The Archbishopric of Mainz or Electorate of Mainz ( or Kurmainz) was an influential ecclesiastic and secular prince-bishop

Prince-Bishop

A Prince-Bishop is a bishop who is a territorial Prince of the Church on account of one or more secular principalities, usually pre-existent titles of nobility held concurrently with their inherent clerical office...

ric in the Holy Roman Empire

Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire was a realm that existed from 962 to 1806 in Central Europe.It was ruled by the Holy Roman Emperor. Its character changed during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, when the power of the emperor gradually weakened in favour of the princes...

 between 780–82 and 1802. In the Roman Catholic Church

Roman Catholic Church

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 hierarchy, the Archbishop of Mainz was the primas Germaniae

Primas Germaniae

Primas Germaniae is a historical title of honour for the most important Catholic bishop in Germany.Since at least 965 the Title was held by the Archbishop of Mainz as most important Archbishop and most noble Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire until the See of Mainz was secularized in 1803...

, the substitute of the Pope

Pope

The Pope is the Bishop of Rome, a position that makes him the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church . In the Catholic Church, the Pope is regarded as the successor of Saint Peter, the Apostle...

 north of the Alps

Alps

The Alps is one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west....

. Aside from Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

, the See of Mainz is the only other see referred to as a "Holy See", although this usage has become rather less common.

The archbishopric was a substantial ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire. It included several non-contiguous blocks of territory: lands near Mainz

Mainz

Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...

 on both the left and right banks of the Rhine; territory along the Main

Main river

Main rivers are a statutory type of watercourse in England and Wales, usually larger streams and rivers, but also include some smaller watercourses. A main river is defined as a watercourse marked as such on a main river map, and can include any structure or appliance for controlling or regulating...

 above Frankfurt

Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...

 (including the district of Aschaffenburg

Aschaffenburg (district)

Aschaffenburg is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Darmstadt-Dieburg, Offenbach, Main-Kinzig , the districts Main-Spessart and Miltenberg, and the town of Aschaffenburg....

); the Eichsfeld

Eichsfeld

The Eichsfeld is a historical region in the southeast of Lower Saxony and northwest of Thuringia in the south of the Harz mountains...

 region in Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...

 and Thuringia

Thuringia

The Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....

; and the territory around Erfurt

Erfurt

Erfurt is the capital city of Thuringia and the main city nearest to the geographical centre of Germany, located 100 km SW of Leipzig, 150 km N of Nuremberg and 180 km SE of Hannover. Erfurt Airport can be reached by plane via Munich. It lies in the southern part of the Thuringian...

 in Thuringia. The archbishop was also, traditionally, one of the Imperial prince-elector

Prince-elector

The Prince-electors of the Holy Roman Empire were the members of the electoral college of the Holy Roman Empire, having the function of electing the Roman king or, from the middle of the 16th century onwards, directly the Holy Roman Emperor.The heir-apparent to a prince-elector was known as an...

s, the arch-chancellor of Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, and presiding officer of the electoral college

Electoral college

An electoral college is a set of electors who are selected to elect a candidate to a particular office. Often these represent different organizations or entities, with each organization or entity represented by a particular number of electors or with votes weighted in a particular way...

 technically from 1251 and permanently from 1263 until 1803.

History

The see

Episcopal See

An episcopal see is, in the original sense, the official seat of a bishop. This seat, which is also referred to as the bishop's cathedra, is placed in the bishop's principal church, which is therefore called the bishop's cathedral...

 was established in ancient Roman times

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....

, in the city of Mainz

Mainz

Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...

, which had been a Roman provincial capital called Moguntiacum, but the office really came to prominence upon its elevation to an archdiocese in 780-782. The first bishops before the 4th century have legendary names, beginning with Crescens. The first verifiable Bishop of Mainz was Martinus in 343. The ecclesiastical and secular importance of Mainz dates from the accession of St. Boniface to the see in 747. Boniface was previously an archbishop, but the honor did not immediately devolve upon the see itself until his successor Lullus

Lullus

Saint Lullus was the first permanent archbishop of Mainz, succeeding Saint Boniface, and first abbot of the Benedictine Hersfeld Abbey.-Monk to archbishop:...

