| Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unknown | Born | Iñigo Avalos de Aragón, O.S. † | Naples | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina | |
| Died | Rodrigo de Beniambras † | Bishop of Santorini {Thira}, Greece | |||
| Resigned | Anton Giacomo Bongiovanni † | Bishop of Camerino, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | ||
| Died | Francesco Boscheni † | Bishop of Castro [del Lazio], Italy | |||
| Died | Ottaviano Caracciolo † | Bishop of Marsico Nuovo, Italy | |||
| Resigned | Girolamo Centelles † | Archbishop of Reggio Calabria, Italy | Archbishop Emeritus | ||
| 33.7 | Ordained Priest | Marcello Cervini † | Priest | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) | |
| Born | Francesco Contarini (Contareno) † | Bishop of Paphos, Cyprus | |||
| Appointed | Francesco di Créqui † | Bishop of Thérouanne, France | |||
| Died | Avanzio Cricche † | Bishop of San Leone, Italy | |||
| Resigned | Tommaso Cortesi † | Bishop of Vaison, France | Bishop Emeritus | ||
| 42.0 | Appointed | Giovanni Domenico de Cupis † | Archpriest of the Arcibasilica di San Giovanni in Laterano {Saint John Lateran Basilica} | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri) | |
| Born | Guillaume de St-Marcel d’Avançon † | Grenoble | Archbishop of Embrun, France | ||
| Resigned | Alonso de Guzman, O.S.H. † | Bishop of Comayagua, Honduras | Bishop Emeritus | ||
| Resigned | Augustino Donato † | Bishop of Canea (Cydonia, Egée), Greece | Bishop Emeritus | ||
| Resigned | Filippo Ercolani † | Bishop of Alatri, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | ||
| Born | Laurentius Fabritius † | Uerdingen | Auxiliary Bishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany | ||
| Born | Reginaldo de Lizárraga, O.P. † | Lizárraga, Spain | Bishop of Paraguay | ||
| Born | Gregorio Petrocchini, O.S.A. † | Montelparo, Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina | ||
| Appointed | Alessandro Piccolomini † | Bishop of Pienza, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | ||
| Died | Girolamo Piccolomini † | Bishop of Pienza, Italy | |||
| Died | Alessandro Spagnuolo † | Bishop of Tricarico, Italy | |||
| Born | Mikuláš Telegdy † | Tileagd | Bishop of Pécs, Hungary | ||
| Died | Bernardino Fenier (Venerio) † | Bishop of Chioggia, Italy | |||
| 5 Jan | Succeeded | François Bohier † | Bishop of Saint-Malo, France | ||
| 8 Jan | 51.0 | Appointed | Pedro Alvarez de Acosta † | Bishop of León, Spain | Bishop of Osma, Spain |
| Appointed | Ottaviano de Castello † | Bishop of San Leone, Italy | |||
| 45.0 | Appointed | Philippe de La Chambre, O.S.B. † | Administrator of Belley, France | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati | |
| 15 Jan | Appointed | Juan Canuti † | Bishop of Cariati e Cerenzia, Italy | ||
| Appointed | Taddeo Pepoli, O.S.B. † | Bishop of Carinola (Calina), Italy | |||
| 29 Jan | 42.1 | Resigned | Giovanni Domenico de Cupis † | Administrator of Macerata, Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri) |
| Appointed | Giovanni Leclerc † | Bishop of Macerata, Italy | |||
| Feb | Ordained Bishop | Albert Kraus † | Titular Bishop of Belline | Auxiliary Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy | |
| 10 Feb | Died | Giles de Luxembourg † | Bishop of Chalons-sur-Marne, France | ||
| 11 Feb | Born | Niccolò Sfondrati † | Somma | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) | |
| 17 Feb | Resigned | Baldassarre Caetano de Grassi † | Bishop of Città di Castello, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 63.1 | Appointed | Esteban Gabriel Merino † | Bishop of Gaeta, Italy | Cardinal, Patriarch of West Indies, Spain | |
| 44.9 | Appointed | Giovanni Salviati † | Administrator of Vaison, France | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina | |
| 26 Feb | 60.3 | Appointed | Lorenzo Campeggio † | Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina |
| Appointed | Giovanni Battista Castromediano † | Bishop of Lecce, Italy | |||
