The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church

Obituary (1903-2005)


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Note. The date after their names denotes the year in which their promotion to the cardinalate took place.

Pontificate of St. Pius X (1903-1914)   (49)

1903 - (1)
December 9 - Sebastián Herrero y Espinosa de los Monteros (1903), archbishop of Valencia, Spain

1904 - (2)
April 14 - Pietro Geremia Michelangelo Celesia, O.S.B. (1884), archbishop of Palermo, Italy
November 14 - Mario Mocenni (1893), bishop of Sabina and perpetual abbot of Farfa, Italy

1905 - (3)
January 1 - Benoît-Marie Langénieux (1886), archbishop of Reims, France
April 28 - Andrea Aiuti (1903)
September 7 - Raffaele Pierotti, O.P. (1896)

1906 - (8)
January 20 - Marcelo Spínola y Maestre (1903), archbishop of Sevilla, Spain
January 25 - Pierre Lambert Goossens (1889), archbishop of Malines, Belgium
February 11 - Adolph-Louis-Albert Perraud, Orat. (1893), bishop of Autun, France
February 15 - Achille Manara (1895), bishop of Umana, Italy
April 14 - Giuseppe Callegari (1903), bishop of Padua, Italy
April 21 - Joseph-Marie-Guillaume Labouré (1897), archbishop of Rennes, France
December 29 - Felice Cavagnis (1901)
December 29 - Luigi Tripepi (1901), prefect of S.C. of Indulgences and Relics

1907 - (4)
March 29 (or 30) - Luigi Macchi (1889), protodeacon, secretary of Briefs of His Holiness
August 10 - Domenico Svampa (1894), archbishop of Bologna, Italy
August 24 - Emidio Taliani (1903)
October 15 - Andreas Steinhuber, S.J. (1893), prefect of the S.C. of the Index

1908 - (7)
January 27 - François-Marie-Benjamin Richard de La Vergne (1889), archbishop of Paris, France
March 17 - Giovanni Battista Casali Del Drago (1899)
April 25 - Gennaro Portanova (1899), archbishop of Reggio Calabria, Italy
July 22 - Carlo Nocella (1903)
October 26 - François-Desiré Mathieu (1899)
October 27 - Salvador Casañas y Pagés (1895), bishop of Barcelona, Spain
December 14 - Victor-Lucien-Sulpice Lecot (1893), archbishop of Bordeaux, France

1909 - (2)
February 3 - Serafino Cretoni (1896)
February 26 - Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás (1894), patriarch of the West Indies and archbishop of Toledo, Spain
August 6 - Diomede Panici, titular archbishop of Laodicea di Frigia, secretary of the S.C. of Rites (Was going to be created a cardinal but died before the promotion took place)

1910 - (3)
January 8 - Francesco di Paola Satolli (1895), bishop of Frascati, archpriest of the patriarchal Lateran archbasilica
November 22 - Johannes von Montel (quasi-cardinal) (1897)
November 24 - Alessandro Sanminiatelli Zabarella (1899)

1911 - (5)
January 4 - Francesco Segna (1894), protodeacon, prefect of S.C. of the Index
April 17 - Beniamino Cavicchioni (1903), prefect of S.C. of Studies
August 5 - Anton Joseph Gruscha (1891), archbishop of Vienna, Austria
August 16 - Francis Patrick Moran (1895), archbishop of Sydney, Australia
September 8 - Jan Puzyna (1901), bishop-prince of Kraków, Poland, Austria-Hungary

1912 - (4)
June 30 - Anton Hubert Fischer (1903), archbishop of Cologne, Germany
August 20 - József Samassa (1905), archbishop of Eger, Austria-Hungary
September 12 - Pierre-Hector Coullié (1897), archbishop of Lyon, France
November 11 - Alfonso Capecelatro, Orat. (1885), archbishop of Capua, Italy and Librarian of the Holy Roman Church

1913 - (6)
January 4 - Franz Xaver Nagl (1911), archbishop of Vienna, Austria
March 22 - Pietro Respighi (1899), archpriest of patriarchal Lateran basilica and Vicar General of His Holiness
September 7 - José de Calasanz Vives y Tutó (1899), O.F.M. Cap., prefect of S.C. of Religious
October 10 - Gregorio María Aguirre y García, O.F.M. (1907), archbishop of Toledo, Spain
December 7 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano (1873), bishop of Ostia and Velletri, dean of Sacred College of Cardinals, abbot commendatory perpetual and ordinary of Ss. Vincenzo ed Anastasio alle Tre Fontane, camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, Archchancellor of the Roman University and prefect of the S.C. Ceremonial (Last surviving cardinal of Pope Pius IX)
December 16 - Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro (1887), librarian of the Holy Roman Church, secretary of S.C. of the Holy Office, archpriest of the patriarchal Vatican basilica, prefect of S.C. of the Fabric of St. Peter, grand prior of the Sacred and Sovereign Military Order of Jerusalem

1914 - (4)
January 31 - Casimiro Gennari (1901), prefect of S.C. of the Council
February 27 - Johannes Katschthaler (1903), archbishop of Salzburg, Austria-Hungary
March 3 - Georg von Kopp (1893), bishop of Breslau, Germany
May 4 - Armando Pietro Sabadel, O.F.M.Cap., titular archbishop of Corinto, consultor of the Pontifical Commission for the Codification of the Code of Canon Law (declined promotion to the cardinalate)
July 31 - Giovanni Battista Lugari (1911), bishop of Padova, Italy

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Pontificate of Benedict XV (1914-1922)   (36)

1914 - (4)
October 10 - Domenico Ferrata (1896), secretary of State, archpriest of Lateran archbasilica
November 24 - Aristide Cavallari (1907), patriarch of Venice, Italy
December 1 - François-Virgile Dubillard (1911), archbishop of Chambéry, France
December 5 - Angelo Di Pietro (1893), datary of His Holiness

1915 - (7)
February 7 - Scipione Tecchi (1914), pro-prefect of the S.C. of Rites
March 19 - Antonio Agliardi (1896), bishop of Albano, sub-dean of Sacred College of Cardinals and chancellor of the Holy Roman Church
April 23 - Benedetto Bonazzi, archbishop of Benevento, Italy (quasi-cardinal) (1915)
August 19 - Serafino Vannutelli (1887), bishop of Ostia and Porto e Santa Rufina, dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, penitentiary major and prefect of the S.C. Ceremonial
September 3 - Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, O.S.B.Hungarica (1893)
September 15 - Benedetto Lorenzelli (1907), prefect of the S.C. of Studies
November 25 - František Saleský Bauer (1911), archbishop of Olmutz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary

