| Date | Age | Event | Bishop | Title | Current Title |
| unknown | 46.4 | Ordained Bishop | Antonio Baistrocchi, O. Carm. † | Titular Bishop of Anastasiopolis | Vicar Apostolic of Great Moghul (Mughals), India |
| Born | Thomas Burke (de Burgo), O.P. † | Dublin | Bishop of Ossory, Ireland |
| Died | Nicola Cirillo † | Bishop of Nicastro, Italy |
| Born | Antoine de Lastic † | Sieuzac | Bishop of (Saint-Bernard de) Comminges, France |
| Appointed | Domenico Antonio Gagliano † | Bishop of Lettere-Gragnano, Italy |
| Appointed | Francesco Saverio Guicciardi † | Bishop of Narni, Italy | Bishop of Cesena, Italy |
| 57.0 | Resigned | Charles Maigrot, M.E.P. † | Vicar Apostolic of Fo-Kien, China | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus |
| Appointed | Carlo Palma † | Bishop of Fossombrone, Italy |
| Born | Charles-François de Pélissier de Saint-Ferréol † | Visan | Bishop Emeritus of Vaison, France |
| Born | Joseph-Antoine-Jacques Richier de Cérisy † | Cérisy-la-Salle | Bishop of Lombez, France |
| Died | Marco Antonio de Rosa † | Bishop of Policastro, Italy |
| 67.0 | Died | Giovanni Battista Sanudo † | Bishop of Treviso, Italy |
| Died | Pietro de Torres † | Archbishop of Trani, Italy |
| Jan | 34.8 | Appointed | Joseph de Guyon de Crochans † | Bishop of Cavaillon, France | Archbishop of Avignon, France |
| 5 Jan | 60.3 | Died | Giuseppe Placido De Pace † | Bishop of Oppido Mamertina, Italy |
| 11 Jan | 69.7 | Died | Leandro Colloredo, C.O. † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Trastevere |
| 17 Jan | | Born | Giovanni Ottavio Bufalini † | Città di Castello | Cardinal, Bishop of Ancona e Numana, Italy |
| 19 Jan | | Died | Bernard-François de Poudenx de Castillon † | Bishop of Marseille, France |
| 20 Jan | 61.2 | Ordained Bishop | Francisco a São Agostinho, T.O.R. † | Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde |
| 28 Jan | 43.3 | Appointed | Francesco Acquaviva d’Aragona † | Cardinal-Priest of S. Cecilia | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina |
| 53.7 | Appointed | Michelangelo dei Conti † | Archbishop (Personal Title) of Osimo, Italy | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) |
| 29 Jan | 45.4 | Appointed | Tommaso Ruffo † | Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Trastevere | Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Ferrara, Italy |
| Feb | 50.1 | Ordained Bishop | Rodrigo Marín Rubio † | Bishop of Segorbe, Spain | Bishop of Jaén, Spain |
| Died | Giuseppe Pianetti † | Bishop of Todi, Italy |
| 6 Feb | | Born | Donato Maria Arcangeli † | Arezzo | Bishop of Pescia, Italy |
| 14 Feb | 75.1 | Died | Andres Gonzalez, O.P. † | Bishop of Nueva Caceres, Philippines |
| 23 Feb | 24.5 | Ordained Priest | Johann Hugo von Gärtz † | Priest of Trier, Germany | Auxiliary Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany |
| 25 Feb | | Born | Joseph-Nicolas de Montenach † | Fribourg | Bishop of Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 10 Mar | 56.1 | Died | Vidal Marin Fernandez † | Bishop of Ceuta, Spain |
| Ordained Bishop | Pedro Gregorio Padilla † | Bishop of Barbastro, Spain | Bishop of Huesca, Spain |
| 20 Mar | | Died | Alvaro Benavente, O.S.A. † | Vicar Apostolic of Foreign Vicariate |
| 30 Mar | 40.0 | Ordained Bishop | Philipp Carl Fürst von Fürstenberg † | Bishop of Lavant, Slovenia |
| 5 Apr | 38.3 | Appointed | Henri-François-Xavier de Belsunce de Castelmoron † | Bishop of Marseille, France |
