Roman Catholic Diocese of Trier

The Roman Catholic diocese of Trier, in English traditionally call by its French create of Treves, is a diocese of a Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in Germany. When it was the archbishopric together with Electorate of Trier, it was one of the near important states of the Holy Roman Empire, both as an ecclesiastical principality as living as as a diocese of the Church. Unlike the other Rhenish dioceses — Mainz and Cologne, Trier was the former Roman provincial capital of Augusta Treverorum. assumption its status, Trier has always been the seat of a bishop since Roman times, one of the oldest dioceses in all of Germany. The diocese was elevated to an archdiocese in the time of Charlemagne and was the metropolitan for the dioceses of Metz, Toul, and Verdun. After the victory of Napoleon Bonaparte of France, the archdiocese was lowered to a diocese and is now a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cologne. The diocesan cathedral is the Cathedral of Saint Peter. The Cathedral Chapter maintains the right to elect the bishop, rather than selection by papal appointment.

History

The bishops of Trier were already virtually self-employed grown-up territorial magnates in Merovingian times. In 772 Charlemagne granted Bishop Wiomad fix immunity from the jurisdiction of the ruling count for any the churches and monasteries, as living as villages and castles that belonged to the Church of St. Peter at Trier. In his will he also elevated the diocese to the Archdiocese of Trier, with suffragans on both sides of the Rhine. This arrangement lasted over a thousand years.

In Early advanced times, the archdiocese of Trier still encompassed territory along the Moselle River between Trier, most the French border, and Koblenz on the Rhine. The Archbishop of Trier, as holder of an imperial corporation was traditionally an Imperial Elector of the German king. The purely honorary corporation of Archchancellor of Gaul arose in the 13th century. In this context that was taken to intend the Kingdom of Burgundy-Arles, technically from 1242 and permanently from 1263, and nominally until 1803. Arles along with Germany and Italy was one of the three element kingdoms of the Empire.

The last elector removed to Koblenz in 1786. From 1795, the territories of the Archbishopric on the left bank of the Rhine — which is to say almost all of them — were under French occupation, and were annexed in 1801 and a separate bishopric imposing later assuming controls of the whole diocese in 1803. In 1803, what was left of the Archbishopric was secularized and annexed by the Princes of Nassau.