The Year of Our Lord 1787

Bishop Events

January to June

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
unknown		Born	Gabriele Barissich Bosniese, O.F.M. Obs. †		Bishop of Lezhë {Lesh, Alessio}, Albania
	34.0	Incardinated	Edmund Burke †	Priest of Québec, Canada	Vicar Apostolic of Nova Scotia, Canada
	21.2	Ordained Priest	Bartolomeo Alberto (Mauro) Cappellari, O.S.B. †	Priest of Order of Saint Benedict	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
	21.8	Ordained Priest	Francisco Ramón Valentín de Casaus y Torres, O.P. †	Priest of Order of Friars Preachers	Archbishop of Guatemala
		Born	François Cuculla †		Archbishop of Naxos, Greece
	45.3	Ordained Bishop	José da Costa e Torres †	Bishop of Funchal, Portugal	Archbishop of Braga, Portugal
		Appointed	Ignace El-Khazen †	Bishop of Nablus (Maronite), Palestine
		Ordained Bishop	Ignace El-Khazen †	Bishop of Nablus (Maronite), Palestine
	23.9	Ordained Priest	Joseph Fesch †	Priest	Cardinal, Archbishop of Lyon (-Vienne), France
	35.1	Appointed	Alexandre de Gouvea (Gouveia), T.O.R. †	Administrator of Nanking [Nanjing], China	Bishop of Peking [Beijing], China
		Born	Francis Haly †		Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Ireland
	50.1	Appointed	Gabriel Konaider †	Bishop of Alep [Beroea, Halab] (Maronite), Syria
	25.0	Incardinated	Florence MacCarthy †	Priest of Cork, Ireland	Coadjutor Bishop
	17.0	Professed	Francis Joseph O’Finan, O.P. †	Member of Order of Friars Preachers	Bishop of Killala, Ireland
	25.9	Ordained Priest	Antonio Pérez de Hirias †	Priest	Bishop of Mallorca, Spain
	66.8	Ordained Bishop	Giacomo Pisani †	Titular Bishop of Agathopolis
		Born	Agapios Riachi (Riecji) †		Archbishop of Beirut {Bairut} (Melkite Greek), Lebanon
	52.5	Resigned	Léon-François-Ferdinand de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon †	Bishop of Lombez, France	Bishop Emeritus
	17.9	Professed	Joachin (Gioacchino Domenico) Salvetti, O.F.M. Obs. †	Member of Order of Observant Friars Minor	Vicar Apostolic of Shansi {Scian-Si} (Chan-Si), China
	86.0	Died	Raphael Tuki †	Titular Bishop of Arsinoë in Cypro
Jan	42.4	Appointed	Giulio Maria della Somaglia †	Secretary of the Congregation of Bishops and Regulars	Cardinal, Librarian of the Vatican Library
1 Jan		Born	Daniel Latussek †		Auxiliary Bishop of Wrocław (Breslau), Poland
3 Jan	59.7	Selected	Joseph-Marie Paget †	Bishop of Genève {Geneva}, Switzerland	Bishop Emeritus
5 Jan	39.2	Succeeded	Michal Mateusz Stadnicki, O.S.B.M. †	Bishop of Lutzk e Ostrog (Ukrainian), Ukraine
5 Jan	52.5	Died	Cyprian Stecki †	Bishop of Lutzk e Ostrog (Ukrainian), Ukraine
6 Jan		Born	Jacques-Léonard Pérocheau, M.E.P. †		Vicar Apostolic of Northwestern Szechwan {Se-Ciuen Settentrionale-Occidentale}, China
14 Jan	49.0	Ordained Bishop	Alessandro Alessandretti †	Titular Bishop of Zama Major	Bishop Emeritus of Macerata e Tolentino, Italy
	39.5	Ordained Bishop	Angelo Antonio Anselmi †	Bishop of Terracina, Priverno e Sezze, Italy	Bishop of San Severino (Marche), Italy
	71.6	Died	Antonio Casali †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria ad Martyres
	23.0	Ordained Priest	Eusebio Luciano Carvalho Gomes da Silva, C.M. †	Priest of Congregation of the Mission	Bishop-Elect of Nanking [Nanjing], China
21 Jan		Born	Manuel Grijalvo y Mínguez, O.E.S.A. †		Bishop of Nueva Caceres, Philippines
23 Jan		Born	Raffaele Fornari †		Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Studies
23 Jan	30.3	Selected	José Maria de Melo, C.O. †	Bishop of Faro {Algarve}, Portugal	Bishop Emeritus
26 Jan	59.9	Died	Gjergji Junki (Giunchi) †	Bishop of Bar (Antivari), Montenegro
