Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
unknown | | Died | Martín Acuña, O. Carm. † | Bishop of Lipari, Italy |
48.0 | Ordained Bishop | Nikolaus Arresdorf, O.F.M. Conv. † | Titular Bishop of Acre (or Ptolomais) | Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn, Germany |
| Died | Antonio de Ascafeis † | Bishop of Arkadi, Greece |
| Born | Louis Barbier de La Rivière † | | Bishop of Langres, France |
| Died | Gérard Bellenger † | Bishop of Fréjus, France |
| Born | Agostino de’ Belli (Bellis), C.R. † | | Bishop of Sora, Italy |
50.2 | Appointed | Louis de Berlaymont † | Administrator of Tournai {Doornik}, Belgium | Archbishop of Cambrai, France |
| Born | Gaspard Bobek † | | Bishop of Pedena, Austria |
| Born | Gerolamo Bollini, O.S.B. † | | Bishop of Isernia, Italy |
| Born | Ferdinando Bruno, O.F.M. † | | Bishop of Lacedonia, Italy |
| Born | Giovanni Paolo Bucciarelli (Buccerelli) † | | Bishop of Narni, Italy |
| Died | Francisco Cano † | Bishop of Faro {Algarve}, Portugal |
22.0 | Ordained Priest | Istvan Szentandrássy (Cecchio), O.F.M. Obs. † | Priest of Order of Observant Friars Minor | Bishop Emeritus of Smederevo (Semendria), Serbia |
| Born | Giuseppe Corti † | | Auxiliary Bishop of Praha {Prague}, Czechia |
| Born | Jacques Desclaux † | | Bishop of Acqs (Dax), France |
25.6 | Ordained Priest | Cosimo della Gherardesca † | Priest | Bishop of Colle di Val d’Elsa, Italy |
| Died | François de La Tour † | Bishop Emeritus of Tréguier, France | Bishop Emeritus of Quimper, France |
| Died | Sofiano Eudaemonianus † | Bishop of Hierapetra et Sitia, Greece |
| Ordained Bishop | Alfonso Fernández de Bonilla † | Archbishop of México, Federal District |
| Died | Cesare Ferranti † | Bishop of Termoli, Italy |
75.2 | Died | Giovanni Pietro Fortiguerra † | Bishop of Bitonto, Italy |
| Born | Ippolito Franconi † | | Bishop of Nocera de’ Pagani, Italy |
| Appointed | Filippo Gesualdo, O.F.M. Conv. † | Minister General of Order of Friars Minor Conventual | Bishop of Cariati e Cerenzia, Italy |
| Born | Denis Harty † | | Vicar Apostolic of Killaloe, Ireland |
| Died | Marco Landi † | Bishop of Ascoli Satriano (Puglia), Italy |
| Resigned | Gabriel Le Genevois de Blaigny † | Bishop of Noyon, France | Bishop Emeritus |
| Born | André Le Porc de la Porte † | | Bishop of Saint-Brieuc, France |
| Died | Bonaventura Mancinelli, O.F.M. Obs. † | Bishop of Senj, Croatia |
| Resigned | Antonio Maria Manzoli † | Bishop of Gravina (di Puglia), Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
| Born | Angelo Melchiori (Melchiorre) † | | Bishop of Castellaneta, Italy |
14.0 | Professed | Alfonso Mendes, S.J. † | Member of Society of Jesus | Patriarch of Ethiopia |
| Born | Pierre Nivelle, O. Cist. † | | Bishop of Luçon, France |
| Resigned | Giovanni Francesco Orefice † | Bishop of Acerno, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
| Born | Georgius Pauli-Stravius † | | Auxiliary Bishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany |
| Born | Enrique Peralta y Cárdenas † | | Archbishop of Burgos, Spain |
| Died | Manuel de Quadros † | Bishop of Guarda, Portugal |
60.0 | Died | Prospero Rebiba † | Bishop of Troia, Italy |
| Died | Claude Régin † | Bishop Emeritus of Oloron (Oloron-Sainte-Marie), France |
| Died | Girolamo Righetto (Ragazzinus), C.R.L. † | Bishop of Caorle, Italy |
| Born | Isidoro della Robbia, O.S.B. † | | Bishop of Bertinoro, Italy |
| Born | Francesco Antonio Roberti † | | Bishop of Alessano, Italy |
| Appointed | Marco Antonio Salomone † | Vicegerent of Roma {Rome}, Italy | Bishop Emeritus of Sora, Italy |
