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Bishopric of Merseburg
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Bishopric of Merseburg
The
Bishopric of Merseburg
was an
episcopal see
on the eastern border of the medieval
Duchy of Saxony
with its centre in
Merseburg
, where
Merseburg Cathedral
was constructed. The see was founded in 967 by Emperor
Otto I
at the same time in the same manner as those of
Meissen
and
Zeitz
(from 1029:
Naumburg
), all suffragan dioceses of the
Archbishopric of Magdeburg
as part of a plan to bind the adjacent
Slavic
("
Wendish
") lands in the
Saxon Eastern March
beyond the
Saale
River more closely to the
Holy Roman Empire
.
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