles Kirmann, S.M.A. († 67)Vicar Apostolic of Sassandra (Cote d’Ivoire) (1940.04.09 – 1955.03.25) |
| 1955.03.29 | Archbishop Joseph Otto Kolb († 73) Metropolitan Archbishop of Bamberg (Germany) (1943.01.24 – 1955.03.29) |
| 1955.03.30 |  Archbishop Emanuele Mendes da Conceição Santos († 78)Metropolitan Archbishop of Évora (Portugal) (1920.07.24 – 1955.03.30) |
| 1955.04.05 |  Bishop Jorge García Cabalieros († 75)Bishop of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos (Guatemala) (1928.06.30 – 1955.04.05) |
| 1955.04.14 |  Bishop Henry Vincent Marshall († 70) |
| 1955.04.15 |  Bishop Santos Ubierna, O.P. († 47)Vicar Apostolic of Thái Bính (Vietnam) (1942.02.24 – 1955.04.15) |
| 1955.04.27 | Archbishop Francesco Beretti († 77) Titular Archbishop of Leotopolis in Pamphylia (1949.11.25 – 1955.04.27) |
| 1955.05.08 | Bishop Louis Rhéaume, O.M.I. († 81) |
| 1955.05.12 |  Archbishop Emanuel Gomes de Oliveira, S.D.B. († 81)Metropolitan Archbishop of Goiás (Brazil) (1932.11.18 – 1955.05.12) |
| 1955.05.19 |  Patriarch Antoun II Boutros Arida (Maronite Rite) († 91)Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites (Lebanon) ([1932.01.08] 1933.03.13 – 1955.05.19) |
| 1955.05.27 | Archbishop Severino Vieira de Melo († 74) Metropolitan Archbishop of Teresina (Brazil) (1952.08.09 – 1955.05.27) |
| 1955.05.30 |  Archbishop Rigoberto Domenech y Valls († 84)Metropolitan Archbishop of Zaragoza (Spain) (1924.12.16 – 1955.05.30) |
| 1955.06.11 |  Bishop Jean-Baptiste-Maximilien Chabalier, M.E.P. († 67)Vicar Apostolic of Phnom Penh (Cambodia) (1937.12.02 – 1955.06.11) |
| 1955.06.14 | Bishop Louis-Eugène-Arsène Turquetil, O.M.I. († 79) Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Baie d’Hudson (Canada) (1931.12.15 – 1942.12.18) |
| 1955.06.19 |  Archbishop Romuald Jałbrzykowski († 79)Metropolitan Archbishop of Vilnius (Lithuania) (1926.06.24 – 1955.06.19) |
| 1955.06.20 | Bishop André Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti († 76) Bishop emeritus of Taubaté (Brazil) (1936.08.08 – 1941.11.08) |
| 1955.06.28 |  Bishop Giovanni Dieter, S.M. († 51)Vicar Apostolic of Archipelago of the Navigators (Samoa) (1953.11.16 – 1955.06.28) |
| 1955.07.27 |  Bishop Faustino Moreira dos Santos, C.S.Sp. († 70)Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde (Cabo Verde) (1941.01.28 – 1955.07.27) |
| 1955.07.27 | Bishop Juan Perelló y Pou, M.S.C. († 85) |
| 1955.08.10 |  Bishop Jorge Larraín Cotapos († 68) |
| 1955.08.10 | Bishop Louis Liagre († 71) Bishop of La Rochelle (France) (1938.03.07 – 1955.08.10) |
| 1955.08.13 | Archbishop Mario Vianello († 67) |
| 1955.08.19 |  Bishop Andrija-Dusan Štambuk († 42)Auxiliary Bishop of Hvar–Brač–Vis (Croatia) (1955.05.14 – 1955.08.19) |
| 1955.08.22 | Bishop Ildebrando Vannucci, O.S.B. Cas. († 65) Abbot Ordinary of San Paolo fuori le Mura (Italy) (1929.07.26 – 1955.08.22) |
