List of bishops of Freising and archbishops of Munich and Freising

The following people were bishops, prince-bishops or archbishops of Freising or Munich and Freising in Bavaria:

The bear miracle — Saint Corbinian of Freising, as a bishop, crossing the Alps on his way to Rome in 710, Jan Polack, oil on pinewood, 1489

Bishops of Freising

• St. Corbinian (724–730); founded the Benedictine abbey in Freising, although the diocese was not organised until 739)

Establishment of episcopal organisation in Old Bavaria by Saint Boniface in 739.

• Erembert (739–747/748; sometimes referred to as Corbinian's half brother^[1])
• Joseph of Freising, also known as Joseph of Verona (747/748–764)
• Arbeo (764–784)
• Atto (784–811)
• Hitto (811–835)
• Erchanbert (835/836–854)
• Anno (854/855–875)
• Arnold (875–883)
• Waldo (883/884–903/906)
• Utto (904/906–907)
• Dracholf (907–926)
• Wolfram (926–937)
• St. Lantpert (937/938–957)
• Abraham (957–993)
• Gottschalk of Hagenau (993–1006)
• Egilbert of Moosburg (1006–1039)
• Nitker (1039–1052)
• Ellenhard, Count of Meran (1052–1078)
• Meginward, Count of Scheyarn (1078–1098)
• Henry I of Freising, also known as Henry I of Ebersdorf (1098–1137)
• Otto I (1138–1158)
• Albert I of Harthausen (1158–1184)
• Otto II (1184–1220)
• Gerold of Waldeck (1220–1230)
• Conrad I of Tölz and Hohenburg (1230–1258)
• Conrad II Wildgraf of Dhaun (1258–1278)
• Frederick of Montalban (1280–1282)

Elevation to a Hochstift i.e. Prince-Bishopric in 1294

Prince-bishops of Freising

Prince-bishop Philip of the Palatinate (portrait around 1525/1527)

Prince-bishop Albert Sigismund of Bavaria (1675 painting)

• Emicho of Wittelsbach (1283–1311)
• Gottfried of Hexenagger (1311–1314)
• Conrad III the Sendlinger (1314–1322)
• John I Wulfing (1323–1324)
• Conrad IV of Klingenberg (1324–1340)
• John II Hake (1340–1349)
• Albert II of Hohenberg (1349–1359)
• Paul of Jägerndorf (1359–1377)
• Leopold of Sturmberg (1377–1381)
• Berthold of Wehingen (1381–1410)
• Conrad of Hebenstreit (1411–1412)
• Hermann of Cilli (1412–1421)
• Nicodemus della Scala [it] (1421–1443)
• Henry II of Schlick (1443–1448)
• John III Grünwald (elected 15 January 1448; died 2 December 1452)
• Johann Tulbeck (elected January 1453; resigned November 1473)
• Sixtus of Tannberg (elected 12 January 1474; died 14 July 1495)
• Ruprecht of the Palatinate (elected 1 August 1495; resigned 3 December 1498)
• Philip of the Palatinate (elected 1498; died 5 January 1541)
• Henry of the Palatinate (succeeded 5 January 1541; died 3 January 1552)
• Leo Lösch of Hilkertshausen (elected 15 February 1552; died 8 April 1559)
• Moritz von Sandizell (elected 12 June 1559; died 18 October 1566)
• Ernest of Bavaria (elected 18 October 1566; died 17 February 1612)
• Stephan of Seiboldsdorf (elected 7 May 1612; died 18 January 1618)
• Veit Adam of Gepeckh von Arnsbach (elected 12 February 1618; died 8 December 1651)
• Albert Sigismund of Bavaria (8 December 1651 – 5 November 1685)
• Joseph Clemens of Bavaria (succeeded 5 November 1685 – 29 September 1694)
• Johann Francis Eckher of Kapfing and Liechteneck (elected 29 January 1695; died 23 February 1727)
• Johann Theodor of Bavaria (succeeded 23 February 1727; died 27 January 1763)
• Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony (elected 18 April 1763; resigned 20 August 1768)
• Louis Joseph of Welden on Laupheim and Hohenaltingen (elected 23 January 1768; died 15 March 1788)
• Maximilian Prokop of Toerring-Jettenbach elected 26 May 1788; died 30 December 1789)
• Joseph Conrad of Schroffenberg-Mös, C.R.S.A. (elected 1 March 1790; died 4 April 1803). After his death, the temporal authority of the bishop was mediatised and abolished by the Elector of Bavaria.

Sede vacante as a result of the secularisation under Napoleonic rule (1803–1821)

• Joseph James of Heckenstaller, priest, vicar capitular (appointed 14 April 1803); was also named first a vicar general and, later, a papal delegate as "vicar capitular apostolic", but never raised to the episcopacy; resigned 16 February 1818. The episcopal functions were exercised by auxiliary bishop, Johann Nepomuk Wolf.

Elevation to an archdiocese in 1817/1821

Archbishops of Munich and Freising

Cardinal Döpfner at Munich's Corpus Christi procession in 1971

• Lothar Anselm von Gebsattel [de] (appointed 5 February 1818; confirmed soon, but at first only apostolic administrator; archbishop 1 November 1821; died 1 October 1846)
• Karl-August von Reisach (succeeded 1 October 1846; cardinal 17 December 1855; resigned 19 June 1856)
• Gregor von Scherr, O.S.B. (appointed 6 January 1856; died 24 October 1877)
• Antonius von Steichele (appointed 30 April 1878; died 9 October 1889)
• Antonius von Thoma (appointed 23 October 1889; died 24 November 1897)
• Franz Joseph von Stein (appointed 24 December 1897; died 4 May 1909)
• Franziskus von Bettinger (appointed 23 May 1909; cardinal 25 May 1914; died 12 April 1917)
• Michael von Faulhaber (appointed 26 May 1917; cardinal 7 March 1921; died 12 June 1952)
• Joseph Wendel (appointed 9 August 1952; cardinal 12 January 1953; died 31 December 1960)
• Julius Döpfner (appointed 3 July 1961, already a cardinal; died 24 July 1976)
• Joseph Ratzinger (appointed 24 March 1977; cardinal 27 June 1977; resigned 15 February 1982), subsequently Pope Benedict XVI
• Friedrich Wetter (appointed 28 October 1982; cardinal 25 May 1985; retired 2 February 2007)
• Reinhard Marx (appointed 30 November 2007; cardinal 20 November 2010)

See also

• Archdiocese of Munich and Freising