28 Jan	38.0	Selected	Charles-César-Louis Loup Constance Joseph Mathieu d’Agoult de Bonneval †	Bishop of Pamiers, France	Bishop Emeritus
	54.6	Died	Vitale Giuseppe de’ Buoi †	Bishop of Faenza, Italy
	84.4	Died	Henri-Gaston de Lévis-Léran †	Bishop of Pamiers, France
29 Jan	44.0	Appointed	Ignazio-Gaetano Boncompagni-Ludovisi †	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria ad Martyres	Cardinal, Secretary Emeritus of the Secretariat of State
	33.5	Installed	Romoaldo Braschi-Onesti †	Cardinal-Deacon of San Nicola in Carcere	Cardinal, Archpriest of the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano {Saint Peter Basilica}
	57.3	Elevated to Cardinal	Filippo Carandini †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Eustachio
	41.0	Confirmed	Manoel de Jesus, O.E.S.A. †	Bishop of São Tomé of Meliapore, India
	45.9	Confirmed	Johann Baptist Lachenbauer, O.Cr. †	Bishop of Brno, Czechia
	40.2	Appointed	Guglielmo Stagno †	Auxiliary Bishop of Messina, Italy
	40.2	Appointed	Guglielmo Stagno †	Titular Bishop of Theveste	Auxiliary Bishop of Messina, Italy
2 Feb	58.0	Died	Pellegrino Consalvi †	Bishop of Fano, Italy
3 Feb		Born	François de Rivaz, C.R.A. †		Abbot of Saint-Maurice, Switzerland
6 Feb	46.8	Died	Jacques-Joseph-François de Vogüé †	Bishop of Dijon, France
7 Feb		Born	Romualdo Antônio de Seixas Barroso †		Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
10 Feb	51.4	Died	Ferenc Károly Palma †	Auxiliary Bishop of Kalocsa, Hungary
12 Feb		Born	Joseph Norbert Provencher †		Bishop of Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, Canada
13 Feb		Appointed	Edmund French †	Bishop of Elphin, Ireland
15 Feb	75.2	Died	Anton Ignaz von Fugger-Glött †	Bishop of Regensburg, Germany
16 Feb	28.0	Ordained Priest	Aeneas Bernard MacEachern †	Priest of Québec, Canada	Bishop of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
16 Feb	24.5	Ordained Priest	Alexander MacDonell †	Priest	Bishop of Kingston, Ontario, Canada
18 Feb		Born	Giovanni Francesco Cometti Rossi †		Titular Archbishop of Nicomedia
22 Feb		Born	Giuseppe Antonio Zacchia Rondinini †		Cardinal, Vice-Chamberlain Emeritus of the Apostolic Chamber
25 Feb	44.6	Selected	René des Monstiers de Mérinville †	Bishop of Dijon, France	Bishop Emeritus of Chambéry, France
3 Mar	25.3	Ordained Priest	Giovanni De Simone, C.M. †	Priest of Congregation of the Mission	Bishop of Conversano, Italy
5 Mar	77.0	Died	Francesco Maria Forlani †	Bishop of Civita Castellana e Orte, Italy
6 Mar	57.4	Died	Antonio María de los Reyes Almada, O.F.M. Obs. †	Bishop of Sonora, México
13 Mar	50.1	Appointed	[Nicolas Jacquemin] †	Prefect of French Guiana-Cayenne, Antilles	Bishop Emeritus of [Cayenne (Constitutional), Antilles]
14 Mar	65.7	Died	Antonio Andrés López Arroyo, O.F.M. Obs. †	Bishop of Astorga, Spain
17 Mar		Born	Martino Caliendi †		Bishop of Montefeltro, Italy
17 Mar		Born	Carlo Giuseppe Benedetto Mercy d’Argenteau †		Apostolic Nuncio
19 Mar	40.3	Ordained Bishop	Guglielmo Stagno †	Titular Bishop of Theveste	Auxiliary Bishop of Messina, Italy
21 Mar	75.2	Died	Giovanni Battista Mami †	Bishop of Sarsina, Italy
23 Mar	23.4	Ordained Priest	Francisco Alexandre Lobo, O.S.B. †	Priest of Order of Saint Benedict	Bishop of Viseu, Portugal
24 Mar	23.0	Ordained Priest	Karl Adalbert von Beyer, O. Praem. †	Priest of Order of the Canons Regular of Premontre; Norbertines	Auxiliary Bishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
	22.1	Ordained Deacon	Francisco Ferreira de Azevedo †	Deacon	Bishop of Goiás, Brazil
	24.0	Ordained Priest	Pietro Gravina Luzzena †	Priest of Catania, Italy	Auxiliary Bishop
	24.5	Ordained Priest	Marie-Joseph-Antoine-Laurent de la Rivoire de La Tourette †	Priest	Bishop of Valence, France
