| Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
| unknown | 61.0 | Appointed | Louis Abelly † | Bishop of Rodez, France | Bishop Emeritus |
| Born | Juan de Arregui, O.F.M. † | Buenos Aires | Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Born | Louis de Balzac d’Illiers d’Entragues † | Paris | Bishop of Lectoure, France |
| Born | Franz Engelbert Barbo von Waxenstein † | Ljubljana | Auxiliary Bishop of Wrocław (Breslau), Poland |
| Born | Thomas Bottaro a Sextris, O.P. † | Sestri de Ponente, Italy | Vicar Apostolic of Eastern Tonking {Tonkino Orientale}, Viet Nam |
| 22.4 | Ordained Priest | Johann Joseph von Breuner † | Priest of Olomouc (Olmütz), Czech Republic | Archbishop of Praha {Prague}, Czech Republic |
| 52.7 | Resigned | Carlo Carafa della Spina, C.R. † | Apostolic Nuncio to Austria | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Aversa, Italy |
| Born | Antonio María Casiani, O.S.Bas. † | Madrid, Spain | Bishop of Cartagena, Colombia |
| Appointed | Giuseppe (José) Cavalieri (Caballero) † | Bishop of Monopoli, Italy |
| 74.0 | Died | Vincentius Cavaselice † | Bishop of Carinola (Calina), Italy |
| 64.0 | Appointed | Angelo Celsi † | Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation of the Council |
| Died | Jan Karol Czolański † | Auxiliary Bishop of Lutsk (Łuck), Ukraine |
| 53.0 | Died | Gennaro De Andrea † | Bishop of Mottola (Motula), Italy |
| Died | Francisco de la Trinidad Arrieta, O.P. † | Bishop of Santa Marta, Colombia |
| Appointed | José Fageda, O.S.H. † | Bishop of Tortosa, Spain |
| Appointed | Andrés Girón † | Bishop of Pamplona, Spain | Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| Born | Ludovico Anselmo Gualtieri † | Firman | Bishop of Todi, Italy |
| Born | Jeronimo Herrera y Lopez † | Manila | Bishop of Nueva Segovia, Philippines |
| Died | Henri de Lorraine-Guise † | Archbishop Emeritus of Reims, France |
| Died | Biagio Mazzella, O.P. † | Bishop of Sant’Agata de’ Goti, Italy |
| Born | Teige McCarthy Rabagh † | | Bishop of Cork, Ireland |
| Died | Cipriano Medina, O.P. † | Bishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga (Guamanga), Peru |
| 61.0 | Died | Carlo Filippo Mei, B. † | Bishop of Bisignano, Italy |
| Born | Ildefonso de Mena y Borja † | León | Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada, Spain |
| Born | Juan de Necolalde † | Charcas | Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas, Bolivia |
| Resigned | Diego Osorio de Escobar y Mendoza (Llamas) † | Bishop of Tlaxcala, México | Bishop Emeritus |
| Appointed | Sancho Pardo de Cárdenas † | Bishop of Panamá |
| Died | Juan Pastor, O.M. † | Bishop of Crotone (Cotrone), Italy |
| Appointed | Antonio Peña Hermosa † | Bishop of Jaén, Spain |
| 60.0 | Died | Giovanni Battista Penna, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Bisceglie, Italy |
| 44.0 | Ordained Priest | Joseph von Rabatta † | Priest of Ljubljana, Slovenia | Bishop |
| Ordained Priest | Mátyás Ignác Radanay † | Priest | Bishop of Pécs, Hungary |
| 58.0 | Died | Vincentius Saporiti † | Bishop of Nebbio, France |
| Appointed | Francisco de Seijas Losada † | Bishop of Valladolid, Spain | Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| 77.0 | Died | Prospero Spínola † | Bishop of Luni e Sarzana, Italy |
| Born | José de Talavera Gómez de Eugenio, O.S.H. † | Navalmoral de Pusa | Bishop of Valladolid, Spain |
| 60.0 | Appointed | Juan de Toledo, O.S.H. † | Bishop of León, Spain |
| Born | Francisco Valero y Losa † | Villanueva de la Jara | Archbishop of Toledo, Spain |
| 59.0 | Appointed | Gilbert de Vény d’Arbouze † | Bishop of Clermont, France |
| 78.0 | Died | Filippo Visconti, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Catanzaro, Italy |
| 57.0 | Died | Gabriel Vázquez Saavedra y Rojas † | Bishop of Coria, Spain |
| Jan | | Born | Vincenzo Capece † | Beneventan | Archbishop of Chieti, Italy |
| Born | Pietro Antonio Pini † | Materanen | Bishop of Polignano (Polinianum), Italy |
| 4 Jan | 42.2 | Ordained Bishop | Sigmund Alphons von Thun † | Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy |
