Apostolic Nunciature to Bavaria

A new nunciature was established by Pope Pius VI in Munich in 1785, requested by Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria.

[1] Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor sided with the electors, and declared he would recognise nuncios in their "political character" only.

Thus Austria and the Kingdom of Bavaria maintained their separate relations to the Pope, also after both had joined the German Confederation in 1815, which was no state, but a mere confederacy.

[1] None of the states of the North German Confederation, a confederacy without Austria and Southern Germany, had ties to the Vatican.

When the streamlining Nazi Gleichschaltung did formally away with statehood of the German states and established a centralised dictatorship in 1934, Bavaria was not to hold diplomatic ties of its own any more.