Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
unknown | | Born | Diego Aduarte, O.P. † | | Bishop of Nueva Segovia, Philippines |
| Born | Giovanni Battista Agatich, O.S.A. † | | Bishop of Senj (-Modruš), Croatia |
| Appointed | Georg Agricola † | Bishop of Lavant, Slovenia | Bishop of Seckau, Austria |
| Born | Giovanni Battista Agucchia † | | Titular Archbishop of Amasea |
| Born | Domingos de Assumpção, O.P. † | | Bishop of São Tomé e Príncipe |
| Born | Filippo Bardi (dei Verni) † | | Bishop of Cortona, Italy |
| Born | Pietro Bastoni † | | Bishop of Umbriatico (Umbriaticum), Italy |
| Born | Giovanni Battista Biglia † | | Bishop of Pavia, Italy |
| Died | Marco Antonio Bozzuto † | Archbishop of Amalfi, Italy |
| Born | Luis de Brito de Menezes, O.S.A. † | | Bishop of Cochin, India |
| Born | Simon Brosius Horstein † | | Auxiliary Bishop of Praha {Prague}, Czechia |
72.0 | Died | Rodrigo de Bastidas y Rodriguez de Romera † | Bishop Emeritus of Puerto Rico (Porto Rico) |
| Died | Ventura Buffalini † | Bishop of Massa Marittima, Italy |
| Born | Cristóbal de la Cámara y Murga † | | Bishop of Salamanca, Spain |
53.0 | Died | Pyrrhus Antonio Casamassima † | Bishop of Polignano (Polinianum), Italy |
| Resigned | Angelo (Cattani) da Diacceto, O.P. † | Bishop of Fiesole, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
| Died | Nicolo Cicala † | Bishop Emeritus of Accia and Mariana, France |
| Born | Giovanni Collesius, O.F.M. Obs. † | | Coadjutor Bishop Emeritus of Stefaniaco e Benda, Albania |
35.0 | Died | Francesco Contarini (Contareno) † | Bishop of Paphos, Cyprus |
| Born | Antonio Corderiña Vega, O.S.A. † | | Bishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga (Guamanga), Peru |
| Born | Thomas Dease † | | Bishop of Meath, Ireland |
| Born | Facundo (Fernando) de la Torre, O.S.B. † | | Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| Born | Francisco de Menezes † | | Bishop of Faro {Algarve}, Portugal |
| Born | Jean-Jacques du Sault † | | Bishop of Acqs (Dax), France |
| Died | Vincenzo Durante † | Bishop Emeritus of Termoli, Italy |
| Died | Baldo Ferratini † | Bishop Emeritus of Amelia, Italy |
| Born | Friedrich Förner † | | Auxiliary Bishop of Bamberg, Germany |
| Born | Auguste de Forbin de Solliers † | | Bishop of Toulon, France |
| Born | Fulgenzio Gallucci, O.S.A. † | | Bishop of Boiano, Italy |
| Died | Ascanio Geronimo Geraldini d’Amelia † | Bishop of Catanzaro, Italy |
| Resigned | Ioannis Carizia (Grassinga) † | Bishop of Lezhë {Lesh, Alessio}, Albania | Bishop Emeritus |
| Born | Felipe Guimerá, O. de M. † | | Bishop of Jaca, Spain |
| Born | Atanasij Aleksander Krupeckyj † | | Bishop of Przemyśl, Sambor, et Sanok (Ukrainian), Poland |
58.0 | Died | Pedro de Labrit (d’Albret) † | Bishop of (Saint-Bertrand de) Comminges, France |
| Born | François L’Archiver † | | Bishop of Rennes, France |
| Died | Girolamo Leone † | Bishop of Accia and Mariana, France |
| Born | Charles von Lamberg † | | Archbishop of Praha {Prague}, Czechia |
| Died | Jean Le Feuvre † | Bishop of Vannes, France |
48.0 | Resigned | Marcantonio Maffei † | Datary of the Apostolic Datary | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Chieti, Italy |
| Born | Domenico Marengo, O.F.M. † | | Bishop of Syros (e Milos), Greece |
| Born | Juan Martínez de Peralta, O.S.H. † | | Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain |
28.0 | Ordained Priest | Pedro Martins (Martinez), S.J. † | Priest of Society of Jesus | Bishop of Funay (Funai), Japan |
| Born | Giulio Masi † | | Bishop of Monopoli, Italy |
| Born | Diego Merino, O. Carm. † | | Bishop of Isernia, Italy |
