The Year of Our Lord 1577

Bishop Events

January to June

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
unknown		Appointed	Youssef Girgis al-Basluqiti †	Bishop of Damas (Maronite), Syria
		Ordained Bishop	Youssef Girgis al-Basluqiti †	Bishop of Damas (Maronite), Syria
		Died	Alfonso Alvarez Guerrero †	Bishop of Monopoli, Italy
		Born	Giovanni Atzori †		Bishop-Elect of Bosa, Italy
		Appointed	Hanna Ben-Ubaid †	Archbishop of Eden (Ehden) (Maronite), Lebanon
		Ordained Bishop	Hanna Ben-Ubaid †	Archbishop of Eden (Ehden) (Maronite), Lebanon
		Ordained Bishop	Antonio Bernardez, O.P. †	Titular Bishop of Martyropolis	Auxiliary Bishop of Coimbra, Portugal
		Born	Giorgio Bianchi †		Bishop of Sapë, Albania
		Born	Charles Bobba de Montferrat †		Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, France
		Born	Ferdinand Boschetti †		Titular Archbishop of Diocaesarea in Palaestina
		Born	Giovanni Antonio Galderisi †		Bishop of Bovino, Italy
		Born	Gaudius Castelli †		Bishop of Montepeloso, Italy
		Born	Luca Cellesi †		Bishop of Martirano (Martoranum), Italy
	44.8	Resigned	Antonio Cauco (Cocco) †	Archbishop of Corfù, Greece	Archbishop Emeritus
		Born	Bernardin Corneillan †		Bishop of Rodez, France
		Died	Gregorio Cruz, O.P. †	Bishop of Martirano (Martoranum), Italy
		Born	Gonzalo de Angulo, O.M. †		Bishop of Coro, Venezuela
		Resigned	André d’Auraison †	Bishop-Elect of Riez, France	Former Bishop-Elect
		Died	Sisto Diuzioli, C.R.L. †	Bishop of Carinola (Calina), Italy
		Resigned	Jean du Fay, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Poitiers, France	Bishop Emeritus
		Born	Giacomo Fagagna (Faganeo), O.S.H. †		Bishop of Korčula (Curzola, Cursola), Croatia
		Born	Ludovicus Galbiati †		Bishop of Acerno, Italy
		Born	Cesare Gherardi †		Cardinal, Bishop of Camerino, Italy
		Died	Cesare de’ Giacomelli †	Bishop of Belcastro, Italy
	79.0	Died	Antonio Lauro †	Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia, Italy
		Died	Thomas Leverus †	Bishop of Kildare, Ireland
		Born	Wojciech Lipnicki †		Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków, Poland
		Died	Antonio Lorenzini †	Bishop of Assisi, Italy
		Born	Ovidio Lupari †		Bishop of Teano, Italy
		Born	Giacomo Marenco †		Bishop of Nice, France
	81.0	Ordained Bishop	Diego de Medellín, O.F.M. Obs. †	Bishop of Santiago de Chile
		Born	Jorge de Melo †		Bishop of Coimbra, Portugal
		Died	Niccolò Francesco Missanelli †	Bishop of Policastro, Italy
		Born	Joseph Mohr von Zernetz †		Bishop of Chur, Switzerland
		Born	Baltasar Navarro Arroytia †		Bishop of Tarazona, Spain
		Died	Pedro Narro, O.S.B. †	Archbishop of Oristano, Italy
		Died	Antioco Nin †	Bishop of Alghero, Italy
		Died	Giovanni Oliva †	Archbishop of Chieti, Italy
		Born	Agostino Oreggi (Oregius) †		Cardinal, Archbishop of Benevento, Italy
		Died	Francesco Perignani †	Bishop of Cortona, Italy
		Born	Augustin Pitterich, O.S.B. †		Auxiliary Bishop of Wien, Austria
		Born	Matteo Priuli †		Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of San Marco
		Born	Bogusław Radoszewski †		Bishop of Lutsk (Łuck), Ukraine
		Born	Luigi Riccio †		Bishop of Vico Equense, Italy
		Born	Theodor Riphaen †		Auxiliary Bishop of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
		Died	Juan Ramírez Zapata de Cárdenas †	Bishop of Palencia, Spain
	26.1	Appointed	Heinrich von Sachsen-Lauenburg †	Bishop of Paderborn, Germany	Archbishop-Elect of Bremen (and Hamburg), Germany
		Born	Giovanni Sanctatus, O.P. †		Bishop of Rethymo (Calamona), Greece
		Born	Louis de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon †		Bishop of Sarlat, France
