The first Archbishop of Salzburg. His elevation to metropolitan rank in 798, sponsored by Emperor Charlemagne, transformed Salzburg from a regional bishopric into the ecclesiastical capital of Central Europe.

The most powerful Archbishop of Salzburg in the medieval period. Eberhard II held the archbishopric for an extraordinary 46 years (1200-1246), the longest reign of any Salzburg archbishop, and significantly expanded Hohensalzburg Fortress.

The archbishop who commissioned the Zwerglgarten (Dwarf Garden) at Mirabell Palace, one of Salzburg's most quietly fascinating attractions. His archiepiscopate (1709-1727) represents the last golden decade of the independent Prince-Archbishopric's baroque programme.

The archbishop who founded Hohensalzburg Fortress in 1077. The reason Salzburg's most iconic landmark exists at all.

A baroque patron from the same aristocratic Thun family as the great builder Johann Ernst von Thun. Guidobald's careful stewardship (1654-1668) set the conditions for the explosive building campaign his kinsman would later unleash with Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach.

The archbishop Mozart famously fell out with. Colloredo's reforming austerity drove Mozart to leave Salzburg permanently for Vienna in 1781. Under his rule, Salzburg's temporal authority as a prince-archbishopric effectively ended with secularisation in 1803.

The great patron behind Salzburg's high baroque building campaign. Johann Ernst von Thun gave Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach his most important commissions, transforming Salzburg into one of the most magnificent baroque cities in the German-speaking world.

The immediate predecessor of Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau. His 26-year archiepiscopate (1560-1586) provided institutional continuity during the Counter-Reformation before the explosive baroque transformation that followed his death.

One of Salzburg's most important medieval builders and one of only a handful of Salzburg archbishops declared a saint. Konrad I rebuilt Salzburg Cathedral on a grand Romanesque scale, the church that served the city for over four centuries.

The archbishop most responsible for Hohensalzburg Fortress as visitors see it today. During his reign (1495-1519), Keutschach transformed the fortress from a functional stronghold into an opulent princely residence. His personal symbol, three turnips, appears throughout the fortress carved in stone.

The archbishop behind the Protestant Expulsion of 1731-1732, one of the most dramatic episodes in Salzburg's history. Firmian ordered roughly 20,000 Protestants to convert or leave, triggering one of the most significant forced migrations of the early modern era.

Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1612 to 1619, and a cousin of Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, whom he deposed with Bavarian military backing. In seven years he built Hellbrunn Palace, planted the Hellbrunner Allee, renamed Wolf Dietrich's "Altenau" to Mirabell, and laid the cornerstone of the Salzburg Cathedral. He died before completing any of them.

One of the most powerful men in the Holy Roman Empire before becoming Archbishop of Salzburg. A cardinal, imperial chancellor to Emperor Maximilian I, and the archbishop who survived a months-long siege inside Hohensalzburg Fortress during the Peasants' War of 1525.

A Counter-Reformation hardliner who in 1684 ordered the expulsion of the Protestants of the Defereggen Valley, then part of Salzburg's territory in East Tyrol. He also commissioned the Kajetanerkirche in the Altstadt.

Archbishop Paris Lodron

archbishop1586 - 1653

The "Father of the Fatherland." Paris Lodron kept Salzburg neutral and unscathed throughout the Thirty Years' War, oversaw the consecration of Salzburg Cathedral in 1628, and founded the University of Salzburg in 1622.

Mozart's first employer. Far more benevolent than his successor Colloredo, Schrattenbach allowed Leopold Mozart repeated extended leaves of absence for the family's European concert tours, effectively subsidising the education of a genius.

An archbishop equally skilled with a chisel and a crozier. Before his elevation, Thiemo was a gifted sculptor and metalworker at Stift St. Peter. He was martyred during the Crusade of 1101 and later beatified.

The most transformative Archbishop in Salzburg's history. Wolf Dietrich demolished the old Romanesque cathedral, created Mirabell Palace, rebuilt the Residenz, and began reshaping the city along Italian baroque lines. Deposed and imprisoned in Hohensalzburg Fortress until his death.