Archdiocese of Vienna

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Archdiocese of Vienna
Erzdiözese Salzburg Erzdiözese Wien Diözese Eisenstadt Diözese Feldkirch Diözese Graz-Seckau Diözese Gurk Diözese Innsbruck Diözese Linz Diözese St. PöltenMap Archdiocese of Vienna
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Basic data
Country Austria
Diocesan bishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn OP
Auxiliary bishop Franz Scharl
Stephan Turnovszky
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Helmut Krätzl
Vicar General Nikolaus Krasa
Episcopal Vicar Franz Scharl
Dariusz Schutzki CR
Petrus Hübner OCist
Stephan Turnovszky
Gerwin Komma SJ
founding January 18, 1469
surface 9,100 km²
Vicariates 3 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Dean's offices 51 (October 2018)
Parishes 631 (in 140 development rooms) (April 2019)
Residents 2,713,222 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Catholics 1,156,923 (2014 / AP 2015 )
proportion of 42.6%
Religious priest 505 (01/2016)
Catholics per priest 2,291
Permanent deacons 184 (01/2016)
Friars 756 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Religious sisters 1,331 (2014 / AP 2015 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language German
cathedral Stephansdom
address Wollzeile 2
1010 Vienna
Website www.erzdioezese-wien.at
Suffragan dioceses Eisenstadt
Linz
St. Pölten
Ecclesiastical province
Erzdiözese Salzburg Erzdiözese Wien Diözese Eisenstadt Diözese Feldkirch Diözese Graz-Seckau Diözese Gurk Diözese Innsbruck Diözese Linz Diözese St. PöltenMap of the ecclesiastical province {{{ecclesiastical province}}}
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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna ( Latin : Archidioecesis Viennensis sive Vindobonensis ) is located in northeastern Austria ; it includes Vienna and the eastern half of Lower Austria . Since September 14, 1995, it has been led by Archbishop Christoph Schönborn , who has also been a cardinal since 1998.

history

Development of the Archdiocese of Vienna
Stephansdom Vienna
Development of membership numbers

Originally the territory of today's archdiocese was under the diocese of Passau , founded in 739 , some parishes in the south of Lower Austria belonged to the archdiocese of Salzburg . The efforts of Leopold VI. Establishing a diocese of its own in Vienna at the beginning of the 13th century failed due to the intervention of the Passau bishop.

Duke Rudolf IV began to convert St. Stephen's Church in Vienna into a Gothic cathedral. In 1358 he established a collegiate monastery in the All Saints Chapel in the Hofburg , which was relocated to St. Stephen's Church in 1365; In 1469 this monastery became a cathedral chapter when it was elevated to a diocese.

First the Habsburgs under Emperor Friedrich III. succeeded in 1469 in obtaining the bull In supremae dignitatis specula from Pope Paul II , which established the dioceses of Vienna and Wiener Neustadt in Austria . In this bull, the Roman emperor and his successors were also given the right to appoint bishops, a right that the Austrian emperor exercised until 1918.

The diocese only included the urban area of ​​Vienna and reached in the south to Mödling . The first bishop Leo von Spaur probably never exercised his office. Because the diocese was considered poor, it was administered only by administrators until 1513 . Only Georg Slatkonia actually resided in Vienna.

In the period that followed, church life was weakened by the first Turkish siege of Vienna in 1529 and the spread of Protestantism . Especially St. Petrus Canisius (administrator from 1554 to 1555) and Cardinal Melchior Klesl (bishop from 1598 to 1630) promoted the Counter Reformation .

In 1631 Ferdinand II awarded Bishop Anton Wolfradt and all his successors the title of Imperial Prince, which they held as Prince (Arch) Bishop of Vienna until 1918 .

Under the episcopate of Sigismund Graf von Kollonitz , Vienna was founded on June 1, 1722 by Pope Innocent XIII. elevated to the rank of archdiocese with the bull Suprema dispositione . But the bull was not brought to Vienna until February 14, 1723. The Diocese of Wiener Neustadt was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Vienna as a suffragan . From the diocese of Passau , the district of Unter dem Wienerwald (with the parishes between Vienna and Wiener Neustadt ) became the new archdiocese in 1729 .