| 11 Jan | 64.0 | Appointed | Antonio Vigo, O. de M. † | Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru |
| 64.0 | Appointed | Antonio Vigo, O. de M. † | Titular Bishop of Dara | Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru |
| 14 Jan | 41.8 | Elevated to Cardinal | Girolamo Boncompagni † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy |
| 52.0 | Elevated to Cardinal | Carlo Bonelli † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Anastasia |
| 52.7 | Elevated to Cardinal | Carlo Carafa della Spina, C.R. † | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Aversa, Italy |
| 64.0 | Elevated to Cardinal | Angelo Celsi † | Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation of the Council |
| 47.0 | Elevated to Cardinal | Giannicolò Conti † | In Pectore | Cardinal, Bishop of Ancona e Numana, Italy |
| 50.0 | Elevated to Cardinal | Neri Corsini † | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Arezzo, Italy |
| 40.0 | Appointed | Fabbro de Vecchi † | Bishop of Montalcino, Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
| 55.3 | Elevated to Cardinal | Alfonso Michele Litta † | In Pectore | Cardinal, Archbishop |
| 35.0 | Elevated to Cardinal | Giacomo Filippo Nini † | In Pectore | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace |
| Appointed | Kazimieras (Kazimierz) Pacas (Pac) † | Bishop of Smoleńsk, Poland | Bishop of Žemaičiai (Samogizia o Tels; Żmudź), Lithuania |
| 40.6 | Elevated to Cardinal | Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † | In Pectore | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Ravenna, Italy |
| 55.0 | Elevated to Cardinal | Celio Piccolomini † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Siena, Italy |
| 47.0 | Appointed | Carlo Piscina † | Bishop of Saluzzo, Italy |
| 49.0 | Elevated to Cardinal | Cesare Maria Antonio Rasponi † | In Pectore | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina |
| 42.0 | Elevated to Cardinal | Paolo Savelli † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Cosmedin |
| 20 Jan | 22.1 | Ordained Priest | Scipione Negrelli † | Priest | Bishop of San Severino (Marche), Italy |
| 23.0 | Ordained Priest | Franz Christoph Rinck von Balderstein † | Priest of Eichstätt, Germany | Auxiliary Bishop |
| 26 Jan | 80.2 | Died | Carlo Maranta † | Bishop of Tropea, Italy |
| 27 Jan | 14.5 | Died | Karl Joseph von Österreich † | Bishop-Elect of Passau, Germany |
| 28.1 | Ordained Priest | Jean-Armand de Rotondy de Biscarras † | Priest | Bishop of Béziers, France |
| 28 Jan | 32.6 | Appointed | Alfonso Enríquez de Santo Tomás, O.P. † | Bishop of Plasencia, Spain | Bishop of Málaga, Spain |
| 59.1 | Appointed | Mateo de Sagade (Lazo de) Bugueiro † | Archbishop of Cartagena (en España) |
| Confirmed | Francisco de Zárate y Terán † | Bishop of Cuenca, Spain |
| Feb | 67.1 | Appointed | Juan Manuel de Espinosa, O.S.B. † | Archbishop of Tarragona, Spain |
| 49.0 | Ordained Bishop | Francisco Rodríguez Castañón † | Bishop of Orense, Spain | Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada, Spain |
| 2 Feb | 71.2 | Died | Johannes Markus von Aldringen † | Bishop of Seckau, Austria |
| 38.8 | Ordained Priest | Marco Antonio Marescotti † | Priest | Bishop of Chiusi, Italy |
| 11 Feb | 41.9 | Installed | Girolamo Boncompagni † | Cardinal-Priest of Santi Marcellino e Pietro | Cardinal, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy |
| 64.1 | Installed | Angelo Celsi † | Cardinal-Deacon of San Giorgio in Velabro | Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation of the Council |
| 35.1 | Appointed | Bernardino Corniani † | Bishop of Pula (Pola), Croatia |
| 62.1 | Appointed | Bartolomeo Gera (Giera) † | Bishop of Feltre, Italy |
| 54.7 | Appointed | Marijan Lisnjić, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Makarska, Croatia |
| 38.8 | Appointed | Marco Antonio Marescotti † | Bishop of Chiusi, Italy |
| Appointed | Giovanni Pellejo, O.F.M. Conv. † | Bishop of Grosseto, Italy |
| 55.1 | Appointed | Celio Piccolomini † | Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Montorio | Cardinal, Archbishop of Siena, Italy |
