 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |  |
Date of Death | Deceased Bishops (116) |
| 2015.01 |  Bishop Cosmas Shi En-xiang (師恩祥) († 92) |
| 2015.01.01 |  Bishop Géry-Jacques-Charles Leuliet († 104)Bishop emeritus of Amiens (France) (1963.02.14 – 1985.01.15) |
| 2015.01.03 |  Archbishop Paulinus Costa († 78)Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Dhaka (Bangladesh) (2005.07.09 – 2011.10.22) |
| 2015.01.04 |  Bishop Natalino Pescarolo († 85)Bishop emeritus of Cuneo (Italy) (1999.02.01 – 2005.08.24) Bishop emeritus of Fossano (Italy) (1992.05.04 – 2005.08.24) |
| 2015.01.05 |  Bishop Bernard Joseph McLaughlin († 102)Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Buffalo (USA) (1968.12.28 – 1988.01.05) |
| 2015.01.06 |  Bishop Joseph Djida, O.M.I. († 69)Bishop of Ngaoundéré (Cameroon) (2000.10.23 – 2015.01.06) |
| 2015.01.10 |  Archbishop Pierre-André Fournier († 71)Metropolitan Archbishop of Rimouski (Canada) (2008.07.03 – 2015.01.10) |
| 2015.01.12 |  Bishop James Naanman Daman, O.S.A. († 58) |
| 2015.01.15 |  Bishop Joseph Mukasa Zuza († 59) |
| 2015.01.19 |  Bishop José María Hernández González († 88)Bishop emeritus of Nezahualcóyotl (Mexico) (1989.11.18 – 2003.07.08) |
| 2015.01.29 |  Archbishop José Martins da Silva, S.D.N. († 79)Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Porto Velho (Brazil) (1982.10.04 – 1997.09.03) |
| 2015.01.31 |  Bishop Adalberto Arturo Rosat, O.F.M. († 81)Bishop-Prelate emeritus of Aiquile (Bolivia) (1986.11.22 – 2009.03.25) |
| 2015.02.08 | Bishop Vincent Valentine Egwuchukwu Ezeonyia, C.S.Sp. († 73) |
| 2015.02.10 |  Cardinal Karl Josef Becker, S.J. († 86)Cardinal-Deacon of S. Giuliano Martire (2012.02.18 [2012.04.22] – 2015.02.10) |
| 2015.02.11 | Bishop Abel Costas Montaño († 94) Bishop emeritus of Tarija (Bolivia) (1974.12.11 – 1995.10.20) |
| 2015.02.13 |  Bishop Thomas Bhalerao, S.J. († 82) |
| 2015.02.13 |  Bishop Magnus Mwalunyungu († 84)Bishop emeritus of Tunduru–Masasi (Tanzania) (1992.03.30 – 2005.08.25) |
| 2015.02.17 | Archbishop Antonio Lanfranchi († 68) Metropolitan Archbishop of Modena–Nonantola (Italy) (2010.01.27 – 2015.02.17) |
| 2015.02.17 |  Bishop Joseph Devellerez Thaung Shwe († 79) |
| 2015.02.21 |  Bishop Bernardo Enrique Witte, O.M.I. († 88)Bishop emeritus of Concepción (Argentina) (1992.07.08 – 2001.07.28) |
| 2015.02.24 |  Bishop Francis Némé Baïssari (Maronite Rite) († 81)Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Jebbeh–Sarba–Jounieh of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1991.06.07 – 2012.06.16) |
| 2015.02.28 | Bishop André Vallée, P.M.E. († 84) Bishop emeritus of Hearst (Canada) (1996.08.19 – 2005.11.03) |
| 2015.03.05 | Cardinal Edward Michael Egan († 82) Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Giovanni e Paolo (2001.02.21 [2001.02.23] – 2015.03.05) Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of New York (USA) (2000.05.11 – 2009.02.23) |
| 2015.03.17 |  Bishop Antonio Dorado Soto († 83) |
| 2015.03.21 | Bishop Malachy John Goltok († 49) |
| 2015.03.26 | Archbishop Ennio Appignanesi († 89) Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Potenza–Muro Lucano–Marsico Nuovo (Italy) (1993.01.19 – 2001.01.09) |
