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Bishop of Halberstadt

Prince-Bishopric of Halberstadt
Hochstift Halberstadt
State of the Holy Roman Empire
1180–1648


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Prince-Bishoprics of Hildesheim, Halberstadt
and Magdeburg (violet), about 1250
Capital Halberstadt
Languages Eastphalian
Government elective theocratic monarchy, bishops elected by the chapter, confirmed by the pope and invested as prince by the emperor
Historical era Middle Ages
 •  Diocese founded 804
 •  Prince-Bishopric 1180
 •  Joined
    Lower Saxon Circle
1500
 •  Albert of Brandenburg 1513
 •  Secularised to
    Principality of Halberstadt
1648
 •  To Province of Saxony 1816
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Duchy of Saxony Duchy of Saxony
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The Bishopric of Halberstadt was a Roman Catholic diocese (German: Bistum Halberstadt; 804–1648) and a state within the Holy Roman Empire, the Prince-bishopric of Halberstadt (German: Hochstift Halberstadt; 1180–1648). Its capital was Halberstadt in present-day Saxony-Anhalt, north of the Harz mountain range, Germany.

In the aftermath of the Saxon Wars, Emperor Charlemagne in 804 established a missionary diocese at Osterwieck (then called Seligenstadt) in Eastphalia, in the course of the Christianisation of the pagan Saxons and Polabian Slavs. Under its (supposed) first bishop Hildegrim of Châlons the capital was moved to Halberstadt, confirmed by Charles' son Louis the Pious in an 814 deed. The bishopric's boundaries originally reached the Elbe and Saale rivers in the east, nevertheless, when Emperor Otto I founded the Archbishopric of Magdeburg in 968, Halberstadt lost the eastern half of its district to it. Halberstadt diocese was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Mainz.


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