2005 (3)
June 21 - Jaime Lachica Sin (1976), archbishop emeritus of Manila, Philippines.
October 15 - Giuseppe Caprio (1979), grand master emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and president emeritus of the Prefecture of Economic Affairs of the Holy See.
December 8 - Leo Scheffczyk (2001), deacon of S. Francesco Saverio alla Garbatella.

2006 (8)
January 19 - Pio Taofinu'u, S.M. (1973), archbishop emeritus of Samoa-Apia, Samoa.
May 1 - Raúl Francisco Primatesta (1973), archbishop emeritus of Córdoba, Argentina.
July 13 - Ángel Suquía Goicoechea (1985), archbishop emeritus of Madrid, Spain.
August 2 - Johannes Willebrands (1969), president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the Unity of Christians.
September 29 - Louis Albert Vachon (1988), archbishop emeritus of Québec and primate of Canada.
October 13 - Dino Monduzzi (1998), prefect emeritus of the Pontifical Household.
October 18 - Mario Francesco Pompedda (2001), prefect emeritus of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature.
December 10 - Salvatore Pappalardo (1973), archbishop emeritus of Palermo, Italy.

2007 (10)
January 6 - Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, C.I.C.M. (1991), archbishop of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
February 1 - Antonio María Javierre Ortas, S.D.B. (1988), prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
June 17 - Angelo Felici (1988), prefect emeritus of the Congregation of the Causes of the Saints and president emeritus of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei.
August 5 - Jean-Marie Lustiger (1983), archbishop emeritus of Paris, France.
August 25 - Édouard Gagnon, P.S.S. (1985), president emeritus of the Pontifical Council of the Family and president emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for the International Eucharistic Congress.
September 28 - Adam Kozłowiecki, S.J. (1998), archbishop emeritus of Lusaka, Zambia.
October 16 - Rosalio José Castillo Lara, S.D.B. (1985), president emeritus of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See, and of the Pontifical Commission for the State of Vatican City.
November 8 - Stephen Fumio Hamao (2003), president emeritus of the Pontifical Council of the Pastoral Care for Migrants and Itinerants.
December 12 - Alfons Maria Stickler, S.D.B. (1985), archivist and librarian emeritus of the Holy Roman Church.
December 23 - Aloísio Lorscheider, O.F.M. (1976), archbishop emeritus of Aparecida, Brazil.

2008 (8)
March 6 - Peter Poreku Dery (2006), archbishop emeritus of Tamale, Ghana.
March 22 - Adolfo Antonio Suárez Rivera (1994), archbishop emeritus of Monterrey, México.
April 10 - Ernesto Corripio Ahumada (1979), archbishop emeritus of México, México.
April 19 - Alfonso López Trujillo (1983), bishop of the title of the suburbicarian see of Frascati and president of the Pontifical Council for the Family.
May 13 - Bernardin Gantin (1977), bishop of the title of the suburbicarian see of Palestrina, dean emeritus of the College of Cardinals, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Bishops and president emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.
September 6 - Antonio Innocenti (1985), president emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for the Conservation of the Artistic and Historical Patrimony of the Church, and president emeritus of the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei".
October 13 - Antonio José González Zumárraga (2001), archbishop emeritus of Quito, Ecuador.
December 12 - Avery Dulles, S.J. (2001), deacon of SS. Nomi di Gesù e Maria in via Lata.

2009 (8)
January 10 - Pio Laghi (1991), prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Catholic Education and patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
January 20 - Stéphanos II Ghattas, C.M. (2001), patriarch emeritus of Alexandria of the Copts, Egypt.
February 16 - Stephen Kim Sou-hwan (1969), archbishop emeritus of Seoul, South Korea.
February 22 - Paul-Joseph Phạm Ðinh Tung (1994), archbishop emeritus of Hà Nôi, Việt Nam.
April 1 - Umberto Betti, O.F.M. (2007), deacon of Ss. Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia.
July 17 - Jean Margéot (1988), bishop emeritus of Port-Louis, Mauritius.
December 30 - Peter Seiichi Shirayanagi (1994), archbishop emeritus of Tōkyō, Japan.
December 31 - Cahal Brendan Daly (1991), archbishop emeritus of Armagh, Ireland.

2010 (6)
January 9 - Armand-Gaétan Razafindrtandra (1994), archbishop emeritus of Antananarivo, Madagascar.
April 16 - Tomáš Špidlík, S.J. (2003), deacon of S. Agata de' Goti.
April 30 - Paul Augustin Mayer, O.S.B. (1985), prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and president emeritus of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei.
May 4 - Luigi Poggi (1994), archivist and librarian emeritus of the Holy Roman Church.
November 22 - Urbano Navarrete Cortés, S.J. (2007), deacon of S. Ponziano.
December 2 - Michele Giordano (1988), archbishop emeritus of Naples, Italy.

