The Year of Our Lord 1651

Bishop Events

July to December

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

1 Jul 40.5 Appointed Carlo Nembrini † Bishop of Parma, Italy

3 Jul 50.5 Appointed Rodrigo Gutiérrez de Rojas † Bishop of Islas Canarias {Canary Islands}, Spain

Appointed Antonio Leoncillo † Bishop of Termoli, Italy

32.5 Appointed Karl Kaspar von Leyen-Hohengeroldseck † Titular Archbishop of Rhodus Archbishop of Trier, Germany

32.5 Confirmed Karl Kaspar von Leyen-Hohengeroldseck † Coadjutor Archbishop of Trier, Germany Archbishop

9 Jul Ordained Bishop Antonio Leoncillo † Bishop of Termoli, Italy

14 Jul 57.5 Died Francisco Torres Sánchez de Roa † Bishop of Lugo, Spain

17 Jul 44.1 Appointed Girolamo Buonvisi † Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia Cardinal, Bishop of Lucca, Italy

54.3 Confirmed Juan Alonso y Ocón † Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas, Bolivia

23 Jul 60.5 Ordained Bishop André Creusen † Bishop of Roermond, Netherlands Archbishop of Mechelen, Belgium

54.1 Ordained Bishop Karel van den Bosch † Bishop of Brugge {Bruges}, Belgium Bishop of Gent {Ghent, Gand}, Belgium

26 Jul Died Girolamo Corio (Coiro) † Bishop of Parma, Italy

30 Jul 44.2 Ordained Bishop Girolamo Buonvisi † Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia Cardinal, Bishop of Lucca, Italy

73.8 Died Henri Louis Chasteigner de La Rocheposay † Bishop of Poitiers, France

Aug 44.8 Ordained Priest Christoph Bernhard von Galen † Priest Bishop of Münster, Germany

2 Aug 60.5 Died Thomas Fleming, O.F.M. † Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland

3 Aug 39.5 Ordained Bishop Maciej Marian Kurski, O.F.M. † Bishop of Bacău, Romania Auxiliary Bishop of Poznań, Poland

6 Aug 65.5 Died Juan de Espinoza y Orozco, O.P. † Bishop of Santa Marta, Colombia

Ordained Bishop Juan Merlo de la Fuente † Bishop of Comayagua, Honduras

Born François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon † Archbishop of Cambrai, France

15 Aug 73.0 Died Engelbert des Bois † Bishop of Namur {Namen}, Belgium

16 Aug 65.7 Died Filippo Benedetto de Sio, O.F.M. Conv. † Bishop of Boiano, Italy

22 Aug 62.6 Died Charles de Montchal † Archbishop of Toulouse, France

Selected Lorenzo Reynoso † Archbishop of Brindisi, Italy

24 Aug Born Manuel Álvares da Costa † Bishop of Angra, Portugal

25 Aug 50.6 Ordained Bishop Louis d’Estaing † Bishop of Clermont, France

57.1 Died Beat Albrecht von Ramstein † Bishop of Basel, Switzerland

27 Aug 31.4 Ordained Bishop Henri-Marie de Laval de Bois-Dauphin † Bishop of Saint-Pol-de-Léon, France Bishop of La Rochelle, France

28 Aug 40.6 Selected Charles de Bourlon (Bourbon) † Coadjutor Bishop of Soissons, France Bishop

Born Carlo Agostino Fabroni † Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Agostino

