The Year of Our Lord 1544

Bishop Events

July to December

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

Jul 50.5 Died Marco Grimani † Patriarch Emeritus of Aquileia, Italy

4 Jul Appointed Biagio Fabrizio di Cresseno, O.F.M. † Bishop of Smederevo (Semendria), Serbia

Died Diego de Ortiz de Vilhegas † Bishop of Ceuta, Spain

6 Jul Ordained Bishop Valerio Cancellieri † Bishop of Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi e Bisaccia, Italy

18 Jul 69.5 Appointed Gerolamo Borgia † Bishop of Massa Lubrense, Italy

Appointed Vittore Soranzo † Coadjutor Bishop of Bergamo, Italy Bishop Emeritus

20 Jul 39.5 Ordained Bishop Georg Flach, O.S.B. † Titular Bishop of Salona Auxiliary Bishop of Würzburg, Germany

30 Jul 29.5 Died Francesco Carafa † Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy

42.1 Appointed Girolamo Recanati Capodiferro † Cardinal, Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, France

Died Giuliano Soderini † Bishop of Saintes, France

Aug 44.5 Selected Melchior Zobel von Giebelstadt † Bishop of Würzburg, Germany

2 Aug 48.5 Resigned Fabio Mignanelii † Apostolic Nuncio to Venice, Italy Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Lucera, Italy

4 Aug 54.5 Died Konrad von Bibra † Bishop-Elect of Würzburg, Germany

8 Aug Appointed Martin de Gaczah † Auxiliary Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad}, Romania

Appointed Martin de Gaczah † Titular Bishop of Citrus Auxiliary Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad}, Romania

Appointed János Theltonici † Auxiliary Bishop of Transilvania, Erdély, Siebenbürgen, Romania

Appointed János Theltonici † Titular Bishop of Verissa Auxiliary Bishop of Transilvania, Erdély, Siebenbürgen, Romania

13 Aug 52.6 Resigned Jean du Bellay † Administrator of Limoges, France Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Paris, France

14.0 Appointed Ranuccio Farnese, O.S.Io.Hieros. † Administrator of Napoli {Naples}, Italy Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina

Appointed Marino Gennari † Bishop of Calvi Risorta, Italy Bishop-Elect

51.6 Appointed Antoine Sanguin de Meudon † Bishop of Limoges, France Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Orléans, France

16 Aug 54.6 Resigned Corneille Van Berghen † Bishop of Liège, Belgium Bishop Emeritus

40.6 Succeeded Jorge de Austria † Bishop of Liège, Belgium

21 Aug Born Luís de Figueiredo e Lemos † Bishop of Funchal, Portugal

Sep Died Marino Gennari † Bishop-Elect of Calvi Risorta, Italy

3 Sep Died Giovanni Antonio Melegnano † Auxiliary Bishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy

13 Sep 62.6 Died Edward Lee † Archbishop of York, England, Great Britain

21 Sep Died Jean de Barton † Titular Archbishop of Athenae

29 Sep Born Giovanni de’ Medici (Jr.) † Cardinal, Administrator of Pisa, Italy

7 Oct 64.7 Died Arnau (Arnaldo) Alberti (Albertini) † Bishop of Patti, Italy

10 Oct 57.7 Appointed Paweł Dunin-Wolski † Bishop of Poznań, Poland

44.6 Appointed Rodolfo Pio † Administrator of Agrigento (Girgenti), Italy Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

Appointed Teodoro Pio † Bishop of Faenza, Italy

45.7 Appointed Pietro Tagliavia d’Aragonia † Cardinal, Archbishop of Palermo, Italy

57.9 Appointed St. Tomás Garcia Martinez (de Villanueva), O.E.S.A. † Archbishop of Valencia, Spain

12 Oct 60.0 Died Antonio Pucci † Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina

15 Oct 58.7 Died Charles de Gramont, O.S.A. † Archbishop of Bordeaux, France

17 Oct 74.4 Appointed Pietro Bembo, O.S.Io.Hieros. † Cardinal-Priest of San Clemente Cardinal, Administrator of Bergamo, Italy

68.3 Appointed Gian Pietro Carafa † Cardinal-Bishop of Albano Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)

55.7 Appointed Uberto Gambara † Cardinal-Priest of San Crisogono Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Tortona, Italy

44.6 Appointed Rodolfo Pio † Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

80.3 Appointed Roberto Pucci † Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati Cardinal, Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla, Italy

