Bishop of Speyer

The Bishop of Speyer is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer, which is a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Bamberg.

The diocese covers an area of 5,893 km².

The current bishop is Karl-Heinz Wiesemann.

List of bishops

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
pre 1802	prince-bishops	See bishopric of Speyer
1802 to 5 February 1818	Sede vacante	Secularization and division of the bishopric of Speyer
5 February 1818 to 30 June 1826	Matthäus Georg von Chandelle	Priest of Mainz;ordained 9 December 1821; died in office
22 July 1826 to 25 March 1835	Johann Martin Manl	Priest of Mainz; confirmed 9 April 1827; ordained 25 April 1827; appointed Bishop of Eichstätt
23 March 1835 to 20 September 1836	Johann Peter von Richarz	Priest of Würzburg; confirmed 24 July 1835; ordained 1 November 1835; Appointed Bishop of Augsburg
20 September 1836 to 23 May 1842	Johannes von Geissel	Priest of Speyer; confirmed 19 May 1837; ordained 13 August 1837; Appointed Bishop of Cologne
5 March 1842 to 13 December 1869	Nicolaus von Weis	Priest of Speyer; confirmed 23 May 1842; ordained 10 July 1842; died in office
6 May 1870 to 4 April 1871	Konrad Reither	Priest of Speyer; confirmed 27 June 1870; ordained 18 September 1870; died in office
23 May 1872 to 31 May 1876	Bonifatius von Haneberg, OSB	Priest of the Order of Saint Benedict; confirmed 29 July 1872; ordained 25 August 1872; died in office
9 June 1878 to 18 March 1905	Joseph Georg von Ehrler	Priest of Würzburg; confirmed 9 June 1878; ordained 15 July 1878; died in office
21 March 1905 to 9 September 1910	Konrad von Busch	Priest of Speyer; confirmed 30 May 1905; ordained 16 July 1905; died in office
4 November 1910 to 26 May 1917	Michael von Faulhaber	Priest of Speyer; confirmed 7 January 1911; ordained 19 February 1911; appointed Archbishop of München und Freising
28 May 1917 to 20 May 1943	Ludwig Sebastian	Priest of Bamberg; confirmed 31 July 1917; ordained 23 September 1917; died in office
20 May 1943 to 9 August 1952	Joseph Wendel	Coadjutor Bishop of Speyer; installed 4 June 1943; Appointed Archbishop of München und Freising
22 December 1952 to 10 February 1968	Isidor Markus Emanuel	Priest of Speyer; ordained 1 February 1953; resigned
28 May 1968 to 28 October 1982	Friedrich Wetter	Priest of Speyer; ordained 29 June 1968; Appointed Archbishop of München und Freising
25 August 1983 to 10 February 2007	Anton Schlembach	Priest of Würzburg; ordained 16 October 1983
19 December 2007 to present	Karl-Heinz Wiesemann	Auxiliary bishop of Paderborn; ordained 2 March 2008

See also

• Lists of office-holders
• Speyer Cathedral

References

Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Germany
Archdioceses	Dioceses
Bamberg	Eichstätt | Speyer | Würzburg
Berlin	Dresden-Meissen | Görlitz
Freiburg im Breisgau	Mainz | Rottenburg-Stuttgart
Hamburg	Hildesheim | Osnabrück
Cologne	Aachen | Essen | Limburg | Münster | Trier
Munich & Freising	Augsburg | Passau | Regensburg
Paderborn	Erfurt | Fulda | Magdeburg