The Year of Our Lord 1565

Bishop Events

January to June

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
unknown	33.0	Ordained Priest	William Allen †	Priest	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti
		Born	Pál Almásy †		Bishop of Vác, Hungary
		Born	Miguel Ayala †		Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada, Spain
		Resigned	Pietro Barbarigo †	Bishop of Korčula (Curzola, Cursola), Croatia	Bishop Emeritus
		Resigned	Bernardin de Bochetel (Bouchelet) †	Bishop-Elect of Rennes, France	Former Bishop-Elect
		Died	Giovanni Beraldo †	Bishop of Sant’Agata de’ Goti, Italy
	62.0	Resigned	Luca Bisanti †	Bishop of Kotor (Cattaro), Montenegro	Bishop Emeritus
		Born	Marino Bizzi (Bici) †		Archbishop Emeritus of Bar (Antivari), Montenegro
		Appointed	Gergely Bornemissza †	Bishop of Csanád, Hungary	Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad}, Romania
		Died	Louis (Jacob) de Bourbon (de Helvis) †	Bishop of Langres, France
		Born	Juan de las Cabezas Altamirano †		Bishop of Arequipa, Peru
		Resigned	Fabio Capelleto †	Bishop of Lacedonia, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
		Born	Giacomo Cavalieri (Caballero) †		Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Eusebio
	54.5	Appointed	Giovanni Battista Cicala (Cicada) †	Administrator of Sagone (Sagona), France	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
	32.8	Succeeded	Antonio Cauco (Cocco) †	Archbishop of Corfù, Greece	Archbishop Emeritus
	75.0	Died	Giacomo Cauco (Cocco) †	Archbishop of Corfù, Greece
		Appointed	Antonius Lucurri (Cogorno), O.P. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Parma, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Brugnato, Italy
		Resigned	Antonius Lucurri (Cogorno), O.P. †	Bishop of Brugnato, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	66.9	Appointed	Tiberio Crispi †	Administrator of Sessa Aurunca, Italy	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
		Died	Ferdinando D’Anna †	Bishop of Bovino, Italy
		Succeeded	Giovanni Domenico D’Anna †	Bishop of Bovino, Italy
		Born	Antonio d’Aquino †		Archbishop of Taranto, Italy
		Born	Antoine de Cros †		Bishop of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, France
		Born	Rafael Díaz de Cabrera, O.SS.T. †		Bishop of Mondoñedo, Spain
		Resigned	Filippo Donato †	Bishop of Canea (Cydonia, Egée), Greece	Bishop Emeritus
		Ordained Bishop	Bartolomeo Doria †	Bishop of Milos (Melos), Greece	Bishop Emeritus
		Born	Gutiérrez Bernardo de Quirós (Quiróz) †		Bishop of Tlaxcala (Puebla de los Angeles), México
		Born	Jean Davy du Perron †		Archbishop of Sens, France
		Resigned	Vincenzo Durante †	Bishop of Termoli, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
		Born	Wilhelm von Essern (Effern) †		Bishop of Worms, Germany
		Born	Juan Dionisio Fernández Portocarrero †		Bishop of Cádiz, Spain
		Resigned	Giovanni Francesco Fieschi †	Bishop of Andria, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
		Died	Ennio Filonardi †	Bishop of Montefeltro, Italy
	86.6	Resigned	Galeazzo Florimonte †	Bishop of Sessa Aurunca, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
		Died	Angelo Gaconia †	Bishop of Castro di Puglia, Italy
		Born	Lorenzo Garro †		Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde
		Died	Domenico di Grammatica †	Bishop of Santorini {Thira}, Greece
		Born	Giovanni dei Gualtieri †		Bishop of Sansepolcro (Borgo San Sepolcro), Italy
	31.4	Appointed	Mark Sittich von Hohenems (Altemps) †	Archpriest of the Arcibasilica di San Giovanni in Laterano {Saint John Lateran Basilica}	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany
