| Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
| unknown | | Died | Giacomo Bonanno † | Bishop of Patti, Italy |
| Appointed | Vincenzo Bragadin † | Bishop of Chioggia, Italy |
| Born | Edmund Burke † | Maryborough, Ireland | Vicar Apostolic of Nova Scotia, Canada |
| 21.9 | Ordained Priest | Michelangelo Calandrelli, O.S.A. † | Priest of Order of St. Augustine | Bishop of Acerno, Italy |
| Born | William Coppinger † | Cork | Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland |
| 54.7 | Ordained Bishop | Diego Antonio de Parada † | Bishop of La Paz, Bolivia | Archbishop of Lima, Peru |
| 46.8 | Ordained Bishop | Alfonso Fernández Pantoja † | Bishop of León, Spain |
| 17.8 | Professed | Joseph-Antoine (Maxime) Guisolan, O.F.M. Cap. † | Member of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin | Bishop of Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Born | de Longueville † | | Prefect Emeritus of Iles Saint-Pierre et Miquelon |
| 78.0 | Died | François de Madot † | Bishop of Chalons-sur-Saône, France |
| 66.0 | Resigned | Silvestro Stanà (Staria) † | Bishop of Minori, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
| Appointed | Józef Eustachy Szembek † | Bishop of Płock, Poland |
| 48.0 | Appointed | Walenty Franciszek Wężyk † | Bishop of Chelm, Poland | Bishop of Przemyśl, Poland |
| 5 Jan | 63.6 | Died | Andreas Jakob Reichsgraf von Dietrichstein † | Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria |
| 9 Jan | | Born | Bernard-Claude Panet † | Québec | Archbishop of Québec, Québec, Canada |
| 19 Jan | | Born | Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri † | Fermo | Bishop Emeritus of Rimini, Italy |
| 20 Jan | 68.2 | Died | Severino Antonio Missini † | Bishop of Borgo San Donnino, Italy |
| 29 Jan | 32.4 | Appointed | Bartolomeu Manoel Mendes dos Reis † | Bishop of Macau, China | Bishop Emeritus of Mariana, Brazil |
| 49.3 | Appointed | Antonio Nogueira † | Bishop of São Tomé e Príncipe |
| 45.6 | Appointed | Pedro Jacinto Valente, O. do Cristo † | Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde |
| 3 Feb | 63.1 | Died | Protacio Cabezas † | Bishop of Cebu, Philippines |
| 6 Feb | 68.0 | Installed | Amand Buseck, O.S.B. † | Bishop of Fulda, Germany |
| 17 Feb | 46.5 | Died | Carlo Rosati † | Bishop of Alife, Italy |
| 24 Feb | 66.8 | Installed | José Francisco de San Buenaventura Martínez de Tejada y Díez de Velasco, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México |
| 31.0 | Ordained Bishop | Johann Hildebrand Roten † | Bishop of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland |
| 26 Feb | 67.8 | Appointed | Neri Maria Corsini † | Archpriest of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano {Saint John Lateran Basilica} | Cardinal, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura |
| 4 Mar | 55.3 | Ordained Bishop | Carlos Antonio Riomol Quiroga † | Bishop of Mondoñedo, Spain |
| 8 Mar | | Born | László Kámánházy † | Nitra | Bishop of Vác, Hungary |
| 12 Mar | | Born | Benito Lué y Riega † | Lastres, Spain | Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| 52.6 | Appointed | Diego Rojas Contreras † | Bishop of Cartagena (en España) |
| Appointed | Innocenzo Sanseverino † | Bishop of Alife, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
| 13 Mar | 72.1 | Died | Antonio Saverio Gentili † | Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation of the Council |
| 30 Mar | 58.3 | Appointed | Pedro Agustín Morell de Santa Cruz y Lora † | Bishop of Santiago de Cuba |
| 3 Apr | 78.3 | Elected | Luciano Santiago † | Bishop of Nueva Segovia, Philippines |
| 5 Apr | 55.1 | Appointed | Siegmund Christoph Graf von Schrattenbach † | Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria |
| 9 Apr | 41.2 | Appointed | Girolamo Bajardi † | Bishop of Borgo San Donnino, Italy |
