List of the bishops of Augsburg

Coat of arms of the diocese of Augsburg based on Siebmacher's coat of arms book from 1605

The list of the bishops of Augsburg presents the bishops of the diocese of Augsburg .

Up until secularization they were also prince-bishops of the Augsburg bishopric .

Some epitaphs can be found in Augsburg Cathedral to this day .

List of the bishops of Augsburg

No.	bishop	from	to	description
1	Dionysius	at 300		According to the more recent Afra legend, alleged uncle of Afra von Augsburg , according to which conversion and immediate episcopal ordination by Bishop Narcissus of Girona , followed by martyrdom immediately after Afra - according to current research, literary fiction from the 8th century.
2	Narcissus	at 300		unsecured bishop of Girona, according to a legend from the 8th century in Augsburg at the time of the Diocletian persecution of Christians, St. Afra and a group of other people, including Dionysius
3	Perewelf
4th	Tagebert
5	Manno
6th	Wicho
7th	Zeizzo
8th	Marchmann
9	Wikterp	738	772	First reliably verifiable bishop of Augsburg
10	Tozzo	772	778
11	Holy Simpert	778	807	later Bishop of Neuburg (789–802)
12	Hanto	807	815
13	Nidker	816	830
14th	Udalmann	830	832
15th	Lanto	833	860
16	Witgar	861	887
17th	Adalbero	887	909
18th	Hiltin	909	923
19th	Ulrich I.	923	973	Saint of the Catholic Church
20th	Heinrich I.	973	982
21st	Eticho	982	988
22nd	Liutold	988	996
23	Gebehard	996	1000
24	Siegfried I.	1001	1006
25th	Bruno	1006	1029
26th	Eberhard I.	1029	1047
27	Henry II	1047	1063
28	Embrico	1063	1077
29	Wigolt	1077	1088
30th	Siegfried II.	1088	1096
31	Hermann von Vohburg	1096	1133	see also Rapotonen
32	Walter I of Dillingen	1133	1152	see also Dillingen on the Danube
33	Konrad von Hirscheck	1152	1167	see also Eichstegen
34	Hartwig I of Lierheim	1167	1184	see also Möttingen
35	Udalschalk	1184	1202
36	Hartwig II.	1202	1208
37	Siegfried III. from Rechberg	1208	1227	see also Count von Rechberg
38	Siboto from Seefeld	1227	1247	see also Seefeld
39	Hartmann von Dillingen	1248	1286	see also Dillingen on the Danube
40	Siegfried IV of Algertshausen	1286	1288	see also Algertshausen (Aichach)
41	Wolfhard von Roth	1288	1302
42	Degenhard von Hellenstein	1303	1307	see also Hellenstein Castle
43	Friedrich I. Late from Faimingen	1309	1331	see also Faimingen
44	Ulrich II of Schönegg	1331	1337
45	Henry III. from Schönegg	1337	1348
46	Marquard I. von Randeck	1348	1365	later Patriarch of Aquileia (1365-1381)
47	Walter II of Hochschlitz	1365	1369
48	Johann Schadland	1371	1372
49	Burkhard von Ellerbach	1373	1404
50	Eberhard II of Kirchberg	1404	1413	see also Counts of Kirchberg (Swabia)
51	Friedrich von Grafeneck	1413	1414
52	Anselm von Nenningen	1414	1423	see also Lauterstein
53	Peter von Schaumberg	1424	1469	also cardinal , epitaph in the east choir of Augsburg cathedral
54	Johann II of Werdenberg	1469	1486	see also the Werdenberg family
55	Friedrich II of Zollern	1486	1505
56	Heinrich IV of Lichtenau	1505	1517	see also Lichtenau
57	Christoph von Stadion	1517	1543	see also the Stadion family
58	Cardinal Otto of Augsburg	1543	1573	Cardinal since 1544 also Bishop of Albano (1562–1570), Bishop of Palestrina (1570–1573), Bishop of Sabina (1570)
59	Johann Eglof von Knöringen	1573	1575
60	Marquard II from the mountain	1576	1591
61	Johann Otto von Gemmingen	1591	1598
62	Heinrich V of Knöringen	1599	1646
63	Sigismund Franz von Habsburg	1646	1665	also Bishop of Gurk (1653–1665), Bishop of Trient (1659–1665), Archduke of Tyrol (1662–1665)
64	Johann Christoph von Freyberg	1666	1690
65	Alexander Sigmund of Pfalz-Neuburg	1690	1737
66	Johann Franz Schenk von Stauffenberg	1737	1740	also Bishop of Constance (1704–1740)
67	Joseph Ignaz Philipp of Hessen-Darmstadt	1740	1768
68	Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony	1768	1812	also Prince-Bishop of Freising (1763–1768), Prince-Bishop of Regensburg (1763–1769), Elector and Archbishop of Trier (1768–1803), Prince Abbot of Prüm (1768–1794), Prince Provost of Ellwangen (1787–1803)
69	Franz Friedrich von Sturmfeder	1812	1818	Vicar General
70	Franz Karl Joseph Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst	1818	1819
71	Franz Friedrich von Sturmfeder	1819	1821	Vicar General
72	Joseph Maria Freiherr von und zu Fraunberg	1821	1824	later Archbishop of Bamberg (1824–1842)
73	Ignaz Albert von Riegg	1824	1836
74	Johann Peter von Richarz	1836	1855
75	Michael von Deinlein	1856	1858	later Archbishop of Bamberg (1858–1875)
76	Pankratius of spelled	1858	1894
77	Peter von Hötzl	1895	1902
78	Maximilian von Lingg	1902	1930
79	Joseph Kumpfmüller	1930	1949
80	Joseph Freundorfer	1949	1963
81	Josef Stimpfle	1963	1992	thereafter archbishop, personal title
82	Viktor Josef Dammertz	1993	2004	OSB
83	Walter Mixa	2005	2010	previously Bishop of Eichstätt (1996-2005)
84	Konrad Zdarsa	2010	2019	previously Bishop of Görlitz (2007–2010)
85	Bertram Meier	2020

literature

Ernst Friedrich Mooyer: Directories of the German bishops since the year 800 AD. Geb. , Minden 1854, S. 3–4 .
Friedrich Wilhelm Ebeling: The German bishops up to the end of the sixteenth century - presented biographically, literarily, historically and in terms of church statistics . Leipzig 1856, pp. 1-14 .

Web links

Commons : Bishops of Augsburg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

http://www.augsburger-gedenkage.de/Bischof/Augsburger-bischoefe.htm