The Year of Our Lord 1508

Bishop Events

July to December

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Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

5 Jul Appointed Francisco Borja † Bishop of Teano, Italy Bishop Emeritus

Appointed David de Burgo (Burke) † Bishop of Clonfert, Ireland

41.5 Appointed Cosimo de’ Pazzi † Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}, Italy

Appointed Domingo García, O.P. † Bishop of Sapë, Albania

Appointed Domingo García, O.P. † Bishop of Sarda, Albania Bishop of Sapë, Albania

Appointed Thomas Wolf, O.F.M. † Auxiliary Bishop of Bath and Wells, England, Great Britain

Appointed Thomas Wolf, O.F.M. † Titular Bishop of Lacedaemonia Auxiliary Bishop of Bath and Wells, England, Great Britain

7 Jul Died Waricus de Dommartin † Bishop-Elect of Verdun, France

Ordained Bishop Johannes von Helmont, O.S.B. † Titular Bishop of Syra (Suda) Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Trier, Germany

47.1 Appointed Raffaele Sansoni Riario † Administrator of Arezzo, Italy Cardinal, Bishop of Ostia (-Velletri), Italy

9 Jul 43.5 Ordained Bishop Berthold Pürstinger † Bishop of Chiemsee, Germany Bishop Emeritus

14 Jul Appointed Acacius de Haan (Haoni, Hian) † Titular Bishop of Nicomedia

16.5 Confirmed Franz von Braunschweig-Lüneburg † Bishop of Minden, Germany Bishop-Elect

23 Jul Died Antonio Ferrero † Cardinal, Bishop of Gubbio, Italy

28 Jul 63.5 Died Robert Blacader † Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland, Great Britain

79.5 Appointed Matteo Baldeschi (degli Ubaldi) † Bishop of Perugia, Italy

Appointed Guillermo Ramón Boil, O.S.H. † Bishop of Gerona, Spain

Appointed Ludovico Clodio † Bishop of Nocera Umbra, Italy

28.5 Appointed Federico (de Campo) Fregóso † Archbishop (Personal Title) of Gubbio, Italy Cardinal, Bishop

Appointed Domenico Solino † Bishop of Acqui, Italy

31 Jul Appointed Albertino della Rovere † Bishop of Asti, Italy Bishop of Pesaro, Italy

Appointed Antonio Trivulzio † Bishop of Piacenza, Italy Bishop of Como, Italy

3 Aug Died Raphael Mercatel, O.S.B. † Auxiliary Bishop of Tournai {Doornik}, Belgium

6 Aug Appointed Enrique de Aragón † Bishop of Gallipoli, Italy

7 Aug Died Francesco Brevio † Bishop of Ceneda, Italy

15 Aug Ordained Bishop Luigi Contarini † Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy

16 Aug Died Erhard Baumgartner † Bishop of Lavant, Slovenia

20.6 Appointed Marino Grimani † Bishop of Ceneda, Italy Cardinal, Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

36.6 Confirmed Erich von Sachsen-Lauenburg † Bishop of Münster, Germany

40.6 Appointed François Louis Widebien (Widerien), O.P. † Auxiliary Bishop of Thérouanne, France

40.6 Appointed François Louis Widebien (Widerien), O.P. † Titular Bishop of Dschebail Auxiliary Bishop of Thérouanne, France

1 Sep Appointed Charles de Bar † Bishop of Saint-Papoul, France

3 Sep Ordained Bishop Eugene McChamail † Bishop of Clogher, Ireland

Ordained Bishop Malachy O’Clowan † Bishop of Killala, Ireland

6 Sep 30.6 Confirmed Erich von Braunschweig-Grubenhagen † Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany Bishop-Elect

Appointed Albertino della Rovere † Bishop of Pesaro, Italy

Resigned Juan de Espés † Bishop of Gerona, Spain Bishop of Urgell, Spain

Appointed Juan Merton, O.S.A. † Auxiliary Bishop of Zaragoza, Spain

Appointed Juan Merton, O.S.A. † Titular Bishop of Berytus Auxiliary Bishop of Zaragoza, Spain

11 Sep 35.6 Appointed Sisto Gara della Rovere (Franciotti) † Administrator of Benevento, Italy Cardinal, Bishop of Padova {Padua}, Italy

15 Sep 44.7 Appointed Leonardo Grosso della Rovere † Cardinal-Priest of Santa Susanna Cardinal, Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary

