The Year of Our Lord 1774

Bishop Events

July to December

Date Age Event Bishop Title Current Title

2 Jul Born Cassiodoro Margarita † Bishop of Gravina e Irsina (Montepeloso), Italy

3 Jul 29.2 Ordained Priest Antonio Despuig y Dameto † Priest Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain

38.5 Ordained Bishop Giampaolo Dolfin, C.R.L. † Bishop of Ceneda, Italy Bishop of Bergamo, Italy

44.5 Ordained Bishop Onofrio Maria Ginnari † Bishop of Montemarano, Italy

50.4 Ordained Bishop Giuseppe Bernardino Pecci, O.S.B. † Bishop of Montalcino, Italy

39.5 Ordained Bishop Nicolò Rossetti † Bishop of Boiano, Italy

8 Jul 43.4 Selected Guillaume-Joseph d’Abzac de Mayac † Bishop of Saint-Papoul, France

10 Jul 91.4 Died Louis-François-Gabriel d’Orléans de La Motte † Bishop of Amiens, France

36.5 Succeeded Louis-Charles de Machault † Bishop of Amiens, France Bishop Emeritus

16 Jul 17.2 Ordained Priest Jakob Peregrin Paulitsch † Priest of Gurk, Austria Bishop

17 Jul 63.5 Died Miguel Anselmo Álvarez de Abreu y Valdéz † Bishop of Antequera, Oaxaca, México

44.4 Ordained Bishop Guillaume-Louis du Tillet † Bishop of Orange, France

18 Jul 55.5 Selected Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal † Archbishop of Mainz, Germany Archbishop Emeritus

21 Jul Born Francesco Leonini † Bishop of Urbania e Sant’Angelo in Vado, Italy

23 Jul 81.3 Died Bartolomeo Antonio Passi † Auxiliary Bishop of Trento, Italy

24 Jul 38.1 Ordained Bishop Marie-Joseph de Galard de Terraube † Bishop of Le Puy-en-Velay, France

76.3 Died Aleksander Kazimierz Horain † Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Žemaičiai (Samogizia o Tels; Żmudź), Lithuania

77.5 Died Étienne-René Potier de Gesvres † Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Beauvais, France

25 Jul 81.3 Died Pompeo Compagnoni † Bishop of Osimo e Cingoli, Italy

26 Jul 55.5 Selected Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal † Bishop of Worms, Germany Archbishop Emeritus of Mainz, Germany

27 Jul 41.8 Appointed Eustach Federl, O.C.D. † Vicar Apostolic of Malabar, India

41.8 Appointed Eustach Federl, O.C.D. † Titular Bishop of Germanicia Vicar Apostolic of Malabar, India

15 Aug Born Carlo Tommaso Arnosio † Archbishop of Sassari, Italy

64.1 Died Serafino Brancone (Branconi), O.S.B. † Bishop Emeritus of Gallipoli, Italy

16 Aug Born Mihail (Mychajlo) Lewicki (Levyckyj) † Cardinal, Archbishop of Lviv (Ukrainian), Ukraine

17 Aug 62.3 Selected Francesco Antonio Deplano † Bishop of Iglesias, Italy

Born Santiago José O’ Phelan Recabarren † Bishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga (Guamanga), Peru

21 Aug 34.6 Ordained Bishop Walenty Wołczacki, O.P. † Titular Bishop of Tamasus

24 Aug 20.1 Ordained Deacon Péter Klobusiczky † Deacon of Society of Jesus Archbishop of Kalocsa, Hungary

26 Aug Born Domenico Bellusci † Titular Bishop of Sinope

28 Aug 42.3 Ordained Bishop Alonso Marcos de Llanes Argüelles † Bishop of Segovia, Spain Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain

68.4 Died Pio Manzador, B. † Bishop of Transilvania, Erdély, Siebenbürgen, Romania

Sep 61.2 Resigned Antonio Eugenio Visconti † Apostolic Nuncio to Emperor Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Indulgences and Relics

1 Sep 66.3 Died Innocenzo Gorgoni, O.S.B. † President Emeritus of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy

10 Sep 49.7 Died Léopold-Charles de Choiseul-Stainville † Archbishop of Cambrai, France

11 Sep 55.6 Ordained Priest Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal † Priest Archbishop Emeritus of Mainz, Germany

