| Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
| unknown | | Died | Alfonso Alvarez Guerrero † | Bishop of Monopoli, Italy |
| Born | César Argelli † | | Archbishop of Avignon, France |
| 23.0 | Ordained Priest | Zbynék Berka z Dubé a Liepé † | Priest | Archbishop of Praha {Prague}, Czech Republic |
| Resigned | Juan Antolínez Brecianos de la Rivera † | Bishop of Giovinazzo, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
| Died | Pedro Buerba, O.S.A. † | Archbishop of Oristano, Italy |
| 33.6 | Ordained Bishop | Pierre d'Espinac † | Archbishop of Lyon, France |
| 38.6 | Appointed | Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici † | Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}, Italy | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) |
| Born | Henryk Firlej † | | Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland |
| Born | Marco Antonio Gozzadini † | Bologna | Cardinal, Bishop of Faenza, Italy |
| Appointed | Gaspar de Leão Pereira † | Archbishop of Goa, India |
| Died | Pedro Martínez de Luna † | Bishop of Tarazona, Spain |
| Born | Tiberio Muti † | Rome | Cardinal, Bishop of Viterbo e Tuscania, Italy |
| 29.0 | Appointed | Johann Kaspar Neuböck † | Bishop of Wien, Austria |
| Died | Juan Battista (Giovanni Battista) de Ojeda (Hogeda, Oxeda) † | Bishop of Agrigento (Girgenti), Italy |
| 23.1 | Appointed | Heinrich Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg † | Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany | Archbishop-Elect of Bremen(-Hamberg), Germany |
| Born | Giulio Savelli † | Rome | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati |
| 51.0 | Resigned | Giacomo Savelli † | Archbishop of Benevento, Italy | Cardinal, Archbishop of Porto e Santa Rufina, Italy |
| Died | Prosper de Sainte-Croix † | Archbishop of Arles, France |
| Appointed | Silvio de Sainte-Croix † | Archbishop of Arles, France |
| 55.0 | Resigned | Giovanni Antonio Serbelloni † | Bishop of Novara, Italy | Cardinal, Bishop of Ostia (-Velletri), Italy |
| Born | Pietro Valier † | Venice | Cardinal, Bishop of Padova {Padua}, Italy |
| Born | Jean de Watteville, O. Cist. † | Bourg-de-Sirod | Bishop of Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 8 Jan | | Appointed | Tomás de Cárdenas, O.P. † | Bishop of Verapaz, Guatemala |
| 50.0 | Ordained Bishop | Pedro de Feria (Martín Fernández), O.P. † | Bishop of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas), Chiapas, México |
| 28 Feb | | Ordained Bishop | François Thomé † | Bishop of Saint-Malo, France | Bishop Emeritus |
| 15 Mar | | Installed | François Thomé † | Bishop of Saint-Malo, France | Bishop Emeritus |
| 19 Mar | | Died | Francisco de la Cruz, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde |
| 5 Apr | 45.0 | Died | Johann Graf von Hoya zu Stolzenau † | Bishop of Münster, Germany |
| 14 Apr | 57.3 | Died | Jakob Eliner † | Auxiliary Bishop of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany |
| 18 Apr | 65.4 | Died | Bernhard von Raesfeld † | Former Bishop-Elect of Münster, Germany |
| 19 Apr | 55.3 | Appointed | Francisco Gómez de Mendiola y Solórzano † | Bishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México |
| 21 Apr | 42.3 | Appointed | Salentin Graf von Isenburg † | Bishop of Paderborn, Germany | Former Archbishop-Elect of Köln {Cologne}, Germany |
| 26 Apr | | Appointed | Romolo Archinto † | Bishop of Novara, Italy |
| 28 Apr | 11.9 | Appointed | Johann Wilhelm Herzog von Jülich-Kleve-Berg † | Bishop of Münster, Germany | Former Bishop-Elect |
| 5 May | 49.3 | Appointed | Francesco Bossi † | Bishop of Perugia, Italy | Bishop of Novara, Italy |
| 63.3 | Appointed | Theobald Craschel † | Auxiliary Bishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany |
| 63.3 | Appointed | Theobald Craschel † | Titular Bishop of Cyrene | Auxiliary Bishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany |
| 59.6 | Appointed | Prospero Publicola de Santa Croce † | Cardinal-Priest of S. Adriano al Foro | Cardinal, Bishop of Albano, Italy |
| 70.3 | Appointed | Scipione Rebiba † | Cardinal, Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto, Italy |