3 Sep 38.8 Ordained Bishop François Faure † Bishop of Glandèves, France Bishop of Amiens, France

64.6 Died Giovanni Giacomo Panciroli † Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santo Stefano al Monte Celio

17 Sep 44.9 Ordained Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen † Bishop of Münster, Germany

18 Sep 32.1 Selected Johann Franz von Schönau † Bishop of Basel, Switzerland

23 Sep 27.7 Ordained Priest Wilhelm Jakob Rinck von Balderstein † Priest of Basel, Switzerland Bishop

24 Sep 82.7 Died Johann Schöner † Auxiliary Bishop of Bamberg, Germany

25 Sep 50.7 Appointed Joannes Branecki † Titular Bishop of Aenos

44.3 Appointed Andrea Massa † Bishop of Gallipoli, Italy

69.1 Died Ciriaco Rocci † Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of San Salvatore in Lauro

47.1 Confirmed François de Rouxel de Médavy † Bishop of Sées {Séez}, France Archbishop of Rouen, France

26 Sep Born Giovanni Stefano Pastori † Bishop of Ventimiglia, Italy

Oct 52.6 Resigned Fabio Chigi † Apostolic Nuncio to Germany Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)

Died Pietro Magri † Bishop of Policastro, Italy

59.7 Died John O’Mollony † Bishop of Killaloe, Ireland

56.7 Died Octavius Rivarola † Bishop of Ajaccio, France

73.7 Died Francesco Traina † Bishop of Agrigento (Girgenti), Italy

1 Oct 50.2 Ordained Bishop Dietrich Adolf von der Reck † Bishop of Paderborn, Germany

6 Oct Born Gerolamo Archinto † Bishop of Vigevano, Italy

8 Oct 30.0 Ordained Priest Max Heinrich von Bayern † Priest Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany

10 Oct 43.7 Succeeded Jacobus de la Torre † Vicar Apostolic of Batavia (Holland Mission), Netherlands

77.7 Died Philippus Rovenius † Vicar Apostolic of Batavia (Holland Mission), Netherlands

13 Oct Died Francesco Surgenti (Sorgente), C.R. † Bishop of Monopoli, Italy

17 Oct 61.7 Died Hernando de Lobo Castrillo, O. Carm. † Bishop of Puerto Rico (Porto Rico)

20 Oct Born Seweryn Szczuka † Auxiliary Bishop of Chelmno (Culma, Kulm), Poland

28 Oct 57.1 Appointed Alessandro Argoli † Bishop of Veroli, Italy

Appointed Aleksander Krzysztof Chodkiewicz (Kodkiewicz) † Bishop of Wenden (Windau), Poland

44.4 Confirmed Luis Crespi y Borja, C.O. † Bishop of Orihuela, Spain Bishop of Plasencia, Spain

Appointed Juan Garcilaso de la Vega † Bishop of Santiago de Guatemala

Appointed Giacomo Giordano, O.S.B. † Bishop of Lacedonia, Italy

26.2 Confirmed François de Harlay de Champvallon † Archbishop of Rouen, France Archbishop of Paris, France

51.8 Appointed Gabriel Ortiz de Orbé † Bishop of Gaeta, Italy

30.8 Confirmed Denis Sanguin de Livry † Bishop of Senlis, France

71.8 Appointed Alfonso de Sanvítores de la Portilla, O.S.B. † Bishop of Almería, Spain Bishop of Zamora, Spain

29 Oct 30.0 Ordained Bishop Max Heinrich von Bayern † Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany

Ordained Bishop Giacomo Giordano, O.S.B. † Bishop of Lacedonia, Italy

31 Oct 50.8 Died Bl. Terence Albert O’Brien, O.P. † Coadjutor Bishop of Emly, Ireland

Nov 64.8 Died Paolo Teutonico † Archbishop of Manfredonia, Italy

5 Nov 57.1 Ordained Bishop Alessandro Argoli † Bishop of Veroli, Italy

51.8 Ordained Bishop Gabriel Ortiz de Orbé † Bishop of Gaeta, Italy

12 Nov Born Giuseppe Maria Borgognini † Bishop of Montalcino, Italy

72.7 Died Nicolas Dufiff † Bishop-Elect of Arras, France

15 Nov Appointed Philip Crolly † Vicar Apostolic of Clogher, Ireland

17 Nov 56.7 Died Fausto Caffarelli † Archbishop of Santa Severina, Italy

18 Nov Born Francesco Parchich (Parcic), O.P. † Bishop of Kotor (Cattaro), Montenegro

19 Nov 33.8 Ordained Bishop Rinaldo d’Este † Bishop of Reggio Emilia, Italy Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina

27 Nov 43.9 Appointed Giovanni Stefano Donghi † Bishop of Ajaccio, France Cardinal, Bishop of Ferrara, Italy

Appointed Clemente Del Pezzo, C.R. † Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia, Italy

74.5 Confirmed Gaspard Dubois (Van Den Bosch, Nemius) † Archbishop of Cambrai, France

Appointed Pedro de Ortega y Sotomayor † Bishop of Cuzco, Peru

Dec 52.8 Appointed Fabio Chigi † Secretary of State Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)

1 Dec 78.9 Died Pietro Niccolini † Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}, Italy

4 Dec 69.9 Died Bernardino Rodríguez de Arriaga, O.S.A. † Bishop of Guadix, Spain

8 Dec 28.3 Succeeded Albrecht Sigmund von Bayern † Bishop of Freising, Germany Bishop-Elect

67.4 Died Veit Adam Gepeckh von Arnsbach † Bishop of Freising, Germany

10 Dec 56.7 Confirmed Gabriel de Boislève † Bishop of Avranches, France

11 Dec 43.2 Resigned Niccolò Albergati-Ludovisi † Archbishop of Bologna, Italy Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

29.7 Appointed Girolamo Boncompagni † Cardinal, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy

64.9 Appointed Gaspar de Villarroel, O.E.S.A. † Bishop of Arequipa, Peru Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas, Bolivia