2011 (9)
April 1 - Varkey Vithayathil, C.SS.R. (2001), archbishop major of Ernakulam-Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars, India.
April 18 - Giovanni Saldarini (1991), archbishop emeritus of Turin, Italy.
May 1 - Agustín García-Gasco Vicente (2007), archbishop emeritus of Valencia, Spain.
June 30 - George Maximilian Sterzinsky (1991), archbishop emeritus of Berlin, Germany.
July 21 - Kazimierz Świątek (1994), archbishop emeritus of Minsk-Mohilev and former apostolic administrator ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of the diocese of Pinsk, Belarus.
July 24 - Virgilio Noè (1991), archpriest emeritus of the papal Vatican Basilica, vicar general emeritus of His Holiness for Vatican City and president emeritus of the Fabric of St. Peter's basilica.
August 26 - Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic (1998), archbishop emeritus of Toronto, Canada.
September 3 - Andrzej Maria Deskur (1985), president emeritus of the Pontifical Council of Social Communications.
December 11 - John Patrick Foley (2007), grand master emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre and president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.

2012 (9)
January 31 - Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua (1991), archbishop emeritus of Philadelphia, United States of America.
March 9 - José Tomás Sánchez (1991), prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Clergy.
April 7 - Ignace Moussa I Daoud (2001), patriarch emeritus of Antioch of the Syrians, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.
April 10 - Luis Aponte Martínez (1973), archbishop emeritus of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
June 4 - Rodolfo Quezada Toruño (2003), archbishop emeritus of Guatemala, Guatemala.
July 9 - Eugênio de Araújo Sales (1969), archbishop emeritus of São Sebastiaõ de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
August 22 - Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, S.J. (1998), bishop emeritus of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
August 31 - Carlo Maria Martini, S.J. (1983), archbishop emeritus of Milan, Italy.
September 20 - Fortunato Baldelli (2010), penitentiary major emeritus.

2013 (4)
January 23 - Józef Glemp (1983), archbishop emeritus of Warsaw, former primate of Poland.
February 8 - Giovanni Cheli (1998), president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants.
February 23 - Julien Ries (2012), deacon of S. Antonio di Padova a Circonvallazione Appia.
February 28 - Jean Honoré (2001), archbishop emeritus of Tours, France.

2013 (7)
April 10 - Lorenzo Antonetti (1998), president emeritus of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See and former pontifical delegate to the patriarchal basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, Italy.
June 5 - Stanisław Nagy, S.C.I. (2003), deacon of S. Maria della Scala.
July 19 - Simon Ignatius Pimenta (1988), archbishop emeritus of Bombay, India.
July 28 - Ersilio Tonini (1994), archbishop emeritus of Ravenna-Cervia, Italy.
August 29 - Medardo Joseph Mazombwe (2010), archbishop emeritus of Lusaka, Zambia.
November 11 - Domenico Bartolucci (2010), deacon of SS. Nomi di Gesù e Maria in via Lata.
December 17 - Ricardo María Carles Gordó (1994), archbishop emeritus of Barcelona, Spain.

2014 (10)
March 12 - José da Cruz Policarpo (2001), patriarch emeritus of Lisbon, Portugal.
April 8 - Emmanuel III Delly (2007), patriarch emeritus of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Iraq.
May 12 - Marco Cè (1979), patriarch emeritus of Venice, Italy.
June 2 - Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy (1985), prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.
June 9 - Bernard Agré (2001), archbishop emeritus of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
July 27 - Francesco Marchisano (2003), president emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Patrimony of the Church, president emeritus of the Pontifical Commission of Sacred Archeology, archpriest emeritus of the papal basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican, vicar general emeritus of His Holiness for Vatican City, president emeritus of the Fabric of St. Peter's basilica, and president emeritus of the Office of Labor of the Apostolic See.
August 3 - Edward Bede Clancy (1988), archbishop emeritus of Sydney, Australia.
August 20 - Edmund Casimir Szoka (1988), president emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for the State of Vatican City, president emeritus of the Governatorate of the State of Vatican City, and archbishop emeritus of Detroit, Michigan, United States of America.
November 22 - Fiorenzo Angelini (1991), president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral of the Health Workers.
December 9 - Jorge María Mejía (2001), archivist and librarian emeritus of the Holy Roman Church.

