The Year of Our Lord 1596

Bishop Events

January to June

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
unknown		Born	Ippolito Aldobrandini (Jr.) †		Cardinal, Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Eustachio
	26.1	Solemn Vows	Antonio (Marcello) Barberini (Sr.), O.F.M. Cap. †	Member of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary
		Born	Tiburzio Bollini, O.S.B. †		Bishop of Isernia, Italy
	47.0	Ordained Priest	Antonio Bornio †	Priest	Bishop of Castro di Puglia, Italy
		Resigned	Marin Braiani (Brajanovic), O.F.M. Obs. †	Bishop of Lezhë {Lesh, Alessio}, Albania	Bishop Emeritus
		Born	John Burke †		Vicar Apostolic of Cashel, Ireland
		Born	Miguel de Cárdenas, O. Carm. †		Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain
		Born	Simone Carafa Roccella, C.R. †		Archbishop of Messina, Italy
		Born	Giovanni Tomaso Gastaldi, O.P. †		Bishop of Brugnato, Italy
		Resigned	Alessandro Centurione †	Archbishop of Genova, Italy	Archbishop Emeritus
	75.0	Died	Agustín de Cisneros Montesa †	Bishop of La Imperial, Chile
		Died	Matteo Colli †	Bishop of Marsi, Italy
	47.0	Ordained Bishop	Diego da Conceição de Araújo, O.S.A. †	Titular Bishop of Calama	Auxiliary Bishop of Goa, India
		Born	Lorenzo della Robbia †		Bishop of Fiesole, Italy
		Resigned	Gioia Dragomani †	Bishop of Montepeloso, Italy	Bishop of Pienza, Italy
		Appointed	Michael Fitzwalter †	Auxiliary Bishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain	Bishop of Kerry (o Ardfert) e Aghadoe, Ireland
		Born	Roberto Fontana †		Bishop of Modena, Italy
		Born	Domenico Gianuzzi †		Titular Bishop of Dioclea
	25.1	Ordained Priest	Cornelius Gobelius †	Priest	Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz, Germany
		Born	Nicolaas de Haudion †		Bishop of Brugge {Bruges}, Belgium
		Born	Tommaso Imperato †		Bishop of Vico Equense, Italy
		Born	Benedek Kisdy †		Bishop of Eger, Hungary
		Born	Remigiusz Koniecpolski †		Bishop of Chełm, Poland
		Born	Jean Charles Konopacki †		Bishop of Warmia (Ermland), Poland
	51.0	Appointed	János Kutasy †	Archbishop of Kalocsa, Hungary	Archbishop of Esztergom, Hungary
		Born	Ambrogio Landucci, O.S.A. †		Titular Bishop of Porphyreon
		Died	Luis Maldonado, O.F.M. Obs. †	Bishop-Elect of Nueva Caceres, Philippines
		Born	João Mendes de Távora †		Bishop of Coimbra, Portugal
		Died	Gian Vincenzo Micheli †	Bishop of Minervino Murge, Italy
	25.2	Ordained Priest	Péter Pázmány, S.J. †	Priest of Society of Jesus	Cardinal, Archbishop of Esztergom, Hungary
		Born	Ascanio Piccolomini d’Aragona †		Archbishop Emeritus of Siena, Italy
	68.0	Ordained Priest	Papirio Picedi †	Priest	Bishop of Parma, Italy
		Born	Francisco Pijoan †		Bishop-Elect of Gerona, Spain
		Born	Tomás Rocamora, O.P. †		Bishop of Mallorca, Spain
		Born	Juan Ruiz de Colmenero †		Bishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
		Born	Carlo (Zanucca) Scaglia, Can. Reg. S.Geor †		Bishop of Trivento, Italy
		Died	Orazio Schipano †	Bishop of Belcastro, Italy
		Died	Carvajal de Simoncelli †	Bishop of Sovana (Soana), Italy
		Died	Gašpar Stankovački †	Bishop of Zagreb (Agram), Croatia
		Born	Alessandro Tassi †		Bishop of Terracina, Priverno e Sezze, Italy
		Born	Mario Theodoli †		Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Imola, Italy
	50.6	Ordained Priest	Neytard von Thüngen †	Priest	Bishop of Bamberg, Germany
		Born	Jacob Philippe Tomasini †		Bishop of Novigrad (Cittanova), Croatia
		Born	Jerzy Tyszkiewicz †		Bishop of Vilnius, Lithuania
