List of the bishops of Passau

Coat of arms of the Diocese of Passau based on Siebmacher's coat of arms book from 1605

The list of bishops of Passau presents past and present bishops of the Diocese of Passau .

From 1217 until the secularization in 1803 they were prince-bishops in the bishopric of Passau . The prince-bishops of Passau were predominantly descendants from the Bavarian, Austrian or Bohemian nobility and belonged to the prince's rank ( imperial prince ) in the Reichstag with a seat and vote . The court in Passau was relatively modest. Some prince-bishops only had the lower ordinations , the church functions were fulfilled by the auxiliary bishops in Passau .

The diocese of Passau was in close contact with neighboring Roman Catholic dioceses .

No.	bishop	from	to	description	presentation	coat of arms
	Valentin of Raetia	?	475	Of Dutch origin, he came to Passau around 435. He was ordained bishop by Pope Leo the Great and installed as bishop of Raetia, an area between Passau, St. Gotthard , Regensburg , Chur and Brixen . He died around 475 as a hermit on the Zenoburg in Mais. Valentin is venerated as the patron saint of the Diocese of Passau.
01	Vivilo	739	?	In Rome by Pope Gregory III. consecrated bishop.
02	Beatus	?	753/754
03	Sidonius	753	756	He was a monk from Ireland and appears in a deed of donation from the Passau Cathedral Foundation.
04th	Anthel	?	?	Its existence can be proven, but the exact reign is not.
05	Wisurich	770	777	He had the bones of Saint Valentine transferred from Raetia to Passau.
06th	Waldrich	777	804	He expanded the diocese to the east.
07th	Urolf	805	806	The cathedral monastery was able to acquire several donations under his rule.
08th	Hatto	806	817	In 807 he was at a provincial synod in Salzburg.
09	Reginhar	818	838	He is praised for his learning and his exemplary way of life.
	Sedis vacancy	838	840
010	Hartwig	840	866	He was head of the royal monastery at Tegernsee .
011	Ermenrich	866	874	In 870 he participated in the action of the Bavarian episcopate against the Moravian Archbishop Method , whereupon he was suspended three years later by Pope John VIII . He died that same year.
012	Engelmar	875	897	In 886 he asked the Emperor Karl III. for protection and immunity for the Passau Church.
012a	Wiching	898	899	880–893 Bishop of Nitra , ( Slovakia ) expelled from there, 896 abbot in Mondsee .
013	Richard	899	902	Abbot of the Royal Monastery of Metten .
014th	Burkhard	903	915	In 903 he called a diocesan synod .
015th	Gumpold	915	932	Because of the occupation of his diocese by the Hungarians, he was severely handicapped in his administration.
016	Gerhard	932	946	He was probably made Bishop of Passau by the Bavarian Duke Arnulf .
017th	Adalbert	946	971	He did not succeed in raising the diocese of Passau to an archdiocese.
018th	Pilgrim	971	991	Sieghardinger
019th	Christian	991	1013	1. Passau bishop with secular rule
020th	Berengar	1013	1045	A rich son of a citizen of Passau.
021st	Egilbert	1045	1065	Engelbert, established the Passau parish of St. Paul and consecrated the church. Host to the emperor and pope.
022nd	Altmann	1065	1091	He founded the canons of St. Nikola ( 1070 ) in Passau and Göttweig ( 1083 ) in Lower Austria, which was converted into a Benedictine monastery in 1094 . He reformed the existing monasteries of St. Florian , Kremsmünster , Melk and St. Pölten and had stone churches built there. Although never canonized, he is venerated as a saint.
022a	Hermann von Eppenstein	1085	1087	( Eppensteiner ) imperial counter-bishop
022b	Tiemo	1087	1105	imperial counter-bishop . Before that he was a cathedral canon in Würzburg, there are no sources for an episcopal ordination, he is listed as an elect until 1099.
023	Udalrich	1092	1121	Ulrich I. From 1103 to 1105 he had to leave his diocese entirely and fled to the Bavarian Canons' Monastery of Rottenbuch , since Emperor Heinrich IV installed an opposing bishop in Passau.
024	Reginmar	1121	1138	He founded monasteries and parishes. The annals of Melk Abbey and other monastery chronicles criticize Reginmar's secular way of life and his discrimination against secular priests .
