| Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
| unknown | | Born | Girolamo Maria Allegri † | Fiorenzuola | Bishop Emeritus of Cagli, Italy |
| 53.9 | Appointed | Juan de Almoguera, O.SS.T. † | Bishop of Arequipa, Peru | Archbishop of Lima, Peru |
| Died | Francisco de Godoy † | Bishop of Trujillo, Peru |
| Born | Simeón Guinda Apéztegui, O.S.A. † | Esparza | Bishop of Urgell, Spain |
| Born | Juan José Llamas Rivas, O. Carm. † | Antequera, Spain | Bishop of Panamá |
| Died | Tomás Manso, O.F.M. † | Bishop of León en Nicaragua |
| Born | Rodrigo Marín Rubio † | Tíjola | Bishop of Jaén, Spain |
| Born | Jacinto Olivera y Pardo † | Oaxaca | Bishop of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas), Chiapas, México |
| 20.0 | Ordained Priest | Jan Kazimierz Opaliński, O. Cist. † | Priest of Poznań, Poland | Bishop of Chelmno (Culma), Poland |
| 42.0 | Appointed | Mikołaj Prażmowski † | Bishop of Luceoria o Łuck, Ukraine | Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland |
| Born | José Ulzurrun de Asanza y Civera † | Zaragoza | Bishop of León, Spain |
| 42.0 | Ordained Priest | Wilderich Reichsfreiherr von Walderdorff † | Priest of Mainz, Germany | Bishop of Wien, Austria |
| 13 Jan | 40.0 | Appointed | Dominique de Ligni † | Titular Bishop of Philadelphia in Lydia | Bishop of Meaux, France |
| 40.0 | Confirmed | Dominique de Ligni † | Coadjutor Bishop of Meaux, France | Bishop |
| 27 Jan | 61.8 | Appointed | Juan Alonso y Ocón † | Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas, Bolivia |
| 53.4 | Appointed | Wacław Leszczyński † | Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland |
| 72.1 | Appointed | Gaspar de Villarroel, O.S.A. † | Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas, Bolivia |
| 6 Feb | 62.8 | Installed | Martín López de Ontiveros † | Archbishop of Valencia, Spain |
| 7 Feb | 28.2 | Appointed | Sigmund Franz Erzherzog von Österreich † | Bishop of Trento, Italy | Bishop Emeritus of Augsburg, Germany |
| 20 Feb | | Born | Nicolás Spínola † | Madrid, Spain | Cardinal, Official of the Roman Curia - Other |
| 9 Mar | 40.2 | Ordained Bishop | Dominique de Ligni † | Titular Bishop of Philadelphia in Lydia | Bishop of Meaux, France |
| 12 Mar | 40.2 | Succeeded | Dominique de Ligni † | Bishop of Meaux, France |
| 17 Mar | 72.2 | Died | Claude de Rebé † | Archbishop of Narbonne, France | Bishop |
| 23 Mar | 40.3 | Ordained Bishop | Johann Konrad von Roggenbach † | Bishop of Basel, Switzerland |
| 27 Mar | | Born | Francisco Antonio de Borja-Centelles y Ponce de Léon † | | Cardinal, Archbishop of Burgos, Spain |
| 30 Mar | 23.1 | Ordained Priest | Gottfried Freiherr Kapaun von Swoykow † | Priest of Praha {Prague}, Czech Republic | Bishop of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic |
| 4 Apr | 34.9 | Appointed | Aleksander Kazimierz Sapieha † | Bishop of Samogizia o Tels (Zmudz), Lithuania | Bishop of Vilnius, Lithuania |
| 21 Apr | 55.1 | Appointed | Girolamo Colonna † | Cardinal-Priest of S. Lorenzo in Lucina | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Bologna, Italy |
| 65.2 | Appointed | Giovanni Battista Maria Pallotta † | Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Trastevere | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati |
| 56.3 | Appointed | Federico Sforza † | Cardinal-Priest of S. Anastasia | Cardinal, Bishop of Tivoli, Italy |
| 10 May | 61.8 | Died | Ranuccio (Ranuzio) Scotti † | Bishop Emeritus of Borgo San Donnino, Italy |
| 20 Jun | 59.5 | Installed | Luís de Cifuentes y Sotomayor, O.P. † | Bishop of Yucatán (Mérida), Yucatán, México |
| 21 Jun | 28.1 | Appointed | Flavio Chigi (Sr.) † | Librarian of the Vatican Library | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina |
| 2 Jul | | Born | Antonio San Felice † | Napoli | Bishop of Nardò, Italy |
| 22 Jul | 60.6 | Died | Filippo Casoni † | Bishop of Borgo San Donnino, Italy |
| 18 Aug | 49.6 | Appointed | Jan Stefan Wydzga † | Bishop of Warmia, Poland | Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland |
| 1 Sep | | Appointed | Francisco de Godoy † | Bishop of Trujillo, Peru |
| 76.7 | Resigned | Nicolò Guidi di Bagno † | Bishop of Senigallia, Italy | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus |
| 10 Sep | | Born | Anton Ignaz Müntzer † | Oberglogau | Auxiliary Bishop of Wrocław, Poland |
| 20 Sep | | Born | Johann Sigmund Graf von Kuenburg † | Graz | Bishop of Chiemsee, Germany |
| 22 Sep | 57.7 | Appointed | Maciej Bystram † | Auxiliary Bishop of Chelmno (Culma), Poland |
| 1 Oct | 59.3 | Died | Juan de Palafox y Mendoza † | Bishop of Osma, Spain |
| 10 Nov | 60.9 | Appointed | Pedro de Reina Maldonado † | Bishop of Santiago de Cuba | Bishop-Elect of Santiago de Cuba |
| 37.4 | Appointed | Antonio Sanz Lozano † | Bishop of Cartagena, Colombia | Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada, Colombia |
| 49.9 | Confirmed | Jan Stefan Wydzga † | Bishop of Warmia, Poland | Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland |
| 17 Nov | 60.9 | Appointed | Juan Aguirre y Gorozpe † | Bishop of Durango, Durango, México |
| 49.9 | Appointed | Agustín Muñoz Sandoval † | Bishop of Cuzco, Peru |
| Appointed | Antonio de San Gregorio, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Nueva Caceres, Philippines | Bishop-Elect |
| 14 Dec | 33.1 | Ordained Priest | Ferdinand Reichsfreiherr von Fürstenberg † | Priest of Paderborn, Germany | Bishop |
| 31 Dec | | Appointed | Nicolas Sévin † | Bishop of Cahors, France |
| Died | Alain de Solminihac, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Cahors, France |