Johann Jakob Humann (7 May 1771, Strasbourg – 19 August 1834,

Mainz Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-west, with Ma ...

) was a German Roman Catholic clergyman. From 1860 he was

vicar general A vicar general (previously, archdeacon) is the principal deputy of the bishop of a diocese for the exercise of administrative authority and possesses the title of local ordinary. As vicar of the bishop, the vicar general exercises the bishop' ...

of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Mainz The Diocese of Mainz, historically known in English as ''Mentz'' as well as by its French name ''Mayence'', is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Germany. It was founded in 304, promoted in 780 to Metrop ...

and then

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for the new Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer from 1817 to 1821. He also served as Mainz's Vicar Apostolic from 1818 to 1830 and briefly as its bishop in 1834.

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*http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bhumann.html 1771 births 1834 deaths Bishops of Mainz (1802-present) Clergy from Strasbourg {{Germany-RC-bishop-stub