| 6 Apr | 54.7 | Appointed | Agostino Steffani † | Vicar Apostolic of Upper and Lower Saxony (Hanover), Germany |
| 7 Apr | 35.3 | Ordained Priest | Girolamo Grimaldi † | Priest | Cardinal, Titular Archbishop of Edessa in Osrhoëne |
| 12 Apr | 67.9 | Died | Jaroslav František Ignác von Sternberg (Šternberka) † | Bishop of Litomĕrice, Czech Republic |
| 15 Apr | 58.5 | Elevated to Cardinal | Ulisse Giuseppe Gozzadini † | Cardinal, Bishop of Imola, Italy |
| 49.2 | Elevated to Cardinal | Antonio Francesco Sanvitale † | In Pectore | Cardinal, Archbishop of Urbino, Italy |
| 17 Apr | | Died | Lorenzo Fabbri (Fabri), O.F.M. Conv. † | Bishop of Fossombrone, Italy |
| 20 Apr | 45.5 | Succeeded | Franz Anton Fürst von Harrach zu Rorau † | Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria |
| 65.8 | Died | Johann Ernst Reichsgraf von Thun † | Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria |
| 24 Apr | 58.3 | Died | Michele Petirro † | Bishop of Pozzuoli, Italy |
| 25 Apr | | Died | Domingos Barata † | Bishop of Portalegre, Portugal |
| 30 Apr | 63.3 | Died | Bernard (Bertrand) de Sénaux † | Bishop of Autun, France |
| May | 51.1 | Died | Pedro Lázaro Terrer, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Ugento, Italy |
| 6 May | 40.3 | Confirmed | Manuel González Virtus † | Bishop of Córdoba (Tucumán), Argentina |
| 49.2 | Appointed | Antonio Francesco Sanvitale † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Urbino, Italy |
| 10 May | | Born | Francisco Alejandro Bocanegra Jivaja † | Santa Cruz del Comercio | Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| 15 May | 55.1 | Ordained Bishop | Marcelino Siuri Navarro † | Bishop of Orense, Spain | Bishop of Córdoba, Spain |
| 18 May | | Appointed | Charles Andrault de Maulevrier de Langeron † | Bishop of Autun, France | Bishop Emeritus |
| 25 May | 23.0 | Ordained Priest | Johann Christoph von Crass † | Priest of Paderborn, Germany | Auxiliary Bishop |
| 29.4 | Ordained Priest | Thomas John Francis de Strickland de Sizorghe † | Priest | Bishop of Namur {Namen}, Belgium |
| 26 May | 61.4 | Died | Baldassare Cenci (Sr.) † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Fermo, Italy |
| 27 May | 45.7 | Installed | Franz Anton Fürst von Harrach zu Rorau † | Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria |
| 9 Jun | | Born | François de Fitz-James † | Saint-Germain-en-Laye | Bishop of Soissons, France |
| 92.5 | Died | Gilles de La Baume le Blanc de la Valière † | Bishop Emeritus of Nantes, France |
| 11 Jun | 51.9 | Died | Marcello d'Aste † | Bishop of Ancona e Numana, Italy | Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio to Germany |
| 19 Jun | 48.6 | Resigned | Francesco Maria de' Medici † | Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria in Domnica | |
| 58.7 | Appointed | Ulisse Giuseppe Gozzadini † | Cardinal-Priest of S. Croce in Gerusalemme | Cardinal, Bishop of Imola, Italy |
| 24 Jun | | Born | Jean-Baptiste-Amédée de Grégoire de Saint-Sauveur † | Mende | Bishop of Bazas, France |
| 5 Jul | | Born | Augstín González Pisador † | La Nava del Rey | Bishop of Oviedo, Spain |
| 10 Jul | | Born | Georges-Gaspard-Alexis de Plan des Augiers † | Digne | Bishop of Die, France |
| 14 Jul | | Born | Luigi del Giudice, O.S.B. † | Chieti | Archbishop of Chieti, Italy |
| 17 Jul | | Born | Giovanni Carlo Bandi † | Cesena | Cardinal, Bishop of Imola, Italy |