| 2015.03.26 |  Bishop Alonso Llano Ruiz († 83)Bishop emeritus of Istmina–Tadó (Colombia) (1993.05.05 – 2010.06.05) |
| 2015.03.29 | Bishop Juan Carlos Maccarone († 74) Bishop emeritus of Santiago del Estero (Argentina) (1999.02.18 – 2005.08.19) |
| 2015.04.02 |  Bishop Alberto Ricardo da Silva († 71)Bishop emeritus of Díli (Timor-Leste) (2004.02.27 – 2015.02.09) |
| 2015.04.02 | Bishop William Benedict Friend († 83) Bishop emeritus of Shreveport (USA) (1986.06.16 – 2006.12.20) |
| 2015.04.03 |  Archbishop Luis María Pérez de Onraita Aguirre († 81)Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Malanje (Angola) (2011.04.12 – 2012.05.19) |
| 2015.04.06 |  Bishop Eugène Moke Motsüri († 99)Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Kinshasa (Congo-Kinshasa) (1970.09.01 – 1991.05.11) |
| 2015.04.08 | Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte († 78) Cardinal-Priest of Nostra Signora del SS. Sacramento e Santi Martiri Canadesi (1994.11.26 – 2015.04.08) Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Montréal (Canada) (1990.03.17 – 2012.03.20) |
| 2015.04.09 | Bishop João Alves dos Santos, O.F.M. Cap. († 58) |
| 2015.04.09 |  Bishop Elmo Noel Joseph Perera († 82)Bishop emeritus of Galle (Sri Lanka) (1995.06.01 – 2004.10.11) |
| 2015.04.13 | Bishop Antônio Alberto Guimarães Rezende, C.S.S. († 89) Bishop emeritus of Caetité (Brazil) (1981.11.09 – 2002.11.13) |
| 2015.04.14 | Cardinal Roberto Tucci, S.J. († 93) Cardinal-Priest of S. Ignazio di Loyola a Campo Marzio pro hac vice Title (2011.02.21 – 2015.04.14) President emeritus of Vatican Radio (1985 – 2001) |
| 2015.04.15 | Bishop Felice Leonardo († 100) Bishop emeritus of Cerreto Sannita–Telese–Sant’Agata de’ Goti (Italy) (1986.09.30 – 1991.07.20) |
| 2015.04.17 | Cardinal Francis Eugene George, O.M.I. († 78) Cardinal-Priest of S. Bartolomeo all’Isola (1998.02.21 – 2015.04.17) Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Chicago (USA) (1997.04.08 – 2014.09.20) |
| 2015.04.24 | Archbishop Raymond Olir Roussin, S.M. († 75) Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Vancouver (Canada) (2004.01.10 – 2009.01.02) |
| 2015.04.24 | Bishop Thomas Joseph Connolly († 92) |
| 2015.04.29 | Cardinal Giovanni Canestri († 96) Cardinal-Priest of S. Andrea della Valle (1988.06.28 – 2015.04.29) Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Genova (Italy) (1989.06.16 – 1995.04.20) |
| 2015.05.03 | Bishop Symphorian Thomas Keeprath, O.F.M. Cap. († 84) Bishop emeritus of Jalandhar (India) (1971.12.06 – 2007.02.24) |
| 2015.05.04 | Archbishop Vicente Joaquim Zico, C.M. († 88) Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Belém do Pará (Brazil) (1990.07.04 – 2004.10.13) |
| 2015.05.06 |  Bishop Nicolas Huỳnh Văn Nghi († 88)Bishop emeritus of Phan Thiêt (Vietnam) (1979.12.06 – 2005.04.01) |
| 2015.05.07 |  Bishop Józef Pazdur († 90)Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Wrocław (Poland) (1984.12.18 – 2000.11.16) |
| 2015.05.14 | Archbishop Geraldo Majela de Castro, O. Praem. († 84) Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Montes Claros (Brazil) (2001.04.25 – 2007.02.07) |
