Ordinariate for the faithful of the Eastern Catholic Churches in Austria

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Ordinariate for the faithful of the Eastern Catholic Churches in Austria
Erzdiözese Salzburg Erzdiözese Wien Diözese Eisenstadt Diözese Feldkirch Diözese Graz-Seckau Diözese Gurk Diözese Innsbruck Diözese Linz Diözese St. PöltenOrdinariate card for the faithful of the Eastern Catholic Churches in Austria
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Basic data
Country Austria
Ecclesiastical province Immediate
Full professor Christoph Cardinal Schönborn OP
Vicar General Yuriy Kolasa
founding June 13, 1956
surface 83,879 km²
Parishes 24 (March 14, 2020)
Residents 8,858,775 (March 14, 2020)
Catholics 10,870 (3/14/2020)
proportion of 0.1%
Diocesan priest 33 (3/14/2020)
Catholics per priest 329
rite Alexandrian
Armenian
Byzantine
East Syrian
West Syrian
Liturgical language Arabic
Armenian
German
Church Slavonic
Coptic
Malayalam
Romanian
Slovak
Syrian
Ukrainian
cathedral St. Barbara Church
Website www.katholischeostkirchen.at

The Ordinariate for the Believers of the Eastern Catholic Churches in Austria is responsible for the episcopal leadership and jurisdiction for all Christians of the Eastern Catholic Churches in Austria , i.e. for immigrant members of the Eastern Catholic Churches and their descendants. This includes all 23 Catholic particular churches , of which, however , not all are legally recognized as the Greek Catholic Rite and Armenian Catholic Rite of the Catholic Church .

The approximately 10,000 faithful of the ordinariate are cared for by 23 priests in nine parishes. Ordinarius has been the Archbishop of Vienna Cardinal Schönborn since 1995 .

history

The Roman-Uniate churches, together with the Roman Catholic Church, were recognized as historically recognized as early as the monarchy . As early as 1611, the - short-lived - Uniate Serbian Greek-Catholic Eparchy Marča was established from Zagreb , and under Maria Theresa on the Ottoman border in 1777 the - also Ruthenian , now Croatian-oriented - Diocese of Križevci . There were also believers in the Greek Catholic rite in Transylvania ( Romanian ) and later also in Galicia and Lodomeria (Ruthenian and Ukrainian ). From 1783 there was the first Uniate Ukrainian parish St. Barbara in Vienna, founded by Emperor Josef II, which is considered the date of recognition of the Greek Catholic Church in Austria.

With the Republic of Austria , the Holy See then adopted the 1933 Concordat as a legal basis.

In the course of the Cold War , when the Eastern Churches got into trouble, the Ordinariate was established in 1956 as a diocese of the Austrian faithful. It is exempt (immediately) , so it is directly subordinate to the Holy See, and is headed by the Archbishop of Vienna in personal union. Until the 1980s, several other parishes were created in addition to St. Barbara.

Ordinaries

Ukrainian Greek Catholic parishes in Austria

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was a branch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church that entered into communion with the Pope in the Church Union of Brest in 1596 , but retained liturgy and special jurisdiction. It has its focus in western Ukraine.

The first parish in today's Austria was established in Vienna in 1783, when Galicia and Lodomeria had become part of the Habsburg Monarchy in the course of the partition of Poland and Ukrainians, also known as Ruthenians , increasingly came to the capital of the empire. As early as 1773 Maria Theresa had given the abolished Vienna Jesuit Convict as a barbarism to the Greek Catholics.

After the end of World War II , the number of Ukrainian Greek Catholic believers in Austria rose again significantly. Most of the newly arrived migrated to North America and Australia . In the 1990s, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic war refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina , mostly from the areas of the Republika Srpska , fled to Austria and there were again more emigrations from Ukraine and Poland , which in turn increased the number of believers.

Your central parish is located at the Barbarakirche . In addition to Vienna, there are currently Ukrainian-Greek Catholic parishes in Salzburg (pastoral care center in Western Austria , a quasi-parish with its own temporal administration and register management, at the Markuskirche ), Innsbruck (auxiliary pastoral care center at the international seminary Collegium Canisianum ) and Linz (pastoral care center in Vienna).