| 50.3 | Appointed | Isidro Alfonso Cavanillas † | Auxiliary Bishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain | Bishop of Zamora, Spain |
| 50.3 | Appointed | Isidro Alfonso Cavanillas † | Titular Bishop of Anazarbus | Bishop of Zamora, Spain |
| 47.1 | Appointed | Alfonso Fernández Pantoja † | Bishop of León, Spain |
| 72.0 | Appointed | Joaquín Fernández Portocarrero † | Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Trastevere | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina |
| 40.0 | Appointed | Antoni Kazimierz Ostrowski † | Bishop of Foreign Diocese | Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland |
| 59.2 | Appointed | Giuseppe Spinelli † | Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia |
| 10 Apr | | Born | Giovanni Marchetti † | Empoli, Italy | Titular Archbishop of Ancyra |
| 18 Apr | 73.6 | Died | Pedro Copóns Copóns † | Archbishop of Tarragona, Spain |
| 23 Apr | 41.2 | Ordained Bishop | Girolamo Bajardi † | Bishop of Borgo San Donnino, Italy |
| 28 Apr | | Born | Felipe Montoya Díez † | Grijota | Bishop of Teruel, Spain |
| 4 May | 73.8 | Died | Domingo (Damiano) Polou † | Archbishop of Reggio Calabria, Italy |
| 8 May | | Born | Michele Belli † | Rome, Italy | Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus |
| 11 May | 75.7 | Died | Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy † | Archbishop of Sens, France |
| 19 May | 60.8 | Appointed | Jakob Johann Joseph Wosky von Bärenstamm † | Titular Bishop of Pergamum | Prefect of Meissen (Meißen) {Lusazia o Lausitz; Sassonia}, Germany |
| 21 May | 57.6 | Appointed | José Moreno Guriel, O.SS.T. † | Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| 27 May | 22.8 | Ordained Priest | Maria Romedius Graf von Sarnthein † | Priest of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy | Auxiliary Bishop |
| 28 May | | Appointed | Juan de La Fuente Yepes † | Bishop of Nueva Segovia, Philippines |
| 58.5 | Installed | Pedro Agustín Morell de Santa Cruz y Lora † | Bishop of Santiago de Cuba |
| 57.4 | Appointed | José Vidal de Moctezuma y Tobar, O. de M. † | Bishop of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas), Chiapas, México |
| 57.4 | Appointed | Ignacio Padilla Estrada (Guardiola), O.S.A. † | Archbishop (Personal Title) of Yucatán (Mérida), Yucatán, México | Bishop |
| 78.4 | Confirmed | Luciano Santiago † | Bishop of Nueva Segovia, Philippines |
| 29 May | | Born | Jean-Claude Leblanc de Beaulieu † | Paris | Bishop Emeritus of Soissons, France |
| 2 Jun | 40.2 | Ordained Bishop | Antoni Kazimierz Ostrowski † | Bishop of Foreign Diocese | Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland |
| 3 Jun | 39.7 | Ordained Priest | Tomás Azpuru Ximénez † | Priest | Archbishop of Valencia, Spain |
| 58.2 | Died | Johann Philipp Anton Reichsfreiherr von Franckenstein † | Bishop of Bamberg, Germany |
| 17 Jun | 48.5 | Ordained Bishop | Walenty Franciszek Wężyk † | Bishop of Chelm, Poland | Bishop of Przemyśl, Poland |
| 19 Jun | | Born | François-Melchior-Charles-Bienvenu de Miollis † | Aix-en-Provence | Bishop Emeritus of Digne, France |
| 23 Jun | | Born | Juan Antonio Zulaibar, O.P. † | Ceánuri, Spain | Archbishop of Manila, Philippines |
| 24 Jun | 60.9 | Ordained Bishop | Jakob Johann Joseph Wosky von Bärenstamm † | Titular Bishop of Pergamum | Prefect of Meissen (Meißen) {Lusazia o Lausitz; Sassonia}, Germany |
| 27 Jun | | Born | Pietro Bianco † | Sassari | Bishop of Alghero, Italy |
| 3 Jul | | Born | Jan Pavel Woronicz † | Brodów | Archbishop of Warszawa {Warsaw}, Poland |
| 7 Jul | | Born | Miguel Sánchez Cerrudo, O.F.M. † | Béjar, Spain | Bishop of Santa Marta, Colombia |
| Born | Roch-Etienne de Vichy † | Paulhaguet | Bishop of Autun, France |
| 11 Jul | 46.6 | Appointed | Francisco Pallás Faro, O.P. † | Vicar Apostolic of Fo-Kien, China |
