List of the bishops of Halberstadt

The title of this article is ambiguous. There is also a list of auxiliary bishops in Halberstadt .

Coat of arms of the Halberstadt diocese

The following people were bishops in the Halberstadt diocese .

Surname	from	to
Hildegrim I of Chalons	804	827
Thiatgrim	827	840
Haymo	840	853
Hildegrim II	853	886
Agiulf	886	894
Sigimund	894	923
Bernhard von Hadmersleben	926	968
Hildeward of Halberstadt	968	996
Arnulf	996	1023
Branthog	1023	1036
Burchard I of Nabburg	1036	1059
Burchard II of Veltheim	1059	1088
Hamezo (counter-bishop)	1085	1085
Dietmar of Supplinburg	1089	1089
Herrand	1090	1102
Friedrich I ( counter-bishop )	1090	1106
Reinhard von Blankenburg	1107	1123
Otto von Kuditz	1123	1135
Rudolf I.	1136	1149
Ulrich (from Regenstein?)	1149	1181
Gero von Schowitz / Schermke (counter-bishop)	1160	1177
Dietrich von Krosigk	1181	1193
Berthold / Gardolf von Harbke	1193	1201
Konrad von Krosigk	1201	1209
Friedrich II of Kirchberg	1209	1236
Ludolf I. von Schladen	1236	1241
Meinard von Kranichfeld	1241	1252
Ludolf II von Schladen (not recognized by the Pope)	1253	1255
Volrad von Kranichfeld	1254	1295
Hermann von Blankenburg	1296	1304
Albrecht I of Anhalt	1304	1324
Albrecht II of Braunschweig-Lüneburg	1324	1358
Giselbrecht of Holstein (counter-bishop)	1324	1343
Albrecht von Mansfeld (counter-bishop)	1346	1356
Ludwig of Meissen	1357	1366
Albrecht III. from Rikmersdorf	1366	1390
Ernst I. von Hohnstein	1391	1399
Rudolf II of Anhalt, Bishop of Halberstadt	1401	1406
Heinrich von Warberg	1407	1411
Albrecht IV of Wernigerode	1411	1419
John of Hoym	1419	1437
Burchard von Warberg	1437	1458
Gebhard von Hoym	1458	1479
Ernst II of Saxony ( Catholic administrator )	1480	1513
Albrecht V of Brandenburg (Catholic Administrator)	1513	1545
Johann Albrecht of Brandenburg-Ansbach	1545	1550
Friedrich III. of Brandenburg	1550	1552
Sigismund II of Brandenburg	1552	1566
Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig-Lüneburg ( Protestant administrator )	1566	1613
Heinrich Karl von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (Protestant administrator)	1613	1615
Rudolf III. von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (Protestant administrator)	1615	1616
Christian von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (Protestant administrator)	1616	1623
Sedis vacancy	1623	1625
Christian Wilhelm von Brandenburg (Protestant administrator)	1625	1628
Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (last Catholic bishop)	1628	1648

After the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648, the secular areas of the diocese went to Kurbrandenburg as the Principality of Halberstadt . The pastoral sector was absorbed in the Apostolic Vicariate of the North .

literature

• Christoph Bethmann: Episcopi Halberstadenses . Conrad Horn, Wolfenbüttel 1563 ( digitized version )
• Uwe Grieme: On the informative value of diocese chronicles and bishops' catalogs of the Halberstadt diocese in the high and late Middle Ages. , Concilium Medii Aevi 3 (2000), pp. 185-203 ( PDF ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Not identical with the Schwerin bishop Rudolf II of Anhalt ; the Halberstadt bishop here was the son of Rudolf III. (Saxony-Wittenberg) .