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During the 16th Century , no fewer than three Archbishops of Cologne converted to Protestantism . The first two, Hermann von Wied and Salentin von Isenburg-Grenzau, resigned the Archbishopric on converting; but Gebhard Truchsess Von Waldburg , on converting to Calvinism in 1582 , attempted to secularize the Archbishopric. This resulted in the Cologne War in which a Bavaria n army installed the Bavarian prince Ernst as Archbishop - the first major success of the Counter-Reformation in Germany. From then until the mid 18th Century the Archbishopric was effectively a secundogeniture of the Wittelsbach rulers of Bavaria . As the Archbishop in this period usually also held the Bishopric of Münster (and often the Bishopric Of Liège ), he was one of the most substantial princes of northwestern Germany.

After 1795 , the Archbishopric's territories on the Left Bank of the Rhine were occupied by France , and were formally annexed in 1801 . The '' Reichsdeputationshauptschluss '' of 1803 secularized the rest of the Archbishopric, giving the Duchy of Westphalia to the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt . Cologne was, however, reestablished as the seat of a Catholic Archbishop in 1824 , and remains one up to the present.


BISHOPS AND ARCHBISHOPS OF COLOGNE



Bishops of Colonia Agrippina, 88-784



Archbishops of Cologne, 784-1238



Archbishop-Electors of Cologne, 1238-1803



Modern Archbishops of Cologne, 1824-present




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