Romanian Greek Catholic parishes in Austria

Among the Byzantine Rite Catholics in Austria, many have their roots in the Romanian Greek Catholic Church .

There are parishes in Vienna ( Rochuskapelle Penzing) and Graz ( Barmherzige Brüder Eggenberg ).

There was also a parish in Salzburg that was dissolved again in the 1950s.

Other Greek Catholic parishes in Austria

The Melkite Greek Catholic , a church that is native to Lebanon, has a congregation based in Vienna.

There is also a German-speaking community. It is located at St. Barbara, where pastoral care for other rite languages ​​also takes place, depending on the pastoral care staff available.

organization

Vicariate General and Central Parish

The leadership is the General Vicariate for the Believers of the Byzantine Rite in Austria in the Wollzeile Vienna-Inner City.

Vicar General and Protosyncellus is Lic.Yuriy Kolasa (2020)

The central parish is St. Barbara in Postgasse, which is the public corporation of the Greek Catholic Church in Austria.

The Romanian Union Mission ( Romanian Misiunea Română Unită din Viena ) is a rectorate, Canonic Onorar Metropolitan is Mag. Vasile Luțai, chaplain to Penzing .

Religious affiliations

The religious affiliations belonging to the Ordinariate (general abbreviation Greek-Catholic ) in Austria are: Byzantine-Catholic, Italian-Albanian , Melkite-Catholic , Ukrainian-Catholic , Ruthenian-Catholic , Romanian-Catholic , Greek-Catholic (ie p.) , Bulgarian Catholic , Slovak Catholic , Hungarian Catholic .

List of parishes with churches, chapels and pastoral offices

  • Pf. … Parish , Org. … Other organization
  • Seat … municipality , town / district
  • Conf. ... Greek-Catholic denomination or liturgical language; VAT ... insinuation
  • Since: gen. ... first mentioned, err. … built
  • Patr. ... Patronage in brackets is the calendar system used on site, the patronage date is given in Gregorian
  • Churches column: Sortable according to the rank of the church
Pf./Org. Seat Konf./Ust. since Patr. Churches, otherwise. Pastoral care offices
Central parish of St. Barbara Vienna Inner City (1.) 1783 (W) St. Barbara (December 4th, July) Church: Barbarakirche (W)
ecumenical. Trumau Castle Chapel  (Lower Austria), Byzantine Chapel in the Maria Thron Charterhouse (Gaming , Lower Austria); Byzantine Chapel in Geras Abbey  (Lower Austria);
other Greek-Catholic Pastoral care; (W) ; Student pastoral care ITI Trumau
Ukrainian community Vienna Vienna Inner City ukr. 1783 (1773) (W) St. Barbara (December 4th, July) Church: Barbarakirche (W)

Pastoral care SMZ-Ost (Wu)

