Bishop of Mainz

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The title of Bishop of Mainz was created in 1802 with the abolition of the old Archbishopric of Mainz. The Diocese of Mainz is subordinate to the Archdiocese of Freiburg; its district is located in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse. The seat of the diocese is Mainz.

[edit] Bishops of Mainz, 1802-present

  • Joseph Ludwig Colmar 1802-1818
  • Joseph Vitus Burg 1829-1833
  • Johann Jakob Humann 1833-1834
  • Petrus Leopold Kaiser 1834-1848
  • Wilhelm Emmanuel Freiherr von Ketteler 1850-1877
  • Paul Leopold Haffner 1886-1899
  • Heinrich Brück 1900-1903
  • Georg Heinrich Kirstein 1903-1921
  • Ludwig Maria Hugo 1921-1935
  • Albert Stohr 1935-1961
  • Hermann Cardinal Volk 1962-1982
  • Karl Cardinal Lehmann 1983-



Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Germany
    Archdioceses Dioceses
    Bamberg Eichstätt | Speyer | Würzburg
    Berlin Dresden-Meissen | Görlitz
    Freiburg im Breisgau Mainz | Rottenburg-Stuttgart
    Hamburg Hildesheim | Osnabrück
    Cologne Aachen | Essen | Limburg | Münster | Trier
    Munich & Freising Augsburg | Passau | Regensburg
    Paderborn Erfurt | Fulda | Magdeburg
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