		Resigned	Giovanni Battista Valier †	Bishop of Belluno, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
		Born	Juan Vallejo †		Bishop of Astorga, Spain
		Born	Etienne Via †		Titular Bishop of Cyrene
8 Jan	48.0	Appointed	Silvestro Branconi †	Bishop of Montemarano, Italy
		Appointed	Vincenzo Capece, C.R. †	Bishop of Gallipoli, Italy
	35.6	Appointed	Guido Pepoli †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Montorio
13 Jan	52.0	Died	Aymar Hennequin †	Bishop of Rennes, France
14 Jan	58.2	Died	Gianfrancesco Morosini †	Cardinal, Bishop of Brescia, Italy
15 Jan	55.0	Appointed	Metello Bichi †	Bishop of Sovana (Soana), Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Siena, Italy
15 Jan		Appointed	Alessandro Boccabarile †	Bishop of Ortona, Italy	Bishop of Ortona a Mare e Campli, Italy
22 Jan		Born	Pietro Lanfranconi, O.S.A. †		Bishop of Terni, Italy
26 Jan	54.0	Died	Gerolamo Vitale Bovio (de’ Buoi) †	Bishop of Camerino, Italy
28 Jan		Ordained Bishop	Alessandro Boccabarile †	Bishop of Ortona, Italy	Bishop of Ortona a Mare e Campli, Italy
29 Jan	57.0	Appointed	Pedro de Azuaga, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Santiago de Chile	Bishop-Elect
Feb		Born	François Hallier †		Bishop of Cavaillon, France
7 Feb		Appointed	Alfonso Laso Sedeño †	Archbishop of Cagliari, Italy	Bishop of Mallorca, Spain
7 Feb	45.0	Appointed	Minuccio Minucci †	Archbishop of Zadar (Zara), Croatia
11 Feb	34.1	Ordained Bishop	Carlo Gaudenzio Madruzzo †	Titular Bishop of Smyrna	Cardinal, Bishop of Trento, Italy
12 Feb	48.1	Appointed	Ermolao Barbaro †	Coadjutor Patriarch of Aquileia, Italy	Patriarch
	48.1	Appointed	Ermolao Barbaro †	Titular Archbishop of Tyrus	Patriarch of Aquileia, Italy
	41.1	Appointed	Cristovão de Jesu Fonseca, O.SS.T. †	Auxiliary Bishop of Évora, Portugal
	41.1	Appointed	Cristovão de Jesu Fonseca, O.SS.T. †	Titular Bishop of Nicomedia	Auxiliary Bishop of Évora, Portugal
	55.3	Appointed	Alfonso Gesualdo di Conza (Gonza) †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}, Italy
	38.4	Appointed	Alessandro Marzi de’ Medici †	Bishop of Fiesole, Italy	Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}, Italy
15 Feb	53.3	Died	Louis de Berlaymont †	Archbishop of Cambrai, France
17 Feb	54.1	Died	Nicolò Stizzia †	Bishop of Cefalù, Italy
18 Feb	55.1	Ordained Bishop	Metello Bichi †	Bishop of Sovana (Soana), Italy	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Siena, Italy
18 Feb	54.1	Ordained Bishop	Matthias Van den Hove (Hovius) †	Archbishop of Mechelen, Belgium
19 Feb	38.4	Ordained Bishop	Alessandro Marzi de’ Medici †	Bishop of Fiesole, Italy	Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}, Italy
20 Feb		Died	Fabio Fornari †	Bishop of Nardò, Italy
22 Feb	76.1	Died	Angelo Giustiniani, O.F.M. Obs. †	Bishop Emeritus of Genève {Geneva}, Switzerland
22 Feb		Died	Pedro Mártir Palomino, O.P. †	Bishop-Elect of Coro, Venezuela
23 Feb	59.1	Appointed	Antonio Maria Graziani †	Apostolic Nuncio to Venice, Italy	Bishop of Amelia, Italy
	59.1	Died	Jean de L’Aubespine †	Bishop of Orléans, France
	61.1	Resigned	Ludovico Taverna †	Apostolic Nuncio to Venice, Italy	Bishop Emeritus of Lodi, Italy
Mar		Born	Gilles de Souvre †		Bishop of Auxerre, France
4 Mar	37.1	Appointed	Marino Zorzi (Giorgi) †	Bishop of Brescia, Italy
6 Mar	56.6	Selected	Jean Sarrazin, O.S.B. †	Archbishop of Cambrai, France
10 Mar	45.1	Ordained Bishop	Minuccio Minucci †	Archbishop of Zadar (Zara), Croatia
