The Year of Our Lord 1540

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Date	Age	Bishop	Title
unknown		Alessandro Argoli †	Bishop of Terracina, Priverno e Sezze, Italy
unknown		Trifone Bisanti †	Bishop of Kotor (Cattaro), Montenegro
unknown		Foucault de Bonneval †	Bishop of Périgueux (Vesuna), France
unknown		Carlo Borromeo †	Bishop of Pozzuoli, Italy
unknown		Nicola Bruni †	Bishop of Milos (Melos), Greece
unknown		Pellegrino Cibo de Turcilla †	Bishop of Gallipoli, Italy
unknown		Francesco Erulli †	Bishop of Spoleto, Italy
unknown		János Eszéki †	Bishop of Pécs, Hungary
unknown	77.0	Jan Latalski †	Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland
unknown		Giuseppe de Montanaris, O.F.M. †	Archbishop of Naxos, Greece
unknown		Aleksander Myszczynski †	Auxiliary Bishop of Włocławek (Kujawy, Kalisze), Poland
unknown		Roger O’Moleyn †	Bishop of Ardagh (and Clonmacnois), Ireland
unknown		Sixtus Signati †	Bishop of Trevico, Italy
unknown		Francisco Solís †	Bishop of Drivasto (Drivost), Albania
unknown		Georges Stemagu †	Archbishop of Durrës (Durazzo), Albania
unknown	46.0	Leonardo Tornabuoni †	Bishop of Ajaccio, France
unknown		Juan de Urteaga, O.S.H. †	Bishop-Elect of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas), México
unknown		Antonio Venanzi (de Spello) †	Bishop of Jesi, Italy
unknown		Bernardino Conti (Visconti) †	Bishop of Alatri, Italy
unknown		Nicola Volpe †	Bishop of Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi e Bisaccia, Italy
unknown		Bernard Wilczek †	Archbishop of Lviv, Ukraine
1 Jan	60.0	Baltasar del Río †	Bishop of Scala, Italy
14 Jan		Giacomo Narducci †	Bishop of Urbino, Italy
22 Feb		Jacques d’Albret †	Bishop of Nevers, France
30 Mar	72.2	Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria
12 Apr		Jean Olivier, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Angers, France
16 Apr	30.9	Afonso de Portugal †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Lisboa, Portugal
17 Apr	69.2	Stanislav Thurzó †	Bishop of Olomouc (Olmütz), Czechia
3 May		Pedro Flores †	Bishop of Gaeta, Italy
30 May		Luigi Platamone †	Bishop of Siracusa, Italy
16 Jun	74.4	Konrad von Thüngen †	Bishop of Würzburg, Germany
Jul		Jean de La Motte †	Coadjutor Bishop of Quimper, France
Jul		Claude de Rohan †	Bishop of Quimper, France
22 Jul	48.5	Johann von Metzenhausen †	Archbishop of Trier, Germany
12 Aug		John Holt †	Titular Bishop of Lydda
13 Aug		Anton Braun †	Auxiliary Bishop of Eichstätt, Germany
23 Aug	47.6	Charles de Hémard de Denonville †	Cardinal, Bishop of Mâcon, France
28 Aug		Ugo Rangone †	Bishop of Reggio Emilia, Italy
30 Aug		Augustin Gabel (Ranel), O.S.A. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Cambrai, France
Sep		Donald O’Beachan, O.F.M. †	Bishop-Elect of Kildare, Ireland
8 Sep		Juan de Arteaga y Avendaño †	Bishop-Elect of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas), México
16 Sep	21.7	Enrique de Borja y Aragón †	Cardinal, Bishop-Elect of Squillace, Italy
18 Sep	65.1	Juan (Johannes) de Witte Hoos (Ubite), O.P. †	Bishop Emeritus of Santiago de Cuba
Oct		Louis McNamara, O.F.M. †	Bishop-Elect of Cork and Cloyne, Ireland
5 Oct		Giovanni dei Tagliacozzi †	Bishop of Chioggia, Italy
6 Oct		Francisco de Mendavia, O.S.H. †	Bishop of Nicaragua
7 Oct	40.7	Pedro Fernández Manrique †	Cardinal, Bishop of Córdoba, Spain
7 Oct		Cristoforo Giacobazzi †	Cardinal, Bishop of Cassano all’Jonio, Italy
5 Nov	65.8	Francisco de los Ángeles (Enrique) Quiñones, O.F.M. Obs. †	Cardinal, Former Administrator of Acerno, Italy
18 Dec	60.3	Cesare Riario †	Administrator of Málaga, Spain

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