025th	Reginbert von Hagenau	1138	1148	The monasteries Zwettl , Baumgartenberg , Suben , Altenburg and Waldhausen were founded under Reginbert's leadership . In 1147 he embarked on the Second Crusade. Reginbert joined the army of Conrad III in Regensburg . on. On the way there, Reginbert consecrated St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna in the same year (patronage after the mother church in Passau). In 1147/8 he died on the return journey from Palestine in the Byzantine Empire .		Coat of arms of Haguenau
026th	Konrad I. von Babenberg	1148	1164	Son of St. Leopold and Agnes von Waiblingen On January 26th, 1164 he allowed the citizens to hold a two-week dult from Jakobi until the beginning of August for eternity . It was the forerunner of today's Passau Herbstdult . He was elected Archbishop of Salzburg on June 29, 1164, † 1168 in Salzburg.		Babenberg coat of arms
027	Rupert I.	1164	1165	Rupert was imperial and before his appointment as bishop he was dean of Passau. He supported the antipope Paschal III., But could not win the majority of the Passau clergy for the imperial pope.
028	Albo (no)	1165	1169	Was in conflict with the cathedral chapter and was forced to leave Passau in 1169. † 1177 as a canon in Freising.
029	Heinrich I. von Berg	1169	1172	resigned, later provost in Speyer and Bamberg, elected Bishop of Würzburg in 1191 (Heinrich III. von Berg).
030th	Diepold von Berg	1172	1190	(Theobald Graf von Berg) brother of Heinrich I. After the great fire in 1181, he tried to rebuild the cathedral and the residence . In 1189 he accompanied Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa on the unsuccessful Third Crusade and died of an epidemic in November 1190 during the siege of Acon in the field camp in front of the city. Diepold was buried in the Holy Land.
031	Wolfger von Erla	1191	1204	He tried to establish another diocese in the area of ​​the Passau diocese. In 1204 he was elected Patriarch of Aquileia.
032	Poppo	1204	1206	Provost of Aquileia
033	Manegold from Berg	1206	1215	The youngest of the Berg brothers was interested in the territorial expansion of his diocese, and in 1209 he had the city of Passau re-fortified.
034	Ulrich II.	1215	1221	1. Prince-Bishop from 1217
035	Gebhard I. of Plain	1222	1232	In 1225 he issued the first Passau town charter.
036	Rüdiger von Bergheim	1233	1249	Bishop of Chiemsee since 1215, deposed, † 1258.
036a	Conrad II of Silesia	1249	1249	Presumably in 1248 he was elected by the Passau Cathedral Chapter to succeed the deposed Bishop Rüdiger von Bergheim. In 1249, in Silesian documents, he held the title of Elector of Passau, although he had never entered Passau and was never ordained a bishop.
037	Berthold von Pietengau	1250	1254	He had a tense relationship with the Passau citizens.
038	Otto von Lonsdorf	1254	1265	During his term of office the Treaty of Linz directed against Bavaria with King Ottokar II of Bohemia (1257), the coin reform of 1260, the renewed settlement with Bavaria in 1262 and the “ Ilzstadtweise ” in 1265 fall .
038a	Vladislav of Silesia	1265	1265	At the instigation of the Bohemian King Ottokar II, the Passau cathedral chapter elected Wladislaw as bishop on April 22nd, 1265, but on October 6th. J. was elected Archbishop of Salzburg . Bishop of Bamberg as early as 1257
039	Peter of Passau	1265	1280	Canon of Breslau, in 1267 Peter mediated the conflict between King Ottokar of Bohemia , who occupied the city of Passau in 1266, and Heinrich , the Duke of Lower Bavaria . In May 1267 he took part in a synod in Vienna.
040	Wichard von Pohlheim	1280	1282	Supporter of the Cistercian monasteries Fürstenzell and Heiligenkreuz as well as the Dominican convent Niederaltaich, he also donated the Franciscan monastery in Wels. In 1281 he took part in the Provincial Synod in Salzburg. On this various reforms for the secular and religious clergy were determined, which were still linked to the efforts of Bishop Otto von Lonsdorf , † December 17, 1282 in Vienna.
041	Gottfried	1282	1285	Protonotary of King Rudolf von Habsburg Together with Heinrich, the Bishop of Regensburg, he was successful as a mediator in a dispute between Duke Albert of Austria and Duke Heinrich XIII. von Baiern active. In March 1284 , Gottfried organized a synod in St. Pölten at which important resolutions to promote the clergy could be passed. In addition, he was able to organize the finances of the Passau diocese.