54.5 Appointed Giovanni Salviati † Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina

22 Oct 32.8 Appointed Francesco Colonna † Archbishop of Taranto, Italy

Appointed Annet de Plas † Bishop of Bazas, France

23 Oct Died Alfonso Oliva, O.S.A. † Archbishop of Amalfi, Italy

27 Oct Appointed Tommaso Caselli, O.P. † Bishop of Bertinoro, Italy Bishop of Cava (de’ Tirreni), Italy

24.0 Resigned Alessandro Farnese (Jr.) † Administrator of Bitonto, Italy Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

Appointed Berenguer Gombau † Bishop of Calvi Risorta, Italy

33.8 Appointed Cornelio Musso, O.F.M. Conv. † Bishop of Bitonto, Italy

Appointed Marino Ruffino † Bishop of Sarno, Italy Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla, Italy

51.0 Appointed Francesco Sfondrati † Archbishop of Amalfi, Italy Cardinal, Bishop of Cremona, Italy

44.8 Confirmed Melchior Zobel von Giebelstadt † Bishop of Würzburg, Germany

13 Nov Died Oudart Hennequin † Bishop of Troyes, France

14 Nov Appointed Erasmus de Cracovia, O. Cist. † Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków, Poland

Appointed Erasmus de Cracovia, O. Cist. † Titular Bishop of Laodicea in Phrygia Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków, Poland

35.8 Appointed Girolamo Dandini † Bishop of Caserta, Italy Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Imola, Italy

Appointed Francisco Frías, O.S.A. † Bishop of Ario, Greece Bishop Emeritus

Appointed Camillo Mentovato † Bishop of Satriano e Campagna, Italy

Appointed Mauro Salvidi † Bishop of San Leone, Italy

47.8 Appointed Girolamo Verallo † Archbishop of Rossano, Italy Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus

22 Nov Died Martín de Gurrea † Bishop of Huesca, Spain

5 Dec Born Guglielmo Bastoni † Bishop of Pavia, Italy

27.9 Appointed Lorenzo Lenti † Bishop of Fermo, Italy

7 Dec 58.0 Ordained Bishop St. Tomás Garcia Martinez (de Villanueva), O.E.S.A. † Archbishop of Valencia, Spain

8 Dec 57.9 Ordained Priest Paweł Dunin-Wolski † Priest Bishop of Poznań, Poland

Ordained Bishop Francisco Frías, O.S.A. † Bishop of Ario, Greece Bishop Emeritus

Ordained Bishop Mauro Salvidi † Bishop of San Leone, Italy

14 Dec 64.9 Died Stanisław Tarło † Bishop of Przemyśl, Poland

17 Dec 52.9 Appointed Jean du Bellay † Administrator of Bordeaux, France Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Paris, France

33.9 Appointed John Hamilton † Bishop of Dunkeld, Scotland, Great Britain Archbishop of Saint Andrews, Scotland, Great Britain

Appointed Georg Schweicker † Auxiliary Bishop of Speyer, Germany

Appointed Georg Schweicker † Titular Bishop of Daulia Auxiliary Bishop of Speyer, Germany

19 Dec 41.7 Elevated to Cardinal Niccolò Ardinghelli † Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Fossombrone, Italy

59.9 Elevated to Cardinal Gaspar Ávalos de la Cueva † Cardinal, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

44.4 Elevated to Cardinal Federico Cesi † Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina

33.0 Elevated to Cardinal Andrea Cornaro † Cardinal, Bishop of Brescia, Italy

46.8 Elevated to Cardinal Tiberio Crispi † Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina

45.3 Elevated to Cardinal Bartolomé de la Cueva y Toledo † Cardinal, Administrator of Manfredonia, Italy

44.9 Elevated to Cardinal Jacques d’Annebaut † Cardinal, Bishop of Lisieux, France

43.9 Elevated to Cardinal Georges d’Armagnac † Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Tours, France

37.2 Elevated to Cardinal Durante Duranti † Cardinal, Bishop of Brescia, Italy

36.2 Elevated to Cardinal Francisco Mendoza Bobadilla † Cardinal, Bishop of Burgos, Spain

42.4 Elevated to Cardinal Girolamo Recanati Capodiferro † Cardinal, Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, France

