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William, Archbishop of Mainz

William (Wilhelm), the son of emperor Otto I the Great and a Slav mother, acceded as archbishop of Mainz in 954/5 and died in 968.

The archbishops of Mainz were the metropolitan bishops for the newly established diocese of Prague in Bohemia. The territory of Bohemia had previously been part of the diocese of Regensburg.

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