The Year of Our Lord 1577

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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
unknown		Born	Giovanni Atzori †	Calaritan	Bishop-Elect of Bosa, Italy
		Died	Andrea Belloni †	Bishop of Massa Lubrense, Italy
		Born	Charles Bobba de Montferrat †		Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, France
		Born	Ferdinandus Boschetti †		Titular Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia
		Born	Giovanni Antonio Galderisi †		Bishop of Bovino, Italy
		Appointed	Nicola Canyelles †	Bishop of Bosa, Italy
		Born	Vincenzo Caputo †	Ruben	Bishop of Andria, Italy
	58.0	Appointed	Melchior Miguel Carneiro Leitão, S.J. †	Patriarch of Foreign Diocese
		Born	Luca Cellesi †	Pistoia	Bishop of Martirano (Martoranum), Italy
		Resigned	Antonio Cocco †	Archbishop of Corfù, Greece	Archbishop Emeritus
		Resigned	Giorgio Cornaro †	Bishop of Treviso, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
		Died	Gregorio Cruz, O.P. †	Bishop of Martirano (Martoranum), Italy
	38.3	Appointed	Claude d’Angennes de Rambouillet †	Bishop of Noyon, France	Bishop of Le Mans, France
		Born	Gonzalo de Angulo, O.M. †	Valladolid, Spain	Bishop of Coro, Venezuela
		Born	Engelbert des Bois †	Tornaci	Bishop of Namur {Namen}, Belgium
		Died	Sisto Diuzioli †	Bishop of Carinola (Calina), Italy
		Born	Jacobus Faganeo (Fagagna), O.S.H. †	Venice	Bishop of Korčula (Curzola, Cursola), Croatia
		Born	Ludovicus Galbiati †	Roma	Bishop of Acerno, Italy
		Born	Cesare Gherardi †	Fossato	Cardinal, Bishop of Camerino, Italy
		Died	Cesare de’ Giacomelli †	Bishop of Belcastro, Italy
		Died	Antonio Lauro †	Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia, Italy
		Died	Antonio Lorenzini †	Bishop of Assisi, Italy
		Born	Ovidio Lupari †	Bononiae	Bishop of Teano, Italy
		Born	Giacomo Marenco †	Mondovì	Bishop of Nice, France
	81.0	Ordained Bishop	Diego de Medellín, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Santiago de Chile
		Died	Niccolò Francesco Missanelli †	Bishop of Policastro, Italy
		Born	Joseph Mohr von Zernetz †	Mals	Bishop of Chur, Switzerland
		Born	Baltasar Navarro Arroytia †	Visiedo	Bishop of Tarazona, Spain
		Died	Pedro Narro †	Archbishop of Oristano, Italy
		Died	Giovanni Oliva †	Archbishop of Chieti, Italy
		Born	Agostino Oreggi (Oregius) †	Santa Sofia	Cardinal, Archbishop of Benevento, Italy
	55.1	Resigned	Felice Peretti Montalto, O.F.M. Conv. †	Bishop of Fermo, Italy	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
		Died	Francesco Perignani †	Bishop of Cortona, Italy
		Born	Augustin Pitterich, O.S.B. †	München	Auxiliary Bishop of Wien, Austria
		Appointed	Alfonso Porzio †	Bishop of Monopoli, Italy
		Born	Matteo Priuli †	Venice, Italy	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of San Marco
		Born	Bogusław Radoszewski †		Bishop of Lutsk (Łuck), Ukraine
		Born	Luigi Riccio †	Napoli	Bishop of Vico Equense, Italy
		Born	Theodor Riphaen †	Neuss	Auxiliary Bishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
	40.0	Resigned	Girolamo Rusticucci †	Bishop of Senigallia, Italy	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
		Died	Juan Ramírez Zapata de Cárdenas †	Bishop of Palencia, Spain
	26.1	Appointed	Heinrich von Sachsen-Lauenburg †	Bishop of Paderborn, Germany	Archbishop-Elect of Bremen (and Hamberg), Germany
		Born	Giovanni Sanctatus, O.P. †		Bishop of Rethymo, Greece
	39.4	Appointed	Filippo Sega †	Apostolic Nuncio to Spain	Cardinal, Bishop of Piacenza, Italy
		Died	Juan Sena, O.S.A. †	Bishop of Bosa, Italy
