Bishop

4/11 — Bishop Stanislaus of Kraków is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.

5/12 — Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.

6/10 — Council of Trent: Pope Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.

9/2 — During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.

9/20 — Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia.

3/1 — The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.

9/10 — The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.

12/18 — Richard Olivier de Longueil, French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal (d. 1470)

5/30 — Lope de Barrientos, Castilian bishop (b. 1389)

5/13 — John the Silent, bishop and saint

11/15 — Malo, Welsh bishop

7/8 — Kilian, Irish bishop

12/4 — Suairlech ind Eidnén mac Ciaráin, Irish bishop