Pastoral care center Western Austria / Ukrainian community Salzburg Salzburg-Left Old Town ukr. (Vienna) 1970s ? (greg.) Church: Markuskirche (former Ursuline Church , Rectorate) (S)
Byzantine Prayer Center Salzburg (Ger.)
Ukrainian municipality Innsbruck Innsbruck city center ukr. (Western Austria) 1970s Hll. Volodymyr and  Olha (July 15/11, Greg.) Chapel of St. Wolodymyr and Olha in the Collegium Canisianum (I)
Ukrainian community Linz Linz city center ukr. (Vienna) 1970s ? (greg.) Guest Church : Crypt of the Carmelite Church
Ukrainian community Graz Graz-Lend ukr. (Vienna) 1970s ? (greg.) Guest Church : Treasury Chapel of the Mariahilf Church Graz (G)
Romanian Parish Vienna - Biserica greco-catolică română din Viena Vienna-Penzing (14). romanian. 1970s ? Church: Rochuskapelle
Krankenhausseelsorge GZ Baumgarten , Hanusch-KH , SMZ-Ost (Wr)
Romanian municipality Graz - Biserica greco-catolică română din Graz Graz-Eggenberg romanian. (Vienna) 1980s St. John the Evangelist (Dec. 27) Guest Church: Nothelferkirche ;
Hospital pastoral care KH Barmherzige Brüder (Eggenberg)
Melkite community Vienna (Wm) Vienna-Heiligenstadt (19th Döbling ) milk. 1970s ? Guest Church : St. Jacob
German community Vienna Vienna Inner City (1.) German 1980s ? Church: Barbarakirche (W)
Pastoral care for the Greek-Catholic. Hungary (Wd)
(W)Vienna, St. Barbara: Branch Barbareum 1773; Church ursp. Jesuit 1573; Facade 1842; Ruthenian commission of the Roman Catholic. Parish of St. Canisius (9th Alsergrund)
(Wu)Vienna, Ukrainian: Commission of the Roman Catholic. Parish of St. Johannes Nepomuk (Münichsthal , Lower Austria), chaplain in the Holy Family (Neu-Ottakring , 16.)
(S)Salzburg: until 1999 in the Kajetan Church of the Brothers of Mercy ; the Markuskirche is actually from 1705, since 2000 interior with iconostasis (rood screen)
(I)Innsbruck: after 1910, the chapel was re-consecrated after moving to the building on October 3, 2002;
Parish in St. Josef the Elder (Ötztal train station) and St. Chrysanth and Daria (Haiming)
(G) Simultaneously with the Russian Orthodox community Maria Schutz
(Wr)Vienna, Romanian: Chaplains in the Roman Catholic. Parishes of St. Jakob (Penzing , 14th), Maria im Elend (Leopoldau , 21st); Pastoral care in St. Georg (Kagran , 22.)
(Wm) Vienna, Melkitsich: currently only occupied in pastoral care
(Wd)Vienna, German: since 2004 commission of the Roman Catholic. Parish St. Nikolaus (Stammersdorf , 21.)

statistics

year population priest permanent
deacons 		Religious Parishes
Catholics Residents % Total number
Diocesan priest
Religious priest 		Catholics per
priest 		Friars Religious sisters
1969 4,180 8th 6th 2 522 2 1
1980 3,500 2 2 1,750 1 1 7th
1990 4,000 2 2 2,000 1 9
1999 5,000 5 5 1,000 1 1 9
2000 5,000 5 5 1,000 1 1 9
2001 5,000 6th 6th 850 1 9
2002 8,000 12 12 650 9
2003 8,000 12 12 650 9
2004 8,000 12 12 650 3 9
2009 10,000 23 23 450 9

See also

Web links

To the individual communities:

  1. ↑ a b c St. Barbara Church in Vienna / церкви Святої Варвари у Відні (ukrainische-kirche.at)
  2. ↑ a b Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Western Austria / Української Греко-Католицької Церкви у західній Австрії / Byzantine Catholic World of Western Austria (ukrainische-kirche.at) ( Memento of 13 September 2011 at the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Innsbruck (ukrainische-kirche-innsbruck.at)
  4. ↑ a b c Romanian Uniate Church - Greek Catholic, Vienna (ruk-wien.at) ( Memento from March 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

proof

  1. ↑ Concordat between the Holy See and the Republic of Austria including additional protocol. StF: Federal Law Gazette II No. 2/1934 (as amended online, ris.bka ).
  2. ↑ Holy Masses in other languages ( Memento from May 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Kath. Stadtkirche Graz
  3. ^ History → Parish Vienna ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , ruk-wien.at (Romanian)
  4. ↑ Appendix A of the Implementing Regulations for Religious Education Circular No. 5/2007 (online, schulamt.at).
  5. ↑ Byzantine Chapel Consecration - March 2007 ( Memento of July 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) , iti.ac.at
  6. ↑ Byzantine Chapel ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), stiftgeras.at
  7. ↑ International Theological Institute, University of Catholic Theology, Trumau Castle: Center for Eastern Church Studies
  8. ↑ Kapelle ( memento from February 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) , ukrainische-kirche-innsbruck.at
  9. ^ Parish Ötztal-Bahnhof ( Memento from August 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ Parish Haiming ( Memento from June 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ^ Holy Masses in other languages , Christian Churches in Styria - Ecumenism. Brothers and sisters in faith. , both Catholic Church Styria> parishes;
    Russian Orthodox Church ( Memento from November 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) , Ecumenical Forum Styria
  12. ^ Parish Stammersdorf ( Memento from June 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 33.9 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 25.4 ″  E