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- The family generated two catholic bishops of Havelberg in the 15th and 16th centuries, but then became Lutheran Protestants.
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The family generated two catholic bishops of Havelberg in the 15th and 16th centuries, but then became Lutheran Protestants. Joachim I. von Alvensleben (1514-1588) promoted the reformation in the Altmark region.
Busso X von Alvensleben (1468 – 4 May 1548 in Wittstock) was a Catholic ecclesiastical diplomat and from 1523 to 1548 as Busso II, the last Catholic Bishop of Havelberg.
Source(s): b: Die Bischöfe des Heiligen Römischen Reiches; ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 193, Number 15,622; b: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1487, Number 8
Bishop Busso von Alvensleben (born 1468, died 4 May 1548 ) Bishop of Havelberg. a bishop for 25.4 years. Source (s): b: Die Bischöfe des Heiligen Römischen Reiches. ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 106, Number 9,206. b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 3, Page 208. b: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1532, Number 13.
Bishop Berthold von Alvensleben (died 14 Mar 1130) Bishop of Hildesheim Source(s): Home | Countries | Religious Orders | Popes | Holy See | Roman Curia | Cardinals by Rank
The Bishopric of Havelberg (German: Bistum Havelberg) was a Roman Catholic diocese founded by King Otto I of Germany in 946, from 968 a suffragan to the Archbishops of Magedeburg. A Prince-bishopric (Hochstift) from 1151, Havelberg as a result of the Protestant Reformation was secularised and finally annexed by the margraves of Brandenburg in 1598.
The shepherd’s crook inspired the bishop’s crosier. In the earliest Christian centuries, believers in each city chose their own bishop, and many of those bishops were martyred for their faith.
