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 |