	24.5	Ordained Deacon	Jan Chrzciciel Louis Masclet, O.M. †	Deacon of Order of the Minims	Auxiliary Bishop of Minsk, Belarus
	22.9	Ordained Priest	Giuseppe Maria Pellicano †	Priest of Gerace, Italy	Bishop
26 Mar	31.7	Ordained Priest	Jan Nepomucen Kossakowski †	Priest	Bishop of Vilnius, Lithuania
29 Mar	47.4	Died	Angelo Filippo Giacinto Olivieri di Vernier †	Archbishop of Sassari, Italy
3 Apr	68.6	Died	Tommaso Maria Ghilini †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria sopra Minerva
	34.8	Appointed	Jacques-Benjamin Longer, M.E.P. †	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Western Tonking {Tonkino Occidentale}, Viet Nam	Vicar Apostolic
	34.8	Appointed	Jacques-Benjamin Longer, M.E.P. †	Titular Bishop of Gortyna	Vicar Apostolic of Western Tonking {Tonkino Occidentale}, Viet Nam
	61.1	Appointed	Mariano Zaralli, O.F.M. Obs. †	Vicar Apostolic of Hukwang, Shansi [Shanxi], and Shensi [Shaanxi], China
	61.1	Appointed	Mariano Zaralli, O.F.M. Obs. †	Titular Bishop of Magydus	Vicar Apostolic of Hukwang, Shansi [Shanxi], and Shensi [Shaanxi], China
4 Apr	79.4	Died	Francesco d’Elci †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Angelo in Pescheria
4 Apr		Born	Alessandro Spada †		Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Cosmedin
5 Apr	84.3	Died	Tommaso Mazza †	Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia, Italy
7 Apr	23.0	Ordained Priest	Jean-Joseph-Marie-Victoire de Cosnac †	Priest	Archbishop of Sens (-Auxerre), France
7 Apr	41.3	Ordained Priest	Franz Karl Joseph von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst †	Priest of Köln {Cologne}, Germany	Bishop of Augsburg, Germany
15 Apr	42.2	Ordained Bishop	Arnaud-Antoine Garnault, M.E.P. †	Titular Bishop of Metellopolis	Vicar Apostolic of Siam, Thailand
16 Apr	60.6	Died	Moyses Drágosi †	Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino} (Romanian), Romania
20 Apr		Born	Juraj Haulík Váralyai †		Cardinal, Archbishop of Zagreb, Croatia
20 Apr	47.4	Selected	Max Polykarp von Törring-Jettenbach †	Bishop of Regensburg, Germany
22 Apr	63.9	Installed	Franz de Paula Xaver Ludwig Jakob von Breuner †	Bishop of Chiemsee, Germany
22 Apr	46.2	Ordained Bishop	Johann Baptist Lachenbauer, O.Cr. †	Bishop of Brno, Czechia
23 Apr	62.4	Appointed	Vincenzo Maria Altieri †	Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Angelo in Pescheria
	37.3	Appointed	Francesco Borzi †	Bishop of Shkodrë (Scutari), Albania	Archbishop of Bar (Antivari), Montenegro
	57.6	Installed	Filippo Carandini †	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Portico (Campitelli)	Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Eustachio
	43.7	Appointed	Nicola Casali †	Bishop of Sarsina, Italy
	38.2	Confirmed	Charles-César-Louis Loup Constance Joseph Mathieu d’Agoult de Bonneval †	Bishop of Pamiers, France	Bishop Emeritus
	51.7	Appointed	Lorenzo de Dominicis †	Bishop of Civita Castellana e Orte, Italy	Bishop of Civita Castellana, Orte e Gallese, Italy
		Born	Youssef Boutros Hobaish (Habaisci) †		Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Maronite), Lebanon
	53.4	Appointed	Domenico Mancinforte †	Bishop of Faenza, Italy
	30.6	Confirmed	José Maria de Melo, C.O. †	Bishop of Faro {Algarve}, Portugal	Bishop Emeritus
	44.8	Confirmed	René des Monstiers de Mérinville †	Bishop of Dijon, France	Bishop Emeritus of Chambéry, France
	60.0	Confirmed	Joseph-Marie Paget †	Bishop of Genève {Geneva}, Switzerland	Bishop Emeritus
	51.9	Appointed	Antonio Puñuela Alonso †	Bishop of Zamora, Spain
	66.0	Appointed	Wojciech Józef Radoszewski †	Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków, Poland
