| Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
| unknown | | Died | Silvestro Andreozzi † | Bishop of Penne-Atri, Italy |
| Born | Juan Bonilla Vargas, O.SS.T. † | Madrid | Bishop of Córdoba, Spain |
| Born | Jorge Cárdenas Valenzuela † | Córdoba | Bishop of Osma, Spain |
| Born | Gasparo Cavalieri † | Rome | Cardinal, Archbishop of Capua, Italy |
| Born | Baldassare Cenci (Sr.) † | Rome | Cardinal, Archbishop of Fermo, Italy |
| Born | Louis-Marcel de Coëtlogon-Méjusseaume † | Rennes, France | Bishop of Tournai {Doornik}, Belgium |
| Born | André Colbert † | Reims | Bishop of Auxerre, France |
| 39.0 | Appointed | Georges d'Aubusson de la Feuillade † | Archbishop of Embrun, France | Bishop of Metz, France |
| Appointed | Carlo de' Vecchi † | Bishop of Chiusi, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
| Born | Juan Iñiguez Arnedo † | Bergara | Bishop of Pamplona, Spain |
| Ordained Priest | Adam Kos † | Priest of Chelmno (Culma), Poland | Bishop |
| 25.2 | Ordained Priest | Maximilian Gandolf Reichsgraf von Kuenburg † | Priest of Salzburg, Austria | Cardinal, Archbishop |
| Born | Charles-Marin Labbé, M.E.P. † | Luc-sur-Mer, France | Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Cochin {Cocincina}, Viêt Nam |
| 39.3 | Ordained Priest | Alfonso Michele Litta † | Priest | Cardinal, Archbishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy |
| Died | Alessandro Masi † | Bishop of Sulmona, Italy |
| Appointed | Francesco Massucci † | Bishop of Penne-Atri, Italy |
| Born | Augustin de Maupeou † | Paris | Archbishop of Auch, France |
| Died | Fernando Montero Espinosa † | Archbishop of Manila, Philippines |
| Died | Vincenzo Napoli † | Bishop of Patti, Italy |
| Died | Pedro Neila † | Bishop of Segovia, Spain |
| 57.9 | Ordained Priest | Berthold Nihus † | Priest of Köln {Cologne}, Germany | Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz, Germany |
| Appointed | Angelo Pico † | Archbishop (Personal Title) of San Miniato, Italy | Bishop |
| Appointed | Giovanni Tommaso Pinelli, C.R. † | Bishop of Molfetta, Italy | Bishop of Albenga, Italy |
| Born | Angelo Maria Porfiri (Porfirius) † | Camerino | Bishop of Alife, Italy |
| 38.0 | Ordained Priest | Johannes Maximus Stainer von Pleinfelden † | Priest | Auxiliary Bishop of Passau, Germany |
| 43.0 | Appointed | Matej Tarnoczy † | Bishop of Csanád, Hungary | Bishop of Vác, Hungary |
| Appointed | Agustín de Ugarte y Sarabia † | Bishop of Quito, Ecuador |
| Resigned | Maestro Valderas, O. de M. † | Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | Archbishop Emeritus |
| Born | Michele Carlo Visdomini Cortigiani † | Florence | Bishop of Pistoia-Prato, Italy |
| 30.0 | Ordained Priest | Franz Weinhart † | Priest of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy | Auxiliary Bishop of Regensburg, Germany |
| Died | Juan de Zapata y Figueroa † | Bishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia |
| Born | Francisco Zapata Vera y Morales † | | Bishop of Zamora, Spain |
| 2 Jan | 82.8 | Died | Isidoro Aliaga, O.P. † | Archbishop of Valencia, Spain |
| 13 Jan | 54.0 | Confirmed | Pierre de Marca † | Bishop of (Saint-Lizier de) Couserans, France | Archbishop of Paris, France |
| 47.0 | Appointed | Wojciech Pilchowicz † | Auxiliary Bishop of Warmia, Poland |
| 47.0 | Appointed | Wojciech Pilchowicz † | Titular Bishop of Hippos | Auxiliary Bishop of Warmia, Poland |
| 63.0 | Appointed | Francisco Torres Grijalba, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Mondoñedo, Spain |
| 24 Jan | | Born | Pedro Aguado, C.R.M. † | Madrid | Bishop of Pamplona, Spain |
| 28 Jan | | Born | Andrzej Chryzostom Załuski † | Rawa | Bishop of Warmia, Poland |
| 3 Feb | | Born | Bonaventura Poerio, O.F.M. † | Taverna | Archbishop of Salerno, Italy |
| 10 Feb | 58.9 | Appointed | Francisco Díaz Alarcón y Covarrubias † | Bishop of Pamplona, Spain | Bishop of Córdoba, Spain |
| 20 Feb | | Died | Antonio Henriquez Porres, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Málaga, Spain |
| 26 Feb | | Born | Francisco Ignacio Añoa Busto † | Viana | Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain |
| 29 Mar | 63.2 | Ordained Bishop | Francisco Torres Grijalba, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Mondoñedo, Spain |
| 30 Mar | 67.0 | Confirmed | Anton Crosini von Bonporto † | Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy |
| 47.0 | Appointed | Sigismund Graf Miutini von Spilenberg † | Auxiliary Bishop of Olomouc, Czech Republic |