17 Sep 23.7 Ordained Priest St. Louis Gabriel Taurin Dufresse, M.E.P. † Priest of La Société des Missions Etrangères Vicar Apostolic of Se-Ciuen (Setchoan, Szechwan, Sichuan), China

18 Sep Born Niccola Berlingeri † Bishop of Nicastro, Italy

19 Sep 59.4 Died José de Franquís Laso de Castilla † Bishop of Málaga, Spain

Born Giuseppe Gasparo Mezzofanti † Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Onofrio

22 Sep 68.8 Died Lorenzo (Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio) Ganganelli, O.F.M. Conv. † Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)

23 Sep 62.7 Died Charles-Jean de Bertin † Bishop of Vannes, France

24 Sep 23.7 Ordained Priest John Connolly, O.P. † Priest of Order of Friars Preachers Bishop of New York, New York, USA

22.9 Ordained Deacon Paolo Lamberto D’Allègre † Deacon Bishop of Pavia, Italy

24.1 Ordained Priest Jacques-Alexis Jacquemin † Priest Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Dié, France

23.9 Ordained Priest Ignazio Nasalli-Ratti † Priest Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio

56.0 Selected Henri-Marie-Bernardin de Rosset de Ceilhes de Fleury † Archbishop of Cambrai, France

23.3 Ordained Priest Domenico Ventapane † Priest of Napoli {Naples}, Italy Titular Bishop of Tium

25 Sep 47.6 Ordained Bishop António Freire Gameiro de Sousa † Bishop of Aveiro, Portugal

39.4 Ordained Bishop Francisco de Lemos de Faria Pereira Coutinho † Titular Bishop of Zenopolis in Lycia Bishop of Coimbra, Portugal

1 Oct 33.8 Selected Jean-Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur † Bishop of Saint-Omer, France Archbishop Emeritus of Bourges, France

13 Oct 72.1 Died Guillaume d’Arché † Bishop of Bayonne, France

14 Oct Born Bernardo Francés Caballero † Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain

17 Oct 58.3 Died Hermann Hannibal von Blümegen † Bishop of Hradec Králové, Czechia

19 Oct Born Carmelo Cordiviola † Bishop of Albenga, Italy

20 Oct Born José Hilarión de Etura y Cevallos (Ceballos), O.P. † Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de Cuyo, Argentina

28 Oct 38.4 Installed Marie-Joseph de Galard de Terraube † Bishop of Le Puy-en-Velay, France

31 Oct 62.9 Died Jean-Baptiste-Marie Bron † Auxiliary Bishop of Lyon, France

Nov 61.7 Died Giovanni Antonio Francisco de Nobili, Sch. P. † Bishop of Larino, Italy

4 Nov Born Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg † Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany

6 Nov Born Severo Leonardo Andriani Escofet † Bishop of Pamplona (-Tudela), Spain

23.0 Ordained Deacon Alexandre de Gouvea (Gouveia), T.O.R. † Deacon of Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Penance Bishop of Peking [Beijing], China

80.0 Died François-Marie de Manzi † Archbishop of Avignon, France

10 Nov 33.1 Selected Sébastien-Michel Amelot † Bishop of Vannes, France Bishop Emeritus

Born Marcin von Dunin Sulgostowski † Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań, Poland

13 Nov 17.5 Professed Remigio Crescini, O.S.B. † Member of Order of Saint Benedict Cardinal, Bishop of Parma, Italy

18 Nov Born Luigi Francesco Paolo Maria Bovio, O.S.B. † Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla, Italy

83.3 Died Leonardo Cecconi † Bishop Emeritus of Montalto (delle Marche), Italy

79.1 Died Giovanni Francesco Stoppani † Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina

Born Michele Virgili † Bishop of Comacchio, Italy

20 Nov 42.2 Ordained Bishop Eustach Federl, O.C.D. † Titular Bishop of Germanicia Vicar Apostolic of Malabar, India

Dec 49.9 Appointed Germanos (Michel) Adam † Bishop of Akka (Melkite Greek), Israel Archbishop of Alep [Beroea, Halab] (Melkite Greek), Syria

