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Prince-Bishopric of Cammin

Roman Catholic Diocese of Cammin
Dioecesis Caminensis
Bistum Cammin (German)
Kamien Pomorski - katedra zewnatrz 07.JPG
Then Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Cammin in Pomerania, now Concathedral in Kamień Pomorski
Location
Country Holy Roman Empire
Territory most of ducal Pomerania, Stift territory, parts of eastern Mecklenburg, of the New March, and of the Uckermark
Ecclesiastical province exempt
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Rite Latin Rite
Established 14 October 1140
de facto defunct since 1544
1688 former diocese subject to Nordic Missions Vicariate
Cathedral Cammin in Pomerania: Cathedral of St. John the Baptist
Patron saint Sabinus of Spoleto
Faustinus of Brescia
Current leadership
Bishop last Catholic: Erasmus von Manteuffel
Prince-Bishopric of Cammin
Hochstift Cammina
Vassal of Holy Roman Empire
1248–1650


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Territory (violet) about 1250 
Capital Wollin, see till ~1150
Usedom Abbey, see till 1175
then Cammin, see & chapter
Kolberg, bishop's residence as of 1276
Köslin, Stift government
Languages Official: German
Unofficial: Pomeranian, Kashubian
Religion Catholic till 1544, then Lutheran
Government elective monarchy, ruled by the prince-bishop or administrator holding the see, elected by the chapter or, exceptionally, appointed by the Pope
Prince-bishop,
administrator, or
chapter (in vacancy)
 •  1394–1398 Prince-Bishop John III
 •  1479 Prince-Bishop Nicolaus
 •  1574–1602 Administrator Casimir
 •  1637–1650 Admin. Ernest Bogislaw
Legislature bishop, chapter and Stift estates
Historical era High Middle Ages to Early modern period
 •  Cammin Diocese est. 1140
 •  Bishop gained rule in temporalities near Kolberg 1248
 •  acquired imperial immediacy 1345,
1417 (conf.)
 •  joined Upper Saxon Circle 1512
 •  immediacy confirmed 1521, and 1542
 •  autonomy waived, Pomeranian fief 1544
 •  seized by Brandenburg 1650
 •  merged in Pomerania Province 1653
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Wappen Pommern.svg Duchy of Pomerania
Province of Pomerania (1653–1815) Wappen Pommern.svg
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The Bishopric of Cammin (also Kammin, Kamień Pomorski) was both a former Roman Catholic diocese in the Duchy of Pomerania from 1140 to 1544, and a secular territory (Prince-Bishopric) in the Kolberg (Kołobrzeg) area from 1248 to 1650.

The diocese comprised the areas controlled by the House of Pomerania in the 12th century, thus differing from the later territory of the Duchy of Pomerania by the exclusion of the Principality of Rügen and inclusion of Circipania, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and the northern Uckermark and New March. The diocese was rooted in the Conversion of Pomerania by Otto of Bamberg in 1124 and 1128, and was dissolved during the Protestant Reformation, when the Pomeranian nobility adopted Lutheranism in 1534 and the last pre-reformatory bishop died in 1544. The Catholic diocese was succeeded by the Pomeranian Evangelical Church.

The secular territory of the former diocese continued to exist as a prince-bishopric and principality within the Duchy of Pomerania, and was dissolved in 1650 when it fell to Brandenburg-Prussia, becoming part of Brandenburgian Pomerania. The area of the former principality was administered as Fürstenthum county within the Prussian Province of Pomerania until its division in 1872.


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