. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . so slowly restored in thecity of Constance from 154S when that city came un-der Austrian rule. From 1526 the bishops of Con-stance resided at Meersburg. Despite the great lossessustained during the Reformation, the diocese in 1750still numbered 3774 secular priests, 2764 monks, 3147nuns, and a Catholic population of 891,948. In 1814the portion of the diocese situated on Swiss territorywas detached and apportioned to the Swiss dioceses ofChur,
. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . so slowly restored in thecity of Constance from 154S when that city came un-der Austrian rule. From 1526 the bishops of Con-stance resided at Meersburg. Despite the great lossessustained during the Reformation, the diocese in 1750still numbered 3774 secular priests, 2764 monks, 3147nuns, and a Catholic population of 891,948. In 1814the portion of the diocese situated on Swiss territorywas detached and apportioned to the Swiss dioceses ofChur, Basle, and St. Gall. After the death of BishopKarl Theodor von Dalberg in 1817, the portion of thediocese lying in Wurtemberg came under the jurisdic-tion of the vicar-general of Ellwangen-Rottenburg, andall the Bavarian territory was attached to the Dioceseof Augsburg. In 1S21 Pope Pius VII dissolved theDiocese of Constance and joined its remaining terri-tory to the newly erected Archdiocese of most important rulers of the diocese since theReformation were: Cardinal Marcus Sittious vonHohenems (.-Vltemps), 1561-1589; Cardinal Andrew. Cathedral, Constance CONSTANCE 2SS CONSTANCE of Austria (1589-1600), Jacob Fugger (1604-1626), KarlTheodor von Dalberg (1800-1817) and his Vicar-Gen-eral Hoinrich Ignaz von Wessenberg. The last two es-poused the doctrine of Febronius. Dalberg joined theFreemasons and the lUuminati, of whose real tenden-cies he was ignorant, and Wessenberg was heart and soulfor the anti-ecclesiastical reforms of Emperor Joseph II. The city of Constance received municipal rights in780, became a free imperial city in 1192 and was one ofthe largest and most flourishing cities of Germany dur-ing the Middle Ages. Its population is said to haveexceeded 40,000. Here the famous Peace of Con-stance, a treaty between Barbarossa and the Lombardcities was declared in 1183 and an imperial diet wasconvened by MaximiUan I in 1507. Commercially itwas highly important
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