16.1 Professed Bernardino D’Avolio, O.F.M. Cap. † Member of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin Bishop of Trivento, Italy

2 Dec Born François-René Boussen † Bishop of Brugge {Bruges}, Belgium

48.9 Died Antonius von Herberstein, C.R. † Bishop of Trieste, Italy

8 Dec 38.4 Selected Jules-Basile Ferron de La Ferronnays † Bishop of Bayonne, France Bishop of Lisieux, France

42.5 Selected Hugues-François de Regnault-Bellescize † Bishop of Saint-Brieuc, France

10 Dec 43.9 Converted Ignace Michel III Djarwé (Jarweh) † Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon

14 Dec 78.6 Died Diego Bernardo de Peredo y Navarrete † Bishop of Yucatán (Mérida), México

68.9 Died Juan Manuel Garcia de Vargas y Ribera, O. de M. † Bishop of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas), México

17 Dec 24.1 Ordained Priest Giuseppe Manfrin Provedi † Priest Bishop of Chioggia, Italy

24.2 Ordained Priest Luigi Zuppani † Priest of Belluno e Feltre, Italy Bishop

18 Dec 36.7 Selected Joachim-François-Mamert de Conzié † Archbishop of Tours, France

76.9 Died Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † Apostolic Administrator of Toledo, Spain

25 Dec 49.9 Ordained Bishop Germanos (Michel) Adam † Bishop of Akka (Melkite Greek), Israel Archbishop of Alep [Beroea, Halab] (Melkite Greek), Syria

