Imperial Church question: Do dioceses disolve with Bishoprics?

OK not sure if the title makes sense but here goes. During the Protestant reformation many of the ecclesiastical states were secularized and either annexed to a larger state or in rare cases turned into secular states. My question is this: what happened to the various dioceses themselves, not the states? Were they also dissolved or did they continue in some fashion? And if the later, in the case of Archdioceses, were new suffragan bishops created/appointed or did the the parishes just answer to the Archbishop directly?

Also, if someone could recommend a good source on the Imperial Church between the start of the counter-reformation and the Peace of Westphalia that would be great.
 
OK not sure if the title makes sense but here goes. During the Protestant reformation many of the ecclesiastical states were secularized and either annexed to a larger state or in rare cases turned into secular states. My question is this: what happened to the various dioceses themselves, not the states? Were they also dissolved or did they continue in some fashion? And if the later, in the case of Archdioceses, were new suffragan bishops created/appointed or did the the parishes just answer to the Archbishop directly?

Also, if someone could recommend a good source on the Imperial Church between the start of the counter-reformation and the Peace of Westphalia that would be great.

In the eyes of the Catholic Church, the dioceses continued to exist for a time. Some lost a portion of their territory (like the Bishop of Geneva now seated at Annecy but maintaining his claims on the all diocese), others lost theirs. In such cases, the Church typically continued for some years (decade) to maintain a canonical hierarchy, even if the titular bishop could not enter his diocese. When the Church accepted the idea the diocese was lost to "heresy" (ie in canonical terms, that the local church could not function), it was dissolved and the territory became Mission land, to be converted back. Such Mission lands were usually cared for by an Apostolic vicar, with the rank of bishop, but not being the bishop of the land, only a vicar of the Pope who himself acts as head of the universal Church. A good example is the Archdiocese of Utrecht, where the last Archbishop died in 1580, at a time when the public Catholic worship was already banned by the civil authorities. The Church dissolved the diocese and created the Holland Mission in 1592, whose vicar was elevated at the rank of archbishop in 1602. Nonetheless, there was no (Roman Catholic) Archbishop of Utrecht until the re-installation of Catholic dioceses in the Netherlands in 1853.

According to the protestant churches who maintained the episcopal institution (Lutherian and Anglican), the apostolic succession never ended with the Reformation, as the protestant bishops were returning the Church to its old ways, not changing it. So dioceses had their bishops, needed for the spiritual administration of the land, even if they were Mission land in the eyes of Rome.
 
In the eyes of the Catholic Church, the dioceses continued to exist for a time. Some lost a portion of their territory (like the Bishop of Geneva now seated at Annecy but maintaining his claims on the all diocese), others lost theirs. In such cases, the Church typically continued for some years (decade) to maintain a canonical hierarchy, even if the titular bishop could not enter his diocese. When the Church accepted the idea the diocese was lost to "heresy" (ie in canonical terms, that the local church could not function), it was dissolved and the territory became Mission land, to be converted back. Such Mission lands were usually cared for by an Apostolic vicar, with the rank of bishop, but not being the bishop of the land, only a vicar of the Pope who himself acts as head of the universal Church. A good example is the Archdiocese of Utrecht, where the last Archbishop died in 1580, at a time when the public Catholic worship was already banned by the civil authorities. The Church dissolved the diocese and created the Holland Mission in 1592, whose vicar was elevated at the rank of archbishop in 1602. Nonetheless, there was no (Roman Catholic) Archbishop of Utrecht until the re-installation of Catholic dioceses in the Netherlands in 1853.

According to the protestant churches who maintained the episcopal institution (Lutherian and Anglican), the apostolic succession never ended with the Reformation, as the protestant bishops were returning the Church to its old ways, not changing it. So dioceses had their bishops, needed for the spiritual administration of the land, even if they were Mission land in the eyes of Rome.

Thanks! That does make a lot of sense but I'm looking more at the Ecclesiastical states of the Empire. As en example, the Ecclesiastical province of Magdeburg was an Archbishopric with five Suffragan bishoprics but by the time of the Thirty years' war all had been annexed by Saxony and Brandenburg. So did their annexation mean the end of their dioceses as well as the Prince-Bishoprics? I ask mainly because I can't find any example of new/titular bishops being elected/appointed after annexation.
 
Thanks! That does make a lot of sense but I'm looking more at the Ecclesiastical states of the Empire. As en example, the Ecclesiastical province of Magdeburg was an Archbishopric with five Suffragan bishoprics but by the time of the Thirty years' war all had been annexed by Saxony and Brandenburg. So did their annexation mean the end of their dioceses as well as the Prince-Bishoprics? I ask mainly because I can't find any example of new/titular bishops being elected/appointed after annexation.

I am also having troubles finding out about 18th c. Magdeburg (but it is mainly because I do not read German). From that I understand, there was a local bishopric (Lutherian, I suppose) until the great reorganization of the Prussian State Church at the beginning of the 19th c. Today, this man (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Hackbeil) is the Provost or Regionalbischof of Stendal-Magdeburg.
 
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