| Born | Balthasar Miaskowski † | | Auxiliary Bishop of Włocławek (Kujawy, Kalisze), Poland |
| Born | Mario Moro † | | Bishop of Venosa, Italy |
| Born | Giovanni Francesco Murta (de Mirto), C.R. † | | Bishop of Aleria, France |
| Appointed | Nicolas † | Bishop of Senj, Croatia | Bishop-Elect |
| Died | Terence O’Brien † | Bishop of Killaloe, Ireland |
44.0 | Died | Pierre François Pallavicini † | Bishop of Aleria, France |
| Born | Juan Pérez de la Serna † | | Bishop of Zamora, Spain |
| Born | Gregorius Pedrocca, O.F.M. † | | Bishop of Acqui, Italy |
| Born | Michel Raoul de La Guibourgère † | | Bishop of Saintes, France |
| Born | Alfonso de Requeséns Fenollet, O.F.M. † | | Bishop of Barbastro, Spain |
| Born | Raphael Riva (Ripa), O.P. † | | Bishop of Chioggia, Italy |
| Appointed | Guillaume Ruzé † | Bishop of Saint-Malo, France | Bishop of Angers, France |
| Died | Giulio Sauli † | Bishop of Brugnato, Italy |
| Died | Juan Segría (Cengria) † | Archbishop of Palermo, Italy |
| Born | Juan Sentís † | | Bishop of Barcelona, Spain |
| Born | Giacomo Serra † | | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace |
| Died | Juan Simancas Simancas † | Bishop of Cartagena, Colombia |
48.0 | Appointed | Girolamo Simoncelli † | Administrator of Orvieto, Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina |
| Born | Agostino Solaro di Moretta † | | Bishop of Fossano, Italy |
28.0 | Ordained Priest | Nicolò Stizzia † | Priest | Bishop of Cefalù, Italy |
| Died | Ercole Tambosi † | Bishop of Ravello, Italy |
| Born | Tomás de la Torre Gibaja, O.P. † | | Bishop of Córdoba (Tucumán), Argentina |
| Born | Evangelista Tornioli, O.S.B. † | | Bishop of Città di Castello, Italy |
75.0 | Died | James Turberville † | Bishop of Exeter, England, Great Britain |
| Died | Giovanni Matteo Valdina, O.P. † | Bishop of Acerno, Italy |
56.0 | Died | Sebastiano Vanzi † | Bishop of Orvieto, Italy |
80.0 | Died | Jobst von der Recke † | Bishop Emeritus of Dorpat (Tartu), Estonia |
| Died | Urbano Vigerio della Rovere † | Bishop of Senigallia, Italy |
7 Jan | | Born | Francisco de Zamudio y Avendaño, O.S.A. † | | Bishop of Nueva Caceres, Philippines |
8 Jan | 53.0 | Ordained Bishop | Vincenzo Ercolani (Herculani), O.P. † | Bishop of Sarno, Italy | Bishop of Perugia, Italy |
| Ordained Bishop | Donato Stampa † | Bishop of Nepi e Sutri, Italy |
22 Jan | 59.0 | Ordained Bishop | Girolamo di Corregio † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Taranto, Italy |
25 Jan | 57.0 | Died | Philibert Babou de La Bourdaisière † | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Angoulême, France |
5 Feb | | Born | Heinrich von Knöringen † | | Bishop of Augsburg, Germany |
10 Feb | 52.4 | Appointed | Antoine Perrenot de Granvella † | Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Anastasia | Cardinal, Archbishop of Besançon, France |
65.7 | Appointed | Stanislaw Hosius (Hozjusz) † | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca | Cardinal, Bishop of Warmia (Ermland), Poland |
45.1 | Appointed | Giuseppe Pamphilj (Panfili), O.S.A. † | Bishop of Segni, Italy |
35.9 | Appointed | St. Alessandro Maria Sauli, B. † | Bishop of Aleria, France | Bishop of Pavia, Italy |
| Appointed | Alphonse Vercelli † | Bishop of Lodève, France |
13 Feb | 70.1 | Died | Julião de Alva † | Bishop Emeritus of Miranda (do Douro), Portugal |
17 Feb | 45.1 | Ordained Bishop | Giuseppe Pamphilj (Panfili), O.S.A. † | Bishop of Segni, Italy |
18 Feb | | Appointed | Juan Ramírez Zapata de Cárdenas † | Bishop of Palencia, Spain |
| Appointed | Gonzalo de Solórzano † | Bishop of Oviedo, Spain |