042	Bernhard von Prambach	1285	1313	In Engelhartszell - on the property inherited from his parents - he founded a new Cistercian monastery: the Engelszell monastery , the redesign of the Romanesque cathedral, which was damaged by the fire in 1181, in the Gothic style is largely due to his operation.
	Sedis vacancy due to double election	1313	1317
042a	Albrecht of Habsburg	1313	1313	Originally intended for the ecclesiastical status, he was elected to the Passau bishop's office by individual canons as a minor in 1313 , but got into a stalemate in a conflict with the counter-elect Gebhard von Walsee , finally had to resign in 1317 and turned away from the spiritual career.		The old coat of arms of the Habsburgs
042b	Gebhard II.	1313	1315	* Before 1280 he came from a Swabian family of ministers who came to Austria with the Habsburgs. He studied in Bologna and in 1295 became Canon of Passau. In addition, he was appointed vice chairman of the Passau Hochstift. In order to obtain papal recognition of the election of bishops, he had traveled to the papal curia in Rome, where he suddenly died.
043	Henri de la Tour-du-Pin ( House La Tour-du-Pin )	1317	1319	Heinrich Delphin Graf von Vienna A French nobleman, dedicated to the clergy, but never ordained a priest. 1317 by Pope John XII. appointed Bishop of Passau, became Bishop of Metz on May 4, 1319 . Returned to the laity, he died in 1328.		Family coat of arms
044	Albert II of Saxe-Wittenberg	1320	1342	* around 1285, intended for a spiritual career he was canon in Mainz. 1320 by Pope John XII. appointed Bishop of Passau. He had the Neumarkt built, which was destroyed in 1298, and gave the town hall back to the citizens of Passau.		Coat of arms of the House of Saxony-Wittenberg
045	Gottfried von Weißeneck	1342	1362	Coming from a Carinthian ministerial family, which at that time rose to an important role in imperial church politics, and was a relative of the Salzburg Archbishop Ortolf von Weißeneck and the Seckau Bishop Ulrich von Weißeneck . He studied in Bologna. He expanded the old residence with additions and fortifications. Established parishes and granted market rights. In 1358, Prince-Bishop Gottfried von Weißeneck organized the largest medieval tournament. 160 knights determined their best in Hacklberg (Passau) .
046	Albert III of angle	1363	1380	In 1363 he was elected bishop by the Passau cathedral chapter . During his term of office - which was all in all characterized by major disputes with the citizens of Passau - the largest civil uprising the city has ever seen occurred.
047	Johann von Scharffenberg	1381	1387	also Schärffenberg, comes from a noble family that has been resident for several centuries in Carniola (Scharffenberg Castle near Ratschach) and in Friuli (Soffumbergo Castle near Ciudale) and is named as the Passau Canon as early as 1358.
047a	Hermann Digni	1387	1388	Elekt von Passau 1359 Canon.
048	Ruprecht von Berg	1388	1390	Duke of Jülich-Berg, † 1394 as Bishop of Paderborn
049	Georg von Hohenlohe	1390	1423	1389 by Pope Urban VI. proclaimed bishop of Passau, he was only able to move up in Passau in 1393, as the Passau citizens denied him access to the city. On May 7, 1407 he laid the foundation stone for the new late Gothic St. Stephen's Cathedral . At the Council of Constance (1414-1418) he represented King Sigismund , whose Chancellor he was from 1421.		Family coat of arms of Hohenlohe
050	Leonhard von Laiming	1423	1451	* 1381 in Rosenheim, ordained a priest in 1414, appointed Bishop of Passau in July 1423, consecrated April 1424, † June 24, 1451.
051	Ulrich von Nussdorf	1451	1479	Ordained a priest in 1440, appointed Bishop of Passau on July 10, 1451, consecrated. on November 4, 1454, † September 2, 1479.
052	Georg Hessler	1480	1482	* 1427 in Bamberg, created cardinal on April 10, 1477, appointed Bishop of Passau on January 28, 1480, † September 21, 1482
053	Friedrich Mauerkircher	1482	1485	appointed Bishop of Passau on October 30, 1482, † November 22, 1485.
