| Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
| unknown | | Died | Martim Afonso de Melo † | Bishop of Lamego, Portugal |
| 51.0 | Ordained Bishop | Juan Alvarez Zapata, O. Cist. † | Bishop of Bosa, Italy | Bishop of Solsona, Spain |
| Ordained Bishop | Pedro Arce, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Cebu, Philippines |
| Born | Johann Bischopinck † | Münster | Auxiliary Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany |
| Born | Charles de Bourlon (Bourbon) † | Paris | Bishop of Soissons, France |
| 27.2 | Ordained Priest | Juan Cebrián Pedro, O. de M. † | Priest of Order of Our Lady of Mercy | Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain |
| Born | Gilbert de Choiseul du Plessis Praslin † | | Bishop of Tournai {Doornik}, Belgium |
| 56.0 | Died | Giovanni Vincenzo Consacco † | Bishop of San Marco (Argentano), Italy |
| Born | Georgius Cornaro † | Venice | Bishop of Padova {Padua}, Italy |
| 41.0 | Died | Fabrizio Degli Afflitti † | Bishop of Boiano, Italy |
| Born | Alessandro Diotallevi, C.R.S.A. † | Ariminen | Bishop of Pesaro, Italy |
| 42.0 | Died | Petrus Federici † | Bishop of Vulturara e Montecorvino, Italy |
| Born | Giovanni Gambacorta, C.R. † | Limatola | Bishop of Marsico Nuovo, Italy |
| Born | Carlo Gualterio † | Orvieto | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Fermo, Italy |
| Died | Pedro Guerrero † | Bishop of Ugento, Italy |
| 27.0 | Selected | François de Harlay de Champvallon † | Coadjutor Archbishop of Rouen, France | Archbishop Emeritus |
| Died | Maciej Konopacki † | Bishop of Chelmno (Culma, Kulm), Poland |
| Born | Francisco Lara † | Quesada | Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain |
| Died | Giovanni Lippomano † | Bishop Emeritus of Poreč (Parenzo), Croatia |
| Born | Peter Franz Longinus von Kieferberg † | Lauban | Prefect of Meißen (Meissen) {Lusazia o Lausitz; Sassonia}, Germany |
| Born | Marzio Marini † | Guardiagrele | Bishop of Sagone (Sagona), France |
| 26.0 | Ordained Priest | Girolamo Martini † | Priest | Bishop of Ugento, Italy |
| Born | Carlo Pellegrini † | Castrovillari | Bishop of Avellino e Frigento, Italy |
| Born | Nicolas Sévin † | Paris | Bishop of Cahors, France |
| Died | Urbain de Saint-Gelais de Lansac † | Bishop of (Saint-Bernard de) Comminges, France |
| Died | Diego Soria, O.P. † | Bishop of Nueva Segovia, Philippines |
| 24.0 | Converted | Johann Sternenberg † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Münster, Germany |
| 38.0 | Appointed | János Telegdy † | Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad}, Romania | Archbishop of Kalocsa, Hungary |
| Born | Odoardo Vecchiarelli † | Rieti | Cardinal, Bishop of Rieti, Italy |
| Jan | 52.0 | Died | Leone Fedeli, O.S.B. † | Bishop of Lavello, Italy |
| 7 Jan | 42.0 | Appointed | Bonifazio Bevilacqua Aldobrandini † | Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati |
| 57.0 | Appointed | Decio Carafa † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy |
| 47.0 | Appointed | Bartolomeo Cesi (Cesa) † | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede | Cardinal, Bishop of Tivoli, Italy |
| 56.4 | Appointed | Carlo Conti † | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca | Cardinal, Bishop of Ancona e Numana, Italy |
| 10 Jan | | Died | Christoph Andreas von Spaur † | Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy |
| 17 Jan | | Appointed | Jacobus Camus de Poutcarré † | Coadjutor Bishop of Sées, France |
| Appointed | Jacobus Camus de Poutcarré † | Titular Bishop of Coronea | Coadjutor Bishop of Sées, France |
| 55.0 | Died | Felipe Marimón † | Bishop of Ampurias e Civita, Italy |
| 19 Jan | | Died | Giovanni Andrea Caligari † | Bishop of Bertinoro, Italy |
| 28 Jan | 50.1 | Confirmed | Johann Christoph von Westerstetten † | Bishop of Eichstätt, Germany |
| 31 Jan | | Died | Rutilio Benzoni † | Bishop of Recanati e Loreto, Italy |