| 41.8 | Appointed | Carlo Pio di Savoia † | Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Eustachio | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina |
| 49.1 | Appointed | Lorenzo Raggi † | Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quirico e Giulitta | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina |
| 42.1 | Installed | Paolo Savelli † | Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria della Scala | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Cosmedin |
| 49.5 | Confirmed | Adam Lorenz von Törring-Stein † | Bishop of Regensburg, Germany |
| 13 Feb | | Died | Donato Pascasio, O.S.B. † | Bishop of Trevico, Italy |
| Born | Teodor Andrzej Potocki † | Moscow | Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland |
| 14 Feb | 76.1 | Selected | Gregorio Carafa, C.R. † | Archbishop of Salerno, Italy |
| 21 Feb | | Died | Fernando Andrade Castro † | Bishop of Jaén, Spain |
| 29 Feb | | Born | Bernardo Maria Conti, O.S.B. † | Rome | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Terracina, Priverno e Sezze, Italy |
| Mar | | Born | Luca Trapani † | Napoli | Bishop of Tricarico, Italy |
| 2 Mar | 32.3 | Ordained Priest | Jacques-Théodore de Brias † | Priest | Archbishop of Cambrai, France |
| 4 Mar | 38.8 | Selected | Ludovico della Quadra † | Bishop of Mottola (Motula), Italy | Bishop Emeritus |
| Born | François Amédée Milliet d’Arvillars † | Chambery | Archbishop of Tarentaise (Moûtiers-en-Tarentaise), France |
| 8 Mar | 25.2 | Ordained Priest | Daniel-Louis de Baradat † | Priest | Bishop of Vabres, France |
| 30.5 | Ordained Priest | Daniel Duranti, O.F.M. † | Priest | Archbishop Emeritus of Skopje, Macedonia |
| 9 Mar | 64.2 | Died | Giovanni Battista Barsotti † | Auxiliary Bishop of Praha {Prague}, Czech Republic |
| 12 Mar | 41.0 | Selected | Karl von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn † | Bishop of Olomouc (Olmütz), Czech Republic |
| Born | Manuel Tercero Rozas, O.S.A. † | Puerto de Santa María | Auxiliary Bishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain |
| 14 Mar | | Born | Lucas Conejero de Molina † | Cáceres, Spain | Archbishop of Burgos, Spain |
| 15 Mar | | Died | Louis d’Estaing † | Bishop of Clermont, France |
| 17 Mar | | Appointed | Diego Escolano y Ledesma † | Bishop of Segovia, Spain | Archbishop of Granada, Spain |
| 24 Mar | 38.5 | Appointed | St. Gregorio Giovanni Gasparo Barbarigo † | Cardinal, Bishop of Padova {Padua}, Italy |
| 62.2 | Confirmed | Henri de La Mothe-Houdancourt † | Archbishop of Auch, France |
| 58.2 | Confirmed | Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont † | Archbishop of Paris, France |
| 66.2 | Appointed | Benito Sanchez de Herrera † | Bishop of Pozzuoli, Italy |
| 27 Mar | 34.6 | Selected | Wenzeslaus von Thun † | Bishop of Passau, Germany |
| 29 Mar | 23.2 | Ordained Priest | Nicolò Caranza † | Priest | Bishop of Borgo San Donnino, Italy |
| 24.9 | Ordained Priest | Francesco Girgenti, C.O. † | Priest of Confederation of Oratorians of St. Philip Neri | Bishop of Patti, Italy |
| 31 Mar | | Appointed | Domenico Caracciolo † | Bishop of Alife, Italy |
| 59.4 | Appointed | Henri de Cauchon de Maupas † | Bishop of Evreux, France |
| 60.2 | Appointed | Girolamo Carafa, C.R. † | Bishop of Crotone (Cotrone), Italy |
| Appointed | Giuseppe Protospatario † | Bishop of Boiano, Italy |
| Appointed | Giacondo Turamini † | Bishop of Pienza, Italy |
| Apr | 69.1 | Died | Pedro Carrillo y Acuña † | Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| 1 Apr | 16.1 | Professed | Giuseppe Maria Bondola, O.F.M. Conv. † | Member of Order of Friars Minor Conventual | Bishop of Satriano e Campagna, Italy |
| 2 Apr | | Born | Niccolò di Domenico † | Napoli | Bishop of Nocera de’ Pagani, Italy |
| 3 Apr | 60.0 | Died | Otto Friedrich von Buchheim (Puchheim) † | Bishop of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 4 Apr | | Selected | Melcior Palau i Boscà † | Bishop of Urgell, Spain |
| 6 Apr | 31.0 | Selected | Pierre-Jean-François Percin de Montgaillard † | Bishop of Saint-Pons-de-Thomières, France |
| 7 Apr | | Died | Giacomo Carafa † | Archbishop of Rossano, Italy |
