The following prelates died in recent weeks:

- Archbishop Giuseppe De Andrea, apostolic nuncio emeritus in Kuwait, on 29 June at the age of 86.

- Bishop Robert Marie Gay, M. Afr., emeritus of Kabale, Uganda, on 29 June at the age of 89.

- Bishop Irineu Roque Scherer of Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil, on 2 July at the age of 65.

- Archbishop Michel Louis Coloni, emeritus of Dijon, France, on 6 July at the age of 88.

-Cardinal Silvano Piovanelli, archbishop emeritus of Florence, Italy, on 9 July at the age of 92.

- Bishop James Pazhayattil, emeritus of Irinjalakuda (Syro-Malabar), India, on 10 July at the age of 81.

- Bishop Jusztin Nándor Takács, O.C.D., emeritus of Székesfehérvár (Albareale), Hungary, on 11 July at the age of 89.

- Bishop Frederick D’Souza, emeritus Jhansi, India, on 12 July at the age of 81.

- Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, president of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Workers on 12 July at the age of 67.

- Bishop Athanasius Atule Usuh, emeritus of Makurdi, Nigeria, on 14 July at the age of 74.

- Bishop Jérôme Owono-Mimboe, emeritus of Obala, Cameroon, on 5 July at the age of 83.

- Bishop Nikolaus Messmer, S.J. apostolic administrator of Kyrgyzstan on 18 July at the age of 61.

- Archbishop Dominik Hrušovský, apostolic nuncio emeritus in Belarus on 27 July at the age of 90.

- Archbishop James Martin Hayes, emeritus of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on 2 August at the age of 92.

- Cardinal Franciszek Macharski, archbishop emeritus of Krakow, Poland, on 2 August at the age of 89.

- Bishop Mansueto Bianchi, emeritus of Pistoia, Italy, on 3 August at the age of 66.

- Bishop Leovigildo López Fitoria, C.M., emeritus of Granada, Nicaragua, on 5 August at the age of 89.

- Bishop Salvador Quizon Quizon, auxiliary emeritus of Lipa, Philippines, on 5 August at the age of 91.

- Bishop Ercole Lupinacci, emeritus of Lungro degli Italo-Albanesi (Italian-Albanese), Italy, on 6 August at the age of 82.

- Bishop Edward Kevin Daly, emeritus of Derry, Ireland, 8 August at the age of 82.

- Bishop Miguel José Asurmendi Aramendia, S.D.B., emeritus of Vitoria, Spain, on 9 August at the age of 76.

- Bishop Francesco Sgalambro, emeritus of Cefalù, Italy, on 11 August at the age of 82.

- Archbishop Raphael Cheenath, S.V.D., emeritus of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, India, on 14 August at the age of 81.

- Bishop Jorge García Isaza, C.M., vicar apostolic emeritus of Tierradentro, Colombia, on 16 August at the age of 88.

- Bishop Richard Stephen Seminack of Saint Nicholas of Chicago (Ukrainian), Illinois, USA, on 16 August at the age of 74.

- Bishop Jan van Cauwelaert, C.I.C.M., emeritus of Inongo, Democratic Republic of Congo, on 18 August at the age of 102.

- Bishop Judes Bicaba, of Dédougou, Burkina Faso, on 19 August at the age of 69.

- Bishop Girolamo Grillo, emeritus of Civitavecchia-Tarquinia, Italy, on 22 August at the age of 86.

- Bishop Antônio Eliseu Zuqueto, O.F.M. Cap., emeritus of Teixeira de Freitas-Caravelas, Bahia, Brazil, on 23 August at the age of 88.

- Bishop Thomas George Doran, emeritus of Rockford, Illinois, USA, on 1 September at the age of 80.

- Bishop Frederick Drandua, emeritus of Arua, Uganda, on 1 September at the age of 73.