| 42.2 | Appointed | Giovanni Domenico de Cupis † | Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri) | |
| 23.9 | Resigned | Ippolito de’ Medici † | Administrator of Lecce, Italy | Cardinal, Archbishop of Avignon, France | |
| 59.2 | Appointed | Bonifacio Ferrero † | Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina | |
| Appointed | Michele Fortini † | Bishop of Lanciano, Italy | |||
| 67.2 | Appointed | Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg † | Cardinal-Bishop of Albano | Cardinal, Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria | |
| 41.5 | Resigned | Andrea Matteo Palmieri † | Administrator of Lucera, Italy | Cardinal, Administrator of Policastro, Italy | |
| 59.4 | Appointed | Giovanni Piccolomini † | Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri) | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Siena, Italy | |
| Appointed | Michele Visconti † | Bishop of Lucera, Italy | |||
| 15 Mar | 72.2 | Died | Heinrich Bokhold † | Bishop of Lübeck, Germany | |
| 21 Mar | Died | Vinzenz von Schleinitz † | Bishop of Merseburg, Germany | ||
| 27 Mar | 24.5 | Ordained Priest | Guillermo Casador † | Priest | Bishop of Barcelona, Spain |
| 3 Apr | 51.3 | Selected | Sigismund von Lindenau † | Bishop of Merseburg, Germany | |
| 14 Apr | Appointed | Bernardo Jordán, O.S.A. † | Auxiliary Bishop of Lérida, Spain | ||
| 15 Apr | 37.5 | Resigned | Benedetto de Accolti † | Administrator of Bovino, Italy | Cardinal, Archbishop of Ravenna, Italy |
| 22 Apr | 62.3 | Died | Louis de Gorrevod de Challand † | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Bourg-en-Bresse, France | |
| 25 Apr | 55.3 | Ordained Bishop | Juan Reina † | Bishop of Alghero, Italy | Bishop of Pamplona, Spain |
| 26 Apr | 31.3 | Appointed | Georg (Joris) van Egmond † | Bishop of Utrecht, Netherlands | |
| 30 Apr | 45.1 | Resigned | Giovanni Salviati † | Administrator of Teano, Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina |
| Appointed | Antonio Maria Sartori † | Bishop of Teano, Italy | |||
| 5 May | Died | Charles Booth † | Bishop of Hereford, England, Great Britain | ||
| 10 May | 50.4 | Appointed | Robert de Lénoncourt † | Bishop of Chalons-sur-Marne, France | Cardinal, Archbishop of Arles, France |
| 41.4 | Resigned | Francesco Pisani † | Administrator of Novigrad (Cittanova), Croatia | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri) | |
| 53.4 | Appointed | Agostino Spínola † | Administrator of Alatri, Italy | Cardinal, Administrator of Savona, Italy | |
| 15 May | Died | Jacques Terrail de Baynard, O.S.B. † | Bishop of Glandèves, France | ||
| 16 May | Ordained Bishop | Francisco Estaña † | Titular Bishop of Christopolis | Auxiliary Bishop of Valencia, Spain | |
| 18 May | 50.4 | Appointed | Detlev Reventlow † | Bishop of Lübeck, Germany | Bishop-Elect |
| 21 May | 43.4 | Elevated to Cardinal | Jean du Bellay † | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Paris, France | |
| 67.4 | Elevated to Cardinal | Marino Ascanio Caracciolo † | In Pectore | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus | |
| 51.6 | Elevated to Cardinal | Gasparo Contarini † | Cardinal, Bishop of Belluno, Italy | ||
| 66.4 | Elevated to Cardinal | St. John Fisher † | Cardinal, Bishop of Rochester, England, Great Britain | ||
| 55.4 | Elevated to Cardinal | Girolamo Ghinucci {Ginucci} † | Cardinal, Bishop of Worcester, England, Great Britain | ||
| 62.8 | Elevated to Cardinal | Nikolaus von Schönberg, O.P. † | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Capua, Italy | ||
| 60.4 | Elevated to Cardinal | Giacomo Simonetta † | Cardinal, Administrator of Nepi e Sutri, Italy | ||
| 31 May | 43.4 | Installed | Jean du Bellay † | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Paris, France |
| 67.4 | Elevated to Cardinal | Marino Ascanio Caracciolo † | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Catania, Italy | ||
| 51.6 | Installed | Gasparo Contarini † | Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Aquiro | Cardinal, Bishop of Belluno, Italy | |