| 2015.05.15 | Archbishop André-Jean-René Lacrampe, Prado († 73) Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Besançon (France) (2003.08.13 – 2013.04.25) |
| 2015.05.16 |  Bishop Dominik Tóth († 89)Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Bratislava–Trnava (Slovakia) (1995.03.31 – 2004.04.02) |
| 2015.05.20 | Bishop Manfred Müller († 88) Bishop emeritus of Regensburg (Germany) (1982.06.16 – 2002.01.15) |
| 2015.05.24 |  Bishop Guido Plante, P.M.E. († 78)Bishop emeritus of Choluteca (Honduras) (2005.12.17 – 2012.07.13) |
| 2015.05.25 | Bishop Robert Lebel († 90) Bishop emeritus of Valleyfield (Canada) (1976.03.26 – 2000.06.30) |
| 2015.05.27 | Bishop Peter Celestine Elampassery, O.F.M. Cap. († 76) Bishop emeritus of Jammu–Srinagar (India) (1998.04.03 – 2014.12.03) |
| 2015.06.01 | Bishop Tadeusz Józef Zawistowski († 85) Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Łomża (Poland) (1973.05.12 – 2006.02.11) |
| 2015.06.03 |  Bishop Thomas Flynn († 83)Bishop emeritus of Achonry (Ireland) (1976.12.30 – 2007.11.20) |
| 2015.06.05 |  Bishop Julien Mawule Kouto († 68)Bishop emeritus of Atakpamé (Togo) (1993.10.18 – 2006.03.01) |
| 2015.06.17 |  Bishop Francisco Domingo Barbosa Da Silveira († 71)Bishop emeritus of Minas (Uruguay) (2004.03.06 – 2009.07.01) |
| 2015.06.25 | Patriarch Nersès Bédros XIX Tarmouni (Armenian Rite) († 75) Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians (Lebanon) ([1999.10.07] 1999.10.13 – 2015.06.25) |
| 2015.07.01 |  Bishop Victor de la Peña Pérez, O.F.M. († 81)Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Requena (Peru) (1987.05.15 – 2005.07.30) |
| 2015.07.06 | Bishop Luigi Martella († 67) Bishop of Molfetta–Ruvo–Giovinazzo–Terlizzi (Italy) (2000.12.13 – 2015.07.06) |
| 2015.07.11 | Cardinal Giacomo Biffi († 87) Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Giovanni Evangelista e Petronio (1985.05.25 – 2015.07.11) Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Bologna (Italy) (1984.04.19 – 2003.12.16) |
| 2015.07.12 | Bishop Omar Félix Colomé († 82) Bishop emeritus of Cruz del Eje (Argentina) (1984.09.27 – 2008.06.24) |
| 2015.07.22 |  Bishop Simon-Pierre Saint-Hillien, C.S.C. († 64) |
| 2015.07.23 | Cardinal William Wakefield Baum († 88) Cardinal-Priest of S. Croce in Via Flaminia (1976.05.24 – 2015.07.23) Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Washington (USA) (1973.03.05 – 1980.03.18) Major Penitentiary emeritus of Apostolic Penitentiary (1990.04.06 – 2001.11.22) |
| 2015.07.28 |  Bishop Franciscus Xaverius Rocharjanta Prajasuta, M.S.F. († 83)Bishop emeritus of Banjarmasin (Indonesia) (1983.06.06 – 2008.06.14) |
| 2015.08.03 | Archbishop Salvatore Cassisa († 93) Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Monreale (Italy) (1978.03.11 – 1997.05.24) |
| 2015.08.14 |  Bishop Rogelio Ricardo Livieres Plano, Opus Dei († 69)Bishop emeritus of Ciudad del Este (Paraguay) (2004.07.12 – 2014.09.25 deposed) |
| 2015.08.17 |  Cardinal László Paskai, O.F.M. († 88)Cardinal-Priest of S. Teresa al Corso d’Italia (1988.06.28 – 2015.08.17) Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Esztergom–Budapest (Hungary) (1993.05.31 – 2002.12.07) |
