Back Arzobispáu de Magdeburgu AST Arquebisbat de Magdeburg Catalan Erzstift Magdeburg German Principado archiepiscopal de Magdeburgo Spanish Magdeburgi peapiiskopkond Estonian Principauté archiépiscopale de Magdebourg French ארכיבישופות מגדבורג HE Aartsbisdom Maagdenburg Dutch Arcybiskupstwo magdeburskie Polish Магдебургское архиепископство Russian
Archbishopric of Magdeburg | |||||||||
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| 1180–1680 | |||||||||
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 Prince-Bishoprics of Hildesheim, Halberstadt and Magdeburg (violet), about 1250 | |||||||||
| Status | Prince-Archbishopric | ||||||||
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| Common languages | Eastphalian | ||||||||
| Government | Hochstift | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
| 968 | |||||||||
• Conquered Jüterbog | 1157 1180 | ||||||||
| 1180 | |||||||||
• Subdued Halle | 1478 | ||||||||
| 1500 | |||||||||
| 1513 | |||||||||
| 1680 | |||||||||
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The Archbishopric of Magdeburg was a Latin Catholic archdiocese (969–1552) and Prince-Archbishopric (1180–1680) of the Holy Roman Empire centered on the city of Magdeburg on the Elbe River.
Planned since 955 and established in 967, the archdiocese had de facto turned void since 1557, when the last papally confirmed prince-archbishop, the Lutheran Sigismund of Brandenburg came of age and ascended to the see. All his successors were only administrators of the prince-archbishopric and Lutheran too, except the Catholic cleric Leopold William of Austria (1631–1635). In ecclesiastical respect the remaining Catholics and their parishes and abbeys in the former archdiocese were put under supervision of the Archdiocese of Cologne in 1648 and under the jurisdiction of the Apostolic Vicariate of the Northern Missions in 1670.
In political respect the Erzstift, the archiepiscopal and capitular temporalities, had gained imperial immediacy as a prince-archbishopric in 1180. Its territory comprised only some parts of the archdiocesan area, such as the city of Magdeburg, the bulk of the Magdeburg Börde, and the Jerichow Land as an integral whole and exclaves in parts of the Saalkreis including Halle upon Saale, Oebisfelde and environs as well as Jüterbog and environs. The prince-archbishopric maintained its statehood as an elective monarchy until 1680. Then the Brandenburg-Prussia the prince-archbishopric of Magdeburg. After being secularised, the state was transformed into the Duchy of Magdeburg, a hereditary monarchy in personal union with Brandenburg.
The 1994-founded modern Diocese of Magdeburg is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church located in the German states of Saxony-Anhalt (bulk), Brandenburg and Saxony (smaller fringes each).