| Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
| unknown | | Appointed | Antonio Albergati † | Bishop of Bisceglie, Italy | Apostolic Nuncio to Germany |
| Died | Jean-François Bordini † | Archbishop of Avignon, France |
| 24.2 | Appointed | Jean-Pierre Camus † | Bishop of Belley, France | Bishop Emeritus |
| Born | Domenico Carnevale † | Stilo | Bishop of Isola, Italy |
| Died | Alessandro Cospi † | Bishop of Bisceglie, Italy |
| Born | Georges d'Aubusson de la Feuillade † | | Bishop of Metz, France |
| Ordained Bishop | Alphonse d'Elbčne † | Bishop of Albi, France |
| Died | Agostinho de Jesus † | Archbishop of Braga, Portugal |
| 49.0 | Installed | Gonzalo de Salazar, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Yucatán (Mérida), Yucatán, México |
| Ordained Priest | Crispin Fuk von Hradiste, O. Praem. † | Priest of Order of the Canons Regular of Premontre; Norbertines | Auxiliary Bishop of Praha {Prague}, Czech Republic |
| Appointed | Antonio Gallart Traginer † | Bishop of Perpignan-Elne, France | Bishop of Vic, Spain |
| Born | Gabriel de la Calle y Heredia † | Granada | Bishop Emeritus of Valladolid, Spain |
| Died | Pedro Manso † | Patriarch of West Indies, Spain |
| 39.0 | Appointed | Joăo Manuel de Ataíde † | Bishop of Viseu, Portugal | Archbishop of Lisboa, Portugal |
| Appointed | Vincenzo Napoli † | Bishop of Patti, Italy |
| 51.0 | Ordained Bishop | Luis Pereira de Miranda † | Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde |
| Appointed | Alonso de Peralta † | Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas, Bolivia |
| Born | Celio Piccolomini † | Siena | Cardinal, Archbishop of Siena, Italy |
| Appointed | Jean Richardot † | Archbishop of Cambrai, France |
| 54.0 | Died | Juan Ruiz Villoslada † | Bishop of Catania, Italy |
| 43.0 | Appointed | Wilhelm Rinck von Balderstein † | Bishop of Basel, Switzerland |
| Born | Pedro Vieira da Silva † | Leiria | Bishop of Leiria, Portugal |
| Jan | 64.0 | Died | Juan (Giovanni) de Rada, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Patti, Italy |
| 6 Jan | | Born | Franz Virgil Reichsgraf von Spaur und Valör † | Spaur | Bishop of Chiemsee, Germany |
| 8 Jan | 68.0 | Died | Fernando Nińo de Guevara † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain |
| 11 Jan | 29.0 | Died | Orazio Maffei † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Chieti, Italy |
| 12 Jan | | Appointed | Juan Tomás de Blanes, O.P. † | Bishop of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas), Chiapas, México |
| 60.0 | Appointed | Fernando Mendoza González † | Bishop of Cuzco, Peru |
| 13 Jan | | Died | Martín Vasquez de Arce, O.P. † | Bishop of Puerto Rico (Porto Rico) |
| 21 Jan | | Died | Girolamo Matteucci † | Bishop of Viterbo e Tuscania, Italy |
| 26 Jan | 51.1 | Appointed | Lanfranco Margotti † | Cardinal, Bishop of Viterbo e Tuscania, Italy |
| 4 Feb | 63.1 | Died | Christoph Blöbel † | Prefect of Meissen (Meißen) {Lusazia o Lausitz; Sassonia}, Germany |
| Died | Joăo de Bragança † | Bishop of Viseu, Portugal |
| 10 Feb | 71.1 | Died | Séraphin Olivier-Razali † | Cardinal, Titular Patriarch of the Titular See |
| 15 Feb | 51.1 | Ordained Bishop | Lanfranco Margotti † | Cardinal, Bishop of Viterbo e Tuscania, Italy |
| 21 Feb | 60.1 | Ordained Bishop | Fernando Mendoza González † | Bishop of Cuzco, Peru |
| 22 Feb | 23.5 | Professed | Pedro de Urbina de Montoya, O.F.M. † | Member of Order of Friars Minor | Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain |
| 25 Feb | 34.1 | Appointed | August Wiederin von Ottersbach † | Prefect of Meissen (Meißen) {Lusazia o Lausitz; Sassonia}, Germany |
| 11 Mar | 43.2 | Appointed | Michelangelo Tonti † | Cardinal, Archbishop (Personal Title) of Cesena, Italy |
| 50.2 | Appointed | Ulpiano (Volpiano) Volpi † | Archbishop of Chieti, Italy | Bishop of Novara, Italy |
| 24 Mar | | Died | Juan Ramírez de Arellano, O.P. † | Bishop of Guatemala (Santiago de Guatemala), Guatemala |
| 25 Mar | 46.8 | Died | Johann Wilhelm Herzog von Jülich-Kleve-Berg † | Former Bishop-Elect of Münster, Germany |
| 30 Mar | 34.2 | Appointed | Domenico Rivarola † | Cardinal, Titular Archbishop of Nazareth |
| 5 Apr | 50.3 | Ordained Bishop | Ulpiano (Volpiano) Volpi † | Archbishop of Chieti, Italy | Bishop of Novara, Italy |