10 Mar	37.1	Ordained Bishop	Marino Zorzi (Giorgi) †	Bishop of Brescia, Italy
11 Mar		Appointed	Dionys Burckard (Burkhard) †	Auxiliary Bishop of Speyer, Germany
		Appointed	Dionys Burckard (Burkhard) †	Titular Bishop of Daulia	Auxiliary Bishop of Speyer, Germany
		Appointed	Giuseppe de Rossi †	Bishop of Ugento, Italy	Archbishop of Acerenza e Matera, Italy
		Appointed	Giovanni Myra (Mira) †	Archbishop of Acerenza e Matera, Italy
18 Mar	60.2	Appointed	Carlos Muñoz Serrano †	Bishop of Barbastro, Spain
27 Mar		Appointed	Eugenio Savino †	Bishop of Telese o Cerreto Sannita, Italy
31 Mar		Ordained Bishop	Eugenio Savino †	Bishop of Telese o Cerreto Sannita, Italy
Apr		Born	Alessandro Sergardi †		Bishop of Montalcino, Italy
11 Apr		Born	Martín López de Hontiveros †		Archbishop of Valencia, Spain
20 Apr	52.0	Appointed	Ottavio Mirto Frangipani †	Apostolic Nuncio to Flanders, Belgium	Archbishop of Taranto, Italy
28 Apr		Born	Louis-Emmanuel de Valois (d&rsqup'Angoulême) †
29 Apr		Born	Alfonso de la Peña Montenegro †		Bishop of Quito, Ecuador
		Appointed	Matteo Rivarola, O.S.B. †	Archbishop of Genova, Italy
	50.0	Appointed	Bernardo de Rojas y Sandoval †	Bishop of Jaén, Spain	Cardinal, Archbishop of Toledo, Spain
	68.3	Appointed	Juan Velázquez de las Cuevas, O.P. †	Bishop of Ávila, Spain
1 May	52.3	Died	António de Sousa, O.P. †	Bishop of Viseu, Portugal
3 May		Ordained Bishop	Matteo Rivarola, O.S.B. †	Archbishop of Genova, Italy
10 May	50.3	Appointed	Francesco Gonzaga, O.F.M. Obs. †	Apostolic Nuncio to France	Bishop of Mantova, Italy
	32.3	Appointed	Pietro Giorgio Odescalchi †	Bishop of Alessandria (della Paglia), Italy	Bishop of Vigevano, Italy
	43.8	Resigned	Ottavio Paravicini †	Bishop of Alessandria (della Paglia), Italy	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus
13 May	46.3	Appointed	Giovanni Stefano Ajazza †	Bishop of Asti, Italy
13 May	45.5	Appointed	Antonio Zapata y Cisneros †	Bishop of Pamplona, Spain	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Burgos, Spain
15 May	50.3	Selected	Bartolomé Lobo Guerrero †	Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada, Colombia	Archbishop of Lima, Peru
20 May	55.3	Appointed	Miguel Rangel, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop of Angola e Congo
26 May	71.7	Died	Johann von Haugwitz †	Former Bishop-Elect of Meißen (Meissen), Germany
29 May		Appointed	Orazio Basilisco †	Bishop of Minori, Italy
29 May	58.7	Died	Filippo Sega †	Cardinal, Bishop of Piacenza, Italy
31 May	31.6	Died	Georges d’Aradon †	Bishop of Vannes, France
31 May	68.6	Died	John Lesley (Leslie) †	Bishop of Ross (Rosemarkie, Fortrose), Scotland, Great Britain
5 Jun	44.4	Elevated to Cardinal	Pompeio Arrigoni †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Benevento, Italy
	48.4	Elevated to Cardinal	Francisco de Ávila Guzmán †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
	37.6	Elevated to Cardinal	Ottavio Bandini †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Fermo, Italy
	57.7	Elevated to Cardinal	Cesare Baronio, C.O. †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
	23.5	Elevated to Cardinal	Andrea Baroni Peretti Montalto †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
	51.1	Elevated to Cardinal	Gian Francesco Biandrate di San Giorgio Aldobrandini †	Cardinal, Bishop of Faenza, Italy
	50.7	Elevated to Cardinal	Lorenzo Bianchetti †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
	43.7	Elevated to Cardinal	Camillo Borghese †	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
