The Year of Our Lord 1583

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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
unknown		Born	Tommaso d’Ancora (Ariconi), C.R. †	Saleruitan	Archbishop of Trani, Italy
		Born	Lorenzo Azzolini †	Fermo	Bishop of Narni, Italy
		Ordained Bishop	Isidoro Caja de la Jara †	Bishop of Mondoñedo, Spain
		Born	Modernus (Fabrizio) Caracciolo Piscizi †		Bishop of Oppido Mamertina, Italy
		Born	Alessandro Castracani (Castracane) †	Fano	Bishop of Fano, Italy
		Appointed	Pedro de Castilho †	Bishop of Leiria, Portugal	Bishop Emeritus
		Born	Jacinto del Cerro, O.P. †	Spain	Bishop of Gaeta, Italy
		Born	Pierdonato Cesi (Jr.) †	Rome, Italy	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of San Marcello
		Born	Marco Antonio Cornaro †	Venice	Bishop of Padova {Padua}, Italy
	45.0	Ordained Priest	Wolfgang Kämmerer von Dalberg †	Priest of Mainz, Germany	Archbishop
		Died	Giovanni Francesco de Mirto †	Bishop Emeritus of Ruvo (Ruo)(di Puglia), Italy
		Born	Ascanio Filomarino †	Naples	Cardinal, Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy
		Appointed	Vicente de Fonseca, O.P. †	Archbishop of Goa, India
		Born	Giovanni Francesco Gandolfo †		Bishop of Alba (Pompea), Italy
		Born	Nicolò Guidi di Bagno †	Mantua	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Senigallia, Italy
		Born	Joannes Franciscus Gniński †	Posnanien	Titular Bishop of Aenus
		Born	Tommaso Malloni (Mallono), C.R.S. †		Bishop of Belluno, Italy
		Died	Sigismondo Mangiaruga †	Bishop of Oppido Mamertina, Italy
		Died	Gerolamo Melchiori †	Bishop Emeritus of Macerata, Italy
		Died	John O’Cahasy, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Killala, Ireland
		Died	Andrés Pérez †	Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain
		Born	François de Péricard †		Bishop of Evreux, France
		Born	Carlo Pinti †	Salerni	Bishop of Nicotera, Italy
		Born	Paulus Pucciarelli, O.P. †		Bishop of Andros, Greece
	46.0	Appointed	Gerolamo Ragazzoni †	Apostolic Nuncio to France	Bishop of Bergamo, Italy
		Resigned	Manuel de Seabra (Leabra) †	Bishop of Ceuta, Spain	Bishop of Miranda (do Douro), Portugal
		Appointed	Nicola Secadenari †	Bishop of Bisceglie, Italy
		Born	Antin Selava †	Polocen	Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ruthenian), Ukraine
		Died	Nicholas Skerret †	Archbishop of Tuam, Ireland
		Appointed	Jan Dymitr Solikowski †	Archbishop of Lviv, Ukraine
		Born	Nicolò Spínola, C.R. †		Bishop of Ventimiglia, Italy
		Born	Nicola Antonio Spinelli, C.R. †	Napoli	Bishop of Alessano, Italy
		Died	Bernardino Suriano †	Archbishop of Corfù, Greece
		Born	Andrzej Szołdrski †	Poznań	Bishop of Poznań, Poland
5 Jan		Born	Marco Antonio Tomati †	Caravonica	Bishop of Asti, Italy
10 Jan		Appointed	Paolo Regio †	Bishop of Vico Equense, Italy
17 Jan		Died	Cesare Bovio †	Bishop of Nardò, Italy
17 Jan		Died	Vincenzo Cisoni, O.P. †	Bishop of Sant’Agata de’ Goti, Italy
19 Jan		Appointed	Jerónimo Manrique de Lara †	Bishop of Cartagena (en España)	Bishop of Avila, Spain
23 Jan		Died	Anton Resch, O.P. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Würzburg, Germany
24 Jan	65.4	Resigned	Antoine Perrenot de Granvella †	Archbishop of Mechelen, Belgium	Cardinal, Archbishop of Besançon, France
	56.1	Appointed	Joannes Hauchin †	Archbishop of Mechelen, Belgium
