Bishop of Dresden-Meissen
The bishops in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern
The following list is a sequence of the bishops of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Meissen.
Apostolic Prefect of Meissen
Since it as an imperial fief was no sovereigns directly present in the two Lusatias and the principle of " Cuius regio, eius religio " thus applied to the respective registry gentlemen, here was able to keep the Catholic denomination in some areas. Bishop Johann IX. was used for the diocesan territory outside the former Saxony in 1560 Johann Leisentritt as diocesan administrator for the Lusatian areas based in Bautzen. Built in 1567, the Holy See for the lausitzische diocesan territory of Meissen in 1567, the Apostolic Prefecture of Meissen with Leisentritt as prefect. A Prefect Apostolic is owner of a bishopric to sample.
After her seat and its location, the prefecture was known as Apostolic Prefecture of Bautzen or Apostolic Prefecture of Lusatia, after the Prussian annexation of Lower Lusatia and eastern Upper Lusatia also Apostolic Prefecture of the ( Saxon ) Upper Lusatia. The Prefecture for the ( Upper ) Lusatian territories of the former bishopric of Meissen held the Domdekan to Bautzen in personal union, whose episcopal function from the 19th century is usually underlined by consecration as Titular Bishop.
The Vicars Apostolic in the Saxon dominions
In 1708, the confessor of the Saxon Elector Friedrich August I, Karl Moritz Vota (SJ ) has been appointed for five years " Apostolic Prefect " of the " Mission to Dresden and throughout Saxony ". Whether these rights were extended is uncertain, but he seems to have exercised until his death in 1715.
As a result, Catholics were subject to the jurisdiction of the Vicar Apostolic of Saxony of the Nordic Missions or the Cologne nuncio. About the formal establishment of a Vicariate Apostolic of Saxony are no documents, but it can be assumed that such a.
The bishops of modern times
On November 15, 1979, the name of the Diocese of Meissen to Dresden -Meißen has changed. Bishop Gerhard sheep Fran moved in the following year on March 25, 1980 bishopric to Dresden. Bishops of Meissen and Dresden- Meissen were (since the re-establishment on June 26, 1921) and are within the scope of the territories of the former Apostolic Prefecture of the Apostolic Vicariate of Saxon Upper Lusatia and Saxony including Saxe-Altenburg and the two Reuss principalities in Thuringia: