| Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
| unknown | | Born | Luís de Cifuentes y Sotomayor, O.P. † | Sevilla, Spain | Bishop of Yucatán (Mérida), Yucatán, México |
| Born | Dionisio de Cimbrón, O. Cist. † | Autol, Spain | Bishop of Concepción, Chile |
| Appointed | Giovanni Battista del Tufo † | Bishop of Acerra (Cerenthia, Acerrae), Italy |
| Died | Alonso Fernández de Bonilla † | Archbishop of México, Federal District |
| 22.0 | Ordained Priest | Juan García Arlés † | Priest of Orihuela, Spain | Bishop |
| Appointed | Alessandro Guidiccioni (Jr.) † | Bishop of Lucca, Italy |
| 58.0 | Ordained Bishop | Gregor Helfenstein † | Titular Bishop of Azotus | Auxiliary Bishop of Trier, Germany |
| Died | Gilberto Isfar y Corillas † | Bishop of Patti, Italy |
| Born | Cristóbal de la Mancha y Velazco, O.P. † | Lima | Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Born | Heber MacMahon (McMahon) † | Inniskeen | Bishop of Clogher, Ireland |
| Died | Jerónimo de Menezes † | Bishop of Porto, Portugal |
| Ordained Bishop | Francisco Ortega, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Nueva Caceres, Philippines |
| 38.0 | Ordained Bishop | Agustín Dávila y Padilla, O.P. † | Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| Died | Angelo Peruzzi † | Bishop of Sarsina, Italy |
| Born | Martin Saudrius von Sternfeld † | Dudenwerde | Prefect Emeritus of Meissen (Meißen) {Lusazia o Lausitz; Sassonia}, Germany |
| 48.9 | Appointed | Štefan Szuhay † | Bishop of Eger, Hungary | Archbishop of Kalocsa, Hungary |
| Appointed | Jerónimo Teixeira Cabral † | Bishop of Angra, Portugal | Bishop of Miranda, Portugal |
| Born | Pacifico Trani (Trasi), O.F.M. † | Roma | Bishop of Cagli, Italy |
| 42.0 | Died | Hector Valladares † | Bishop of Ceuta, Spain |
| Born | Antonio Vigo, O. de M. † | Jerez de la Frontera | Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru |
| 10 Jan | 53.3 | Appointed | Sancho Dávila Toledo † | Bishop of Jaén, Spain | Bishop of Plasencia, Spain |
| 19 Jan | | Appointed | Tomás de Borja † | Bishop of Málaga, Spain | Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain |
| 21 Jan | 43.6 | Died | Jerzy Radziwiłł † | Bishop of Kraków, Poland | Cardinal, Bishop of Vilnius, Lithuania |
| 24 Jan | | Appointed | Juan Zúñiga † | Bishop of Cartagena (en España) |
| 28 Jan | | Born | Giulio Rospigliosi † | Pistoria | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) |
| 20 Feb | | Died | Iñigo Avalos de Aragón, O.S. † | Cardinal, Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina, Italy |
| 21 Feb | 68.1 | Appointed | Ludovico Madruzzo † | Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati | Cardinal, Bishop of Trento, Italy |
| 13 Mar | 14.2 | Professed | Mauro Diego (Marcos) de Tovar y Valle Maldonado, O.S.B. † | Member of Order of Saint Benedict | Bishop of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas), Chiapas, México |
| 20 Mar | | Appointed | Juan de Castro, O.S.B. † | Archbishop of Taranto, Italy |
| 2 Apr | 38.3 | Succeeded | Carlo Gaudenzio Madruzzo † | Cardinal, Bishop of Trento, Italy |
| 3 Apr | | Born | Francesco Boccapaduli † | Roma | Bishop Emeritus of Città di Castello, Italy |
| 9 Apr | | Ordained Bishop | Tomás de Borja † | Bishop of Málaga, Spain | Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain |
| 20 Apr | 68.3 | Died | Ludovico Madruzzo † | Cardinal, Bishop of Trento, Italy |
| 23 Apr | 80.1 | Appointed | Pedro de Deza Manuel † | Cardinal, Bishop of Albano, Italy |
| 5 May | 53.3 | Appointed | Mateo de Oviedo, O.F.M. † | Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland |
| 11 May | | Died | Antônio Barreiros, O. Cist. † | Bishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil |
| 12 May | 42.4 | Appointed | Juan Pérez de Espinosa, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Santiago de Chile | Bishop Emeritus |
| Appointed | Juan Ramírez de Arellano, O.P. † | Bishop of Guatemala (Santiago de Guatemala), Guatemala |
| 13 May | 59.9 | Died | Gaspar Punter † | Bishop of Tortosa, Spain |
| 23 May | 52.4 | Appointed | Bernard Maciejowski † | Bishop of Kraków, Poland | Cardinal, Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland |
| 10 Jun | 53.4 | Died | Domingo de Salinas, O.P. † | Bishop of Coro, Venezuela |
| 18 Jun | 80.2 | Ordained Bishop | Pedro de Deza Manuel † | Cardinal, Bishop of Albano, Italy |
| 24 Jun | | Born | Juan de Palafox y Mendoza † | Fitero, Spain | Bishop of Osma, Spain |
| 26 Jun | 62.9 | Appointed | Arnaud d'Ossat † | Cardinal, Bishop of Bayeux, France |
| Jul | 65.5 | Died | Guillaume de St-Marcel d'Avançon † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Embrun, France |
| 16 Jul | 53.5 | Ordained Bishop | Mateo de Oviedo, O.F.M. † | Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland |
| 22 Jul | 65.6 | Died | Laurentius Fabritius † | Auxiliary Bishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany |
| 25 Jul | 42.6 | Ordained Bishop | Juan Pérez de Espinosa, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Santiago de Chile | Bishop Emeritus |
| Ordained Bishop | Juan Ramírez de Arellano, O.P. † | Bishop of Guatemala (Santiago de Guatemala), Guatemala |
| 30 Jul | 48.9 | Ordained Bishop | Lothar von Metternich † | Archbishop of Trier, Germany |
| 31 Jul | | Appointed | Antonio de Franchis, C.R. † | Bishop of Foreign Diocese | Bishop of Andria, Italy |
| Appointed | Benedykt Woyna (Wojna) † | Bishop of Vilnius, Lithuania |
| 1 Aug | 70.6 | Died | Amador Arrais (de Mondoza), O. Carm. † | Bishop Emeritus of Portalegre, Portugal |
| 27 Aug | 80.4 | Died | Pedro de Deza Manuel † | Cardinal, Bishop of Albano, Italy |
| 1 Sep | 49.9 | Appointed | Antonio Zapata Cisneros † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Burgos, Spain |
| 5 Sep | | Appointed | Martín Vasquez de Arce, O.P. † | Bishop of Puerto Rico (Porto Rico) |
| 9 Sep | | Died | Francisco de Tolosa, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Tui, Spain |
| 20 Sep | 77.5 | Died | Rodrigo de Castro Osorio (de Lemos) † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain |
| Died | Pedro Portocarrero † | Bishop of Cuenca, Spain |
| 25 Sep | 52.7 | Appointed | Mateo Burgos Moraleja, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Pamplona, Spain | Bishop of Sigüenza, Spain |
| 11 Oct | 71.1 | Died | Bartolomé de la Plaza † | Bishop of Valladolid, Spain |
| 5 Nov | 58.1 | Died | Sigmund Friedrich Graf Fugger von Kirchberg † | Bishop of Regensburg, Germany |
| 10 Nov | 41.3 | Appointed | Wawrzyniec Gembicki † | Bishop of Chelmno (Culma), Poland | Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland |
| 12 Nov | 42.4 | Died | Andreas Markgraf von Österreich † | Cardinal, Bishop of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany |
| 6 Dec | | Appointed | García de Santa María Mendoza y Zúñiga, O.S.H. † | Archbishop of México, Federal District |
| 15 Dec | | Appointed | François de La Valette Cornusson † | Bishop of Vabres, France |
| 19 Dec | 48.0 | Appointed | Wolfgang von Hausen † | Bishop of Regensburg, Germany |
| 20 Dec | 26.2 | Installed | François d'Escoubleau de Sourdis † | Cardinal-Priest of Ss. XII Apostoli | Cardinal, Archbishop of Bordeaux, France |
| 54.0 | Appointed | Orazio Spínola † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Genova, Italy |