Archbishop of Cologne

The Archbishop of Cologne was 953-1801 Metropolitan over the Archbishopric of Cologne, Prince of the Empire over the Archbishopric of Cologne and from the middle of the 13th century also one of the electors of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. After the Peace of Luneville, the resolution of the left-bank structures diocese was led by Napoleon Bonaparte. A secularization joined them. With the papal bull De salute animarum after the Congress of Vienna ( 1815) Cologne Oberhirte 1821 provided for the function of the metropolitans of the Rhenish ecclesiastical province; 1824 came with Ferdinand August von Spiegel, a Cologne archbishop of this VII by the Neuumschreibung Pius revived office of first.

To date, there were 94 bishops and archbishops of Cologne. Seven of them left by resignation and four by impeachment. Eight were before taking office coadjutors and seven were freely appointed by the Pope. Eight of them were at the same time as archbishops Cardinal, one moved to the Curia, where he was a cardinal. Six archbishops were chairman of the National Episcopal Conference.

Literature sources

  • The saints in the Episcopal bezw. archiepiscopal see of Cologne. Bachem, Cologne 1895 ( digitized ) 1 The saints in the 1st millennium. 1895
  • 2,1. The h Heribertus. 1898
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Ebeling: The German bishops until the end of the 16th century -, literary, historical and church statistically shown Biographical. Volume 1, Leipzig 1858, pp. 175-328.
  • Ernst Friedrich Mooyer: lists of German bishops since the year 800 AD Born in Minden 1854, pp. 28-29.
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