1916 - (4)
March 19 - Girolamo Gotti, O.C.D. (1895), prefect of the S.C. of Propaganda Fide
May 4 - Hector-Irénée Sevin (1914), archbishop of Lyon, France
November 5 - Francesco Salesio Della Volpe (1899), camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, archchancellor of the Roman University and prefect of the S.C. of the Index
December 17 - Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier, O.P. (quasi-cardinal) (1899)

1917 - (3)
February 8 - Diomede Falconio, O.F.M. (1911), bishop of Velletri, Italy, prefect of the S.C. of Religious
February 10 - Károl von Hörnig (1912), bishop of Veszprém, Hungary
April 13 - Franz von Bettinger (1914), archbishop of Münich und Freising, Germany

1918 - (4)
March 5 - Domenico Serafini, O.S.B.Cas. (1918), prefect of the S.C. for the Propagation of the Faith
July 4 - Sebastiano Martinelli, O.S.A. (1901), prefect of the S.C. of Rites
September 18 - John Murphy Farley (1911), archbishop of New York, United States
December 11 - Giulio Tonti (1915), prefect of the S.C. of Religious

1919 - (3)
March 23 - Francesco di Paola Cassetta (1899), bishop of Frascati, sub-dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, librarian of the Holy Roman Church and prefect of the S.C. of the Council
November 11 - Felix von Hartmann (1914), archbishop of Cologne, Germany
December 17 - José María Cos y Macho (1911), archbishop of Valladolid, Spain

1920 - (6)
February 11 - Aristide Rinaldini (1907)
March 17 - Filippo Giustini (1914), prefect of the S.C. for the Discipline of the Sacraments
May 15 - Giulio Boschi (1901), bishop of Frascati
August 29 - Léon-Adolph Amette (1911), archbishop of Paris, France
September 2 - Victoriano Guisasola Menéndez (1914), archbishop of Toledo, Spain
December 7 - Jose Sebastião Neto, O.F.M. (1884)

1921 - (6)
January 18 - Filippo Camassei (1919)
February 2 - Andrea Carlo Ferrari (1894), archbishop of Milan, Italy
March 24 - James Gibbons (1886), archbishop of Baltimore, United States
August 24 - Giorgio Gusmini (1915), archbishop of Bologna, Italy
September 22 - Auguste-Renée Dubourg (1916), archbishop of Rennes, France
December 21 - François-Marie-Anatolie de Rovériére de Cabrières (1911), bishop of Montpellier, France

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Vacant See (January 22 - February 6, 1922)   (1)

1922 (1)
January 22 - Enrique Almaraz y Santos (1911), archbishop of Toledo, Spain

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Pontificate of Pius XI (1922-1939)   (73)

1922 - (2)
June 25 - Teodoro Valfrè di Bonzo (1919), prefect of the S.C. of Religious
December 8 - José María Martín de Herrera y de la Iglesia (1897), archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

1923 - (5)
February 4 - Giuseppe Prisco (1896), archbishop of Naples, Italy
February 14 - Bartolomeo Bacilieri (1901), bishop of Verona, Italy
June 4 - Juan Soldevilla y Romero (1919), archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain
July 27 - Niccolò Marini (1916)
August 10 - Agostino Richelmy (1899), archbishop of Turin, Italy

1924 - (2)
November 19 - Michael Logue (1893), archbishop of Armagh, Ireland
December 30 - Oreste Giorgi (1916), penitentiary major

1925 - (1)
July 18 - Louis-Nazaire Bégin (1914), archbishop of Québec, Canada

1926 - (6)
January 23 - Desiré Mercier (1907), archbishop of Malines, Belgium
February 13 - Edmund Dalbor (1919), archbishop of Gniezno and Poznań, Poland
February 14 - Juan Bautista Benlloch y Vivó (1921), archbishop of Burgos, Spain
February 27 - Augusto Silj (1919), prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature
February 28 - Giovanni Cagliero, S.D.B. (1915), bishop of Frascati, Italy
September 23 - Arthur-Stanislas-Xavier Touchet (1922), bishop of Orléans, France

1927 - (7)
February 16 - Vittorio Amedeo Ranuzzi de' Bianchi (1916)
July 11 - Ottavio Cagiano de Azevedo (1905), chancellor of the Holy Roman Church
July 25 - János Csernoch (1914), archbishop of Esztergom, Hungary
August 25 - Enrique Reig Casanova (1922), archbishop of Toledo, Spain
October 22 - Patrick O'Donnell (1925), archbishop of Armagh, Ireland
November 12 - Alessandro Lualdi (1907), archbishop of Palermo, Italy
November 26 - Giovanni Bonzano, P.I.M.E. (1922)

1928 - (3)
June 30 - Giovanni Tacci (1921)
October 24 - Gaetano de Lai (1907), bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto, Italy, subdean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, secretary of the S.C. Consistorial
December 7 - Giuseppe Francica-Nava di Bontifè (1899), archbishop of Catania, Italy

1929 - (8)
January 7 - Eugenio Tosi, O.SS.C.A. (1922), archbishop of Milan, Italy
February 25 - Antonio Vico (1911), bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina, Italy
March 26 - Aurelio Galli (1923)
March 31 - Evaristo Lucidi (1923)
April 5 - Francis Aidan Gasquet, O.S.B. (1914), librarian and archivist of the Holy Roman Church
August 5 - António Mendes Bello (1911), patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal
September 23 - Louis-Ernest Dubois (1916), archbishop of Paris, France
December 26 - Giuseppe Gamba (1926), archbishop of Turin, Italy

1930 - (8)
February 22 - Carlo Perosi (1926), secretary of the S.C. Consistorial
February 26 - Rafael Merry del Val y Zulueta (1903), archpriest of the patriarchal Vatican basilica, secretary of the Supreme S.C. of the Holy Office, prefect of the S.C. of the Fabric of Saint Peter's basilica
April 18 - Joaquim Arcoverde Albuquerque Cavalcanti (1905), archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
May 23 - Louis-Henri Luçon (1907), archbishop of Reims, France
July 9 - Vincenzo Vannutelli (1889), bishop of Ostia and Palestrina, dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, archpriest of the Liberian archbasilica, prefect of the S.C. Ceremonial and datary of His Holiness
October 23 - Vicente Casanova Marzol (1925), archbishop of Granada, Spain
November 7 - Alexis-Armand Charost (1922), archbishop of Rennes, France
November 7 - Alfonso Maria Mistrangelo, Sch.P. (1915), archbishop of Florence, Italy

1931 - (5)
March 17 - Pietro Maffi (1907), archbishop of Pisa, Italy
May 5 - Basilio Pompilj (1911), bishop of Velletri, Italy, subdean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, archpriest of the patriarchal Lateran basilica, vicar general of His Holiness for the City of Rome and its District
May 31 - Raymond-Marie Rouleau, O.P. (1927), archbishop of Québec, Canada
September 14 - Francesco Ragonesi (1921), prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature
December 18 - Louis Billot, S.J. (1911) (Resigned the cardinalate on September 21, 1927.)

