| Date of Death | Deceased Bishops (114) |
| 1988.01.11 | Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Besançon (France) (1966.08.26 – 1980.03.06) |
| 1988.01.21 | |
| 1988.01.30 | Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Joliette (Canada) (1948.01.03 – 1968.01.03) |
| 1988.02.03 | |
| 1988.02.04 | Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Palermo (Italy) (1957.10.05 – 1977) |
| 1988.02.04 | |
| 1988.02.05 | |
| 1988.02.13 | Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Paris (France) (1967.09.30 – 1984.03.24) |
| 1988.02.20 | |
| 1988.02.22 | |
| 1988.02.23 | Bishop emeritus of Kasama (Zambia) (1959.04.25 – 1964.11.25) |
| 1988.02.25 | Bishop of Shanghai 上海 (China) (1960 – 1988.02.25▼) |
| 1988.03.02 | Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków (Poland) (1962.11.23 – 1988.03.02) |
| 1988.03.03 | Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Chambéry–Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne–Tarentaise (France) (1966.04.26 – 1985.05.14) |
| 1988.03.03 | |
| 1988.03.04 | Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Santa Fe (USA) (1964.01.03 – 1974.06.01) |
| 1988.03.04 | Bishop emeritus of Mazara del Vallo (Italy) (1977.03.21 – 1987.12.07) |
| 1988.03.07 | Bishop emeritus of Perpignan–Elne (France) (1960.06.15 – 1971.09.02) |
| 1988.03.08 | |
| 1988.03.09 | Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Fortaleza (Brazil) (1963.05.10 – 1973.03.26) |
| 1988.03.12 | Metropolitan Archbishop of Perugia–Città della Pieve (Italy) (1986.09.30 – 1988.03.12) |
| 1988.03.14 | Auxiliary Bishop of Ottawa (Canada) (1977.05.11 – 1988.03.14) |
| 1988.03.15 | |
| 1988.03.15 | Bishop of Mweka (Congo-Kinshasa) (1964.09.29 – 1988.03.15) |
| 1988.03.16 | |
| 1988.03.16 | Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin (Ireland) (1946.08.08 – 1988.03.16) |
| 1988.03.17 | Bishop emeritus of Douala (Cameroon) (1957.07.05 – 1973.08.29) |
| 1988.03.17 | |
| 1988.03.21 | Bishop emeritus of Port Elizabeth (South Africa) (1955.04.19 – 1970.12.27) |
| 1988.03.25 | Auxiliary Bishop of Washington (USA) (1974.07.12 – 1988.03.25) |
| 1988.03.26 | Bishop emeritus of Pereira (Colombia) (1952.12.18 – 1976.07.01) |
| 1988.03.26 | |
| 1988.03.30 | Bishop of Hajdúdorog of the Hungarians (Hungary) (1975.01.07 – 1988.03.30) Apostolic Exarch of Miskolc of the Hungarians (Hungary) (1975.01.07 – 1988.03.30) |
| 1988.03.31 | |
| 1988.04.05 | Bishop of Portsmouth (England) (1976.09.13 – 1988.04.05) |
| 1988.04.10 | Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool (England) (1979.05.28 – 1988.04.10) |
| 1988.04.20 | Auxiliary Bishop of Tegucigalpa (Honduras) (1957.09.11 – 1988.04.20) |
| 1988.04.20 | Bishop of Isangi (Congo-Kinshasa) (1962.07.02 – 1988.04.20) |
| 1988.04.24 | Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Juba (South Sudan) (1974.12.12 – 1982) |
| 1988.05.04 | Bishop emeritus of Le Mans (France) (1971.10.28 – 1981.08.13) |
| 1988.05.09 | Bishop of Rottenburg–Stuttgart (Germany) (1975.03.12 – 1988.05.09) |
| 1988.05.23 | Bishop-Prelate emeritus of Pinheiro (Brazil) (1948.11.13 – 1975.03.01) |
| 1988.05.31 | Bishop emeritus of Cerignola–Ascoli Satriano (Italy) (1986.09.30 – 1987.04.16) |