| 12 Apr | 23.3 | Ordained Priest | Petrus Lambertus Ledrou, O.S.A. † | Priest of Order of St. Augustine | Titular Bishop of Porphyreon |
| 13 Apr | 53.0 | Installed | Carlo Carafa della Spina, C.R. † | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Susanna | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Aversa, Italy |
| Born | Armand-Pierre de la Croix de Castries † | Montpellier | Archbishop of Albi, France |
| 14 Apr | | Died | Raphaël de Bologne † | Bishop of Digne, France |
| 49.7 | Ordained Bishop | Adam Lorenz von Törring-Stein † | Bishop of Regensburg, Germany |
| 16 Apr | 44.3 | Selected | Joseph von Rabatta † | Bishop of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 17 Apr | | Died | Franciscus Suarez, O. Carm. † | Bishop of Memphis, Egypt |
| 20 Apr | 53.3 | Died | Jacques Montrouge † | Bishop of Saint-Flour, France |
| 34.7 | Ordained Bishop | Wenzeslaus von Thun † | Bishop of Passau, Germany |
| 24 Apr | 56.7 | Selected | Sebastian Ignaz von Rostock † | Bishop of Wrocław (Breslau), Poland |
| 28 Apr | 47.3 | Appointed | François de Batailler † | Titular Bishop of Bethleem |
| 73.4 | Appointed | Juan Alonso de Cuevas y Davaols † | Archbishop of México, Federal District |
| 73.3 | Appointed | Agazio di Somma † | Bishop of Catanzaro, Italy |
| 35.3 | Appointed | Giacomo Filippo Nini † | Titular Archbishop of Corinthus | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace |
| May | | Born | Dionigi Gioacchino Belmont † | Clarasci | Bishop of Alghero, Italy |
| 1 May | 54.3 | Selected | Jérôme de La Mothe-Houdancourt † | Bishop of Saint-Flour, France |
| 3 May | 53.5 | Died | Ludwik Stempkowski † | Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi (Kamieniec), Ukraine |
| 14 May | 32.6 | Succeeded | Toussaint de Forbin-Janson † | Bishop of Digne, France | Cardinal, Bishop of Beauvais, France |
| 20 May | 47.4 | Ordained Bishop | Mikołaj Jan Prażmowski † | Bishop of Lutsk (Łuck), Ukraine | Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland |
| 22 May | | Born | François Blouet de Camilly † | Rouen | Archbishop of Tours, France |
| 26 May | | Born | Johann Baptist Gegg † | Eichstätt | Auxiliary Bishop of Worms, Germany |
| 31 May | | Born | Giulio Alberoni † | Fiorenzuola d'Arda, Italy | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Málaga, Spain |
| 7 Jun | | Installed | Braulio Sunyer † | Bishop of Vic, Spain | Bishop of Lérida, Spain |
| 9 Jun | | Appointed | Paolo Airolo † | Bishop of Carinola (Calina), Italy |
| Appointed | Domnii Gaudenzi † | Bishop of Arbe (Rab), Croatia |
| 54.1 | Resigned | Pietro Vito Ottoboni † | Bishop of Brescia, Italy | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) |
| 56.4 | Appointed | Alfonso de Sotomayor, O. Merc. † | Archbishop (Personal Title) of Barcelona, Spain | Bishop |
| 37.5 | Appointed | Pompeo Valperga † | Bishop of Ivrea, Italy |
| Appointed | Marino Giovanni Zorzi (Giorgi) † | Bishop of Brescia, Italy |
| 15 Jun | 47.5 | Ordained Bishop | François de Batailler † | Titular Bishop of Bethleem |
| 18 Jun | | Born | Pietro Valerio Martorelli † | Auximan | Bishop Emeritus of Montefeltro, Italy |
| 23 Jun | 76.5 | Confirmed | Gregorio Carafa, C.R. † | Archbishop of Salerno, Italy |
| Appointed | Bernat Cotoner † | Archbishop of Oristano, Italy | Bishop of Mallorca, Spain |
| 54.5 | Confirmed | Jérôme de La Mothe-Houdancourt † | Bishop of Saint-Flour, France |
| 34.5 | Appointed | Camillo de Mari, C.R.S. † | Bishop of Nebbio, France |
| Appointed | Daniele Giustiniani † | Bishop of Bergamo, Italy |
| Appointed | Pietro Luccari † | Bishop of Stagno (Ston), Croatia |
| Appointed | Tomás de Monterroso, O.P. † | Bishop of Antequera, Oaxaca, México |
| Confirmed | Melcior Palau i Boscà † | Bishop of Urgell, Spain |
| 63.5 | Appointed | Frutos Bernardo Patón de Ayala † | Bishop of Coria, Spain | Bishop of Sigüenza, Spain |
| 44.5 | Confirmed | Joseph von Rabatta † | Bishop of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 29 Jun | 62.5 | Selected | Michel Tuboeuf † | Bishop of Castres, France |
| 30 Jun | 66.5 | Died | Louis Doni d’Attichy, O.M. † | Bishop of Autun, France |