Eparchy for Vienna and Austria

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Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Nicholas

The eparchy for Vienna and Austria , Vienna and Austrian diocese ( Russian Венская и Австрийская епархия ) is a diocese ( eparchy ) of the Russian Orthodox Church .

Its cathedral is the Church of St. Nicholas in Vienna-Landstrasse .

It is subject to the Patriarchate of Moscow and All Russia , currently under Patriarch Kirill I , with Mark, Archbishop of Egoryevsk as the competent kommissarischem secretary at the office for foreign institutions (State Department) , which exercises the office of bishop, and also to Budapest and Hungary responsible is.

Parishes

  • Russian Orthodox parish of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Vienna
  • Russian Orthodox parish for the protection of the Virgin Mary in Graz - divine service in the treasury chapel of the Minorites
  • Parish to St. New martyrs and confessors of Russia in Linz - service in St. Paul zu Pichling

history

The beginnings of the Russian Orthodox community in Austria go back to the time of Tsar Peter I the Great (1672–1725). There was a parish church since 1899. In 1946 an exarch of the patriarchate in Central Europe was sent to Vienna. In 1951 a deanery was set up in Vienna , the diocese for Austria has existed since 1962. Formal state recognition took place in 1967, giving the eparchy the status of a corporation under public law .

Bishops of Vienna and Austria

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

The history of the Cathedral of St. Nikolaus in Vienna , nikolsobor.org
  1. ^ Orthodox Christianity → Patriarch and clergy → Archbishop . Russian Orthodox Parish for the Protection of the Virgin Mary in Graz (Moscow Patriarchate)
  2. Russian Orthodox Church , oekumene.at