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Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg Hochstift Bamberg (German) | |||||||||
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| 1245–1802 | |||||||||
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 Hochstift Bamberg with its Carinthian estates, J.B. Homann, c.1700 | |||||||||
| Status | Prince-Bishopric | ||||||||
| Capital | Bamberg | ||||||||
| Common languages | East Franconian | ||||||||
| Government | Prince-Bishopric | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Diocese established | 1007 | ||||||||
• Elevated to Prince-bishopric | 1245 | ||||||||
• Joined Franconian Circle | 1500 | ||||||||
• Mediatised to Bavaria | 1802 | ||||||||
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The Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg (German: Hochstift Bamberg) was an ecclesiastical State of the Holy Roman Empire.[1] It goes back to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bamberg established at the 1007 synod in Frankfurt, at the behest of King Henry II to further expand the spread of Christianity in the Franconian lands. The bishops obtained the status of Imperial immediacy about 1245 and ruled their estates as Prince-bishops until they were subsumed to the Electorate of Bavaria in the course of the German Mediatisation in 1802.
- ^ Bayerns, Generaldirektion der Staatlichen Archive. "Hochstift und Domkapitel Bamberg - Generaldirektion der Staatlichen Archive Bayerns". www.gda.bayern.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-08-06.