054	Friedrich von Öttingen	1485	1490	* around 1459, appointed Bishop of Passau on December 2, 1485, consecutive. February 15, 1486 - March 3, 1490.
055	Christoph von Schachner	1490	1500	* 1447 in Ried, ordained a priest in 1471, appointed Bishop of Passau on March 11, 1490, consecrated. June 26, 1490 - January 4, 1590.
056	Wiguleus Fröschl of Marzoll	1500	1517	* April 4, 1445 in Waldberg, appointed Bishop of Passau on January 14, 1500, consecrated. April 29, 1500, † November 6, 1517.
057	Ernst of Bavaria	1517	1541	Administrator, Kaodjutor since 1514, Archbishop of Salzburg from 1541, resigned. 1554, † 1560
058	Wolfgang von Salm	1541	1555	* 1514, appointed Bishop of Passau on November 11, 1540, consecrated. February 18, 1541, † December 5, 1555.
059	Wolfgang von Closen	1555	1561	* 1503 in Aidenbach at Haidenberg Castle, appointed Bishop of Passau on December 20, 1555, consecutive. January 12, 1556 - August 7, 1561.
060	Urban von Trennbach	1561	1598	* May 10, 1525 in St. Martin , appointed Bishop of Passau on August 18, 1561, consecrated. November 19, 1561, † August 9, 1598.
061	Leopold V.	1598	1625	* October 9, 1586 in Graz , on November 14, 1597 appointed coadjutor bishop of Passau, 1598 coadjutor bishop in Strasbourg, consecrated. August 18, 1599, appointed Bishop of Passau on July 25, 1605, and also Bishop of Strasbourg on November 24, 1607 , em. April 19, 1626, † September 13, 1632.
062	Leopold Wilhelm of Austria	1625	1662	* January 6, 1614 in Wiener Neustadt , appointed Bishop of Passau on November 8, consecrated. February 1, 1626, also Bishop of Strasbourg on October 10, 1616, also Bishop of Halberstadt on December 24, 1627, also Bishop of Olomouc on November 16, 1638 , also Bishop of Breslau on January 21, 1656 , † November 2, 1662 .
063	Karl Joseph of Austria	1662	1664	* August 7, 1649 in Vienna , appointed coadjutor bishop of Passau on April 13, 1662, consecrated. September 1, 1662, Bishop of Passau on November 20, 1662, also Bishop of Breslau and Olomouc on April 23, 1663, † January 27, 1664.
064	Wenceslas of Thun	1664	1673	* August 13, 1629 in Tetschen , ordained a priest in 1655, appointed Bishop of Passau on March 27, 1664, consecrated. January 12, 1665, also Bishop of Gurk on August 10, 1665 , † January 8, 1673.
065	Sebastian von Pötting-Persing	1673	1689	* 1628 in Raipoltenbach ( Lower Austria ), on April 3, 1665 appointed Bishop of Lavant , on March 11, 1673 Bishop of Passau, consecrated. September 25, 1673 - March 16, 1689.		Coat of arms on the choir. Coat of arms on the organ gallery
066	Johann Philipp Graf von Lamberg	1689	1712	* May 25, 1652 in Vienna, appointed Bishop of Passau on May 24, 1689, consecrated. January 11, 1690, created cardinal on June 21, 1700, † October 30, 1712.
067	Raymund Ferdinand Count von Discounta	1713	1722	* February 4, 1669 in Gorizia , ordained a priest on June 5, 1700, appointed von Passau on January 18, 1713, consecrated. on September 18, 1713, † October 25, 1722.
068	Joseph Dominikus Graf von Lamberg	1723	1761	* July 8, 1680 in Steyr , ordained a priest on September 21, 1703, appointed Bishop of Seckau on March 13, 1712 , Bishop of Passau on January 2, 1723, consecrated. March 15, 1723, created cardinal on December 20, 1737, † August 30, 1761.
069	Joseph Maria Count of Thun	1761	1763	* May 24, 1713 in Trient , appointed Bishop of Gurk on October 7, 1741, Bishop of Passau on November 19, 1761, consecrated. March 29, 1761 - June 16, 1763.
070	Leopold Ernst Graf von Firmian	1763	1783	* September 22, 1708 in Deutschmetz , ordained a priest on September 25, 1729, appointed Bishop of Seckau on February 13, 1739, on May 29, 1748 coadjutor bishop of Trient , em. January 20, 1756, Bishop of Passau on September 1, 1763, consecrated. September 29, 1763, created cardinal on December 14, 1772, † May 13, 1783.
071	Joseph Franz Anton Count of Auersperg	1783	1795	* January 31, 1734 in Vienna, ordained a priest in 1757, appointed Bishop of Lavant on January 31, 1763, em. on January 4, 1764, on October 18, 1772 Bishop of Gurk, on May 19, 1783 Bishop of Passau, consecrated. June 25, 1784, created cardinal on March 30, 1789, † August 21, 1795.
