The Year of Our Lord 1640

Bishop Events

July to December

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

16 Jul 75.5 Appointed Juan Dionisio Fernández Portocarrero † Bishop of Cádiz, Spain

46.9 Appointed Diego Montoya Mendoza † Bishop of Cuzco, Peru Bishop of Trujillo, Peru

Confirmed Juan Bautista Verchi de Campania (Visco), O.F.M. † Bishop of Tortosa, Spain Bishop of Pozzuoli, Italy

50.7 Appointed Pedro de Villagómez Vivanco † Archbishop of Lima, Peru

17 Jul Selected Antonio Guzmán Cornejo † Bishop of Tuy, Spain

25 Jul 62.5 Died Antonio Provana † Archbishop of Torino {Turin}, Italy

Aug Died Giulio Saraceni † Bishop of Pula (Pola), Croatia

13 Aug Appointed Bernardino de Cárdenas Ponce, O.F.M. † Bishop of Paraguay (o Ssma Assunzione) Bishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia

50.6 Appointed Vencent Cavaselice † Bishop of Carinola (Calina), Italy

Confirmed Luis Córdoba Ronquillo, O.SS.T. † Bishop of Trujillo, Peru

Appointed Gregoire Nagy Falvy † Bishop of Vác, Hungary

47.8 Appointed Gregorio Panzani, C.O. † Bishop of Mileto, Italy

Appointed Giovanni Pietro (Paolo) Pinto, O.F.M. Conv. † Bishop of Fondi (Fundi), Italy

Confirmed Juan Queipo de Llano y Valdés † Bishop of Guadix, Spain Bishop of Coria, Spain

Appointed Costantino de Rossi, C.R.S. † Bishop of Krk (Veglia), Croatia

19 Aug Ordained Bishop Giovanni Pietro (Paolo) Pinto, O.F.M. Conv. † Bishop of Fondi (Fundi), Italy

Born Bartolomeo Riberi, O. de M. † Bishop of Nicotera, Italy

30 Aug 29.8 Selected Adrian von Riedmatten (III) † Bishop of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland

2 Sep 50.6 Ordained Bishop Vencent Cavaselice † Bishop of Carinola (Calina), Italy

47.8 Ordained Bishop Gregorio Panzani, C.O. † Bishop of Mileto, Italy

3 Sep Born Gregorio Compagni, O.P. † Bishop of Larino, Italy

7 Sep Born James Stritch † Priest

8 Sep Died Pietro Filippi † Bishop of Boiano, Italy

22.9 Ordained Deacon Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheid † Deacon Archbishop of Mainz, Germany

9 Sep 48.6 Ordained Bishop Giovanni Pusky † Bishop of Csanád, Hungary Archbishop of Kalocsa, Hungary

10 Sep 61.6 Appointed Fernando Andrade Sotomayor † Archbishop (Personal Title) of Sigüenza, Spain Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Appointed Franciscus Cruta † Bishop of Shkodrë (Scutari), Albania

58.6 Appointed Alberto Giunti † Bishop of Castro [del Lazio], Italy

50.6 Appointed Marc Scurra, O.F.M. † Archbishop of Durrës (Durazzo), Albania

13 Sep 60.5 Appointed Orazio Giustiniani, C.O. † Bishop of Montalto (delle Marche), Italy Cardinal, Librarian of the Vatican Library

16 Sep 60.5 Ordained Bishop Orazio Giustiniani, C.O. † Bishop of Montalto (delle Marche), Italy Cardinal, Librarian of the Vatican Library

22 Sep Born Giambattista Morea † Bishop of Lacedonia, Italy

23 Sep 58.7 Ordained Bishop Alberto Giunti † Bishop of Castro [del Lazio], Italy

25 Sep Born Ettore Algaria † Bishop of Patti, Italy

70.7 Died Facundo (Fernando) de la Torre, O.S.B. † Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Born Domenico Sorrentino † Bishop of Vulturara e Montecorvino, Italy

