Diocese of Munich and Freising

Archdiocese of Munich and Freising Archidioecesis Monacensis et Frisingensis Erzbistum München und Freising
Frauenkirche, Munich
Location
Country	Germany
Ecclesiastical province	Munich and Freising
Metropolitan	Munich, Bavaria
Statistics
Area	11,998 km2 (4,632 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2013) 3,603,361 1,759,896 ( 48.8%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	739
Cathedral	Frauenkirche
Co-cathedral	Freising Cathedral
Patron saint	St. Corbinian
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Reinhard Marx Archbishop of Munich and Freising
Auxiliary Bishops	Wolfgang Bischof, Bernhard Haßlberger
Emeritus Bishops	Friedrich Wetter, Franz Dietl, Engelbert Siebler
Map
Website
erzbistum-muenchen-und-freising.de

The Archdiocese of Munich and Freising (German: Erzbistum München und Freising, Latin: Archidioecesis Monacensis et Frisingensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Bavaria, Germany. It is governed by the Archbishop of Munich and Freising, who administers the see from the co-cathedral in Munich, the Frauenkirche, which is never called in German Munich Cathedral. The other, much older co-cathedral is Freising Cathedral.

The see was canonically erected in about 739 by Saint Boniface as the Diocese of Freising and later became a prince-bishopric. 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 new seat in Munich, rather than Freising.

The archdiocese is divided into forty deaneries with 758 parishes. Its suffragan bishops are the Bishop of Augsburg, the Bishop of Passau, and the Bishop of Regensburg.

The most famous archbishop was Joseph Ratzinger, who was elected as Pope Benedict XVI.

The following is a selection of notable ordinaries of the Bishopric and Prince-Bishopric of Freising and the Archbishopric and Archdiocese of Munich and Freising