		Died	Juan Serra, O.S.A. †	Bishop of Bosa, Italy
	71.0	Ordained Bishop	Jan Sienieński †	Archbishop of Lviv, Ukraine
	53.0	Resigned	Bartolomeo Siringi †	Bishop of Castellaneta, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
		Born	Meletiy Maksym Smotrytskyi (Smotrycki) †		Titular Archbishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia
		Born	Antonio Neto dos Santos, O.S.A. †		Auxiliary Bishop of Braga, Portugal
		Died	Giulio Stauriano, O.P. †	Bishop of Bova, Italy
		Died	Fernando de Tavora, O.P. †	Bishop Emeritus of Funchal, Portugal
	73.0	Died	Alfonso Tornabuoni †	Bishop Emeritus of Sansepolcro (Borgo San Sepolcro), Italy
		Born	Lorenzo Tramalli †		Bishop of Gerace, Italy
		Ordained Priest	Francisco de Vera-Villavicencio, O. de M. †	Priest of Order of Our Lady of Mercy	Bishop of Perpignan-Elne, France
	25.0	Professed	Alfonso Visconte, C.O. †	Priest of Confederation of Oratorians of St. Philip Neri	Cardinal, Bishop of Spoleto, Italy
		Born	Aegidius Ursinus de Vivere †		Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine
		Died	Danijel Vocacio (Vocazio, Vocatius), O.F.M. †	Bishop of Muro Lucano, Italy
		Appointed	Yusif †	Bishop of Beirut {Bairut} (Maronite), Lebanon
		Ordained Bishop	Yusif †	Bishop of Beirut {Bairut} (Maronite), Lebanon
	Born	Diego de Zambrana de Villalobos y Cordero †		Bishop of Concepción, Chile
	Died	Jurja (Georgius/Giorgio) Živković (Xiwowich/Sincout), O.F.M. †	Bishop of Senj, Croatia
4 Jan		Died	William Walsh, O. Cist. †	Bishop Emeritus of Meath, Ireland
6 Jan	76.0	Appointed	Georges d’Armagnac †	Administrator of Avignon, France	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Tours, France
6 Jan	38.0	Appointed	Fantino Petrignani †	Archbishop of Cosenza, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
14 Jan	50.0	Appointed	Pedro de Aragón †	Bishop of Vic, Spain	Bishop of Lérida, Spain
14 Jan		Appointed	Manoel de Séabra (Leabra) †	Bishop of Ceuta and Tanger, Spain	Bishop of Miranda (do Douro), Portugal
23 Jan	52.2	Died	Nicolas de Lorraine †	Former Bishop-Elect of Verdun, France
23 Jan		Selected	Francisco de Vitoria, O.P. †	Bishop of Córdoba (Tucumán), Argentina
30 Jan	39.0	Appointed	Mariano Pierbenedetti †	Bishop of Martirano (Martoranum), Italy	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
1 Feb	71.0	Died	Rodrigo de Vadillo, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Cefalù, Italy
4 Feb	72.0	Died	John de Hangest †	Bishop of Noyon, France
4 Feb	19.0	Appointed	Antoiné Hébrard de Saint-Sulpice †	Bishop of Cahors, France
9 Feb	86.1	Died	Ambrogio Salvio, O.P. †	Bishop of Nardò, Italy
10 Feb	34.7	Ordained Bishop	Jakob Christoph Blarer von Wartensee †	Bishop of Basel, Switzerland
25 Feb	53.1	Appointed	Feliciano Ninguarda, O.P. †	Bishop of Scala, Italy	Bishop of Como, Italy
		Appointed	Vincenzo Petrolini †	Bishop of Muro Lucano, Italy
		Appointed	Costantino Piccioni, O.S.A. †	Bishop of Cortona, Italy
		Died	Alfonso Rossetti †	Bishop of Ferrara, Italy
28 Feb		Born	Angel Manrique, O. Cist. †		Bishop of Badajoz, Spain
3 Mar	17.3	Elevated to Cardinal	Albrecht von Austria (Österreich) †	Former Archbishop-Elect of Toledo, Spain
3 Mar	34.1	Ordained Bishop	Lorenzo Vitturi †	Archbishop of Candia {Crete}, Greece
4 Mar	37.6	Appointed	Łukasz Kościelecki, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Poznań, Poland
11 Mar		Appointed	Alessandro Andreasi †	Bishop of Casale Monferrato, Italy	Bishop of Mantova, Italy
16 Mar	51.9	Died	Franciszek Krasiński †	Bishop of Kraków, Poland
