Archdiocese of Bamberg
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The Archdiocese of Bamberg (lat. Archidioecesis Bambergensis) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Bavaria. It comprises the majority of the administrative regions of Upper Franconia and Middle Franconia, as well as a small part of Lower Franconia and the Upper Palatinate. Its seat is Bamberg. The dioceses of Speyer, Eichstätt, and Würzburg are subordinate to it. The Diocese was founded in 1007 out of parts of the dioceses of Eichstätt and Würzburg. In 1817, the diocese was raised to an archdiocese.
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[edit] State
Around 1250, the Bishopric of Bamberg became a state of the Holy Roman Empire. During the eighteenth century, it was often held in conjunction with the neighboring Bishopric of Würzburg. Bamberg was bordered, among others, by Würzburg to the west, by the Margravate of Brandenburg-Ansbach and the Free City of Nuremberg to the south, by the Margravate of Brandenburg-Bayreuth to the east and by the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg to the north. The Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1802 made Bamberg a part of Bavaria.
In 1802, Bamberg had an area of 3580 km² and a population of 207,000.
[edit] History
At 1 November 1007 a synod was held in Frankfurt. Eight archbishops and twenty-seven bishops were present at the synod as well as the East Frankish King Henry II. Henry II intened to create a new diocese that would aid in the final conquest of paganism in the area around Bamberg. But the territory of the Wends on the upper Main, the Wiesent, and the Aisch had belonged to the Diocese of Würzburg since the organization of the Middle German bishoprics by St. Boniface, so that no new diocese could be erected without the consent of the occupant of that see.
The bishop of Würzburg raised no objection to parting with some of his territory, especially as the king promised to have Würzburg raised to an archbishopric and to give him an equivalent in Meiningen. The consent of Pope John XVII was obtained for this arrangement, but the elevation of Würzburg to an archbishopric proved impracticable, and its bishop withdrew his consent.
At the synod Henry obtained permission for the foundation of the diocese of Bamberg from parts of the dioceses of Würzburg and Eichstätt. Bamberg was made directly subordinate to Rome. It was also decided that Eberhard, the king's chancellor, would be ordained by the archbishop of Mainz, Willigis, to be the head of the new border area diocese. The new diocese had expensive gifts at the synod confirmed by documents, in order to place it on a solid foundation. Henry wanted the celebrated monkish rigour and studiousness of the Hildesheim cathedral chapter - Henry himself was educated there - linked together with the churches under his control, including his favourite diocese of Bamberg. The next seven bishops were named by the emperors, after which free canonical election was the rule. Eberhard's immediate successor, Suidger of Morsleben, became pope in 1046 as Clement II. He was the only pope to be interred north of the Alps in the Bamberg cathedral. In the thirteenth century the diocese gradually became a territorial principality, and its bishops took secular precedence next after the archbishops; Bishop Henry I was the first prince-bishop.
The fortieth bishop, George III of Limburg (1505-22), was inclined toward the Reformation, which caused a violent social outbreak under his successor Weigand (1522-56), and the city suffered severely in the Margraves' War (1552-54), as well as in the Thirty Years' War, when it was placed under the jurisdiction of Bernard, the new Duke of Franconia.
At the Peace of Westphalia (1648), the bishops recovered their possessions; but these were overrun by the French revolutionary armies, and in 1802 annexed to Bavaria. From 1808 to 1817 the diocese was vacant; but by the Bavarian Concordat of the latter year it was made an archbishopric, with Würzburg, Speyer, and Eichstädt as suffragan sees.
[edit] Bishops of Bamberg, 1007-1803
- Eberhard I 1007-1040
- Suidger von Morsleben 1040-1046
- Hartwig von Bogen 1047-1053
- Adalbert of Carinthia 1053-1057
- Günther 1057-1065
- Hermann I von Formbach 1065-1075
- Rupprecht 1075-1102
- Otto I of Mistelbach 1102-1139
- Egilbert 1139-1146
- Eberhard II von Otelingen 1146-1170
- Hermann II von Aurach 1170-1177
- Otto II von Andechs 1177-1196
- Thimo von Lyskirch 1196-1201
- Konrad von Ergersheim 1202-1203
- Ekbert von Andechs 1203-1231
- Siegfried von Öttingen 1231-1238
- Poppo von Andechs 1238-1242
- Heinrich I von Bilversheim 1242-1257
- Wladeslaw of Silesia 1257
- Berthold von Leiningen 1257-1285
- Mangold von Neuenburg 1285 (Bishop of Würzburg 1287-1303)
- Arnold von Solms 1286-1296
- Leopold I von Grundlach 1296-1303
- Wulfing von Stubenberg 1304-1318
- Ulrich von Schlusselberg 1319
- Konrad von Giech 1319-1322
- Johannes von Schlackenwerth 1322-1324
- Heinrich II von Sternberg 1324-1328
- Werntho Schenk von Reicheneck 1328-1335
- Leopold II von Egloffstein 1335-1343
- Friedrich I von Hohenlohe 1344-1352
- Leopold III of Bebenburg 1353-1363
- Friedrich II von Truhendingen 1363-1366
- Ludwig of Meissen 1366-1374
- Lamprecht von Brunn 1374-1399
- Albrecht von Wertheim 1399-1421
- Friedrich III von Aufsess 1421-1431
- Anton von Rotenhan 1431-1459
- Georg I von Schaumberg 1459-1475
- Philipp von Henneberg 1475-1487
- Heinrich III Gross von Trockau 1487-1501
- Veit I Truchsess von Pommersfelden 1501-1503
- Georg II Marschalk von Ebneth 1503-1505
- Georg III Schenk von Limpurg 1505-1522
- Weigand von Redwitz 1522-1556
- Georg IV von Rugheim 1556-1561
- Veit II von Würzburg 1561-1577
- Johann Georg I Zobel von Giebelstadt 1577-1580
- Martin von Eyb 1580-1583
- Ernst von Mengersdorf 1583-1591
- Neidhart von Thungen 1591-1598
- Johann Philipp von Gebsattel 1599-1609
- Johann Gottfried von Aschausen 1609-1622 (Bishop of Würzburg 1617-1622)
- Johann Georg II Fuchs von Dornheim 1623-1633
- Franz von Hatzfeld 1633-1642 (Bishop of Würzburg 1631-1642)
- Melchior Otto Voit von Würzburg 1642-1653
- Philipp Valentin Voit von Rieneck 1653-1672
- Peter Philipp von Dernbach 1672-1683
- Marquard Sebastian Schenk von Stauffenberg 1683-1693
- Lothar Franz von Schönborn 1693-1729
- Friedrich Karl von Schönborn 1729-1746 (also Bishop of Würzburg)
- Johann Philipp Anton von Frankenstein 1746-1753
- Franz Konrad von Stadion 1753-1757
- Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim 1757-1779 (also Bishop of Würzburg)
- Franz Ludwig von Erthal 1779-1795 (also Bishop of Würzburg)
- Christoph Franz von Buseck 1795-1802
For the later archbishops, see Archbishop of Bamberg.
[edit] References
- This article includes content derived from the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, 1914, which is in the public domain.
- At catholic-hierarchy.org
- Official site
[edit] External links
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