| Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
| unknown | | Appointed | Giulio Giacomo Castellani, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Cagli, Italy |
| Born | Pietro Antonio Corsignani † | Celano | Bishop of Sulmona, Italy |
| 52.0 | Ordained Bishop | Andres Gonzalez, O.P. † | Bishop of Nueva Caceres, Philippines |
| Born | José Hendaya Haro † | Manila, Philippines | Bishop of Oviedo, Spain |
| Born | Bernardo Froilán Saavedra Sanjurjo † | Tuy | Coadjutor Archbishop of Toledo, Spain |
| Born | Athanasiy Sheptyskyi † | Voshchatychi | Archbishop of Foreign Archdiocese |
| Died | Andrea Tamantini † | Bishop of Cagli, Italy |
| Jan | | Born | Egidio Antonio Isabelli † | Potenza | Bishop of Alife, Italy |
| 8 Jan | | Born | Juan Francisco Guillén † | Urdués de Lerda | Archbishop of Burgos, Spain |
| 3 Feb | 28.9 | Ordained Priest | Johannes Petrus Verhorst † | Priest of Köln {Cologne}, Germany | Auxiliary Bishop of Trier, Germany |
| 14 Feb | | Born | Andrés Vergara Uribe † | Lima, Peru | Bishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia |
| 21 Feb | | Born | Franz Bernardin Verbeck, O.F.M. Conv. † | Antwerp | Auxiliary Bishop of Münster, Germany |
| 23 Feb | 79.3 | Died | Jodok Brendt † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Passau, Germany |
| 26 Feb | 68.2 | Died | Domingo Fernández Navarrete, O.P. † | Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| 2 Mar | | Born | Dominikus Anton Reichsgraf von Thun † | Trento | Bishop of Trento, Italy |
| 8 Mar | 70.2 | Appointed | Manuel da Natividade, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Angra, Portugal | Bishop of Angola e Congo, Angola |
| 9 Mar | 41.2 | Ordained Priest | Thomas Joseph Nicolson † | Priest | Vicar Apostolic of Scotland, Great Britain |
| 24.1 | Ordained Priest | Antonius Dominikus Reichsgraf von Wolkenstein-Trostburg † | Priest of Trento, Italy | Bishop |
| 17 Mar | 24.1 | Ordained Priest | Johann Adam Nieberlein † | Priest of Eichstätt, Germany | Auxiliary Bishop |
| 18 Mar | 34.9 | Appointed | Giuseppe Archinto † | Titular Archbishop of Thessalonica | Cardinal, Archbishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy |
| 54.9 | Appointed | Flavio Chigi (Sr.) † | Cardinal-Bishop of Albano | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina |
| 37.1 | Appointed | Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † | Archbishop of Benevento, Italy | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) |
| 24 Mar | 54.9 | Ordained Bishop | Flavio Chigi (Sr.) † | Cardinal-Bishop of Albano | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina |
| 70.9 | Died | Georg Sigismund Müller † | Auxiliary Bishop of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany |
| 1 Apr | | Confirmed | João de Mascarenhas † | Bishop of Portalegre, Portugal | Bishop of Guarda, Portugal |
| 10 Apr | | Died | Ján Gubasóczy † | Archbishop of Kalocsa, Hungary |
| 22 Apr | 35.0 | Appointed | Giuseppe Archinto † | Apostolic Nuncio to Other | Cardinal, Archbishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy |
| 1 May | | Born | Felipe Itúrbide, O. Carm. † | Tudela, Spain | Bishop Emeritus of Dubrovnik (Ragusa), Croatia |
| 4 May | | Appointed | Manuel de Herrera, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Durango, Durango, México |
| 11 May | | Born | Johann Christoph von Crass † | Paderborn | Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn, Germany |
| 18 May | | Born | José Francisco de San Buenaventura Martínez de Tejada y Díez de Velasco, O.F.M. † | Sevilla, Spain | Bishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México |
| 27 May | | Born | Karl Joseph Reichsgraf von Kuenburg † | Salzburg | Bishop of Chiemsee, Germany |
| 6 Jun | | Born | Antoni Józef Zolkowski † | Dolkobów | Auxiliary Bishop of Vilnius, Lithuania |
| 13 Jun | 65.4 | Died | João da Madre de Deus Araújo, O.F.M. † | Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil |
| 22 Jun | 68.5 | Died | Franz Weinhart † | Auxiliary Bishop of Regensburg, Germany |
| 8 Aug | 40.8 | Confirmed | Johann Gottfried Reichsritter von Guttenberg † | Bishop of Würzburg, Germany |
| 12 Aug | 45.6 | Appointed | Nicolò Caranza † | Bishop of Borgo San Donnino, Italy |
| 42.1 | Installed | Savo (Savio) Millini (Mellini) † | Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria del Popolo | Cardinal, Bishop of Nepi e Sutri, Italy |
| 19 Aug | 23.6 | Ordained Priest | José Delgarte, O.SS.T. † | Priest of Order of the Most Holy Trinity | Bishop of São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil |
| 2 Sep | 31.1 | Elevated to Cardinal | Fulvio Astalli † | Cardinal, Bishop of Ostia (-Velletri), Italy |
| 46.5 | Elevated to Cardinal | Marcantonio Barbarigo † | Cardinal, Bishop of Montefiascone, Italy |
| 35.6 | Appointed | Johannes Wolfgang Reichsfreiherr von Bodman † | Auxiliary Bishop of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany |
| 35.6 | Appointed | Johannes Wolfgang Reichsfreiherr von Bodman † | Titular Bishop of Dardanus | Auxiliary Bishop of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany |
| 53.5 | Elevated to Cardinal | Marcello Durazzo † | Cardinal, Bishop of Faenza, Italy |
| 56.8 | Elevated to Cardinal | Wilhelm Egon Fürst von Fürstenberg † | Cardinal, Bishop of Strasbourg, France |
| 75.7 | Appointed | Johann Freiherr von Goess † | Cardinal-Priest of S. Pietro in Montorio | Cardinal, Bishop of Gurk, Austria |
| 75.7 | Elevated to Cardinal | Johann Freiherr von Goess † | Cardinal, Bishop of Gurk, Austria |
| 54.9 | Appointed | Leopold Karl Graf von Kollonitsch Lipót † | Cardinal-Priest of S. Girolamo dei Croati (degli Schiavoni) | Cardinal, Archbishop of Esztergom, Hungary |
| 54.9 | Elevated to Cardinal | Leopold Karl Graf von Kollonitsch Lipót † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Esztergom, Hungary |
| 63.8 | Elevated to Cardinal | Maximilian Gandolf Reichsgraf von Kuenburg † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria |
| 70.8 | Elevated to Cardinal | Verissimo de Lencastre † | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Braga, Portugal |
| 53.9 | Elevated to Cardinal | Opizio Pallavicini † | Cardinal, Bishop of Osimo, Italy |
| 40.7 | Elevated to Cardinal | Augustyn Michal Stefan Radziejowski † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland |
| 60.3 | Elevated to Cardinal | Angelo Maria Ranuzzi † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy |
| 42.3 | Confirmed | Marquard Sebastian Reichsgraf von Schenk von Stauffenberg † | Bishop of Bamberg, Germany |
| 16 Sep | | Born | Joseph Franz Valerian Felix Reichsgraf von Arco † | Arco | Bishop-Elect of Chiemsee, Germany |
| 54.9 | Appointed | Leopold Karl Graf von Kollonitsch Lipót † | Bishop of Győr, Hungary | Cardinal, Archbishop of Esztergom, Hungary |
| 59.7 | Appointed | Luis de Lemos y Usategui, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Concepción, Chile | Bishop Emeritus |
| 19 Sep | | Died | Nicolás de Ulloa y Hurtado de Mendoza, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Córdoba (Tucumán), Argentina |
| 30 Sep | 31.2 | Installed | Fulvio Astalli † | Cardinal-Deacon of S. Giorgio in Velabro | Cardinal, Bishop of Ostia (-Velletri), Italy |
| 33.4 | Appointed | Benedetto Pamphilj † | Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria in Cosmedin | Cardinal, Librarian of the Vatican Library |
| 70.5 | Appointed | Antonio Pignatelli del Rastrello † | Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) |
| 4 Oct | | Born | Francisco Izquierdo y Tavira, O.P. † | Los Hinojosos del Orden | Bishop of Lugo, Spain |
| 31 Oct | 19.1 | Professed | Bartolomeu do Pilar, O. Carm. † | Member of Order of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel | Bishop of Belém do Pará, Brazil |
| 13 Nov | | Born | Tomás del Valle, O.P. † | Madrid | Bishop of Cádiz, Spain |
| 14 Nov | 55.1 | Installed | Leopold Karl Graf von Kollonitsch Lipót † | Cardinal-Priest of S. Girolamo dei Croati (degli Schiavoni) | Cardinal, Archbishop of Esztergom, Hungary |
| 26 Nov | 35.9 | Ordained Bishop | Johannes Wolfgang Reichsfreiherr von Bodman † | Titular Bishop of Dardanus | Auxiliary Bishop of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany |
| 30 Nov | | Died | Aleksander Kotowicz † | Bishop of Vilnius, Lithuania |
| 5 Dec | 48.9 | Died | Bl. Niels Stensen † | Vicar Apostolic of Nordic Missions, Germany |
| 8 Dec | | Born | Francisco de Molina, O.S.Bas. † | Sacedón, Spain | Bishop of Comayagua, Honduras |
| 9 Dec | 59.9 | Died | Andreas Daniel Freiherr von Rauchnach † | Bishop of Pedena, Austria |
| 11 Dec | 56.9 | Died | Gaspar Barata de Mendonça † | Archbishop Emeritus of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil |
| 22 Dec | 41.1 | Ordained Priest | Johann Gottfried Reichsritter von Guttenberg † | Priest of Würzburg, Germany | Bishop |
| 25 Dec | | Born | José Manuel da Cámara d'Atalaia † | Lisbon | Cardinal, Patriarch of Lisboa, Portugal |
| 28 Dec | | Born | Guilherme de São José Antonio de Aranha † | Lisboa, Spain | Bishop Emeritus of Belém do Pará, Brazil |
| 29 Dec | 41.1 | Ordained Bishop | Johann Gottfried Reichsritter von Guttenberg † | Bishop of Würzburg, Germany |
| 44.1 | Ordained Priest | Alessandro Roncovieri † | Priest | Bishop of Borgo San Donnino, Italy |