The Year of Our Lord 1577

Bishop Events

July to December

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

1 Jul 33.5 Appointed Annibale de Capua † Apostolic Nuncio to Venice, Italy Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy

Appointed Alessandro Casale † Bishop of Vigevano, Italy

55.9 Resigned Giovanni Battista Castagna † Apostolic Nuncio to Venice, Italy Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)

4 Jul Appointed Andrés Santos Quintana (de Sampedro) † Bishop of Teruel, Spain Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain

5 Jul 46.5 Appointed Piotr Dunin Wolski † Bishop of Płock, Poland

67.5 Appointed Piotr Myszkowski † Bishop of Kraków, Poland

8 Jul 39.8 Appointed Filippo Sega † Apostolic Nuncio to Spain Cardinal, Bishop of Piacenza, Italy

58.0 Died Veit von Würtzburg † Bishop of Bamberg, Germany

9 Jul 58.5 Succeeded Melchior Miguel Carneiro Leitão, S.J. † Patriarch of Ethiopia

60.5 Died Andrés de Oviedo, S.J. † Patriarch of Ethiopia

10 Jul 50.5 Resigned Giovanni Andrea Caligari † Apostolic Collector to Portugal Bishop of Bertinoro, Italy

19 Jul 47.5 Appointed Marcin Białobrzeski, O. Cist. † Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi (Kamieniec), Ukraine

Appointed Pietro Cedolini † Bishop of Nona (Nin), Croatia Bishop of Hvar (Lesina), Croatia

46.1 Appointed Federico Cornaro (Sr.), O.S.Io.Hieros. † Cardinal, Bishop of Padova {Padua}, Italy

Appointed Pomponio Cotta † Bishop of Novara, Italy

Appointed Alfonso Porzio † Bishop of Monopoli, Italy

41.5 Appointed Girolamo Ragazzoni † Bishop of Bergamo, Italy

Appointed Juan Trullo, O.S.A. † Bishop of Albarracin, Spain Bishop-Elect

23 Jul 73.4 Died Scipione Rebiba † Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina

31 Jul 39.5 Appointed Luigi d’Este † Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Angelo in Pescheria Cardinal, Administrator of Auch, France

54.5 Appointed Giacomo Savelli † Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina

58.5 Appointed Giovanni Antonio Serbelloni † Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

6 Aug Died William Gordon † Bishop of Aberdeen, Scotland, Great Britain

14 Aug Appointed Giovanni Battista Maremonti † Bishop of Sora, Italy

55.6 Resigned Felice Peretti Montalto, O.F.M. Conv. † Bishop of Fermo, Italy Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)

35.8 Appointed Domenico Pinelli (Sr.) † Bishop of Fermo, Italy Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus

Appointed Matteo Rinuccini † Archbishop of Pisa, Italy

Appointed Meliaduce Suico † Bishop of Carinola (Calina), Italy

18 Aug Ordained Bishop Giovan Luigi de Benedictis † Bishop of Castellaneta, Italy Bishop Emeritus

20 Aug 34.6 Selected Johann Georg Zobel von Giebelstadt † Bishop of Bamberg, Germany Bishop-Elect

28 Aug Died Francisco Andrés de Carvajal, O.F.M. Obs. † Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Sep Ordained Bishop Ludovico Bentivoglio † Bishop of Policastro, Italy Bishop of Città di Castello, Italy

5 Sep 45.6 Resigned Salentin von Isenburg † Bishop-Elect of Paderborn, Germany Former Archbishop-Elect of Köln {Cologne}, Germany

6 Sep Born Henri Louis Chasteigner de La Rocheposay † Bishop of Poitiers, France

65.1 Appointed Diego de Covarrubias y Leiva † Archbishop (Personal Title) of Cuenca, Spain Bishop

65.6 Appointed Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela † Cardinal, Archbishop of Toledo, Spain

8 Sep 43.9 Ordained Bishop Adam Weisskopf † Titular Bishop of Nicopolis ad Nestum Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Wrocław (Breslau), Poland

