  the archbishopric of magdeburg was a roman catholic archdiocese (969â1552) and prince-archbishopric (1180â1680) 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 conversion. all his successors were only administrators of the prince-archbishopric and lutheran too, except of the catholic layman leopold william of austria (1631â1635). in ecclesiastical respect the remaining catholics and their parishes and abbeys in the former archdiocese were put under supervision of the archdiocese of cologne in 1648 and under the jurisdiction of the apostolic vicariate of the northern missions in 1670. in political respect the erzstift, the archiepiscopal and capitular temporalities, had gained imperial immediacy as prince-archbishopric in 1180. its territory comprised only some parts of the archdiocesan area, such as the city of magdeburg, the bulk of the magdeburg bÃ¶rde, and the [[jerichower land|jerichow lan
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