The Year of Our Lord 1623

Bishop Events

January to June

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Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
unknown	84.0	Resigned	Ottavio Accoramboni †	Archbishop of Urbino, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
	59.0	Died	Martin Alphonso Mexia de Tovar †	Bishop of Coimbra, Portugal
	25.3	Appointed	Francesco Barberini (Sr.) †	Archpriest of the Arcibasilica di San Giovanni in Laterano {Saint John Lateran Basilica}	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
	54.7	Resigned	Maffeo Barberini †	Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
	22.7	Ordained Priest	Francesco Boccapaduli †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Città di Castello, Italy
	30.9	Ordained Bishop	Francesco Boncompagni †	Bishop of Fano, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy
	61.0	Died	Michele Bonzi, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Ravello e Scala, Italy
		Died	Achille Caracciolo †	Bishop of Potenza, Italy
		Born	Diego de Castrillo †	Legionen	Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain
	16.6	Professed	Jean Caramuel y Lobkowitz, O.S.B. †	Member of Order of Cistercians	Bishop of Vigevano, Italy
		Died	Juan Cuenca †	Bishop of Cádiz, Spain
		Born	Cristobal de Almeida, O.S.A. †	Lisbon	Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa {Lisbon}, Portugal
		Died	Gregorio Del Bufalo †	Bishop of Calvi Risorta, Italy
		Appointed	Henri d’Escoubleau de Sourdis †	Bishop of Maillezais, France	Archbishop of Bordeaux, France
		Born	Andreas de La Moneda, O.S.B. †	Burgen	Bishop of Almería, Spain
		Born	Alexander da Silva †	Bracharen	Bishop of Elvas, Portugal
		Died	Giovanni della Torre †	Bishop of Krk (Veglia), Croatia
		Born	Giambattista Febei †	Urbevetan	Bishop of Acquapendente, Italy
		Died	Simon Feuerstein †	Auxiliary Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
		Appointed	Fulgenzio Gallucci, O.S.A. †	Titular Bishop of Thagaste	Bishop of Boiano, Italy
		Resigned	Franciscus Giustiniani †	Bishop of Treviso, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	64.0	Ordained Bishop	Francisco González de Salcedo Castro †	Bishop of Santiago de Chile
		Born	Ján Gubasóczy †	Trnava	Archbishop of Kalocsa, Hungary
	24.0	Appointed	François de Lorraine-Chaligny †	Bishop of Verdun, France	Former Bishop-Elect
		Born	Gabriel de La Roque-Prielé †	Tarbien	Bishop of Bayonne, France
		Born	Jan Małachowski †		Bishop of Kraków, Poland
	37.0	Ordained Priest	Alessandro Masi †	Priest	Bishop of Valva, Italy
		Born	Jean de Meaupéou †		Bishop of Chalons-sur-Saône, France
	54.0	Died	Lucio de Morra †	Archbishop of Otranto, Italy
		Died	Francesco Mottini †	Bishop of Brugnato, Italy
		Died	Andrzej Opaliński †	Bishop of Poznań, Poland
		Born	Giuseppe Petagna †	Partenio	Bishop of Caiazzo, Italy
		Resigned	João Pinto da Piedade, O.P. †	Bishop of Macau, China	Bishop Emeritus
	38.0	Ordained Priest	Christophorus Johannes Reinheld von Reichenau †	Priest of Meißen (Meissen) {Lusazia o Lausitz; Sassonia}, Germany	Prefect
	37.0	Ordained Priest	Giulio Cesare Sacchetti †	Priest	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation of the Council
		Born	Francesco Sampero †	Turritan	Bishop of Ampurias e Civita, Italy
		Died	Octavius Saraceni †	Bishop of Sovana (Soana), Italy
		Died	Gilles de Souvray †	Bishop of (Saint-Bernard de) Comminges, France
