The Year of Our Lord 1803

Bishop Events

January to June

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
unknown	74.8	Appointed	Alfonso Airoldi †	Prelate of Santa Lucia del Mela, Italy
	23.3	Ordained Priest	Zenobio Maria Benucci, O.F.M. Cap. †	Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin	Vicar Apostolic of Tibet-Hindustan, India
	24.0	Ordained Priest	Patrick Burke †	Priest	Bishop of Elphin, Ireland
	49.2	Resigned	Giovanni Battista Canaveri, C.O. †	Bishop of Biella, Italy	Bishop of Vercelli, Italy
	74.1	Resigned	Pio Bonifacio Fassati, O.P. †	Bishop of Tortona, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	39.9	Ordained Priest	Jaime Fort y Puig †	Priest	Bishop of Barbastro, Spain
	30.7	Incardinated	Franz Ferdinand (Johann Franz) Fritz, O.S.B. †	Priest of Hildesheim, Germany	Bishop
	75.7	Died	José González Laso Santos de San Pedro †	Bishop of Plasencia, Spain
	48.9	Resigned	Giuseppe Maria Pietro Grimaldi †	Bishop of Pinerolo, Italy	Archbishop of Vercelli, Italy
		Born	Perpetuo Guasco, O.F.M. Obs. †		Vicar Apostolic of Egypt (Egitto), Egypt
	39.1	Incardinated	Wilhelm Arnold Günther, O. Praem. †	Priest of Trier, Germany	Auxiliary Bishop
	24.0	Ordained Priest	Francesco Iovinelli, C.M. †	Priest	Bishop of Bovino, Italy
	25.1	Ordained Priest	Eugenio Mendoza Jara †	Priest of Cuzco, Peru	Bishop
	30.0	Ordained Priest	Cölestin (Jakob Josef) Müller, O.S.B. †	Priest of Order of Saint Benedict	Abbot of Maria Einsiedeln, Switzerland
	69.2	Died	Józef Michał Ignacy Franciszek Olędzki, Sch. P. †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Kyiv and Chernihiv (Kijów and Czernihow), Ukraine
	38.7	Incardinated	Petrus Pustett †	Priest of Regensburg, Germany	Bishop of Eichstätt, Germany
	26.2	Ordained Priest	Cipriano Sánchez Varela †	Priest of Toledo, Spain	Bishop of Plasencia, Spain
		Ordained Bishop	[Ignatius George V Sayar] †	Archbishop of Damas (Jacobite), Syria	Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon
	44.8	Incardinated	Franz Ignaz von Streber †	Priest of Freising, Germany	Auxiliary Bishop of München und Freising {Munich}, Germany
		Born	Athanase Toutoungi †		Bishop of Tripoli del Libano (Melkite Greek)
	29.9	Incardinated	Bonifaz Kaspar von Urban †	Priest of Freising, Germany	Archbishop of Bamberg, Germany
	24.6	Ordained Priest	Manuel Vicuña Larraín †	Priest of Santiago de Chile	Archbishop of Santiago de Chile
1 Jan		Born	Étienne-Barthélemy Bagnoud, C.R.A. †		Abbot of Saint-Maurice, Switzerland
		Born	Tobias Kirby †		Titular Archbishop of Ephesus
	59.5	Ordained Deacon	Antonio Lamberto Rusconi †	Deacon	Cardinal, Bishop of Imola, Italy
	23.2	Ordained Priest	Giovanni Soglia Ceroni †	Priest	Cardinal, Secretary Emeritus of the Secretariat of State
2 Jan	59.5	Ordained Priest	Antonio Lamberto Rusconi †	Priest	Cardinal, Bishop of Imola, Italy
9 Jan	37.0	Ordained Bishop	St. Domingo Henares, O.P. †	Titular Bishop of Fesseë	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Eastern Tonking {Tonkino Orientale}, Viet Nam
11 Jan		Born	St. Giovanni Antonio Farina †		Bishop of Vicenza, Italy
14 Jan		Born	Paul-Armand-Ignace-Anaclet Cardon de Garsignies †		Bishop of Soissons (-Laon), France
17 Jan	93.2	Elevated to Cardinal	Jean-Baptiste de Belloy-Morangle †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Paris, France
	70.8	Elevated to Cardinal	Jean-de-Dieu-Raymond de Boisgelin de Cucé †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Tours, France
