Prince-Bishopric of Trent

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Prince-Bishopric of Trent Principato Vescovile di Trento (Italian) Hochstift Trient (German) Episcopatus ac Principatus Tridentinus (Latin)
1027–1803
Top: Flag until 1796 Bottom: Flag from 1801 to 1802[1] Coat of arms
Bishopric of Trent within the Holy Roman Empire in 1648; Ecclesiastical lands shaded in pale blue
Status	Prince-Bishopric
Capital	Trento
Common languages	Latin, Italian, German, Ladin
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Government	Prince-Bishopric
Prince-bishop
• 1027-1055	Udalrico II [it]
• 1800-1803	Emanuele Maria Thun [it]
Historical era	Middle Ages Early modern period
• Separated from Verona by Conrad II	1027
• Bishops deposed by Frederick II	1236
• Declared a commune	1425
• Council of Trent	1545–63
• Napoleonic invasion	1796
• Secularised to Tyrol	1803
• Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire	6 August 1806
Preceded by Succeeded by March of Verona County of Tyrol

The Prince-Bishopric of Trent (Latin: Episcopatus ac Principatus Tridentinus; German: Hochstift Trient, Fürstbistum Trient, Bistum Trient) was an ecclesiastical principality roughly corresponding to the present-day Northern Italian autonomous province of Trentino. It was created in 1027 and existed until 1803, when it was secularised and absorbed into the County of Tyrol held by the House of Habsburg. Trent was a Hochstift, an Imperial State under the authority of a prince-bishop at Trento.