List of the bishops of Augsburg
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 | presentation | coat of arms |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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