		Appointed	Maximilien Morillon †	Bishop of Tournai {Doornik}, Belgium
31 Jan	59.1	Appointed	Feliciano Ninguarda, O.P. †	Bishop of Sant’Agata de’ Goti, Italy	Bishop of Como, Italy
Feb		Died	Jean Baptiste Le Gras †	Bishop of Tréguier, France
2 Feb	25.1	Ordained Priest	Paolo Tolosa, C.R. †	Priest of Congregation of Clerics Regular	Archbishop of Chieti, Italy
6 Feb	39.1	Ordained Bishop	Andrés Cabrera Bobadilla †	Bishop of Segovia, Spain	Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain
6 Feb	33.1	Ordained Bishop	François Vernède-Corneillan †	Bishop of Rodez, France
7 Feb		Appointed	Claudius Sozomenus †	Bishop of Pula (Pola), Croatia	Auxiliary Bishop of Salzburg, Austria
25 Feb		Died	Vincenzo Castaneola Marino †	Bishop of Alba (Pompea), Italy
Mar		Died	Pedro de la Peña, O.P. †	Bishop of Quito, Ecuador
2 Mar	65.3	Died	Fulvio Giulio della Corgna, O.S.Io.Hieros. †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
4 Mar	42.4	Appointed	Alfonso Gesualdo di Conza (Gonza) †	Cardinal-Bishop of Albano	Cardinal, Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy
	50.1	Appointed	Giovanni Francesco Gàmbara †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
	68.4	Appointed	Prospero Publicola Santacroce †	Cardinal-Priest of San Clemente	Cardinal, Bishop of Albano, Italy
	64.2	Appointed	Giovanni Antonio Serbelloni †	Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
9 Mar		Appointed	Fabio Fornari †	Bishop of Nardò, Italy
	60.2	Appointed	Giacomo Savelli †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
	50.2	Appointed	Alonso Velázquez †	Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
14 Mar		Appointed	Sarkis Rizzi el-Bkoufani †	Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Maronite), Lebanon
16 Mar		Died	Jean de Vassé †	Bishop of Lisieux, France
23 Mar		Appointed	Jan Boruchowski †	Bishop of Przemyśl, Poland
		Appointed	Juan Manual Martínez de Manzanillo, O.P. †	Bishop of Coro, Venezuela
		Appointed	Martín de Salvatierra †	Bishop of Segorbe, Spain	Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain
28 Mar		Appointed	Gaspar Juan de la Figuera, C.R.S.A. †	Bishop of Albarracin, Spain	Bishop of Lérida, Spain
		Appointed	Georgius de Péricard †	Bishop of Avranches, France
		Appointed	Lelio (Aurelio) Zimbramonti (Gibramontis) †	Bishop of Alba (Pompea), Italy	Bishop of Casale Monferrato, Italy
1 Apr	35.4	Resigned	Gebhard Truchseß von Waldburg †	Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany	Former Archbishop-Elect
10 Apr	26.9	Ordained Priest	Jerzy Radziwiłł †	Priest of Vilnius, Lithuania	Cardinal, Bishop
27 Apr		Died	Paolo Fusco †	Bishop of Sarno, Italy
27 Apr	33.3	Appointed	Germanico Malaspina †	Bishop of San Severo, Italy
4 May		Appointed	Bartolomé Molina †	Bishop of Tui, Spain
9 May		Appointed	Sebastián Pérez †	Bishop of Osma, Spain
11 May	69.4	Appointed	Benito Tocco, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Lérida, Spain
11 May	32.9	Appointed	Maffeo Venier †	Archbishop of Corfù, Greece
2 Jun	28.5	Selected	Ernst von Bayern †	Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany	Archbishop-Elect
3 Jun		Appointed	Bartolomé de Ledesma, O.P. †	Bishop of Antequera, Oaxaca, México
24 Jun		Born	Juan Merino López, O.F.M. †	Madrid	Bishop of Valladolid, Spain
27 Jun		Appointed	Francesco D’Afflitto †	Bishop of Scala, Italy