2015 (12)
February 10 - Karl Josef Becker, S.J. (2012), deacon of S. Giuliano Martire.
March 5 - Edward Michael Egan (2001), archbishop emeritus of New York, N.Y., United States of America.
April 8 - Jean-Claude Turcotte (1994), archbishop emeritus of Montréal, Canada.
April 14 - Roberto Tucci, S.J. (2001), deacon of S. Ignazio di Loyola a Campo Marzio.
April 17 - Francis Eugene George, O.M.I. (1998), archbishop emeritus of Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.
April 29 - Giovanni Canestri (1988), archbishop emeritus of Genoa, Italy.
July 11 - Giacomo Biffi (1985), archbishop emeritus of Bologna, Italy.
July 23 - William Wakefield Baum (1976), archbishop emeritus of Washington, D.C., United States of America, and penitentiary major emeritus.
August 17 - László Paskai, O.F.M. (1988), archbishop emeritus of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary.
October 24 - Ján Chryzostom Korec, S.J. (1991), bishop emeritus of Nitra, Slovakia.
December 9 - Julio Terrazas Sandoval, C.SS.R. (2001), archbishop emeritus of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.
December 9 - Carlo Furno (1994), archpriest emeritus of the papal Liberian basilica and grand master emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

2016 (6)
March 31 - Georges Marie Martin Cottier, O.P. (2003), theologian emeritus of the Papal Household.
May 16 - Giovanni Coppa (2007), deacon of S. Lino.
May 26 - Loris Francesco Capovilla (2014), priest of the title of S. Maria in Trastevere.
July 9 - Silvano Piovanelli (1985), archbishop emeritus of Florence, Italy.
August 2 - Franciszek Macharski (1979), archbishop emeritus of Kraków, Poland.
December 14 - Paulo Evaristo Arns, O.F.M. (1973), archbishop emeritus of São Paulo, Brazil (Last surviving cardinal of Pope Paul VI).

2017 (16)
January 13 - Gilberto Agustoni (1994), prefect emeritus of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature.
February 21 - Desmond Connell (2001), archbishop emeritus of Dublin, Ireland.
March 18 - Miloslav Vlk (1994), archbishop emeritus of Prague, Czech Republic.
March 23 - William Henry Keeler (1994), archbishop emeritus of Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
April 22 - Attilio Nicora (2003), president emeritus of the Financial Information Authority; president emeritus of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See; and pontifical legate for the basilicas of San Francesco and of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Assisi.
May 31 - Lubomyr Husar, M.S.U. (2001), archbishop major emeritus of Kyiv and Halyć, Ukraine.
June 19 - Ivan Dias (2001), prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, grand chancellor emeritus of the Pontifical Urbanian University and archbishop emeritus of Bombay, India.
July 5 - Joachim Meisner (1983), archbishop emeritus of Cologne, Germany.
August 5 - Dionigi Tettamanzi (1998), archbishop emeritus of Milan, Italy.
September 1 - Cormac Murphy-O'Connor (2001), archbishop emeritus of Westminster, England.
September 5 - Carlo Caffarra (2006), archbishop emeritus of Bologna, Italy.
September 9 - Velasio de Paolis, C.S. (2010), president emeritus of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See.
October 18 - Ricardo Jamin Vidal (1985), archbishop emeritus of Cebu, Philippines.
November 12 - Bernard Panafieu (2003), archbishop emeritus of Marseille, France.
November 19 - Andrea Cordero di Montezemolo (2006), archpriest emeritus of the papal basilica of S. Paolo fuori le mura, Rome.
December 20 - Bernard Francis Law (1985), archbishop emeritus of Boston, United States of Amrica, and archpriest emeritus of the Papal Liberian Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore.

2018 (5)
March 11 - Karl Lehmann (2001), bishop emeritus of Mainz, Germany.
March 19 - Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien (2003), archbishop emeritus of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland.
May 18 - Darío Castrillón Hoyos (1998), prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Clergy and president emeritus of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei.
June 3 - Miguel Obando Bravo, S.D.B. (1985), archbishop emeritus of Managua, Nicaragua.
July 5 - Jean-Louis Tauran (2003), camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church and president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialog.