30 Sep 60.7 Died Erasmo Paravicini † Bishop of Alessandria (della Paglia), Italy

Oct 71.7 Died Eusebius Caimus † Bishop of Novigrad (Cittanova), Croatia

58.7 Died Sfortia Ponzoni † Archbishop of Split (Spalato), Croatia

1 Oct 60.7 Died Antimo degli Atti † Bishop of Ortona a Mare e Campli, Italy

3 Oct Succeeded Jean-Vincent de Tulles † Bishop of Orange, France Bishop of Lavaur, France

Died Jean de Tulles † Bishop of Orange, France

8 Oct 55.4 Confirmed Diego Arce Reinoso † Bishop of Plasencia, Spain Bishop Emeritus

Confirmed Antonio Guzmán Cornejo † Bishop of Tuy, Spain

41.7 Appointed Cristóbal Pérez Lazarraga y Maneli Viana, O. Cist. † Bishop of Cartagena, Colombia

53.7 Appointed Francisco de Manso Zuñiga y Sola † Archbishop of Burgos, Spain

Appointed Francesco Romolo Mileti † Bishop of Segni, Italy

10 Oct Born Placido Scoppa (Stoppa), C.R. † Bishop of Venosa, Italy

16 Oct Born François Genet † Bishop of Vaison, France

22 Oct 68.8 Died Cristóbal Martínez de Salas, O. Praem. † Bishop of Panamá

23 Oct 63.8 Died Ambrogio Machin, O. de M. † Archbishop of Cagliari, Italy

26 Oct 44.8 Died Remigiusz Koniecpolski † Bishop of Chełm, Poland

28 Oct 40.8 Ordained Priest Sallustio Pecólo (Pecoli) † Priest Bishop Emeritus of Venosa, Italy

30 Oct 70.8 Died Giovanni Battista Agatich, O.S.A. † Bishop of Senj (-Modruš), Croatia

31 Oct Selected Francisco Pereira Pinto † Bishop of Porto, Portugal Bishop-Elect

Nov 59.8 Died Giuliano Viviani † Bishop of Isola, Italy

5 Nov Born Pedro de Foyos (Foios), O.E.S.A. † Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa, Portugal

57.8 Selected Anastazy Antoni Seljava (Sielawa), O.S.B.M. † Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine

8 Nov 53.8 Died Guillaume Le Prêtre † Bishop of Quimper, France

15 Nov 60.8 Resigned Alessandro Castracani (Castracane) † Apostolic Collector to Portugal Bishop of Fano, Italy

19 Nov 71.8 Appointed Mendo de Benavides † Bishop of Cartagena (en España)

30.8 Appointed Opizio d’Este † Bishop of Modena, Italy

Appointed Agustín de Ugarte y Sarabia † Bishop of Arequipa, Peru Bishop of Quito, Ecuador

72.8 Appointed Domingo (de Villaescusa) Ramírez de Arellano, O.S.H. † Bishop of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas), México Bishop of Yucatán (Mérida), México

24 Nov Died Luis Córdoba Ronquillo, O.SS.T. † Bishop of Trujillo, Peru

28 Nov Died Léonard Goetz † Bishop of Lavant, Slovenia

Dec 58.9 Died Feliciano de la Vega Padilla † Archbishop of México, Federal District

Ordained Bishop Antonio Guzmán Cornejo † Bishop of Tuy, Spain

40.9 Died Rafał Mikołaj Korsak, O.S.B.M. † Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine

50.7 Died Henri Sylvius, O.S.C. † Auxiliary Bishop of Liège, Belgium

3 Dec 46.9 Died Pedro Barbosa de Eça † Bishop of Leiria, Portugal

Appointed Francesco Antonio Biondo, O.F.M. Conv. † Bishop of Ortona a Mare e Campli, Italy

50.9 Appointed Gaspard Karas † Auxiliary Bishop of Olomouc (Olmütz), Czechia

50.9 Appointed Gaspard Karas † Titular Bishop of Tiberias Auxiliary Bishop of Olomouc (Olmütz), Czechia

58.9 Appointed Hugues de Labatut † Bishop of (Saint-Bertrand de) Comminges, France

40.9 Appointed Sallustio Pecólo (Pecoli) † Bishop of Venosa, Italy Bishop Emeritus

Appointed Giovanni de Rossi † Bishop of Cefalonia e Zante, Greece Bishop of Ossero (Osor), Croatia

46.0 Appointed Talento de’ Talenti † Bishop of Montepulciano, Italy

Appointed Francesco Visconti † Bishop of Alessandria (della Paglia), Italy Bishop Emeritus of Cremona, Italy