| 4 Feb | 45.1 | Appointed | Gonçalvo (Gonzalo) da Silva † | Bishop of Malacca, Singapore | Bishop of Ceuta, Spain |
| Appointed | Antonio Idiáquez Manrique † | Bishop of Segovia, Spain |
| 5 Feb | | Died | Roland de Neuville † | Bishop of Saint-Pol-de-Léon, France |
| 8 Feb | 46.1 | Appointed | François van der Burch † | Bishop of Gent {Ghent, Gand}, Belgium | Archbishop of Cambrai, France |
| 11 Feb | | Appointed | Bartolomeo Cartolario † | Bishop of Chioggia, Italy |
| Appointed | Andreas Corbelli † | Bishop of Canea (Cydonia, Egée), Greece |
| 45.7 | Appointed | Cosimo della Gherardesca † | Bishop of Colle di Val d’Elsa, Italy | Bishop of Fiesole, Italy |
| 60.1 | Appointed | Agostino Galamini, O.P. † | Bishop of Recanati e Loreto, Italy | Cardinal, Bishop of Osimo, Italy |
| Appointed | Selvaggio Primitelli † | Bishop of Lavello, Italy |
| 17 Feb | | Ordained Bishop | Bartolomeo Cartolario † | Bishop of Chioggia, Italy |
| Ordained Bishop | Andreas Corbelli † | Bishop of Canea (Cydonia, Egée), Greece |
| 24 Feb | | Ordained Bishop | Selvaggio Primitelli † | Bishop of Lavello, Italy |
| 7 Mar | | Confirmed | Stephan von Seiboldsdorf † | Bishop of Freising, Germany |
| 11 Mar | 51.2 | Appointed | Juan Alvarez Zapata, O. Cist. † | Bishop of Solsona, Spain |
| 12 Mar | 60.2 | Ordained Bishop | Agostino Galamini, O.P. † | Bishop of Recanati e Loreto, Italy | Cardinal, Bishop of Osimo, Italy |
| 13 Mar | 62.2 | Died | Francisco Terrones del Caño † | Bishop of León, Spain |
| 18 Mar | 37.2 | Appointed | Giovanni Battista de Aquena † | Bishop of Bosa, Italy |
| 25 Mar | | Appointed | Francisco de Vera-Villavicencio, O. de M. † | Bishop of Perpignan-Elne, France |
| 31 Mar | | Died | Pedro de Castilho † | Bishop Emeritus of Leiria, Portugal |
| 8 Apr | 26.7 | Ordained Priest | Johann Anton Tritt von Wilderen † | Priest of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany | Auxiliary Bishop |
| 14 Apr | 37.3 | Ordained Bishop | Giovanni Battista de Aquena † | Bishop of Bosa, Italy |
| 70.3 | Died | Giovanni Francesco Leone † | Bishop of Telese o Cerreto Sannita, Italy |
| 50.3 | Ordained Bishop | Johann Christoph von Westerstetten † | Bishop of Eichstätt, Germany |
| 15 Apr | | Confirmed | Francisco de la Cámara y Raya, O.P. † | Bishop of Panamá |
| 21 Apr | | Born | Juan López, O.P. † | Villa Martin Munoz de las Posadas, Spain | Archbishop of Manila, Philippines |
| 22 Apr | 35.3 | Appointed | Paul Boudot (Boudet) † | Auxiliary Bishop of Cambrai, France | Bishop of Arras, France |
| 35.3 | Appointed | Paul Boudot (Boudet) † | Titular Bishop of Cardicium | Bishop of Arras, France |
| 46.3 | Appointed | Bonifazio Caetani † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Taranto, Italy |
| May | | Ordained Bishop | Stephan von Seiboldsdorf † | Bishop of Freising, Germany |
| 7 May | 64.3 | Died | Diego Chaves Casas (de Yepes), O.S.H. † | Bishop of Tarazona, Spain |
| 10 May | 38.3 | Appointed | Pierre Bérulle, C.O.I. † | Cardinal, Superior General of Société de l’Oratoire de Jésus |
| 13 May | 43.4 | Appointed | Juan Pérez de la Serna † | Archbishop of México, Federal District | Bishop of Zamora, Spain |
| 15 May | | Born | Bernardino Masseri † | Perusin | Bishop of Anagni, Italy |
| 20 May | 26.2 | Appointed | Jean Bernard d’Angeloch † | Auxiliary Bishop of Basel, Switzerland |
| 26.2 | Appointed | Jean Bernard d’Angeloch † | Titular Bishop of Chrysopolis in Arabia | Auxiliary Bishop of Basel, Switzerland |
| Appointed | Innocenzo Massimi † | Bishop of Bertinoro, Italy | Bishop of Catania, Italy |
| 26 May | | Died | Jean Wischer † | Bishop of Ypres (Ieper), Belgium |
| 27 May | | Died | Decio Caracciolo Rosso † | Archbishop of Bari (-Canosa), Italy |
| 2 Jun | 40.4 | Appointed | Fernando Acevedo González † | Archbishop of Burgos, Spain |
| 17 Jun | | Appointed | Antonius de Pozega (Poseca), O.F.M. † | Bishop of Scardona (Skradin), Italy |