20 Feb | | Appointed | Pedro Coderos † | Auxiliary Bishop of Valencia, Spain | Archbishop of Otranto, Italy |
| Appointed | Pedro Coderos † | Titular Bishop of Christopolis | Archbishop of Otranto, Italy |
| Appointed | Cristóbal Fernández Valtodano † | Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| Appointed | Antonio Luján Luján, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Mondoñedo, Spain |
| Appointed | Manuel de Menezes † | Bishop of Lamego, Portugal | Bishop of Coimbra, Portugal |
21 Feb | 50.1 | Died | Martin Herkules Rettinger † | Bishop of Lavant, Slovenia |
25 Feb | | Died | Daniele Barboli, O.P. † | Bishop of Pedena, Austria |
28 Feb | 31.0 | Appointed | Stephan Weber † | Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz, Germany |
31.0 | Appointed | Stephan Weber † | Titular Bishop of Missene (Mysia) | Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz, Germany |
4 Mar | 52.0 | Selected | Godfried van Mierlo, O.P. † | Bishop of Haarlem, Netherlands | Bishop Emeritus |
5 Mar | | Ordained Bishop | Johann Thomas von Spaur † | Titular Bishop of Maioren | Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy |
12 Mar | 36.0 | Ordained Bishop | St. Alessandro Maria Sauli, B. † | Bishop of Aleria, France | Bishop of Pavia, Italy |
13 Mar | | Appointed | Étienne Deodat † | Bishop of Grasse, France |
50.1 | Appointed | Laurent Metz † | Bishop of ’s-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), Netherlands | Bishop Emeritus |
63.5 | Appointed | François Sonnius (Van de Velde) † | Bishop of Antwerpen {Antwerp, Anvers}, Belgium |
49.1 | Appointed | Ghislain de Vroede † | Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen, Belgium |
49.1 | Appointed | Ghislain de Vroede † | Titular Bishop of Selymbria | Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen, Belgium |
19 Mar | 27.4 | Ordained Priest | St. Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino, S.J. † | Priest of Society of Jesus | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Capua, Italy |
25 Mar | | Died | Leonhard Haller † | Auxiliary Bishop of Eichstätt, Germany |
1 Apr | | Died | Gavin Hamilton † | Coadjutor Archbishop of Saint Andrews, Scotland, Great Britain |
8 Apr | 59.8 | Died | Giovanni Battista Cicala (Cicada) † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina |
12 Apr | | Appointed | Angelo Oraboni, O.F.M. Obs. † | Bishop of Catanzaro, Italy | Archbishop of Trani, Italy |
55.5 | Appointed | Prospero Publicola Santacroce † | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria degli Angeli | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano |
37.0 | Appointed | Giulio della Rovere † | Cardinal-Bishop of Albano | Cardinal, Archbishop of Ravenna, Italy |
51.2 | Appointed | Giovanni Antonio Serbelloni † | Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri) |
| Born | Giovanni Tiepolo † | | Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy |
56.1 | Appointed | Otto Truchseß von Waldburg † | Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina | Cardinal, Bishop of Augsburg, Germany |
13 Apr | 56.1 | Died | Daniele Matteo Alvise Barbaro † | Patriarch-Elect of Aquileia, Italy |
18 Apr | | Died | Ambrogio Aldegati, O.P. † | Bishop of Casale Monferrato, Italy |
22 Apr | 45.3 | Died | Muzio Calini † | Bishop of Terni, Italy |
23 Apr | 50.3 | Ordained Bishop | Laurent Metz † | Bishop of ’s-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), Netherlands | Bishop Emeritus |
49.3 | Ordained Bishop | Ghislain de Vroede † | Titular Bishop of Selymbria | Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen, Belgium |
7 May | | Ordained Bishop | Georg Agricola † | Bishop of Lavant, Slovenia | Bishop of Seckau, Austria |