1932 - (2)
April 21 - Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Can. Reg. of Saint Augustine (1914), archbishop of Vienna, Austria
August 30 - Willem Marinus van Rossum, C.SS.R. (1911), prefect of the S.C. for the Propagation of the Faith

1933 - (3)
February 9 - Andreas Frühwirth, O.P. (1915), chancellor of the Holy Roman Church
May 8 - Bonaventura Cerretti (1925), bishop of Velletri, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature, archpriest of the patriarchal Liberian basilica, camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals
September 16 - Raffaele Scapinelli di Leguigno (1915), datary of His Holiness

1934 - (3)
March 31 - Franz Ehrle, S.J. (1922), librarian and archivist of the Holy Roman Church
September 30 - Giuseppe Mori (1922)
November 18 - Pietro Gasparri (1907), camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church

1935 - (5)
January 1 - Francis Bourne (1911), archbishop of Westminster, England
February 15 - Paulin-Pierre Andrieu (1907), archbishop of Bordeaux, France
April 5 - Achille Locatelli (1922)
July 9 - Pietro LaFontaine (1916), patriarch of Venice, Italy
December 16 - Michele Lega (1914), bishop of Frascati, Italy, subdean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, prefect of the S.C. of Sacraments

1936 - (4)
February 7 - Luigi Sincero (1923), bishop of Palestrina, Italy, secretary of the S.C. of the Oriental Church
May 29 - Alexis-Henri-Marie Lépicier, O.S.M. (1927)
July 15 - Charles-Joseph-Henri Binet (1927), archbishop of Besançon
November 16 - Louis-Joseph Maurin (1916), archbishop of Lyon, France

1937 - (2)
August 10 - Eustaquio Ilundain y Esteban (1925), archbishop of Sevilla, Spain
August 30 - Gaetano Bisleti (1911), prefect of the S.C. of Seminaries and Universities of Studies, grand prior commendatary in Rome of the Sacred and Sovereign Military Order of Jerusalem of Malta, grand chancellor of the Pontifical Gregorian University, grand chancellor of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music

1938 - (7)
February 16 - Luigi Capotosti (1926), datary of His Holiness
March 13 - Carlo Dalmazio Minoretti (1929), archbishop of Genoa, Italy
July 16 - Giulio Serafini (1930), prefect of the S.C. of the Council, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Authentic Intrepretation of the Code of Canon Law
September 4 - Patrick Joseph Hayes (1924), archbishop of New York, United States
September 6 - Camillo Laurenti (1921), prefect of the S.C. of Rites
December 24 - Lev Skrbenský z Hriste (1901) (Last surviving cardinal of Pope Leo XIII)
December 30 - Aleksander Kakowski (1919), archbishop of Warsaw, Poland

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Pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958)   (63)

1939 - (4)
April 1 - Donato Raffaele Sbarretti Tazza (1916), bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto, Italy, subdean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, secretary of the Supreme S.C. of the Holy Office
April 23 - Domenico Mariani (1935), president of the Administration of the Wealth of the Holy See
September 13 - Angelo Maria Dolci (1933), bishop of Palestrina, Italy, archpriest of the patriarchal Liberian basilica
October 2 - George William Mundelein (1924), archbishop of Chicago, United States of America

1940 - (2)
April 9 - Jean Verdier, P.S.S. (1929), archbishop of Paris, France
August 22 - Isidro Gomá Tomás (1935), archbishop of Toledo, Spain

1941 - (3)
March 11 - Karl Joseph Schulte (1921), archbishop of Cologne, Germany
April 21 - Karel Kašpar (1935), archbishop of Prague, Czechoslovakia
October 8 - Lorenzo Lauri (1926), penitentiary major, camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church

1942 - (3)
February 26 - Tommaso Pio Boggiani, O.P. (1916), bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina, subdean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, chancellor of the Holy Roman Church
May 19 - Henri-Marie-Alfred Baudrillart, Orat. (1935)
October 17 - Sebastião Leme da Silveira Cintra (1930), archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1943 - (6)
March 17 - Arthur Hinsley (1937), archbishop of Westminster, England
March 29 - Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti (1937)
April 11 - Federico Cattani Amadori (1935)
September 13 - Francisco de Asís Vidal y Barraquer (1921), archbishop of Tarragona, Spain
November 4- Vincenzo La Puma (1935), prefect of the S.C. of Religious
November 25 - Carlo Cremonesi (1935)

1944 - (2)
April 22 - William Henry O'Connell (1911), archbishop of Boston, United States of America
August 22 - Luigi Maglione (1935), prefect of the S.C. of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, secretary of State

1945 - (3)
March 29 - Jusztinián György Serédi, O.S.B. (1927), archbishop of Esztergom, Hungary
July 6 - Adolf Bertram (1916), archbishop of Breslau, Germany
October 13 - Joseph MacRory (1929), archbishop of Armagh, Ireland
October 31 - Prudencio Melo y Alcalde, archbishop of Valencia, Spain (quasi cardinal) (1927)

1946 - (7)
January 31 - Pietro Boetto, S.J. (1935), archbishop of Genoa, Italy
March 9 - John Joseph Glennon (1946), archbishop of Saint Louis, United States of America
March 22 - Clemens August von Galen (1946), bishop of Münster, Germany
May 20 - Enrico Gasparri (1925), bishop of Velletri, Italy, vice-dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature
October 1 - Paul von Huyn (1916), titular Latin patriarch of Alexandria (Created and reserved in pectore in the consistory of December 4, 1916. His creation was never published.)
October 8 - Agustín Parrado y García (1946), archbishop of Granada, Spain
November 12 - Camillo Caccia Dominioni (1935)

1947 - (3)
January 17 - Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, O.M.I. (1933), archbishop of Québec, Canada
October 24 - Carlo Salotti (1933), bishop of Palestrina, Italy, prefect of the S.C. of Rites
December 10 - Pierre Petit de Julleville (1946), archbishop of Rouen, France

1948 - (5)
February 16 - Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte (1911), bishop of Ostia and Albano, Italy, dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, prefect of the S.C. Ceremonial (Last surviving cardinal of Pope St. Pius X)
August 4- Enrico Sibilia (1935), bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto, Italy
Sptember 16 - Manuel Arce Ochotorena (1946), archbishop of Tarragona, Spain
September 17 - Raffaelle Carlo Rossi, O.C.D. (1930), secretary of the S.C. Consistorial
October 22 - August Hlond, S.D.B. (1927), archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw, Poland