9 Dec Ordained Bishop Francesco Romolo Mileti † Bishop of Segni, Italy

40.9 Ordained Bishop Sallustio Pecólo (Pecoli) † Bishop of Venosa, Italy Bishop Emeritus

Ordained Bishop Giovanni de Rossi † Bishop of Cefalonia e Zante, Greece Bishop of Ossero (Osor), Croatia

46.0 Ordained Bishop Talento de’ Talenti † Bishop of Montepulciano, Italy

Ordained Bishop Francesco Visconti † Bishop of Alessandria (della Paglia), Italy Bishop Emeritus of Cremona, Italy

10 Dec Born Andreas Albinowski † Auxiliary Bishop of Włocławek (Kujawy, Kalisze), Poland

13 Dec Died Henri Clausse de Marchamont † Bishop of Chalons-sur-Marne, France

14 Dec Born José Martínez del Villar † Bishop of Barbastro, Spain

16 Dec 30.9 Ordained Bishop Opizio d’Este † Bishop of Modena, Italy

Ordained Bishop Juan Queipo de Llano y Valdés † Bishop of Guadix, Spain Bishop of Coria, Spain

17 Dec Appointed Francesco de Faria † Auxiliary Bishop of Braga, Portugal

Appointed Francesco de Faria † Titular Bishop of Martyropolis Auxiliary Bishop of Braga, Portugal