31.0 | Ordained Bishop | Sebastian Haidlauf † | Titular Bishop of Dariensis | Auxiliary Bishop of Freising, Germany |
10 May | | Appointed | Francisco Beaumonte, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Córdoba (Tucumán), Argentina | Bishop-Elect |
| Appointed | Francisco Andrés de Carvajal, O.F.M. Obs. † | Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
53.2 | Appointed | Luigi Cornaro † | Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Zadar (Zara), Croatia |
49.3 | Appointed | Gianpaolo della Chiesa † | Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio | Cardinal, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura |
| Appointed | Bartolomeo Ferro, O.P. † | Bishop of Terni, Italy |
13 May | | Died | Antonio Corrionero de Babilafuente † | Bishop of Almería, Spain |
17 May | 66.3 | Elevated to Cardinal | Gian Girolamo Albani † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina |
45.3 | Elevated to Cardinal | Giovanni Aldobrandini † | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Imola, Italy |
53.6 | Elevated to Cardinal | Archangelo de’ Bianchi (Blanca), O.P. † | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Teano, Italy |
59.3 | Elevated to Cardinal | Bl. Paolo (Scipione) Burali d’Arezzo, C.R. † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy |
59.3 | Elevated to Cardinal | Gaspar Cervantes de Gaete † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Tarragona, Spain |
48.3 | Elevated to Cardinal | Pierdonato Cesi (Sr.) † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Anastasia |
24.3 | Elevated to Cardinal | Giulio Acquaviva d’Aragona † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of San Teodoro |
39.5 | Elevated to Cardinal | Charles d’Angennes † | Cardinal, Bishop of Le Mans, France |
51.3 | Elevated to Cardinal | Carlo Grassi † | Cardinal, Bishop of Corneto (Tarquinia) e Montefiascone, Italy |
50.7 | Elevated to Cardinal | Vincenzo Giustiniani, O.P. † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Sabina |
50.7 | Resigned | Vincenzo Giustiniani, O.P. † | Master General of Order of Friars Preachers | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Sabina |
48.4 | Elevated to Cardinal | Marcantonio Maffei † | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Chieti, Italy |
51.5 | Elevated to Cardinal | Nicolas de Pellevé † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Reims, France |
48.4 | Elevated to Cardinal | Felice Peretti Montalto, O.F.M. Conv. † | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) |
33.3 | Elevated to Cardinal | Girolamo Rusticucci † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina |
37.9 | Elevated to Cardinal | Giulio Antonio Santorio † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina |
63.3 | Elevated to Cardinal | Gaspar Zúñiga y Avellaneda † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain |
20 May | 27.3 | Ordained Deacon | Giovanni Battista del Tufo, C.R. † | Deacon of Congregation of Clerics Regular | Bishop Emeritus of Acerra, Italy |
2 Jun | 57.5 | Appointed | Marcin Kromer † | Coadjutor Bishop of Warmia (Ermland), Poland | Bishop |
3 Jun | 48.4 | Died | Luigi (Alvise) Pisani † | Cardinal, Bishop of Padova {Padua}, Italy |
4 Jun | 36.4 | Ordained Bishop | Claude de La Baume † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Besançon, France |
9 Jun | 45.4 | Installed | Giovanni Aldobrandini † | Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Eufemia | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Imola, Italy |
| Appointed | Filippo Fasio Capponi † | Bishop of Lettere (-Gragnano), Italy |
