Diocese of Innsbruck

Diocese of Innsbruck
Basic data
Country	Austria
Ecclesiastical province	Salzburg
Metropolitan bishopric	Archdiocese of Salzburg
Diocesan bishop	Hermann Glettler
Emeritus diocesan bishop	Manfred Scheuer
founding	1925
surface	9,845 km²
Dean's offices	16 (2013 / AP 2014 )
Parishes	244 (2013 / AP 2014 )
Residents	542.011 (2013 / AP 2014 )
Catholics	394,275 (2013 / AP 2014 )
proportion of	72.7%
Diocesan priest	190 (2013 / AP 2014 )
Religious priest	164 (2013 / AP 2014 )
Catholics per priest	1,114
Permanent deacons	55 (2013 / AP 2014 )
Friars	273 (2013 / AP 2014 )
Religious sisters	570 (2013 / AP 2014 )
rite	Roman rite
Liturgical language	German
cathedral	Cathedral of St. Jakob in Innsbruck
address	Wilhelm-Greil-Strasse 7 6020 Innsbruck
Website	www.dibk.at
Ecclesiastical province

Development of membership numbers

The diocese of Innsbruck ( Latin : Dioecesis Oenipontana ) is an Austrian diocese of the ecclesiastical province of Salzburg . It includes the western and central part of North Tyrol and East Tyrol (see Tyrol ). For historical reasons, the border to the Archdiocese of Salzburg is formed by the Ziller River in the Zillertal .

It is divided into the 16 deaneries Axams , Breitenwang , Hall , Imst , Innsbruck , Jenbach - Fügen , Lienz , Matrei am Brenner , Matrei in Osttirol , Prutz , Schwaz , Sillian , Silz , Telfs , Wilten -Land and Zams with a total of 246 parishes .

The patron saint of the diocese is Petrus Canisius , who also worked in Tyrol from 1560 to 1580 .

history

The area of ​​today's Diocese of Innsbruck belonged to the Diocese of Brixen for a long time , individual parts of the country also belonged to the Diocese of Chur and the Diocese of Augsburg until the 19th century . With the separation of South Tyrol after the First World War , the Apostolic Administration Innsbruck-Feldkirch was established for the Austrian part of the (former) diocese of Brixen, whose Apostolic Administrator Sigismund Waitz became Auxiliary Bishop in 1921 .

In 1938 the future diocesan bishop Paulus Rusch was appointed apostolic administrator. On August 6, 1964, the Innsbruck- Feldkirch diocese was founded and Paulus Rusch was the first diocesan bishop to preside over it from September 26. Originally, the newly founded diocese also included the federal state of Vorarlberg , for which, however, the diocese of Feldkirch was founded in 1968 . That is why it was named Diocese of Innsbruck.

organization

Dean's offices

• List of deaneries of the Diocese of Innsbruck

Vicars General

1. Michael Weiskopf
2. Josef Hammerl
3. Klaus Egger
4. Ernst Hunter
5. Jakob Bürgler
6. Roland Buemberger (interim from December 2, 2017 to February 2, 2018)
7. Florian Huber
8. Roland Buemberger (interim from June 17, 2020 until the end of August 2020)

Apostolic Administrators

• Sigismund Waitz 1921-1938
• Paulus Rusch 1938–1964

Bishops

• Paulus Rusch 1964–1980
• Reinhold Stecher 1980–1997
• Alois Kothgasser 1997-2002
• Manfred Scheuer 2003–2015
• Hermann Glettler since 2017

Web links

Commons : Roman Catholic Diocese of Innsbruck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry for the Diocese of Innsbruck on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Official website of the Diocese of Innsbruck

Innsbruck, St. Jakob Cathedral