| Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
| unknown | | Appointed | Martino Alfieri † | Archbishop of Cosenza, Italy |
| 18.2 | Professed | Jean Antoine Blavier, O.F.M. Conv. † | Member of Order of Friars Minor Conventual | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Liège, Belgium |
| 74.8 | Died | Domingo Cano de Haro, O.P. † | Bishop of Cádiz, Spain |
| Appointed | Dinis de Melo e Castro † | Bishop of Guarda, Portugal |
| Died | Dinis de Melo e Castro † | Bishop of Guarda, Portugal |
| Appointed | Patrizio Donati † | Bishop of Minori, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
| Appointed | Pedro Homem Albernaz † | Prelate of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 50.0 | Appointed | Jan Lipski † | Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland |
| Born | Jan Kazimierz Opaliński, O. Cist. † | | Bishop of Chelmno (Culma), Poland |
| 64.7 | Appointed | Giovanni Battista Pamphilj † | Prefect of the Congregation of the Council | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) |
| Appointed | Nicolas Pavillon † | Bishop of Alet, France |
| Appointed | Antonio Ricciulli † | Bishop of Caserta, Italy | Archbishop of Cosenza, Italy |
| Born | Felice Rospigliosi † | Pistoia | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of S. Agata de’ Goti |
| Died | Giulio Antonio Santoro † | Archbishop of Cosenza, Italy |
| 39.0 | Ordained Priest | Martin Saudrius von Sternfeld † | Priest of Meissen (Meißen) {Lusazia o Lausitz; Sassonia}, Germany | Prefect Emeritus |
| 41.5 | Appointed | Ranuccio (Ranuzio) Scotti (Scotto) † | Apostolic Nuncio to France | Bishop Emeritus of Borgo San Donnino, Italy |
| Born | John Baptist Sleyne † | Midleton | Bishop of Cork, Ireland |
| 41.0 | Resigned | Antonio Santacroce † | Archbishop of Urbino, Italy | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus |
| Born | Henri-Félix de Tassy † | | Bishop of Chalons-sur-Saône, France |
| 63.4 | Died | Fernando Valdés Llano † | Archbishop of Granada, Spain |
| 74.0 | Died | Francisco Zamudio y Abendano, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Nueva Caceres, Philippines |
| 10 Jan | 55.0 | Appointed | Juan Queipo de Llano Flores † | Bishop of Pamplona, Spain | Bishop of Jaén, Spain |
| 28 Jan | | Born | Ferdinand Schröffel † | Olomouc | Auxiliary Bishop of Olomouc, Czech Republic |
| 30 Jan | 24.5 | Ordained Priest | Adam Lorenz Reichsgraf von Törring-Stein † | Priest of Salzburg, Austria | Bishop of Regensburg, Germany |
| 7 Feb | 63.3 | Appointed | Diego Rueda Rico † | Bishop of Tui, Spain |
| 8 Feb | 52.5 | Died | Johann Anton Tritt von Wilderen † | Auxiliary Bishop of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany |
| 16 Feb | | Born | Giovanni Giacomo Cavallerini † | Rome | Cardinal, Titular Archbishop of Nicaea |
| 4 Mar | | Born | Henri de Barillon † | | Bishop of Luçon, France |
| 12 Mar | 89.2 | Died | Domenico Ginnasi † | Cardinal, Bishop of Ostia (-Velletri), Italy |
| 22 Mar | | Appointed | Feliciano de la Vega Padilla † | Archbishop of México, Federal District |
| 28 Mar | 61.5 | Appointed | Guido Bentivoglio d'Aragona † | Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Trastevere | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina |
| Appointed | Giusto (Juste) Guérin, B. † | Bishop of Genève {Geneva}, Switzerland |
| 70.2 | Appointed | Marcello Lante della Rovere † | Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina, Italy | Cardinal, Bishop of Ostia (-Velletri), Italy |
| 61.2 | Appointed | Carlo Emmanuele Pio di Savoia † | Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (-Velletri) | Cardinal, Bishop of Ostia (-Velletri), Italy |
