The title of Bishop of Mainz was created in 1802 with the abolition of the old Archbishopric of Mainz:
Bishops of Mainz, 1802-present
- Joseph Ludwig Colmar 1802-1818
- Joseph Vitus Burg 1829-1833
- Johann Jakob Humann 1833-1834
- Petrus Leopold Kaiser 1834-1848
- Wilhelm Emmanuel Freiherr von Ketteler 1850-1877
- Paul Leopold Haffner 1886-1899
- Heinrich Brück 1900-1903
- Georg Heinrich Kirstein 1903-1921
- Ludwig Maria Hugo 1921-1935
- Albert Stohr 1935-1961
- Hermann Cardinal Volk 1962-1982
- Karl Cardinal Lehmann 1983-
