Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn

Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn
*Fürstbistum Paderborn*
Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn Fürstbistum Paderborn
1281–1802
	Coat of arms
Secularised to Prussia	1802
• Ceded to Kgdm Westphalia	1807–13
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Electorate of Cologne
Kingdom of Prussia

The Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn (German: Fürstbistum Paderborn; Hochstift Paderborn) was an ecclesiastical principality (Hochstift) of the Holy Roman Empire from 1281 to 1802.

History

The Diocese of Paderborn was founded in 799 by

Waldeck, and nearly half of the County of Ravensberg

.

In 1180 when the

temporalities, forming a Hochstift of imperial immediacy

since. From this time on the bishops did not grant the bailiwick as a fief, but managed it themselves, and had themselves represented in the government by one of their clergy. They strove successfully to obtain the bailiwicks over the abbeys and monasteries situated in their diocese.

Bishop Otto von Rietberg had to contend with Cologne; in 1281, when only bishop-elect, he received the regalia from

Wilhelm Heinrich van Berg, elected 1399, sought to remedy the evils which had crept in during the foregoing feuds, but when in 1414 he interested himself in the vacancy in the Archbishopric of Cologne, the cathedral chapter in his absence chose Dietrich III of Moers (1415–63). The wars of Dietrich, also Archbishop of Cologne, brought heavy debts upon the bishopric; during the feuds of the bishop with the city of Soest

(1444–49) Paderborn was devastated.

Under

Waldeck, and Pyrmont, the part of the diocese in the County of Ravensberg, and most of the parishes on the right bank of the Weser

became Protestant.

University of Paderborn

in 1614.

During the

German Mediatisation in 1802, the bishopric became Prussian, from 1807 until 1813 it was part of the Kingdom of Westphalia, and then part of the Prussian province of Westphalia

.

While the bishopric as a state had been permanently dissolved, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Paderborn was recreated by

Hildesheim

were made subordinate to it.

When the

Archdiocese of Hamburg

.

In the 1990s, the conflict between the archdiocese and renegade priest Eugen Drewermann made headlines.

The current archbishop is Hans-Josef Becker.

Prince-bishops

Bernhard V, Lord of Lippe
(1321–41)
Baldwin of Steinfurt (1341–61)
abbot of Corvey
)
Simon II of Sternberg (1380–89)
bishop of Passau
)
bishop of Hildesheim
)
Bertrando d'Arvazzano (1399–1401)
Count of Ravensberg
)
Elector of Cologne
)
Simon III of Lippe (1463–98)
Herman I of Hesse (1498–1508; also Elector of Cologne)
Eric of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (1508–32; also bishop of Osnabrück and, briefly, of Münster)
Hermann of Wied (1532–47; also Elector of Cologne)
Rembert of Kerssenbrock (1547–68)
John II of Hoya (1568–74; also bishop of Osnabrück and Münster)
Count of Isenburg-Grenzau
)
archbishop of Bremen and bishop of Osnabrück
)

Dietrich IV of Fürstenberg (1585–1618)
Ferdinand I of Bavaria (1618–50; also Elector of Cologne, Provost of Berchtesgaden and bishop of Hildesheim, Freising, Liège
and Münster)