26 Dec 58.9 Died Giovanni Battista Orsi † Bishop of Fano, Italy

27 Dec Born Pierre-Tobie Yenni † Bishop of Lausanne et Genève, Switzerland

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
2 Jul		Born	Cassiodoro Margarita †		Bishop of Gravina e Irsina (Montepeloso), Italy
3 Jul	29.2	Ordained Priest	Antonio Despuig y Dameto †	Priest	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain
38.5	Ordained Bishop	Giampaolo Dolfin, C.R.L. †	Bishop of Ceneda, Italy	Bishop of Bergamo, Italy
44.5	Ordained Bishop	Onofrio Maria Ginnari †	Bishop of Montemarano, Italy
50.4	Ordained Bishop	Giuseppe Bernardino Pecci, O.S.B. †	Bishop of Montalcino, Italy
39.5	Ordained Bishop	Nicolò Rossetti †	Bishop of Boiano, Italy
8 Jul	43.4	Selected	Guillaume-Joseph d’Abzac de Mayac †	Bishop of Saint-Papoul, France
10 Jul	91.4	Died	Louis-François-Gabriel d’Orléans de La Motte †	Bishop of Amiens, France
36.5	Succeeded	Louis-Charles de Machault †	Bishop of Amiens, France	Bishop Emeritus
16 Jul	17.2	Ordained Priest	Jakob Peregrin Paulitsch †	Priest of Gurk, Austria	Bishop
17 Jul	63.5	Died	Miguel Anselmo Álvarez de Abreu y Valdéz †	Bishop of Antequera, Oaxaca, México
44.4	Ordained Bishop	Guillaume-Louis du Tillet †	Bishop of Orange, France
18 Jul	55.5	Selected	Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal †	Archbishop of Mainz, Germany	Archbishop Emeritus
21 Jul		Born	Francesco Leonini †		Bishop of Urbania e Sant’Angelo in Vado, Italy
23 Jul	81.3	Died	Bartolomeo Antonio Passi †	Auxiliary Bishop of Trento, Italy
24 Jul	38.1	Ordained Bishop	Marie-Joseph de Galard de Terraube †	Bishop of Le Puy-en-Velay, France
76.3	Died	Aleksander Kazimierz Horain †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Žemaičiai (Samogizia o Tels; Żmudź), Lithuania
77.5	Died	Étienne-René Potier de Gesvres †	Cardinal, Bishop Emeritus of Beauvais, France
25 Jul	81.3	Died	Pompeo Compagnoni †	Bishop of Osimo e Cingoli, Italy
26 Jul	55.5	Selected	Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal †	Bishop of Worms, Germany	Archbishop Emeritus of Mainz, Germany
27 Jul	41.8	Appointed	Eustach Federl, O.C.D. †	Vicar Apostolic of Malabar, India
41.8	Appointed	Eustach Federl, O.C.D. †	Titular Bishop of Germanicia	Vicar Apostolic of Malabar, India
15 Aug		Born	Carlo Tommaso Arnosio †		Archbishop of Sassari, Italy
64.1	Died	Serafino Brancone (Branconi), O.S.B. †	Bishop Emeritus of Gallipoli, Italy
16 Aug		Born	Mihail (Mychajlo) Lewicki (Levyckyj) †		Cardinal, Archbishop of Lviv (Ukrainian), Ukraine
17 Aug	62.3	Selected	Francesco Antonio Deplano †	Bishop of Iglesias, Italy
	Born	Santiago José O’ Phelan Recabarren †		Bishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga (Guamanga), Peru
21 Aug	34.6	Ordained Bishop	Walenty Wołczacki, O.P. †	Titular Bishop of Tamasus
24 Aug	20.1	Ordained Deacon	Péter Klobusiczky †	Deacon of Society of Jesus	Archbishop of Kalocsa, Hungary
26 Aug		Born	Domenico Bellusci †		Titular Bishop of Sinope
28 Aug	42.3	Ordained Bishop	Alonso Marcos de Llanes Argüelles †	Bishop of Segovia, Spain	Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain
68.4	Died	Pio Manzador, B. †	Bishop of Transilvania, Erdély, Siebenbürgen, Romania
Sep	61.2	Resigned	Antonio Eugenio Visconti †	Apostolic Nuncio to Emperor	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Indulgences and Relics
1 Sep	66.3	Died	Innocenzo Gorgoni, O.S.B. †	President Emeritus of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
10 Sep	49.7	Died	Léopold-Charles de Choiseul-Stainville †	Archbishop of Cambrai, France
11 Sep	55.6	Ordained Priest	Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal †	Priest	Archbishop Emeritus of Mainz, Germany
17 Sep	23.7	Ordained Priest	St. Louis Gabriel Taurin Dufresse, M.E.P. †	Priest of La Société des Missions Etrangères	Vicar Apostolic of Se-Ciuen (Setchoan, Szechwan, Sichuan), China
18 Sep		Born	Niccola Berlingeri †		Bishop of Nicastro, Italy
19 Sep	59.4	Died	José de Franquís Laso de Castilla †	Bishop of Málaga, Spain
	Born	Giuseppe Gasparo Mezzofanti †		Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Onofrio
22 Sep	68.8	Died	Lorenzo (Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio) Ganganelli, O.F.M. Conv. †	Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy)
23 Sep	62.7	Died	Charles-Jean de Bertin †	Bishop of Vannes, France
24 Sep	23.7	Ordained Priest	John Connolly, O.P. †	Priest of Order of Friars Preachers	Bishop of New York, New York, USA
