Diocese of Mainz

DIOCESE OF MAINZ (Dioecesis Moguntina)

Country:Germany
Denomination:Roman Catholic

Established:4th century
Elevated to Archdiocese in 747
Demoted to Diocese in 1801

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The arms in the 'Armorial Loys' +/- 1450
The arms in a 16th century manuscript
The arms in a 16th century manuscript
The arms in the 16th/17th century
The arms in the Wapen- en Vlaggenboek van Gerrit Hesman (1708)
The arms of the archbishops on a tapestry 1
The arms of the archbishops on a tapestry 2

Arms of (Prince-)Archbishops

Arms from before 1300 not certain and before 1200 are later attributions from the Chroncle of Mainz (1613).

Bonifatius (745-754)
Karl von Aquitanien (856-863)
Hatto (891-913)
Hildebert (891-913)
Wilhelm von Sachsen (954-968)
Aribo von der Pfalz (1021-1031)
Adalbert von Lotharingen (1111-1137)
Adalbert von Saarbrücken (1138-1141)
Konrad von Wittelsbach (1161-1165)
Christian von Buch (1167-1183)
Konrad von Wittelsbach (1183-1200)
Siegfried von Eppenstein I (1200-1230)
Siegfried von Eppenstein II (1230-1249)
Christian von Weisenau (1249-1251)
Gerhard Wildgraf von Dhaun (1251-1259)
Werner von Eppenstein (1259-1284)
Heinrich von Isny (1286-1288)
Gerhard von Eppenstein (1289-1305)
Peter von Aspelt (1306-1320)
Mathias von Buchegg (1321-1328)
Heinrich von Virneburg (1328-1346)
Gerlach von Nassau (1346-1371)
Johann von Luxemburg-Ligny (1371-1373)
Ludwig von Meißen (1374-1379)
Adolf I von Nassau (1379-1390)
Konrad von Weinsberg (1390-1396)
Johann von Nassau (1397-1419)
Konrad von Dhaun (1419-1434)
Dietrich Schenk von Erbach (1434-1459)
Diether von Isenburg (1459-1461)
Adolf II von Nassau-Wiesbaden (1461-1475)
Diether von Isenburg (1475-1482)
Adalbert zu Sachsen (1482-1484)
Berthold von Henneberg (1484-1504)
Jakob von Liebenstein (1504-1508)
Uriel von Gemmingen (1508-1514)
Albrecht von Brandenburg (1514-1545)
Sebastian von Heusenstamm (1545-1555)
Daniel Brendel von Homburg (1555-1582)
Wolfgang von Dalberg (1582-1601)
Johann Adam von Bicken (1601-1604)
Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg (1604-1626)
Georg Friedrich von Greiffenclau (1626-1629)
Anselm Casimir Wambolt von Umstadt (1629-1647)
Johann Philipp von Schönborn (1647-1673)
Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheid (1673-1675)
Damian Hartard von der Leyen (1675-1678)
Karl Heinrich von Metternich-Winneburg (1679-1679)
Anselm Franz von Ingelheim (1679-1695)
Lothar Franz von Schönborn (1695-1729)
Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg (1729-1732)
Philipp Karl von Eltz (1732-1743)
Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein (1743-1763)
Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim (1763-1774)
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Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal (1774-1802)
Karl Theodor von Dalberg (1802-1803)
only parts on the right half of the Rhine, no papal approval

Arms of Bishops

Joseph Ludwig Colmar (1802-1818)
Joseph Vitus Burg (1830-1833)
Johann Jakob Humann (1833-1834)
Peter Leopold Kaiser (1834-1848)
Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler (1850-1877)
Paul Leopold Haffner (1886-1899)
Heinrich Brück (1899-1903)
Georg Heinrich Maria Kirstein (1904-1921)
Ludwig Maria Hugo (1921-1935)
Albert Stohr (1935-1961)
Hermann Volk (1962-1982)
Karl Lehmann (1983-2016)
Peter Kohlgraf (2017-present)

Arms of Auxiliary Bishops

Werner Guballa (2003-2012)
Ulrich Neymeyr (2003-2014)
Udo Markus Bentz (2015-2023)

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