Prince-Bishopric of Worms
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Prince-Bishopric of Worms Episcopatus Vormatiensis () | |||||||||
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Imperial Cathedral
of WormsThe Prince-Bishopric of Worms was an
Free Imperial City of Worms
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In 1795 Worms itself, as well as the entire territory of the prince-bishopric on the left bank of the Rhine, was occupied and annexed by France. In the wake of the territorial reorganizations that came with the
German mediatization of 1802, the remaining territory of the bishopric, along with that of nearly all the other ecclesiastical principalities, was secularized. In this case, it was annexed by Hesse-Darmstadt
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Bishops of Worms, 770—1802
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