	28.7	Ordained Priest	Bernardino Spada †	Priest	Cardinal, Bishop of Palestrina, Italy
		Born	Ramon Sureda †	Maioricen	Titular Bishop of Oropus
	24.0	Ordained Priest	Johannes Thuanus †	Priest of Wien, Austria	Bishop of Wiener Neustadt, Austria
		Died	Jerónimo Tiedra Méndez, O.P. †	Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas, Bolivia
		Born	Petrus Tris, O. Carm. †	Calatayud	Bishop of Albarracin, Spain
	42.0	Resigned	Roberto Ubaldini †	Bishop of Montepulciano, Italy	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus
9 Jan		Appointed	Clemente Confetti (Confetto) †	Coadjutor Bishop of Muro Lucano, Italy	Bishop of Acerno, Italy
		Appointed	Clemente Confetti (Confetto) †	Titular Bishop of Tiberias	Bishop of Acerno, Italy
	36.0	Confirmed	Girolamo Costanzo †	Bishop of Trivento, Italy	Archbishop of Capua, Italy
	24.2	Confirmed	Ernst Adalbert von Harrach zu Rohrau †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Praha {Prague}, Czech Republic
	46.0	Appointed	Ovidio Lupari †	Bishop of Teano, Italy
	41.0	Appointed	Giovanni Battista Roviglioni †	Bishop of Troia, Italy
	57.0	Appointed	François de Rye †	Coadjutor Archbishop of Besançon, France	Archbishop
	57.0	Appointed	François de Rye †	Titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia	Archbishop of Besançon, France
15 Jan	36.0	Ordained Bishop	Girolamo Costanzo †	Bishop of Trivento, Italy	Archbishop of Capua, Italy
15 Jan	41.0	Ordained Bishop	Giovanni Battista Roviglioni †	Bishop of Troia, Italy
22 Jan		Ordained Bishop	Clemente Confetti (Confetto) †	Titular Bishop of Tiberias	Bishop of Acerno, Italy
	56.1	Ordained Bishop	Ottaviano Garzadori †	Bishop of Boiano, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus of Zadar (Zara), Croatia
	24.2	Ordained Bishop	Ernst Adalbert von Harrach zu Rohrau †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Praha {Prague}, Czech Republic
	46.1	Ordained Bishop	Ovidio Lupari †	Bishop of Teano, Italy
Feb		Succeeded	Ludovici du Chaine †	Bishop of Senez, France
		Born	Nicola Lepori, O.P. †	Pici	Bishop of Saluzzo, Italy
		Born	Salvatore Scaglione, O. Carm. †	Theanen	Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia, Italy
6 Feb	39.4	Appointed	Philipp Adolf von Ehrenberg †	Bishop of Würzburg, Germany
7 Feb		Born	Agnelo Alfieri, O.F.M. †	Napoli	Bishop of Giovinazzo, Italy
13 Feb	36.8	Selected	Johann Georg Fuchs von Dornheim †	Bishop of Bamberg, Germany
	48.5	Appointed	Enrique Pimentel Zúñiga †	Bishop of Cuenca, Spain
	37.1	Confirmed	Giovanni Battista Vercellino †	Bishop of Aosta, Italy
19 Feb	39.1	Ordained Bishop	Jean-François de Gondi †	Archbishop of Paris, France
23 Feb	35.1	Installed	Octave de Bellegarde †	Archbishop of Sens, France
23 Feb	43.3	Appointed	Federico Baldissera Bartolomeo Cornaro †	Bishop of Bergamo, Italy	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
27 Feb	51.2	Died	Charles de Haqueville †	Bishop of Soissons, France
1 Mar	78.2	Died	Francisco López de Mendoza †	Bishop of Sigüenza, Spain
5 Mar	26.2	Appointed	Agustín Spínola Basadone †	Bishop of Tortosa, Spain	Cardinal, Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain
6 Mar		Appointed	João da Rocha, S.J. †	Coadjutor Patriarch of Ethiopia
		Appointed	João da Rocha, S.J. †	Titular Archbishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia	Coadjutor Patriarch of Ethiopia
		Appointed	Cristóbal de Lobera y Torres †	Bishop of Pamplona, Spain	Bishop of Plasencia, Spain