37.9 Confirmed Henri de La Mothe-Houdancourt † Bishop of Rennes, France Archbishop of Auch, France

39.9 Confirmed José Valle de la Cerda, O.S.B. † Bishop of Badajoz, Spain

23 Dec 56.1 Selected René du Louët de Coetjunval † Bishop of Quimper, France

29 Dec 35.9 Appointed Albert von Priamis † Bishop of Lavant, Slovenia

30 Dec Born Giovanni Girolamo Naselli † Bishop of Luni e Sarzana, Italy

35.9 Ordained Bishop Albert von Priamis † Bishop of Lavant, Slovenia

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
16 Jul	75.5	Appointed	Juan Dionisio Fernández Portocarrero †	Bishop of Cádiz, Spain
46.9	Appointed	Diego Montoya Mendoza †	Bishop of Cuzco, Peru	Bishop of Trujillo, Peru
	Confirmed	Juan Bautista Verchi de Campania (Visco), O.F.M. †	Bishop of Tortosa, Spain	Bishop of Pozzuoli, Italy
50.7	Appointed	Pedro de Villagómez Vivanco †	Archbishop of Lima, Peru
17 Jul		Selected	Antonio Guzmán Cornejo †	Bishop of Tuy, Spain
25 Jul	62.5	Died	Antonio Provana †	Archbishop of Torino {Turin}, Italy
Aug		Died	Giulio Saraceni †	Bishop of Pula (Pola), Croatia
13 Aug		Appointed	Bernardino de Cárdenas Ponce, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Paraguay (o Ssma Assunzione)	Bishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
50.6	Appointed	Vencent Cavaselice †	Bishop of Carinola (Calina), Italy
	Confirmed	Luis Córdoba Ronquillo, O.SS.T. †	Bishop of Trujillo, Peru
	Appointed	Gregoire Nagy Falvy †	Bishop of Vác, Hungary
47.8	Appointed	Gregorio Panzani, C.O. †	Bishop of Mileto, Italy
	Appointed	Giovanni Pietro (Paolo) Pinto, O.F.M. Conv. †	Bishop of Fondi (Fundi), Italy
	Confirmed	Juan Queipo de Llano y Valdés †	Bishop of Guadix, Spain	Bishop of Coria, Spain
	Appointed	Costantino de Rossi, C.R.S. †	Bishop of Krk (Veglia), Croatia
19 Aug		Ordained Bishop	Giovanni Pietro (Paolo) Pinto, O.F.M. Conv. †	Bishop of Fondi (Fundi), Italy
	Born	Bartolomeo Riberi, O. de M. †		Bishop of Nicotera, Italy
30 Aug	29.8	Selected	Adrian von Riedmatten (III) †	Bishop of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland
2 Sep	50.6	Ordained Bishop	Vencent Cavaselice †	Bishop of Carinola (Calina), Italy
47.8	Ordained Bishop	Gregorio Panzani, C.O. †	Bishop of Mileto, Italy
3 Sep		Born	Gregorio Compagni, O.P. †		Bishop of Larino, Italy
7 Sep		Born	James Stritch †		Priest
8 Sep		Died	Pietro Filippi †	Bishop of Boiano, Italy
22.9	Ordained Deacon	Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheid †	Deacon	Archbishop of Mainz, Germany
9 Sep	48.6	Ordained Bishop	Giovanni Pusky †	Bishop of Csanád, Hungary	Archbishop of Kalocsa, Hungary
10 Sep	61.6	Appointed	Fernando Andrade Sotomayor †	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Sigüenza, Spain	Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
	Appointed	Franciscus Cruta †	Bishop of Shkodrë (Scutari), Albania
58.6	Appointed	Alberto Giunti †	Bishop of Castro [del Lazio], Italy
50.6	Appointed	Marc Scurra, O.F.M. †	Archbishop of Durrës (Durazzo), Albania
13 Sep	60.5	Appointed	Orazio Giustiniani, C.O. †	Bishop of Montalto (delle Marche), Italy	Cardinal, Librarian of the Vatican Library
16 Sep	60.5	Ordained Bishop	Orazio Giustiniani, C.O. †	Bishop of Montalto (delle Marche), Italy	Cardinal, Librarian of the Vatican Library
22 Sep		Born	Giambattista Morea †		Bishop of Lacedonia, Italy
23 Sep	58.7	Ordained Bishop	Alberto Giunti †	Bishop of Castro [del Lazio], Italy
25 Sep		Born	Ettore Algaria †		Bishop of Patti, Italy
70.7	Died	Facundo (Fernando) de la Torre, O.S.B. †	Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
	Born	Domenico Sorrentino †		Bishop of Vulturara e Montecorvino, Italy
30 Sep	60.7	Died	Erasmo Paravicini †	Bishop of Alessandria (della Paglia), Italy
Oct	71.7	Died	Eusebius Caimus †	Bishop of Novigrad (Cittanova), Croatia
58.7	Died	Sfortia Ponzoni †	Archbishop of Split (Spalato), Croatia
1 Oct	60.7	Died	Antimo degli Atti †	Bishop of Ortona a Mare e Campli, Italy
3 Oct		Succeeded	Jean-Vincent de Tulles †	Bishop of Orange, France	Bishop of Lavaur, France
	Died	Jean de Tulles †	Bishop of Orange, France
8 Oct	55.4	Confirmed	Diego Arce Reinoso †	Bishop of Plasencia, Spain	Bishop Emeritus
	Confirmed	Antonio Guzmán Cornejo †	Bishop of Tuy, Spain
41.7	Appointed	Cristóbal Pérez Lazarraga y Maneli Viana, O. Cist. †	Bishop of Cartagena, Colombia
53.7	Appointed	Francisco de Manso Zuñiga y Sola †	Archbishop of Burgos, Spain
	Appointed	Francesco Romolo Mileti †	Bishop of Segni, Italy