072	Thomas Johann Kaspar Count of Thun-Hohenstein	1795	1796	* May 16, 1737 in Trient , ordained a priest on May 21, 1771, appointed titular bishop of Thyatira and auxiliary bishop in Passau on December 16, 1796 , consecrated. January 19, 1777, Bishop of Passau on November 4, 1795, † October 7, 1796.		from Thun and Hohenstein
073	Leopold Leonhard Reichsgraf von Thun and Hohenstein	1796	1826	* April 17, 1748 in Tetschen at Tetschen Castle , ordained a priest on September 10, 1771, appointed Bishop of Passau on December 13, 1796, consecrated. July 24, 1797, † October 22, 1826, last Prince-Bishop of Passau.		from Thun and Hohenstein
074	Karl Joseph Freiherr von Riccabona	1826	1839	* July 28, 1761 in Cavalese (Calves), ordained a priest on December 20, 1783 in Regensburg, appointed Bishop of Passau on December 25, 1826, consecrated. April 9, 1827, † May 25, 1839.
075	Heinrich von Hofstätter	1839	1875	* February 16, 1805 in Aindling , ordained a priest on August 5, 1833 in Freising, appointed Bishop of Passau on July 6, 1839, consecrated. December 23, 1839 - May 12, 1875.
076	Josef Franz von Weckert	1875	1889	* September 12, 1822 in Wallerstein , ordained a priest on April 2, 1845 in Augsburg, appointed Bishop of Passau on October 4, 1875, consecrated. January 28, 1876 - March 13, 1889.
077	Anthony of Thoma	1889	1889	* March 1, 1839 in Nymphenburg , ordained a priest on June 29, 1853 in Freising, appointed Bishop of Passau on March 24, 1889, consecrated. May 29, 1889, Archbishop of Munich and Freising on October 23, 1889 , † November 24, 1897.
078	Michael von Rampf	1889	1901	* October 4, 1825 in Munich , ordained a priest on June 17, 1848 in Freising, appointed Bishop of Passau on December 8, 1889, consecrated. December 30, 1889 - March 29, 1901.
079	Anton von Henle	1901	1906	* May 22, 1851 in Weißenhorn , ordained a priest in Augsburg on November 23, 1873, appointed Bishop of Passau on April 3, 1901, consecrated. April 13, 1901, October 18, 1906 Bishop of Regensburg , † October 11, 1927.
080	Sigismund Felix Freiherr von Ow-Felldorf	1906	1936	* October 18, 1855 in Berchtesgaden , ordained a priest on July 25, 1884 in Regensburg, appointed auxiliary bishop in Regensburg on January 11, 1902, consecutive. Titular Bishop of Arethusa , appointed Bishop of Passau on October 18, 1906, † May 11, 1936.
081	Simon Konrad Landersdorfer OSB	1936	1968	* October 2, 1880 in Neutenkam , ordained a priest on December 19, 1903, appointed Bishop of Passau on September 11, 1936, consecrated. October 28, 1936, em. October 27, 1968 and Titular Bishop of Ulcinium , † July 21, 1971.
082	Antonius Hofmann	1968	1984	* October 4, 1909 in Rinchnach , ordained a priest on April 13, 1936, appointed coadjutor bishop of Passau on September 20, 1961, titular bishop of Berenice , on October 27, 1968 Bishop of Passau, em. October 15, 1984, † March 11, 2000.
083	Franz Xaver Eder	1984	2001	* November 4, 1925 in Pfarrkirchen , ordained a priest on June 29, 1954, appointed auxiliary bishop in Passau on May 6, 1977, consecrated. July 16, 1977 as titular bishop of Villa Regis , on January 26, 1984 coadjutor bishop and on October 15, 1984 Bishop of Passau, em. January 8, 2001, † June 20, 2013.
084	Wilhelm Schraml	2001	2012	* June 26, 1935 in Erbendorf , ordained a priest on June 29, 1961 in Regensburg, appointed Auxiliary Bishop in Regensburg on January 7, 1986, consecrated. March 6, 1986, Titular Bishop of Munatiana , Bishop of Passau on December 13, 2001. Resignation from office on the 75th birthday of Pope Benedict XVI. Rejected on March 25, 2010; Resignation accepted October 1, 2012, Apostolic Administrator until September 2, 2013.
085	Stefan Oster	2014		* June 3, 1965 in Amberg , Salesian Don Bosco , perpetually professed on July 24, 1999, ordained a priest on June 24, 2001, appointed Bishop of Passau on April 4, 2014, consecrated. May 24, 2014.

See also

• List of auxiliary bishops in Passau

literature

• August Leidl : The Bishops of Passau 739-1968 in short biographies , ²1978

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franz Mader: The Diocese of Passau yesterday and today , Ed .: Bischöfliches Ordinariat Passau 1989
2. ^ Bishopric confirms the release of Bishop Wilhelm Schraml . Website Neue Presse Multimedia GmbH. Retrieved September 2, 2013.