Elsewhere, after analyzing all the clues, the officials dispatched by the Archbishop of Cologne finally determined that Archbishop Friedrich had likely "disappeared" within Mainz.
But when they proposed searching for him in Mainz, Frederick Karl's diplomats flatly refused. Their reason was that Cologne's recent religious riots had also affected Mainz, and they feared the officials might encounter danger.
On the sixth day after Archbishop Friedrich was detained by the "Papal Guard," Osnabrück elected a new Archbishop—Opstern, a locally born Assistant Bishop. Archbishop Muzarelli soon recognized the result in the name of the Holy See.
Opstern had no political foundation whatsoever. After taking office, he immediately followed the advice of the "Count Amogau" who had helped elect him, as well as Franz Egon, and announced that, unwilling to accept the guidance of the filthy Maximilian any longer, Osnabrück would break away from the Archdiocese of Cologne.
Count Amogau was naturally an agent of the Security Bureau. He had spent less than 50,000 Francs to bribe more than half the Clerics with voting rights.
With the Archdiocese of Osnabrück taking the lead, Franz Egon promptly announced that Paderborn, too, would break away from the Archdiocese of Cologne.
For a time, the only territory Archbishop Maximilian of Cologne could still control was the small corner of Münster.
And after the two Archdioceses broke away, the protests in Münster grew even fiercer—Archbishop Maximilian must have had improper dealings with Friedrich, otherwise why would those two Archdioceses have been so resolute?
When a massive crowd of protesters surrounded St. Paul's Cathedral in Münster, Maximilian finally could not sit still any longer and ordered his Guard Captain to fire on the crowd and disperse them.
More than ten people died under the Military Uniform's gunfire, while another thirty-odd were wounded.
As news of the bloody suppression