| Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unknown | Resigned | Tommaso Albini (Albizi), O.P. † | Bishop of Cagli, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
| Ordained Bishop | Jan Arason † | Bishop of Hólar, Iceland | |||
| Died | Thomas Bele † | Titular Bishop of Lydda | |||
| Born | Rodrigo Luis de Borja y de Castro-Pinós † | Gandía, Spain | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of San Nicola in Carcere | ||
| Born | Giulio Canani † | Ferrara | Cardinal, Bishop of Modena, Italy | ||
| 79.0 | Died | Giuliano Dati † | Bishop of San Leone, Italy | ||
| Born | Pedro de Feria (Martín Fernández), O.P. † | Feria, Spain | Bishop of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas), México | ||
| Died | René du Puy † | Bishop of Lodève, France | |||
| Died | Diego Fernández, O.P. † | Bishop | |||
| Died | Zacharias Ferrari, O. Carm. † | Bishop of Guardialfiera (Guardia), Italy | |||
| Died | Andrea Giacobazzi † | Bishop of Nocera de’ Pagani, Italy | |||
| 80.0 | Appointed | Domenico Giacobazzi † | Cardinal, Bishop of Nocera de’ Pagani, Italy | ||
| 55.0 | Appointed | Sigismondo Gonzaga † | Administrator of Aversa, Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria Nuova | |
| Ordained Bishop | Baldassarre Caetano de Grassi † | Bishop of Città di Castello, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | ||
| Died | Pietro Guercio (de Quercius) † | Bishop of Mottola (Motula), Italy | |||
| Resigned | Antonio Lupicino † | Bishop of Bisceglie, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | ||
| Died | Francesco Marcelli † | Bishop of Trogir (Traù), Croatia | |||
| Appointed | Ménald de Martory † | Bishop of (Saint-Lizier de) Couserans, France | |||
| 54.0 | Died | Bernardo de Mesa, O.P. † | Bishop of Badajoz, Spain | ||
| Born | Feliciano Ninguarda, O.P. † | Morbegno | Bishop of Como, Italy | ||
| Appointed | Antonio Numai † | Bishop of Isernia, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | ||
| Died | Giovanni Maria Poderico † | Archbishop of Taranto, Italy | |||
| Ordained Bishop | Pedro Portocarrero † | Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain | Archbishop of Granada, Spain | ||
| Appointed | Gerolamo Querini † | Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy | |||
| Born | Diego Ramírez Sedeño de Fuenleal † | Villaescusa de Haro | Bishop of Pamplona, Spain | ||
| Appointed | Antonio de Rojas Manrique † | Patriarch of West Indies, Spain | |||
| Appointed | Antonio de Rojas Manrique † | Bishop of Palencia, Spain | Patriarch of West Indies, Spain | ||
| Resigned | Reinhard von Rüppurr † | Bishop of Worms, Germany | Bishop Emeritus | ||
| Born | Cristóbal Senmanat y Robuster † | Tarragona | Bishop Emeritus of Orihuela, Spain | ||
| Died | Carlo Soderini † | Bishop of Narni, Italy | |||
| Born | Rudolf von Frankenstein † | Bishop of Speyer, Germany | |||
| 5 Jan | Died | Bernardo Zanne † | Archbishop of Split (Spalato), Croatia | ||
| 11 Jan | 31.0 | Appointed | Louis de Bourbon de Vendôme (II) † | Administrator of Luçon, France | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Laon, France |
| 44.7 | Appointed | Pompeo Colonna † | Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Damaso | Cardinal, Administrator of Monreale, Italy | |
| 25.8 | Resigned | Jean de Lorraine † | Administrator of Luçon, France | Cardinal, Bishop of Metz, France | |
| 23.0 | Appointed | Niccolò Ridolfi † | Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}, Italy | Cardinal, Administrator of Vicenza, Italy | |
| 14 Jan | Appointed | Antoine de La Barre † | Bishop of Angoulême, France | Archbishop of Tours, France | |
| 16 Jan | Appointed | Giacomo Coppi † | Archbishop of Naxos, Greece | ||
| 18 Jan | 56.0 | Appointed | Marino Ascanio Caracciolo † | Bishop of Catania, Italy | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus |
| 44.7 | Appointed | Pompeo Colonna † | Administrator of Acerno, Italy | Cardinal, Administrator of Monreale, Italy | |
| 19 Jan | Appointed | Francesco Sperelli † | Bishop of San Leone, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 23 Jan | Died | Urbano Fieschi † | Archbishop of Ravenna, Italy | ||