	30.4	Elevated to Cardinal	Bartolomeo Cesi (Cesa) †	Cardinal, Bishop of Tivoli, Italy
	49.4	Elevated to Cardinal	Francesco Cornaro (Jr.) †	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Treviso, Italy
	50.1	Elevated to Cardinal	Anne d’Escars de Givry (de Pérusse), O.S.B. †	Cardinal, Bishop of Metz, France
	62.2	Elevated to Cardinal	Francesco Mantica †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo
	55.4	Elevated to Cardinal	Fernando Niño de Guevara †	Cardinal, Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain
	57.8	Elevated to Cardinal	Lorenzo Priuli †	Cardinal, Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}, Italy
	45.8	Elevated to Cardinal	Silvio Savelli †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Via
	70.7	Elevated to Cardinal	François-Marie Tarugi, C.O. †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Siena, Italy
7 Jun	74.4	Appointed	István Fejérkövy †	Archbishop of Esztergom, Hungary
9 Jun	28.4	Professed	Francisco de la Serna y Rimaga Salazar, O.E.S.A. †	Member of Order of Hermits of St. Augustine	Bishop of La Paz, Bolivia
10 Jun	45.4	Appointed	Vincenzo del Tufo, C.R. †	Bishop of Oria, Italy
10 Jun	43.9	Appointed	Flaminio Piatti †	Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Onofrio	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
17 Jun		Appointed	Miklós Zelniczey Naprady †	Bishop of Pécs, Hungary	Bishop of Zagreb (Agram), Croatia
18 Jun		Died	Alfonso Guerra, O.P. †	Bishop of Michoacán, México
21 Jun	44.4	Installed	Pompeio Arrigoni †	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Aquiro	Cardinal, Archbishop of Benevento, Italy
	37.6	Appointed	Ottavio Bandini †	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Sabina	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Fermo, Italy
	57.8	Installed	Cesare Baronio, C.O. †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
	23.5	Installed	Andrea Baroni Peretti Montalto †	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Domnica	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
	51.2	Installed	Gian Francesco Biandrate di San Giorgio Aldobrandini †	Cardinal-Priest of San Clemente	Cardinal, Bishop of Faenza, Italy
	50.7	Installed	Lorenzo Bianchetti †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
	43.7	Installed	Camillo Borghese †	Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Eusebio	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
	30.4	Installed	Bartolomeo Cesi (Cesa) †	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Portico (Octaviae)	Cardinal, Bishop of Tivoli, Italy
	49.4	Installed	Francesco Cornaro (Jr.) †	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Treviso, Italy
	62.2	Installed	Francesco Mantica †	Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Adriano al Foro	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo
	46.4	Appointed	Lorenzo Mongiò Galatino, O.F.M. Obs. †	Bishop of Minervino Murge, Italy	Bishop of Pozzuoli, Italy
	45.9	Appointed	Silvio Savelli †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Via
	44.4	Appointed	Martín Terrer Valenzuela, O.S.A. †	Bishop of Teruel, Spain	Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain
23 Jun		Died	François Sadoleto †	Bishop of Carpentras, France
28 Jun	61.4	Died	Francisco Santos García de Ontiveros y Martínez †	Bishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México

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