| 2015.08.18 | Bishop Vladimír Filo († 75) Bishop emeritus of Rožňava (Slovakia) (2008.12.27 – 2015.03.21) |
| 2015.08.19 |  Bishop Paul Lokiru Kalanda († 88)Bishop emeritus of Fort Portal (Uganda) (1991.06.17 – 2003.03.18) |
| 2015.08.25 | Bishop Gaetano Aldo Donato (Thomas) († 74) |
| 2015.08.26 | Archbishop Maroun Khoury Sader (Maronite Rite) († 88) Archbishop emeritus of Tyr of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1992.06.01 – 2003.09.25) |
| 2015.08.26 | Bishop Georges Abi-Saber, O.L.M. (Maronite Rite) († 92) Bishop emeritus of Saint-Maron de Montréal of the Maronites (Canada) (1990.11.23 – 1996.02.07) |
| 2015.08.26 |  Bishop Francisco Capiral San Diego († 79)Bishop emeritus of Pasig (Philippines) (2003.06.28 – 2010.12.21) |
| 2015.08.28 | Mr. Józef Wesołowski († 67) Lay state (2014.06.27) |
| 2015.08.29 |  Bishop Carlos María Ariz Bolea, C.M.F. († 86)Bishop emeritus of Colón–Kuna Yala (Panama) (1997.06.13 – 2005.06.18) |
| 2015.08.30 |  Archbishop George Hamilton Pearce, S.M. († 94)Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Suva (Fiji) (1967.06.22 – 1976.04.10) |
| 2015.08.30 | Bishop Pierfranco Pastore († 88) Secretary emeritus of Pontifical Council for Social Communications (1984.12.03 – 2003.11.29) |
| 2015.09.05 | Archbishop Peter Alfred Sutton, O.M.I. († 80) Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Keewatin–Le Pas (Canada) (1986.11.07 – 2006.03.25) |
| 2015.09.17 | Archbishop Bruno Tommasi († 85) Archbishop emeritus of Lucca (Italy) (1991.03.20 – 2005.01.22) |
| 2015.09.19 |  Archbishop Georg Eder († 87)Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Salzburg (Austria) ([1988.12.21] 1989.01.17 – 2002.11.23) |
| 2015.09.20 | Bishop Giovanni De Vivo († 75) |
| 2015.09.21 | Bishop Raphael Michael Fliss († 84) |
| 2015.09.25 |  Bishop Carlos Anibal Altamirano Argüello († 73) |
| 2015.09.25 | Bishop Claudio Baggini († 79) Bishop emeritus of Vigevano (Italy) (2000.03.18 – 2011.03.12) |
| 2015.10.02 | Bishop Ferdinand Joseph Fonseca († 89) Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Bombay (India) (1980.03.28 – 2000.12.02) |
| 2015.10.11 | Bishop Salvador Trane Modesto († 85) Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of San Carlos (Philippines) (1987.03.30 – 2005.07.25) |
| 2015.10.19 | Archbishop Ignazio Cannavò († 93) Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Messina–Lipari–Santa Lucia del Mela (Italy) (1986.09.30 – 1997.05.17) |
| 2015.10.19 | Archbishop Alessandro Plotti († 83) Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Pisa (Italy) (1986.06.07 – 2008.02.02) |
| 2015.10.20 | Bishop Gilberto Jiménez Narváez († 78) Bishop emeritus of Riohacha (Colombia) (1996.07.16 – 2001.03.08) Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Medellín (Colombia) (2001.03.20 – 2012.02.25) |
| 2015.10.24 | Cardinal Ján Chryzostom Korec, S.J. († 91) Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Fabiano e Venanzio a Villa Fiorelli (1991.06.28 – 2015.10.24) Bishop emeritus of Nitra (Slovakia) (1990.02.06 – 2005.06.09) |
| 2015.10.24 | Bishop Gaston Élie Poulain, P.S.S. († 88) Bishop emeritus of Périgueux (France) (1988.10.15 – 2004.03.05) |
| 2015.10.25 |  Bishop Georg Müller, SS.CC. († 64)Bishop-Prelate emeritus of Trondheim (Norway) (1997.06.20 – 2009.06.08) |