2019 (14)
January 24 - Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, C.M.F. (2014), archbishop emeritus of Pamplona y Tudela, Spain.
March 14 - Godfried Danneels (1983), archbishop emeritus of Mechelen-Brussel (Malines-Bruxelles), military ordinary emeritus for Belgium.
May 12 - Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir (1994), patriarch emeritus of Antioch of the Maronites, Lebanon.
June 5 - Elio Sgreccia (2010), president emeritus of the Pontifical Academy for Life
July 13 - Paolo Sardi (2010), patron emeritus of the Sovereign Military and Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta
July 21 - José Manuel Estepa Llaurens (2010), archbishop military emeritus of Spain
July 26 - Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino (1994), archbishop emeritus of San Cristóbal de La Habana, Cuba.
August 11 - Sergio Obeso Rivera (2018), archbishop emeritus of Xalapa, México
August 29 - Achille Silvestrini (1988), prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches and grand chancellor emeritus of the Pontifical Oriental Institute.
September 3 - José de Jesús Pimiento Rodíguez (2015), archbishop emeritus of Manizalez, Colombia.
September 4 - Roger Etchegaray (1979), bishop of the title of the suburbicarian see of Porto-Santa Rufina, president emeritus of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum and president emeritus of the Pontifical Council Iustitia et Pax.
September 25 - William Joseph Levada (2006), prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
October 8 - Serafim Fernandes de Araújo (1998), archbishop emeritus of Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
December 30 - Prosper Grech, O.S.A. (2012), professor emeritus of several Roman Universities and consultor of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

2020 (7)
May 12 - Renato Corti (2016), bishop emeritus of Novara, Italy.
July 17 - Zenon Grocholewski (2001), prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Catholic Education.
September 2 - Adrianus Johannes Simonis (1985), archbishop emeritus of Utrecht, Holland.
September 5 - Marian Jaworski (1998), archbishop emeritus of Lviv of the Latins, Poland.
October 28 - Anthony Soter Fernandez (2016), archbishop emeritus of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
November 15 - Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga (2010), archbishop emeritus of Quito, Ecuador.
November 16 - Henryk Roman Gulbinowicz (1985), archbishop emeritus of Wrocław, Poland.

2021 (14)
January 7 - Henri Schwery (1991), bishop emeritus of Sion, Switzerland.
January 13 - Eusébio Oscar Scheid, S.C.I. (2003), archbishop emeritus of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
April 3 - Christian Tumi (1988), archbishop emeritus of Douala, Cameroon.
April 10 - Edward Idris Cassidy (1991), president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity.
April 17 - Sebastian Koto Khoarai, O.M.I. (2016), bishop emeritus of Mohale’s Hoek, Lesotho.
April 27 - Nicholas Cheong Jin-Suk (2006), archbishop emeritus of Seoul, South Korea.
May 29 - Cornelius Sim (2020), apostolic vicar of Brunei.
July 11 - Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya (2010), archbishop emeritus of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
July 29 - Albert Vanhoye, S.J. (2006), rector emeritus of the Pontifical Biblical Institute and secretary emeritus of the Pontifical Biblical Commission.
August 10 - Eduardo Martínez Somalo (1988), prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life and camerlengo emeritus of the Holy Roman Church.
September 23 - Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino (2006), archbishop emeritus of Caracas, Venezuela.
September 26 - José Freire Falcão (1988), archbishop emeritus of Brasília, Brazil.
September 29 - Alexandre José Mária dos Santos, O.F.M. (1988), archbishop emeritus of Maputo, Moçambique.
October 3 - Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez (1998), prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.

2022 (11)
January 5 - Francisco Álvarez Martínez (2001), archbishop emeritus of Toledo, Spain.
February 16 - Luigi De Magistris (2015), pro-penitentiary major emeritus.
March 5 - Agostino Cacciavillan (2001), president emeritus of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See.
March 28 - Antonios Naguib (2010), patriarch emeritus of Alexandria of the Copts, Egypt.
April 20 - Javier Lozano Barragán (2003), president emeritus of Pontifical Council for Pastoral of Health Care Workers.
April 27 - Carlos Amigo Vallejo, O.F.M. (2003), archbishop emeritus of Sevilla, Spain.
May 27 - Angelo Sodano (1991), dean emeritus of the College of Cardinals, secretary of State emeritus, bishop of the title of the suburbicarian see of Albano, priest of the title, in commendam, of S. Maria Nuova.
July 4 - Cláudio Hummes, O.F.M. (2001), archbishop emeritus of São Paulo and prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Clergy.
August 8 - Jozef Tomko (1985), prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and president emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for the Eucharistic Congresses.
November 27 - Richard Kuuia Baawobr, M.Afr. (2022), bishop of Wa, Ghana.
December 17 - Severino Poletto (2001), archbishop emeritus of Turin, Italy.

2023 (1)
January 10 - George Pell (2003), prefect emeritus of the Secretariat for the Economy and archbishop emeritus of Sydney, Australia.
March 26 - Karl-Joseph Rauber (2015), apostolic nuncio emeritus.

CARDINALITIAL OBITUARIES IN THE PONTIFICATES OF THE 21ST CENTURY (SUMMARY)

Cardinals who have died during the pontificate of:

Benedict XVI (2005-2013) - 65
Francis (2013-) - 105

Total - 170

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