59.4 | Installed | Gaspar Cervantes de Gaete † | Cardinal-Priest of San Vitale | Cardinal, Archbishop of Tarragona, Spain |
48.4 | Installed | Pierdonato Cesi (Sr.) † | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Barbara | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Anastasia |
53.3 | Appointed | Luigi Cornaro † | Cardinal-Priest of San Marco | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Zadar (Zara), Croatia |
59.4 | Appointed | Girolamo di Corregio † | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca | Cardinal, Archbishop of Taranto, Italy |
24.4 | Installed | Giulio Acquaviva d’Aragona † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of San Teodoro |
39.6 | Installed | Charles d’Angennes † | Cardinal-Priest of San Simeone Profeta | Cardinal, Bishop of Le Mans, France |
52.8 | Appointed | Antoine Perrenot de Granvella † | Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli | Cardinal, Archbishop of Besançon, France |
51.4 | Installed | Carlo Grassi † | Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Agnese in Agone | Cardinal, Bishop of Corneto (Tarquinia) e Montefiascone, Italy |
| Appointed | Francisco Guaresma, O.F.M. Obs. † | Bishop of Ceuta and Tanger, Spain |
66.0 | Appointed | Stanislaw Hosius (Hozjusz) † | Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Anastasia | Cardinal, Bishop of Warmia (Ermland), Poland |
48.5 | Installed | Marcantonio Maffei † | Cardinal-Priest of San Callisto | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Chieti, Italy |
| Appointed | Antonio Mendes de Carvalho † | Bishop of Elvas, Portugal |
48.4 | Installed | Felice Peretti Montalto, O.F.M. Conv. † | Cardinal-Priest of San Girolamo dei Croati | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) |
33.4 | Installed | Girolamo Rusticucci † | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Susanna | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina |
38.0 | Installed | Giulio Antonio Santorio † | Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina |
51.4 | Appointed | Giovanni Antonio Serbelloni † | Cardinal-Priest of San Clemente | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri) |
60.4 | Appointed | Gaspar de Torres, O. de M. † | Auxiliary Bishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain |
60.4 | Appointed | Gaspar de Torres, O. de M. † | Titular Bishop of Medaurus | Auxiliary Bishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain |
16 Jun | 59.4 | Appointed | Gaspar Cervantes de Gaete † | Cardinal-Priest of Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti | Cardinal, Archbishop of Tarragona, Spain |
48.4 | Appointed | Pierdonato Cesi (Sr.) † | Cardinal-Priest of San Vitale | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Anastasia |
| Appointed | Benedetto Erba, O.P. † | Bishop of Casale Monferrato, Italy |
33.4 | Appointed | Girolamo Rusticucci † | Bishop of Senigallia, Italy | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina |
63.4 | Installed | Gaspar Zúñiga y Avellaneda † | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Barbara | Cardinal, Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain |
18 Jun | 38.4 | Ordained Bishop | Ludovico Madruzzo † | Cardinal, Bishop of Trento, Italy |
26 Jun | | Appointed | Lelio Giordano † | Bishop of Acerno, Italy | Archbishop of Rossano, Italy |
| Appointed | Girolamo Rustici † | Bishop of Tropea, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
29.4 | Appointed | Urbain de Saint-Gelais de Lansac † | Bishop of (Saint-Bertrand de) Comminges, France |
28 Jun | 76.4 | Died | Francesco Pisani † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri) |