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3i6 GERMANY. [Salzburg.
The firft church at Salzburg was the work of St. Rupert, who, with
the confent ot Theodore Duke of Bavaria, founded a church at IVallerfee,
and another afterwards at Salzburg, and in the year 716 was created Bilhop
thereof. Arno the fixth of its Bilhops, according to the pofitive affertion
of the Salzburg hiflorian?, was, in the year 798 created Archbifhop and
metropohtan over Noricurii, Bavaria, a part of Rbtrtia, Bohemia, Moravia,
and Pannoiiia. Thefe hiltorians further make him legate of the apoftolic
chair through the whole extent of his metropohtan dill:rid. Archbiihop
Gebhard for his attachment to the fee of Rone, though in breach
of his allegiance to his natural fovereign the Emperor Henry IV. was rewarded
with the title of legate of the apollolic chair in Germany, which title
afterwards became perpetual to all the archbifliopa of Salzburg. Since the
extindion likewife of the archbifhop of Magdeburg, the archbifliops of
Salzburg are become primates of Germany without any competition. The
lands belonging to this archbilhopric are of very great value j and came to
it
partly by donations from the Dukes oi Bavaria, the Kings of the FrajjkSy
nobles, and private perfons, or by purchafe.
§. 8, The title of the archbifhop is By the grace of God Prince of the holy
Roman Empire, and Archbifoop of Salzburg, legatus natus oj the apoßolia
chair of Rome, and primate of Germany. In the dexter half topaz he
bears party per pale, a lion diamond ; but the finifter is damafquined. His
fupporters are a fword and a croifier, furmounted as it were behind with
a crofs.
§. 9. An archbifhop oi Salzburg, exclufive of the above-mentioned eccleßaftical
preeminences of being the born and perpetual legate of the apoftolic
fee, and primate of G^twö;?)', enjoys alfo feveral other important honours.
He wears a Cardinal's habit. AH appeals too from him lie to the
Pope alone in perfon: By permiffion from whom he difpofes of cannonfhips
in the months rcferved to the Popes in the concordats, the hcences for
which are always quinquennial ; and at the expiration of that time are renewed.
The Emperor ftiles him noell-bcloved, whereas all other ecclefiaftical
Princes, who are not of princely blood, enjoy only the title of honourable
and your reverence. This archbifliop has likewife fuffragan bifhops
under him, namely thofe of Freyfing, Ratisbon, Brixen, Gurk, Chiemfee,
Scckau, and Lavant : And the four laft are even nominated and confecrated
by him, and confirmed by his own power, and that too without ftanding in
any need of the Pope's confirmation. The laft of thefe is fo extraordinary
a privilege that the archbifliop of Salzburg is the only inftance of it. His
temporal preheminences are, that, the eledoral archbifhops excepted, he is
the only archbiOiop in all Germany who fits and votes in the Diet of the
Em.pire ; that in the college of Princes he enjoys alternately with Außria
the firfl feat on the ecclefiaftical bench, and likewife in the diredory -, that
he is joint furamoning^^ Prince and; direüor of the circle oi Bavaria-, that
he