| 57.4 | Appointed | Francesco Cornaro (Sr.) † | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina | |
| 66.4 | Installed | St. John Fisher † | Cardinal-Priest of San Vitale | Cardinal, Bishop of Rochester, England, Great Britain | |
| 55.4 | Appointed | Girolamo Ghinucci {Ginucci} † | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Balbina | Cardinal, Bishop of Worcester, England, Great Britain | |
| 60.4 | Appointed | Giacomo Simonetta † | Cardinal-Priest of San Ciriaco alle Terme Diocleziane | Cardinal, Administrator of Nepi e Sutri, Italy | |
| 2 Jun | Born | Alessandro Ottaviano de’ Medici † | Florence | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) | |
| 6 Jun | Resigned | Girolamo Grimaldi † | Administrator of Brugnato, Italy | Cardinal, Administrator of Albenga, Italy | |
| 7 Jun | 50.4 | Resigned | Agostino Trivulzio † | Administrator of Toulon, France | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Adriano al Foro |
| 21.4 | Appointed | Antonio Trivulzio (Jr.) † | Cardinal, Bishop of Toulon, France | ||
| 9 Jun | 46.4 | Died | Íñigo López de Mendoza y Zúñiga † | Cardinal, Bishop of Burgos, Spain | |
| 11 Jun | Born | Domenico Toschi † | Castellarano | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Tivoli, Italy | |
| 14 Jun | Resigned | Camillo Gesualdo † | Archbishop of Conza, Italy | Archbishop Emeritus | |
| 51.5 | Confirmed | Sigismund von Lindenau † | Bishop of Merseburg, Germany | ||
| 41.8 | Appointed | Andrea Matteo Palmieri † | Administrator of Conza, Italy | Cardinal, Administrator of Policastro, Italy | |
| 45.2 | Resigned | Giovanni Salviati † | Administrator of Santa Severina, Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina | |
| 21 Jun | 36.5 | Resigned | Niccolò Gaddi † | Administrator of Cosenza, Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Via Lata |
| 15.4 | Appointed | Taddeo Gaddi † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Cosenza, Italy | ||
| 45.0 | Appointed | Juan Lopez de Zárate † | Bishop of Antequera, Oaxaca, México | ||
| 22 Jun | 66.5 | Died | St. John Fisher † | Cardinal, Bishop of Rochester, England, Great Britain | |
| 5 Jul | 37.7 | Resigned | Benedetto de Accolti † | Administrator of Policastro, Italy | Cardinal, Archbishop of Ravenna, Italy |
| 42.5 | Appointed | Giovanni Domenico de Cupis † | Administrator of Camerino, Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri) | |
| 41.9 | Appointed | Andrea Matteo Palmieri † | Cardinal, Administrator of Policastro, Italy | ||
| 9 Jul | 72.5 | Died | Antoine du Prat † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Sens, France | |
| Died | Henry Standish, O.F.M. Conv. † | Bishop of Saint Asaph, Wales, Great Britain | |||
| 16 Jul | Appointed | Troiano Gesualdo † | Archbishop of Conza, Italy | ||
| 41.9 | Resigned | Andrea Matteo Palmieri † | Administrator of Conza, Italy | Cardinal, Administrator of Policastro, Italy | |
| 26 Jul | 58.6 | Appointed | Gianvincenzo Carafa † | Administrator of Acerra, Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina |
| 28 Jul | 63.6 | Died | Esteban Gabriel Merino † | Cardinal, Patriarch of West Indies, Spain | |
| 30 Jul | 14.8 | Appointed | Alessandro Farnese (Jr.) † | Administrator of Jaén, Spain | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri) |
| 6 Aug | Appointed | Benedetto , O. Cist. † | Bishop of Santorini {Thira}, Greece | ||
| 37.3 | Appointed | Jean de Lorraine † | Administrator of Albi (-Castres-Lavaur), France | Cardinal, Bishop of Metz, France | |
| 10 Aug | 24.3 | Died | Ippolito de’ Medici † | Archbishop of Avignon, France | Cardinal, Archbishop of Avignon, France |
| 12 Aug | Died | Maciej Drzewiecki † | Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland | ||
| 13 Aug | Appointed | René du Bellay de Langey † | Bishop of Le Mans, France | Bishop Emeritus | |
| 42.6 | Appointed | Louis de Bourbon de Vendôme (II) † | Administrator of Sens, France | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Laon, France | |