| 29 Jan | 21.1 | Appointed | Salvador Alepuz † | Archbishop of Sassari, Italy | |
| Feb | 34.1 | Selected | Georg von Blumenthal † | Bishop of Lebus, Germany | |
| 12 Feb | 32.1 | Appointed | Jean du Bellay † | Bishop of Bayonne, France | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Paris, France |
| Appointed | Héctor d’Ailly de Rochefort (Rupefort) † | Bishop of Toul, France | |||
| 25.8 | Resigned | Jean de Lorraine † | Administrator of Toul, France | Cardinal, Bishop of Metz, France | |
| 17 Feb | Born | Charles de Guise de Lorraine † | Joinville | Cardinal, Archbishop of Reims, France | |
| 22 Feb | Ordained Bishop | Mario Hispanus † | Bishop | ||
| 1 Mar | 25.6 | Ordained Priest | Hernando de Aragón, O. Cist. † | Priest of Order of Cistercians | Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain |
| 6 Mar | 61.2 | Ordained Bishop | Heinrich Bokhold † | Bishop of Lübeck, Germany | |
| 8 Mar | 69.2 | Died | Alejandro Geraldini (Gerardini, Gueraldini) † | Bishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | |
| 14 Mar | 23.2 | Appointed | Niccolò Ridolfi † | Cardinal, Administrator of Vicenza, Italy | |
| 70.8 | Resigned | Francesco Soderini † | Bishop of Vicenza, Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri) | |
| 16 Mar | Appointed | Heinrich of the Palatinate † | Bishop of Worms, Germany | ||
| 37.1 | Appointed | Heinrich von Rhein † | Coadjutor Bishop of Foreign Diocese | Bishop-Elect of Freising, Germany | |
| 6 Apr | 34.3 | Confirmed | Georg von Blumenthal † | Bishop of Lebus, Germany | |
| 77.3 | Resigned | Jan Konarski † | Bishop of Kraków, Poland | Bishop Emeritus | |
| Appointed | Johann von Revellis † | Bishop of Wien, Austria | |||
| 7 Apr | Died | György Szatmári † | Archbishop of Esztergom, Hungary | ||
| 18 Apr | Appointed | Pedro Ruiz de la Camera, O.P. † | Auxiliary Bishop of Toledo, Spain | ||
| Appointed | Pedro Ruiz de la Camera, O.P. † | Titular Bishop of Salona | Auxiliary Bishop of Toledo, Spain | ||
| 22 Apr | Born | Pietro Fauno Costacciaro † | Costacciaro | Bishop of Vigevano, Italy | |
| 6 May | 37.2 | Selected | Heinrich von Rhein † | Bishop of Utrecht, Netherlands | Bishop-Elect of Freising, Germany |
| Appointed | László Szalkay † | Archbishop of Esztergom, Hungary | |||
| 11 May | Appointed | Pompejus de Musachis † | Titular Bishop of Lydda | ||
| Appointed | Geronimo Sifola † | Bishop of Bisceglie, Italy | |||
| 15 May | Died | Francesco Grosso della Rovere † | Bishop of Mende, France | ||
| 17 May | 70.9 | Died | Francesco Soderini † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri) | |
| 20 May | 69.2 | Appointed | Pietro de Accolti de Aretio † | Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto |
| Appointed | Gonzalo Carvajal † | Bishop of Budua | |||
| 43.4 | Appointed | Paolo Emilio Cesi † | Administrator of Narni, Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Eustachio | |
| 63.4 | Appointed | Antonio Maria Ciocchi del Monte † | Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina | |
| 42.4 | Appointed | Marco Cornaro † | Cardinal-Bishop of Albano | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina | |
| 56.2 | Appointed | Alessandro Farnese † | Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) | |
| 68.4 | Appointed | Niccolò Fieschi † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri) | ||
| 25 May | 18.4 | Appointed | Gutierre Vargas de Carvajal † | Bishop of Plasencia, Spain | |
| 27 May | Appointed | Giambattista Bragadin † | Bishop of Adria, Italy | ||
| 33.4 | Resigned | Ercole Rangone † | Bishop of Adria, Italy | Cardinal, Bishop of Modena, Italy | |
| 39.4 | Resigned | Agostino Trivulzio † | Administrator of Bobbio, Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Adriano al Foro | |
| Appointed | Ambrogio Trivulzio † | Bishop of Bobbio, Italy | |||
| 1 Jun | 43.4 | Resigned | Paolo Emilio Cesi † | Administrator of Narni, Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Eustachio |
| 8 Jun | 46.4 | Appointed | García de Loaysa y Mendoza, O.P. † | Bishop of Osma, Spain | Cardinal, Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain |
| 46.4 | Resigned | García de Loaysa y Mendoza, O.P. † | Master General of Order of Friars Preachers | Cardinal, Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain | |
| 50.5 | Appointed | Francisco Herrera Ruesta † | Archbishop of Granada, Spain | ||
| Appointed | Juan Loaysa † | Bishop of Mondoñedo, Spain | |||
| 52.0 | Appointed | Juan Pardo de Tavera † | Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain | Cardinal, Archbishop of Toledo, Spain | |
| 15 Jun | 69.3 | Appointed | Pietro de Accolti de Aretio † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto | |
| 69.3 | Appointed | Pietro de Accolti de Aretio † | Administrator of Ravenna, Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto | |
| 63.5 | Appointed | Antonio Maria Ciocchi del Monte † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina | ||
| 42.5 | Appointed | Marco Cornaro † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina | ||
| 56.3 | Appointed | Alessandro Farnese † | Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri) | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) | |
| 68.5 | Died | Niccolò Fieschi † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri) | ||
| 51.5 | Appointed | Franciotto Orsini † | Administrator of Fréjus, France | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Cosmedin | |
| 65.8 | Appointed | Lorenzo Pucci † | Cardinal-Bishop of Albano | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina | |
| 22 Jun | 39.5 | Appointed | Agostino Trivulzio † | Administrator of Toulon, France | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Adriano al Foro |
| 28 Jun | Ordained Bishop | Pedro González Manso † | Bishop of Guadix, Spain | Bishop of Osma, Spain | |
| 1 Jul | Appointed | Bartolomeo Cesi † | Bishop of Narni, Italy | ||
| 55.5 | Resigned | Sigismondo Gonzaga † | Administrator of Aversa, Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria Nuova | |
| 10 Jul | Died | Biagio Caropipe † | Bishop of Telese o Cerreto Sannita, Italy | ||
| 24 Jul | 56.6 | Resigned | Marino Ascanio Caracciolo † | Bishop of Catania, Italy | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus |
| Appointed | Scipione Caracciolo † | Bishop of Catania, Italy | |||
| 42.6 | Died | Marco Cornaro † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina | ||
| 48.8 | Appointed | Giovanni Piccolomini † | Cardinal-Bishop of Albano | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Siena, Italy | |
| 65.9 | Appointed | Lorenzo Pucci † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina | ||
| 25 Jul | 24.1 | Ordained Bishop | Federico Cesi † | Bishop of Todi, Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina |
| 29 Jul | Appointed | Francesco (Camillus) Peroschi † | Bishop of Massa Marittima, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
| Aug | 34.6 | Selected | Georg von Blumenthal † | Coadjutor Bishop of Ratzeburg, Germany | Bishop of Lebus, Germany |
| 8 Aug | 44.5 | Appointed | Girolamo Aleandro † | Archbishop of Brindisi, Italy | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus |
| 48.1 | Resigned | Gian Pietro Carafa † | Archbishop of Brindisi, Italy | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) | |
| 52.6 | Appointed | Egidio da Viterbo, O.S.A. † | Titular Patriarch of Constantinople | Cardinal, Bishop of Viterbo e Tuscania, Italy | |
| 29.6 | Appointed | Giovanni Matteo Giberti † | Bishop of Verona, Italy | ||
| Appointed | Giovanni Gregorio Peroschi † | Bishop of Telese o Cerreto Sannita, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | ||
| 30.6 | Appointed | Francesco Pisani † | Bishop of Padova {Padua}, Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri) | |
| 13 Aug | 44.6 | Died | Giovanni Battista Pallavicino † | Cardinal, Bishop of Cavaillon, France | |
| 17 Aug | 26.8 | Appointed | Benedetto de Accolti † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Ravenna, Italy | |
| 69.4 | Resigned | Pietro de Accolti de Aretio † | Administrator of Ravenna, Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto | |
| 31.6 | Appointed | Giovanni Domenico de Cupis † | Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Apollinare | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri) | |
