Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paderborn

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Archdiocese of Paderborn Archidioecesis Paderbornensis Erzbistum Paderborn
Paderborn Cathedral
Location
Country	Germany
Territory	Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia
Ecclesiastical province	Paderborn
Statistics
Area	14,750 km2 (5,700 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members)	(as of 2013) 4,856,342 1,596,405 (32.9%)
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	799
Cathedral	Paderborn Cathedral
Patron saint	St. Kilian St. Liborius
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Hans-Josef Becker
Auxiliary Bishops	Matthias König, Dominicus Meier OSB
Bishops emeritus	Manfred Grothe (Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus), Hubert Berenbrinker (Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus)
Map
Website
erzbistum-paderborn.de

The Archdiocese of Paderborn is an Archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany; its seat is Paderborn.^[1][2] It was a diocese from its foundation in 799 until 1802, and again from 1821 until 1930. In 1930, it was promoted to an archdiocese. From 1281 until 1802, the Bishopric of Paderborn (German: Fürstbistum Paderborn) was also a state of the Holy Roman Empire.

History[]

The diocese of Paderborn was founded in 799 by Pope Leo III. In the early years it was subordinated to the bishop of Würzburg. Since 855 the clergy had the right to elect the bishop. The diocese included the larger part of Lippe, Waldeck, and nearly half of the County of Ravensberg.

History of the Bishopric[]

Restoration and later history[]

While the bishopric as a state had been permanently dissolved in 1802, the Diocese of Paderborn, originally suffragan to Mainz Archdiocese (till 1805), was recreated by Pope Pius VII as a suffragan to Cologne Archdiocese in 1821. Through the Prussian Concordate, it was promoted to an archdiocese in 1930, heading the new Middle German Ecclesiastical Province; at the same time, Paderborn lost its districts around Erfurt and Heiligenstadt to the Diocese of Fulda, and two small areas to the Archdiocese of Cologne. The dioceses of Hildesheim and Fulda were made its suffragans.

When the Diocese of Essen was created in 1958, Paderborn lost a significant portion of its district to it.

In the 1980s the Campingkirche was founded.

In 1994 Paderborn lost the part of its district located in the former East Germany to its newly created suffragan Diocese of Magdeburg. Also the new Diocese of Erfurt was made subordinate to Paderborn. At the same time, Hildesheim was made subordinate to the Archdiocese of Hamburg.

In the 1990s, the conflict between the Archdiocese and renegade priest Eugen Drewermann made headlines.

The current archbishop is Hans-Josef Becker.

In April 2008 pope Benedict XVI. announced as a new auxiliary bishop.

Ordinaries[]

Bishops to 1321[]

Image	Name	from	to	Notes
		806	815
		815	862
		862	887
	Biso	887	900
		900	917
		918	935
		935	959
		959	983
		983	1009
	Meinwerk	1009	1036	Immedinger
		1036	1051
		1051	1076	Billunger
		1076	1083
		1083	1090
		1084	1127
		1127	1160
		1160	1178
		1178	1188	von Hallermund?
		1188	1203
		1204	1223
		1223	1225
	Wilbrand von Oldenburg	1225	1228
		1228	1247
		1247	1277
		1277	1307
		1307	1310
		1310	1321

Prince-Bishops (1321 to 1802)[]

Archbishops[]

• Franz Egon Freiherr von Fürstenberg † (6 Jan 1789 Succeeded – 1802 Promoted to Archbishop)

Bishops[]

• Franz Egon Freiherr von Fürstenberg † (1821 Demoted to Bishop – 11 Aug 1825 Died)
• † (10 Nov 1825 Appointed – 30 Aug 1841 Died)
• † (27 Nov 1841 Appointed – 11 Oct 1844 Died)
• † (11 Jan 1845 Appointed – 5 Nov 1855 Died)
• Konrad Martin † (29 Jan 1856 Appointed – 16 Jul 1879 Died)
• † (24 Mar 1882 Appointed – 7 Mar 1891 Died)
• † (25 Jun 1891 Appointed – 24 Oct 1899 Appointed, Archbishop of Köln {Cologne})
• Wilhelm Schneider † (10 May 1900 Appointed – 31 Aug 1909 Died)
• Karl Joseph Schulte † (30 Nov 1909 Appointed – 8 Mar 1920 Appointed, Archbishop of Köln {Cologne})
• Caspar Klein † (30 Apr 1920 Appointed)

Archbishops[]

• Caspar Klein † (1930 Promoted to archbishop – 26 Jan 1941 Died)
• Lorenz Jaeger † (29 May 1941 Appointed – 30 Jun 1973 Retired)
• Johannes Joachim Degenhardt † (15 Mar 1974 Appointed – 25 Jul 2002 Died)
• Hans-Josef Becker (3 Jul 2003 Appointed – )

Auxiliary bishops[]

Diocese (to 1802)[]

• Johannes Fabri, O.F.M. (1437–1458)^[3][4]
• Johannes Schulte, O.S.A. (1455–1466)^[5]
• Heinrich Vuyst (Wust), O.F.M. (1462–1468)^[6][7]
• Johannes Ymminck, O.S.A. (1469–1493)^[8]
• , O.F.M. (1481–1505)
• Albert Engel (bishop), O.F.M. (1493–1500)^[9]
• Johannes Schneider (bishop), O.F.M. (1507–1551)^[10][11]
• , O.F.M. Conv. (1592–1620)
• (Pelcking), O.F.M. Conv. (1619–1642)
• (1644–1655)
• Pantaleon Bruns, O.S.B. (1721–1727)
• Winimar Knippschild, O.S.B. (1729–1732)
• Meinwerk Kaup, O.S.B. (1733–1745)
• Johann Christoph von Crass (1746–1751)
• Franz Josef von Gondola, O.S.B. (1752–1761)

Diocese (1821–1830)[]

• Richard Kornelius Dammers (1824–1842) Appointed, Bishop of Paderborn

Archdiocese (1830–present)[]

• Anton Ferdinand Holtgreven (1843–1848)
• Joseph Freusberg (1854–1889)
• Augustinus Göckel (1890–1912)
• Heinrich Hähling von Lanzenauer (1912–1925)
• Johannes Hillebrand (1926–1931)
• Augustinus Philipp Baumann (1932–1953)
• Wilhelm Weskamm (1949–1951)
• Friedrich Maria Heinrich Rintelen (1951–1970)
• Franz Hengsbach (1953–1957)
• Wilhelm Tuschen (1958–1961)
• Paul Heinrich Nordhues (1961–1990)
• Johannes Joachim Degenhardt (1968–1974) Appointed, Archbishop of Paderborn
• Hans-Georg (Johannes) Braun (1970–1973)
• Paul Josef Cordes (1975–1975)
• Paul-Werner Scheele (1975–1979)
• Hubert Berenbrinker (1977–2008)
• Hans Leo Drewes (1980–1997)
• Paul Consbruch (1980–1999)
• Franz-Josef Hermann Bode (1991–1995)
• Heinz Josef Algermissen (1996–2001)
• Reinhard Marx (1996–2001)
• Hans-Josef Becker (1999–2003) Appointed, Archbishop of Paderborn
• Karl-Heinz Wiesemann (2002–2007)
• Manfred Grothe (2004–2015)
• Matthias König (2004– )
• Hubert Berenbrinker (2008-2020)
• Dominicus (Michael) Meier, O.S.B. (2015– )

Structure[]

The archdiocese is allocated in 19 districts ().^[12]

References[]

External links[]

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Official website