List of administrators, archbishops, bishops, and prince-archbishops of Bremen

848 the bishopric of Bremen was merged with the Archdiocese of Hamburg.

Pope Honorius III. 1224 confirmed the double diocese based in Bremen final. Hamburg has no more own bishop, the cathedral chapter of Hamburg, however, remains vested with special rights.

From 1540 the stands the Reformation led by against the will of the bishop. From 1566 Lutheran administrators were selected from Bremen Cathedral chapter.

1648 the archbishopric of Bremen was secularized and went as Duchy of Bremen to Sweden.

Literature

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• Ernst Friedrich Mooyer: Onomastikon chronographikon hierarchiae Germanicae. Directories of the German bishops since the year 800 AD Born In addition to an appendix the dignitaries of some abbeys and knightly orders containing. Self-published, Minden 1854, pp. 15-16.
• Frederick W. Ebeling: The German bishops until the end of the sixteenth century. Biographical represented literary, historical and church statistically. 1 band. Wigand, Leipzig 1858, pp. 58-111.
• Hermann Grote: pedigrees. With Appendix calendarium Medii Aevi. Hahn, Leipzig 1877, p 506 ( Nachdruck. Reprint Verlag Leipzig, wood Minden 1998, ISBN 3-8262-0710-6 ).