Freising Bishops' Conference

The Freising Bishops Conference of the Roman Catholic Church was founded in 1850. In it, the bishops of the southern Bavarian Archdiocese of Munich and Freising with the suffragans Regensburg, Passau and Augsburg and the Frankish Archdiocese of Bamberg are represented by the suffragans of Würzburg, Eichstätt and Speyer. The bishops of these dioceses meet twice a year since 1867 on the Freising Cathedral Hill. Its leader is the Archbishop of Munich and Freising (since 2008 Archbishop Reinhard Marx, Cardinal ), Substitute is the Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Bamberg in northern Bavaria (since 2002 Archbishop Ludwig Schick).

The territory of the Diocese of Speyer is indeed now part of the federal states of Rhineland -Palatinate and Saarland, however, the boundaries of the Ecclesiastical Province of Bamberg, since 1920/1945 unchanged - with the exception of the assignment of the Thuringian areas of the diocese of Würzburg to the Diocese of Erfurt - which is why the Palatinate from view of the Catholic church law remains a part of Bavaria.

The Freising Bishops' Conference has the task to promote common pastoral ministry to coordinate the church work as well as a platform for mutual consultation has to offer. Unlike the German Bishops' Conference, the Bavarian bishops joined in 1933, it has no decision-making power.