		Died	Andre Jubiza †	Bishop of Dulcigno (Olcini, Olgun), Montenegro
		Born	Marco La Cava †		Bishop of Mazara del Vallo, Italy
		Resigned	Sebastiano Leccavella, O.P. †	Bishop of Lettere (-Gragnano), Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	37.2	Selected	John Lesley (Leslie) †	Bishop of Ross (Rosemarkie, Fortrose), Scotland, Great Britain
		Died	Antonio de Lunel †	Bishop of Gaeta, Italy
	51.0	Resigned	Jean des Monstiers de Froissac (Dufresne de Moustiers) †	Bishop of Bayonne, France	Bishop Emeritus
		Died	Alessandro Molo (Mollo) †	Bishop of Minori, Italy
		Born	Juan de Moncada †		Archbishop of Tarragona, Spain
		Born	Pedro Moya Arjona †		Bishop of Tuy, Spain
		Born	Francisco Navarro de Eugui †		Bishop of Huesca, Spain
	46.0	Died	Benedetto Nerli †	Bishop of Volterra, Italy
		Born	Francesco Nori †		Bishop of San Miniato, Italy
		Born	Giovanni Maria Olmo †		Bishop of Bosa, Italy
		Born	Fabrizio Paolucci †		Bishop of Città della Pieve, Italy
		Born	Stephanus Penulatius, O.S.H. †		Bishop of Rethymo (Calamona), Greece
		Born	Johann Platzgummer †		Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
	50.2	Resigned	Prospero Publicola Santacroce †	Apostolic Nuncio to France	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
		Born	Lucio Sanseverino †		Cardinal, Archbishop of Salerno, Italy
		Born	Michelangelo Seghizzi, O.P. †		Bishop of Lodi, Italy
		Died	Geronimo Sifola †	Bishop of Bisceglie, Italy
	39.3	Professed	François-Marie Tarugi, C.O. †	Member of Confederation of Oratorians of St. Philip Neri	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Siena, Italy
		Died	John Tonory, O.S.A. †	Bishop of Ossory, Ireland
		Died	Juan de Vaca (Baca), O.S.B. †	Bishop of Panamá
		Died	Jean Valere (Vallier) †	Bishop of Grasse, France
		Born	Laudivio Zacchia †		Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Corneto (Tarquinia) e Montefiascone, Italy
	Died	Matteo Zacconi †	Bishop of Strongoli, Italy
	Born	Jerzy Zamoyski †		Bishop of Chełm, Poland
2 Jan	57.0	Died	Henry Sinclair †	Bishop of Ross (Rosemarkie, Fortrose), Scotland, Great Britain
7 Jan		Ordained Bishop	Antonio García de Valtorres, O. Cist. †	Titular Bishop of Utica	Auxiliary Bishop of Zaragoza, Spain
12 Jan	26.0	Resigned	Francesco Gonzaga †	Archbishop of Cosenza, Italy	Cardinal, Bishop of Mantova, Italy
12 Jan		Appointed	Tommaso Milesio †	Archbishop of Cosenza, Italy
19 Jan	30.0	Appointed	Iñigo Avalos de Aragón, O.S. †	Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Adriano al Foro	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
		Appointed	Gerolamo Barbarà †	Archbishop of Oristano, Italy
	66.9	Appointed	Tiberio Crispi †	Administrator of Nepi e Sutri, Italy	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
	33.0	Appointed	Juan Manuel de la Cerda †	Bishop of Zamora, Spain	Bishop Emeritus of Sigüenza, Spain
		Appointed	Mateo Pinello †	Bishop of Cuzco, Peru
28 Jan	64.5	Died	Federico Cesi †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
7 Feb	56.0	Appointed	John Baptist Abessinus †	Bishop of Holy Savior of Nicosia (Ethiopian), Cyprus
	47.2	Appointed	Fulvio Giulio della Corgna, O.S.Io.Hieros. †	Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Angelo in Pescheria	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
	44.3	Appointed	Alessandro Farnese (Jr.) †	Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
	34.4	Appointed	Ranuccio Farnese, O.S.Io.Hieros. †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
	55.0	Appointed	Piotr Myszkowski †	Coadjutor Bishop of Płock, Poland	Bishop of Kraków, Poland
	56.0	Appointed	Giovanni Gerolamo Morone (Moroni) †	Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