.

In 1802, Mainz lost its archiepiscopal character. In the secularizations that accompanied the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, the seat of the elector, Karl Theodor von Dalberg, was moved to Regensburg, and the electorate lost its left bank territories to France

French First Republic

The French First Republic was founded on 22 September 1792, by the newly established National Convention. The First Republic lasted until the declaration of the First French Empire in 1804 under Napoleon I...

, its right bank areas along the Main below Frankfurt to Hesse-Darmstadt

Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt

The Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt was a member state of the Holy Roman Empire. It was formed in 1567 following the division of the Landgraviate of Hesse between the four sons of Philip I, the last Landgrave of Hesse....

 and the Nassau princes, and Eichsfeld and Erfurt to the Kingdom of Prussia

Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire...

. Dalberg retained the Aschaffenburg area as the Principality of Aschaffenburg

Principality of Aschaffenburg

The Principality of Aschaffenburg was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire and the Confederation of the Rhine from 1803–10. Its capital was Aschaffenburg....

. In 1810 Dalberg merged Aschaffenburg, Frankfurt, Wetzlar, Hanau

Hanau

Hanau is a town in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is located 25 km east of Frankfurt am Main. Its station is a major railway junction.- Geography :...

, and Fulda

Fulda

Fulda is a city in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district .- Early Middle Ages :...

, to form the new Grand Duchy of Frankfurt

Grand Duchy of Frankfurt

The Grand Duchy of Frankfurt was a German satellite state of Napoleonic creation. It came into existence in 1810 through the combination of the former territories of the Archbishops of Mainz along with the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt itself....

 in 1810. Dalberg resigned in 1813 and in 1815 the Congress of Vienna

Congress of Vienna

The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from September, 1814 to June, 1815. The objective of the Congress was to settle the many issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars,...

 divided his territories between the Kingdom of Bavaria

Kingdom of Bavaria

The Kingdom of Bavaria was a German state that existed from 1806 to 1918. The Bavarian Elector Maximilian IV Joseph of the House of Wittelsbach became the first King of Bavaria in 1806 as Maximilian I Joseph. The monarchy would remain held by the Wittelsbachs until the kingdom's dissolution in 1918...

, the Electorate of Hesse-Kassel

Hesse-Kassel

The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel or Hesse-Cassel was a state in the Holy Roman Empire under Imperial immediacy that came into existence when the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided in 1567 upon the death of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse. His eldest son William IV inherited the northern half and the...

 (or Hesse-Cassel), the Grand Duchy of Hesse

Grand Duchy of Hesse

The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine , or, between 1806 and 1816, Grand Duchy of Hesse —as it was also known after 1816—was a member state of the German Confederation from 1806, when the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt was elevated to a Grand Duchy, until 1918, when all the German...

 and the Free City of Frankfurt

Free City of Frankfurt

For almost five centuries, the German city of Frankfurt am Main was a city-state within two major Germanic states:*The Holy Roman Empire as the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt...

.

The modern Roman Catholic Diocese of Mainz was founded in 1802, within the territory of France

First French Empire

The First French Empire , also known as the Greater French Empire or Napoleonic Empire, was the empire of Napoleon I of France...

 and in 1814 its jurisdiction was extended over the territory of Hesse-Darmstadt. Since then it has had two cardinals

Cardinal (Catholicism)

A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...

 and via various concordat

Concordat

A concordat is an agreement between the Holy See of the Catholic Church and a sovereign state on religious matters. Legally, they are international treaties. They often includes both recognition and privileges for the Catholic Church in a particular country...

s was allowed to retain the mediæval tradition of the cathedral chapter

Cathedral chapter

In accordance with canon law, a cathedral chapter is a college of clerics formed to advise a bishop and, in the case of a vacancy of the episcopal see in some countries, to govern the diocese in his stead. These councils are made up of canons and dignitaries; in the Roman Catholic church their...

 electing a successor to the bishop

Bishop

A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

.