35.0 | Appointed | Bonaventura Secusio, O.F.M. Obs. † | Minister General of Order of Observant Friars Minor | Bishop of Catania, Italy |
| Died | Ottaviano Semitecolo, O.S.C. † | Bishop of Mylopotamos, Greece |
| Resigned | Francisco de Tolosa, O.F.M. Obs. † | Minister General of Order of Observant Friars Minor | Bishop of Tuy, Spain |
| Born | Miguel de Torres, O.P. † | | Bishop of Potenza, Italy |
| Died | Valentino Valentini † | Bishop of Città Ducale, Italy |
| Ordained Bishop | Giovanni Wagenring (Bogarino) † | Bishop of Trieste, Italy |
| Appointed | Miklós Zelniczey Naprady † | Bishop of Sirmio (Srijem; Sirmium), Croatia | Bishop of Zagreb (Agram), Croatia |
1 Jan | 74.1 | Died | Jacques Sacrati † | Bishop of Carpentras, France |
| Succeeded | François Sadoleto † | Bishop of Carpentras, France |
10 Jan | 33.2 | Ordained Bishop | Claudio Rangoni † | Bishop of Reggio Emilia, Italy |
| Born | Maurizio di Savoia † | |
50.4 | Ordained Bishop | Kaspar von Seckendorff † | Bishop of Eichstätt, Germany |
39.0 | Died | Johann Walser (Waltous) † | Auxiliary Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy |
11 Jan | 50.1 | Died | Scipione Gonzaga † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo |
15 Jan | 62.0 | Died | Jacques Maury † | Bishop of Bayonne, France |
29 Jan | 41.0 | Appointed | Luís Cerqueira, S.J. † | Coadjutor Bishop of Funay (Funai), Japan | Bishop |
41.0 | Appointed | Luís Cerqueira, S.J. † | Titular Bishop of Tiberias | Bishop of Funay (Funai), Japan |
47.0 | Appointed | Francesco Gonzaga, O.F.M. Obs. † | Bishop of Pavia, Italy | Bishop of Mantova, Italy |
58.0 | Appointed | Jérôme de Langue, O.F.M. Obs. † | Bishop of (Saint-Lizier de) Couserans (or Conserans), France |
6 Feb | 79.3 | Died | Jacques Amyot † | Bishop of Auxerre, France |
8 Feb | 42.2 | Appointed | Carlo Bescapè, B. † | Bishop of Novara, Italy |
| Born | Louis de Nogaret de La Valette † | | Cardinal, Former Archbishop-Elect of Toulouse, France |
14 Feb | 58.1 | Ordained Bishop | Jérôme de Langue, O.F.M. Obs. † | Bishop of (Saint-Lizier de) Couserans (or Conserans), France |
19 Feb | 56.1 | Appointed | Gaspare Silingardi † | Bishop of Modena, Italy |
20 Feb | | Born | Henri d’Escoubleau de Sourdis † | | Archbishop of Bordeaux, France |
24 Feb | 42.3 | Ordained Bishop | Carlo Bescapè, B. † | Bishop of Novara, Italy |
25 Feb | 49.1 | Ordained Bishop | Antonio Atzori † | Bishop of Bosa, Italy |
26 Feb | 58.1 | Resigned | Alessandro Musotti † | Apostolic Nuncio to Venice, Italy | Bishop of Imola, Italy |
Mar | 51.5 | Ordained Priest | Hipacy (Ipatij) Pociej (Potij) † | Priest | Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine |
1 Mar | | Born | Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg † | | Cardinal, Bishop of Regensburg, Germany |
3 Mar | | Died | Nicolas Fumée † | Bishop of Beauvais, France |
4 Mar | 51.5 | Appointed | Hipacy (Ipatij) Pociej (Potij) † | Bishop | Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine |
7 Mar | | Died | Francesco del Pozzo † | Bishop of Agrigento (Girgenti), Italy |
10 Mar | 28.4 | Confirmed | Georges d’Aradon † | Bishop of Vannes, France |
| Appointed | Alfonso Gregorio † | Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain |
41.1 | Appointed | Martín Terrer Valenzuela, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Albarracin, Spain | Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain |
13 Mar | 24.1 | Ordained Priest | Michael Ophovius, O.P. † | Priest | Bishop of ’s-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), Netherlands |