17 Mar	73.2	Died	Gerard d’Hamericourt, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Saint-Omer, France
19 Mar	65.2	Died	Martín Rojas de Portalrubio, O.S.Io.Hieros. †	Bishop of Malta
19 Mar		Born	Georg Christoph Rösch †		Auxiliary Bishop of Eichstätt, Germany
25 Mar		Ordained Bishop	Geoffrey de La Marthonie †	Bishop of Amiens, France
27 Mar		Appointed	Juan del Campo, O.F.M. Obs. †	Bishop of Paraguay (o Ssma Assunzione)
	48.2	Appointed	Diego Gómez de Lamadrid, O.SS.T. †	Archbishop of Lima, Peru	Bishop of Badajoz, Spain
		Appointed	Geoffroy de Saint-Belin, O. Cist. †	Bishop of Poitiers, France
		Appointed	Jerónimo de Villa Carrillo, O.F.M. Obs. †	Bishop of Córdoba (Tucumán), Argentina	Bishop-Elect
14 Apr		Appointed	Juan Méndez de Villafranca, O.P. †	Bishop of Santa Marta, Colombia
15 Apr		Appointed	Cesare Bovio †	Bishop of Nardò, Italy
		Appointed	Antonio de Hervias, O.P. †	Bishop of Arequipa, Peru	Bishop of Cartagena, Colombia
		Appointed	Alonso Guzmán y Talavera, O.S.H. †	Bishop of Trujillo, Peru	Bishop Emeritus
		Appointed	Francisco de Ovanda, O.F.M. Obs. †	Bishop of Trujillo, Peru	Bishop-Elect
23 Apr	80.3	Died	Pierre Danès †	Bishop of Lavaur, France
	80.3	Died	Cherubino Lavosio, O.S.A. †	Bishop of Telese o Cerreto Sannita, Italy
		Born	Gaspard Dubois (Van Den Bosch, Nemius) †		Archbishop of Cambrai, France
29 Apr		Appointed	Orazio Montegranelli †	Bishop of Fossombrone, Italy
May	30.0	Appointed	Lorenzo Campeggi †	Apostolic Nuncio to Naples, Italy	Bishop of Cervia, Italy
May		Ordained Bishop	Orazio Montegranelli †	Bishop of Fossombrone, Italy
4 May		Died	Pierre Ragueneau †	Bishop Emeritus of Marseille, France
10 May		Appointed	Giovanni Antonio de Paola †	Bishop of Belcastro, Italy
10 May		Died	Johannes Mahusius, O.F.M. Obs. †	Bishop Emeritus of Deventer, Netherlands
11 May		Appointed	Bartolomeu Simões Pereira †	Prelate of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Prelate Emeritus
24 May		Appointed	Giovan Luigi de Benedictis †	Bishop of Castellaneta, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
24 May	40.6	Appointed	Mathieu Moullart, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Arras, France
26 May		Appointed	Bernardus Herinck †	Bishop of Deventer, Netherlands	Bishop Emeritus
26 May		Died	Aegidius (Gilles) Van den Bergh (de Monte), O.F.M. Obs. †	Bishop of Deventer, Netherlands
3 Jun	39.4	Appointed	Nikolaus Elgard †	Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz, Germany
3 Jun	39.4	Appointed	Nikolaus Elgard †	Titular Bishop of Ascalon	Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz, Germany
14 Jun		Appointed	Ludovico Bentivoglio †	Bishop of Policastro, Italy	Bishop of Città di Castello, Italy
15 Jun	26.2	Ordained Priest	Giulio Sansedoni †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Grosseto, Italy
18 Jun		Died	Nicolò Ormanetto †	Bishop of Padova {Padua}, Italy
19 Jun	22.5	Ordained Priest	Ernst von Bayern †	Priest	Archbishop-Elect of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
21 Jun		Appointed	Giovanni Battista Brugnatelli †	Bishop of Assisi, Italy
21 Jun	77.4	Appointed	Francisco Sancho Allepuz †	Bishop of Segorbe, Spain
25 Jun		Died	Marco Loredan †	Bishop of Nona (Nin), Croatia
26 Jun		Died	Bartolomeo Giugni (Junius) †	Archbishop of Pisa, Italy
26 Jun	61.4	Appointed	Juan Redín Cruzat †	Bishop of Tarazona, Spain
29 Jun	61.4	Resigned	Girolamo Federici †	Apostolic Nuncio to Savoy	Bishop of Lodi, Italy
29 Jun	35.4	Appointed	Ottavio Santacroce †	Apostolic Nuncio to Savoy	Bishop of Cervia, Italy

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