9 Sep Died Dionisio de Santos, O.P. † Bishop of Cartagena, Colombia

11 Sep 35.6 Appointed Vincenzo Cutelli † Bishop of Catania, Italy Bishop Emeritus

Appointed Diego Deza Tello † Bishop of Jaén, Spain

79.6 Appointed Pedro del Frago Garcés † Bishop of Huesca, Spain

68.5 Appointed Gregorio Antonio Gallo de Andrade † Bishop of Segovia, Spain

Appointed Alvaro Hurtado de Mendoza y Sarmiento † Bishop of Palencia, Spain

Appointed Cesare Marullo † Archbishop of Palermo, Italy

Appointed Juan Méndez de Salvatierra † Archbishop of Granada, Spain

Appointed Juan Ochoa Salazar † Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada, Spain Bishop of Plasencia, Spain

Appointed Pedro Serrano Téllez † Bishop of Coria, Spain

13 Sep 45.6 Resigned Salentin von Isenburg † Archbishop-Elect of Köln {Cologne}, Germany Former Archbishop-Elect

16 Sep Died Johannes Kridt † Auxiliary Bishop of Münster, Germany

21 Sep Ordained Priest Decio Caracciolo Rosso † Priest Archbishop of Bari (-Canosa), Italy

41.0 Ordained Bishop Mathieu Moullart, O.S.B. † Bishop of Arras, France

22 Sep 35.7 Ordained Bishop Vincenzo Cutelli † Bishop of Catania, Italy Bishop Emeritus

27 Sep 65.1 Died Diego de Covarrubias y Leiva † Bishop of Cuenca, Spain

2 Oct Appointed Alessandro Avogadro † Coadjutor Bishop of Novigrad (Cittanova), Croatia

Appointed Alessandro Avogadro † Titular Bishop of Parium

3 Oct 44.1 Appointed Mark Sittich von Hohenems (Altemps) † Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria degli Angeli Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany

7 Oct Born Ferdinand von Bayern † Archbishop-Elect of Köln {Cologne}, Germany

8 Oct Died Juan Trullo, O.S.A. † Bishop-Elect of Albarracin, Spain

9 Oct Appointed Marcello Franco † Bishop of Bova, Italy

Appointed Juan Rojas † Bishop of Agrigento (Girgenti), Italy

14 Oct 62.7 Appointed Nicolò Canelles (Canyelles) † Bishop of Bosa, Italy

68.1 Appointed Bernardo de Fresneda, O.F.M. Obs. † Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain

15 Oct 34.7 Resigned Antonmaria Sauli † Apostolic Nuncio to Naples, Italy Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

22 Oct 51.8 Died Sebastiano Ferrero Fieschi † Bishop Emeritus of Ivrea, Italy

23 Oct Died Jean de Morvilliers † Bishop Emeritus of Orléans, France

28 Oct Died Francisco Pérez † Archbishop of Cagliari, Italy

30 Oct Appointed Jerome de Leonibus † Archbishop of Chieti, Italy

Nov Born Rodrigo da Cunha † Archbishop of Lisboa, Portugal

2 Nov 45.8 Died Innocenzo Ciocchi del Monte † Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Via Lata

3 Nov 24.8 Ordained Priest Rafael Rovirola † Priest of Vic, Spain Bishop of Barcelona, Spain

5 Nov 24.8 Ordained Priest Onofre Reart † Priest Bishop Emeritus of Gerona, Spain

8 Nov 39.8 Appointed Antonio Carafa † Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Via Lata Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo

36.1 Appointed Filippo Guastavillani † Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Cosmedin Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Eustachio

48.8 Appointed Miguel Thomàs de Taxaquet † Bishop of Lérida, Spain

13 Nov Appointed Noël Venier † Archbishop of Zadar (Zara), Croatia

24 Nov 48.8 Ordained Bishop Miguel Thomàs de Taxaquet † Bishop of Lérida, Spain

29 Nov 30.9 Appointed Francesco Cornaro (Jr.) † Bishop of Treviso, Italy Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus

