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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