# 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.
Listed here are the bishops of the diocese and auxiliary bishops.

## Bishops to 1802

At some point, the bishops of Speyer acquired imperial fiefs.
| Name | From | Until |
| Jesse of Speir | circa 346 | |
| Hildericus episcopus | circa 613 | |
| Atanasius | 610 | 650 |
| Principius | 650 | 659 |
| Dragobodo | 659 | 700 |
| Otto | 700 | 709 |
| Siegwin I | 709 | 725 |
| Luido | 725 | 743 |
| David | 743 | 760 |
| Basinus | 760 | 775 |
| Siegwin II | 775 | 802 |
| Otto I | 802 | 810 |
| Fraido | 810 | 814 |
| Benedikt | 814 | 828 or 830 |
| Bertin, also Hertinus | 828 or 830 | 845 or 846 |
| Gebhard I | 845 or 847 | 880 |
| Goddank | 881 | 895 or 898 |
| Einhard, also Eginhard | 895 or 898 | 913 |
| Bernhard | 914 | 922 |
| Amalrich | 913 or 923 | 943 |
| Reginwalt I, also Reginhard | 943 or 944 | 950 |
| Gottfried I | 950 | 960 |
| Otgar | 960 | 970 |
| Balderich | 970 | 987 |
| Ruprecht | 987 | 1004 |
| Walter | 1004 | 1031 |
| Siegfried I | 1031 | 1032 |
| Reinher, also Reginher | 1032 | 1033 |
| Reginhard II of Dillingen, also Reginbald | 1033 | 1039 |
| Sigbodo I, also Siegbodo | 1039 | 1051 |
| Arnold I of Falkenberg | 1051 | 1056 |
| Konrad I | 1056 | 1060 |
| Eginhard II of Katzenelnbogen | 1060 | 1067 |
| Heinrich of Scharfenberg | 1067 | 1075 |
| Rüdiger Huzmann (Huozmann, Hutzmann) | 1075 | 1090 |
| Johann I of Kraichgau | 1090 | 1104 |
| Gebhard II, Count of Urach | 1105 | 1107 († 1110) |
| Bruno, Count of Saarbrücken (Count of Saargau) | 1107 | 1123 |
| Arnold II, Count of Leiningen | 1124 | 1126 |
| Siegfried I, Count of Wolffölden | 1127 | 1146 |
| Günther von Henneberg [de] | 1146 | 1161 |
| Ulrich I of Dürrmenz | 1161 | 1163 |
| Gottfried II | 1164 | 1167 |
| Rabodo, Count of Lobdaburg | 1167 | 1176 |
| Konrad II | 1176 | 1178 |
| Ulrich II of Rechberg | 1178 | 1187 |
| Otto II, Count of Henneberg | 1187 | 1200 |
| Conrad III of Scharfenberg | 1200 | 1224 |
| Beringer of Entringen | 1224 | 1232 |
| Konrad IV of Dahn | 1233 | 1236 |
| Konrad V, Count of Eberstein | 1237 | 1245 |
| Heinrich II, Count of Leiningen | 1245 | 1272 |
| Friedrich of Bolanden | 1272 | 1302 |
| Sigibodo II of Lichtenberg, also Siegbodo | 1302 | 1314 |
| Emich, Count of Leiningen, also Emicho | 1314 | 1328 |
| Berthold, Count of Bucheck | 1328 | 1328 |
| Walram, Count of Veldenz | 1328 | 1336 |
| Baldwin, Archbishop of Trier (Administrator) | 1332 | 1336 |
| Gerhard of Ehrenberg | 1336 | 1363 |
| Lambert of Born (Brunn?) | 1364 | 1371 |
| Adolf I, Count of Nassau | 1371 | 1388 |
| Nikolaus I aus Wiesbaden | 1388 | 1396 |
| Raban of Helmstatt | 1396 | 1438 |
| Reinhard of Helmstatt | 1438 | 1456 |
| Siegfried III Freiherr of Venningen | 1456 | 1459 |
| Johann II Nix of Hoheneck, aka Enzenberger | 1459 | 1464 |
| Matthias Freiherr of Rammingen | 1464 | 1478 |
| Ludwig of Helmstädt | 1478 | 1504 |
| Philip I of Rosenberg | 1504 | 1513 |
| George, Count Palatine by Rhine | 1513 | 1529 |
| Philip II of Flersheim | 1529 | 1552 |
| Rudolf of Frankenstein | 1552 | 1560 |
| Marquard Freiherr of Hattstein | 1560 | 1581 |
| Eberhard of Dienheim | 1581 | 1610 |
| Philipp Christoph von Sötern | 1610 | 1652 |
| Lothar Friedrich of Metternich | 1652 | 1675 |
| Johann Hugo von Orsbeck | 1675 | 1711 |
| Heinrich Hartard of Rollingen | 1711 | 1719 |
| Hugo Damian of Schönborn | 1719 | 1743 |
| Franz Christoph of Hutten zu Stolzenberg | 1743 | 1770 |
| Damian August Philipp Karl, Count of Limburg-Stirum-Vehlen | 1770 | 1797 |
| Philipp Franz Wilderich of Walderdorf | 1801 | 1802 († 1810) |
| Sede vacante | 1802 | 1818 |
| Secularization and division of the diocese | 1803 |

## Bishops after 1818

| Tenure | Incumbent | Notes |
| 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; created a Cardinal in 1985 by Pope John Paul II |
| 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 |

## Auxiliary bishops

* Pierre Spitznagel, O. Carm. (1444–1465)
* Johann Isenberg, O.F.M. (1466–1484)
* Stephan Karrer, O.P. (1484–1486)
* Heinrich Schertlin (1486–1511)
* Lukas Schleppel (1512–1520)
* Anton Engelbrecht (1520–1525)
* Nikolaus Schigmers, O.S.A. (1529–1541)
* Georg Schweicker (1544–1563)
* Matthais Ob (1566–1572)
* Heinrich Fabricius (1575–1595)
* Dionys Burckard (1596–1605)
* Theobald Manshalter (1606–1610)
* Johannes Streck (1611–)
* Wolfgang Ralinger (1623–1663)
* Johann Brassert (1673–1684)
* Johann Philipp Burkhard (1685–1698)
* Peter Cornelius Beyweg (1701–1744)
* Johann Adam Buckel (1745–1771)
* Johann Andreas Seelmann (1772–1789)
* Valentin Philipp Anton Schmidt (1790–1805)
* Ernst Gutting (1971–1994)
* Otto Georgens (1995–)