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Archdiocese of Cologne
This article is about the modern archdiocese. For the former electoral state, see Electorate of Cologne .
The Archdiocese of Cologne (Latin : Archidioecesis Coloniensis ; German : Erzbistum Köln archdiocese of the Catholic Church in western North Rhine-Westphalia and northern Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany .
History The Electorate of Cologne was one of the major ecclesiastical principalities of the Holy Roman Empire . Cologne became a free city in 1288 and the residence of the archbishop was moved from Cologne Cathedral to Bonn .
After 1795, the archbishopric's territories on the left bank of the Rhinewere occupied by France , and were formally annexed in 1801. The Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 secularized the rest of the archbishopric, giving the Duchy of Westphalia to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt . Cologne was, however, reestablished as the seat of a Catholic archbishop in 1824, and is an archdiocese to the present day.
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Ordinaries
Dietrich Graf von Moers † (24 Apr 1414 Appointed - 24 Jan 1446 Resigned)
Ruprecht Pfalzgraf von Rhein † (30 Mar 1463 Appointed - 16 Jul 1480 Died)
Hermann Landgraf von Hessen † (11 Aug 1480 Appointed - 19 Oct 1508 Died)
Philipp Herr von Daun-Oberstein † (13 Nov 1508 Appointed - 12 Feb 1515 Died)
Hermann Graf zu Wied † (14 Mar 1515 Appointed - 16 Apr 1546 Resigned)
Adolf Graf von Schaumberg † (17 Sep 1547 Succeeded - 20 Sep 1556 Died)
Anton Graf von Schaumberg † (26 Oct 1556 Appointed - 18 Jun 1558 Died)
Johann Gebhard Graf von Mansfeld † (26 Jul 1558 Appointed - 2 Nov 1562 Died)
Friedrich Graf zu Wied † (19 Nov 1562 Appointed - 25 Nov 1567 Resigned)
Salentin Graf von Isenburg † (23 Dec 1567 Appointed - 13 Sep 1577 Resigned)
Gebhard Truchseß von Waldburg † (5 Dec 1577 Appointed - 1 Apr 1583 Resigned)
Ernst Herzog von Bayern † (2 Jun 1583 Appointed - 17 Feb 1612 Died)
Ferdinand Herzog von Bayern † (17 Feb 1612 Succeeded - 13 Sep 1650 Died)
Max Heinrich Herzog von Bayern † (13 Sep 1650 Succeeded - 3 Jun 1688 Died)
Joseph Clemens Kajetan Herzog von Bayern † (19 Jul 1688 Appointed - 11 Dec 1723 Died)
Clemens August Maria Herzog von Bayern † (11 Dec 1723 Succeeded - 6 Feb 1761 Died)
Max Friedrich Reichsgraf von Königsegg und Rothenfels † (6 Apr 1761 Appointed - 15 Apr 1784 Died)
Max Franz (Maximilian Franciscus) von Habsburg-Lothringen (Österreich) † (15 Apr 1784 Succeeded - 29 Jul 1801 Died)
Ferdinand August Graf Spiegel † (24 Dec 1824 Appointed - 2 Aug 1835 Died)
Klemens August Freiherr Droste zu Vischering † (1 Dec 1835 Appointed - 19 Oct 1845 Died)
Johannes von Geissel † (19 Oct 1845 Succeeded - 8 Sep 1864 Died)
Paul Ludolf Melchers, S.J. † (8 Jan 1866 Appointed - 3 Jul 1885 Resigned)
Philipp Krementz † (30 Jun 1885 Appointed - 6 May 1899 Died)
Hubert Theophil Simar † (24 Oct 1899 Appointed - 24 May 1902 Died)
Antonius Hubert Fischer † (6 Nov 1902 Appointed - 30 Jul 1912 Died)
Felix von Hartmann † (29 Oct 1912 Appointed - 11 Nov 1919 Died)
Karl Joseph Schulte † (8 Mar 1920 Appointed - 11 Mar 1941 Died)
Josef Frings † (1 May 1942 Appointed - 10 Feb 1969 Retired)
Joseph Höffner † (24 Feb 1969 Succeeded - 14 Sep 1987 Retired)
Joachim Meisner (20 Dec 1988 Appointed - )
External links
"Cologne". Catholic Encyclopedia. (1913). New York: Robert Appleton Company.