| 46.6 | Appointed | Francisco Pallás Faro, O.P. † | Titular Bishop of the unknown of Titular See | Vicar Apostolic of Fo-Kien, China |
| 14 Jul | 41.4 | Installed | Girolamo Bajardi † | Bishop of Borgo San Donnino, Italy |
| 15 Jul | | Born | Jakub Ignacy Dederko † | | Bishop of Minsk, Belarus |
| 39.4 | Resigned | Vigilius Augustin Maria Graf von Firmian † | Bishop of Lavant, Slovenia | Bishop Emeritus |
| 16 Jul | | Born | Johann Adam Rieger † | Orb/Spessart | Bishop of Fulda, Germany |
| 19 Jul | | Born | Romoaldo Braschi-Onesti † | Cesena | Cardinal, Archpriest of the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano {Saint Peter Basilica} |
| 22 Jul | | Born | Giovanni-Antonio Niccola (Nicola) † | Carmagnola | Bishop of Alba (Pompea), Italy |
| 23 Jul | | Appointed | José Antonio Flores de Rivera † | Bishop of León en Nicaragua |
| 73.9 | Appointed | Franz Konrad Reichsgraf von Stadion und Thannhausen † | Bishop of Bamberg, Germany |
| 25 Jul | 50.6 | Ordained Bishop | Isidro Alfonso Cavanillas † | Titular Bishop of Anazarbus | Bishop of Zamora, Spain |
| 32.9 | Ordained Bishop | Bartolomeu Manoel Mendes dos Reis † | Bishop of Macau, China | Bishop Emeritus of Mariana, Brazil |
| 49.8 | Ordained Bishop | Antonio Nogueira † | Bishop of São Tomé e Príncipe |
| 46.1 | Ordained Bishop | Pedro Jacinto Valente, O. do Cristo † | Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde |
| 5 Aug | 46.7 | Ordained Bishop | Francisco Pallás Faro, O.P. † | Titular Bishop of the unknown of Titular See | Vicar Apostolic of Fo-Kien, China |
| 9 Aug | 50.6 | Appointed | Paul d’Albert de Luynes † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Sens, France |
| 55.4 | Appointed | Pierre-Jules-César de Rochechouard-Montigny † | Bishop of Bayeux, France | Bishop Emeritus |
| 11 Aug | 60.2 | Resigned | Pedro Felipe de Azúa e Iturgoyen † | Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada, Colombia | Archbishop Emeritus |
| 15 Aug | 51.6 | Appointed | François de Crussol d'Uzès † | Archbishop of Toulouse, France |
| 31.9 | Appointed | Arthur-Richard Dillon † | Bishop of Evreux, France | Archbishop of Narbonne, France |
| 41.6 | Appointed | Charles-Gilbert de May de Termont † | Bishop of Blois, France |
| 18 Aug | | Born | Dominic Laurence Graessl, S.J. † | | Coadjutor Bishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
| 31 Aug | | Appointed | Henri Hachette des Portes, O. Carm. † | Auxiliary Bishop of Reims, France |
| 8 Sep | | Born | Louis Joseph d'Humières † | Aurillac | Archbishop of Avignon, France |
| 9 Sep | 51.8 | Died | Leopold Heinrich Wilhelm von Schorror † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Upper and Lower Saxony (Hanover), Germany |
| 10 Sep | 63.6 | Died | Franz Joachim Reichsritter Schmid von Altenstadt † | Auxiliary Bishop of Regensburg, Germany |
| 11 Sep | 59.6 | Died | Johann Joseph von Wratislaw von Mitrowitz † | Bishop of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic |
| 15 Sep | | Born | Nikodem Puzyna † | Pompiany | Auxiliary Bishop of Vilnius, Lithuania |
| 22 Sep | 25.0 | Ordained Priest | Jean Davoust, M.E.P. † | Priest of La Société des Missions Etrangères | Vicar Apostolic of Western Tonking {Tonkino Occidentale}, Viêt Nam |
| 22.8 | Ordained Priest | Domenico Pignatelli di Belmonte, C.R. † | Priest of Congregation of Clerics Regular | Cardinal, Archbishop of Palermo, Italy |
| 27.5 | Ordained Priest | François Pottier, M.E.P. † | Priest of La Société des Missions Etrangères | Vicar Apostolic of Se-Ciuen, China |
| 26 Sep | 57.2 | Appointed | Buenaventura Blanco y Elguero (Helguero) † | Bishop of Antequera, Oaxaca, México |
| 65.3 | Appointed | Jaime Cortada Bru † | Archbishop of Tarragona, Spain |
| 51.7 | Confirmed | François de Crussol d'Uzès † | Archbishop of Toulouse, France |