| 14.8 | Appointed | Alessandro Farnese (Jr.) † | Administrator of Avignon, France | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri) | |
| 14.8 | Appointed | Alessandro Farnese (Jr.) † | Cardinal-Deacon of San Lorenzo in Damaso | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri) | |
| 26.3 | Appointed | Afonso de Portugal † | Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo | Cardinal, Archbishop of Lisboa {Lisbon}, Portugal | |
| 16.7 | Appointed | Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora † | Administrator of Parma, Italy | Cardinal, Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber | |
| 16 Aug | Died | Gabriel Orti † | Bishop of Tarazona, Spain | ||
| 20 Aug | Appointed | Alfonso Oliva, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Bovino, Italy | Archbishop of Amalfi, Italy | |
| 27 Aug | Appointed | Gerolamo Falinghieri † | Bishop of Tricarico, Italy | ||
| 24.7 | Confirmed | Adolf von Schaumberg † | Coadjutor Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany | Archbishop | |
| 15 Sep | 51.9 | Appointed | Gasparo Contarini † | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Aquiro | Cardinal, Bishop of Belluno, Italy |
| 49.7 | Died | Aegidius Rehm † | Bishop of Chiemsee, Germany | ||
| 17 Sep | 47.7 | Appointed | Marino Grimani † | Patriarch of Aquileia, Italy | Cardinal, Titular Patriarch of Constantinople |
| 19 Sep | 51.9 | Appointed | Gasparo Contarini † | Cardinal-Priest of San Vitale | Cardinal, Bishop of Belluno, Italy |
| 26 Sep | Died | Charles de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam † | Bishop of Beauvais, France | ||
| 10 Oct | Died | Piotr Tomicki † | Bishop of Kraków, Poland | ||
| 20 Oct | 18.3 | Appointed | Odet de Coligny de Châtillon † | Administrator of Beauvais, France | |
| Appointed | Ludovico Magnasco di Santa Fiora † | Bishop of Castro [del Lazio], Italy | Bishop of Assisi, Italy | ||
| Appointed | Diego de Sarmiento, O. Cart. † | Bishop of Santiago de Cuba | Bishop Emeritus of Santiago de Cuba | ||
| Appointed | Giovanni dei Tagliacozzi † | Bishop of Chioggia, Italy | |||
| 27 Oct | Appointed | Sebastian Branicki † | Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi (Kamieniec), Ukraine | Bishop of Poznań, Poland | |
| Appointed | Bl. Jan Chojeński † | Bishop of Płock, Poland | Bishop of Kraków, Poland | ||
| Appointed | Piotr Gamrat † | Bishop of Przemyśl, Poland | Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland | ||
| Appointed | Andrzej Krzycki † | Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland | |||
| 29 Oct | Appointed | Fernando de Mudana † | Bishop of Larino, Italy | ||
| 30 Oct | 80.1 | Died | Gabriel von Eyb † | Bishop of Eichstätt, Germany | |
| 8 Nov | 67.9 | Appointed | Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg † | Administrator of Chiemsee, Germany | Cardinal, Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria |
| 37.6 | Resigned | Jean de Lorraine † | Administrator of Thérouanne, France | Cardinal, Bishop of Metz, France | |
| 12 Nov | 67.9 | Installed | Marino Ascanio Caracciolo † | Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Aquiro | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Catania, Italy |
| 15 Nov | Resigned | Girolamo Grimaldi † | Administrator of Strongoli, Italy | Cardinal, Administrator of Albenga, Italy | |
| Appointed | Pietro Ranieri † | Bishop of Strongoli, Italy | Bishop Emeritus | ||
| Died | Carlo Spinola † | Bishop of Perugia, Italy | |||
| 1 Dec | Born | Filippo Spinola † | Genoa | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Nola, Italy | |
| 14 Dec | 44.0 | Appointed | Christoph Marschalk zu Pappenheim † | Bishop of Eichstätt, Germany | |
| 15 Dec | 57.0 | Died | Denis Briçonnet † | Bishop of Saint-Malo, France | |
| 20 Dec | 61.0 | Appointed | Giacomo Simonetta † | Bishop of Perugia, Italy | Cardinal, Administrator of Nepi e Sutri, Italy |
| 27 Dec | Ordained Bishop | Arnau Alberti † | Bishop of Patti, Italy | ||
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