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Metropolitan Archdiocese of Paderborn Archidioecesis Metropolitae Paderbornensis Metropolitanerzbistum Paderborn | |
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 Paderborn Cathedral | |
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| Location | |
| Country |  Germany |
| Territory | Paderborn,North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Ecclesiastical province | Paderborn |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 14,750 km2 (5,700 sq mi) |
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| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 799 |
| Cathedral | Paderborn Cathedral |
| Patron saint | St. Kilian St. Liborius |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Leo XIV |
| Archbishop | Udo Marcus Bentz |
| Auxiliary Bishops | Matthias König,Josef Holtkotte |
| Bishops emeritus | |
| Map | |
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| Website | |
| erzbistum-paderborn.de | |
TheMetropolitan Archdiocese of Paderborn (Latin:Archidioecesis Metropolitae Paderbornensis) is aLatin Churcharchdiocese of theCatholic Church inGermany; its seat isPaderborn.[1][2] It was adiocese from its foundation in 799 until 1802, and again from 1821 until 1930. In 1930, it was promoted to an archdiocese. From 1281 until 1802, theBishopric of Paderborn (German:Fürstbistum Paderborn) was also a state of theHoly Roman Empire.
The diocese of Paderborn was founded in 799 byPope Leo III. In the early years it was subordinated to the bishop ofWürzburg. Since 855 the clergy had the right to elect the bishop. The diocese included the larger part ofLippe,Waldeck, and nearly half of theCounty of Ravensberg.
While the bishopric as a state had been permanently dissolved in 1802, the Diocese of Paderborn, originallysuffragan toMainz Archdiocese (till 1805), was recreated byPope Pius VII as a suffragan toCologne Archdiocese in 1821. Through thePrussian Concordate, it was promoted to an archdiocese in 1930, heading the newMiddle German Ecclesiastical Province; at the same time, Paderborn lost its districts aroundErfurt andHeiligenstadt to theDiocese of Fulda, and two small areas to the Archdiocese of Cologne. Thedioceses of Hildesheim and Fulda were made its suffragans.
When theDiocese of Essen was created in 1958, Paderborn lost a significant portion of its district to it.
In the 1980s theCampingkirche was founded.
In 1994 Paderborn lost the part of its district located in the formerEast Germany to its newly created suffraganDiocese of Magdeburg. Also the newDiocese of Erfurt was made subordinate to Paderborn. At the same time, Hildesheim was made subordinate to theArchdiocese of Hamburg.
In the 1990s, the conflict between the Archdiocese and renegade priestEugen Drewermann made headlines.
The current archbishop isHans-Josef Becker.
In April 2008 pope Benedict XVI. announcedHubert Berenbrinker as a newauxiliary bishop.
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| Hathumar | 806 | 815 | ||
| Badurad | 815 | 862 | ||
| Luithard | 862 | 887 | ||
| Biso | 887 | 900 | ||
| Theoderic I | 900 | 917 | ||
| Unwan | 918 | 935 | ||
| Dudo | 935 | 959 | ||
| Volkmar | 959 | 983 | ||
| Rethar | 983 | 1009 | ||
 | Meinwerk | 1009 | 1036 | Immedinger |
| Rotho | 1036 | 1051 | ||
| Imad | 1051 | 1076 | Billunger | |
| Poppo | 1076 | 1083 | ||
| Henry I | 1083 | 1090 | ||
 | Henry II | 1084 | 1127 | |
| Bernard I | 1127 | 1160 | ||
| Evergis | 1160 | 1178 | ||
| Siegfried | 1178 | 1188 | von Hallermund? | |
| Bernard II | 1188 | 1203 | ||
| Bernard III | 1204 | 1223 | ||
| Thomas Olivier | 1223 | 1225 | ||
| Wilbrand von Oldenburg | 1225 | 1228 | ||
| Bernard IV | 1228 | 1247 | ||
| Simon I | 1247 | 1277 | ||
| Otto von Rietberg | 1277 | 1307 | ||
| Günther I | 1307 | 1310 | ||
| Dietrich II | 1310 | 1321 |
The archdiocese is allocated in 19 districts (Dekanate).[citation needed]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Paderborn".Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.| Archdioceses |  | |
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| Province of Munich and Freising | |
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