Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich and Freising — known in the German language as Erzbistum München und Freising and in Latin as Archidioecesis Monacensis et Frisingensis — is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Bavaria, Germany. It is led by the prelature of the Archbishop of Munich, administering the see from the motherchurch in Munich Frauenkirche, also called the Munich Cathedral.

The see was canonically erected circa 739 by Saint Boniface as the Diocese of Freising. After the Thirty Years' War the bishop became a prince-bishop. The diocese was dissolved in 1803 following the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire, although a titular bishop ruled until April 1, 1818, when Pope Pius VII elevated the diocese to an archdiocese with its seat at Munich.

The archdiocese is divided into forty dioceses with 758 parishes. Its suffragan bishops are the Bishop of Augsburg, the Bishop of Passau, and the Bishop of Regensburg.

Contents
1 Bishops of Freising
2 Prince-Bishops of Freising
3 Archbishops of Munich-Freising
4 Resources

Bishops of Freising

Prince-Bishops of Freising

Archbishops of Munich-Freising

Resources


Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Germany
    ArchdiocesesDioceses
    Bamberg Eichstätt | Speyer | Würzburg
    BerlinDresden-Meissen | Görlitz
    Freiburg im BreisgauMainz | Rottenburg-Stuttgart
    HamburgHildesheim | Osnabrück
    CologneAachen | Essen | Limburg | Münster | Trier
    Munich & FreisingAugsburg | Passau | Regensburg
    PaderbornErfurt | Fulda | Magdeburg
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See also: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich, 1006, 1039, 1052, 1078, 1098, 1137, 1138