position_held eitel frederick von hohenzollern-sigmaringen
In the Holy Roman Empire , the collective term free and imperial cities , briefly worded free imperial city ('), was used from the fifteenth century to denote a self - ruling city that enjoyed a certain amount of autonomy and was represented in the Imperial Diet . An imperial city held the status of Imperial immediacy , and as such , was subordinate only to the Holy Roman ___MASK46___ , as opposed to a territorial city or town (') which was subordinate to a territorial prince  be it an ecclesiastical lord ( prince - bishop , prince - abbot ) or a secular prince ( duke ('), ___MASK95___ , count ('), etc .). Not to be confused with Friedrich von Hohenzollern ( 1449 - 1505 ) . Eitel Friedrich von Hohenzollern - Sigmaringen ( 26 September 1582 -- 19 September 1625 ) was a Roman Catholic ___MASK6___ - Priest and Prince - Bishop of Osnabrück . He was a son of Charles II , Count of Hohenzollern - Sigmaringen and thus a member of the noble and ancient Hohenzollern - Sigmaringen family . On the 15 December 1620 Pope Gregory XV created him ___MASK6___ in pectore , he was publicly proclaimed ___MASK6___ - Priest of S . Lorenzo in Panisperna on 11 Jan 1621 . He was appointed Prince - Bishop of Osnabrück on 28 April 1623 . On the 29 October 1623 he chose to become a priest and was ordained . He was never styled Eminence as this was only done after his death in 1630 . In Christianity , an ___MASK80___ ( via Latin " archiepiscopus ", from Greek , from -, " chief ", and , " bishop ") is a bishop of higher rank or office . In some cases , like the Lutheran Church of Sweden , it is the denomination leader title . Like popes , patriarchs , metropolitans , cardinal bishops , diocesan bishops , and suffragan bishops , archbishops are in the highest of the three traditional orders of bishops , priests , also called presbyters , and deacons . An ___MASK80___ may be granted the title , or ordained as chief pastor of a metropolitan see or another episcopal see to which the title of ___MASK80___ is attached . The word diocese is derived from the Greek term "" meaning " administration ". When now used in an ecclesiastical sense , it refers to a territorial unit of administration . In the Western Church , the district is under the supervision of a ___MASK59___ ( who may have assistant bishops to help him or her ) and is divided into parishes under the care of priests ; but in the Eastern Church , the word denotes the area under the jurisdiction of a patriarch and the bishops under his jurisdiction administer parishes . This structure of church governance is known as episcopal polity . An episcopal see is , in the usual meaning of the phrase , the area of a ___MASK59___ ' s ecclesiastical jurisdiction . Hohenzollern - Sigmaringen was a small county in southwestern Germany . Its rulers belonged to the senior Swabian branch of the House of Hohenzollern . The small ___MASK23___ state with the capital city of Sigmaringen was annexed to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1850 following the abdication of its ___MASK23___ in the wake of the revolutions of 1848 , then became part of the newly created Province of Hohenzollern . Charles II , ___MASK93___ of Hohenzollern - Sigmaringen "( German : Karl II , Graf von Hohenzollern - Sigmaringen )" ( 1547  8 April 1606 ) became ___MASK93___ of Hohenzollern - Sigmaringen in 1576 and remained so until his death . He was the fifth but second surviving son of Charles I , ___MASK93___ of Hohenzollern and Anna , daughter of Ernest , ___MASK95___ of Baden - Durlach . A ___MASK10___ is a male ___MASK69___ , monarch , or member of a monarch ' s or former monarch ' s family . " Prince " is also a hereditary title in the nobility of some European states . The feminine equivalent is a princess . The English word derives , via the French word " ___MASK10___ ", from the Latin noun " princeps ", from " primus " ( first ) + " capio " ( to seize ), meaning " the chief , most distinguished , ___MASK69___ , ___MASK10___ ". A ___MASK10___ - ___MASK59___ is a ___MASK59___ who is also the civil ___MASK69___ of some secular principality and sovereignty . Thus the principality or ___MASK10___ - bishopric ruled politically by a ___MASK10___ - ___MASK59___ could wholly or largely overlap with his diocesan jurisdiction , since some parts of his diocese , even the city of his residence , could be exempt from his civil rule , obtaining the status of free imperial city . If the episcopal see is an archbishopric , the correct term is ___MASK10___ - ___MASK80___ ; the equivalent in the regular ( monastic ) clergy is ___MASK10___ - abbot . A ___MASK10___ - ___MASK59___ is usually considered an elected monarch . A ___MASK10___ - Abbot is a title for a cleric who is a ___MASK10___ of the Church ( like a ___MASK10___ - ___MASK59___ ), in the sense of an " ex officio " temporal lord of a feudal entity , notably a State of the Holy Roman Empire . The secular territory ruled by the head of an abbey is known as ___MASK10___ - Abbacy or Abbey - principality . The holder , however , does not hold the ecclesiastical office of a ___MASK59___ .