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Speyer Speyer (, older spelling ''Speier'', French: ''Spire,'' historical English: ''Spires''; pfl, Schbaija) is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the river Rhine, Speyer lie ...

is the Ordinary of the

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Diocese of Speyer The Diocese of Speyer (lat. Dioecesis Spirensis) is a diocese of the Catholic Church in Germany. The diocese is located in the South of the Rhineland-Palatinate and comprises also the Saarpfalz district in the east of the Saarland. The bish ...

, which is a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Bamberg."Diocese of Speyer"
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''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016"Diocese of Speyer"
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Karl-Heinz Wiesemann Karl-Heinz Wiesemann (born 1 August 1960) is the 96th Bishop of Speyer. Life Wiesemann was born in Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia in the archdiocese of Paderborn. He became a chaplain on 10 October 1985 in Rome. He later served as a priest ...

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

Bishops to 1802

At some point the bishops of Speyer acquired imperial

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Bishops after 1818

Auxiliary bishops

* Pierre Spitznagel,

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(1444–1465)"Bishop Pierre Spitznagel, O. Carm."
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Johann Isenberg Johann, typically a male given name, is the German form of ''Iohannes'', which is the Latin form of the Greek name ''Iōánnēs'' (), itself derived from Hebrew name ''Yochanan'' () in turn from its extended form (), meaning " Yahweh is Graciou ...

, O.F.M. (1466–1484) *

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, 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 Wolfgang is a German male given name traditionally popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The name is a combination of the Old High German words ''wolf'', meaning "wolf", and ''gang'', meaning "path", "journey", "travel". Besides the regula ...

(1623–1663) * Johann Brassert (1673–1684) *

Johann Philipp Burkhard Johann, typically a male given name, is the German form of ''Iohannes'', which is the Latin form of the Greek name ''Iōánnēs'' (), itself derived from Hebrew name ''Yochanan'' () in turn from its extended form (), meaning " Yahweh is Graciou ...

(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–)

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