46.1 Died Jakob von Liebenstein † Archbishop of Mainz, Germany

55.2 Appointed Francesco Soderini † Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

17 Sep 52.7 Appointed Jan Łaski † Coadjutor Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland Archbishop

18 Sep Appointed Andrea Aohiok † Bishop of Stefaniaco e Benda, Albania

102.7 Died Jorge da Costa, O. Cist. † Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina

Appointed Nicolas Goberti † Auxiliary Bishop of Verdun, France

Appointed Nicolas Goberti † Titular Bishop of Banados Auxiliary Bishop of Verdun, France

9.7 Appointed Louis de Lorraine † Bishop of Verdun, France Former Bishop-Elect

66.7 Appointed Robert Sherborne † Bishop of Chichester, England, Great Britain Bishop Emeritus

22 Sep 44.7 Appointed Christopher Bainbridge † Cardinal, Archbishop of York, England, Great Britain

63.7 Appointed Guillaume Briçonnet † Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati Cardinal, Archbishop of Narbonne, France

47.5 Appointed Domenico Grimani † Cardinal-Bishop of Albano Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina

Appointed Cesare Lambertini † Bishop of Isola, Italy Bishop Emeritus

52.0 Appointed Bernardino López de Carvajal y Sande † Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

Appointed John Penny, C.R.S.A. † Bishop of Carlisle, England, Great Britain

47.3 Appointed Raffaele Sansoni Riario † Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina Cardinal, Bishop of Ostia (-Velletri), Italy

69.7 Appointed Giovanni Antonio Sangiorgio † Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina Cardinal, Bishop of Parma, Italy

24 Sep Died Francesco Riccardi † Bishop of Pesaro, Italy

25 Sep Born Francisco Mendoza Bobadilla † Cardinal, Bishop of Burgos, Spain

26 Sep 52.7 Died Giovanni Colonna † Cardinal, Administrator of Rieti, Italy

34.0 Appointed Luigi d’Aragona † Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Aquiro Cardinal, Administrator of Nardò, Italy

Appointed William Barton † Auxiliary Bishop of Salisbury, England, Great Britain

Appointed William Barton † Titular Bishop of Salona Auxiliary Bishop of Salisbury, England, Great Britain

27 Sep 40.1 Selected Uriel von Gemmingen-Michelfeld † Archbishop of Mainz, Germany

66.7 Died Hermann von Hessen † Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany

34.7 Died Christophe von Zach † Bishop of Seckau, Austria

Oct 40.5 Appointed Alessandro Farnese † Archpriest of the Arcibasilica di San Giovanni in Laterano {Saint John Lateran Basilica} Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)

6 Oct 29.4 Appointed Pompeo Colonna † Bishop of Rieti, Italy Cardinal, Administrator of Monreale, Italy

10 Oct Appointed Rinaldo Orsini † Titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Palaestina Archbishop Emeritus of Firenze {Florence}, Italy

Resigned Rinaldo Orsini † Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}, Italy Archbishop Emeritus

16 Oct Appointed Giacomo Alfaridio † Bishop of Città Ducale, Italy

23 Oct Died Diego Ramírez de Guzmán † Bishop of Catania, Italy

9 Nov Born Bernhard von Raesfeld † Former Bishop-Elect of Münster, Germany

13 Nov Selected Philipp von Daun-Oberstein † Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany

16 Nov Died Luigi Contarini † Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy

17 Nov 30.8 Selected Erich von Braunschweig-Grubenhagen † Bishop of Paderborn, Germany Bishop-Elect of Osnabrück, Germany

26 Nov Appointed Leonhard Pewerl (Peurl) † Bishop of Lavant, Slovenia Bishop Emeritus

29 Nov 58.9 Appointed Antonio Contarini, C.R.S.A. † Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy

20 Dec Appointed Diego , O.F.M. † Bishop of Pult (Pulati) Minor, Albania

21 Dec 40.4 Confirmed Uriel von Gemmingen-Michelfeld † Archbishop of Mainz, Germany

22 Dec Appointed Martín Fernández de Angulo Saavedra y Luna † Bishop of Cartagena (en España) Bishop of Córdoba, Spain

Appointed Eugene O’Flanagan, O.P. † Bishop of Achonry, Ireland

Appointed Valeriano Ordóñez Villaquirán † Bishop of Oviedo, Spain

Appointed Fadrique de Portugal Noreña, O.S.B. † Bishop of Segovia, Spain Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain

Appointed Gómez de Toledo Solís † Bishop of Plasencia, Spain

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
5 Jul		Appointed	Francisco Borja †	Bishop of Teano, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	Appointed	David de Burgo (Burke) †	Bishop of Clonfert, Ireland
41.5	Appointed	Cosimo de’ Pazzi †	Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}, Italy
	Appointed	Domingo García, O.P. †	Bishop of Sapë, Albania
	Appointed	Domingo García, O.P. †	Bishop of Sarda, Albania	Bishop of Sapë, Albania
	Appointed	Thomas Wolf, O.F.M. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Bath and Wells, England, Great Britain
	Appointed	Thomas Wolf, O.F.M. †	Titular Bishop of Lacedaemonia	Auxiliary Bishop of Bath and Wells, England, Great Britain
7 Jul		Died	Waricus de Dommartin †	Bishop-Elect of Verdun, France
	Ordained Bishop	Johannes von Helmont, O.S.B. †	Titular Bishop of Syra (Suda)	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Trier, Germany
47.1	Appointed	Raffaele Sansoni Riario †	Administrator of Arezzo, Italy	Cardinal, Bishop of Ostia (-Velletri), Italy
9 Jul	43.5	Ordained Bishop	Berthold Pürstinger †	Bishop of Chiemsee, Germany	Bishop Emeritus
14 Jul		Appointed	Acacius de Haan (Haoni, Hian) †	Titular Bishop of Nicomedia
16.5	Confirmed	Franz von Braunschweig-Lüneburg †	Bishop of Minden, Germany	Bishop-Elect
23 Jul		Died	Antonio Ferrero †	Cardinal, Bishop of Gubbio, Italy
28 Jul	63.5	Died	Robert Blacader †	Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland, Great Britain
79.5	Appointed	Matteo Baldeschi (degli Ubaldi) †	Bishop of Perugia, Italy
	Appointed	Guillermo Ramón Boil, O.S.H. †	Bishop of Gerona, Spain
	Appointed	Ludovico Clodio †	Bishop of Nocera Umbra, Italy
28.5	Appointed	Federico (de Campo) Fregóso †	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Gubbio, Italy	Cardinal, Bishop
	Appointed	Domenico Solino †	Bishop of Acqui, Italy
31 Jul		Appointed	Albertino della Rovere †	Bishop of Asti, Italy	Bishop of Pesaro, Italy
	Appointed	Antonio Trivulzio †	Bishop of Piacenza, Italy	Bishop of Como, Italy
3 Aug		Died	Raphael Mercatel, O.S.B. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Tournai {Doornik}, Belgium
6 Aug		Appointed	Enrique de Aragón †	Bishop of Gallipoli, Italy
7 Aug		Died	Francesco Brevio †	Bishop of Ceneda, Italy
15 Aug		Ordained Bishop	Luigi Contarini †	Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy
16 Aug		Died	Erhard Baumgartner †	Bishop of Lavant, Slovenia
20.6	Appointed	Marino Grimani †	Bishop of Ceneda, Italy	Cardinal, Titular Patriarch of Constantinople
36.6	Confirmed	Erich von Sachsen-Lauenburg †	Bishop of Münster, Germany
40.6	Appointed	François Louis Widebien (Widerien), O.P. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Thérouanne, France
40.6	Appointed	François Louis Widebien (Widerien), O.P. †	Titular Bishop of Dschebail	Auxiliary Bishop of Thérouanne, France
1 Sep		Appointed	Charles de Bar †	Bishop of Saint-Papoul, France
3 Sep		Ordained Bishop	Eugene McChamail †	Bishop of Clogher, Ireland
	Ordained Bishop	Malachy O’Clowan †	Bishop of Killala, Ireland
6 Sep	30.6	Confirmed	Erich von Braunschweig-Grubenhagen †	Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany	Bishop-Elect
	Appointed	Albertino della Rovere †	Bishop of Pesaro, Italy
	Resigned	Juan de Espés †	Bishop of Gerona, Spain	Bishop of Urgell, Spain
	Appointed	Juan Merton, O.S.A. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Zaragoza, Spain
	Appointed	Juan Merton, O.S.A. †	Titular Bishop of Berytus	Auxiliary Bishop of Zaragoza, Spain
11 Sep	35.6	Appointed	Sisto Gara della Rovere (Franciotti) †	Administrator of Benevento, Italy	Cardinal, Bishop of Padova {Padua}, Italy
15 Sep	44.7	Appointed	Leonardo Grosso della Rovere †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Susanna	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary
46.1	Died	Jakob von Liebenstein †	Archbishop of Mainz, Germany
55.2	Appointed	Francesco Soderini †	Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
17 Sep	52.7	Appointed	Jan Łaski †	Coadjutor Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland	Archbishop