		Appointed	Vincenzo Giovanni Spínola, O.S.A. †	Bishop of Brugnato, Italy
12 Mar		Ordained Bishop	Diego Secco, S.J. †	Titular Archbishop of Nicaea	Coadjutor Patriarch of Ethiopia
15 Mar	70.2	Appointed	William Bishop †	Vicar Apostolic of England, Great Britain
15 Mar	70.2	Appointed	William Bishop †	Titular Bishop of Chalcedon	Vicar Apostolic of England, Great Britain
17 Mar		Born	Karl von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn †	Glatz	Bishop of Olomouc (Olmütz), Czech Republic
19 Mar	54.7	Died	Philipp Sigismund von Braunschweig-Lüneburg †	Bishop-Elect of Osnabrück, Germany
20 Mar	40.2	Appointed	Giovanni Francesco Gandolfo †	Bishop of Ventimiglia, Italy	Bishop of Alba (Pompea), Italy
	37.2	Appointed	Pace (Pax) Giordano (Jordanus) †	Bishop of Trogir (Traù), Croatia
		Appointed	Juan Molina Alvarez †	Bishop of León, Spain
	61.2	Appointed	Plácido Pacheco de Haro, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Cádiz, Spain	Bishop of Plasencia, Spain
	41.1	Appointed	Ottavio Ridolfi †	Cardinal, Bishop of Agrigento (Girgenti), Italy
	39.2	Installed	Cosimo de Torres †	Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio	Cardinal, Archbishop of Monreale, Italy
		Appointed	Antonio Viedma Chaves, O.P. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Sigüenza, Spain	Bishop of Almería, Spain
23 Mar		Appointed	Alsono Martín de Zuñiga †	Bishop of Osma, Spain
25 Mar	40.2	Ordained Bishop	Giovanni Francesco Gandolfo †	Bishop of Ventimiglia, Italy	Bishop of Alba (Pompea), Italy
25 Mar	37.2	Ordained Bishop	Pace (Pax) Giordano (Jordanus) †	Bishop of Trogir (Traù), Croatia
4 Apr		Died	Petrus Salinates, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Sardica (Sredek, Sofia), Bulgaria
7 Apr	43.4	Ordained Bishop	Federico Baldissera Bartolomeo Cornaro †	Bishop of Bergamo, Italy	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
11 Apr		Born	Decio Azzolini (Jr.) †	Fermo, Italy	Cardinal, Secretary Emeritus of the Secretariat of State
15 Apr	34.3	Ordained Priest	Martino Alfieri †	Priest	Archbishop of Cosenza, Italy
16 Apr	52.3	Ordained Bishop	Simon Mascarenhas, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Angola e Congo, Angola
19 Apr	40.6	Selected	Eitel Friedrich von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen †	Cardinal, Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany
27 Apr	47.1	Died	Éric de Lorraine †	Bishop Emeritus of Verdun, France
29 Apr		Ordained Bishop	Antonio Viedma Chaves, O.P. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Sigüenza, Spain	Bishop of Almería, Spain
30 Apr		Born	Bl. François de Laval de Montmorency †	Montigny-sur-Avre, France	Bishop Emeritus of Québec, Canada
30 Apr	26.3	Ordained Bishop	Agustín Spínola Basadone †	Bishop of Tortosa, Spain	Cardinal, Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain
May		Appointed	Julius Benigni †	Titular Archbishop of Thessalonica
	26.3	Ordained Priest	Dionisio de Cimbrón, O. Cist. †	Priest of Order of Cistercians	Bishop of Concepción, Chile
		Born	Castracane De’ Castracani †	Senigallia	Bishop of Cagli, Italy
5 May	33.3	Selected	István Sennyey †	Bishop of Vác, Hungary	Bishop of Győr (Raab), Hungary
10 May	69.4	Appointed	Agustín Antolínez, O.S.A. †	Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain	Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
		Appointed	Nicolas Bourgoin †	Bishop of Coutances, France
	41.4	Appointed	Franciscus Buratti, O.P. †	Bishop of Vulturara e Montecorvino, Italy
