Catholic Church. Diocese of Osnabrück (Germany)

LC control no.	n 84193198
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	Catholic Church. Diocese of Osnabrück (Germany) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Catholic Church. Bistum Osnabrück (Germany) Catholic Church. Diözese Osnabrück (Germany) Catholic Church. Hochstift Osnabrück (Germany) Catholic Church. Dioecesis Osnabrugensis (Germany) Osnabrück (Germany : Diocese : Catholic Church)
See also	Hierarchical superior: Catholic Church *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Beginning date	0772
Located	Osnabrück (Germany)
Special note	Old catalog hdg.: Osnabrück (Diocese) By the arrangement of the Peace of Westphalia, the diocese became semi-secularized. For secular affairs of the Hochstift/Fürstentum/Bistum/Diözese Osnabrück, the proper heading is: Osnabrück (Ecclesiastical principality)
Found in	Handbuch des Bistums Osnabrück, 1968: t.p. (... Bistums Osnabrück) LC data base, 1-25-85 (hdg.: Osnabrück (Diocese)) Adressb. f. d. kath. Dtld., 1973: p. 58 (Diözese Osnabrück) p. 211 (... Bistums Osnabrück) Columbia encyc. (Osnabrück; accepted the Reformation in 1543; the cathedral, however, remained Catholic, and under the Peace of Westphalia the see was occupied alternately by Catholic and Lutheran bishops; diocese secularized in 1803; Catholic diocese restored in 1858) New Catholic encyc. (Osnabrück became a diocese under Bishop St. Wiho (d. 804); became capital of a principality; by Peace of Westphalia (Instrumentum pacis Osnabrugense 1643-48) Osnabrück had Catholic and Lutheran bishops alternately until 1803: Lutherans 1661-98, 1715-21, 1761-1803) Schaff-Herzog encyc. of religious knowledge (Osnabrück; Peace of Westphalia provided alternatingly a Roman Catholic bishop and one of the Augsburg Confession, to be taken always from the House of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and during his administration, the Roman Catholic population was subject, in spiritual matters, to the Abp. of Cologne; ecclesiastically the Catholic diocese was resurrected in 1857) Wikipedia, 4 September 2015 (Bistum Osnabrück; Roman Catholic Diocese of Osnabrück; Dioecesis Osnabrugensis; within the Archdiocese of Hamburg; founded in 772 by Charlemagne, first bishop was Saint Wilho (783-809))