| 61.2 | Appointed | Carlo Emmanuele Pio di Savoia † | Cardinal, Bishop of Ostia (-Velletri), Italy |
| 54.5 | Appointed | Giulio Roma † | Cardinal-Priest of S. Prassede | Cardinal, Bishop of Tivoli, Italy |
| 2 Apr | 63.8 | Appointed | Diego Salcedo Benacos † | Bishop of Astorga, Spain |
| 3 Apr | | Appointed | Esteban de Esmir † | Coadjutor Bishop of Huesca, Spain | Bishop |
| Appointed | Esteban de Esmir † | Titular Bishop of Castoria | Bishop of Huesca, Spain |
| 6 Apr | 75.4 | Died | Berlinghiero Gessi † | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Rimini, Italy |
| 8 Apr | 69.3 | Died | Alfonso de Requeséns Fenollet, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Barbastro, Spain |
| 10 Apr | 55.3 | Ordained Bishop | Juan Queipo de Llano Flores † | Bishop of Pamplona, Spain | Bishop of Jaén, Spain |
| 11 Apr | 31.3 | Appointed | Juan Coello Ribera y Sandoval † | Bishop of Zamora, Spain |
| 50.0 | Appointed | Francisco Díaz Alarcón y Covarrubias † | Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain | Bishop of Córdoba, Spain |
| 39.5 | Appointed | Girolamo Farnese † | Titular Archbishop of Patrae (Veters) | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of S. Agnese fuori le mura |
| 15 Apr | | Born | Leandro Colloredo, C.O. † | Colloredo di Montalbano | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Trastevere |
| 26 Apr | 39.6 | Ordained Bishop | Girolamo Farnese † | Titular Archbishop of Patrae (Veters) | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of S. Agnese fuori le mura |
| 2 May | 69.3 | Appointed | Alfonso de Requeséns Fenollet, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Vic, Spain | Bishop of Barbastro, Spain |
| 16 May | 42.2 | Installed | Juan Alonso y Ocón † | Bishop of Yucatán (Mérida), Yucatán, México | Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas, Bolivia |
| 30 May | 67.4 | Appointed | Alonso de Franco y Luna † | Bishop of La Paz, Bolivia |
| 47.1 | Appointed | Marcos Ramírez de Prado y Ovando, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Michoacán, Michoacán, México | Archbishop of México, Federal District |
| 57.4 | Appointed | Diego Serrano Sotomayor, O. de M. † | Bishop of Segorbe, Spain | Bishop of Guadix, Spain |
| 31 May | | Died | Fernando Núñez Sagredo, O.SS.T. † | Bishop of León en Nicaragua |
| 3 Jun | 41.7 | Appointed | Philipp Friedrich Reichsfreiherr von Breuner † | Bishop of Wien, Austria |
| 11 Jun | 40.3 | Appointed | Fabio Chigi † | Apostolic Nuncio to Germany | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) |
| 19 Jun | | Ordained Bishop | Esteban de Esmir † | Titular Bishop of Castoria | Bishop of Huesca, Spain |
| 25 Jun | | Ordained Bishop | Giusto (Juste) Guérin, B. † | Bishop of Genève {Geneva}, Switzerland |
| 27 Jun | 44.8 | Appointed | Bartolomé de Benavente y Benavides † | Bishop of Antequera, Oaxaca, México |
| Appointed | Vicente Agustín Clavería † | Bishop of Bosa, Italy | Archbishop of Alghero, Italy |
| 35.3 | Appointed | Girolamo Colonna † | Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria in Cosmedin | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Bologna, Italy |
| 11 Jul | 52.5 | Appointed | Tommaso Carafa † | Bishop of Capaccio, Italy |
| 16 Jul | | Appointed | Fernando Montero Espinosa † | Bishop of Nueva Segovia, Philippines | Archbishop of Manila, Philippines |
| 23 Jul | 68.5 | Died | Pedro González de Mendoza, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Sigüenza, Spain |
| 8 Aug | 51.8 | Appointed | Francisco Diego Díaz de Quintanilla y de Hevía y Valdés, O.S.B. † | Bishop of Durango, México | Bishop of Antequera, Oaxaca, México |
| 55.6 | Appointed | Jacinto Minuarte † | Auxiliary Bishop of Valencia, Spain |