18 Sep		Appointed	Andrea Aohiok †	Bishop of Stefaniaco e Benda, Albania
102.7	Died	Jorge da Costa, O. Cist. †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
	Appointed	Nicolas Goberti †	Auxiliary Bishop of Verdun, France
	Appointed	Nicolas Goberti †	Titular Bishop of Banados	Auxiliary Bishop of Verdun, France
9.7	Appointed	Louis de Lorraine †	Bishop of Verdun, France	Former Bishop-Elect
66.7	Appointed	Robert Sherborne †	Bishop of Chichester, England, Great Britain	Bishop Emeritus
22 Sep	44.7	Appointed	Christopher Bainbridge †	Cardinal, Archbishop of York, England, Great Britain
63.7	Appointed	Guillaume Briçonnet †	Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati	Cardinal, Archbishop of Narbonne, France
47.5	Appointed	Domenico Grimani †	Cardinal-Bishop of Albano	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
	Appointed	Cesare Lambertini †	Bishop of Isola, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
52.0	Appointed	Bernardino López de Carvajal y Sande †	Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
	Appointed	John Penny, C.R.S.A. †	Bishop of Carlisle, England, Great Britain
47.3	Appointed	Raffaele Sansoni Riario †	Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina	Cardinal, Bishop of Ostia (-Velletri), Italy
69.7	Appointed	Giovanni Antonio Sangiorgio †	Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina	Cardinal, Bishop of Parma, Italy
24 Sep		Died	Francesco Riccardi †	Bishop of Pesaro, Italy
25 Sep		Born	Francisco Mendoza Bobadilla †		Cardinal, Bishop of Burgos, Spain
26 Sep	52.7	Died	Giovanni Colonna †	Cardinal, Administrator of Rieti, Italy
34.0	Appointed	Luigi d’Aragona †	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Aquiro	Cardinal, Administrator of Nardò, Italy
	Appointed	William Barton †	Auxiliary Bishop of Salisbury, England, Great Britain
	Appointed	William Barton †	Titular Bishop of Salona	Auxiliary Bishop of Salisbury, England, Great Britain
27 Sep	40.1	Selected	Uriel von Gemmingen-Michelfeld †	Archbishop of Mainz, Germany
66.7	Died	Hermann von Hessen †	Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
34.7	Died	Christophe von Zach †	Bishop of Seckau, Austria
Oct	40.5	Appointed	Alessandro Farnese †	Archpriest of the Arcibasilica di San Giovanni in Laterano {Saint John Lateran Basilica}	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
6 Oct	29.4	Appointed	Pompeo Colonna †	Bishop of Rieti, Italy	Cardinal, Administrator of Monreale, Italy
10 Oct		Appointed	Rinaldo Orsini †	Titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Palaestina	Archbishop Emeritus of Firenze {Florence}, Italy
	Resigned	Rinaldo Orsini †	Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
16 Oct		Appointed	Giacomo Alfaridio †	Bishop of Città Ducale, Italy
23 Oct		Died	Diego Ramírez de Guzmán †	Bishop of Catania, Italy
9 Nov		Born	Bernhard von Raesfeld †		Former Bishop-Elect of Münster, Germany
13 Nov		Selected	Philipp von Daun-Oberstein †	Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
16 Nov		Died	Luigi Contarini †	Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy
17 Nov	30.8	Selected	Erich von Braunschweig-Grubenhagen †	Bishop of Paderborn, Germany	Bishop-Elect of Osnabrück, Germany
26 Nov		Appointed	Leonhard Pewerl (Peurl) †	Bishop of Lavant, Slovenia	Bishop Emeritus
29 Nov	58.9	Appointed	Antonio Contarini, C.R.S.A. †	Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy
20 Dec		Appointed	Diego , O.F.M. †	Bishop of Pult (Pulati) Minor, Albania
21 Dec	40.4	Confirmed	Uriel von Gemmingen-Michelfeld †	Archbishop of Mainz, Germany
22 Dec		Appointed	Martín Fernández de Angulo Saavedra y Luna †	Bishop of Cartagena (en España)	Bishop of Córdoba, Spain
	Appointed	Eugene O’Flanagan, O.P. †	Bishop of Achonry, Ireland
	Appointed	Valeriano Ordóñez Villaquirán †	Bishop of Oviedo, Spain
	Appointed	Fadrique de Portugal Noreña, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Segovia, Spain	Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain
	Appointed	Gómez de Toledo Solís †	Bishop of Plasencia, Spain

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