Bishops of Moguntiacum, 80–745

• Crescens c. 80–103
• Marinus c. 103–109
• St. Crescentius c. 109–127
• Cyriacus c. 127–141
• Hilarius c. 141–161
• Martin I c. 161–175
• Celsus c. 175–197
• Lucius c. 197–207
• Gotthard c. 207–222
• Sophron c. 222–230
• Heriger I c. 230–234
• Ruther c. 234–254
• Avitus c. 254–276
• Ignatius c. 276–289
• Dionysius c. 289–309
• Ruprecht I c. 309–321
• Adalhard c. 320s
• Lucius Annaeus c. 330s
• Martin II c. 330s – c. 360s
• Sidonius I c. late 360s – c. 386
• Sigismund c. 386 – c. 392
• Theonistus
  Theonistus
  Saint Theonistus is a saint venerated by the Catholic Church. Theonistus is venerated with two companions, Tabra and Tabratha...
  
   or Thaumastus
• Lupold c. 392 – c. 409
• Nicetas c. 409 – c. 417
• Marianus c. 417 – c. 427
• Aureus c. 427 – c. 443
• Eutropius c. 443 – c. 467
• Adalbald
• Nather
• Adalbert (I)
• Lantfried
• Sidonius II ? – c. 589
• Siegbert I c. 589–610
• Ludegast c. 610–615
• Rudwald c. 615
• Lubald ? fl. c. 625
• Siegbert II
• Gerold ?–743
• Gewilip c. 743 – c. 745

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Archbishops of Mainz, 745–1251

• Saint Boniface
  Saint Boniface
  Saint Boniface , the Apostle of the Germans, born Winfrid, Wynfrith, or Wynfryth in the kingdom of Wessex, probably at Crediton , was a missionary who propagated Christianity in the Frankish Empire during the 8th century. He is the patron saint of Germany and the first archbishop of Mainz...
  
   745–754
• Lullus
  Lullus
  Saint Lullus was the first permanent archbishop of Mainz, succeeding Saint Boniface, and first abbot of the Benedictine Hersfeld Abbey.-Monk to archbishop:...
  
   754–786 (First "real" archbishop of Mainz)
• Richholf 787–813
• Adolf 813–826
• Odgar
  Odgar, Archbishop of Mainz
  Odgar, Otgar, or Otger was the Archbishop of Mainz from 826 until his death.During the years 838–839, Otgar supported Louis the Pious against his son Louis the German who was in rebellion and trying to get all of East Francia under his control. He remained strongly opposed to the younger...
  
   826–847
• Rabanus Maurus
  Rabanus Maurus
  Rabanus Maurus Magnentius , also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Frankish Benedictine monk, the archbishop of Mainz in Germany and a theologian. He was the author of the encyclopaedia De rerum naturis . He also wrote treatises on education and grammar and commentaries on the Bible...
  
   848–856
• Karl 856–863
• Ludbert
  Liutbert, Archbishop of Mainz
  Liutbert was the Archbishop of Mainz from 863 until his death. He also became Abbot of Ellwangen in 874 and is reckoned the first Archchancellor of Germany...
  
   863–889
• Sunderhold 889–891
• Hatto I 891–913
• Herigar 913–927
• Hildebert 927-937
• Frederick
  Frederick, Archbishop of Mainz
  Frederick was the Archbishop of Mainz from 937, following the late Hildebert, until his death. He was a son of Reginar, Duke of Lorraine....
  
   937–954
• William
  William, Archbishop of Mainz
  William was Archbishop of Mainz from 17 December 954 until his death. He was the son of the Emperor Otto I the Great and a Slav mother....
  
   954–968
• Hatto II 968–970
• Rudbrecht 970–975
• Willigis
  Willigis
  Saint Willigis was Archbishop of Mainz from 975 until his death as well as a statesman of the Holy Roman Empire.-Life:...
  
   975–1011
• Erkanbald
  Erkanbald, Archbishop of Mainz
  Erkanbald was the Abbot of Fulda from 997 and afterwards Archbishop of Mainz from 1011 until his death.Erkanbald was a member of the family of the counts of Ölsburg and was thus related to Bernard III of Sommerescheburg, Bishop of Hildesheim...
  