23 Dec 23.0 Ordained Priest Emiddio Lenti † Priest Bishop of Nocera de’ Pagani, Italy

28 Dec 26.3 Ordained Bishop François de Harlay de Champvallon † Archbishop of Rouen, France Archbishop of Paris, France

31 Dec Selected Marcelo Lopez de Azcona † Archbishop of México, Federal District

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Jul	40.5	Appointed	Carlo Nembrini †	Bishop of Parma, Italy
3 Jul	50.5	Appointed	Rodrigo Gutiérrez de Rojas †	Bishop of Islas Canarias {Canary Islands}, Spain
	Appointed	Antonio Leoncillo †	Bishop of Termoli, Italy
32.5	Appointed	Karl Kaspar von Leyen-Hohengeroldseck †	Titular Archbishop of Rhodus	Archbishop of Trier, Germany
32.5	Confirmed	Karl Kaspar von Leyen-Hohengeroldseck †	Coadjutor Archbishop of Trier, Germany	Archbishop
9 Jul		Ordained Bishop	Antonio Leoncillo †	Bishop of Termoli, Italy
14 Jul	57.5	Died	Francisco Torres Sánchez de Roa †	Bishop of Lugo, Spain
17 Jul	44.1	Appointed	Girolamo Buonvisi †	Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia	Cardinal, Bishop of Lucca, Italy
54.3	Confirmed	Juan Alonso y Ocón †	Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas, Bolivia
23 Jul	60.5	Ordained Bishop	André Creusen †	Bishop of Roermond, Netherlands	Archbishop of Mechelen, Belgium
54.1	Ordained Bishop	Karel van den Bosch †	Bishop of Brugge {Bruges}, Belgium	Bishop of Gent {Ghent, Gand}, Belgium
26 Jul		Died	Girolamo Corio (Coiro) †	Bishop of Parma, Italy
30 Jul	44.2	Ordained Bishop	Girolamo Buonvisi †	Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia	Cardinal, Bishop of Lucca, Italy
73.8	Died	Henri Louis Chasteigner de La Rocheposay †	Bishop of Poitiers, France
Aug	44.8	Ordained Priest	Christoph Bernhard von Galen †	Priest	Bishop of Münster, Germany
2 Aug	60.5	Died	Thomas Fleming, O.F.M. †	Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland
3 Aug	39.5	Ordained Bishop	Maciej Marian Kurski, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Bacău, Romania	Auxiliary Bishop of Poznań, Poland
6 Aug	65.5	Died	Juan de Espinoza y Orozco, O.P. †	Bishop of Santa Marta, Colombia
	Ordained Bishop	Juan Merlo de la Fuente †	Bishop of Comayagua, Honduras
	Born	François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon †		Archbishop of Cambrai, France
15 Aug	73.0	Died	Engelbert des Bois †	Bishop of Namur {Namen}, Belgium
16 Aug	65.7	Died	Filippo Benedetto de Sio, O.F.M. Conv. †	Bishop of Boiano, Italy
22 Aug	62.6	Died	Charles de Montchal †	Archbishop of Toulouse, France
	Selected	Lorenzo Reynoso †	Archbishop of Brindisi, Italy
24 Aug		Born	Manuel Álvares da Costa †		Bishop of Angra, Portugal
25 Aug	50.6	Ordained Bishop	Louis d’Estaing †	Bishop of Clermont, France
57.1	Died	Beat Albrecht von Ramstein †	Bishop of Basel, Switzerland
27 Aug	31.4	Ordained Bishop	Henri-Marie de Laval de Bois-Dauphin †	Bishop of Saint-Pol-de-Léon, France	Bishop of La Rochelle, France
28 Aug	40.6	Selected	Charles de Bourlon (Bourbon) †	Coadjutor Bishop of Soissons, France	Bishop
	Born	Carlo Agostino Fabroni †		Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Agostino
3 Sep	38.8	Ordained Bishop	François Faure †	Bishop of Glandèves, France	Bishop of Amiens, France
64.6	Died	Giovanni Giacomo Panciroli †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santo Stefano al Monte Celio
17 Sep	44.9	Ordained Bishop	Christoph Bernhard von Galen †	Bishop of Münster, Germany
18 Sep	32.1	Selected	Johann Franz von Schönau †	Bishop of Basel, Switzerland
23 Sep	27.7	Ordained Priest	Wilhelm Jakob Rinck von Balderstein †	Priest of Basel, Switzerland	Bishop
24 Sep	82.7	Died	Johann Schöner †	Auxiliary Bishop of Bamberg, Germany
25 Sep	50.7	Appointed	Joannes Branecki †	Titular Bishop of Aenos
44.3	Appointed	Andrea Massa †	Bishop of Gallipoli, Italy
69.1	Died	Ciriaco Rocci †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of San Salvatore in Lauro
47.1	Confirmed	François de Rouxel de Médavy †	Bishop of Sées {Séez}, France	Archbishop of Rouen, France
26 Sep		Born	Giovanni Stefano Pastori †		Bishop of Ventimiglia, Italy
Oct	52.6	Resigned	Fabio Chigi †	Apostolic Nuncio to Germany	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
	Died	Pietro Magri †	Bishop of Policastro, Italy
59.7	Died	John O’Mollony †	Bishop of Killaloe, Ireland