51.1 Elevated to Cardinal Francesco Sfondrati † Cardinal, Bishop of Cremona, Italy

30.8 Elevated to Cardinal Otto Truchseß von Waldburg † Cardinal, Bishop of Augsburg, Germany

24 Dec Died Juan Yañez † Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada, Spain

28 Dec Ordained Bishop Evangelista Cittadini † Bishop of Alessano, Italy Bishop Emeritus

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
Jul	50.5	Died	Marco Grimani †	Patriarch Emeritus of Aquileia, Italy
4 Jul		Appointed	Biagio Fabrizio di Cresseno, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Smederevo (Semendria), Serbia
	Died	Diego de Ortiz de Vilhegas †	Bishop of Ceuta, Spain
6 Jul		Ordained Bishop	Valerio Cancellieri †	Bishop of Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi e Bisaccia, Italy
18 Jul	69.5	Appointed	Gerolamo Borgia †	Bishop of Massa Lubrense, Italy
	Appointed	Vittore Soranzo †	Coadjutor Bishop of Bergamo, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
20 Jul	39.5	Ordained Bishop	Georg Flach, O.S.B. †	Titular Bishop of Salona	Auxiliary Bishop of Würzburg, Germany
30 Jul	29.5	Died	Francesco Carafa †	Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy
42.1	Appointed	Girolamo Recanati Capodiferro †	Cardinal, Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, France
	Died	Giuliano Soderini †	Bishop of Saintes, France
Aug	44.5	Selected	Melchior Zobel von Giebelstadt †	Bishop of Würzburg, Germany
2 Aug	48.5	Resigned	Fabio Mignanelii †	Apostolic Nuncio to Venice, Italy	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Lucera, Italy
4 Aug	54.5	Died	Konrad von Bibra †	Bishop-Elect of Würzburg, Germany
8 Aug		Appointed	Martin de Gaczah †	Auxiliary Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad}, Romania
	Appointed	Martin de Gaczah †	Titular Bishop of Citrus	Auxiliary Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad}, Romania
	Appointed	János Theltonici †	Auxiliary Bishop of Transilvania, Erdély, Siebenbürgen, Romania
	Appointed	János Theltonici †	Titular Bishop of Verissa	Auxiliary Bishop of Transilvania, Erdély, Siebenbürgen, Romania
13 Aug	52.6	Resigned	Jean du Bellay †	Administrator of Limoges, France	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Paris, France
14.0	Appointed	Ranuccio Farnese, O.S.Io.Hieros. †	Administrator of Napoli {Naples}, Italy	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
	Appointed	Marino Gennari †	Bishop of Calvi Risorta, Italy	Bishop-Elect
51.6	Appointed	Antoine Sanguin de Meudon †	Bishop of Limoges, France	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Orléans, France
16 Aug	54.6	Resigned	Corneille Van Berghen †	Bishop of Liège, Belgium	Bishop Emeritus
40.6	Succeeded	Jorge de Austria †	Bishop of Liège, Belgium
21 Aug		Born	Luís de Figueiredo e Lemos †		Bishop of Funchal, Portugal
Sep		Died	Marino Gennari †	Bishop-Elect of Calvi Risorta, Italy
3 Sep		Died	Giovanni Antonio Melegnano †	Auxiliary Bishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy
13 Sep	62.6	Died	Edward Lee †	Archbishop of York, England, Great Britain
21 Sep		Died	Jean de Barton †	Titular Archbishop of Athenae
29 Sep		Born	Giovanni de’ Medici (Jr.) †		Cardinal, Administrator of Pisa, Italy
7 Oct	64.7	Died	Arnau (Arnaldo) Alberti (Albertini) †	Bishop of Patti, Italy
10 Oct	57.7	Appointed	Paweł Dunin-Wolski †	Bishop of Poznań, Poland
44.6	Appointed	Rodolfo Pio †	Administrator of Agrigento (Girgenti), Italy	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
	Appointed	Teodoro Pio †	Bishop of Faenza, Italy
45.7	Appointed	Pietro Tagliavia d’Aragonia †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Palermo, Italy
57.9	Appointed	St. Tomás Garcia Martinez (de Villanueva), O.E.S.A. †	Archbishop of Valencia, Spain
12 Oct	60.0	Died	Antonio Pucci †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
15 Oct	58.7	Died	Charles de Gramont, O.S.A. †	Archbishop of Bordeaux, France
17 Oct	74.4	Appointed	Pietro Bembo, O.S.Io.Hieros. †	Cardinal-Priest of San Clemente	Cardinal, Administrator of Bergamo, Italy
68.3	Appointed	Gian Pietro Carafa †	Cardinal-Bishop of Albano	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
55.7	Appointed	Uberto Gambara †	Cardinal-Priest of San Crisogono	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Tortona, Italy
44.6	Appointed	Rodolfo Pio †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