	67.8	Elevated to Cardinal	Diego Gregorio Cadello †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Cagliari, Italy
	46.3	Elevated to Cardinal	Etienne-Hubert de Cambacérès †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Rouen, France
	60.9	Appointed	Giovanni Castiglione †	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Domnica	Cardinal, Bishop of Osimo e Cingoli, Italy
	60.9	Elevated to Cardinal	Giovanni Castiglione †	Cardinal, Bishop of Osimo e Cingoli, Italy
	73.5	Elevated to Cardinal	Antonín Theodor Colloredo von Wallsee und Mels †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Olomouc, Czechia
	63.9	Elevated to Cardinal	Charles Erskine of Kellie †	Cardinal, Deacon of Roma {Rome}, Italy
	40.0	Appointed	Joseph Fesch †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Vittoria	Cardinal, Archbishop of Lyon (-Vienne), France
	40.0	Elevated to Cardinal	Joseph Fesch †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Lyon (-Vienne), France
	75.9	Elevated to Cardinal	Francesco Maria Locatelli †	Cardinal, Bishop of Spoleto, Italy
	63.2	Appointed	Francisco Porró y Reinado †	Bishop of Tarazona, Spain
	62.1	Confirmed	Alberto Maria Giuseppe Andrea Luigi Solinas †	Bishop of Galtelli-Nuoro (Galtelly Nori), Italy
	57.1	Elevated to Cardinal	Pietro Antonio Zorzi, C.R.S. †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Udine, Italy
23 Jan	42.4	Ordained Bishop	Roque José Carpegna Díaz, O.P. †	Titular Bishop of Theveste	Vicar Apostolic of Fo-Kien, China
25 Jan	22.9	Ordained Priest	Kazimierz Roch Dmochowski †	Priest	Archbishop of Mohilev, Belarus
28 Jan	63.7	Selected	Ferenc Miklósy †	Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad}, Romania
30 Jan	52.1	Ordained Bishop	Eugenio Sesé, C.R.S.A. †	Bishop of Santa Marta, Colombia
30 Jan		Born	Domenico Zelo †		Bishop of Aversa, Italy
1 Feb	88.4	Died	Claude-Mathias-Joseph de Barral †	Bishop Emeritus of Troyes, France
1 Feb		Born	Auguste Marie Martin †		Bishop of Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA
2 Feb		Born	Giuseppe Antonio Giacomo Borghi, O.F.M. Cap. †		Bishop of Cortona, Italy
2 Feb	58.2	Ordained Bishop	Jean-François de Mandolx †	Bishop of La Rochelle, France	Bishop of Amiens, France
4 Feb		Born	Thomas Furlong †		Bishop of Ferns, Ireland
5 Feb		Born	Godefroy Brossais Saint-Marc †		Cardinal, Archbishop of Rennes, France
	50.8	Selected	Ramón Falcón y Salcedo †	Bishop of Cuenca, Spain
	72.2	Died	Domenico Pignatelli di Belmonte, C.R. †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Palermo, Italy
6 Feb	23.5	Ordained Priest	Giuseppe Maria Traversi di Pereta †	Priest	Bishop of Massa Marittima, Italy
10 Feb	68.4	Died	Francesco Falchi Picchinesi †	Bishop of Pistoia e Prato, Italy
13 Feb		Born	Pietro de Silvestri †		Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of San Marco
14 Feb	66.1	Died	Filippo Scarola †	Titular Bishop of Helenopolis in Bithynia
16 Feb	68.3	Died	Louis-René-Edouard de Rohan-Guéménée †	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Strasbourg, France
18 Feb	53.1	Died	Thomas O’Connor †	Bishop of Achonry, Ireland
19 Feb		Born	Wacław Żyliński †		Archbishop of Mohilev, Belarus
20 Feb	53.3	Ordained Bishop	Agustín Pedro Blaquier, O.E.S.A. †	Bishop of Nueva Segovia, Philippines
20 Feb	58.9	Ordained Bishop	Miguel Joaquín Matías Suárez, O.F.M. Cap. †	Titular Bishop of Amyzon	Auxiliary Bishop of Zaragoza, Spain
24 Feb		Born	Anastasius (Alois) Hartmann, O.F.M. Cap. †		Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Bombay, India