		Resigned	Bartolomeo Sirigo †	Bishop of Castellaneta, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
		Died	Fernando de Tavora, O.P. †	Bishop Emeritus of Funchal, Portugal
		Born	Lorenzo Tramallo †		Bishop of Gerace, Italy
		Ordained Priest	Francisco de Vera-Villavicencio, O. de M. †	Priest of Order of Our Lady of Mercy	Bishop of Perpignan-Elne, France
	25.0	Professed	Alfonso Visconti, C.O. †	Priest of Confederation of Oratorians of St. Philip Neri	Cardinal, Bishop of Spoleto, Italy
		Born	Aegidius Ursinus de Vivere †	Leodien	Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine
		Died	Daniele Vocazio, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Muro Lucano, Italy
		Born	Diego de Zambrana de Villalobos y Cordero †	Mérida, Spain	Bishop of Santiago de Chile
6 Jan	76.0	Appointed	Georges d’Armagnac †	Administrator of Avignon, France	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Tours, France
6 Jan		Appointed	Fantino Petrignani †	Archbishop of Cosenza, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
14 Jan	50.0	Appointed	Pedro de Aragón †	Bishop of Vic, Spain	Bishop of Lérida, Spain
14 Jan		Appointed	Manuel de Seabra (Leabra) †	Bishop of Ceuta, Spain	Bishop of Miranda (do Douro), Portugal
18 Jan		Died	Nicolò Ormanetto †	Bishop of Padova {Padua}, Italy
29 Jan		Appointed	Mateus de Medina, O. Carm. †	Bishop of Cochin, India	Archbishop Emeritus of Goa, India
29 Jan		Appointed	Henrique de Távora e Brito, O.P. †	Archbishop of Goa, India
30 Jan	39.1	Appointed	Mariano Pierbenedetti †	Bishop of Martirano (Martoranum), Italy	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
4 Feb		Appointed	Antoine Hébrard de Saint-Sulpice †	Bishop of Cahors, France
9 Feb		Died	Ambrogio Salvio, O.P. †	Bishop of Nardò, Italy
25 Feb	53.1	Appointed	Feliciano Ninguarda, O.P. †	Bishop of Scala, Italy	Bishop of Como, Italy
		Appointed	Vincenzo Petrolini †	Bishop of Muro Lucano, Italy
		Appointed	Costantino Piccioni, O.S.A. †	Bishop of Cortona, Italy
		Died	Alfonso Rossetti †	Bishop of Ferrara, Italy
28 Feb		Born	Angel Manrique, O. Cist. †	Burgos	Bishop of Badajoz, Spain
3 Mar	17.3	Elevated to Cardinal	Albrecht von Austria (Österreich) †	Former Archbishop-Elect of Toledo, Spain
4 Mar		Appointed	Łukasz Kościelecki †	Bishop of Poznań, Poland
9 Mar		Appointed	Giuseppe Faraoni †	Bishop of Massa Lubrense, Italy	Bishop of Crotone (Cotrone), Italy
11 Mar		Appointed	Alessandro Andreasi †	Bishop of Casale Monferrato, Italy	Bishop of Mantova, Italy
16 Mar	51.9	Died	Franciszek Krasiński †	Bishop of Kraków, Poland
19 Mar	65.2	Died	Martín Rojas de Portalrubio, O.S.Io.Hieros. †	Bishop of Malta
19 Mar		Born	Georg Christoph Rösch †	Dillingen	Auxiliary Bishop of Eichstätt, Germany
27 Mar	48.2	Appointed	Diego Gómez de Lamadrid, O.SS.T. †	Archbishop of Lima, Peru	Bishop of Badajoz, Spain
14 Apr		Appointed	Juan Méndez de Villafranca, O.P. †	Bishop of Santa Marta, Colombia
15 Apr		Appointed	Cesare Bovio †	Bishop of Nardò, Italy
		Appointed	Antonio de Hervias, O.P. †	Bishop of Arequipa, Peru	Bishop of Cartagena, Colombia
		Appointed	Alonso Guzmán y Talavera, O.S.H. †	Bishop of Trujillo, Peru	Bishop Emeritus
23 Apr		Died	Pierre Danès †	Bishop of Lavaur, France
		Died	Cherubino Lavosio, O.S.A. †	Bishop of Telese o Cerreto Sannita, Italy
		Born	Gaspard Dubois (Van Den Bosch, Nemius) †	Buscoducen	Archbishop of Cambrai, France
29 Apr		Appointed	Orazio Montegranelli †	Bishop of Fossombrone, Italy
10 May		Appointed	Giovanni Antonio de Paola †	Bishop of Belcastro, Italy
10 May		Died	Egidio de Monte, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Deventer, Netherlands