53.7 Resigned Giorgio Cornaro † Bishop of Treviso, Italy Bishop Emeritus

Appointed Francesco Maria Enrici † Bishop of Senigallia, Italy

Appointed Elzéar de Rastel † Bishop of Riez, France

40.9 Resigned Girolamo Rusticucci † Bishop of Senigallia, Italy Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina

Appointed Bernardino Suriano † Archbishop of Corfù, Greece

Dec 48.5 Resigned Giovanni Delfino † Apostolic Nuncio to Emperor Bishop of Brescia, Italy

Died Juan Méndez de Villafranca, O.P. † Bishop of Santa Marta, Colombia

53.9 Appointed Feliciano Ninguarda, O.P. † Apostolic Nuncio to Other Bishop of Como, Italy

5 Dec 30.0 Selected Gebhard Truchseß von Waldburg † Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany Former Archbishop-Elect

11 Dec 19.4 Appointed Andreas von Austria (Österreich) † Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Nuova Cardinal, Bishop of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany

60.9 Appointed Wojciech Staroźrebski Sobiejuski † Bishop of Przemyśl, Poland

14 Dec Died Giambattista Milanese † Bishop of Marsi, Italy

15 Dec 55.9 Ordained Bishop Giovanni Ingegneri (Ingenerio) † Bishop of Capodistria (Capo d’Istria)(Koper), Slovenia

19 Dec 58.9 Died Antonio Manrique Valencia † Bishop of Pamplona, Spain

21 Dec Ordained Bishop Elzéar de Rastel † Bishop of Riez, France

22 Dec 68.3 Died Bernardo de Fresneda, O.F.M. Obs. † Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
1 Jul	33.5	Appointed	Annibale de Capua †	Apostolic Nuncio to Venice, Italy	Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy
	Appointed	Alessandro Casale †	Bishop of Vigevano, Italy
55.9	Resigned	Giovanni Battista Castagna †	Apostolic Nuncio to Venice, Italy	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
4 Jul		Appointed	Andrés Santos Quintana (de Sampedro) †	Bishop of Teruel, Spain	Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain
5 Jul	46.5	Appointed	Piotr Dunin Wolski †	Bishop of Płock, Poland
67.5	Appointed	Piotr Myszkowski †	Bishop of Kraków, Poland
8 Jul	39.8	Appointed	Filippo Sega †	Apostolic Nuncio to Spain	Cardinal, Bishop of Piacenza, Italy
58.0	Died	Veit von Würtzburg †	Bishop of Bamberg, Germany
9 Jul	58.5	Succeeded	Melchior Miguel Carneiro Leitão, S.J. †	Patriarch of Ethiopia
60.5	Died	Andrés de Oviedo, S.J. †	Patriarch of Ethiopia
10 Jul	50.5	Resigned	Giovanni Andrea Caligari †	Apostolic Collector to Portugal	Bishop of Bertinoro, Italy
19 Jul	47.5	Appointed	Marcin Białobrzeski, O. Cist. †	Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi (Kamieniec), Ukraine
	Appointed	Pietro Cedolini †	Bishop of Nona (Nin), Croatia	Bishop of Hvar (Lesina), Croatia
46.1	Appointed	Federico Cornaro (Sr.), O.S.Io.Hieros. †	Cardinal, Bishop of Padova {Padua}, Italy
	Appointed	Pomponio Cotta †	Bishop of Novara, Italy
	Appointed	Alfonso Porzio †	Bishop of Monopoli, Italy
41.5	Appointed	Girolamo Ragazzoni †	Bishop of Bergamo, Italy
	Appointed	Juan Trullo, O.S.A. †	Bishop of Albarracin, Spain	Bishop-Elect
23 Jul	73.4	Died	Scipione Rebiba †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
31 Jul	39.5	Appointed	Luigi d’Este †	Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Angelo in Pescheria	Cardinal, Administrator of Auch, France
54.5	Appointed	Giacomo Savelli †	Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