1949 - (2)
May 30 - Emmanuel-Célestin Suhard (1935), archbishop of Paris, France
November 3 - Francesco Marmaggi (1935), prefect of the S.C. of the Council

1950 - (2)
August 2 - Luigi Lavitrano (1929), prefect of the S.C. of Religious
December 21 - Konrad von Preysing (1946), bishop of Berlin, Germany

1951 - (3)
January 13 - Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani (1930), bishop of Ostia and Frascati, Italy, dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, archpriest of the patriarchal Lateran archbasilica, secretary of the Supreme S.C. of the Holy Office, prefect of the S.C. Consistorial, vicar general of His Holiness for the City of Rome and its District, grand chancellor of the Pontifical Lateran Athenaeum
May 31 - Denis Dougherty (1921), archbishop of Philadelphia, United States of America
July 23 - Adam Stefan Sapieha (1946), archbishop of Kraków, Poland

1952 - (4)
March 13 - Giovanni Battista Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano (1923), archbishop of Bologna, Italy
May 11 - Alessio Ascalesi (1916), archbishop of Naples, Italy
June 12 - Michael von Faulhaber (1921), archbishop of München und Freising, Germany (Last surviving cardinal of Pope Benedict XV)
December 28 - Carlo Agostini, patriarch of Venice, Italy (Was going to be created a cardinal in the consistory of January 12, 1953)

1953
No cardinals died during this year

1954 - (6)
March 6 - Massimo Massimi (1935), prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature
August 30 - Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, O.S.B. (1929), archbishop of Milan, Italy
October 4 - Francesco Borgongini Duca (1953)
October 21 - Domenico Jorio (1935), prefect of the S.C. for the Discipline of the Sacraments
November 10 - Giuseppe Bruno (1946), prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature
November 27 - Juan Gualberto Guevara (1946), archbishop of Lima, Perú

1955 - (2)
September 8 - Jan de Jong (1946), archbishop of Utrecht, Holland
October 9 - Theodor Innitzer (1933), archbishop of Vienna, Austria

1956 - (3)
March 18 - Pietro Tacchi Venturi, S.J. (quasi-cardinal) (1935)
August 20 - Bernard Griffin (1946), archbishop of Westminster, England
November 5 - Jules-Géraud Saliège (1946), archbishop of Toulouse, France

1957 - (3)
April 8 - Pedro Segura Sáenz (1927), archbishop of Sevilla, Spain
August 23 - Giovanni Mercati (1936), librarian and archivist of the Holy Roman Church
November 30 - Adeodato Giovanni Piazza, O.C.D. (1937), bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto, Italy, secretary of the S.C. Consistorial

1958 - (2)
March 29 - Alessandro Verde (1925), archpriest of the patriarchal Liberian basilica
May 26 - Samuel Alphonse Stritch (1946), archbishop of Chicago, United States of America, pro-prefect of the S.C. for the Propagation of the Faith

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Vacant See (October 9 - 28, 1958)   (2)

1958 (2)
October 17 - Celso Costantini (1953), chancellor of the Holy Roman Church
October 25 - Edward Mooney (1946), archbishop of Detroit, United States of America

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Pontificate of John XXIII (1958-1963)   (22)

1958 - (1)
December 4 - José María Caro Rodríguez (1946), archbishop of Santiago, Chile

1959 - (3)
May 4 - Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente (1953), archbishop-bishop of Le Mans, France
May 7 - Crisanto Luque (1953), archbishop of Bogotá, Colombia
November 2 - Federico Tedeschini (1933), bishop of Frascati, Italy, archpriest of the patriarchal Vatican basilica, prefect of the S.C. of the Reverend Fabric of St. Peter's basilica, datary of His Holiness

1960 - (5)
February 10 - Alojzije Stepinac (1953), archbishop of Zagreb, Yugoslavia
July 12 - Pietro Fumasoni Biondi (1933), prefect of the S.C. of the Propagation of the Faith
August 28 - John Francis O'Hara, C.S.C. (1958), archbishop of Philadelphia, United States of America
October 1 - Giuseppe Fietta (1958)
December 31 - Joseph Wendel (1953), archbishop of München und Freising, Germany

1961 - (5)
March 6 - Marcello Mimmi (1953), bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto, Italy, secretary of the S.C. Consistorial
July 30 - Domenico Tardini (1958), secretary of State of His Holiness, prefect of the S.C. of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, archpriest of the patriarchal Vatican basilica, prefect of the S.C. of the Reverend Fabric of St. Peter's basilica
August 3 - Nicola Canali (1935), grand penitentiary
August 6 - Josef Ernest van Roey (1927), archbishop of Malines, Belgium
August 13 - Giovanni Battista Dellepiane, apostolic nuncio to Austria, quasi-cardinal (1961)
December 22 - Elia dalla Costa (1933), archbishop of Florence, Italy

1962 - (5)
February 5 - Gaetano Cicognani (1953), bishop of Frascati, Italy, prefect of the S.C. of Rites
February 6 - Teódosio Clemente de Gouveia (1946), archbishop of Lourenço Marques, Mozambique
February 15 - Aloisius Joseph Muench (1959)
July 7 - Giovanni Panico (1962)
July 29 - Gabriel Acacius Coussa, O.S.B.M.A. (1962), secretary of the S.C. of the Oriental Church

1963 - (3)
January 22 - William Godfrey (1958), archbishop of Westminster, England
February 1 - John D'Alton (1953), archbishop of Armagh, Ireland
March 20 - Manuel Arteaga Betancourt (1946), archbishop of San Cristóbal de La Habana, Cuba

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Pontificate of Paul VI (1963-1978)   (96)

1963 - (2)
July 22 - Valerio Valeri (1953), prefect of the S.C. of Religious
December 6 - Alfonso Carinci, dean of the College of Protonotaries (declined promotion to the cardinalate)

1964 - (3)
January 11 - André Jullien, P.S.S. (1958)
January 21 - Carlo Chiarlo (1958)
September 4 - Clément-Emile Roques (1946), archbishop of Rennes, France

1965 - (5)
January 17 - Pierre-Marie Gerlier (1937), archbishop of Lyon, France
March 11 - Clemente Micara (1946), bishop of Velletri, Italy, sub-dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, vicar general of His Holiness for the City of Rome and its District, grand chancellor of the Pontifical Lateran University
March 30 - Maurilio Fossati, O.SS.G.C.N. (1933), archbishop of Turin, Italy
April 7 - Albert Gregory Meyer (1959), archbishop of Chicago, United States of America
May 5 - Giulio Bevilacqua, Orat. (1965)