11 May		Appointed	Bartolomeu Simões Pereira †	Prelate of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Prelate Emeritus
24 May		Appointed	Mathieu Moullart, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Arras, France
26 May		Appointed	Bernardus Herinck †	Bishop of Deventer, Netherlands	Bishop Emeritus
3 Jun	39.4	Appointed	Nikolaus Elgard †	Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz, Germany
3 Jun	39.4	Appointed	Nikolaus Elgard †	Titular Bishop of Ascalon	Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz, Germany
14 Jun		Appointed	Ludovico Bentivoglio †	Bishop of Policastro, Italy	Bishop of Città di Castello, Italy
19 Jun	22.5	Ordained Priest	Ernst von Bayern †	Priest of Freising, Germany	Archbishop-Elect of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
21 Jun		Appointed	Giovanni Battista Brugnatelli †	Bishop of Assisi, Italy
21 Jun	77.5	Appointed	Francisco Sancho Allepuz †	Bishop of Segovia, Spain
25 Jun		Died	Marco Loredan †	Bishop of Nona (Nin), Croatia
26 Jun		Appointed	Juan Redín Cruzat †	Bishop of Tarazona, Spain
1 Jul		Appointed	Alessandro Casale †	Bishop of Vigevano, Italy
4 Jul		Appointed	Andrés Santos Quintana (de Sampedro) †	Bishop of Teruel, Spain	Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain
5 Jul		Appointed	Piotr Dunin Wolski †	Bishop of Płock, Poland
5 Jul		Appointed	Piotr Myszkowski †	Bishop of Kraków, Poland
8 Jul	58.1	Died	Veit von Würtzburg †	Bishop of Bamberg, Germany
9 Jul	60.5	Died	Andrés Oviedo, S.J. †	Bishop of Foreign Diocese
19 Jul		Appointed	Marcin Białobrzeski, O. Cist. †	Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi (Kamieniec), Ukraine
		Appointed	Pietro Cedolini †	Bishop of Nona (Nin), Croatia	Bishop of Hvar (Lesina), Croatia
	46.1	Appointed	Federico Cornaro (Sr.), O.S.Io.Hieros. †	Cardinal, Bishop of Padova {Padua}, Italy
		Appointed	Pomponio Cotta †	Bishop of Novara, Italy
	40.5	Appointed	Gerolamo Ragazzoni †	Bishop of Bergamo, Italy
23 Jul	73.5	Died	Scipione Rebiba †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
31 Jul	39.6	Appointed	Luigi d’Este †	Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Angelo in Pescheria	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Ferrara, Italy
	54.6	Appointed	Giacomo Savelli †	Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
	58.6	Appointed	Giovanni Antonio Serbelloni †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
3 Aug		Appointed	Giovanni Domenico Marcot (Malcoto detto Foconio), O.P. †	Coadjutor Archbishop of Split (Spalato), Croatia	Archbishop
14 Aug		Appointed	Giovanbattista Maremonti †	Bishop of Sora, Italy
	35.8	Appointed	Domenico Pinelli (Sr.) †	Bishop of Fermo, Italy	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus
		Appointed	Meliaduce Suico †	Bishop of Carinola (Calina), Italy
20 Aug		Selected	Johann Georg Zobel von Giebelstadt †	Bishop of Bamberg, Germany	Bishop-Elect
28 Aug		Died	Francisco Andrés de Carvajal, O.F.M. †	Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Sep		Born	Rodrigo da Cunha †	Lisboa	Archbishop of Lisboa {Lisbon}, Portugal
5 Sep	45.7	Resigned	Salentin von Isenburg †	Bishop-Elect of Paderborn, Germany	Former Archbishop-Elect of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
6 Sep	65.1	Appointed	Diego de Covarrubias y Leiva †	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Cuenca, Spain	Bishop
6 Sep	65.6	Appointed	Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Toledo, Spain
9 Sep		Died	Dionisio de Santos, O.P. †	Bishop of Cartagena, Colombia
11 Sep		Appointed	Vincenzo Cutelli †	Bishop of Catania, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