| 1988.06.05 | Bishop emeritus of Christchurch (New Zealand) (1964.07.11 – 1985.07.04) |
| 1988.06.05 | Bishop emeritus of Jeonju 전주 (South Korea) (1973.01.29 – 1981.04.10) |
| 1988.06.08 | Metropolitan Archbishop of Huê (Vietnam) (1968.03.11 – 1988.06.08) |
| 1988.06.09 | Archbishop-Bishop emeritus of Marília (Brazil) (1954.10.07 – 1975.04.23) |
| 1988.06.19 | Coadjutor Bishop of Salto (Uruguay) (1984.12.29 – 1988.06.19) |
| 1988.06.23 | Bishop emeritus of Cornélio Procópio (Brazil) (1973.06.14 – 1979.03.28) |
| 1988.06.26 | Coadjutor Archbishop emeritus of La Paz (Bolivia) (1982.06.28 – 1987.02.24) |
| 1988.06.28 | |
| 1988.07.01 | Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Fabiano e Venanzio a Villa Fiorelli (1973.03.05 – 1988.07.01) Bishop emeritus of Mainz (Germany) (1962.03.25 – 1982.12.27) |
| 1988.07.01 | Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Saint-Boniface (Canada) (1955.09.14 – 1974.09.07) |
| 1988.07.01 | Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Messina (Italy) (1963.06.25 – 1977.06.03) Archimandrite emeritus of Santissimo Salvatore of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) (1963.06.25 – 1977.06.03) |
| 1988.07.05 | Bishop emeritus of N’Zérékoré (Guinea) (1959.04.25 – 1979.08.13) |
| 1988.07.07 | Archbishop of Sorrento–Castellammare di Stabia (Italy) (1986.09.30 – 1988.07.07) |
| 1988.07.12 | Bishop-Prelate emeritus of Sicuani (Peru) (1959.01.10 – 1970.11.07) |
| 1988.07.13 | |
| 1988.07.15 | Patriarchal Vicar of Antioch of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1987 – 1988.07.15) |
| 1988.08.01 | Cardinal-Priest of S. Pio X alla Balduina (1969.04.30 – 1988.08.01) Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Detroit (USA) (1958.12.18 – 1980.07.15) |
| 1988.08.01 | Cardinal-Priest of S. Agnese fuori le mura (1973.03.05 – 1988.08.01) Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Toulouse (France) (1966.04.28 – 1978.11.16) |
| 1988.08.06 | Metropolitan Archbishop of Ribeirão Preto (Brazil) (1982.06.03 – 1988.08.06) |
| 1988.08.18 | |
| 1988.08.19 | |
| 1988.08.19 | Bishop emeritus of Timmins (Canada) (1955.05.08 – 1971.03.24) |
| 1988.08.21 | Bishop of Kalemie–Kirungu (Congo-Kinshasa) (1979.04.09 – 1988.08.21) |
| 1988.08.22 | Auxiliary Bishop of Porto (Portugal) (1972.07.01 – 1988.08.22) |
| 1988.08.28 | Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Udine (Italy) (1956.01.31 – 1972.09.29) |
| 1988.08.31 | |
| 1988.09.07 | Bishop emeritus of Villavicencio (Colombia) (1964.02.11 – 1969.04.26) |
| 1988.09.10 | Bishop emeritus of Petrolina (Brazil) (1956.12.18 – 1975.02.06) |
| 1988.09.12 | Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre (Brazil) (1955.08.01 – 1988.09.12) |
| 1988.09.14 | Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Milwaukee (USA) (1958.12.18 – 1977.09.17) |
| 1988.09.18 | |
| 1988.09.20 | Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Saint John’s, Newfoundland (Canada) (1951.01.23 – 1979.04.05) |
| 1988.09.21 | President emeritus of Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy (1962.08.31 – 1969.05.05) |
