Prince-Provost
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thumb|Joseph Konrad von Schroffenberg, last Prince-provost of Berchtesgaden Provostry|Berchtesgaden, c. 1790
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- Berchtesgaden Provostry
- Prince-provosts of Berchtesgaden
- Ellwangen Abbey
- Prince-Provosts of Ellwangen
- Weissenburg Abbey
- See also
- Sources
thumb|Joseph Konrad von Schroffenberg, last Prince-provost of Berchtesgaden Provostry|Berchtesgaden, c. 1790
Prince-provost () is a rare title for a monastic superior with the ecclesiastical style of provost who is also a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire (Reichsfürst), holding a direct vote in the Imperial Diet assembly coequal to an actual Prince-abbot, as in each case treated below.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Prince-Provost” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.