		Appointed	Diego Deza Tello †	Bishop of Jaén, Spain
		Appointed	Pedro del Frago Garcés †	Bishop of Huesca, Spain
	68.5	Appointed	Gregorio Antonio Gallo de Andrade †	Bishop of Segovia, Spain
		Appointed	Alvaro Hurtado de Mendoza y Sarmiento †	Bishop of Palencia, Spain
		Appointed	Cesare Marullo †	Archbishop of Palermo, Italy
		Appointed	Juan Méndez de Salvatierra †	Archbishop of Granada, Spain
		Appointed	Juan Ochoa Salazar †	Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada, Spain	Bishop of Plasencia, Spain
		Appointed	Pedro Serrano Téllez †	Bishop of Coria, Spain
13 Sep	45.7	Resigned	Salentin von Isenburg †	Archbishop-Elect of Köln {Cologne}, Germany	Former Archbishop-Elect
16 Sep		Died	Johannes Kridt †	Auxiliary Bishop of Münster, Germany
21 Sep		Ordained Priest	Decio Caracciolo Rosso †	Priest	Archbishop of Bari (-Canosa), Italy
22 Sep		Ordained Bishop	Vincenzo Cutelli †	Bishop of Catania, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
27 Sep	65.2	Died	Diego de Covarrubias y Leiva †	Bishop of Cuenca, Spain
3 Oct	44.2	Appointed	Mark Sittich von Hohenems (Altemps) †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria degli Angeli	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany
4 Oct		Born	Guido Bentivoglio d’Aragona †	Ferrara, Italy	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
7 Oct		Born	Ferdinand von Bayern †	München	Archbishop-Elect of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
9 Oct		Appointed	Marcello Franci †	Bishop of Bova, Italy
9 Oct		Appointed	Juan Rojas †	Bishop of Agrigento (Girgenti), Italy
14 Oct	68.2	Appointed	Bernardo de Fresneda, O.F.M. †	Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain
28 Oct		Died	Francisco Pérez †	Archbishop of Cagliari, Italy
30 Oct		Appointed	Girolamo Leoni †	Archbishop of Chieti, Italy
2 Nov	45.8	Died	Innocenzo Ciocchi del Monte †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Via Lata
3 Nov	24.8	Ordained Priest	Rafael Rovirola †	Priest	Bishop of Barcelona, Spain
5 Nov	24.8	Ordained Priest	Onofre Reart †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Gerona, Spain
8 Nov	39.9	Appointed	Antonio Carafa †	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Via Lata	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
	36.1	Appointed	Filippo Guastavillani †	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Cosmedin	Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Eustachio
	46.9	Appointed	Miguel Thomas de Taxaquet †	Bishop of Lérida, Spain
13 Nov		Appointed	Natale Venier †	Archbishop of Zadar (Zara), Croatia
24 Nov	46.9	Ordained Bishop	Miguel Thomas de Taxaquet †	Bishop of Lérida, Spain
29 Nov	30.9	Appointed	Francesco Cornaro (Jr.) †	Bishop of Treviso, Italy	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus
29 Nov		Appointed	Bernardino Suriano †	Archbishop of Corfù, Greece
Dec		Died	Juan Méndez de Villafranca, O.P. †	Bishop of Santa Marta, Colombia
5 Dec	30.1	Selected	Gebhard Truchseß von Waldburg †	Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany	Former Archbishop-Elect
11 Dec	19.5	Appointed	Andreas von Austria (Österreich) †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Nuova	Cardinal, Bishop of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany
11 Dec	60.9	Appointed	Wojciech Staroźrebski Sobiejuski †	Bishop of Przemyśl, Poland
14 Dec		Died	Giambattista Milanese †	Bishop of Marsi, Italy
19 Dec	59.0	Died	Antonio Manrique Valencia †	Bishop of Pamplona, Spain
22 Dec	68.3	Died	Bernardo de Fresneda, O.F.M. †	Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain