Archbishopric of Magdeburg [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Archbishopric of Magdeburg
The Archbishopric of Magdeburg was a Roman Catholic archdiocese (969–1552) and Prince-Archbishopric (1180–1680) of the Holy Roman Empire centered on the city of Magdeburg on the Elbe River.
Planned since 955 and established in 968, the Roman Catholic archdiocese had de facto turned void since 1557, when the last papally confirmed prince-archbishop, the Lutheran Sigismund of Brandenburg came of age and ascended to the see and the Magdeburg cathedral chapter had adopted Lutheranism in 1567, with most parishioners having preceded in their
re-established as suffragan diocese of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg in 1972, became suffragan of Szczecin-Kamień in 1992
- Diocese of Poznań, 1075–1821, raised to archbishopric, in personal union with Gniezno until 1946
- Diocese of Płock, 1075–1818, suffragan of Warsaw
- Diocese of Lubusz (Lebus), established about 1125, suffragan of Magdeburg from 1424, secularised in 1598
- Diocese of Vilnius, 1388–1798, raised to archbishopric in 1926
- Diocese of Samogitia, established in 1427, dissolved in 1798,