1 Mar	53.2	Appointed	Pietro Gravina †	Apostolic Nuncio to Spain	Cardinal, Archbishop of Palermo, Italy
1 Mar		Born	Bernard O’Reilly †		Bishop of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
4 Mar	54.5	Died	Sebastiano Alcaini, C.R.S. †	Bishop of Belluno, Italy
4 Mar	55.7	Died	[Jacques-Joseph Schelle] †	Bishop Emeritus of [Nord (Constitutional), France]
5 Mar	23.2	Ordained Priest	Giovanni Battista Parretti †	Priest	Archbishop of Pisa, Italy
6 Mar		Born	Charles Januarius Acton †		Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Indulgences and Relics
	41.1	Appointed	Florence MacCarthy †	Coadjutor Bishop of Cork, Ireland
	41.1	Appointed	Florence MacCarthy †	Titular Bishop of Antinoë	Coadjutor Bishop of Cork, Ireland
	49.7	Ordained Bishop	Joaquim Maria Mascarenhas Castello Branco †	Bishop of Angola e Congo	Bishop Emeritus
	50.3	Appointed	John Milner †	Vicar Apostolic of Midland District, England, Great Britain
	50.3	Appointed	John Milner †	Titular Bishop of Castabala	Vicar Apostolic of Midland District, England, Great Britain
	41.1	Appointed	Augustin Milletich (Miletic), O.F.M. Obs. †	Titular Bishop of Daulia	Vicar Apostolic of Bosnia (Ottoman), Croatia
	40.7	Appointed	William Poynter †	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of London District, England, Great Britain	Vicar Apostolic
	40.7	Appointed	William Poynter †	Titular Bishop of Alia	Vicar Apostolic of London District, England, Great Britain
	50.8	Appointed	Paolo Antonio Roviglia, O.C.D. †	Vicar Apostolic of Malabar, India	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
	50.8	Appointed	Paolo Antonio Roviglia, O.C.D. †	Titular Bishop of Sura	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Malabar, India
11 Mar	71.4	Appointed	Giovanni Battista Tommasi, S.M.O.M. †	Grand Master of Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta
12 Mar	76.8	Died	Giovanni Saverio Pirelli †	Bishop of Ariano, Italy
14 Mar	76.1	Died	Michel-François de Couët du Vivier de Lorry †	Bishop Emeritus of La Rochelle, France
15 Mar	41.2	Appointed	Augustin Milletich (Miletic), O.F.M. Obs. †	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Bosnia (Ottoman), Croatia	Vicar Apostolic
16 Mar	81.4	Died	Carlo Nicola Maria Fabi Borsella, O.E.S.A. †	Bishop of Bobbio, Italy
16 Mar	20.0	Ordained Priest	Franz Großmann (Grossmann) †	Priest of Warmia (Ermland), Poland	Auxiliary Bishop
17 Mar	60.5	Died	Giuseppe Bolognese †	Bishop of Marsi, Italy
20 Mar	62.5	Selected	Joaquín Encabo de la Virgen de Sopetrán, O.A.R. †	Bishop of Cebu, Philippines
20 Mar	62.6	Died	Charles-Eugène de Valperga de Maglione †	Bishop Emeritus of Nice, France
22 Mar	48.5	Appointed	Adrianus van Dongen †	Vicar Apostolic of Breda, Netherlands
24 Mar	47.7	Installed	Primo Feliciano Marín y Porras, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Linares o Nueva León, Nuevo León, México
26 Mar	22.6	Ordained Priest	Sebastiano Soldati †	Priest	Bishop of Treviso, Italy
27 Mar	65.6	Ordained Bishop	Jean Dominique Altei †	Bishop of Scardona (Skradin), Croatia
27 Mar	33.9	Ordained Bishop	Manuel Santo Galdino, O.F.M. Disc. †	Bishop of Macau, China	Archbishop of Goa, India
28 Mar	62.4	Appointed	Francisco Javier Fita y Carrión (y Lafita) †	Bishop of Cuenca, Ecuador
	64.1	Installed	Charles Erskine of Kellie †	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Portico (Campitelli)	Cardinal, Deacon of Roma {Rome}, Italy