80.3	Appointed	Roberto Pucci †	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati	Cardinal, Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla, Italy
54.5	Appointed	Giovanni Salviati †	Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
22 Oct	32.8	Appointed	Francesco Colonna †	Archbishop of Taranto, Italy
	Appointed	Annet de Plas †	Bishop of Bazas, France
23 Oct		Died	Alfonso Oliva, O.S.A. †	Archbishop of Amalfi, Italy
27 Oct		Appointed	Tommaso Caselli, O.P. †	Bishop of Bertinoro, Italy	Bishop of Cava (de’ Tirreni), Italy
24.0	Resigned	Alessandro Farnese (Jr.) †	Administrator of Bitonto, Italy	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
	Appointed	Berenguer Gombau †	Bishop of Calvi Risorta, Italy
33.8	Appointed	Cornelio Musso, O.F.M. Conv. †	Bishop of Bitonto, Italy
	Appointed	Marino Ruffino †	Bishop of Sarno, Italy	Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla, Italy
51.0	Appointed	Francesco Sfondrati †	Archbishop of Amalfi, Italy	Cardinal, Bishop of Cremona, Italy
44.8	Confirmed	Melchior Zobel von Giebelstadt †	Bishop of Würzburg, Germany
13 Nov		Died	Oudart Hennequin †	Bishop of Troyes, France
14 Nov		Appointed	Erasmus de Cracovia, O. Cist. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków, Poland
	Appointed	Erasmus de Cracovia, O. Cist. †	Titular Bishop of Laodicea in Phrygia	Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków, Poland
35.8	Appointed	Girolamo Dandini †	Bishop of Caserta, Italy	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Imola, Italy
	Appointed	Francisco Frías, O.S.A. †	Bishop of Ario, Greece	Bishop Emeritus
	Appointed	Camillo Mentovato †	Bishop of Satriano e Campagna, Italy
	Appointed	Mauro Salvidi †	Bishop of San Leone, Italy
47.8	Appointed	Girolamo Verallo †	Archbishop of Rossano, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
22 Nov		Died	Martín de Gurrea †	Bishop of Huesca, Spain
5 Dec		Born	Guglielmo Bastoni †		Bishop of Pavia, Italy
27.9	Appointed	Lorenzo Lenti †	Bishop of Fermo, Italy
7 Dec	58.0	Ordained Bishop	St. Tomás Garcia Martinez (de Villanueva), O.E.S.A. †	Archbishop of Valencia, Spain
8 Dec	57.9	Ordained Priest	Paweł Dunin-Wolski †	Priest	Bishop of Poznań, Poland
	Ordained Bishop	Francisco Frías, O.S.A. †	Bishop of Ario, Greece	Bishop Emeritus
	Ordained Bishop	Mauro Salvidi †	Bishop of San Leone, Italy
14 Dec	64.9	Died	Stanisław Tarło †	Bishop of Przemyśl, Poland
17 Dec	52.9	Appointed	Jean du Bellay †	Administrator of Bordeaux, France	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Paris, France
33.9	Appointed	John Hamilton †	Bishop of Dunkeld, Scotland, Great Britain	Archbishop of Saint Andrews, Scotland, Great Britain
	Appointed	Georg Schweicker †	Auxiliary Bishop of Speyer, Germany
	Appointed	Georg Schweicker †	Titular Bishop of Daulia	Auxiliary Bishop of Speyer, Germany
19 Dec	41.7	Elevated to Cardinal	Niccolò Ardinghelli †	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Fossombrone, Italy
59.9	Elevated to Cardinal	Gaspar Ávalos de la Cueva †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
44.4	Elevated to Cardinal	Federico Cesi †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
33.0	Elevated to Cardinal	Andrea Cornaro †	Cardinal, Bishop of Brescia, Italy
46.8	Elevated to Cardinal	Tiberio Crispi †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
45.3	Elevated to Cardinal	Bartolomé de la Cueva y Toledo †	Cardinal, Administrator of Manfredonia, Italy
44.9	Elevated to Cardinal	Jacques d’Annebaut †	Cardinal, Bishop of Lisieux, France
43.9	Elevated to Cardinal	Georges d’Armagnac †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Tours, France
37.2	Elevated to Cardinal	Durante Duranti †	Cardinal, Bishop of Brescia, Italy
36.2	Elevated to Cardinal	Francisco Mendoza Bobadilla †	Cardinal, Bishop of Burgos, Spain
42.4	Elevated to Cardinal	Girolamo Recanati Capodiferro †	Cardinal, Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, France
51.1	Elevated to Cardinal	Francesco Sfondrati †	Cardinal, Bishop of Cremona, Italy
30.8	Elevated to Cardinal	Otto Truchseß von Waldburg †	Cardinal, Bishop of Augsburg, Germany
24 Dec		Died	Juan Yañez †	Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada, Spain
28 Dec		Ordained Bishop	Evangelista Cittadini †	Bishop of Alessano, Italy	Bishop Emeritus

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