| 25 Apr | 58.3 | Died | Guillaume de Berghes † | Archbishop of Cambrai, France |
| 28 Apr | 64.3 | Died | Sebastian Cattaneo, O.P. † | Bishop of Chiemsee, Germany |
| 4 May | 34.3 | Confirmed | August Wiederin von Ottersbach † | Prefect of Meissen (Meißen) {Lusazia o Lausitz; Sassonia}, Germany |
| 5 May | | Died | Tommaso Vannini † | Bishop of Avellino-Frigento, Italy |
| 16 May | | Born | Fernando de Austria † | Toledo, Spain | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria in Portico |
| 22 May | | Born | Jan Kazimierz Wazy, S.J. † | Cardinal, |
| 23 May | | Born | Adrian Walenburch † | Rotterdam | Auxiliary Bishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany |
| 25 May | 50.4 | Appointed | Manuel Baptista, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Angola e Congo, Angola |
| 30 May | 41.5 | Appointed | Philipp Christoph Reichsritter von Sötern † | Coadjutor Bishop of Speyer, Germany | Archbishop of Trier, Germany |
| Jun | 62.4 | Resigned | Juan Castro, O.S.A. † | Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada, Colombia | Archbishop Emeritus |
| 10 Jun | | Appointed | Muzio Cinquini † | Bishop of Avellino-Frigento, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
| Appointed | Bonaventura Secusio, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Catania, Italy | Bishop of Patti, Italy |
| 35.4 | Appointed | Jean de Watteville, O. Cist. † | Bishop of Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 26 Jun | 54.1 | Died | Johann Philipp von Gebsattel † | Bishop-Elect of Bamberg, Germany |
| 8 Jul | 57.5 | Died | Ludovico de Torres (Jr.) † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Monreale, Italy |
| 20 Jul | 74.6 | Appointed | Reginaldo de Lizárraga, O.P. † | Bishop of Paraguay |
| 21 Jul | 33.9 | Appointed | Johann Gottfried von Aschhausen † | Bishop of Bamberg, Germany |
| 25 Jul | 68.6 | Died | Feliciano Figueroa † | Bishop of Segorbe, Spain |
| 9 Aug | | Ordained Bishop | Antonio Gallart Traginer † | Bishop of Perpignan-Elne, France | Bishop of Vic, Spain |
| 30 Aug | 24.8 | Ordained Bishop | Jean-Pierre Camus † | Bishop of Belley, France | Bishop Emeritus |
| 31 Aug | 34.2 | Appointed | Pedro Ruiz Valdivieso † | Archbishop of Messina, Italy | Bishop of Orense, Spain |
| 15 Sep | | Born | Johann Hartmann Reichsritter von Rosenbach † | Stammheim | Bishop of Würzburg, Germany |
| 22 Sep | 69.7 | Died | Andrés Capella, O. Cart. † | Bishop of Urgell, Spain |
| 23 Sep | | Born | Ottavio Acquaviva d’Aragona (Jr.) † | Naples | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of S. Cecilia |
| 4 Oct | 63.8 | Installed | Bartolomé Lobo Guerrero † | Archbishop of Lima, Peru | Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada, Colombia |
| Born | Francisco de Loyola y Vergara, O.S.A. † | Ica, Peru | Bishop of Concepción, Chile |
| 34.2 | Ordained Bishop | Pedro Ruiz Valdivieso † | Archbishop of Messina, Italy | Bishop of Orense, Spain |
| 9 Oct | | Born | Giovanni Bona † | Mondově | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of S. Bernardo alle Terme |
| 12 Oct | | Died | Rafael Rovirola † | Bishop of Barcelona, Spain |
| 20 Oct | | Born | Franz Maximilian Vaccano † | Gorizia | Bishop of Trieste, Italy |
| 24 Oct | | Appointed | Lourenço de Távora, O.F.M. Cap. † | Bishop of Funchal, Portugal |
| 25 Oct | | Ordained Bishop | Claude de Gelas † | Bishop of Agen, France |
| 4 Nov | 34.2 | Confirmed | Johann Gottfried von Aschhausen † | Bishop of Bamberg, Germany |
| 10 Nov | 74.9 | Died | Reginaldo de Lizárraga, O.P. † | Bishop of Paraguay |
| 20 Nov | 75.1 | Died | Pedro González Acevedo † | Bishop of Plasencia, Spain |
| 6 Dec | | Born | Nicolas François de Lorraine-Vaudémont † | |
| 9 Dec | 42.0 | Confirmed | Philipp Christoph Reichsritter von Sötern † | Coadjutor Bishop of Speyer, Germany | Archbishop of Trier, Germany |
| 14 Dec | 39.1 | Appointed | Cornelius Gobelius † | Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz, Germany |
| 39.1 | Appointed | Cornelius Gobelius † | Titular Bishop of Ascalon | Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz, Germany |
| 29 Dec | | Born | Mario Alberizzi † | Salve | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Tivoli, Italy |