Diocese of Urgell
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The Diocese of Urgell is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Catalonia and covering the whole of the sovereign Principality of Andorra. It covers territories including in the historical C
Cathedral of Santa Maria d'Urgell, Urgell
Frontal from La Seu d'Urgell or of The Apostles, now conserved at MNAC Barcelona.
Apse from La Seu d'Urgell.
Prince-bishop
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A prince-bishop is a bishop who is also the civil ruler of some secular principality and sovereignty, as opposed to Prince of the Church itself, a title associated with cardinals. Since 1951, the sole
Diocese of Urgell
…jointly with the president of France (as successor to the French king), co-sovereign of the microstate. This makes the bishop of Urgell the sole extant prince-bishop in the world, other such roles (mostly in parts of the Holy Roman Empire) having ceased over recent centuries. Andorra was ceded to the bishop of Urgell…
Johann Otto von Gemmingen, Prince-Bishop of Augsburg (1591–1598)
Ecclesiastical lands in the Holy Roman Empire, 1780
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