The Diocese of Magdeburg is a Roman Catholicdiocese located in the German states of Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg, and Saxony. Its seat is Magdeburg; it belongs to the Ecclesiastical Province of Paderborn. The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Pope Pius XI blesses Bishop Stephen Alencastre as fifth Apostolic Vicar of the Hawaiian Islands in a Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace window. ... With an area of 20,447 km² and a population of 2. ... Surrounding but excluding the national capital Berlin, Brandenburg is one of Germanys sixteen Bundesländer (federal states). ... With an area of 18,413 km² and a population of 4. ... Magdeburg, the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, lies on the Elbe river. ...
The Diocese was created in 1994 out of territories belonging to the Archdiocese of Paderborn. 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...
Even before the death of their founder, St. Norbert, Bishop of Magdeburg (1126-34), the Premonstratensians founded the monastery of Gottesgnaden (1131) and later that of Leitzkau, near Magdeburg (1149), as well as monasteries at Jerichow (1144), the city of Brandenburg (1165), Gramzow in the Uckermark (c.
Elector Joachim I (1499-1535), whose younger brother, Albert, was made Archbishop of Magdeburg and Bishop of Halberstadt in 1513, and in 1514 Archbishop and Elector of Mainz and Archchancellor of the German Empire, was extremely hostile towards the religious innovations, and endeavoured to have the edict formally condemning Luther passed by the Reichstag, at Worms.
Bishop Wigger, the fifteenth in line of succession (1138-60), was the first who was able to return to his diocese.
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