		Appointed	Christian Naponäus Radiducius, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Wiener Neustadt, Austria
	58.0	Appointed	Bernardo Navagero †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Susanna	Cardinal, Former Administrator of Verona, Italy
	57.0	Appointed	Francisco Pacheco de Toledo (Villena) †	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Pudenziana	Cardinal, Archbishop of Burgos, Spain
		Appointed	Nicola Perusco †	Bishop of Civita Castellana e Orte, Italy
	61.0	Appointed	Scipione Rebiba †	Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Anastasia	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
	66.1	Appointed	Giovanni Michele Saraceni †	Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Agata de’ Goti	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
		Appointed	Giovanni Battista Torleoni †	Bishop of Cagli, Italy
8 Feb	40.9	Resigned	Giorgio Cornaro †	Apostolic Nuncio to Florence (Tuscany), Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Treviso, Italy
9 Feb	32.1	Appointed	Andrija Dudić (Dudith Sbardellati) †	Bishop of Pécs, Hungary	Bishop Emeritus
10 Feb		Died	Marek Khuen z Olomouce †	Bishop of Olomouc (Olmütz), Czechia
11 Feb		Ordained Bishop	Vincenzo Cornelio (Cajetani) †	Bishop of Ostuni, Italy
13 Feb		Died	Stanislaw Narkustki †	Bishop-Elect of Žemaičiai (Samogizia o Tels; Żmudź), Lithuania
21 Feb	24.6	Died	Federico Gonzaga †	Cardinal, Bishop of Mantova, Italy
23 Feb		Appointed	Abraham of Gazira †	Archbishop of Angamalé, India
		Appointed	Jean de Bours †	Bishop of Laon, France
	48.1	Confirmed	Gerard van Groesbeeck †	Cardinal, Bishop of Liège, Belgium
		Appointed	Thomas Jacomel, O.P. †	Bishop of Toulon, France
4 Mar	49.1	Ordained Bishop	Francesco Facini †	Titular Bishop of Citrus	Auxiliary Bishop of Mantova, Italy
4 Mar	52.1	Ordained Bishop	Mathurin de la Saussaye †	Bishop of Orléans, France
12 Mar	43.1	Elevated to Cardinal	Francesco Alciati †	Cardinal, Bishop of Civitate (Città or Civita), Italy
	65.1	Elevated to Cardinal	Marcantonio Bobba †	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Aosta, Italy
	63.1	Elevated to Cardinal	Ugo Boncompagni †	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
	44.1	Elevated to Cardinal	Annibale Bozzuti †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Avignon, France
	42.1	Elevated to Cardinal	Francesco Abbondio Castiglioni †	Cardinal, Bishop of Bobbio, Italy
	42.1	Elevated to Cardinal	Marcantonio Colonna (Sr.) †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
	41.9	Elevated to Cardinal	Gianfrancesco Commendone †	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Cefalonia e Zante, Greece
	65.1	Elevated to Cardinal	Francesco Crasso †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Eufemia
	33.6	Elevated to Cardinal	Antoine de Créqui Canaples †	Cardinal, Bishop of Amiens, France
	51.1	Elevated to Cardinal	Alessandro Crivelli †	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Cariati e Cerenzia, Italy
	37.9	Elevated to Cardinal	Zaccaria Delfino †	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Hvar (Lesina), Croatia
	27.8	Elevated to Cardinal	Guido Luca Ferrero †	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Vercelli, Italy
	37.4	Elevated to Cardinal	Tolomeo Gallio †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
	48.1	Elevated to Cardinal	Benedetto Lomellini †	Cardinal, Bishop of Anagni, Italy
	60.1	Elevated to Cardinal	Angelo Nicolini †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Pisa, Italy
	33.1	Elevated to Cardinal	Flavio Orsini †	Cardinal, Bishop of Spoleto, Italy
	42.4	Elevated to Cardinal	Gabriele Paleotti †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy
	72.3	Elevated to Cardinal	Simone Pasqua (di Negro) †	Cardinal, Bishop of Luni e Sarzana, Italy
	43.1	Elevated to Cardinal	Luigi (Alvise) Pisani †	Cardinal, Bishop of Padova {Padua}, Italy
	50.4	Elevated to Cardinal	Prospero Publicola Santacroce †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
	31.1	Elevated to Cardinal	Alessandro Sforza †	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Parma, Italy
	51.1	Elevated to Cardinal	Guglielmo Sirleto †	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Squillace, Italy
	42.1	Elevated to Cardinal	Carlo Visconti †	Cardinal, Bishop of Montefeltro, Italy
14 Mar	85.2	Died	Vasco de Quiroga †	Bishop of Michoacán, México
18 Mar		Ordained Bishop	Guillaume Viole †	Bishop of Paris, France
24 Mar	33.2	Ordained Bishop	Juan Manuel de la Cerda †	Bishop of Zamora, Spain	Bishop Emeritus of Sigüenza, Spain
1 Apr	52.2	Ordained Bishop	Diego de Simancas †	Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain	Bishop of Zamora, Spain
2 Apr		Born	Isidoro Aliaga, O.P. †		Archbishop of Valencia, Spain
13 Apr	53.2	Appointed	Francisco Blanco Salcedo †	Bishop of Málaga, Spain	Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
	55.6	Appointed	Ippolito d’Este (II) †	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria Nuova	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Novara, Italy
		Appointed	Adam Mierchowski, O. Cist. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Włocławek (Kujawy, Kalisze), Poland
		Appointed	Adam Mierchowski, O. Cist. †	Titular Bishop of Margarita	Auxiliary Bishop of Włocławek (Kujawy, Kalisze), Poland
	58.2	Died	Bernardo Navagero †	Cardinal, Former Administrator of Verona, Italy
	71.2	Appointed	Francesco Pisani †	Administrator of Novigrad (Cittanova), Croatia	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
		Appointed	Matteo Priuli †	Bishop of Vicenza, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	31.2	Appointed	Vilém Prusinovský z Víckova †	Bishop of Olomouc (Olmütz), Czechia
	32.0	Resigned	Giulio della Rovere †	Bishop of Vicenza, Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop of Ravenna, Italy
		Appointed	Luigi Suppa, O.P. †	Bishop of Agrigento (Girgenti), Italy
	51.2	Appointed	Fernando de Tricio Arenzana †	Bishop of Orense, Spain	Bishop of Salamanca, Spain
15 Apr		Died	Giovanni Betta, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Trieste, Italy
23 Apr	61.4	Installed	Martín Pérez de Ayala †	Archbishop of Valencia, Spain
24 Apr		Ordained Bishop	Louis du Moulinet †	Bishop of Sées {Séez}, France	Bishop Emeritus
28 Apr	44.3	Died	Thomas von Planta †	Bishop of Chur, Switzerland
4 May		Born	Giovanni Emo †		Bishop of Bergamo, Italy
5 May	49.3	Died	Francesco Facini †	Auxiliary Bishop of Mantova, Italy
15 May	43.2	Installed	Francesco Alciati †	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Lucia in Septisolio	Cardinal, Bishop of Civitate (Città or Civita), Italy
	63.3	Appointed	Ugo Boncompagni †	Cardinal-Priest of San Sisto	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
	44.2	Installed	Annibale Bozzuti †	Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Avignon, France
		Appointed	Pierre de Châtelet †	Coadjutor Bishop of Toul, France	Bishop
	42.3	Installed	Marcantonio Colonna (Sr.) †	Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
		Appointed	Pedro de la Peña, O.P. †	Bishop of Quito, Ecuador
	15.7	Installed	Ferdinando de’ Medici †	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Domnica
	37.6	Installed	Tolomeo Gallio †	Cardinal-Priest of San Teodoro	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