Emperor Joseph II forced the Diocese of Passau to renounce its parishes in Lower Austria with a contract dated August 4, 1784. As a result, under Bishop Christoph Anton Graf Migazzi, the district of Unter dem Manhartsberg (with the parishes north of Vienna), five parishes of the diocese of Raab ( Győr ) in Hungary and the diocese of Wiener Neustadt, which was dissolved in 1785, became part of the diocesan territory. The newly founded dioceses of Linz and St. Pölten were subordinated to Vienna as suffragan dioceses.

On September 2, 1937, the parishes around Feldsberg (Valtice in Czech) , which had been in Czechoslovakia since the Treaty of Saint-Germain, came to the diocese of Brno .

From 1922 to 1949 the Archbishops of Vienna were also Apostolic Administrators of Burgenland . The Eisenstadt diocese, established in 1960 , also became a suffragan diocese of Vienna.

The metropolitan church is St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna , which is consecrated to St. Stephen . The Archbishop's residence and administrative seat of the Archdiocese is the Archbishop's Palace opposite the cathedral .

Diocesan Development Process APG2.1

By 2022, the Archdiocese of Vienna intends to align pastoral care with discipleship and mission and to redesign its parish organization. The reason for this is the changed social framework and the concerns of the Second Vatican Council (e.g. common priesthood of all baptized ). A shortage of priests and a decline in the number of Catholics are considered to be a closer cause .

In November 2015, 140 development rooms were defined in the Archdiocese of Vienna. They were developed in intensive, participatory processes in the deaneries between 2013 and 2015 and agreed with the respective episcopal vicar. The aim is for around 80% of the development areas to form a parish with sub- parishes by 2022 . In the vicariats, parish associations and pastoral care rooms are sometimes set up as a preliminary stage to common parishes .

With "APG2.1" the Archdiocese of Vienna takes up references to the beginning of Christianity in the Acts of the Apostles : the founding of new Christian communities, as well as a common struggle for the future in the Apostles' Council .

Former Archbishops

The most recent former archbishops are:

For a complete list of all office holders since 1469, see List of Bishops and Archbishops of Vienna

structure

It is divided into three vicariates :

As suffragan dioceses , the archdiocese has:

In addition, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna is also the diocesan bishop for Catholics of the Byzantine Rite in Austria:

Cathedral chapter

Stephansdom
Coat of arms of the Archdiocese of Vienna

The Metropolitan and Cathedral Chapter of St. Stephen currently consists of the following priests:

Canons of Honor are:

  • Edward J. Daniel SAC
  • Heinrich Hahn
  • Amadeus audio bat OCist
  • Willibald Steiner
  • Josef Neubauer
  • Dariusz Schutzki
  • Rupert Stadler

Cathedral capitular emeritus:

  • Karl Hoffegger
  • Auxiliary bishop em. Helmut Krätzl
  • Franz Merschl
  • Msgr. Walter Mick
  • Josef Weismayer
  • Karl Rühringer
  • Episcopal Vicar Matthias Roch
  • Michael Wilhelm

Personalities

See also

literature

  • Franz Loidl: History of the Archdiocese of Vienna . Herold, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7008-0223-4
  • Ernst Tomek: Church history of Austria . Tyrolia, Innsbruck - Vienna - Munich 1935–1959
  • Josef Vodka: Church in Austria. Guide through their history . Herder, Vienna 1959

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Figures and facts about the Archdiocese of Vienna
  2. ↑ Alfred Wendehorst / Stefan Benz (eds.): Directory of the secular canons of the imperial church . 1997, ISBN 3-7686-9146-2 , p. 192.
  3. ^ Ukrainian Greek-Catholic central parishes of St. Barbara
  4. ^ Website of the Archdiocese of Vienna