1966 - (3)
March 3 - Alfonso Castaldo (1958), archbishop of Naples, Italy
July 19 - Joaquín Anselmo María Albareda, O.S.B. (1962)
December 30 - Pietro Ciriaci (1953), prefect of the S.C. of the Council

1967 - (12)
February 9 - Santiago Luis Copello (1935), chancellor of the Holy Roman Church
March 24 - Francesco Bracci (1958)
May 25 - Pietro Sigismondi (quasi-cardinal) (1967), titular archbishop of Neapoli di Pisidia, secretary of the S.C. of Propaganda Fide
April 24 - Enrico Dante (1965)
June 10 - Joseph Elmer Ritter (1961), archbishop of St. Louis, United States of America
June 11 - Ernesto Ruffini (1946), archbishop of Palermo, Italy
July 24 - Thomas Tien Ken-sin, S.V.D. (1946), archbishop of Peking, China
July 25 - Joseph-Léon Cardijn (1965)
November 5 - Maximos IV Saigh, M.S.S.P. (1965), patriarch of Antioch of the Melkites, Lebanon
December 2 - Francis Joseph Spellman (1946), archbishop of New York, United States of America
December 16 - Antonio Riberi (1967)
December 23 - Alfredo Pacini (1967)

1968 - (10)
January 29 - Ignace Gabriel I Tappouni (1935), patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians, Syria
February 5 - Paul-Marie-André Richaud (1958), archbishop of Bordeaux, France
February 14 - Pierre Veuillot (1967), archbishop of Paris, France
July 2 - James Francis Brennan (1967)
July 5 - Enrique Pla Deniel (1946), archbishop of Toledo, Spain
July 12 - Francesco Morano (1959)
July 28 - Ángel Herrera Oria (1965)
July 31 - Carlos María de la Torre (1953), archbishop of Quito, Ecuador
August 14 - Augusto Àlvaro da Silva (1953), archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
November 16 - Augustine Bea, S.J. (1959)

1969 - (4)
February 28 - Gustavo Testa (1959)
May 17 - Josef Beran (1965), archbishop of Prague, Czechoslovakia
August 13 - Nicolás Fasolino (1967), archbishop of Santa Fe, Argentina
September 18 - Giovanni Urbani (1958), patriarch of Venice, Italy

1970 - (6)
February 21 - Peter Tatsuo Doi (1960), archbishop of Tōkyō, Japan
May 28 - Iuliu Hossu (1969), bishop of Cluj Gherla of the Byzantine-Romanian, Romania (Created and reserved in pectore in the consistory of April 28, 1969. His creation was not published until after his death.)
August 1 - Giuseppe Pizzardo (1937), bishop of the title of the suburbicarian see of Albano, vice-dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals
September 30 - Benedetto Aloisi Masella (1946), bishop of the title of the suburbicarian see of Palestrina, camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, archpriest of the patriarchal Lateran archbasilica
November 2 - Richard James Cushing (1958), former archbishop of Boston, United States of America
December 8 - Benno Walter Gut, O.S.B. (1967), prefect of the S.C. for Divine Worship

1971 - (6)
January 20 - Antonio Bacci (1960)
February 18 - Jaime de Barros Câmara (1946), archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
March 31 - Michael Browne, O.P. (1962)
May 16 - Grégoire-Pierre Agagianian (1946), bishop of the title of the suburbicarian see of Albano, former prefect of the S.C. for the Propagation of the Faith
August 10 - Federico Callori di Vignale (1965)
December 7 - Fernando Quiroga Palacios (1953), archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

1972 - (4)
February 21 - Eugène Tisserant (1936), bishop of the title of the suburbicarian sees of Ostia and Porto e Santa Rufina, dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, former Librarian and Archivist of the Holy Roman Church
May 27 - José Garibi y Rivera (1958), former archbishop of Guadalajara, México
August 14 - Paolo Giobbe (1958)
August 27 - Angelo Dell'Acqua, O.Ss.C.A. (1967), vicar general of His Holiness for the City of Rome and its District, archpriest of the patriarchal Lateran archbasilica, grand chancellor of the Pontifical Lateran University

1973 - (12)
January 13 - Fernando Cento (1958), bishop of the title of the suburbicarian see of Velletri
February 15 - Achille Liénart (1930), former bishop of Lille, France
March 8 - Benjamín de Arriba y Castro (1953), former archbishop of Tarragona, Spain
March 17 - Giuseppe Antonio Ferretto (1961), bishop of the title of the suburbicarian see of Sabina, grand penitentiary, camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals
April 2 - Joseph Lefèbvre (1960), former archbishop of Bourges, France
May 7 - Arcadio María Larraona, C.M.F. (1959), former prefect of the S.C. of Rites
July 11 - Cesare Zerba (1965)
September 3 - Rufino Jiao Santos (1960), archbishop of Manila, military vicar of the Philippines
September 16 - William Theodore Heard (1959)
November 18 - Thomas Peter McKeefry (1969), archbishop of Wellington, New Zealand
December 13 - Giuseppe Beltrami (1967)
December 17 - Amleto Giovanni Cicognani (1958), bishop of the title of the suburbicarian sees of Ostia and Frascati, dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, secretary of State emeritus

1974 - (5)
March 10 - Bolesław Kominek (1973), archbishop of Wrocław, Poland
April 6 - Stepán Trochta, S.D.B. (1969), bishop of Litomerice, Czechoslovakia
April 8 - James Charles McGuigan (1946), archbishop emeritus of Toronto, Canada
May 20 - Jean Daniélou, S.J. (1969)
August 1 - Ildebrando Antoniutti (1962), bishop of the title of the suburbicarian see of Velletri

1975 - (10)
January 11 - Paul Pierre Meouchi (1965), patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, Lebanon
April 1 - Lorenz Jaeger (1965), archbishop emeritus of Padernborn, Germany
April 15 - Charles Journet (1965)
May 6 - Jószef Mindszenty (1946), archbishop emeritus of Esztergom, Hungary
June 13 - Arturo Tabera Araoz, C.M.F. (1969), prefect of the S.C. for Religious and Secular Institutes
June 24 - Luigi Raimondi (1973), prefect of the S.C. for the Causes of the Saints
September 18 - Luis Concha Córdoba (1961), archbishop emeritus of Bogotá, Colombia
September 27 - Maurice Feltin (1953), archbishop emeritus of Paris, France
November 1 - Jérôme Rakotomalala (1969), archbishop of Tananarive, Madagascar
November 7 - John Carmel Heenan (1965), archbishop of Westminster, England

