Episcopal residence
The residence of a Roman Catholic diocesan bishop is called a bishop's residence . Often the office and secretariat of the incumbent is housed there. It is to be distinguished from the cathedra , which is the chair and thus the official seat of the bishop, and the bishopric, which is the city in which one of the two aforementioned is located.
Designations
Residences are also called "Episcopal Palace " or, if the diocesan bishop presides over an archdiocese , "Archbishop's Palace". Bear the name usually only very large-scale buildings in particular, the Renaissance , the Baroque and Classicism up to the historicism as a city palace or suburban palace - in time, in the palaces of the nobility " Castle " are mentioned, and in fact they are also locks in the sense of the term, as the administrative seat of the bishop in his function as secular sovereign, also as a summer residence , or as a pleasure palace . Where spiritual territorial rule has been abolished and modern and simpler bishop's residences, on the other hand, are mostly only referred to as "(arch) episcopal houses". Older residences are also called "Bischofshof".
Examples
(Dioceses according to Abc)
Germany
- Prince-Bishop's residence in Augsburg , seat of the district government of Swabia since 1817
- Chiemsee: Chiemseehof in Salzburg, seat of the bishops as auxiliary bishops of Salzburg (today Salzburg state government), their summer residence: Herrenchiemsee , Anif Palace
- Eichstätt Residence , former seat of the Eichstätt prince-bishops
- Prince-Bishop's residence in Freising , on the Domberg in Freising, seat of a bishop until secularization
- Diocesan Center Saint Nicholas , bishop's residence in Limburg an der Lahn
- Archbishop's Palace in Munich, originally Palais Holnstein
- Prince-Bishop's Palace in Münster , the seat and landmark of the Westphalian Wilhelms University since 1954
- Passau residence , old and new residence, today district court and the episcopal ordinariate
- Wurzburg Residence
Austria
- Episcopal Palais Graz
- Gurk: Episcopal residence Klagenfurt (current seat)
- Salzburg:
- historical seat of the abbot bishops in the Middle Ages: Archbishopric St. Peter
- Former seat of the Prince Archbishops from the Baroque onwards: Salzburg Residence (Old Residence), today used for cultural purposes; Summer residence: Hellbrunn Palace (the Neue Residenz , Mirabell Palace and Klessheim Palace were guest houses and pleasure palaces)
- today, since the 19th century: Archbishop's Palace (Kapitelplatz)
- Archbishop's Palace Vienna (current seat)
Other countries
- Bratislava: Primate Palace , Archbishop's Summer Palace
- Prague: Archbishop's Palace (Prague) (current seat)
See also
- Bishop's Court / Episcopal Residence / Archbishop's Residence / Prince-Bishop's Residence = various buildings by name