| 2015.10.26 |  Bishop Giuseppe Nazzaro, O.F.M. († 77)Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Aleppo (Syria) (2002.11.21 – 2013.04.15) |
| 2015.10.28 |  Bishop Joseph Dergham (Maronite Rite) († 85)Bishop emeritus of Cairo of the Maronites (Egypt) (1989.06.05 – 2005.09.18) |
| 2015.10.28 | Bishop Jorge Scarso, O.F.M. Cap. († 99) Bishop emeritus of Patos de Minas (Brazil) (1968.12.28 – 1992.01.08) |
| 2015.11.10 | Archbishop Johannes Maria Trilaksyanta Pujasumarta († 65) Metropolitan Archbishop of Semarang (Indonesia) (2010.11.12 – 2015.11.10) |
| 2015.11.19 |  Bishop Fridolín Zahradník (Ruthenian Rite) († 80) |
| 2015.11.22 | Mr. Mario Renato Cornejo Radavero ▼ († 88) Lay state (1969.02.07) |
| 2015.11.27 | Bishop José Benedito Simão († 64) |
| 2015.11.28 | Bishop Federico Ocampo Escaler, S.J. († 93) Bishop-Prelate emeritus of Ipil (Philippines) (1980.02.23 – 1997.06.28) |
| 2015.12.01 |  Bishop Antonio Troyo Calderón († 92)Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of San José (Costa Rica) (1979.08.27 – 2002.07.13) |
| 2015.12.04 | Archbishop Ricardo Guízar Díaz († 82) Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Tlalnepantla (Mexico) (1996.08.14 – 2009.02.05) |
| 2015.12.05 | Archbishop Luigi Conti († 86) Titular Archbishop of Gratiana (1975.08.01 – 2015.12.05) |
| 2015.12.07 |  Archbishop Rrok Kola Mirdita († 76)Metropolitan Archbishop of Tiranë–Durrës (Albania) (2005.01.25 – 2015.12.07) |
| 2015.12.08 |  Bishop Anthony Francis Sharma, S.J. († 77)Vicar Apostolic emeritus of Nepal (Nepal) (2007.02.10 – 2014.04.25) |
| 2015.12.09 | Cardinal Carlo Furno († 94) Cardinal-Priest of S. Onofrio (2006.03.28 [2006.05.10] – 2015.12.09) Grand Master emeritus of Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (Knights of the Holy Sepulchre) (1995.12.21 – 2007.06.27) |
| 2015.12.09 | Cardinal Julio Terrazas Sandoval, C.SS.R. († 79) Cardinal-Priest of S. Giovanni Battista de’ Rossi (2001.02.21 [2001.05.20] – 2015.12.09) Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia) (1991.02.06 – 2013.05.25) |
| 2015.12.09 | Bishop Matthew Shija († 91) Bishop emeritus of Kahama (Tanzania) (1983.11.11 – 2001.04.24) |
| 2015.12.10 | Bishop Dermot Patrick O’Mahony († 80) Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Dublin (Ireland) (1975.02.13 – 1996.06.07) |
| 2015.12.11 | Bishop Jiří Paďour, O.F.M. Cap. († 72) Bishop emeritus of České Budějovice (Czechia) (2002.09.25 – 2014.03.01) |
| 2015.12.18 | Bishop Placidus Gervasius Nkalanga, O.S.B. († 96) Bishop emeritus of Bukoba (Tanzania) (1969.03.06 – 1973.11.26) |
| 2015.12.22 | Bishop Joseph Leopold Imesch († 84) |
| 2015.12.23 | Archbishop Grégoire Haddad (Greek-Melkite Rite) († 91) Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Beirut–Gibail of the Greek-Melkites (Lebanon) (1968.09.09 – 1975.08.19) |
| 2015.12.27 | Bishop Youhannes Ezzat Zakaria Badir (Coptic Rite) († 66) Bishop of Luqsor of the Copts (Egypt) (1994.06.23 – 2015.12.27) |
| 2015.12.31 | Bishop Daniel Leo Ryan († 85) Bishop emeritus of Springfield in Illinois (USA) (1983.11.22 – 1999.10.19) |
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