Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg

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Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg Hochstift Bamberg (German)
1245–1802
Coat of arms
Hochstift Bamberg with its Carinthian estates, J.B. Homann, c.1700
Status	Prince-Bishopric
Capital	Bamberg
Common languages	East Franconian
Government	Prince-Bishopric
Historical era	Middle Ages
• Diocese established	1007
• Elevated to Prince-bishopric	1245
• Joined Franconian Circle	1500
• Mediatised to Bavaria	1802
Preceded by Succeeded by Duchy of Franconia Electorate of Bavaria

The Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg (German: Hochstift Bamberg) was an ecclesiastical State of the Holy Roman Empire.^[1] It goes back to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bamberg established at the 1007 synod in Frankfurt, at the behest of King Henry II to further expand the spread of Christianity in the Franconian lands. The bishops obtained the status of Imperial immediacy about 1245 and ruled their estates as Prince-bishops until they were subsumed to the Electorate of Bavaria in the course of the German Mediatisation in 1802.