10 Oct		Born	Placido Scoppa (Stoppa), C.R. †		Bishop of Venosa, Italy
16 Oct		Born	François Genet †		Bishop of Vaison, France
22 Oct	68.8	Died	Cristóbal Martínez de Salas, O. Praem. †	Bishop of Panamá
23 Oct	63.8	Died	Ambrogio Machin, O. de M. †	Archbishop of Cagliari, Italy
26 Oct	44.8	Died	Remigiusz Koniecpolski †	Bishop of Chełm, Poland
28 Oct	40.8	Ordained Priest	Sallustio Pecólo (Pecoli) †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Venosa, Italy
30 Oct	70.8	Died	Giovanni Battista Agatich, O.S.A. †	Bishop of Senj (-Modruš), Croatia
31 Oct		Selected	Francisco Pereira Pinto †	Bishop of Porto, Portugal	Bishop-Elect
Nov	59.8	Died	Giuliano Viviani †	Bishop of Isola, Italy
5 Nov		Born	Pedro de Foyos (Foios), O.E.S.A. †		Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa, Portugal
57.8	Selected	Anastazy Antoni Seljava (Sielawa), O.S.B.M. †	Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine
8 Nov	53.8	Died	Guillaume Le Prêtre †	Bishop of Quimper, France
15 Nov	60.8	Resigned	Alessandro Castracani (Castracane) †	Apostolic Collector to Portugal	Bishop of Fano, Italy
19 Nov	71.8	Appointed	Mendo de Benavides †	Bishop of Cartagena (en España)
30.8	Appointed	Opizio d’Este †	Bishop of Modena, Italy
	Appointed	Agustín de Ugarte y Sarabia †	Bishop of Arequipa, Peru	Bishop of Quito, Ecuador
72.8	Appointed	Domingo (de Villaescusa) Ramírez de Arellano, O.S.H. †	Bishop of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas), México	Bishop of Yucatán (Mérida), México
24 Nov		Died	Luis Córdoba Ronquillo, O.SS.T. †	Bishop of Trujillo, Peru
28 Nov		Died	Léonard Goetz †	Bishop of Lavant, Slovenia
Dec	58.9	Died	Feliciano de la Vega Padilla †	Archbishop of México, Federal District
	Ordained Bishop	Antonio Guzmán Cornejo †	Bishop of Tuy, Spain
40.9	Died	Rafał Mikołaj Korsak, O.S.B.M. †	Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine
50.7	Died	Henri Sylvius, O.S.C. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Liège, Belgium
3 Dec	46.9	Died	Pedro Barbosa de Eça †	Bishop of Leiria, Portugal
	Appointed	Francesco Antonio Biondo, O.F.M. Conv. †	Bishop of Ortona a Mare e Campli, Italy
50.9	Appointed	Gaspard Karas †	Auxiliary Bishop of Olomouc (Olmütz), Czechia
50.9	Appointed	Gaspard Karas †	Titular Bishop of Tiberias	Auxiliary Bishop of Olomouc (Olmütz), Czechia
58.9	Appointed	Hugues de Labatut †	Bishop of (Saint-Bertrand de) Comminges, France
40.9	Appointed	Sallustio Pecólo (Pecoli) †	Bishop of Venosa, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	Appointed	Giovanni de Rossi †	Bishop of Cefalonia e Zante, Greece	Bishop of Ossero (Osor), Croatia
46.0	Appointed	Talento de’ Talenti †	Bishop of Montepulciano, Italy
	Appointed	Francesco Visconti †	Bishop of Alessandria (della Paglia), Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Cremona, Italy
9 Dec		Ordained Bishop	Francesco Romolo Mileti †	Bishop of Segni, Italy
40.9	Ordained Bishop	Sallustio Pecólo (Pecoli) †	Bishop of Venosa, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	Ordained Bishop	Giovanni de Rossi †	Bishop of Cefalonia e Zante, Greece	Bishop of Ossero (Osor), Croatia
46.0	Ordained Bishop	Talento de’ Talenti †	Bishop of Montepulciano, Italy
	Ordained Bishop	Francesco Visconti †	Bishop of Alessandria (della Paglia), Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Cremona, Italy
10 Dec		Born	Andreas Albinowski †		Auxiliary Bishop of Włocławek (Kujawy, Kalisze), Poland
13 Dec		Died	Henri Clausse de Marchamont †	Bishop of Chalons-sur-Marne, France
14 Dec		Born	José Martínez del Villar †		Bishop of Barbastro, Spain
16 Dec	30.9	Ordained Bishop	Opizio d’Este †	Bishop of Modena, Italy
	Ordained Bishop	Juan Queipo de Llano y Valdés †	Bishop of Guadix, Spain	Bishop of Coria, Spain
17 Dec		Appointed	Francesco de Faria †	Auxiliary Bishop of Braga, Portugal
	Appointed	Francesco de Faria †	Titular Bishop of Martyropolis	Auxiliary Bishop of Braga, Portugal
37.9	Confirmed	Henri de La Mothe-Houdancourt †	Bishop of Rennes, France	Archbishop of Auch, France
39.9	Confirmed	José Valle de la Cerda, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Badajoz, Spain
23 Dec	56.1	Selected	René du Louët de Coetjunval †	Bishop of Quimper, France
29 Dec	35.9	Appointed	Albert von Priamis †	Bishop of Lavant, Slovenia
30 Dec		Born	Giovanni Girolamo Naselli †		Bishop of Luni e Sarzana, Italy
35.9	Ordained Bishop	Albert von Priamis †	Bishop of Lavant, Slovenia

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