Saare Lääne
| Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek | ||||||||||||||
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Bisdom Ösel–Wiek (nds) Ecclesia Osiliensis (la) |
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| Prince-Bishopric of Terra Mariana | ||||||||||||||
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 The Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek, shown (red, upper left, across the Estonian mainland and the islands of Dagö (Hiiumaa) and Ösel (Saaremaa)) within the Livonian Confederation, 1260
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Leal (Lihula) Perona (Vana-Pärnu) Hapsal (Haapsalu) Arensburg (Kuressaare) |
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| Languages | Low German, Estonian | |||||||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | |||||||||||||
| Government | Principality | |||||||||||||
| Prince-Bishop | ||||||||||||||
| • | 1228–1229 | Gottfried | ||||||||||||
| • | 1542–1560 | Johannes V von Münchhausen | ||||||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||||||||
| • | Established | October 1, 1228 | ||||||||||||
| • | Sold to Denmark | 1560 | ||||||||||||
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The Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek (Estonian: Saare-Lääne piiskopkond; German: Bistum Ösel–Wiek; Low German: Bisdom Ösel–Wiek; contemporary Latin: Ecclesia Osiliensis) was a Roman Catholic diocese and semi-independent prince-bishopric (parto of Terra Mariana, i.e. Livonia) in the Holy Roman Empire, covering what are now Saare, Hiiu and Lääne counties of Estonia.
The bishopric was created on 1 October 1228 as a Latin rite (initially exempt?) diocese by papal legate William of Modena and simultaneously as a state of Holy Roman Empire -making it a [[prince-bishopric- by Henry, King of the Romans (1220-1242; not Emperor). Due to the repeated shift of the seat of the bishops, it was also successively known as bishopric of Leal (Lihula) from 1234, Perona (Vana-Pärnu) from 1251, Hapsal (Haapsalu) Castle from 1279, and the seat shifted (alone) to the castle of Arensburg (Kuressaare) on the island of Ösel (Saaremaa); the cathedral and cathedral chapter (canons) remained in Hapsal. It was a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishopric of Riga from 1253.
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