The Year of Our Lord 1617

Bishop Events

January to June

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
unknown		Born	Bonifazio Albani, C.R.S. †		Archbishop of Split (Spalato), Croatia
		Born	Théodore-Germain Allart, O.F.M. Rec. †		Bishop of Vence, France
	63.0	Died	Diego de Arce, O.F.M. Obs. †	Bishop of Cassano all’Jonio, Italy
	71.0	Died	Barzellino de’ Barzellini †	Bishop of Satriano e Campagna, Italy
		Born	Pietro Bassdonna †		Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Domnica
		Born	François de Batailler †		Titular Bishop of Bethleem
	47.0	Died	Giovanni Battista Biglia †	Bishop of Pavia, Italy
		Born	Giovanni Antonio Capobianco †		Bishop of Siracusa, Italy
		Born	Pierre-Louis Cazet de Vautorte †		Bishop of Vannes, France
		Born	Giannicolò Conti †		Cardinal, Bishop of Ancona e Numana, Italy
	24.0	Ordained Priest	Giuseppe Corti †	Priest	Auxiliary Bishop of Praha {Prague}, Czechia
		Died	Giovanni Battista Costanzo †	Archbishop of Cosenza, Italy
		Born	Kazimierz Florian Czartoryski †		Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland
		Died	Elie d’Amida †	Archbishop Emeritus of Diarbekir (Amida) (Chaldean), Turkey
		Born	Philibert-Emmanuel de Beaumanoir de Lavardin †		Bishop of Le Mans, France
	50.0	Resigned	Juan del Valle y Arredondo, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México	Bishop Emeritus
		Born	Jérôme de La Mothe-Houdancourt †		Bishop of Saint-Flour, France
	24.7	Ordained Priest	José de la Peña García de Ceniceros †	Priest	Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada, Spain
		Died	Elie (VI) †	Patriarch of Babylon {Babilonia} (Chaldean), Iraq
		Appointed	Elie (VII) †	Patriarch of Babylon {Babilonia} (Chaldean), Iraq
		Born	Giacomo Fantuzzi (Elefantucci) †		Bishop of Cesena, Italy
		Died	Luigi de Franchis, C.R. †	Bishop of Nardò, Italy
		Born	Johannes Karl von Franckenstein †		Bishop of Worms, Germany
	48.0	Ordained Bishop	Miguel García Serrano, O.E.S.A. †	Bishop of Nueva Segovia, Philippines	Archbishop of Manila, Philippines
		Born	Teodoro Gennaro, O.F.M. †		Bishop of Krk (Veglia), Croatia
	32.5	Ordained Priest	Veit Adam Gepeckh von Arnsbach †	Priest of Freising, Germany	Bishop
		Born	Antonio Ibarra †		Bishop of Cádiz, Spain
	63.0	Died	Pirro Imperoli †	Bishop of Jesi, Italy
		Died	Jesu-Yab †	Archbishop of Seert (Chaldean), Turkey
	57.0	Died	Valerianus Łubieniecki, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Bacău, Romania
		Born	Giuseppe Maria Maraviglia, C.R. †		Bishop of Novara, Italy
	38.0	Died	Vincenzo Martena †	Bishop of Senj, Croatia
		Born	Francesco Martinelli, C.O. †		Bishop of Patti, Italy
		Died	Domenico Mudazio †	Bishop of Chiron, Greece
		Born	Nicola Oliva, O.S.A. †		Bishop of Cortona, Italy
		Born	John O’Mollony †		Bishop of Limerick, Ireland
		Born	Gianlucido Palombara †		Bishop of Pesaro, Italy
		Born	Marziale Pellegrino, O.F.M. Conv. †		Titular Archbishop of Nazareth
		Born	Luis de Pons y de Esquerrer, O.S.B. †		Bishop of Solsona, Spain
		Born	Antonio Possenti †		Bishop of Montefeltro, Italy
		Born	Mikołaj Jan Prażmowski †		Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland
		Died	Jerónimo Bernardo de Quirós, O. Praem. †	Bishop of Pozzuoli, Italy
		Died	Andrzej Richliczki †	Auxiliary Bishop of Poznań, Poland
		Born	Paolo Emilio Rondinini †		Cardinal, Bishop of Assisi, Italy
	40.0	Died	Giovanni Sanctatus, O.P. †	Bishop of Rethymo (Calamona), Greece
	66.0	Died	Francisco de Sosa, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Osma, Spain
		Born	Giuseppe Spinucci †		Bishop of Penne e Atri, Italy
		Born	Francesco Tansi †		Bishop of Nicastro, Italy
		Died	Francisco Ugarte, O. Cist. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Zaragoza, Spain
		Born	Giovanni Carlo Valentini †		Bishop of Città Ducale, Italy
		Born	Cristoforo Vidman †		Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of San Marco
		Born	Federico Visconti †		Cardinal, Archbishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy
		Born	Gerolamo Visconti †		Bishop of Vigevano, Italy
