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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich and Freising — known in the German language as Erzbistum München und Freising and in Latin as Archidioecesis Monacensis et Frisingensis — is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Bavaria, Germany. It is led by the prelature of the Archbishop of Munich, administering the see from the motherchurch in Munich Frauenkirche, also called the Munich Cathedral.
The see was canonically erected circa 739 by Saint Boniface as the Diocese of Freising. After the Thirty Years' War the bishop became a prince-bishop. The diocese was dissolved in 1803 following the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire, although a titular bishop ruled until April 1, 1818, when Pope Pius VII elevated the diocese to an archdiocese with its seat at Munich.
The archdiocese is divided into forty dioceses with 758 parishes. Its suffragan bishops are the Bishop of Augsburg, the Bishop of Passau, and the Bishop of Regensburg.
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich - Bishops of Freising
- Saint Korbinian (723-730; founded the Benedictine abbey in Freising, although the diocese was not organized until 739 by St. Boniface)
- Erembert (739-747)
- Joseph of Verona (747-764)
- Arbeo (764-783)
- Atto (784-810)
- Hitto (811-834)
- Erchambert (835-854)
- Anno (855-875)
- Arnold (875-883)
- Waldo (883-903)
- Utto (903-907)
- Dracholf (907-926)
- Wolfram (926-937)
- Lantbert (937-957)
- Abraham (957-994)
- Gottschalk (994-1006)
- Egilbert of Moosburg (1006-1039)
- Nitker (1039-1052)
- Ellenhard, Count of Meran (1052-1078)
- Meginhard, Count of Scheyern (1078-1098)
- Heinrich I of Ebersdorf (1098-1137)
- Otto I (1138-1158)
- Albert I (1158-1184)
- Otto II (1184-1220)
- Gerold von Waldeck (1220-1230)
- Konrad I von Tölz und Hohenburg (1230-1258)
- Konrad II of Wittelsbach (1258-1278)
- Friedrich von Montalban (1279-1282)
- Emicho of Wittelsbach (1283-1311)
- Gottfried von Hexenagger (1311-1314)
- Konrad III der Sendlinger (1314-1322)
- Johannes I Wulfing (1323-1324)
- Konrad IV von Klingenberg (1324-1340)
- Johannes II Hake (1340-1349)
- Albert II of Hohenberg (1349-1359)
- Paul von Jägerndorf (1359-1377)
- Leopold von Sturmberg (1377-1381)
- Berthold von Wehingen (1381-1410)
- Konrad V. von Hebenstreit (1411-1412)
- Hermann Graf von Cilli (1412-1421)
- Nicodemus of Scala (1421-1443)
- Heinrich II of Schlick (1443-1448)
- Johannes III Grünwalder (1448-1452)
- Johann IV of Tülbeck (1453-1473)
- Ruprecht von der Pfalz (1495-1498)
- Philipp von der Pfalz (1499-1541)
- Heinrich III von der Pfalz (1541-1551)
- Leo Lösch von Hilkertshausen (1552-1559)
- Moritz of Sandizell (1559-1566)
- Ernest, Duke of Bavaria (1556-1612)
- Stephan von Seiboldsdorf (1612-1618)
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich - Prince-Bishops of Freising
- Vitus Adam von Gebeck (1618-1651)
- Albert Sigismund (1652-1685)
- Joseph Klemens (1685-1694)
- Johann Franz Eckher von Kapfing (1695-1727)
- Johann Theodor, Duke of Bavaria (1727-1763)
- Klemens Wenzeslaus, Duke of Saxony (1763-1768)
- Ludwig Joseph von Welden (1769-1788)
- Maximilian Prokop, Count of Törring-Jettenbach (1788-1789)
- Konrad von Schroffenberg (1789-1803; see dissolved in 1803)
- Joseph Jakob von Heckenstaller (titular, 1803-1818)
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich - Archbishops of Munich-Freising
- Lothar Anselm Freiherr von Gebsattel (1818-1846)
- Karl August Graf von Reisach (1846-1856)
- Gregor Leonhard Andreas von Scherr (1856-1877)
- Antonius von Steichele (1878-1889)
- Antonius von Thoma (1889-1897)
- Franz Joseph von Stein (1897-1909)
- Franziskus A. Cardinal von Bettinger (1909-1917)
- Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber (1917-1952)
- Joseph Cardinal Wendel (1952-1960)
- Julius August Cardinal Döpfner (1961-1976)
- Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) (1977-1982)
- Friedrich Cardinal Wetter (1982-present)
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich - Resources
- Archbishopric of Munich
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich
- Catholic Hierarchy Profile of the Archdiocese of Munich
- Catholic Encyclopedia article (history of the diocese up to Archbishop von Bettinger)
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