| 22 Jul | 38.8 | Appointed | Tomás de Almeida † | Bishop of Porto, Portugal | Cardinal, Patriarch of Lisboa, Portugal |
| 41.3 | Appointed | João de Sahagún, O.A.D. † | Bishop of São Tomé e Príncipe |
| 49.4 | Elevated to Cardinal | Antonio Francesco Sanvitale † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Urbino, Italy |
| 4 Aug | 25.4 | Ordained Priest | Sante Veronese † | Priest | Cardinal, Bishop of Padova {Padua}, Italy |
| 6 Aug | 49.2 | Appointed | Hugo František (Franz) von Königsegg-Rothenfels † | Bishop of Litomĕrice, Czech Republic |
| 7 Aug | | Born | Antonio Cantoni † | Faenza | Archbishop of Ravenna, Italy |
| 11 Aug | | Died | Gaetano Caracciolo † | Archbishop of Conza, Italy |
| 22 Aug | | Born | Enea Silvio Piccolomini † | Siena | Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of S. Adriano al Foro |
| 30 Aug | 28.1 | Appointed | Jakob Maximilian Reichsgraf von Thun und Hohenstein † | Bishop of Gurk, Austria |
| 9 Sep | 49.6 | Installed | Antonio Francesco Sanvitale † | Cardinal-Priest of S. Pietro in Montorio | Cardinal, Archbishop of Urbino, Italy |
| 14 Sep | 41.6 | Appointed | Vincenzo Bichi † | Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal | Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati |
| 74.7 | Died | Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero-Bocanegra y Moscoso-Osorio † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Toledo, Spain |
| Appointed | John Verdon † | Bishop of Ferns, Ireland |
| 20 Sep | 64.7 | Died | Ignacio Diez de la Barrera † | Bishop of Durango, México |
| 23 Sep | 24.6 | Ordained Priest | Amand Buseck, O.S.B. † | Priest of Order of Saint Benedict | Bishop of Fulda, Germany |
| Died | Benedetto Luperti † | Bishop of Cagli, Italy |
| Born | Giuseppe Simonetti † | Castelnuovo di Farfa | Cardinal, Titular Archbishop of Petra in Palaestina |
| 26 Sep | 27.6 | Appointed | Charles-François Des Montiers de Mérinville † | Bishop of Chartres, France |
| 62.3 | Died | Paul Godet des Marais † | Bishop of Chartres, France |
| Oct | | Died | Domenico Catalani † | Bishop of Termoli, Italy |
| 9 Oct | | Born | Jean-Baptiste de Belloy-Morangle † | Morangles | Cardinal, Archbishop of Paris, France |
| 14 Oct | 49.6 | Appointed | Filippo Antonio Gualterio † | Archbishop (Personal Title) of Todi, Italy | Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus |
| 33.4 | Appointed | Sigismund Kollonitsch † | Bishop of Vác, Hungary | Cardinal, Archbishop of Wien {Vienna}, Austria |
| 62.8 | Died | Jacques Potier de Novion † | Bishop of Evreux, France |
| 28 Oct | | Born | Konstantin Schütz von Holzhausen, O.S.B. † | Haßfurt | Auxiliary Bishop of Fulda, Germany |
| 17 Nov | | Born | António Joaquim Torrão † | Serpa | Auxiliary Bishop of Évora, Portugal |
| 30 Nov | | Born | Giacomo Cingari † | Bologna | Bishop of Gubbio, Italy |
| Dec | | Died | Francesco Bonesana † | Bishop of Como, Italy |
| 4 Dec | | Born | Francisco José de Palencia † | Canarias, Spain | Bishop of Comayagua, Honduras |
| 15 Dec | 46.8 | Appointed | Giulio Piazza † | Apostolic Nuncio to Austria | Cardinal, Archbishop (Personal Title) of Faenza, Italy |
| 19 Dec | | Born | Ludovico Das Chagas, O.S.A. † | Alcabedigues, Portugal | Bishop of São Tomé e Príncipe |
| 21 Dec | | Born | Arnaud-François Lefèbvre, M.E.P. † | Calais, France | Vicar Apostolic of Cochin {Cocincina}, Viêt Nam |