1976 - (6)
January 21 - Joseph-Marie Martin (1965), archbishop emeritus of Rouen, France
February 26 - Efrem Forni (1962)
April 2 - Carlo Grano (1967)
July 24 - Julius Döpfner (1958), archbishop of Münich und Freising, Germany
October 18 - Giacomo Lercaro (1953), archbishop emeritus of Bologna, Italy
November 29 - José da Costa Nunes (1962)

1977 - (7)
March 23 - Émile Biayenda (1973), archbishop of Brazzaville, Republic of Congo
April 17 - William Conway (1965), archbishop of Armagh, Ireland
July 16 - Francesco Roberti (1958), former prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature
August 2 - Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira (1929), patriarch emeritus of Lisbon, Portugal (Last surviving cardinal of Pope Pius XI)
August 7 - Dino Staffa (1967), prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature
October 21 - Norman Thomas Gilroy (1946), archbishop emeritus of Sydney, Australia
November 21 - Luigi Traglia (1960), bishop of the title of the suburbicarian sees of Ostia and Albano, dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals

1978 - (2)
February 23 - Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi (1973), archbishop of Osaka, Japan
March 17 - Giacomo Violardo (1969)

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1978 (1)
August 16 - Paul Yü Pin (1969), archbishop of Nanking, China

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1978 - (1)

September 11 - Valerian Gracias (1953), archbishop of Bombay, India

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October 14 - Bolesław Filipiak (1976)

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1978 - (2)
November 27 - Joseph-Marie Trinh-nhu-Khuê (1976), archbishop of Hanoi, Việt Nam
December 17 - Joseph Frings (1946), archbishop emeritus of Cologne, Germany

1979 - (9)
January 29 - Reginald Delargey (1973), archbishop of Wellington, New Zealand
March 9 - Jean Villot (1965), bishop of the title of the suburbicarian see of Frascati, secretary of State, camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, president of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See, prefect of the Council for the Public Affairs of the Church
July 6 - Antonio María Barbieri, O.F.M. Cap. (1958), archbishop emeritus of Montevideo, Uruguay
July 16 - James Francis McIntyre (1953), archbishop emeritus of Los Angeles, United States of America
August 3 - Alfredo Ottaviani (1953), prefect emeritus of the S.C. for the Doctrine of the Faith
August 10 - John Joseph Wright (1969), prefect of the S.C. for the Clergy
September 5 - Alberto di Jorio (1958)
October 23 - Antonio Caggiano (1946), archbishop emeritus of Buenos Aires, Argentina
December 13 - Alfred Bengsch (1967), archbishop-bishop of Berlin, Germany

1980 - (3)
January 30 - Francesco Giuseppe Lardone, former internuncio to Turkey (Created and reserved in pectore in the consistory of March 28, 1960. His creation was never published.)
June 15 - Sergio Pignedoli (1973), president of the Secretariat for Non-Christians
December 26 - Egidio Vagnozzi (1967), president of the Prefecture of the Economic Affairs of the Holy See, camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals

1981 - (3)
May 28 - Stefan Wyszyński (1953), archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw, Poland
July 20 - Diego Venini, titular archbishop of Adana and secret almoner of His Holiness (declined promotion to the cardinalate)
December 30 - Franjo Seper (1965), former prefect of the S.C. for the Doctrine of the Faith

1982 - (4)
March 22 - Pericle Felici (1967), prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Code of Canon Law, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Authentic Interpretation of the Decrees of the II Vatican Council
April 26 - John Patrick Cody (1967), archbishop of Chicago, United States of America
September 18 - Carlos Carmelo de Vasconcells Motta (1946), archbishop of Aparecida, Brazil
October 26 - Giovanni Benelli, archbishop of Florence, Italy (1977)

1983 - (9)
February 3 - Antonio Samorè (1967), bishop of the title of the suburbicarian see of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto, Librarian and Archivist of the Holy Roman Church
June 2 - Julio Rosales y Ras (1969), archbishop emeritus of Cebú, Philippines
June 15 - Mario Casariego y Acevedo, C.R.S. (1969), archbishop of Guatemala, Guatemala
June 26 - James Robert Knox (1973), president of the Pontifical Council for the Family
September 7 - Joseph Schröffer (1976)
September 17 - Humberto Sousa Medeiros (1973), archbishop of Boston, United States of America
October 6 - Terence James Cooke (1969), archbishop of New York, United States of America
October 8 - Alexandre-Charles Renard (1967), archbishop emeritus of Lyon, France
November 7 - Umberto Mozzoni (1973), president of the Cardinalitial Commission for the Pontifical Shrines of Pompeii, Loreto and Bari

1984 - (5)
April 9 - Pierre-Paul Philippe, O.P. (1973)
July 8 - José Humberto Quintero Parra (1961), archbishop emeritus of Caracas, Venezuela
August 26 - Lawrence Joseph Shehan (1965), archbishop emeritus of Baltimore, United States of America
September 7 - Josyf Slipyj (1965), archbishop major of Lviv of the Ukrainians, Soviet Union
October 15 - Paolo Marella (1959), bishop of the title of the suburbicarian see of Porto e Santa Rufina, vice-dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals

1985 - (3)
September 24 - Antonio Poma (1969), archbishop emeritus of Bologna, Italy
October 24 - Maurice Roy (1965), archbishop emeritus of Québec, Canada
December 8 - Ermenegildo Florit (1965), archbishop emeritus of Florence, Italy

1986 - (6)
March 15 - Miguel Darío Miranda Gómez (1969), archbishop emeritus of México, México
June 30 - László Lékai (1976), archbishop of Esztergom, Hungary
August 1 - Carlo Confalonieri (1958), bishop of the title of the suburbicarian sees of Ostia and Palestrina, dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals
October 10 - Michele Pellegrino (1967), archbishop emeritus of Turin, Italy
December 19 - Avelar Brandão Vilela (1973), archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
December 29 - Pietro Parente (1967)

1987 - (7)
January 15 - Aníbal Muñoz Duque (1973), archbishop emeritus of Bogotá, Colombia
February 20 - Joseph Parecattil (1969), archbishop emeritus of Ernakulam of the Syro-Malabars, India, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Oriental Code of Canon Law
August 10 - Patrick Aloysius O'Boyle (1967), archbishop emeritus of Washington, United States of America
August 20 - José María Bueno Monreal (1958), archbishop emeritus of Sevilla, Spain
August 23 - Stephanos I Sidarouss (1965), C.M., patriarch emeritus of Alexandria of the Coptics, Egypt
October 16 - Joseph Höffner (1969), archbishop emeritus of Cologne, Germany
December 16 - Bernard Jan Alfrink (1960), archbishop emeritus of Utrecht, Holland