| 23 Jun | | Ordained Bishop | Antonius de Pozega (Poseca), O.F.M. † | Bishop of Scardona (Skradin), Italy |
| 1 Jul | | Appointed | Pierre de Villars (III) † | Coadjutor Archbishop of Vienne, France | Archbishop |
| Appointed | Pierre de Villars (III) † | Titular Archbishop of Ephesus | Archbishop of Vienne, France |
| Appointed | Ascanio Gesualdo † | Archbishop of Bari (-Canosa), Italy |
| 2 Jul | | Born | Gabriele Tontoli † | | Bishop of Ruvo (Ruo)(di Puglia), Italy |
| 13 Jul | | Died | Ipatij Pociej † | Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ruthenian), Ukraine |
| 14 Jul | 60.5 | Died | Maschio Ferracuti † | Bishop of Vieste, Italy |
| 15 Jul | | Appointed | Petar Domitrović † | Bishop of Zagreb (Agram), Croatia |
| 33.5 | Appointed | Pietro Paolo Eustachi † | Bishop of Boiano, Italy |
| 40.5 | Appointed | Sigismondo Gambacorta, C.R.S.A. † | Bishop of Telese o Cerreto Sannita, Italy |
| 61.4 | Appointed | Melchior Klesl † | Cardinal, Bishop of Wien, Austria |
| 50.5 | Appointed | Paulus Pico, O.P. † | Bishop of Vulturara e Montecorvino, Italy |
| 16 Jul | | Born | Alderano Cibo † | Genoa | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Jesi, Italy |
| 18 Jul | 70.4 | Died | Pierre de Villars (II) † | Archbishop Emeritus of Vienne, France |
| 20 Jul | 48.8 | Died | Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig-Lüneburg † | Former Bishop-Elect of Halberstadt, Germany |
| 22 Jul | | Died | Juan de Labrada, O.P. † | Bishop of Cartagena, Colombia |
| 29 Jul | 51.6 | Appointed | Gavino Manca de Cedrelles † | Archbishop of Sassari, Italy |
| Confirmed | János Pyber de Gyerkény † | Bishop of Pécs, Hungary | Bishop of Eger, Hungary |
| Appointed | Agostinho Ribeiro † | Bishop of Angra, Portugal |
| 1 Aug | | Died | Marcello Marchesi † | Bishop of Senj, Croatia |
| 9 Aug | 54.6 | Died | Alessandro Borghi † | Bishop Emeritus of Sansepolcro (Borgo San Sepolcro), Italy |
| 10 Aug | | Died | Sallustio Tarugi † | Archbishop of Pisa, Italy |
| 12 Aug | 51.6 | Appointed | Felice Centini, O.F.M. Conv. † | Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna | Cardinal, Bishop of Macerata e Tolentino, Italy |
| 34.6 | Appointed | Vincenzo Martena † | Bishop of Senj, Croatia |
| 54.6 | Appointed | Lorenzo Nieto y Corrales Montero Nieto, O.S.B. † | Bishop of Alghero, Italy | Archbishop of Cagliari, Italy |
| 50.6 | Appointed | Giacomo Passamar † | Bishop of Ampurias e Civita, Italy | Archbishop of Sassari, Italy |
| Appointed | Jerónimo Ruiz Camargo † | Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain | Bishop of Córdoba, Spain |
| 20 Aug | | Born | Baccio Aldobrandini † | Florence, Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo |
| 26 Aug | | Appointed | Deigo de Borja, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Ales e Terralba, Italy |
| 20.5 | Appointed | Louis de Nogaret de La Valette † | Archbishop of Toulouse, France | Cardinal, Former Archbishop-Elect |
| 29 Aug | | Died | Tommaso Calvi † | Bishop of Tropea, Italy |
| Sep | | Born | Simeone Difnico † | Sebenicen | Bishop of Feltre, Italy |
| 1 Sep | | Died | Galeazzo Moroni † | Bishop of Macerata e Tolentino, Italy |
| 3 Sep | 60.7 | Died | Wolfgang von Hausen † | Bishop of Regensburg, Germany |
| 8 Sep | | Born | Henri Albert de La Grange d’Arquien † | Calais, France | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of San Nicola in Carcere |
| 73.7 | Died | Ludovico Riva (Ripa) † | Bishop of Terni, Italy |
| 9 Sep | 27.7 | Appointed | François de Harlay de Champvallon † | Titular Archbishop of Augustopolis in Phrygia | Archbishop Emeritus of Rouen, France |
| 27.7 | Confirmed | François de Harlay de Champvallon † | Coadjutor Archbishop of Rouen, France | Archbishop Emeritus |
| 15 Sep | 50.7 | Ordained Bishop | Paulus Pico, O.P. † | Bishop of Vulturara e Montecorvino, Italy |
