The Strasbourg Bishops' War (German: Bischöflicher Krieg or Straßburger Kapitelstreit; French: Guerre des Evêques; Alsatian: D'r Bischäflig Kriag) (1592–1604) was a conflict between Protestants and Catholics for control of the Bishopric of Strasbourg. It was one of only two sectarian or confessional conflicts, both highly localised, that occurred within the Holy Roman Empire between the Peace of Augsburg (1555) and the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War (1618). It was less bloody than the Cologne War (1583–88). It coincided with the Counter-Reformation and the (1598–99), and the Catholic victory caused Protestants in Germany great worry that the tide had turned decidedly against them.