Bishopric of Regensburg explained

Native Name:	Fürstbistum / Hochstift Regensburg
Conventional Long Name:	Prince-Bishopric of Regensburg
Common Name:	Regensburg, Bishopric
Continent:	Europe
Region:	Central Europe
Country:	Germany
Era:	Middle Ages
Status:	Vassal
Empire:	Holy Roman Empire
Government Type:	Theocracy
Year Start:	13th century
Year End:	1803
Event Pre:	Founded by St Boniface
Date Pre:	739
Event Start:	Gained Reichsfreiheit
Event1:	Regensburg Reichsfrei as Imperial City
Date Event1:	1245
Event2:	City annexed to Bavaria
Date Event2:	1486–96
Event3:	City adopted Reformation
Date Event3:	1542
Event4:	City made permanent seat of Reichstag
Date Event4:	1663–1806
Event End:	Mediatised to new Archbishopric¹
Date End:	1803
Event Post:	Ceded to Bavaria on Imperial collapse
Date Post:	January 6 1806
P1:	Duchy of Bavaria
S1:	Principality of Regensburg
Capital:	Regensburg Cathedral
Footnotes:	1: The Bishopric, the Imperial City and all three Imperial Abbeys were mediatised simultaneously.

The Bishopric of Regensburg (German: Bistum Regensburg) was a small prince-bishopric (Hochstift) of the Holy Roman Empire. was elevated to the Archbishopric of Regensburg in 1803 after the dissolution of the Archbishopric of Mainz, but became a bishopric again in 1817.

History

The diocese was founded in 739 by Saint Boniface; it was originally subordinate to the archbishop of Salzburg. In the 13th century, the Bishopric of Regensburg became a state of the Holy Roman Empire. By the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, the bishopric was united with other territories to form the Archbishopric of Regensburg, with Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg as archbishop. In 1810, this Principality of Regensburg became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria, although he retained archiepiscopal status. The Bavarian Concordat of 1817 after Dalberg's death downgraded the Archdiocese of Regensburg into a suffragen diocese subordinate to the archbishop of Munich and Freising.