| 1955.09.08 |  Cardinal Jan de Jong († 69)Cardinal-Priest of S. Clemente (1946.10.12 – 1955.09.08) Metropolitan Archbishop of Utrecht (Netherlands) (1936.02.06 – 1955.09.08) |
| 1955.09.08 |  Bishop Joseph Edward McCarthy († 78)Bishop of Portland in Maine (USA) (1932.05.13 – 1955.09.08) |
| 1955.09.09 |  Archbishop Lucas Guillermo Castillo Hernández († 76)Metropolitan Archbishop of Caracas (Venezuela) (1946.05.13 – 1955.09.09) |
| 1955.09.09 |  Bishop Thomas John Feeney, S.J. († 61)Vicar Apostolic of Caroline and Marshall Islands (Micronesia) (1951.05.10 – 1955.09.09) |
| 1955.09.14 | Archbishop Arthur Béliveau († 85) Metropolitan Archbishop of Saint-Boniface (Canada) (1915.11.09 – 1955.09.14) |
| 1955.09.25 | Bishop Charles Daniel White († 76) |
| 1955.10.03 | Bishop Domenico Savarese († 51) Bishop of Vallo di Lucania (Italy) (1947.01.11 – 1955.10.03) |
| 1955.10.06 | Bishop Giovanni Riegler, F.S.C.I. († 53) Bishop of Lydenburg (South Africa) (1951.01.11 – 1955.10.06) |
| 1955.10.09 |  Cardinal Theodor Innitzer († 79)Cardinal-Priest of S. Crisogono (1933.03.16 – 1955.10.09) Metropolitan Archbishop of Wien (Austria) (1932.09.19 – 1955.10.09) |
| 1955.10.15 |  Bishop Serafín María Armora y González († 79)Bishop of Ciudad Victoria–Tamaulipas (Mexico) (1923.08.03 – 1955.10.15) |
| 1955.10.17 | Bishop Agostino Ernesto Castrillo, O.F.M. († 51) |
| 1955.10.25 |  Archbishop Michael Fogarty († 96)Archbishop-Bishop of Killaloe (Ireland) (1904.07.12 – 1955.10.25) |
| 1955.11.14 |  Archbishop Nikola Dobrečić († 83)Archbishop of Bar (Montenegro) (1912.01.16 – 1955.11.14) |
| 1955.11.22 | Archbishop Thomas Shine († 83) Bishop of Middlesbrough (England) (1929.04.11 – 1955.11.22) Archbishop ad personam (1955.01.19 – 1955.11.22) |
| 1955.11.23 | Archbishop Hermann Wilhelm Berning († 78) Bishop of Osnabrück (Germany) (1914.07.14 – 1955.11.23) Archbishop ad personam (1950 – 1955.11.23) |
| 1955.11.24 | Bishop Leopoldo Díaz y Escudero († 75) |
| 1955.11.24 |  Bishop Michael Wasaburo Urakawa (ミカエル 浦川 和三郎) († 79) |
| 1955.11.30 |  Archbishop Jean El-Hage (Maronite Rite) († 70)Archbishop of Damascus of the Maronites (Syria) ([1928.04.26] 1928.06.09 – 1955.11.30) |
| 1955.12.03 | Bishop Marcellino António Maria Franco († 84) |
| 1955.12.09 | Archbishop Giuseppe Nogara († 83) Metropolitan Archbishop of Udine (Italy) (1928.01.27 – 1955.12.09) |
| 1955.12.12 |  Bishop Giovanni Claudel, C.SS.R. († 79)Vicar Apostolic of Reyes (Bolivia) (1943.07.14 – 1955.12.12) |
| 1955.12.17 | Bishop Francesco Tiburzio Roche, S.J. († 76) Bishop emeritus of Tuticorin (India) (1923.06.12 – 1953.06.26) |
| 1955.12.27 |  Bishop Hugh John O’Neill († 57)Coadjutor Bishop emeritus of Dunedin (New Zealand) (1943.01.18 – 1949) |
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