	66.0	Appointed	Wojciech Józef Radoszewski †	Titular Bishop of Hirina	Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków, Poland
	53.3	Appointed	Gjergj Engjëll Radovani †	Archbishop of Bar (Antivari), Montenegro
		Born	Anastasius Johannes Sedlag †		Bishop of Chelmno (Culma, Kulm), Poland
	30.1	Appointed	Antonio Gabriele Severoli †	Bishop of Fano, Italy	Cardinal, Bishop of Viterbo e Tuscania, Italy
24 Apr	29.0	Appointed	Jozafat Bułhak, O.S.B.M. †	Coadjutor Bishop of Pińsk-Turaŭ (Ukrainian), Belarus	Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč {Kiev} (Ukrainian), Ukraine
27 Apr	53.3	Appointed	Gjergj Engjëll Radovani †	Apostolic Administrator of Budua (Budva), Montenegro	Archbishop of Bar (Antivari), Montenegro
6 May	53.4	Ordained Bishop	Domenico Mancinforte †	Bishop of Faenza, Italy
6 May	41.4	Ordained Bishop	Felipe Peláez Caunedo †	Bishop of Lugo, Spain
13 May	43.7	Ordained Bishop	Nicola Casali †	Bishop of Sarsina, Italy
	38.3	Ordained Bishop	Charles-César-Louis Loup Constance Joseph Mathieu d’Agoult de Bonneval †	Bishop of Pamiers, France	Bishop Emeritus
	51.7	Ordained Bishop	Lorenzo de Dominicis †	Bishop of Civita Castellana e Orte, Italy	Bishop of Civita Castellana, Orte e Gallese, Italy
		Born	Antônio Ferreira Viçoso, C.M. †		Bishop of Mariana, Brazil
	44.8	Ordained Bishop	René des Monstiers de Mérinville †	Bishop of Dijon, France	Bishop Emeritus of Chambéry, France
	30.2	Ordained Bishop	Antonio Gabriele Severoli †	Bishop of Fano, Italy	Cardinal, Bishop of Viterbo e Tuscania, Italy
22 May	80.3	Died	Gottfried Xaver von Laimbeckhoven, S.J. †	Bishop of Nanking [Nanjing], China
24 May		Born	Juan Gregorio Urbieta †		Bishop of Paraguay (o Ssma Assunzione)
25 May		Born	Louis-Robert Paysant †		Bishop of Angers, France
27 May	60.1	Ordained Bishop	Joseph-Marie Paget †	Bishop of Genève {Geneva}, Switzerland	Bishop Emeritus
Jun	24.1	Ordained Priest	Thomas Smith †	Priest of Northern District, England, Great Britain	Vicar Apostolic
2 Jun	24.9	Ordained Priest	Giovanni Francesco Capelletti †	Priest	Bishop of Ascoli Piceno, Italy
	42.8	Ordained Priest	Giulio Maria della Somaglia †	Priest	Cardinal, Librarian of the Vatican Library
	24.0	Ordained Priest	Gervais-Marie-Joseph Ortric †	Priest	Bishop of Pamiers, France
	25.5	Ordained Priest	Charles-André-Toussaint-Bruno de Ramond-Lalande †	Priest	Bishop of Rodez, France
	23.7	Ordained Deacon	Jan Jerzy Wilkxycki †	Deacon of Chelmno (Culma, Kulm), Poland	Auxiliary Bishop
3 Jun	56.4	Resigned	John Butler †	Bishop of Cork, Ireland	Bishop Emeritus
3 Jun	30.7	Ordained Bishop	José Maria de Melo, C.O. †	Bishop of Faro {Algarve}, Portugal	Bishop Emeritus
5 Jun	43.3	Selected	Karl Theodor von Dalberg †	Coadjutor Archbishop of Mainz, Germany	Bishop of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany
12 Jun	76.0	Died	Ciriaco Vecchioni †	Bishop of Recanati e Loreto, Italy
17 Jun	25.5	Ordained Priest	St. Ignacio Clemente Delgado Cebrián, O.P. †	Priest of Order of Friars Preachers	Vicar Apostolic of Eastern Tonking {Tonkino Orientale}, Viet Nam
17 Jun	24.0	Ordained Priest	Pietro-Paolo Presicce, O.E.S.A. †	Priest of Order of Hermits of St. Augustine	Bishop of Tricarico, Italy
18 Jun		Born	Luigi Landi-Vittorj †		Bishop of Assisi, Italy
19 Jun	43.3	Selected	Karl Theodor von Dalberg †	Coadjutor Bishop of Worms, Germany	Bishop of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany
	51.7	Appointed	Francis Moylan †	Bishop of Cork, Ireland
	41.4	Appointed	Gerard Teahan (Teaghan) †	Bishop of Kerry (o Ardfert) e Aghadoe, Ireland
30 Jun		Born	Rémi Gaulin †		Bishop of Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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