The Year of Our Lord 1556

Necrology

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Date	Age	Bishop	Title
unknown		Antonio Benedetti †	Bishop of Guardialfiera (Guardia), Italy
unknown		Pietro Paolo Caporelli, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Crotone (Cotrone), Italy
unknown		Pavao de Churina †	Bishop of Knin (Tinin), Croatia
unknown		Fernando de Uranga (Urango) †	Bishop of Santiago de Cuba
unknown	69.0	Anton Engelbrecht †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Speyer, Germany
unknown		Marco Antonio Falconi †	Bishop of Cariati e Cerenzia, Italy
unknown		Guillaume Furby, O. Carm. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Belley, France
unknown	58.0	Giovanni de Gennaro (Guevara) †	Bishop of Sant’Agata de’ Goti, Italy
unknown		Vincenzo de Leone, O. Carm. †	Bishop of Bosa, Italy
unknown	50.0	Claude de La Guiche †	Bishop Emeritus of Mirepoix, France
unknown	31.0	Pietro Magno †	Bishop of Sitia, Greece
unknown		John O’Heyne (Jedicar) †	Bishop of Cork and Cloyne, Ireland
unknown		Philibert de Rye †	Bishop of Genève {Geneva}, Switzerland
unknown		Andrea Sanna †	Archbishop of Oristano, Italy
unknown		Antonio Maria Sartori †	Bishop of Teano, Italy
unknown		Johann von Schönberg †	Bishop of Gurk, Austria
unknown		Mátyás Zabergyei †	Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad}, Romania
Feb		Marco Adantino, O.F.M. Obs. †	Bishop Emeritus of Chiron, Greece
12 Feb	63.0	Giovanni Poggio †	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Tropea, Italy
18 Feb		Gaspar Jofre de Borja †	Bishop of Segorbe-Albarracin, Spain
18 Feb	49.1	Johann von Isenburg †	Archbishop-Elect of Trier, Germany
27 Feb		Sebastiano Portico †	Bishop of Foligno, Italy
28 Feb		François de Créqui †	Bishop Emeritus of Thérouanne, France
Mar		Claude Andry †	Auxiliary Bishop of Chartres, France
Mar		Pierre de Mareuil †	Bishop of Lavaur, France
5 Mar		Robert Aldridge (Aldrich) †	Bishop of Carlisle, England, Great Britain
21 Mar	67.2	Thomas Cranmer †	Archbishop Emeritus of Canterbury, England, Great Britain
23 Mar		Claudio Tolomei †	Bishop of Korčula (Curzola, Cursola), Croatia
2 May		Fernando González de Bariodero †	Bishop of Nicaragua
20 May	80.3	Weigand von Redwitz †	Bishop of Bamberg, Germany
5 Jun	76.4	Miguel da Silva †	Cardinal, Administrator of Massa Marittima, Italy
16 Jun	59.4	Pedro Fernandes Sardinha †	Bishop Emeritus of São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos, Brazil
29 Jun	64.4	Dietrich von Reden †	Bishop Emeritus of Lübeck, Germany
6 Jul		Johann Nopel (Sr.) †	Auxiliary Bishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
7 Jul		Diego Fernández de Villalán, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Almería, Spain
2 Aug	55.5	George Day †	Bishop of Chichester, England, Great Britain
28 Aug		Rafael Ubac †	Bishop of Elne, France
31 Aug	50.6	Robert de Croy †	Bishop of Cambrai, France
31 Aug	65.6	Nikolaus Schienen de Cellis †	Auxiliary Bishop of Trier, Germany
2 Sep		Antonio Simeoni (Menecussis), O.S.B. †	Bishop of Nepi e Sutri, Italy
6 Sep	61.0	Juan Bernal Díaz de Luco †	Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada, Spain
24 Sep	45.7	Adolf von Schauenburg †	Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
27 Sep	58.1	François de Dinteville †	Bishop of Auxerre, France
27 Sep	27.7	Friedrich von Schleswig-Holstein †	Bishop-Elect of Hildesheim, Germany
5 Nov		Cristoforo Spiriti †	Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine
9 Nov		Juan Fernández Temiño †	Bishop of León, Spain
14 Nov	53.2	Giovanni Della Casa †	Archbishop of Benevento, Italy
Dec		Giovanni Simonetta †	Bishop of Lodi, Italy

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