Archbishopric of Regensburg
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The Archbishopric of Regensburg was a short-lived ecclesiastical principality within the Holy Roman Empire which existed between 1803 and 1806.
The principality was created in Regensburg for Karl Theodor von Dalberg, the Prince-Primate of the Empire and the former Archbishop of Mainz, due to the annexation of Mainz itself by the French. The new archbishopric consisted of the territory of the old Bishopric of Regensburg that had been founded in 739 by Bonifatius, along with the Aschaffenburg area along the Main which had been part of the old Archbishopric of Mainz. The Archbishopric ceased to exist along with the Holy Roman Empire in 1806. Regensburg itself was annexed by Bavaria, while the Aschaffenburg region became the nucleus of the new Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, whose first ruler was the former Prince-Primate.
Today, the area belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich.
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