| 18 Aug | 69.4 | Appointed | Pietro de Accolti de Aretio † | Administrator of Cremona, Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto |
| 23 Aug | Died | Edmund Audley † | Bishop of Salisbury, England, Great Britain | ||
| 24 Aug | Appointed | Felice Trofino † | Bishop of Chieti, Italy | Archbishop of Chieti, Italy | |
| 29 Aug | Born | Johann von Haugwitz † | Thalheim | Former Bishop-Elect of Meißen (Meissen), Germany | |
| 2 Sep | Appointed | Tommaso de Nigris † | Bishop of Trogir (Traù), Croatia | Bishop Emeritus | |
| Appointed | Zaccaria Trevisani † | Bishop of Hvar (Lesina), Croatia | Bishop Emeritus | ||
| 9 Sep | Appointed | Mario Maffei † | Bishop of Cavaillon, France | ||
| 19 Sep | 38.7 | Appointed | Gabriel de Gramont † | Cardinal, Bishop of Tarbes, France | |
| Appointed | Girolamo Vascheri, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Guardialfiera (Guardia), Italy | Bishop Emeritus | ||
| 29 Sep | 46.7 | Ordained Bishop | García de Loaysa y Mendoza, O.P. † | Bishop of Osma, Spain | Cardinal, Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain |
| 2 Oct | 34.8 | Succeeded | Georg von Blumenthal † | Bishop of Ratzeburg, Germany | Bishop of Lebus, Germany |
| 5 Oct | Appointed | Livius Podocathor † | Archbishop of Nicosia, Cyprus | Archbishop Emeritus | |
| 9 Oct | 44.7 | Ordained Priest | Girolamo Aleandro † | Priest of Brindisi, Italy | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus |
| 12 Oct | Appointed | Giovanni de Rosa † | Bishop of Scardona (Skradin), Italy | Bishop of Krk (Veglia), Croatia | |
| 17 Oct | 60.9 | Resigned | Andrea Della Valle † | Administrator of Gallipoli, Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina |
| Appointed | Jerónimo Muñoz † | Bishop of Gallipoli, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | ||
| Appointed | Michele Zono † | Bishop of Kisamos, Greece | |||
| 21 Oct | Appointed | Edmund Butler, O.SS.T. † | Archbishop of Cashel, Ireland | ||
| 26 Oct | 46.8 | Appointed | Pedro Gómez Sarmiento de Villandrando † | Bishop of Badajoz, Spain | Cardinal, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| Appointed | Pedro González Manso † | Bishop of Tui, Spain | Bishop of Osma, Spain | ||
| Nov | Died | James Hepburn † | Bishop of Moray, Scotland, Great Britain | ||
| 7 Nov | 74.8 | Died | Antonio Contarini † | Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy | |
| 12 Nov | Born | Diego de Landa, O.F.M. † | Cifuentes de Alcarria, Spain | Bishop of Yucatán (Mérida), México | |
| 73.9 | Died | Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca † | Archbishop of Rossano, Italy | ||
| 13 Nov | Ordained Bishop | Jerónimo Muñoz † | Bishop of Gallipoli, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 14 Nov | 39.9 | Appointed | Gaspar Avalos de la Cueva † | Bishop of Guadix, Spain | Cardinal, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| 61.0 | Resigned | Andrea Della Valle † | Bishop of Crotone (Cotrone), Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina | |
| Appointed | Giovanni Matteo Lucifero † | Bishop of Crotone (Cotrone), Italy | |||
| 49.1 | Appointed | Giovanni Piccolomini † | Administrator of Umbriatico (Umbriaticum), Italy | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Siena, Italy | |
| Appointed | Guillermo Valdenese † | Bishop of Elne, France | Bishop of Coria, Spain | ||
| Dec | 50.9 | Died | Francisco Herrera Ruesta † | Archbishop of Granada, Spain | |
| 2 Dec | 50.1 | Appointed | Lorenzo Campeggio † | Administrator of Salisbury, England, Great Britain | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina |
| 11 Dec | 42.9 | Appointed | Musa al-Akkari † | Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Maronite), Lebanon | |
| 19 Dec | Resigned | Cristoforo Numai, O.F.M. † | Administrator of Isernia, Italy | Cardinal, Administrator of Alatri, Italy | |
| 21 Dec | 27.1 | Ordained Bishop | Benedetto de Accolti † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Ravenna, Italy | |
| 30.0 | Ordained Bishop | Giovanni Matteo Giberti † | Bishop of Verona, Italy | ||
| Ordained Bishop | Felice Trofino † | Bishop of Chieti, Italy | Archbishop of Chieti, Italy | ||
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