	61.3	Appointed	St. Antonio (Michele) Ghislieri, O.P. †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria sopra Minerva	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
	26.4	Appointed	Francesco Gonzaga †	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Mantova, Italy	Cardinal, Bishop
	31.7	Appointed	Mark Sittich von Hohenems (Altemps) †	Cardinal-Priest of San Giorgio in Velabro	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany
		Appointed	Benedetto Loredano, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Korčula (Curzola, Cursola), Croatia
	48.3	Installed	Benedetto Lomellini †	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Aquiro	Cardinal, Bishop of Anagni, Italy
	65.3	Appointed	Alvaro Magellano †	Bishop of San Leone, Italy
	58.3	Resigned	Bernardo Navagero †	Administrator of Verona, Italy	Cardinal, Former Administrator
	60.3	Installed	Angelo Nicolini †	Cardinal-Priest of San Callisto	Cardinal, Archbishop of Pisa, Italy
	33.3	Installed	Flavio Orsini †	Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina	Cardinal, Bishop of Spoleto, Italy
	42.6	Installed	Gabriele Paleotti †	Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo	Cardinal, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy
	72.4	Installed	Simone Pasqua (di Negro) †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Sabina	Cardinal, Bishop of Luni e Sarzana, Italy
	46.3	Appointed	Giovanni Antonio Serbelloni †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria degli Angeli	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
	31.3	Installed	Alessandro Sforza †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Via	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Parma, Italy
	51.3	Installed	Guglielmo Sirleto †	Cardinal-Deacon of San Lorenzo in Panisperna	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Squillace, Italy
	34.1	Appointed	Agostino Valier (Valeri, Valieri) †	Cardinal, Bishop of Verona, Italy
	42.3	Installed	Carlo Visconti †	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia	Cardinal, Bishop of Montefeltro, Italy
20 May	48.3	Ordained Bishop	Gerard van Groesbeeck †	Cardinal, Bishop of Liège, Belgium
21 May		Died	Paweł Tarło †	Archbishop of Lviv, Ukraine
26 May		Appointed	Gianfranco Carducci †	Bishop of Lacedonia, Italy
3 Jun	43.3	Appointed	Francesco Alciati †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Susanna	Cardinal, Bishop of Civitate (Città or Civita), Italy
3 Jun		Installed	Girolamo Gallarati †	Bishop of Alessandria (della Paglia), Italy
8 Jun	70.4	Appointed	Antoine d’Acqs (Dax) †	Bishop of Alet, France
		Born	Juan Roco Campofrío, O.S.B. †		Bishop of Coria, Spain
		Appointed	Johann Thomas von Spaur †	Coadjutor Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy	Bishop
		Appointed	Johann Thomas von Spaur †	Titular Bishop of Maioren	Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
	45.4	Appointed	Wiktoryn Wierzbicki †	Bishop of Žemaičiai (Samogizia o Tels; Żmudź), Lithuania	Bishop of Lutsk (Łuck), Ukraine
10 Jun		Ordained Bishop	Pedro Sánchez Martín, O.P. †	Bishop of Coro, Venezuela
10 Jun		Ordained Bishop	Nicolas Langelier (Lancelier) †	Bishop of Saint-Brieuc, France
12 Jun		Died	Jean Jordan †	Bishop of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland
17 Jun		Ordained Bishop	Abraham of Gazira †	Archbishop of Angamalé, India
19 Jun	63.4	Died	Antonio Bernardi (of Mirandola) †	Bishop Emeritus of Caserta, Italy
22 Jun	35.4	Selected	Hildebrand Riedmatten †	Bishop of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland
30 Jun	24.9	Ordained Bishop	Alfonso Carafa †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy

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