Peter Kohlgraf

Peter Kohlgraf (born March 21, 1967 in Cologne, Germany) is the current Catholic Bishop of Mainz.

Kohlgraf was born as the son of a mason and a nurse. After his Abitur in 1986 at the Dreikönigsgymnasium in Cologne, he studied philosophy and catholic theology at the University of Bonn and for one semester in Salzburg. Kohlgraf graduated from university in 1991 and went to the priests seminary of the Archdiocese of Cologne. On June 19, 1993 he got the priest ordination in the Cologne Cathedral by the Archbishop of Cologne, Joachim Kardinal Meisner - together with the later archbishop of hamburg Stefan Heße and the later suffragan bishop of Cologne Dominikus Schwaderlapp. The first stations of Kohlgraf as a priest have been in Euskirchen and in Bad Honnef-Rhöndorf, before he became school-chaplain at the Kardinal-Frings-Gymnasium in Bonn-Beuel in 1999. In 2000, he gained one's doctorate at Ernst Dassmann at the University of Bonn with the topic The ecclesiology of the Episcopal Letter in the interpretation by John Chrysostom.