58.5	Appointed	Giovanni Antonio Serbelloni †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
6 Aug		Died	William Gordon †	Bishop of Aberdeen, Scotland, Great Britain
14 Aug		Appointed	Giovanni Battista Maremonti †	Bishop of Sora, Italy
55.6	Resigned	Felice Peretti Montalto, O.F.M. Conv. †	Bishop of Fermo, Italy	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
35.8	Appointed	Domenico Pinelli (Sr.) †	Bishop of Fermo, Italy	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus
	Appointed	Matteo Rinuccini †	Archbishop of Pisa, Italy
	Appointed	Meliaduce Suico †	Bishop of Carinola (Calina), Italy
18 Aug		Ordained Bishop	Giovan Luigi de Benedictis †	Bishop of Castellaneta, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
20 Aug	34.6	Selected	Johann Georg Zobel von Giebelstadt †	Bishop of Bamberg, Germany	Bishop-Elect
28 Aug		Died	Francisco Andrés de Carvajal, O.F.M. Obs. †	Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Sep		Ordained Bishop	Ludovico Bentivoglio †	Bishop of Policastro, Italy	Bishop of Città di Castello, Italy
5 Sep	45.6	Resigned	Salentin von Isenburg †	Bishop-Elect of Paderborn, Germany	Former Archbishop-Elect of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
6 Sep		Born	Henri Louis Chasteigner de La Rocheposay †		Bishop of Poitiers, France
65.1	Appointed	Diego de Covarrubias y Leiva †	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Cuenca, Spain	Bishop
65.6	Appointed	Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Toledo, Spain
8 Sep	43.9	Ordained Bishop	Adam Weisskopf †	Titular Bishop of Nicopolis ad Nestum	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Wrocław (Breslau), Poland
9 Sep		Died	Dionisio de Santos, O.P. †	Bishop of Cartagena, Colombia
11 Sep	35.6	Appointed	Vincenzo Cutelli †	Bishop of Catania, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	Appointed	Diego Deza Tello †	Bishop of Jaén, Spain
79.6	Appointed	Pedro del Frago Garcés †	Bishop of Huesca, Spain
68.5	Appointed	Gregorio Antonio Gallo de Andrade †	Bishop of Segovia, Spain
	Appointed	Alvaro Hurtado de Mendoza y Sarmiento †	Bishop of Palencia, Spain
	Appointed	Cesare Marullo †	Archbishop of Palermo, Italy
	Appointed	Juan Méndez de Salvatierra †	Archbishop of Granada, Spain
	Appointed	Juan Ochoa Salazar †	Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada, Spain	Bishop of Plasencia, Spain
	Appointed	Pedro Serrano Téllez †	Bishop of Coria, Spain
13 Sep	45.6	Resigned	Salentin von Isenburg †	Archbishop-Elect of Köln {Cologne}, Germany	Former Archbishop-Elect
16 Sep		Died	Johannes Kridt †	Auxiliary Bishop of Münster, Germany
21 Sep		Ordained Priest	Decio Caracciolo Rosso †	Priest	Archbishop of Bari (-Canosa), Italy
41.0	Ordained Bishop	Mathieu Moullart, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Arras, France
22 Sep	35.7	Ordained Bishop	Vincenzo Cutelli †	Bishop of Catania, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
27 Sep	65.1	Died	Diego de Covarrubias y Leiva †	Bishop of Cuenca, Spain
2 Oct		Appointed	Alessandro Avogadro †	Coadjutor Bishop of Novigrad (Cittanova), Croatia
	Appointed	Alessandro Avogadro †	Titular Bishop of Parium
3 Oct	44.1	Appointed	Mark Sittich von Hohenems (Altemps) †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria degli Angeli	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany
7 Oct		Born	Ferdinand von Bayern †		Archbishop-Elect of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
