Bishop of Lebus
| Prince-Bishopric of Lebus | ||||||||||
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Fürstbistum Lebus (de) Diecezja lubuska (pl) |
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| State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||
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Lebus Göritz (Górzyca) from 1276 Fürstenwalde from 1373 |
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| Government | Prince-Bishopric | |||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||||
| • | Diocese established | 1125 | ||||||||
| • | Purchased from Poland |
1248 | ||||||||
| • | Secularized | 1555 | ||||||||
| • | Incorporated into Brandenburg |
1598 | ||||||||
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| Today part of |
 Germany Poland
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The Bishopric of Lebus (German: Bistum Lebus; Polish: Diecezja lubuska) was a Roman Catholic diocese of Poland and later an ecclesiastical territory of the Holy Roman Empire. It existed from 1125 until 1598. The diocese encompassed areas on both sides of the Oder River around the town of Lebus later called Lubusz Land.
The diocese was established about 1125 by the Piast Duke Bolesław III Wrymouth of Poland in the lands west of Greater Poland settled by pagan Polabian Slavs, in order to counter the eastward expansion of the Holy Roman Empire expedited by Emperor Henry V and the Archbishopric of Magdeburg. Duke Bolesław prompted the construction of St. Adalbert Cathedral in Lebus, consecrated to the diocesan patron saint Adalbert of Prague, which was later destroyed. Lebus was a suffragan diocese of the Archbishopric of Gniezno, a first bishop Bernard is documented in 1133, who is identical with Bernard of Spain, a missionary among the Pomeranians.
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