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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.
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