Apostolic Prefecture Schleswig-Holstein

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The Apostolic Prefecture Schleswig-Holstein was established on July 29, 1868 as a result of the incorporation of the former Danish Schleswig-Holstein into the Kingdom of Prussia . The few remaining, immigrant or converted Catholics in Holstein and Schleswig after the Reformation had taken on the Apostolic Vicariate of the Nordic Missions from 1667 , which included all of Scandinavia and large parts of northern Germany. In 1709 the vicariate was reduced to include most of its southern Elbe areas and henceforth operated as the Apostolic Vicariate of the North , from which the area of ​​the Apostolic Prefecture Schleswig-Holstein was spun off in 1868.

It comprised the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein and was directly subordinate to the Apostolic See . Like the other German apostolic vicariates , it did not have its own office holder, but was always assigned to a diocesan bishop who held the rank of apostolic administrator . The Apostolic Administrator of the Apostolic Prefecture Schleswig-Holstein was always the Bishop of Osnabrück .

From 1920 the Catholic parishes in North Schleswig were subordinate to the Apostolic Vicariate of Denmark , which was elevated to the Catholic Diocese of Copenhagen on April 29, 1953 . The prefecture of Schleswig-Holstein continued to exist in Holstein and southern Schleswig until its territory was incorporated into that of the Diocese of Osnabrück on September 1, 1930 . In 1994 Osnabrück ceded this acquired diocesan territory to the newly founded Archdiocese of Hamburg .

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  1. ^ Church, catholic at books.google.de p. 165, accessed on May 13, 2016.
  2. Start into the future at books.google.de p. 214, accessed on May 13, 2016.
  3. From the mission area to the archbishopric at erzbistum-hamburg.de, accessed on May 13, 2016.