| Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
| unknown | 29.0 | Appointed | Jean-Baptiste Adhémar de Monteil de Grignan † | Coadjutor Archbishop of Arles, France | Archbishop |
| Appointed | Vittorio Nicolino della Chiesa † | Bishop of Alba (Pompea), Italy |
| Born | Pedro Mejorada, O.P. † | Budia, Spain | Bishop-Elect of Nueva Segovia, Philippines |
| Died | Kazimierz Pac † | Bishop of Smoleńsk, Poland |
| Died | Pierre Scarron † | Bishop of Grenoble, France |
| 1 Feb | | Died | Paul de Tauris-Jancic, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Pedena, Austria |
| 8 Feb | 49.1 | Appointed | Paul Budimir, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Pedena, Austria |
| 7 Mar | 50.2 | Elevated to Cardinal | Guidobald Reichsgraf von Thun † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria |
| 16 Mar | 51.5 | Appointed | Giuseppe Saggese † | Bishop of Ravello, Italy |
| 50.3 | Confirmed | Guidobald Reichsgraf von Thun † | Bishop of Regensburg, Germany | Cardinal, Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria |
| 26 Mar | 25.5 | Ordained Priest | Francisco Calderón de la Barca Nieto † | Priest of Toledo, Spain | |
| 9 Apr | 35.3 | Appointed | Ambrosio Ignacio Spínola y Guzmán † | Archbishop of Valencia, Spain | Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain |
| 17 Apr | 50.6 | Ordained Bishop | Johann Christoph Reichsritter von Freyberg-Allmendingen † | Bishop of Augsburg, Germany |
| 28 Apr | 45.3 | Appointed | Valerio Maccioni † | Vicar Apostolic of Nordic Missions, Germany |
| 1 May | | Born | Alessandro Aldobrandini † | Firenze, Italy | Cardinal, Titular Archbishop of Rhodus |
| 8 May | 70.4 | Ordained Bishop | Gabriel de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson † | Bishop of Rodez, France |
| 14 May | 75.1 | Died | Marcos Ramírez de Prado y Ovando, O.F.M. † | Archbishop of México, Federal District |
| 22 May | 68.3 | Died | Fabio Chigi † | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) |
| 28 May | 75.2 | Died | José Argáiz Pérez † | Archbishop of Granada, Spain |
| 5 Jun | | Born | Giorgio Spínola † | Genoa | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina |
| 20 Jun | 67.4 | Elected | Giulio Rospigliosi † | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) |
| 23 Jun | 35.5 | Installed | Ambrosio Ignacio Spínola y Guzmán † | Archbishop of Valencia, Spain | Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain |
| 26 Jun | 67.4 | Installed | Giulio Rospigliosi † | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) |
| 3 Jul | 47.6 | Ordained Priest | Jobst Edmund Freiherr von Brabeck † | Priest of Münster, Germany | Bishop of Hildesheim, Germany |
| 18 Jul | 68.7 | Appointed | Ernst Adalbert Reichsgraf von Harrach zu Rohrau † | Cardinal-Priest of S. Lorenzo in Lucina | Cardinal, Archbishop of Praha {Prague}, Czech Republic |
| 43.2 | Appointed | Aleksander Kazimierz Sapieha † | Bishop of Vilnius, Lithuania |
| 19 Jul | 40.7 | Appointed | Ferdinand Reichsfreiherr von Fürstenberg † | Coadjutor Bishop of Münster, Germany | Bishop of Paderborn, Germany |
| 31 Jul | 23.5 | Ordained Priest | Sigmund Christoph Reichsgraf von Herberstein † | Priest of Ljubljana, Slovenia | Bishop Emeritus |
| 3 Aug | 29.6 | Appointed | Jean-Baptiste Adhémar de Monteil de Grignan † | Titular Archbishop of Claudiopolis in Honoriade | Archbishop of Arles, France |
| 29.6 | Confirmed | Jean-Baptiste Adhémar de Monteil de Grignan † | Coadjutor Archbishop of Arles, France | Archbishop |
| 43.0 | Appointed | Stephan Weinberger † | Auxiliary Bishop of Würzburg, Germany |
| 43.0 | Appointed | Stephan Weinberger † | Titular Bishop of Domitiopolis | Auxiliary Bishop of Würzburg, Germany |
| 28 Aug | | Ordained Bishop | Edouard Valot † | Bishop of Nevers, France | Bishop Emeritus |
| 7 Sep | | Appointed | Sancho Pardo de Andrade de Figueroa y Cárdenas † | Bishop of Panamá | Bishop of Quito, Ecuador |
| 19 Sep | 54.7 | Died | Johann Bischopinck † | Auxiliary Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany |
| 21 Sep | | Born | Bartolomeu do Pilar, O. Carm. † | Vila das Vellas, Portugal | Bishop of Belém do Pará, Brazil |
| 15 Oct | | Died | Francisco de la Cueva Maldonado † | Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| 25 Oct | 69.0 | Died | Ernst Adalbert Reichsgraf von Harrach zu Rohrau † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Praha {Prague}, Czech Republic |
| 26 Oct | | Born | Dominique-Barnabé Turgot de Saint-Clair † | Paris | Bishop of Sées, France |
| 28 Oct | | Born | Johann Joachim Hahn † | Fulda | Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz, Germany |
| Nov | | Born | Louis d'Aquin † | Paris | Bishop of Sées, France |
| 7 Nov | 29.8 | Converted | Bl. Niels Stensen † | Vicar Apostolic of Nordic Missions, Germany |
| 14 Nov | 51.7 | Appointed | Friedrich Landgraf von Hessen-Darmstadt † | Cardinal-Deacon of S. Eustachio | Cardinal, Bishop of Wrocław, Poland |
| 45.6 | Appointed | Carlo Pio di Savoia † | Cardinal-Priest of S. Prisca | Cardinal, Bishop of Sabina, Italy |
| 8 Dec | 63.9 | Died | Miguel de Poblete Casasola † | Archbishop of Manila, Philippines |
| 9 Dec | | Born | Luis Salcedo Azcona † | Valladolid | Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain |
| 11 Dec | 29.9 | Ordained Bishop | Jean-Baptiste Adhémar de Monteil de Grignan † | Titular Archbishop of Claudiopolis in Honoriade | Archbishop of Arles, France |
| 12 Dec | 30.9 | Confirmed | Charles-François de Loménie de Brienne † | Bishop of Coutances, France |
| 40.9 | Appointed | Giuseppe M. Maraviglia, C.R. † | Bishop of Novara, Italy |
| 17 Dec | 24.5 | Ordained Priest | Francisco de la Puebla González † | Priest of Foreign Diocese | Bishop of Santiago de Chile |