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The see was canonically erected circa 739 by Saint Boniface as the Diocese of Freising . After the Thirty Years' War the bishop became a Prince-bishop . The Diocese was dissolved in 1803 following the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire , although a titular bishop ruled until April 1 , 1818 , when Pope Pius VII elevated the diocese to an archdiocese with its seat at Munich.

The archdiocese is divided into forty dioceses with 758 Parish es. Its Suffragan bishops are the Bishop Of Augsburg , the Bishop Of Passau , and the Bishop Of Regensburg .


BISHOPS OF FREISING




PRINCE-BISHOPS OF FREISING

  • Vitus Adam von Gebeck ( 1618 - 1651 )

  • Albert Sigismund ( 1652 - 1685 )

  • Joseph Klemens ( 1685 - 1694 )

  • Johann Franz Eckher von Kapfing ( 1695 - 1727 )

  • Johann Theodor, Duke of Bavaria ( 1727 - 1763 )

  • Klemens Wenzeslaus, Duke Of Saxony ( 1763 - 1768 )

  • Ludwig Joseph von Welden ( 1769 - 1788 )

  • Maximilian Prokop, Count of Törring-Jettenbach ( 1788 - 1789 )

  • Konrad von Schroffenberg ( 1789 - 1803 ; see dissolved in 1803)

  • Joseph Jakob von Heckenstaller (titular, 1803 - 1818 )



ARCHBISHOPS OF MUNICH-FREISING



RESIDENCE

The residence of the Archbishops of Munich and Freising is the Palais Holnstein in Munich.


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