		Born	Adolph Gottfried Volusius †		Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz, Germany
		Died	Fausto Vrancic (Verancsics) †	Bishop Emeritus of Csanád, Hungary
		Born	Bernardo de Santa Maria Zuzarte de Andrade, C.R.S.A. †		Bishop of São Tomé e Príncipe
1 Jan	47.0	Ordained Bishop	Luis de Brito de Menezes, O.S.A. †	Bishop of São Tomé of Meliapore, India	Bishop of Cochin, India
5 Jan	56.0	Died	Sebastián Bricianos, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Orense, Spain
9 Jan	55.0	Appointed	Ireneo (Francesco) Brasavola, O.F.M. Obs. †	Bishop of Castro [del Lazio], Italy
	43.0	Appointed	Henryk Firlej †	Bishop of Płock, Poland	Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland
	37.0	Appointed	Giovanni Dominico Giaconi †	Bishop of Guardialfiera (Guardia), Italy
14 Jan		Born	Wilderich von Walderdorff †		Bishop of Wien, Austria
15 Jan	55.0	Ordained Bishop	Ireneo (Francesco) Brasavola, O.F.M. Obs. †	Bishop of Castro [del Lazio], Italy
15 Jan		Ordained Bishop	Tomé de Faría, O. Carm. †	Titular Bishop of Targa	Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa, Portugal
16 Jan	57.8	Died	Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau †	Archbishop Emeritus of Salzburg, Austria
19 Jan		Died	Francesco Bennio (de Butrio), O.S.M. †	Bishop of Ravello e Scala, Italy
19 Jan	55.0	Died	Franciszek Łącki †	Auxiliary Bishop of Włocławek (Kujawy, Kalisze), Poland
22 Jan	37.0	Ordained Bishop	Giovanni Dominico Giaconi †	Bishop of Guardialfiera (Guardia), Italy
22 Jan	43.2	Ordained Bishop	Francisco Hurtado de Mendoza y Ribera †	Bishop of Salamanca, Spain	Bishop Emeritus of Plasencia, Spain
23 Jan	36.8	Appointed	Johann Paul (Giovanni Paolo) Ciurletti †	Auxiliary Bishop of Salzburg, Austria
23 Jan	36.8	Appointed	Johann Paul (Giovanni Paolo) Ciurletti †	Titular Bishop of Byblus	Auxiliary Bishop of Salzburg, Austria
24 Jan	47.0	Died	Felipe Guimerá, O. de M. †	Bishop of Jaca, Spain
	32.0	Appointed	Martin Kolsdorf †	Auxiliary Bishop of Wrocław (Breslau), Poland
	32.0	Appointed	Martin Kolsdorf †	Titular Bishop of Nicopolis ad Nestum	Auxiliary Bishop of Wrocław (Breslau), Poland
29 Jan	20.0	Died	Giovanni Battista Civalli, O.F.M. Conv. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Olomouc (Olmütz), Czechia
29 Jan		Died	Orazio Giraldi †	Bishop of Comacchio, Italy
30 Jan	38.0	Appointed	Altobello Carissimi †	Bishop of Minervino Murge, Italy
30 Jan	34.0	Appointed	Nicolò Spínola, C.R. †	Bishop of Ventimiglia, Italy
5 Feb	43.3	Ordained Bishop	Jacques Boonen †	Bishop of Gent {Ghent, Gand}, Belgium	Archbishop of Mechelen, Belgium
8 Feb	64.3	Died	Carlo Broglia †	Archbishop of Torino {Turin}, Italy
13 Feb	61.1	Appointed	Federico Cornet †	Bishop of Perpignan-Elne, France	Bishop-Elect
17 Feb	20.9	Appointed	Gilles de Souvre †	Bishop of (Saint-Bertrand de) Comminges, France	Bishop of Auxerre, France
20 Feb	45.1	Appointed	Andrzej Lipski †	Bishop of Lutsk (Łuck), Ukraine	Bishop of Kraków, Poland
24 Feb	38.1	Ordained Bishop	Altobello Carissimi †	Bishop of Minervino Murge, Italy
24 Feb	34.1	Ordained Bishop	Nicolò Spínola, C.R. †	Bishop of Ventimiglia, Italy
27 Feb	63.1	Appointed	Miguel Angel Zaragoza Heredia †	Bishop of Teano, Italy
7 Mar	63.1	Ordained Bishop	Miguel Angel Zaragoza Heredia †	Bishop of Teano, Italy
9 Mar	68.1	Died	Juan Nicolás Valdés de Carriazo †	Bishop of Guadix, Spain
10 Mar		Born	Gregorio Carducci †		Bishop of Valva e Sulmona, Italy
12 Mar	46.4	Ordained Bishop	Péter Pázmány, S.J. †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Esztergom, Hungary
12 Mar	21.0	Ordained Bishop	Gilles de Souvre †	Bishop of (Saint-Bertrand de) Comminges, France	Bishop of Auxerre, France
13 Mar	55.1	Appointed	Michele Bonzi, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Ravello e Scala, Italy
18 Mar	86.2	Died	Marcello Acquaviva †	Archbishop Emeritus of Otranto, Italy
27 Mar	55.2	Ordained Bishop	Michele Bonzi, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Ravello e Scala, Italy
28 Mar	42.2	Died	João da Gama †	Bishop of Miranda (do Douro), Portugal
