Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich and Freising

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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 mother church in Munich Frauenkirche, also called the Munich Cathedral. The previous cathedral is the Freising 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.

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[edit] Bishops of Freising

[edit] Prince-Bishops of Freising

[edit] Archbishops of Munich-Freising

[edit] Residence

The residence of the Archbishops of Munich and Freising is the Palais Holnstein in Munich.

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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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Roman Catholic archdioceses and dioceses in Germany
(Archdioceses in bold)
Aachen | Augsburg | Bamberg | Berlin | Cologne | Dresden-Meissen | Eichstätt | Erfurt | Essen | Freiburg | Fulda | Görlitz | Hamburg | Hildesheim | Limburg | Magdeburg | Mainz | Munich and Freising | Münster | Osnabrück | Paderborn | Passau | Regensburg | Rottenburg-Stuttgart | Speyer | Trier | Würzburg
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