	51.0	Confirmed	Ramón Falcón y Salcedo †	Bishop of Cuenca, Spain
	76.0	Installed	Francesco Maria Locatelli †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli	Cardinal, Bishop of Spoleto, Italy
	58.6	Appointed	Raffaele Mormile, C.R. †	Archbishop of Palermo, Italy
	42.0	Appointed	Francesco Toli †	Bishop of Pistoia e Prato, Italy
30 Mar		Born	Raffaele de Franco †		Bishop of Catanzaro, Italy
30 Mar	59.0	Installed	François de Fontanges †	Bishop of Autun, France
4 Apr	60.1	Died	Joseph Konrad von Schroffenberg, C.R.S.A. †	Bishop of Freising, Germany
6 Apr		Born	Giovanni Battista Bagalà Blasini †		Bishop of Grosseto, Italy
9 Apr	24.0	Ordained Priest	Bruno Maria Tedeschi †	Priest	Archbishop of Rossano, Italy
11 Apr	22.9	Ordained Priest	Josef Anton Salzmann †	Priest of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany	Bishop of Basel, Switzerland
14 Apr	54.7	Appointed	Joseph Jakob von Heckenstaller †	Vicar Apostolic of Freising, Germany	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
14 Apr	88.4	Died	Christoph Bartholomäus Anton Migazzi Von Waal Und Sonnenthurn †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Wien {Vienna}, Austria
15 Apr		Born	Antonio Salomone †		Archbishop of Salerno (-Acerno), Italy
16 Apr		Born	Jean-Joseph Christophe †		Bishop of Soissons (-Laon), France
17 Apr	32.2	Ordained Priest	Nicolás Joaquín de Arteta y Calisto †	Priest	Archbishop of Quito, Ecuador
17 Apr	62.4	Ordained Bishop	Alberto Maria Giuseppe Andrea Luigi Solinas †	Bishop of Galtelli-Nuoro (Galtelly Nori), Italy
19 Apr	24.2	Ordained Deacon	Basilio López †	Deacon	Bishop of Paraguay (o Ssma Assunzione)
19 Apr	78.8	Died	Andrea Antonio Silverio Minucci †	Archbishop of Fermo, Italy
21 Apr	72.5	Died	Juan Antonio Pérez Hernández de Larrea †	Bishop of Valladolid, Spain
23 Apr	52.1	Died	Józef Leon Łopaciński †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Žemaičiai (Samogizia o Tels; Żmudź), Lithuania
24 Apr	24.3	Ordained Priest	Basilio López †	Priest	Bishop of Paraguay (o Ssma Assunzione)
29 Apr		Born	Paul Cullen †		Cardinal, Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland
29 Apr	72.9	Selected	Sigismund Anton von Hohenwart, S.J. †	Archbishop of Wien {Vienna}, Austria
2 May		Born	Félix Fournier †		Bishop of Nantes, France
3 May		Born	Joseph Ponsot, M.E.P. †		Vicar Apostolic of Yünnan, China
4 May	84.9	Died	Francisco Armañá Font, O.E.S.A. †	Archbishop of Tarragona, Spain
8 May	59.3	Ordained Bishop	Pedro Antonio Juano †	Bishop of Menorca, Spain
13 May	56.3	Appointed	Charles Lynagh (Lynan) †	Bishop of Achonry, Ireland
15 May	60.3	Resigned	Paolo Giuseppe Solaro di Villanova †	Bishop of Aosta, Italy	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus
16 May	52.7	Appointed	Lorenzo Algüero Ribera, O.S.M. †	Bishop of Jaca, Spain	Bishop of Segorbe, Spain
	56.1	Appointed	Francisco Javier Almonacid †	Bishop of Palencia, Spain
	69.4	Confirmed	Mikolaj Duchnowski †	Bishop of Supraśl (Ukrainian), Belarus
	68.0	Elevated to Cardinal	Luigi Gazzoli †	In Pectore	Cardinal, Priest
	56.7	Appointed	Lorenzo Igual de Soria †	Bishop of Plasencia, Spain
	58.5	Elevated to Cardinal	Miguel Carlos José de Noronha e Abranches †	Cardinal, Priest of Lisboa {Lisbon}, Portugal
17 May		Born	Pierre-André Retord, M.E.P. †		Vicar Apostolic of Western Tonking {Tonkino Occidentale}, Viet Nam
18 May	45.5	Resigned	Teresio Maria Carlo Vittorio Ferrero della Marmora †	Bishop of Casale Monferrato, Italy	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Saluzzo, Italy