   1011–1021
• Aribo
  Aribo, Archbishop of Mainz
  Aribo was the Archbishop of Mainz from 1021 until his death. He was Primate of Germany during the succession of Conrad II.Aribo disputed with the Diocese of Hildesheim the jurisdictional right over Gandersheim Abbey, but Pope Benedict VIII found in favour of Hildesheim, a ruling which Aribo...
  
   1021–1031
• Bardo
  Bardo, Archbishop of Mainz
  Bardo was the Archbishop of Mainz from 1031 until 1051, the Abbot of Werden from 1030 until 1031, and the Abbot of Hersfeld in 1031....
  
   1031–1051
• Luitpold 1051–1059
• Siegfried I
  Siegfried I, Archbishop of Mainz
  Siegfried I was the Abbot of Fulda from 25 December 1058 until he became Archbishop of Mainz in 6 January 1060.Siegfried was a member of the Frankish Reginbodonen family of the Rhineland. His family furnished counts in the Königssondergau and burgraves and vogts of Mainz. Siegfried was educated in...
  
   1060–1084
• Wezilo
  Wezilo
  Wezilo, died 1088, was Archbishop of Mainz from 1084-88. He was a leading supporter of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV in the Investiture Controversy, and of Antipope Clement III.A priest in Halberstadt, Wezilo owed his promotion to the support of Henry IV...
  
   1084–1088
• Rudhart 1088–1109
• Adalbert I von Saarbrücken 1111–1137
• Adalbert II von Saarbrücken 1138–1141
• Markholf 1141–1142
• Henry I
  Henry I, Archbishop of Mainz
  Henry was archbishop of Mainz from 1142 to 1153.In his early years as archbishop he was assisted by Anselm of Havelberg. He supported Friedrich von Staufen as successor to Konrad III of Germany....
  
   1142–1153
• Arnold von Selenhofen 1153–1160
• Christian I
  Christian I, Archbishop of Mainz
  Christian I was a German nobleman and diplomat. He was count of Buch, archbishop of Mainz , and archchancellor of Germany .-Biography:Christian was of the family of Beichlingen....
  
   1160–1161 opposing…
  • Rudolf
    Rudolf of Zähringen
    Rudolf of Zähringen was the archbishop of Mainz from 1160 to 1161 and prince-bishop of Liège...
    
     of Zähringen
    Zähringen
    Zähringen is the name of an old German family that founded a large number of cities in what are today Switzerland and Baden-Württemberg. While the junior line that first assumed the title Duke of Zähringen, a cadet branch of the House of Baden, became extinct in 1218, the senior line persists and...
    
     1160–1161
• Conrad I of Wittelsbach
  Conrad of Wittelsbach
  Conrad of Wittelsbach was the Archbishop of Mainz and Archchancellor of Germany from 20 June 1161 to 1165 and again from 1183 to his death. He was also a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church....
  
   1161–1165
• Christian I
  Christian I, Archbishop of Mainz
  Christian I was a German nobleman and diplomat. He was count of Buch, archbishop of Mainz , and archchancellor of Germany .-Biography:Christian was of the family of Beichlingen....
  
   1165–1183
• Conrad I of Wittelsbach (restored) 1183–1200
• Luitpold von Scheinfeld 1200–1208
• Sigfried II von Eppstein 1200–1230 (in opposition to 1208)
• Sigfried III von Eppstein
  Siegfried III, Archbishop of Mainz
  Siegfried III von Eppstein was archbishop of Mainz from 1230 to 1249. He in 1244 granted freedom to the citizens of Mainz, who subsequently could run their affairs more independently though their own council.; in law it remained an episcopal city....
  
   1230–1249
• Christian III von Weisenau 1249–1251

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Archbishops-Electors of Mainz, 1251–1803

• Gerhard I von Daun-Kirberg 1251–1259
• Werner II von Eppstein 1260–1284
• Heinrich II von Isny 1286–1288
• Gerhard II von Eppstein 1286–1305
• Peter of Aspelt
  Peter of Aspelt
  Peter Aspelt was Archbishop of Mainz from 1306 to 1320, and an influential political figure of the period. He brought the archbishopric to its peak of power....
  
