Episcopal residence

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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

Austria

Other countries

See also