15 Mar | 33.2 | Appointed | Ottavio Acquaviva d’Aragona (Sr.) † | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo | Cardinal, Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy |
39.2 | Appointed | Giuseppe Ferrerio † | Coadjutor Archbishop of Urbino, Italy | Archbishop |
39.2 | Appointed | Giuseppe Ferrerio † | Titular Archbishop of Colossae | Archbishop of Urbino, Italy |
40.6 | Appointed | Flaminio Piatti † | Cardinal-Priest of San Clemente | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace |
19 Mar | 68.2 | Died | Jerónimo de Escobar, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Nicaragua |
23 Mar | | Died | Alessandro Andreasi † | Bishop of Mantova, Italy |
30 Mar | | Resigned | Girolamo Rustici † | Bishop of Tropea, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
31 Mar | | Appointed | Giulio Caracciolo † | Archbishop of Trani, Italy | Bishop of Cassano all’Jonio, Italy |
51.6 | Ordained Bishop | Hipacy (Ipatij) Pociej (Potij) † | Bishop | Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine |
7 Apr | | Appointed | Giovanni Francesco Zagordo (Burgaro) † | Bishop of Città Ducale, Italy | Bishop of Belcastro, Italy |
17 Apr | 24.0 | Ordained Priest | Servaas de Quinckere † | Priest | Bishop of Brugge {Bruges}, Belgium |
19 Apr | 65.2 | Died | Nicolas Boucher † | Bishop of Verdun, France |
20 Apr | | Born | Jost (Jodok) Knab † | | Bishop of Lausanne, Switzerland |
28 Apr | | Died | Desiderio Mezzapica da S. Martino, O. Carm. † | Bishop of Ugento, Italy |
30 Apr | 48.4 | Appointed | Guglielmo Bastoni † | Bishop of Pavia, Italy |
| Appointed | Tommaso Calvi † | Bishop of Tropea, Italy |
47.3 | Appointed | Francesco Gonzaga, O.F.M. Obs. † | Bishop of Mantova, Italy |
76.3 | Appointed | Bartolomé Martinez Menacho y Mesa (Mechado) † | Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada, Colombia |
6 May | 48.4 | Ordained Bishop | Guglielmo Bastoni † | Bishop of Pavia, Italy |
| Ordained Bishop | Tommaso Calvi † | Bishop of Tropea, Italy |
12 May | | Appointed | Manoel de Séabra (Leabra) † | Bishop of Miranda (do Douro), Portugal |
16 May | | Ordained Bishop | Karl Griming † | Titular Bishop of Germanicia | Auxiliary Bishop of Gurk, Austria |
26 May | | Died | Isidoro Caja de la Jara † | Bishop of Mondoñedo, Spain |
30 May | 41.4 | Ordained Bishop | Martín Terrer Valenzuela, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Albarracin, Spain | Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain |
31 May | 51.4 | Appointed | Francesco Bonfiglio, O.F.M. Conv. † | Bishop of Ascoli Satriano (Puglia), Italy |
48.4 | Appointed | Juan González de Mendoza, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Lipari, Italy | Bishop of Popayán, Colombia |
Jun | | Died | Juan del Castillo † | Bishop Emeritus of Santiago de Cuba | Bishop Emeritus of Santiago de Cuba |
28.6 | Ordained Bishop | Georges d’Aradon † | Bishop of Vannes, France |
7 Jun | 48.4 | Ordained Bishop | Juan González de Mendoza, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Lipari, Italy | Bishop of Popayán, Colombia |
9 Jun | 17.2 | Appointed | Éric de Lorraine, O.F.M. Cap. † | Bishop of Verdun, France | Bishop Emeritus |
21 Jun | 42.4 | Appointed | Zbynék Berka z Dubé a Liepé † | Archbishop of Praha {Prague}, Czechia |
42.4 | Appointed | Zbynék Berka z Dubé a Liepé † | Grand Master of Knights of the Cross with the Red Star | Archbishop of Praha {Prague}, Czechia |
| Appointed | Marco Magnacervo, C.R. † | Bishop of Lucera, Italy |
48.1 | Confirmed | Neytard von Thüngen † | Bishop of Bamberg, Germany |
27 Jun | | Ordained Bishop | Marco Magnacervo, C.R. † | Bishop of Lucera, Italy |