Town in Baden, and former state of the Holy Roman Empire. Christianized about the 2nd century , and fortified by the Romans, 304 , Constance became an imperial city in 1192 , was the scene of the Sixteenth cumenical Council (1414 -1418 ) and, from the 7th century until the Reformation, was the seat of the largest diocese in Germany , including among its bishops , Saint Conrad (934 -975 ) and Saint Gebhard II (979 -995 ). From the 13th century , these prelates were princes of the German Empire, and had temporal jurisdiction over a principality of about 482 square miles, with a population of some 50,000, which principality was divided between Baden and Switzerland in 1802 . The diocese , which sustained great losses during the Reformation, was dissolved by Pope Pius VII in 1821 . <\/p>\n
Constance, Germany Town in Baden, and former state of the Holy Roman Empire. Christianized about the 2nd century , and fortified by the Romans, 304 , Constance became an imperial city in 1192 , was the scene of the Sixteenth cumenical Council (1414 -1418 ) and, from the 7th century until the Reformation, was the … Continue reading “Constance, Germany”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}