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Listed here are the Bishops of Cologne.

Bishops of Münster (795 - 1803)[]

Name

Reign

Notes

St. Ludgar 795 - 809
Gerfried 809 - 839
Altfried 839 - 848
Ludbert 848 - 871
Berthold 872 - 875
Wolfhelm 875 - 900
Neidhard 900 - 922
Rumhold 922 - 941
Hildbold 941 - 967
Dodo 967 - 993
Sweder 994 - 1011
Theodoric I 1011 - 1022
Sigfried 1022 - 1032
Herman I 1032 - 1042
Rudbert 1042 - 1063
Frederick I 1064 - 1084
Erbo 1085 - 1097
Burchard of Holte 1097 - 1118
Theodoric II of Zutphen 1118 - 1127
Eckbert 1127 - 1132
Werner 1132 - 1151
Frederick II of Ahr 1151 - 1168
Louis I of Tecklenburg 1169 - 1173
Herman II of Katzenelnbogen 1174 - 1203
Otto I of Hildeshausen 1204 - 1218
Theodoric III of Isenburg 1218 - 1226
Ludolph of Holte 1226 - 1247
Otto II of Lippe 1247 - 1259
William I of Holte 1259 - 1261
Gerhard of the Marck 1261 - 1272
vacant 1272 - 1275
Eberhard of Diest 1275 - 1301
Otto III of Rietberg 1301 - 1306
Conrad I of Berg 1306 - 1310
Louis II of Hese 1310 - 1357
Adolph of the Marck 1357 - 1363 Also Archbishop of Cologne, Count of Cleves, and Count of the Marck
John I of Virneburg 1363 - 1374
Florent of Wewelinghofen 1374 - 1379
John II Potho of Pothenstein 1379 - 1381
Heidenreich Wolf of Ludinghausen 1381 - 1392
Otto IV of Hoya 1392 - 1424
Henry I of Moers 1424 - 1450
Walram of Moers 1450 - 1457 Opposed by...
John of Hoya 1450 - 1457 Claimant in the Münster Diocesan Feud
John III of Palatinate-Simmern 1457 - 1466
Henry II of Schwarzburg 1466 - 1496
Conrad II of Rietberg 1497 - 1508
Eric I of Saxe-Lauenburg 1508 - 1522
Frederick III of Wied 1522 - 1532
Eric II of Brunswick-Grübenhagen 1532
Francis of Waldeck 1532 - 1553
William II of Ketteler 1553 - 1557 Resigned
Bernard of Raesfeld 1557 - 1566
John IV of Hoya 1566 - 1574
John William of Jülich-Cleves-Berg 1574 - 1585
Ernest of Bavaria 1583 - 1612 Also Archbishop of Cologne, Bishop of Freising, Hildesheim, and Liège
Ferdinand of Bavaria 1612 - 1650 Also Archbishop of Cologne, Bishop of Hildesheim, Liège, and Paderborn, and Provost of Berchtesgaden
Bernard Christopher of Galen 1650 - 1678
Ferdinand II of Fürstenberg 1678 - 1683
Maximilian Henry of Bavaria 1683 - 1688 Also Archbishop of Cologne, Bishop of Hildesheim, and Liège, Provost of Berchtesgaden, and Abbot of Stablo-Malmedy
Frederick Christian of Plettenberg-Lenhausen 1688 - 1706
Francis Arnold Joseph Wolf von Metternich zu Cracht 1706 - 1718
Clemens Augustus I of Bavaria 1718 - 1761 Also Archbishop of Cologne, Bishop of Hildesheim, Osnabrück, Paderborn, and Regensburg, and Grandmaster of the Teutonic Order
Maximilian Frederick of Königsegg-Rothenfels 1761 - 1784 Also Archbishop of Cologne
Maximilian Francis of Austria 1784 - 1801 Also Archbishop of Cologne and Grandmaster of the Teutonic Order
Anthony Victor of Austria 1801 - 1803 Also Archbishop of Cologne. Never reigned due to Prussian opposition. Secularised in 1803
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