10 Jul	33.1	Ordained Bishop	Maffeo Venier †	Archbishop of Corfù, Greece
18 Jul		Appointed	Luca Alemanni †	Bishop of Mâcon, France	Bishop Emeritus of Volterra, Italy
30 Jul		Died	Nicola Secadenari †	Bishop of Bisceglie, Italy
8 Aug		Appointed	Girolamo Matteucci †	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Sarno, Italy	Bishop of Viterbo e Tuscania, Italy
8 Aug		Appointed	Jean Louis Pallavicino Ceva †	Bishop of Marsico Nuovo, Italy	Bishop of Nice, France
10 Aug		Born	Diego Martínez Zarzosa †	Calahorra	Bishop of Málaga, Spain
19 Aug	64.6	Died	Melchior Miguel Carneiro Leitão, S.J. †	Patriarch Emeritus of Ethiopia	Patriarch
21 Aug		Died	Alfonso Delgado †	Bishop of Astorga, Spain
22 Aug		Died	Giovanni Battista Castelli †	Bishop of Rimini, Italy
		Appointed	Jean de L’Aubespine †	Bishop of Limoges, France	Bishop of Orléans, France
	61.7	Died	Marcantonio Maffei †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Chieti, Italy
25 Aug	33.6	Ordained Bishop	Germanico Malaspina †	Bishop of San Severo, Italy
26 Aug	40.5	Resigned	Martin von Eyb †	Bishop-Elect of Bamberg, Germany	Former Bishop-Elect
30 Aug		Died	Marco Medici, O.P. †	Bishop of Chioggia, Italy
2 Sep	28.9	Selected	Ernst von Mengersdorf †	Bishop of Bamberg, Germany
8 Sep		Died	Marco Fedele Gonzaga †	Bishop of Mantova, Italy
18 Sep	58.7	Died	Francesco Bossi †	Bishop of Novara, Italy
23 Sep		Born	Philipp Adolf von Ehrenberg †	Heinsheim	Bishop of Würzburg, Germany
7 Oct	28.8	Confirmed	Ernst von Bayern †	Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany	Archbishop-Elect
		Appointed	Raffaele Bonelli †	Archbishop of Dubrovnik (Ragusa), Croatia
		Appointed	Alessandro Cospi †	Bishop of Bisceglie, Italy
		Appointed	Bernardo Lauro, O.P. †	Bishop of Milos (Melos), Greece	Bishop of Santorini {Thira}, Greece
9 Oct		Died	Martin Baudouin †	Bishop of Ypres (Ieper), Belgium
9 Oct		Died	Sebastián Lartaún †	Bishop of Cuzco, Peru
14 Oct		Appointed	François de La Tour †	Bishop of Tréguier, France	Bishop Emeritus of Quimper, France
16 Oct		Ordained Bishop	Maximilien Morillon †	Bishop of Tournai {Doornik}, Belgium
16 Oct		Died	Diego de Simancas †	Bishop of Zamora, Spain
30 Oct	56.8	Ordained Bishop	Joannes Hauchin †	Archbishop of Mechelen, Belgium
Nov		Born	Carlo Maranta †	Napoli	Bishop of Tropea, Italy
7 Nov		Appointed	Angelo di Cipro, O.P. †	Bishop of Santorini {Thira}, Greece	Bishop Emeritus
7 Nov		Appointed	Jean Louis Pallavicino Ceva †	Bishop of Nice, France
13 Nov		Ordained Bishop	Francesco D’Afflitto †	Bishop of Scala, Italy
14 Nov		Appointed	Alessandro Andreasi †	Bishop of Mantova, Italy
	47.6	Appointed	Ignazio (Pellegrino) Danti, O.P. †	Bishop of Alatri, Italy
		Appointed	Aurelio Zibramonti †	Bishop of Casale Monferrato, Italy
		Appointed	Lelio (Aurelio) Zimbramonti (Gibramontis) †	Bishop of Casale Monferrato, Italy
21 Nov		Appointed	Horace René de Birague †	Bishop of Lavaur, France
21 Nov	29.1	Confirmed	Ernst von Mengersdorf †	Bishop of Bamberg, Germany
24 Nov	76.8	Died	René de Birague †	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Lodève, France
25 Nov	16.9	Professed	Pedro Carranza Salinas, O. Carm. †	Member of Order of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel	Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina
25 Nov		Born	Juan de Lugo y de Quiroga, S.J. †	Madrid, Spain	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Balbina