   1306–1320
• Matthias von Buchek 1321–1328
• Heinrich III von Virneberg 1328–1337
  • Baldwin of Luxembourg
    Baldwin, Archbishop of Trier
    Baldwin of Luxembourg was the Archbishop-Elector of Trier and Archchancellor of Burgundy from 1307 to his death. From 1328 to 1336, he was the diocesan administrator of the archdiocese of Mainz and from 1331 to 1337 of those of Worms and Speyer...
    
     1328–1336, administrator
• Gerlach von Nassau 1346–1371
• Johann I von Luxemburg-Ligny 1371–1373
• Ludwig von Meissen 1374–1379
• Adolf I von Nassau 1379–1390
• Konrad II von Weinsberg 1390–1396
• Johann II von Nassau 1396–1419
  • Joffrid von Leiningen 1396–1397 (in opposition)
• Konrad III Wild- und Rheinsgraf zum Stein 1419–1434
• Dietrich I 1434–1459
• Dieter von Isenburg 1460–1461
• Adolf II von Nassau (or Adolf III) 1461–1475
• Dieter von Isenburg (restored) 1476–1482
• Albert II 1482–1484
• Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild
  Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild
  Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild was Archbishop of Mainz and Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 1484 to 1504.The son of George, Count of Henneberg and Johanna, daughter of Count Philipp I of Nassau-Weilburg entered the ecclesiastical profession and, after passing through its lower stages,...
  
   1484–1504
• Jacob of Liebenstein
  Jacob of Liebenstein
  Jacob of Liebenstein was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1504 to 1508.-Biography:Jacob of Liebenstein was born in 1462, the son of Peter II of Liebenstein and his wife Agnes ....
  
   1504–1508
• Uriel von Gemmingen
  Uriel von Gemmingen
  Uriel von Gemmingen was appointed Archbishop of Mainz on 27 September 1508, a prince elector, and chancellor to Emperor Maximillian I on 23 April 1509.Uriel was one of ten children of Hans von Gemmingen ....
  
   1508–1514
• Albert III von Brandenburg
  Albert of Mainz
  Cardinal Albert of Hohenzollern was Elector and Archbishop of Mainz from 1514 to 1545, and Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1513 to 1545.-Biography:...
  
   1514–1545
• Sebastian of Heusenstamm
  Sebastian of Heusenstamm
  Sebastian of Heusenstamm was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1545 to 1555.-Biography:Sebastian of Heusenstamm was born in Frankfurt on March 16, 1508. He was ordained as a priest in Mainz on October 6, 1531....
  
   1545–1555
• Daniel Brendel of Homburg
  Daniel Brendel of Homburg
  Daniel Brendel of Homburg was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1555 to 1582.-Biography:Daniel Brendel of Homburg was born in Aschaffenburg on March 22, 1522....
  
   1555–1582
• Wolfgang von Dalberg
  Wolfgang von Dalberg
  Wolfgang von Dalberg was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1582 to 1601.-Biography:Wolfgang von Dalberg was born in 1538, the son of Friedrich Kämmerer von Worms alias von Dalberg , and his wife Anna von Fleckenstein Wolfgang von Dalberg (1538–1601) was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1582...
  
   1582–1601
• Johann Adam von Bicken
  Johann Adam von Bicken
  Johann Adam von Bicken was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1601 to 1604.-Biography:Johann Adam von Bicken was born in Hainchen Castle on May 27, 1564, the son of Philipp von Bicken and his wife Anna Brendelin von Homburg . As a boy, he studied the seven liberal arts in Würzburg and Mainz...
  
   1601–1604
• Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg
  Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg
  Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1604 to 1626.-Early Life, 1553-1604:Born on July 15, 1553, Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg was the third son of Hartmut XIII von Kronburg and his wife Barbara von Sickingen...
  
   1604–1626
• Georg Friedrich von Greiffenklau
  Georg Friedrich von Greiffenklau
  Georg Friedrich von Greiffenklau zu Vollrads was the Bishop of Worms from 1616 to 1629 and the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1626 to 1629.-Biography:...
  