8 Oct		Died	Juan Trullo, O.S.A. †	Bishop-Elect of Albarracin, Spain
9 Oct		Appointed	Marcello Franco †	Bishop of Bova, Italy
	Appointed	Juan Rojas †	Bishop of Agrigento (Girgenti), Italy
14 Oct	62.7	Appointed	Nicolò Canelles (Canyelles) †	Bishop of Bosa, Italy
68.1	Appointed	Bernardo de Fresneda, O.F.M. Obs. †	Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain
15 Oct	34.7	Resigned	Antonmaria Sauli †	Apostolic Nuncio to Naples, Italy	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
22 Oct	51.8	Died	Sebastiano Ferrero Fieschi †	Bishop Emeritus of Ivrea, Italy
23 Oct		Died	Jean de Morvilliers †	Bishop Emeritus of Orléans, France
28 Oct		Died	Francisco Pérez †	Archbishop of Cagliari, Italy
30 Oct		Appointed	Jerome de Leonibus †	Archbishop of Chieti, Italy
Nov		Born	Rodrigo da Cunha †		Archbishop of Lisboa, Portugal
2 Nov	45.8	Died	Innocenzo Ciocchi del Monte †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Via Lata
3 Nov	24.8	Ordained Priest	Rafael Rovirola †	Priest of Vic, Spain	Bishop of Barcelona, Spain
5 Nov	24.8	Ordained Priest	Onofre Reart †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Gerona, Spain
8 Nov	39.8	Appointed	Antonio Carafa †	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Via Lata	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
36.1	Appointed	Filippo Guastavillani †	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Cosmedin	Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Eustachio
48.8	Appointed	Miguel Thomàs de Taxaquet †	Bishop of Lérida, Spain
13 Nov		Appointed	Noël Venier †	Archbishop of Zadar (Zara), Croatia
24 Nov	48.8	Ordained Bishop	Miguel Thomàs de Taxaquet †	Bishop of Lérida, Spain
29 Nov	30.9	Appointed	Francesco Cornaro (Jr.) †	Bishop of Treviso, Italy	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus
53.7	Resigned	Giorgio Cornaro †	Bishop of Treviso, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	Appointed	Francesco Maria Enrici †	Bishop of Senigallia, Italy
	Appointed	Elzéar de Rastel †	Bishop of Riez, France
40.9	Resigned	Girolamo Rusticucci †	Bishop of Senigallia, Italy	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
	Appointed	Bernardino Suriano †	Archbishop of Corfù, Greece
Dec	48.5	Resigned	Giovanni Delfino †	Apostolic Nuncio to Emperor	Bishop of Brescia, Italy
	Died	Juan Méndez de Villafranca, O.P. †	Bishop of Santa Marta, Colombia
53.9	Appointed	Feliciano Ninguarda, O.P. †	Apostolic Nuncio to Other	Bishop of Como, Italy
5 Dec	30.0	Selected	Gebhard Truchseß von Waldburg †	Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany	Former Archbishop-Elect
11 Dec	19.4	Appointed	Andreas von Austria (Österreich) †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Nuova	Cardinal, Bishop of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany
60.9	Appointed	Wojciech Staroźrebski Sobiejuski †	Bishop of Przemyśl, Poland
14 Dec		Died	Giambattista Milanese †	Bishop of Marsi, Italy
15 Dec	55.9	Ordained Bishop	Giovanni Ingegneri (Ingenerio) †	Bishop of Capodistria (Capo d’Istria)(Koper), Slovenia
19 Dec	58.9	Died	Antonio Manrique Valencia †	Bishop of Pamplona, Spain
21 Dec		Ordained Bishop	Elzéar de Rastel †	Bishop of Riez, France
22 Dec	68.3	Died	Bernardo de Fresneda, O.F.M. Obs. †	Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain

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