28 Nov	41.9	Appointed	Andrea Canuto †	Bishop of Oppido Mamertina, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
30 Nov	47.7	Ordained Bishop	Ignazio (Pellegrino) Danti, O.P. †	Bishop of Alatri, Italy
12 Dec	45.4	Elevated to Cardinal	Alberto Bolognetti †	Cardinal, Bishop of Massa Marittima, Italy
	21.7	Elevated to Cardinal	Charles Bourbon de Vendôme †	Cardinal, Archbishop-Elect of Rouen, France
	59.9	Elevated to Cardinal	Giulio Canani †	Cardinal, Bishop of Modena, Italy
	60.8	Elevated to Cardinal	Rodrigo de Castro Osorio (de Lemos) †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain
	45.9	Appointed	Antonio Carafa †	Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Eusebio	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
		Appointed	Jaime Casador †	Bishop of Gerona, Spain
	62.4	Elevated to Cardinal	Giovanni Battista Castagna †	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
	64.9	Elevated to Cardinal	Matthieu Cointerel †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santo Stefano al Monte Celio
	48.5	Elevated to Cardinal	Alessandro Ottaviano de’ Medici †	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
	72.9	Elevated to Cardinal	Michele della Torre †	Cardinal, Bishop of Ceneda, Italy
	64.4	Elevated to Cardinal	Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti de Nuce †	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
	21.5	Elevated to Cardinal	François de Joyeuse †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Rouen, France
	56.9	Elevated to Cardinal	Scipione Lancellotti †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of San Salvatore in Lauro
	60.7	Elevated to Cardinal	Vincenzo Lauro †	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Mondovi, Italy
	27.5	Elevated to Cardinal	Jerzy Radziwiłł †	Cardinal, Bishop of Vilnius, Lithuania
	46.9	Elevated to Cardinal	Antonmaria Salviati †	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Papoul, France
	48.8	Elevated to Cardinal	Niccolò Sfondrati †	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
	21.1	Elevated to Cardinal	Francesco Sforza †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
	48.0	Elevated to Cardinal	Filippo Spinola †	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Nola, Italy
	33.6	Elevated to Cardinal	Simeone Tagliavia d’Aragonia †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
	52.7	Elevated to Cardinal	Agostino Valier (Valeri, Valieri) †	Cardinal, Bishop of Verona, Italy
19 Dec	56.7	Died	Zaccaria Delfino †	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Hvar (Lesina), Croatia
	46.0	Appointed	Luigi d’Este †	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Via Lata	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Ferrara, Italy
	43.0	Appointed	Giovanni Vincenzo Gonzaga, O.S.Io.Hieros. †	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Cosmedin	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Alessio
	42.2	Appointed	Filippo Guastavillani †	Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Angelo in Pescheria	Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Eustachio
		Appointed	Lodovico Michelio †	Bishop of Alba (Pompea), Italy
26 Dec	27.6	Ordained Bishop	Jerzy Radziwiłł †	Cardinal, Bishop of Vilnius, Lithuania
31 Dec	50.2	Died	Ludovico de Torres (I) †	Archbishop of Monreale, Italy