   1626–1629
• Anselm Casimir Wambold von Umstadt
  Anselm Casimir Wambold von Umstadt
  Anselm Casimir Wambold von Umstadt was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1629 to 1647.-Biography:Anselm Casimir Wambold von Umstadt was the son of Eberhard Wambolt Umstadt and Anna von Reiffenberg . He was born on November 30, 1582, most likely in Speyer, where his father was an official in...
  
   1629–1647
• Johann Philipp von Schönborn
  Johann Philipp von Schönborn
  Johann Philipp von Schönborn was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1647 until 1673, the Bishop of Würzburg from 1642 until 1673, and the Bishop of Worms from 1663 until 1673....
  
   1647–1673
• Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheid
  Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheid
  Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheid was the Bishop of Speyer from 1652 to 1675 and also Archbishop of Mainz and Bishop of Worms from 1673 to 1675.-Biography:...
  
   1673–1675
• Damian Hartard von der Leyen-Hohengeroldseck
  Damian Hartard von der Leyen-Hohengeroldseck
  Damian Hartard Reichsfreiherr von der Leyen-Hohengeroldseck was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz and the Bishop of Worms from 1675 to 1678.-Biography:...
  
   1675–1678
• Karl Heinrich von Metternich-Winneburg
  Karl Heinrich von Metternich-Winneburg
  Karl Heinrich von Metternich-Winneburg was elected as Archbishop-Elector of Mainz and Bishop of Worms in 1679, but died before he could be consecrated as a bishop.-Biography:...
  
   1679
• Anselm Franz von Ingelheim
  Anselm Franz von Ingelheim (archbishop)
  Anselm Franz of Ingelheim was Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1679 until his death in 1695.Anselm became prince-bishop of Mainz on 7 November 1679 and thus was an elector of the Holy Roman Empire...
  
   1679–1695
• Lothar Franz von Schönborn
  Lothar Franz von Schönborn
  Lothar Franz von Schönborn was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1694 until 1729, and the Bishop of Bamberg from 1693 until 1729.Lothar Franz was born in Steinheim am Main in 1655 to Count Philip Erwin of Schönborn...
  
   1695–1729
• Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg
  Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg
  Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg was bishop and archbishop of several dioceses, prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire, and Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order....
  
   1729–1732
• Philipp Karl von Eltz-Kempenich
  Philipp Karl von Eltz-Kempenich
  Philipp Karl von Eltz-Kempenich was Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1732 to 1743.-Biography:Philipp Karl von Eltz-Kempenich was born at Burg Eltz on October 26, 1665. In 1686, he enrolled in the Collegium Germanicum in Rome and received a substantial theological education...
  
   1732–1743
• Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein
  Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein
  Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein was the Prince-Bishop of Worms, Archbishop of Mainz and Elector of Mainz.He was a relative of Lothar Franz von Schönborn, a prior Archbishop-Elector of Mainz. On April 22, 1743 he was selected as a compromise candidate for Archbishop...
  
   1743–1763
• Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim
  Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim
  Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1763 to 1774 and Bishop of Worms from 1768 to 1774, in which capacities he was notable for introducing reforms inspired by the Enlightenment.-Biography:...
  
   1763–1774
• Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal
  Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal
  Friedrich Karl Joseph Reichsfreiherr von Erthal was prince-elector and archbishop of Mainz from 18 July 1774 to 4 July 1802, shortly before the end of the archbishopric in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss....
  
   1774–1802
• Karl Theodor von Dalberg 1802–1803

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See also

• Lists of office-holders
• Bishop of Mainz
  Bishop of Mainz
  The Diocese of Mainz is a diocese of the Catholic church in Germany. It was created in 1802 with the abolition of the old Archbishopric of Mainz. The diocese is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Freiburg; its district is located in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse...
  
  
• Mainz Cathedral
  Mainz Cathedral
  Mainz Cathedral or St. Martin's Cathedral is located near the historical center and pedestrianized market square of the city of Mainz, Germany...
  
  
• Primas Germaniae
  Primas Germaniae
  Primas Germaniae is a historical title of honour for the most important Catholic bishop in Germany.Since at least 965 the Title was held by the Archbishop of Mainz as most important Archbishop and most noble Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire until the See of Mainz was secularized in 1803...
  
  

External links

of the modern Diocese

• Map of the Archbishopric of Mainz in 1789