| 1988.09.22 | Cardinal-Priest of S. Cuore di Gesù a Castro Pretorio pro hac vice Title (1967.06.29 – 1988.09.22) Grand Master of Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (Knights of the Holy Sepulchre) (1972.03 – 1988.09.22) |
| 1988.09.22 | Bishop emeritus of Calicut (India) (1948.04.08 – 1980.06.07) |
| 1988.09.24 | Bishop of Zhoucun 周村 (China) (1946.04.11 – 1988.09.24) |
| 1988.09.27 | Coadjutor Archbishop emeritus of Cagayan de Oro (Philippines) (1958.06.10 – 1970.06.17) |
| 1988.09.27 | Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Ferrara (Italy) (1954.08.05 – 1976.04.21) |
| 1988.10.04 | Bishop emeritus of Rio Grande (Brazil) (1971.07.14 – 1986.08.08) |
| 1988.10.07 | Bishop emeritus of Hildesheim (Germany) (1957.02.03 – 1983.08.25) |
| 1988.10.09 | Bishop emeritus of Mossoró (Brazil) (1960.06.11 – 1984.03.14) |
| 1988.10.12 | |
| 1988.10.13 | Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Panamá (Panama) (1964.03.03 – 1968.12.18) |
| 1988.10.13 | Bishop-Prelate of El Salto (Mexico) (1973.12.07 – 1988.10.13) |
| 1988.10.15 | Bishop emeritus of Sandhurst (Australia) (1950.08.18 – 1979.04.21) |
| 1988.10.22 | Bishop emeritus of Willemstad (Curaçao) (1958.04.28 – 1973.08.07) |
| 1988.10.24 | Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Rennes (France) (1951.10.23 – 1974) |
| 1988.10.29 | Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Nereo ed Achilleo (1965.02.25 – 1988.10.29) Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Colombo (Sri Lanka) (1972.05.22 – 1976.09.02) |
| 1988.11.05 | |
| 1988.11.06 | Bishop of Xiwanzi 西灣子 (China) (1951.11.24 – 1988.11.06) |
| 1988.11.08 | |
| 1988.11.09 | Cardinal-Priest of S. Giovanni Battista Decollato pro hac vice Title (1979.06.30 – 1988.11.09) Prefect emeritus of Prefecture of the Apostolic Palaces (1967.04.01 – 1969.04.09) |
| 1988.11.09 | Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Paderborn (Germany) (1951.12.12 – 1970.08.15) |
| 1988.11.11 | Apostolic Administrator emeritus of Schwerin (Germany) (1973.07.23 – 1987.11.23) |
| 1988.11.12 | |
| 1988.11.15 | Bishop emeritus of Ripatransone (Italy) (1951.12.10 – 1983.04.07) Bishop emeritus of Montalto (Italy) (1951.12.10 – 1983.04.07) |
| 1988.11.17 | Bishop emeritus of Azul (Argentina) (1956.09.22 – 1982.04.14) |
| 1988.11.17 | Bishop of Locri–Gerace (Italy) (1986.09.30 – 1988.11.17) |
| 1988.11.29 | |
| 1988.12.02 | Bishop emeritus of Caxias do Sul (Brazil) (1966.10.19 – 1983.05.26) |
| 1988.12.04 | Bishop of Morombe (Madagascar) (1960.05.28 – 1988.12.04) |
| 1988.12.07 | |
| 1988.12.11 | Archbishop of Aleppo of the Armenians (Syria) (1984.07.04 – 1988.12.11) |
| 1988.12.12 | Metropolitan Archbishop of Albi (France) (1986.03.17 – 1988.12.12) |
| 1988.12.15 | Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Paris (France) (1966.12.30 – 1982.11.30) |
| 1988.12.16 | |
| 1988.12.17 | Bishop emeritus of Abakaliki (Nigeria) (1973.03.01 – 1983.02.19) |
| 1988.12.20 | Auxiliary Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (1977 – 1988.12.20) |
| 1988.12.25 | Bishop of Northampton (England) (1982.08.27 – 1988.12.25) |
| 1988.12.30 | Archbishop-Bishop of Padova (Italy) (1982.01.07 – 1988.12.30) |
| 1988.12.31 | Coadjutor Bishop of Baoding 保定 (China) (1984 – 1988.12.31▼) |
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