56.7	Died	Octavius Rivarola †	Bishop of Ajaccio, France
73.7	Died	Francesco Traina †	Bishop of Agrigento (Girgenti), Italy
1 Oct	50.2	Ordained Bishop	Dietrich Adolf von der Reck †	Bishop of Paderborn, Germany
6 Oct		Born	Gerolamo Archinto †		Bishop of Vigevano, Italy
8 Oct	30.0	Ordained Priest	Max Heinrich von Bayern †	Priest	Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
10 Oct	43.7	Succeeded	Jacobus de la Torre †	Vicar Apostolic of Batavia (Holland Mission), Netherlands
77.7	Died	Philippus Rovenius †	Vicar Apostolic of Batavia (Holland Mission), Netherlands
13 Oct		Died	Francesco Surgenti (Sorgente), C.R. †	Bishop of Monopoli, Italy
17 Oct	61.7	Died	Hernando de Lobo Castrillo, O. Carm. †	Bishop of Puerto Rico (Porto Rico)
20 Oct		Born	Seweryn Szczuka †		Auxiliary Bishop of Chelmno (Culma, Kulm), Poland
28 Oct	57.1	Appointed	Alessandro Argoli †	Bishop of Veroli, Italy
	Appointed	Aleksander Krzysztof Chodkiewicz (Kodkiewicz) †	Bishop of Wenden (Windau), Poland
44.4	Confirmed	Luis Crespi y Borja, C.O. †	Bishop of Orihuela, Spain	Bishop of Plasencia, Spain
	Appointed	Juan Garcilaso de la Vega †	Bishop of Santiago de Guatemala
	Appointed	Giacomo Giordano, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Lacedonia, Italy
26.2	Confirmed	François de Harlay de Champvallon †	Archbishop of Rouen, France	Archbishop of Paris, France
51.8	Appointed	Gabriel Ortiz de Orbé †	Bishop of Gaeta, Italy
30.8	Confirmed	Denis Sanguin de Livry †	Bishop of Senlis, France
71.8	Appointed	Alfonso de Sanvítores de la Portilla, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Almería, Spain	Bishop of Zamora, Spain
29 Oct	30.0	Ordained Bishop	Max Heinrich von Bayern †	Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
	Ordained Bishop	Giacomo Giordano, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Lacedonia, Italy
31 Oct	50.8	Died	Bl. Terence Albert O’Brien, O.P. †	Coadjutor Bishop of Emly, Ireland
Nov	64.8	Died	Paolo Teutonico †	Archbishop of Manfredonia, Italy
5 Nov	57.1	Ordained Bishop	Alessandro Argoli †	Bishop of Veroli, Italy
51.8	Ordained Bishop	Gabriel Ortiz de Orbé †	Bishop of Gaeta, Italy
12 Nov		Born	Giuseppe Maria Borgognini †		Bishop of Montalcino, Italy
72.7	Died	Nicolas Dufiff †	Bishop-Elect of Arras, France
15 Nov		Appointed	Philip Crolly †	Vicar Apostolic of Clogher, Ireland
17 Nov	56.7	Died	Fausto Caffarelli †	Archbishop of Santa Severina, Italy
18 Nov		Born	Francesco Parchich (Parcic), O.P. †		Bishop of Kotor (Cattaro), Montenegro
19 Nov	33.8	Ordained Bishop	Rinaldo d’Este †	Bishop of Reggio Emilia, Italy	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
27 Nov	43.9	Appointed	Giovanni Stefano Donghi †	Bishop of Ajaccio, France	Cardinal, Bishop of Ferrara, Italy
	Appointed	Clemente Del Pezzo, C.R. †	Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia, Italy
74.5	Confirmed	Gaspard Dubois (Van Den Bosch, Nemius) †	Archbishop of Cambrai, France
	Appointed	Pedro de Ortega y Sotomayor †	Bishop of Cuzco, Peru
Dec	52.8	Appointed	Fabio Chigi †	Secretary of State	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
1 Dec	78.9	Died	Pietro Niccolini †	Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}, Italy
4 Dec	69.9	Died	Bernardino Rodríguez de Arriaga, O.S.A. †	Bishop of Guadix, Spain
8 Dec	28.3	Succeeded	Albrecht Sigmund von Bayern †	Bishop of Freising, Germany	Bishop-Elect
67.4	Died	Veit Adam Gepeckh von Arnsbach †	Bishop of Freising, Germany
10 Dec	56.7	Confirmed	Gabriel de Boislève †	Bishop of Avranches, France
11 Dec	43.2	Resigned	Niccolò Albergati-Ludovisi †	Archbishop of Bologna, Italy	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
29.7	Appointed	Girolamo Boncompagni †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy
64.9	Appointed	Gaspar de Villarroel, O.E.S.A. †	Bishop of Arequipa, Peru	Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas, Bolivia
23 Dec	23.0	Ordained Priest	Emiddio Lenti †	Priest	Bishop of Nocera de’ Pagani, Italy
28 Dec	26.3	Ordained Bishop	François de Harlay de Champvallon †	Archbishop of Rouen, France	Archbishop of Paris, France
31 Dec		Selected	Marcelo Lopez de Azcona †	Archbishop of México, Federal District

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