| 55.6 | Appointed | Jacinto Minuarte † | Titular Bishop of Maronea | Auxiliary Bishop of Valencia, Spain |
| 15 Aug | | Born | Sperello Sperelli † | Assisi | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Terni, Italy |
| 21 Aug | 72.6 | Died | Desiderio Scaglia, O.P. † | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Como, Italy |
| 26 Aug | | Died | Francisco Villafañe † | Bishop of Osma, Spain |
| 5 Sep | 42.0 | Confirmed | Philipp Friedrich Reichsfreiherr von Breuner † | Bishop of Wien, Austria |
| 31.0 | Appointed | Cesare Facchinetti † | Titular Archbishop of Tamiathis | Cardinal, Bishop of Ostia (-Velletri), Italy |
| 6 Sep | 31.0 | Appointed | Cesare Facchinetti † | Apostolic Nuncio to Spain | Cardinal, Bishop of Ostia (-Velletri), Italy |
| 7 Sep | 57.7 | Died | Georges Hammer † | Auxiliary Bishop of Magdeburg, Germany |
| 18 Sep | 50.5 | Ordained Bishop | Francisco Díaz Alarcón y Covarrubias † | Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain | Bishop of Córdoba, Spain |
| 27 Sep | 46.6 | Died | Louis de Nogaret de La Valette † | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Toulouse, France |
| 3 Oct | 48.8 | Appointed | Marcantonio Bragadin † | Bishop of Vicenza, Italy | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus |
| 41.8 | Appointed | Michael Chumer, O.F.M. † | Auxiliary Bishop of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 41.8 | Appointed | Michael Chumer, O.F.M. † | Titular Bishop of Christopolis | Auxiliary Bishop of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 53.8 | Appointed | Mauro Diego (Marcos) de Tovar y Valle Maldonado, O.S.B. † | Bishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela | Bishop of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas), Chiapas, México |
| Appointed | Bernardo Lacabra † | Bishop of Barbastro, Spain | Archbishop of Cagliari, Italy |
| 40.8 | Appointed | Cristóbal Pérez Lazarraga y Maneli Viana, O. Cist. † | Bishop of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas), Chiapas, México | Bishop of Cartagena, Colombia |
| 39.3 | Appointed | Juan de Palafox y Mendoza † | Bishop of Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala, México | Bishop of Osma, Spain |
| 40.8 | Appointed | Johannes Thuanus † | Bishop of Wiener Neustadt, Austria |
| 5 Oct | 77.8 | Died | Plácido Pacheco de Haro, O.S.B. † | Bishop of Plasencia, Spain |
| 9 Oct | 31.1 | Ordained Bishop | Cesare Facchinetti † | Titular Archbishop of Tamiathis | Cardinal, Bishop of Ostia (-Velletri), Italy |
| 11 Oct | | Appointed | Francesco Maria Macchiavelli † | Archbishop of Ferrara, Italy | Titular Patriarch of the unknown of Titular See |
| 16 Oct | 31.8 | Ordained Bishop | Juan Coello Ribera y Sandoval † | Bishop of Zamora, Spain |
| 8 Dec | 64.2 | Died | Diego Rueda Rico † | Bishop of Tui, Spain |
| 18 Dec | 54.0 | Ordained Bishop | Mauro Diego (Marcos) de Tovar y Valle Maldonado, O.S.B. † | Bishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela | Bishop of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas), Chiapas, México |
| 19 Dec | 48.0 | Appointed | Marcantonio Franciotti † | Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria della Pace | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Lucca, Italy |
| 26 Dec | 42.3 | Installed | Philipp Friedrich Reichsfreiherr von Breuner † | Bishop of Wien, Austria |
| 27 Dec | 52.2 | Ordained Bishop | Francisco Diego Díaz de Quintanilla y de Hevía y Valdés, O.S.B. † | Bishop of Durango, México | Bishop of Antequera, Oaxaca, México |
| 39.5 | Ordained Bishop | Juan de Palafox y Mendoza † | Bishop of Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala, México | Bishop of Osma, Spain |