| 20 Sep | | Born | Jean-François-Paul de Gondi de Retz † | Montmirail-en-Brie | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Paris, France |
| 23 Sep | 51.7 | Appointed | Felice Centini, O.F.M. Conv. † | Cardinal, Bishop of Macerata e Tolentino, Italy |
| 69.7 | Appointed | Alonso González Aguilar † | Bishop of León, Spain |
| 62.7 | Appointed | Francisco de Sosa, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Osma, Spain |
| 25 Sep | | Born | Adrian von Riedmatten (III) † | Münster | Bishop of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland |
| 6 Oct | 63.3 | Ordained Bishop | Alfonso del Galdo, O.P. † | Bishop of Comayagua, Honduras |
| 8 Oct | 63.8 | Died | Adrian von Riedmatten (I) † | Bishop of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland |
| 13 Oct | | Born | Karl Ferdinand von Vasa (Wasa) † | Warszawa | Bishop of Wrocław (Breslau), Poland |
| 15 Oct | 27.9 | Selected | Hildebrand Jost † | Bishop of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland |
| 21 Oct | 50.8 | Appointed | Antonio de Aguilar † | Bishop of Ceuta, Spain |
| 50.8 | Appointed | Antonio de Aguilar † | Bishop of Tanger, Morocco | Bishop of Ceuta, Spain |
| 22 Oct | 35.0 | Selected | Albert von Törring † | Bishop of Regensburg, Germany |
| 29 Oct | 52.8 | Died | Lope Velasco Valdivieso † | Bishop of Islas Canarias {Canary Islands}, Spain |
| 30 Oct | | Born | Robert de Haynin † | Wambrechies | Bishop of Brugge {Bruges}, Belgium |
| Nov | | Born | Joannes Lucidus Cataneo † | Mantuan | Bishop of Mantova, Italy |
| 1 Nov | 61.3 | Died | Flaminio Piatti † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace |
| 4 Nov | 66.8 | Died | Cristóbal Rodríguez Juárez (Suárez), O.P. † | Bishop of Arequipa, Peru |
| 6 Nov | | Appointed | Franciscus Boncianni † | Archbishop of Pisa, Italy |
| 10 Nov | | Ordained Bishop | Franciscus Boncianni † | Archbishop of Pisa, Italy |
| 51.9 | Ordained Bishop | Diego de Contreras, O.S.A. † | Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| 13 Nov | | Appointed | Virgilio Cappone † | Bishop of Mileto, Italy |
| Appointed | Clemente Gera † | Bishop of Terni, Italy | Bishop of Lodi, Italy |
| 33.9 | Appointed | Gabriele Nari (Naro), O.P. † | Bishop of San Marco (Argentano), Italy |
| 51.8 | Appointed | Juan Torres de Osorio † | Bishop of Siracusa, Italy | Bishop of Valladolid, Spain |
| Appointed | Muzio Vitali † | Bishop of Vieste, Italy |
| 68.9 | Appointed | Juan de Zapata y Sandoval, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas), México | Bishop of Guatemala (Santiago de Guatemala), Guatemala |
| 17 Nov | | Ordained Bishop | Muzio Vitali † | Bishop of Vieste, Italy |
| 20 Nov | 40.9 | Appointed | Juan Serrano Ortiz, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Acerno, Italy |
| 23 Nov | 68.9 | Ordained Bishop | Juan de Zapata y Sandoval, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas), México | Bishop of Guatemala (Santiago de Guatemala), Guatemala |
| 24 Nov | 51.9 | Ordained Bishop | Juan Torres de Osorio † | Bishop of Siracusa, Italy | Bishop of Valladolid, Spain |
| 26 Nov | 30.9 | Succeeded | François de Péricard † | Bishop of Evreux, France |
| 65.9 | Died | Guillaume de Péricard † | Bishop of Evreux, France |
| 30 Nov | | Ordained Bishop | Clemente Gera † | Bishop of Terni, Italy | Bishop of Lodi, Italy |
| 1 Dec | 24.4 | Ordained Priest | Giovanni Battista Altieri (Sr.) † | Priest | Cardinal, Bishop of Todi, Italy |
| 69.9 | Ordained Bishop | Alonso González Aguilar † | Bishop of León, Spain |
| 13 Dec | 33.9 | Ordained Bishop | Gabriele Nari (Naro), O.P. † | Bishop of San Marco (Argentano), Italy |
| 14 Dec | | Born | Alessandro Pallavicini, O.S.B. † | Tabiano | Bishop of Borgo San Donnino, Italy |
| 16 Dec | | Died | Antonio Gallart Traginer † | Bishop of Vic, Spain |
| 22 Dec | | Died | Stefano Spínola, C.R. † | Bishop of Ventimiglia, Italy |