22.9	Ordained Deacon	Paolo Lamberto D’Allègre †	Deacon	Bishop of Pavia, Italy
24.1	Ordained Priest	Jacques-Alexis Jacquemin †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Dié, France
23.9	Ordained Priest	Ignazio Nasalli-Ratti †	Priest	Cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio
56.0	Selected	Henri-Marie-Bernardin de Rosset de Ceilhes de Fleury †	Archbishop of Cambrai, France
23.3	Ordained Priest	Domenico Ventapane †	Priest of Napoli {Naples}, Italy	Titular Bishop of Tium
25 Sep	47.6	Ordained Bishop	António Freire Gameiro de Sousa †	Bishop of Aveiro, Portugal
39.4	Ordained Bishop	Francisco de Lemos de Faria Pereira Coutinho †	Titular Bishop of Zenopolis in Lycia	Bishop of Coimbra, Portugal
1 Oct	33.8	Selected	Jean-Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur †	Bishop of Saint-Omer, France	Archbishop Emeritus of Bourges, France
13 Oct	72.1	Died	Guillaume d’Arché †	Bishop of Bayonne, France
14 Oct		Born	Bernardo Francés Caballero †		Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain
17 Oct	58.3	Died	Hermann Hannibal von Blümegen †	Bishop of Hradec Králové, Czechia
19 Oct		Born	Carmelo Cordiviola †		Bishop of Albenga, Italy
20 Oct		Born	José Hilarión de Etura y Cevallos (Ceballos), O.P. †		Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de Cuyo, Argentina
28 Oct	38.4	Installed	Marie-Joseph de Galard de Terraube †	Bishop of Le Puy-en-Velay, France
31 Oct	62.9	Died	Jean-Baptiste-Marie Bron †	Auxiliary Bishop of Lyon, France
Nov	61.7	Died	Giovanni Antonio Francisco de Nobili, Sch. P. †	Bishop of Larino, Italy
4 Nov		Born	Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg †		Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Konstanz {Constance}, Germany
6 Nov		Born	Severo Leonardo Andriani Escofet †		Bishop of Pamplona (-Tudela), Spain
23.0	Ordained Deacon	Alexandre de Gouvea (Gouveia), T.O.R. †	Deacon of Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Penance	Bishop of Peking [Beijing], China
80.0	Died	François-Marie de Manzi †	Archbishop of Avignon, France
10 Nov	33.1	Selected	Sébastien-Michel Amelot †	Bishop of Vannes, France	Bishop Emeritus
	Born	Marcin von Dunin Sulgostowski †		Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań, Poland
13 Nov	17.5	Professed	Remigio Crescini, O.S.B. †	Member of Order of Saint Benedict	Cardinal, Bishop of Parma, Italy
18 Nov		Born	Luigi Francesco Paolo Maria Bovio, O.S.B. †		Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla, Italy
83.3	Died	Leonardo Cecconi †	Bishop Emeritus of Montalto (delle Marche), Italy
79.1	Died	Giovanni Francesco Stoppani †	Cardinal, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
	Born	Michele Virgili †		Bishop of Comacchio, Italy
20 Nov	42.2	Ordained Bishop	Eustach Federl, O.C.D. †	Titular Bishop of Germanicia	Vicar Apostolic of Malabar, India
Dec	49.9	Appointed	Germanos (Michel) Adam †	Bishop of Akka (Melkite Greek), Israel	Archbishop of Alep [Beroea, Halab] (Melkite Greek), Syria
16.1	Professed	Bernardino D’Avolio, O.F.M. Cap. †	Member of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin	Bishop of Trivento, Italy
2 Dec		Born	François-René Boussen †		Bishop of Brugge {Bruges}, Belgium
48.9	Died	Antonius von Herberstein, C.R. †	Bishop of Trieste, Italy
8 Dec	38.4	Selected	Jules-Basile Ferron de La Ferronnays †	Bishop of Bayonne, France	Bishop of Lisieux, France
42.5	Selected	Hugues-François de Regnault-Bellescize †	Bishop of Saint-Brieuc, France
10 Dec	43.9	Converted	Ignace Michel III Djarwé (Jarweh) †	Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon
14 Dec	78.6	Died	Diego Bernardo de Peredo y Navarrete †	Bishop of Yucatán (Mérida), México
68.9	Died	Juan Manuel Garcia de Vargas y Ribera, O. de M. †	Bishop of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas), México
17 Dec	24.1	Ordained Priest	Giuseppe Manfrin Provedi †	Priest	Bishop of Chioggia, Italy
24.2	Ordained Priest	Luigi Zuppani †	Priest of Belluno e Feltre, Italy	Bishop
18 Dec	36.7	Selected	Joachim-François-Mamert de Conzié †	Archbishop of Tours, France
76.9	Died	Manuel Quintano Bonifaz †	Apostolic Administrator of Toledo, Spain
25 Dec	49.9	Ordained Bishop	Germanos (Michel) Adam †	Bishop of Akka (Melkite Greek), Israel	Archbishop of Alep [Beroea, Halab] (Melkite Greek), Syria
26 Dec	58.9	Died	Giovanni Battista Orsi †	Bishop of Fano, Italy
27 Dec		Born	Pierre-Tobie Yenni †		Bishop of Lausanne et Genève, Switzerland

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