Chronology of Catholic Dioceses:Germany - second draft
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(*) The year of the first known Bishop of a diocese. Legend often dates the beginnings of the diocese to a much earlier date.
- ~313*
- Köln - Germany
- ~314*
- Mainz - Germany
- ~314*
- Trier - Germany
- 300-400
- Strasbourg / Strassburg - Germany, France
- 330?
- Worms - Germany (disappeared during the great migrations)
- ~343
- Speyer - Germany
- 400-500
- Augsburg - Germany
- 500-600
- Konstanz (previous See in Vindonissa / Windisch - see Switzerland) - Germany
- 600-700
- Worms (revived) - Germany
- 700-800
- Köln (Metr.) - Germany
- 737~
- Passau - Germany
- 739
- Freising - Germany
- 739
- Regensburg - Germany
- 741
- Büraburg - Germany
- 741
- Neuburg (detached from Augsburg) - Germany
- 741
- Erfurt - Germany
- 741
- Würzburg - Germany
- 745
- Eichstätt - Germany
- 747
- Mainz (Metr.) - Germany
- 752
- Erfurt (extinct) - Germany
- 765
- Büraburg (extinct) - Germany
- 772
- Osnabrück - Germany
- 780
- Minden - Germany
- 787
- Bremen - Germany
- 787
- Verden - Germany
- 799 (795?, 805, 806?)
- Paderborn (detached from Würzburg) - Germany
- 800/805
- Hildesheim - Germany
- 800
- Münster - Germany
- 800~
- Trier (Metr.) - Germany
- 801/807
- Neuburg (incorporated in Augsburg) - Germany
- 800/805
- Halberstadt - Germany
- 831
- Hamburg (Metr., detached from Bremen) - Germany
- 948
- Brandenburg - Germany
- 948
- Havelberg - Germany
- 948
- Schleswig / Slesvig (detached from Hamburg) - (Denmark) Germany
- 948/968
- Oldenburg (established from Hamburg) - Germany
- 968
- Magdeburg (Metr., detached from Halberstadt) - Germany
- 968
- Meissen - Germany
- 968/1004
- Merseburg - Germany
- 968
- Zeitz - Germany
- 992
- Mecklenburg (detached from Hamburg) - Germany
- 999~
- Wroclaw / Breslau (detached from Meissen, and from Praha) - Germany / Poland
- 1000-1100
- Hardehausen (Abb.?) - Germany
- 1000
- Kolberg - (Germany) Poland
- 1007
- Bamberg (detached from Würzburg) - Germany
- 1017
- Kolberg (extinct) - (Germany) Poland
- 1030~
- Naumburg (new name, previously Zeitz) - Germany
- 1062/1154
- Ratzeburg (detached from Hamburg) - Germany
- 1072
- Bremen (Metr.) - Germany
- 1123/24
- Lebus - (Germany) Poland
- 1140
- Wollin - Germany
- 1160
- Lübeck (new name, previously Oldenburg) - Germany
- 1160
- Schwerin (new name, previously Mecklenburg) - Germany
- 1176/88
- Kammin (new name, previously Wollin) - (Germany) Poland
- 1215
- Chiemsee - Germany
- 1223
- Hamburg (formally incorporated in Bremen) - Germany
- 1223
- Hamburg-Bremen (this name comes into general use as Hamburg is formally incorporated in Bremen) - Germany
- 1429
- Paderborn (incorporated in Köln) - Germany
- 1444
- Paderborn (reestablished, detached from Köln) - Germany
- 1539/1565
- Brandenburg (extinct) - Germany
- 1543/1561
- Merseburg (extinct) - Germany
- 1544
- Kammin (extinct) - (Germany) Poland
- 1551
- Magdeburg (extinct) - Germany
- 1554
- Ratzeburg (extinct) - Germany
- 1555
- Schwerin (extinct) - Germany
- 1556/1598
- Lebus (extinct) - (Germany) Poland
- 1564
- Naumburg (extinct) - Germany
- 1566
- Hamburg-Bremen (extinct) - Germany
- 1581
- Meissen (extinct) - Germany
- 1586
- Lübeck (extinct) - Germany
- 1631
- Verden (extinct) - Germany
- 1634
- Minden (extinct) - Germany
- 1645
- Bremen, Minden and Verden (AV) - Germany
- 1645
- Magdeburg (AV) - Germany
- 1645
- Bremen (AV, previously Bremen, Minden and Verden AV) - Germany
- 1648
- Halberstadt (extinct) - Germany
- 1667
- Calenberg, Göttingen and Grubenhagen (AV) - Germany
- 1669
- Calenberg, Göttingen, Grubenhagen and Halberstadt (AV, new name, previously Calenberg, Göttingen and Grubenhagen) - Germany