| 32.0 | Confirmed | Arthur-Richard Dillon † | Bishop of Evreux, France | Archbishop of Narbonne, France |
| 45.0 | Appointed | Andrés Porras Termes † | Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada, Spain |
| 55.5 | Confirmed | Pierre-Jules-César de Rochechouard-Montigny † | Bishop of Bayeux, France | Bishop Emeritus |
| 74.1 | Confirmed | Franz Konrad Reichsgraf von Stadion und Thannhausen † | Bishop of Bamberg, Germany |
| 29 Sep | 46.1 | Appointed | Anton Peter Graf Przichowsky von Przichowitz † | Bishop of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic | Archbishop of Praha {Prague}, Czech Republic |
| 12 Oct | | Born | André-Etienne-Antoine de Morlhon † | Villefranche-de-Panat | Archbishop of Auch, France |
| 28 Oct | 32.1 | Ordained Bishop | Arthur-Richard Dillon † | Bishop of Evreux, France | Archbishop of Narbonne, France |
| 30 Oct | 55.8 | Died | Felipe Martín Ovejero † | Bishop of Oviedo, Spain |
| 31 Oct | 62.9 | Died | José Alfonso Meléndez, O.F.M. † | Archbishop of Palermo, Italy |
| 4 Nov | 74.2 | Ordained Bishop | Franz Konrad Reichsgraf von Stadion und Thannhausen † | Bishop of Bamberg, Germany |
| 5 Nov | | Born | Emeric Karol Raffay † | Prozorje | Bishop of Sirmio, Croatia |
| 7 Nov | 28.9 | Appointed | Louis-Joseph de Montmorency-Laval † | Bishop of Orléans, France | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Metz, France |
| 57.8 | Installed | Ignacio Padilla Estrada (Guardiola), O.S.A. † | Bishop of Yucatán (Mérida), Yucatán, México |
| 11 Nov | 45.1 | Ordained Bishop | Andrés Porras Termes † | Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada, Spain |
| 17 Nov | | Born | Francisco Antonio La Dueña Cisneros † | Villanueva de la Fuente | Bishop of Segorbe, Spain |
| 19 Nov | 46.2 | Ordained Bishop | Anton Peter Graf Przichowsky von Przichowitz † | Coadjutor Archbishop of Praha {Prague}, Czech Republic | Archbishop |
| 25 Nov | 41.9 | Appointed | Manuel de Alday y Axpée † | Bishop of Santiago de Chile |
| 26 Nov | 50.9 | Confirmed | Paul d’Albert de Luynes † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Sens, France |
| 42.2 | Appointed | Flavio Chigi † | Cardinal-Deacon of S. Angelo in Pescheria | Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation of Rites |
| 42.2 | Elevated to Cardinal | Flavio Chigi † | Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation of Rites |
| 52.2 | Elevated to Cardinal | Enrique Enríquez † | Cardinal, Official of the Secretariat of State |
| 60.6 | Elevated to Cardinal | Giuseppe Maria Feroni † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of S. Cecilia |
| 61.9 | Appointed | Juan González Melgarejo † | Bishop of Arequipa, Peru |
| 51.7 | Appointed | Luigi Mattei † | Cardinal-Priest of Matteo in Merulana | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Ara Coeli |
| 51.7 | Elevated to Cardinal | Luigi Mattei † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Ara Coeli |
| 55.7 | Confirmed | Siegmund Christoph Graf von Schrattenbach † | Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria |
| 10 Dec | 60.6 | Installed | Giuseppe Maria Feroni † | Cardinal-Priest of S. Pancrazio | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of S. Cecilia |
| 56.7 | Appointed | José Gómez † | Bishop of Zamora, Spain |
| 41.9 | Confirmed | Charles-Gilbert de May de Termont † | Bishop of Blois, France |
| 16 Dec | 55.8 | Ordained Bishop | Siegmund Christoph Graf von Schrattenbach † | Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria |
| 22 Dec | 76.1 | Died | Martín Delgado Cenarro y Lapiedra † | Bishop of Valladolid, Spain |
| 29 Dec | | Born | Isidoro Pérez Celis, O.S. Cam. † | Potes | Bishop of Segovia, Spain |
| 30 Dec | 42.0 | Ordained Bishop | Charles-Gilbert de May de Termont † | Bishop of Blois, France |