2 Apr	37.0	Ordained Bishop	Johann Paul (Giovanni Paolo) Ciurletti †	Titular Bishop of Byblus	Auxiliary Bishop of Salzburg, Austria
3 Apr	42.2	Appointed	Pierre Cornulier †	Bishop of Tréguier, France	Bishop of Rennes, France
	41.2	Appointed	Pierre Antoine Triest †	Bishop of Brugge {Bruges}, Belgium	Bishop of Gent {Ghent, Gand}, Belgium
	36.2	Installed	Roberto Ubaldini †	Cardinal-Priest of San Matteo in Merulana	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Montepulciano, Italy
6 Apr		Born	Juan Bautista Desbach i Martorell †		Bishop of Urgell, Spain
10 Apr	41.2	Appointed	Julián de Cortázar †	Bishop of Córdoba (Tucumán), Argentina	Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada, Colombia
17 Apr	27.0	Appointed	Raphaël de Bologne †	Coadjutor Bishop of Digne, France	Bishop
	27.0	Appointed	Raphaël de Bologne †	Titular Bishop of Megara	Bishop of Digne, France
	44.2	Appointed	Paolo Palombo, C.R. †	Bishop of Cassano all’Jonio, Italy
22 Apr		Born	Giovanni Delfino †		Cardinal, Patriarch of Aquileia, Italy
23 Apr	32.3	Ordained Bishop	Martin Kolsdorf †	Titular Bishop of Nicopolis ad Nestum	Auxiliary Bishop of Wrocław (Breslau), Poland
May	26.3	Died	Vitaliano Visconti Borromeo †	Titular Archbishop of Hadrianopolis in Haemimonto
3 May	58.2	Died	Alexeu de Jesu de Meneses, O.S.A. †	Archbishop of Braga, Portugal
22 May	47.3	Appointed	Balthasar Miaskowski †	Auxiliary Bishop of Włocławek (Kujawy, Kalisze), Poland
22 May	47.3	Appointed	Balthasar Miaskowski †	Titular Bishop of Margarita	Auxiliary Bishop of Włocławek (Kujawy, Kalisze), Poland
27 May	41.4	Ordained Bishop	László Majthényi †	Bishop of Sirmio (Srijem; Sirmium), Croatia
28 May	29.4	Ordained Bishop	Henri Boivin de Péricard †	Titular Bishop of Tarsus	Coadjutor Bishop of Avranches, France
29 May		Born	Federico Borromeo (Jr.) †		Cardinal, Secretary of State
Jun		Resigned	Luca Alemanni †	Bishop of Volterra, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
3 Jun	82.4	Died	Ludovico Taverna †	Bishop Emeritus of Lodi, Italy
11 Jun		Born	Lorenzo Mayers Caramuel, O. de M. †		Bishop of Gaeta, Italy
12 Jun	43.4	Appointed	Nicolas Coëffeteau, O.P. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Metz, France
	43.4	Appointed	Nicolas Coëffeteau, O.P. †	Titular Bishop of Dardanus	Auxiliary Bishop of Metz, France
	37.4	Appointed	Bernardo Inghirami †	Bishop of Volterra, Italy
	52.4	Appointed	Stephanus Penulatius, O.S.H. †	Bishop of Rethymo (Calamona), Greece
	32.4	Appointed	Alfonso Sacrati †	Bishop of Comacchio, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
	55.4	Installed	Gabriel Trejo y Paniagua †	Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio	Cardinal, Archbishop of Salerno, Italy
13 Jun		Died	Orazio Acquaviva d’Aragona, O. Cist. †	Bishop of Caiazzo, Italy
13 Jun		Died	Giambattista Milani, C.R. †	Bishop Emeritus of Bergamo, Italy
17 Jun		Appointed	Ascanio Gesualdo †	Apostolic Nuncio to Emperor	Archbishop of Bari (-Canosa), Italy
18 Jun	52.4	Ordained Bishop	Stephanus Penulatius, O.S.H. †	Bishop of Rethymo (Calamona), Greece
24 Jun	50.4	Died	Bonifazio Caetani †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Taranto, Italy
25 Jun		Ordained Bishop	Jean Louis Bertier †	Titular Bishop of Helenopolis in Bithynia	Bishop Emeritus of Rieux, France
25 Jun	61.4	Died	Federico Cornet †	Bishop-Elect of Perpignan-Elne, France
26 Jun	57.4	Appointed	Bertrand d’Eschaux (de Chaux) †	Archbishop of Tours, France
		Appointed	Petrus Pitarca, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Termia (Thermae), Greece
	60.4	Appointed	Diego Torres Altamirano, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Cartagena, Colombia
27 Jun	48.4	Appointed	Lucio de Morra †	Apostolic Nuncio to Flanders, Belgium	Archbishop of Otranto, Italy
28 Jun	37.4	Selected	St. Jozafat Kuncewicz, O.S.B.M. †	Coadjutor Bishop of Połock (Polotsk) (Ukrainian), Belarus	Archbishop
29 Jun		Ordained Priest	Sallustio Cherubini †	Priest	Bishop of Città Ducale, Italy

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