- 1670
- Lower Saxony / (Vicariate of) the Nordic Missions / Bremen, Magdeburg, the Magdeburg Lands, Altona, Glückstadt, Calenberg, Göttingen, Grubenhagen and Halberstadt (AV, new name, previously Calenberg, Göttingen, Grubenhagen and Halberstadt) - Germany
- 1709
- Northern Germany /a.k.a. the North, and Upper and Lower Saxony / a.k.a. Hannover (AV, detached from the Vicariate of the Nordic Missions AV) - Germany
- 1732
- Brandenburg and Prussia (AV, detached from Northern Germany /Hannover AV) - Germany
- 1752
- Fulda - Germany
- 1780
- Northern Germany /a.k.a. the North, and Upper and Lower Saxony (reincorporated in the Vicariate of the Nordic Missions AV) - Germany
- 1801
- Mainz (D, previously Metr.) - Germany
- 1801
- Trier (D, previously Metr.) - Germany
- 1801
- Aachen (detached from Liège) - Germany
- 1801
- Würzburg (suppressed) - Germany
- 1803
- Speyer (suppressed) - Germany
- 1806
- Worms (suppressed) - Germany
- 1807
- Chiemsee (suppressed) - Germany
- 1817
- Speyer (restored) - Germany
- 1818
- Bamberg (Metr., was previously immediately subject to the Apostolic See) - Germany
- 1818
- München und Freising (Metr., and new name, previously Freising) - Germany
- 1818
- Würzburg (reestablished) - Germany
- 1821
- Aachen (suppressed) - Germany
- 1821
- Konstanz (suppressed, territory incorporated in Freiburg) - Germany
- 1821
- Freiburg im Breisgau (Metr., erected after reorganization, with territories from e.g. Konstanz and Worms) - Germany
- 1821
- Limburg (detached from Trier) - Germany
- 1821
- Rottenburg - Germany
- 1834
- Anhalt (AV, detached from the Vicariate of the Nordic Missions AV) - Germany
- 1868
- Schleswig-Holstein (AP, detached from the Vicariate of the Nordic Missions AV) - Germany
- 1868
- The North Gexrman Missions (AV, new name, previously the Vicariate of the Nordic Missions AV) - Germany
- 1921
- Anhalt (incorporated in Paderborn) - Germany
- 1921
- Meissen (reestablished) - Germany
- 1929
- Schneidemühl (Prel., detached from Poznan / Posen, and from Gdansk / Danzig) (Germany) Poland [now Pyla; the Prel. comprised the territories of West Prussia and Poznania left to Germany and not incorporated into Poland, mainly grouped in the Grenzmark Posen-Westpreußen]
- 1930
- Paderborn (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Köln) - Germany
- 1930
- Wroclaw / Breslau (Metr.) - Germany / Poland
- 1930
- Aachen (reestablished, detached from Köln) - Germany
- 1930
- Berlin (detached from Breslau) - Germany
- 1931
- Hardehausen (Abb.?, incorporated in Paderborn) - Germany
- 1933
- Germany (Mil.Ord.) - Germany
- 1957
- Essen (detached from Köln, from Paderborn, and from Münster) - Germany
- 1959
- Germany [Ukr.] (ApEx) see: München - Germany
- 1972
- Görlitz (AA, detached from Wroclaw / Breslau) - Germany
- 1973
- Erfurt-Meiningen (AA "permanenter constit.", detached from Fulda, and from Würzburg) - Germany
- 1973
- Magdeburg (AA "permanenter constit.", detached from Paderborn) - Germany
- 1973
- Schwerin (AA "permanenter constit.", detached from Osnabrück) - Germany
- 1978
- Rottenburg-Stuttgart (new name, previously Rottenburg) - Germany
- 1979
- Dresden-Meissen (new name, previously Meissen) - Germany
- 1994
- Berlin (Metr.) - Germany
- 1994
- Erfurt (D, previously Erfurt-Meiningen AA "permanenter constit.") - Germany
- 1994
- Görlitz (D) - Germany
- 1994
- Hamburg (Metr., detached from Osnabrück, including the AA "permanenter constit." Schwerin, and from Hildesheim, was part of the Metropolitan Province of Köln) - Germany
- 1994
- Magdeburg (D, Magdeburg AA "permanenter constit.") - Germany