1988 - (6)
June 26 - Hans Urs von Balthasar (quasi-cardinal) (1988)
July 1 - Hermann Volk (1973), bishop emeritus of Mainz, Germany
August 1 - John Francis Dearden (1969), archbishop emeritus of Detroit, United States of America
August 1 - Jean-Louis Guyot (1973), archbishop emeritus of Toulouse, France
September 22 - Maximilien de Furstenberg (1967), former prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
October 29 - Thomas Benjamin Cooray, O.M.I. (1965), archbishop emeritus of Colombo, Sri Lanka
November 9 - Mario Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano (1969), former prefect of the Pontifical Household

1989 - (5)
May 2 - Giuseppe Siri (1953), archbishop emeritus of Genoa and Bobbio, Italy
June 14 - Joseph Malula (1969), archbishop of Kinshasa, Zaire
June 23 - Timothy Manning (1973), archbishop emeritus of Los Angeles, United States of America
August 22 - George Bernard Flahiff, C.S.B. (1969), archbishop emeritus of Winnipeg, Canada
November 28 - Ernesto Civardi (1979)

1990 - (7)
May 8 - Tomás Ó Fiaich (1979), archbishop of Armagh, Ireland
May 18 - Joseph-Marie Trinh van-Can (1979), archbishop of Hanoi, Việt Nam
May 24 - Julijans Vaivods (1983), apostolic administrator ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of Riga and Liepaja, Latvia, Soviet Union
June 27 - José Clemente Maurer, C.SS.R. (1967), archbishop emeritus of Sucre, Bolivia
August 22 - Luigi Dadaglio (1985), archpriest of the Patriarchal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, former Grand Penitentiary
November 28 - Wladyslaw Rubin (1979), former prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
December 1 - Octavio Antonio Beras Rojas (1976), archbishop emeritus of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

1991 - (6)
March 16 - James Darcy Freeman (1973), archbishop emeritus of Sydney, Australia
April 20 - Emmanuel Kiwanuka Nsubuga (1976), archbishop emeritus of Kampala, Uganda
June 24 - Franz Hengsbach (1988), bishop emeritus of Essen, Germany
July 9 - José Salazar López (1973), archbishop emeritus of Guadalajara, México
September 4 - Henri de Lubac, S.J. (1983)
November 13 - Paul-Emile Léger, P.S.S. (1953), archbishop emeritus of Montréal, Canada (Last surviving cardinal of Pope Pius XII)

1992 - (6)
March 15 - Sergio Guerri (1969), former pro-president of the Pontifical Commission for the State of Vatican City
May 20 - Giovanni Colombo (1965), archbishop emeritus of Milan, Italy
July 18 - Giuseppe Paupini (1969), former penitentiary major
August 4 - František Tomášek (1976), archbishop emeritus of Prague, Czechoslovakia
September 27 - Jacques Martin (1988), former prefect of the Pontifical Household
November 29 - Lawrence Trevor Picachy, S.J. (1976), archbishop emeritus of Calcutta, India

1993 - (8)
March 21 - Sebastiano Baggio (1969), bishop of the title of the suburbicarian see of Velletri, camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, vice-dean of the College of Cardinals
May 24 - Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (1991), archbishop of Guadalajara, México
July 12 - Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli, O.F.M. (1973)
July 19 - Gordon Joseph Gray (1969), archbishop emeritus of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain
August 2 - Guido Del Mestri (1991)
October 5 - Francesco Carpino (1967), bishop of the title of the suburbicarian see of Albano
October 6 - Victor Razafimahatratra, S.J. (1976), archbishop of Antananarive, Madagascar
October 30 - Paul Grégoire (1988), archbishop emeritus of Montréal, Canada

1994 - (10)
January 15 - Gabriel-Marie Garrone (1967), former prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education
February 3 - Yustinus Darmojuwono (1967), archbishop emeritus of Semarang, Indonesia
February 11 - Joseph Cordeiro (1973), archbishop of Karachi, Pakistan
February 16 - François Marty (1969), archbishop emeritus of Paris, France
March 26 - Owen McCann (1965), archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa
June 3 - Pablo Muñoz Vega, S.J. (1969), archbishop emeritus of Quito, Ecuador
August 19 - Antoine-Pierre Khoraiche (1983), patriarch emeritus of Antioch of the Maronites, Lebanon
September 16 - Albert Decourtray (1985), archbishop of Lyon, France
November 28 - Vicente Enrique y Tarancón (1969), archbishop emeritus of Madrid, Spain
December 26 - Pietro Pavan (1985)

1995 - (5)
May 21 - Agnelo Rossi (1965), bishop of the title of the suburbicarian see of Sabina-Poggio Mirteto, former president of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See, former dean of the College of Cardinals
June 22 - Yves Congar, O.P. (1994)
July 15 - Robert Coffy (1991), archbishop emeritus of Marseille, France
November 3 - Mario Revollo Bravo (1988), archbishop emeritus of Bogotá, Colombia
November 24 - Dominic Ignatius Ekandem (1976), archbishop-bishop emeritus of Abuja, Nigeria

1996 - (9)
March 3 - John Joseph Krol (1967), archbishop emeritus of Philadelphia, United States of America
March 8 - Alfredo Vicente Scherer (1969), archbishop emeritus of Porto Alegre, Brazil
April 23 - Mario Luigi Ciappi, O.P. (1977)
May 6 - Leo-Jozef Suenens (1962), archbishop emeritus of Malines-Brussels, Belgium
May 30 - Léon-Étienne Duval (1965), archbishop emeritus of Algiers, Algeria
August 8 - Joseph Asajiro Satowaki (1979), archbishop emeritus of Nagasaki, Japan
November 14 - Joseph Louis Bernardin (1983), archbishop of Chicago, United States of America
December 2 - Jean Jérôme Hamer, O.P. (1985), former prefect of Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
December 26 - Narciso Jubany Arnau (1973), archbishop emeritus of Barcelona, Spain

1997 - (5)
January 17 - Juan Landázuri Ricketts, O.F.M. (1962), archbishop emeritus of Lima, Perú
January 28 - Mikel Koliqi (1994)
February 25 - Ugo Poletti (1973), former vicar general of His Holiness for the City of Rome and its District
October 5 - Bernard Yago (1983), archbishop emeritus of Abidjan, Ivory Coast
December 8 - Laurean Rugambwa (1960), archbishop emeritus of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania

1998 - (11)
January 18 - Josip Uhač, titular archbishop of Tharros, secretary of Congregation for Evangelization of Peoples (Was to be created cardinal in the consistory of February 21, 1998 but died a few hours before the consistory was announced)
February 5 - Eduardo Francisco Pironio (1976), bishop of title of Sabina-Poggio Mirteto
February 28 - Antonio Quarracino (1991), archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina
March 1 - Jean Balland (1998), archbishop of Lyon, France
March 24 - António Ribeiro (1973), patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal
April 17 - Alberto Bovone (1998), prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints
June 9 - Agostino Casaroli (1979), bishop of title of suburbicarian see of Porto-Santa Rufina, vice-dean of the College of Cardinals, former secretary of State
June 17 - John Joseph Carberry (1969), archbishop emeritus of St. Louis, Mo., United States of America
June 21 - Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero, O.C.D.(1979), archbishop emeritus of Turin, Italy
September 13 - Alois Grillmeier, S.J. (1994)
December 7 - Carlos Oviedo Cavada, O. de M. (1994), archbishop emeritus of Santiago de Chile, Chile

1999 - (3)
April 9 - Raúl Silva Henríquez, S.D.B. (1962), archbishop emeritus of Santiago de Chile, Chile
June 17 - George Basil Hume, O.S.B. (1976), archbishop of Westminster, England
December 17 - Paolo Dezza, S.J. (1991)

2000 - (12)
March 12 - Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei (1979), bishop of Shanghai and apostolic administrator of Soochow, China
March 23 - Antony Padiyara (1988), archbishop major emeritus of Ernakulam-Angalamy of the Syro-Malabars, India
April 6 - Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz, O.F.M. (1994), archbishop emeritus of Guayaquil, Ecuador
May 3 - John Joseph O'Connor (1985), archbishop of New York, United States of America
May 28 - Vincentas Sladkevičius, M.I.C. (1988), archbishop emeritus of Kaunas, Lithuania
June 4 - Paul Zoungrana, M.Afr. (1965), archbishop emeritus of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
September 4 - Augusto Vargas Alzamora, S.J. (1994), archbishop emeritus of Lima, Perú
September 22 - Vincenzo Fagiolo (1994), president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of the Legislative Texts and of the Disciplinary Commission of the Roman Curia
September 26 - Paul Gouyon (1969), archbishop emeritus of Rennes, France
October 4 - Egano Righi Lambertini (1979)
October 11 - Pietro Palazzini (1973)
December 14 - Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky (1985), archbishop major of Lviv, Ukraine

2001 - (7)
February 8 - Giuseppe Casoria (1983), prefect emeritus of the Congregation of Divine Worship and the Disciplines of the Sacraments
February 21 - José Alí Lebrún Moratinos (1983), archbishop emeritus of Caracas, Venezuela
June 11 - Pierre Eyt (1994), archbishop of Bordeaux, France
June 17 - Thomas Joseph Winning (1994), archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland
June 29 - Silvio Oddi (1969), prefect emeritus of the S.C. for the Clergy
July 26 - Giuseppe Maria Sensi (1976)
November 8 - Paolo Bertoli (1969), bishop of the title of the suburbicarian see of Frascati, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints, fomer Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church

2002 - (7)
March 11 - Franjo Kuharić (1983), archbishop emeritus of Zagreb, Croatia
March 12 - Louis-Marie Billé (2001), archbishop of Lyon, France
May 22 - Alexandru Todea (1991), archbishop emeritus of Făgăraş e Alba Iulia, Rumania
July 25 - Johannes Joachim Degenhardt (2001), archbishop of Paderborn, Germany
September 8 - Lucas Moreira Neves, O.P. (1988), bishop of the title of the suburbicarian see of Sabina-Poggio Mirteto, archbishop emeritus of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Bishops, and president emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America
September 16 - François Xavier Nguyên Van Thuân (2001), president of the Pontifical Commission Iustitia et Pax
September 23 - John Baptist Wu Cheng-chung (1988), bishop of Hong Kong, China

2003 - (8)
March 24 - Hans Hermann Groër, O.S.B. (1988), archbishop emeritus of Vienna, Austria
April 6 - Gerald Emmett Carter (1979), archbishop emeritus of Toronto, Canada
April 19 - Aurelio Sabattani (1983), prefect emeritus of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature, archpriest emeritus of the patriarchal Vatican basilica, vicar general emeritus of His Holiness for Vatican City and prefect emeritus of the Fabric of Saint Peter's
May 31 - Francesco Colasuonno (1998)
July 7 - Ignacio Antonio Velasco García, S.D.B. (2001), archbishop of Caracas, Venezuela
August 29 - Corrado Ursi (1967), archbishop emeritus of Naples, Italy
September 6 - Maurice Michael Otunga (1973), archbishop emeritus of Nairobi, Kenya
December 11 - Paulos Tzadua (1985), archbishop emeritus of Addis Abeba, Ethiopia

2004 - (8)
February 9 - Opilio Rossi (1976), president emeritus of the Cardinalitial Commission for the Pontifical Shrines of Pompei, Loreto and Bari
March 13 - Franz König (1958), archbishop emeritus of Vienna, Austria (Last surviving cardinal of Pope John XXIII)
May 18 - Hyacinthe Thiandoum (1976), archbishop emeritus of Dakar, Sénégal
August 25 - Marcelo González Martín (1973), archbishop emeritus of Toledo, Spain
October 14 - Juan Francisco Fresno Larraín (1985), archbishop emeritus of Santiago, Chile
October 22 - Louis Bouyer, Orat. (quasi-cardinal) (1967)
October 24 - James Aloysius Hickey (1988), archbishop emeritus of Washington, D.C., United States of America
November 2 - Gustaaf Joos (2003)
November 18 - Juan Carlos Aramburu (1976), archbishop emeritus of Buenos Aires, Argentina

2005 - (2)
January 10 - Jan Pieter Schotte, C.I.C.M. (1994), secretary general emeritus of the World Synod of Bishops and president of the Labor Office of the Apostolic See
February 3 - Corrado Bafile (1976), prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints

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CARDINALITIAL OBITUARIES IN THE PONTIFICATES OF THE 2OTH CENTURY (SUMMARY)

Cardinals and quasi-cardinals who died during the pontificate of:

Pius X (1903-1914) - 50
Benedict XV (1914-1922) - 36
Vacant See (1922) - 1
Pius XI (1922-1939) - 73
Pius XII (1939-1958) - 65
Vacant See (1958) - 2
John XXIII (1958-1963) - 23
Paul VI (1963-1978) - 97
Vacant See (1978) - 1
John Paul I (1978) - 1
Vacant See (1978) - 1
John Paul II (1978-2005) -180

Total -531

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