| 6 May | | Born | Giovanni Battista Pamphilj † | Rome | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) |
| 7 May | | Died | Juan de Arzolaras (Alzóloras), O.S.H. † | Bishop of Islas Canarias {Canary Islands}, Spain |
| 29 May | | Appointed | Francisco Pérez † | Archbishop of Cagliari, Italy |
| 4 Jun | 62.4 | Appointed | Francisco Blanco Salcedo † | Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| 61.6 | Appointed | Martín de Córdoba Mendoza, O.P. † | Bishop of Plasencia, Spain | Bishop of Córdoba, Spain |
| 42.4 | Appointed | Juan Manuel de la Cerda † | Bishop of Sigüenza, Spain | Bishop Emeritus |
| 52.4 | Appointed | Juan de Liermo Hermosa † | Bishop of Mondoñedo, Spain | Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| 49.0 | Appointed | Francisco Sarmiento Mendoza † | Bishop of Astorga, Spain | Bishop of Jaén, Spain |
| 7 Jun | | Appointed | Juan Izquierdo, O.P. † | Bishop of Tortosa, Spain |
| 13 Jun | | Born | Juan Alonso de Solis y Mendoza, O. Carm. † | Salamanca, Spain | Bishop of Puerto Rico (Porto Rico) |
| 18 Jun | 44.5 | Appointed | Juan de Medina Rincón y de la Vega, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Michoacán, Michoacán, México |
| Appointed | Pedro Gómez (Fernández) de Córdoba, O.S.H. † | Bishop of Guatemala (Santiago de Guatemala), Guatemala |
| 78.5 | Appointed | Diego de Medellín, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Santiago de Chile |
| 24 Jun | | Born | Markus Sittikus von Hohenems † | Hohenems | Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria |
| Born | Juan Valenzuela Velázquez † | Cuenca | Bishop of Salamanca, Spain |
| 25 Jun | | Appointed | Dionisio de Santos, O.P. † | Bishop of Cartagena, Colombia |
| 21 Jul | 28.6 | Died | Giulio Acquaviva d’Aragona † | Cardinal, Priest of the Roman Curia - Other |
| 26 Jul | | Died | Francisco de Abrego † | Bishop of Panamá |
| 28 Jul | | Appointed | Balthasar Wurer † | Auxiliary Bishop of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus |
| Appointed | Balthasar Wurer † | Titular Bishop of Ascalon | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany |
| 5 Aug | | Born | Enrique Pimentel Zúñiga † | Benavides de Orvigo | Bishop of Cuenca, Spain |
| 11 Aug | | Appointed | Juan Orozco de Arce † | Bishop of Catania, Italy |
| 17 Aug | | Born | Juan Boldames Ibáñez, O.C.D. † | Calahorra | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Toledo, Spain |
| 22 Aug | 66.6 | Appointed | Francisco Pacheco de Villena (Toledo) † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Burgos, Spain |
| 30 Aug | 51.5 | Appointed | Rodrigo de Castro Osorio (de Lemos) † | Bishop of Zamora, Spain | Cardinal, Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain |
| Appointed | Francisco Pacheco de Córdoba † | Bishop of Málaga, Spain | Bishop of Córdoba, Spain |
| 4 Sep | 42.7 | Confirmed | Salentin Graf von Isenburg † | Bishop of Paderborn, Germany | Former Archbishop-Elect of Köln {Cologne}, Germany |
| 8 Sep | 63.7 | Ordained Bishop | Theobald Craschel † | Titular Bishop of Cyrene | Auxiliary Bishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany |
| 10 Sep | | Died | Pedro González Mendoza † | Bishop of Salamanca, Spain |
| 26 Sep | | Ordained Bishop | Balthasar Wurer † | Titular Bishop of Ascalon | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany |
| 30 Sep | | Died | Diego Arnedo † | Bishop of Huesca, Spain |
| 15 Oct | | Appointed | Bernardo Jossa Cardona, O.S.B. † | Bishop of Vic, Spain |
| 22 Oct | | Appointed | Pedro Narro † | Archbishop of Oristano, Italy |
| 25 Oct | | Born | François d'Escoubleau de Sourdis † | Châtillon-sur-Sèvre | Cardinal, Archbishop of Bordeaux, France |
| 27 Oct | 44.8 | Died | Jerónimo Albornoz, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Córdoba (Tucumán), Argentina |
| 15 Dec | | Appointed | Julián Ramirez, O.S. † | Bishop of Guadix, Spain | Bishop Emeritus |
| Appointed | Cristóbal Vela Tavera † | Bishop of Islas Canarias {Canary Islands}, Spain | Archbishop of Burgos, Spain |
| 17 Dec | 18.5 | Appointed | Jerzy Radziwiłł † | Coadjutor Bishop of Vilnius, Lithuania | Cardinal, Bishop |