List of bishops of Freising and archbishops of Munich and Freising
The following people were bishops, prince-bishops or archbishops of Freising or Munich and Freising in Bavaria:
(724–730); founded the Benedictine abbey in Freising, although the diocese was not organized until 739)
St. Corbinian
(1282–1311)
Waldgrave Emicho
(1311–1314)
Gottfried of Hexenagger
(1314–1322)
Conrad III the Sendlinger
(1323–1324)
John I Wulfing
(1324–1340)
Conrad IV of Klingenberg
(1340–1349)
John II Hake
(1349–1359)
Albert II of Hohenberg
(1359–1377)
Paul of Jägerndorf
(1377–1381)
Leopold of Sturmberg
(1381–1410)
Berthold of Wehingen
(1411–1412)
Conrad V of Hebenstreit
(1412–1421)
Hermann of Cilli
(1421/1422–1443)
Nicodemus of Scala
(1443–1448)
Henry II of Schlick
(elected 15 Jan 1448; died 2 Dec 1452)
John III Grünwald
(elected Jan 1453; resigned Nov 1473)
John IV Tulbeck
(elected 12 Jan 1473; died 14 Jul 1495)
Sixtus of Tannberg
(elected 1 Aug 1495; resigned 3 Dec 1498)
Ruprecht of the Palatinate
(elected 1498; died 5 Jan 1541)
Philip of the Palatinate
(succeeded 5 Jan 1541; died 3 Jan 1552)
Henry II of the Palatinate
(elected 15 Feb 1552; died 8Apr 1559)
Leo Lösch of Hilkertshausen
(elected 12 Jun 1559; died 18 Oct 1566)
Moritz of Sandizell
(elected 18 Oct 1566; died 17 Feb 1612)
Ernest of Bavaria
(elected May 1612; died 16 Jan 1618)
Stephen of Seiboldsdorf
von Arnsbach (elected 12 Feb 1618; died 8 Dec 1651)
Veit Adam of Gepeckh
(1651/1652–1685)
Albert Sigismund of Bavaria
(succeeded 4 Nov 1685; resigned 29 Sep 1694)
Joseph Clemens of Bavaria
(elected 29 Jan 1694/1695; died 23 Feb 1727)
John Francis Eckher of Kapfing and Liechteneck
Cardinal (succeeded 23 Feb 1727; died 27 Jan 1763)
John Theodore, Duke of Bavaria
(elected 18 Apr 1763; resigned 20 Aug 1768)
Clemens Wenceslaus, Duke of Saxony
on Laupheim and Hohenaltingen (electected 23 Jan 1768; died 15 Mar 1788)
Louis Joseph Freiherr of Welden
elected 26 May 1788; died 30 Dec 1789)
Maximilian Prokop of Toerring-Jettenbach
C.R.S.A. (elected 1 Mar 1790; died 4 Apr 1803). After his death, the temporal authority of the bishop was mediatised and abolished by the Elector of Bavaria.
Joseph Conrad Freiherr of Schroffenberg
(appointed 16 February 1818; confirmed soon, but at first only apostolic administrator; archbishop 1 November 1821; died 1 October 1846)
Lothar Anselm Freiherr von Gebsattel
(succeeded 1 October 1846; cardinal 17 December 1855; resigned 19 June 1856)
Karl August Cardinal Graf von Reisach
O.S.B. (appointed 6 January 1856; died 24 October 1877)
Gregor (Leonhard Andreas) von Scherr
(appointed 30 April 1878; died 9 October 1889)
Antonius von Steichele
(appointed 23 October 1889; died 24 November 1897)
Antonius von Thoma
(appointed 24 December 1897; died 4 May 1909)
Franz Joseph von Stein
(appointed 23 May 1909; cardinal 25 May 1914; died 12 April 1917)
Franziskus Cardinal von Bettinger
(appointed 26 May 1917; cardinal 7 March 1921; died 12 June 1952)
Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber
(appointed 9 August 1952; cardinal 12 January 1953; died 31 December 1960)
Joseph Cardinal Wendel
(appointed 3 July 1961, already a cardinal; died 24 July 1976)
Julius August Cardinal Döpfner
(appointed 24 March 1977; cardinal 27 June 1977; resigned 15 February 1982), subsequently Pope Benedict XVI
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
(appointed 28 October 1982; cardinal 25 May 1985; retired 2 February 2007)
Friedrich Cardinal Wetter
(appointed 30 November 2007; cardinal 20 November 2010)
Reinhard Cardinal Marx
Archdiocese of Munich and Freising
Alois Weissthanner (ed.): Die Regesten der Bischöfe von Freising. Vol. I: 739–1184. Continued and completed by Gertrud Thoma and Martin Ott (= registers of Bavarian history), C.H.Beck. Munich, 2009, 978-3-406-37104-2. (Recension)