22 May	50.6	Ordained Bishop	John Milner †	Titular Bishop of Castabala	Vicar Apostolic of Midland District, England, Great Britain
24 May	76.3	Died	Manuel Nicolás Rojas y Argandoña †	Bishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
25 May	55.9	Died	José Antonio de la Huerta Caso †	Bishop of Nicaragua
29 May	50.2	Ordained Bishop	Benito Lué y Riega †	Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina
	51.0	Resigned	Vincenzo Maria Mossi de Morano †	Bishop of Alessandria (della Paglia), Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	41.0	Ordained Bishop	William Poynter †	Titular Bishop of Alia	Vicar Apostolic of London District, England, Great Britain
	22.7	Ordained Priest	Ignác Szepesy de Négyes †	Priest of Eger, Hungary	Bishop of Pécs, Hungary
	52.3	Resigned	Giovanni Battista Pio Vitale †	Bishop of Alba (Pompea), Italy	Bishop of Mondovi, Italy
1 Jun		Born	Giovanni Hagian †		Bishop of Cesarea di Cappadocia (Armenian), Turkey
4 Jun	22.7	Ordained Priest	Pio Bighi †	Priest	Titular Archbishop of Philippi
	22.8	Ordained Priest	Johann Aloys Hoffmann †	Priest of Salzburg, Austria	Auxiliary Bishop
	24.2	Ordained Priest	Nicola-Maria Laudisio, C.Ss.R. †	Priest of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer	Bishop of Policastro, Italy
	29.5	Ordained Priest	Claude Rey †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Dijon, France
	22.8	Ordained Priest	Bernardo Antonino Squarcina, O.P. †	Priest of Order of Friars Preachers	Bishop of Adria, Italy
5 Jun	34.5	Ordained Priest	Cesare Nembrini Pironi Gonzaga †	Priest of Ancona e Numana, Italy	Cardinal, Bishop
6 Jun		Born	Vincenzo Bisceglia †		Bishop of Termoli, Italy
12 Jun	24.0	Ordained Deacon	Johann Stanislaus Kutowski †	Deacon of Chelmno (Culma, Kulm), Poland	Auxiliary Bishop
12 Jun	41.4	Ordained Bishop	Augustin Milletich (Miletic), O.F.M. Obs. †	Titular Bishop of Daulia	Vicar Apostolic of Bosnia (Ottoman), Croatia
13 Jun		Born	George Aloysius Carrell, S.J. †		Bishop of Covington, Kentucky, USA
14 Jun		Born	Antoni Józef Manastyrski †		Bishop of Przemyśl, Poland
17 Jun	76.9	Died	Francesco del Tufo, C.R. †	Bishop of Aversa, Italy
19 Jun	24.0	Ordained Priest	Johann Stanislaus Kutowski †	Priest of Chelmno (Culma, Kulm), Poland	Auxiliary Bishop
20 Jun	40.1	Appointed	Benito María de Moxó y Francolí, O.S.B. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Michoacán, México	Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas, Bolivia
	40.1	Appointed	Benito María de Moxó y Francolí, O.S.B. †	Titular Bishop of Assuras	Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas, Bolivia
	64.1	Confirmed	Ferenc Miklósy †	Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad}, Romania
	68.1	Died	Giuseppe Ottavio Hercule Pochettini di Serravalle †	Bishop of Ivrea, Italy
	62.8	Appointed	Sebastián Rodriguez de Viezna †	Titular Bishop of Sebastopolis in Thracia
	59.2	Appointed	Vicente Alexandre de Tovar †	Prelate of Goiás, Brazil
	59.2	Appointed	Vicente Alexandre de Tovar †	Titular Bishop of Titiopolis	Prelate of Goiás, Brazil
	73.1	Confirmed	Sigismund Anton von Hohenwart, S.J. †	Archbishop of Wien {Vienna}, Austria
23 Jun	79.2	Died	Silvestro Pepe †	Archbishop of Sorrento, Italy
27 Jun		Born	Felicissimo Salvini †		Archbishop of Camerino, Italy
30 Jun		Born	James Walshe †		Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Ireland

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