Johann Georg Zobel von Giebelstadt

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Johann Georg Zobel von Giebelstadt (1543–1580) was the Prince-Bishop of Bamberg from 1577 to 1580.

The Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg was an ecclesiastical State of the Holy Roman Empire. 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.

Biography

Johann Georg Zobel von Giebelstadt was born on 20 July 1543 to Hans Zobel von Giebelstadt and Apollonia (born von Bibra). He was elected Prince-Bishop of Bamberg on 20 August 1577, with Pope Gregory XIII confirming his appointment on 29 January 1578.^[1] He was ordained as a priest but never consecrated as a bishop.^[1]

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References

1 2 Cheney, David M. "Father Johann Georg Zobel von Giebelstadt [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2018-02-12.

Dieter J. Weiss (2000). Das exemte Bistum Bamberg. Walter de Gruyter. p. 201. ISBN 978-3-11-016644-6.

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Preceded by Veit von Würzburg	Prince-Bishop of Bamberg 1577–1580	Succeeded by Martin von Eyb

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[catholic-hierarchy-1] 1 2 Cheney, David M. "Father Johann Georg Zobel von Giebelstadt [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2018-02-12.