| 47.0 | Appointed | Sigismund Graf Miutini von Spilenberg † | Titular Bishop of Tiberias | Auxiliary Bishop of Olomouc, Czech Republic |
| 15 Apr | 28.8 | Ordained Priest | Johann Franz Reichsritter von Schönau † | Priest of Eichstätt, Germany | Bishop of Basel, Switzerland |
| 19 Apr | 32.0 | Ordained Priest | Wojciech Izdebski † | Priest | Auxiliary Bishop of Vilnius, Lithuania |
| 22 Apr | 42.3 | Appointed | Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont † | Bishop of Rodez, France | Archbishop of Paris, France |
| 25 Apr | | Died | Francisco Pérez Roy † | Bishop of Guadix, Spain |
| 2 May | | Appointed | Nicolas Sévin † | Bishop of Sarlat, France | Bishop of Cahors, France |
| 3 May | | Died | Juan Domingo Briz Trujillo † | Bishop of Jaca, Spain |
| 4 May | 43.9 | Confirmed | Léonor I de Goyon de Matignon † | Bishop of Lisieux, France | Bishop Emeritus |
| 50.9 | Appointed | Thomas Henrici † | Auxiliary Bishop of Basel, Switzerland |
| 50.9 | Appointed | Thomas Henrici † | Titular Bishop of Chrysopolis in Arabia | Auxiliary Bishop of Basel, Switzerland |
| 59.3 | Appointed | Jacques Raoul de La Guibourgère † | Bishop of La Rochelle, France |
| 43.6 | Appointed | Jesse Perkhofer † | Auxiliary Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy |
| 18 May | 52.7 | Appointed | Cristoforo Pietro Antonio Giarda, B. † | Bishop of Castro di Puglia, Italy |
| 32.7 | Appointed | Giambattista Spínola (Sr.) † | Archbishop of Acerenza e Matera, Italy | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Genova, Italy |
| 31 May | 52.7 | Ordained Bishop | Cristoforo Pietro Antonio Giarda, B. † | Bishop of Castro di Puglia, Italy |
| 14 Jun | 43.7 | Ordained Bishop | Jesse Perkhofer † | Auxiliary Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy |
| 21 Jun | | Born | Daniel de Francheville † | Vannes | Bishop of Périgueux (Vesuna), France |
| 1 Jul | 66.5 | Died | Juan Vélez de Valdivielso † | Bishop of Cartagena (en España) |
| 6 Jul | | Appointed | Fernando Andrade Castro † | Archbishop (Personal Title) of Jaén, Spain | Bishop |
| 39.1 | Resigned | Jan Kazimierz Wazy, S.J. † | Cardinal-Deacon | Cardinal, |
| 27 Jul | 76.6 | Appointed | Alfonso de la Cueva-Benavides y Mendoza-Carrillo † | Bishop of Málaga, Spain | Cardinal, Bishop of Palestrina, Italy |
| 30 Jul | 74.6 | Died | César Argelli † | Archbishop of Avignon, France |
| 24 Aug | 66.9 | Died | Damián Lopez de Haro y Villarda, O.SS.T. † | Bishop of Puerto Rico (Porto Rico) |
| 1 Sep | 43.0 | Died | Michel Mazarin, O.P. † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Aix, France |
| 3 Sep | 101.0 | Died | Antonio Sotomayor, O.P. † | Titular Archbishop of Damascus |
| 20 Sep | 53.1 | Appointed | Girolamo (Jérome) Grimaldi-Cavalleroni † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Aix, France |
| 23 Sep | | Born | Manuel Senjust Pagés † | Barcelona | Bishop of Vic, Spain |
| 24 Sep | | Born | Louis Champion de Cicé † | Bruz, France | Vicar Apostolic of Siam, Thailand |
| 5 Oct | | Born | Giuseppe Placido De Pace † | Napoli | Bishop of Oppido Mamertina, Italy |
| 11 Oct | 51.3 | Ordained Bishop | Thomas Henrici † | Titular Bishop of Chrysopolis in Arabia | Auxiliary Bishop of Basel, Switzerland |
| 24 Oct | 55.6 | Resigned | Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg † | Bishop of Minden, Germany | Cardinal, Bishop of Regensburg, Germany |
| 55.6 | Resigned | Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg † | Bishop of Verden, Germany | Cardinal, Bishop of Regensburg, Germany |
| 25 Oct | 54.8 | Ordained Bishop | Pierre de Marca † | Bishop of (Saint-Lizier de) Couserans, France | Archbishop of Paris, France |
| 27 Oct | | Died | Guillaume d'Hugues † | Archbishop of Embrun, France |
| Nov | 33.1 | Appointed | Giambattista Zeccadoro † | Bishop of Fossombrone, Italy |
| 11 Nov | | Born | Francesco Maria Casini, O.F.M. Cap. † | Arezzo | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of S. Prisca |
| 23 Nov | | Appointed | Francisco Pio Guadalupe Tellez † | Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| 25 Nov | | Appointed | Nicola Dalmatico, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Fossano, Italy |
| 7 Dec | 47.1 | Appointed | Johann Melchior Söllner † | Auxiliary Bishop of Würzburg, Germany |
| 47.1 | Appointed | Johann Melchior Söllner † | Titular Bishop of Domitiopolis | Auxiliary Bishop of Würzburg, Germany |
| 9 Dec | | Born | Giuseppe Vallemani † | Fabriano | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria degli Angeli |