	38.4	Appointed	Cristoforo Caetani †	Coadjutor Bishop of Foligno, Italy	Bishop
	38.4	Appointed	Cristoforo Caetani †	Titular Bishop of Laodicea in Phrygia	Bishop of Foligno, Italy
	37.4	Appointed	Alvise Lippomano †	Bishop of Krk (Veglia), Croatia
	43.4	Appointed	Ubertinus Papafava †	Bishop of Adria, Italy
	78.4	Died	António de Santa Maria, O.S.A. †	Bishop of Leiria, Portugal
14 May	37.4	Ordained Bishop	Alvise Lippomano †	Bishop of Krk (Veglia), Croatia
14 May	37.4	Ordained Bishop	Giovanni Battista Vercellino †	Bishop of Aosta, Italy
20 May		Died	Leonardo Mocenigo †	Bishop of Ceneda, Italy
21 May		Ordained Bishop	Julius Benigni †	Titular Archbishop of Thessalonica
	41.4	Ordained Bishop	Franciscus Buratti, O.P. †	Bishop of Vulturara e Montecorvino, Italy
	38.4	Ordained Bishop	Cristoforo Caetani †	Titular Bishop of Laodicea in Phrygia	Bishop of Foligno, Italy
22 May		Appointed	Giorgio Bianchi †	Bishop of Sapë, Albania
	52.4	Appointed	Ambrosius Seibaeus (Seybeus) †	Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz, Germany
	52.4	Appointed	Ambrosius Seibaeus (Seybeus) †	Titular Bishop of Missene (Mysia)	Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz, Germany
		Appointed	Francisco Sotomayor, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Cartagena, Colombia	Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas, Bolivia
	39.4	Appointed	Cosimo de Torres †	Prefect of the Congregation of the Council	Cardinal, Archbishop of Monreale, Italy
	42.4	Resigned	Roberto Ubaldini †	Prefect of the Congregation of the Council	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Montepulciano, Italy
23 May	49.4	Appointed	Marco Antonio Gozzadini †	Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Agata de’ Goti	Cardinal, Bishop of Faenza, Italy
23 May		Died	Giulio Monterenzi †	Bishop of Faenza, Italy
25 May		Died	Jean-Jacques du Sault †	Bishop of Acqs (Dax), France
25 May		Succeeded	Philibert du Sault †	Bishop of Acqs (Dax), France
27 May	61.4	Died	Paolo Filomarino, C.R. †	Bishop of Caiazzo, Italy
2 Jun	52.4	Died	Alessandro Damasceni Peretti †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
4 Jun	70.4	Ordained Bishop	William Bishop †	Titular Bishop of Chalcedon	Vicar Apostolic of England, Great Britain
5 Jun		Ordained Bishop	Fulgenzio Gallucci, O.S.A. †	Titular Bishop of Thagaste	Bishop of Boiano, Italy
7 Jun	27.4	Appointed	Ippolito Aldobrandini (Jr.) †	Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber	Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Eustachio
	43.3	Appointed	Giovanni Battista Deti †	Cardinal-Bishop of Albano	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
	49.4	Appointed	Marco Antonio Gozzadini †	Cardinal, Bishop of Faenza, Italy
	27.6	Appointed	Ludovico Ludovisi †	Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Damaso	Cardinal, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy
	27.6	Resigned	Ludovico Ludovisi †	Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber	Cardinal, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy
8 Jun		Born	Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni †	Rome	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Ravenna, Italy
18 Jun		Ordained Bishop	Juan Molina Alvarez †	Bishop of León, Spain
24 Jun	43.4	Ordained Bishop	Giovanni Battista Deti †	Bishop of Albano	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)