Greco-Oriental Church in Austria
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Title: | External legal relationships of the Greco-Oriental Church |
Long title: | Federal law of June 23, 1967 on external legal relationships of the Greek-Oriental Church in Austria |
Type: | Federal law or regulation |
Scope: | Republic of Austria |
Reference: | StF: Federal Law Gazette No. 229/1967 |
Date of law: | June 23, 1967 |
Legal text: | current version |
Please note the note on the applicable legal version ! |
Greek-Oriental Church in Austria is the Austrian official name of some Orthodox churches . The ancient name goes back to the tolerance patent of Emperor Josef II from 1782 and includes not only the Greek Orthodox but also other Orthodox churches in Austria .
According to the last record of denomination in the 2001 census, the Greek-Oriental (= Orthodox) Church comprised 174,385 members; as of 2011, the total number of Orthodox is estimated at 400,000, making it the second largest denominational group in Austria.
Legal basis: External legal relationships of the Greco-Oriental Church
The Greek-Oriental Church in Austria is a legally recognized church “within the meaning of Article 15 of the Basic State Law of December 21, 1867, RGBl. No. 142 ". The parishes, dioceses and the Greek Metropolis of Austria belonging to the church are corporations under public law .
The recognition is based on the imperial-royal privileged ordinances of August 3, 1782 (tolerance patent) and October 8, 1796. Their legal relationships are regulated today in the federal law of June 23, 1967 on external legal relationships of the Greek-Oriental Church in Austria (sometimes unofficially Orthodox Law abbreviated).
Since in this law - out of date today - only four parishes are named by name, but meanwhile about 200,000 Orthodox believers live in Austria, these parishes legally represent the respective religious communities and their other parishes. An amendment to the law on July 29, 2011 ( Federal Law Gazette I No. 68/2011 ) created the possibility of installing parishes without legal personality (Section 3d), which means that the Orthodox churches and the Russian dioceses are also free to expand pastoral care Orthodox ( eparchy for Vienna and Austria ) and Serbian Orthodox Church ( diocese Austria-Switzerland ) the recognition of legal personality (Section IIa).
At the same time, the Orthodox Bishops' Conference , which was founded in October 2010, was included in the legal system (§ 1a). It is chaired by the Metropolitan of Austria, and deals with issues such as religious education , participation in the appraisal procedure for new laws, or the submission of "statements to the Federal Minister for Education, Art and Culture " before the recognition of Orthodox institutions.
Parishes and dioceses of the Greek-Oriental (= Orthodox) Church in Austria
The following municipalities represent the legal entities:
- Greek-Oriental parish of the Holy Trinity (Vienna city center, Fleischmarkt ), today the metropolitan seat of the Metropolis of Austria, Hungary and Central Europe of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople , originally after 1782 the Austrians split off from the parish of Saint George
- Greek-Oriental parish of St. George (Vienna city center, Hafnersteig), formerly founded as a Greek-Ottoman parish, today subordinate to the Metropolis of Austria and representative of the Greek Orthodox Church in Austria
- Serbian-Greek-Oriental parish of Saint Sava (Vienna-Landstrasse), today arch parish for Austria of the Serbian-Orthodox eparchy for Austria, Switzerland and Italy , was established in 1860 as a split from the Holy Trinity
- Romanian-Greek-Oriental parish for the Holy Resurrection (Vienna-Simmering) for the Romanian-Orthodox metropolis of Germany and Central Europe (Nuremberg), was created in 1906 as a split from Greek Orthodoxy
- Russian Orthodox parish of St. Nicholas (Wien-Landstrasse), today the bishopric of the Russian Orthodox eparchy for Vienna and Austria , consecrated at the Russian embassy since around 1700, cathedral consecrated in 1899
- Bulgarian Orthodox Parish of Saint Iwan Rilski (Vienna-Landstrasse), representation of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church Diocese of Western and Central Europe (Berlin and Budapest)
Bukovina and Dalmatia
Web links
- Legally recognized churches and religious societies in Austria, Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture ( Memento from March 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Orthodoxy in Austria ( Memento from October 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Links , Association of Friends of Eastern Church Studies
Individual evidence
- ↑ Since since the 2001 census the creed is no longer officially recorded, there are no exact numbers of believers unless the church publishes them
- ↑ (red / PEW): Federal President received Orthodox Bishops' Conference. (No longer available online.) Archdiocese of Vienna, Radio Stephansdom, April 27, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 27, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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↑ a b c d e The Russian Orthodox (St. Nicholas) and Bulgarian Orthodox (St. Ivan Rilski) parishes are not expressly mentioned in the law (Section III - Existing institutions ). They were recognized as corporations by pronouncement (according to Section IIa - Establishment of new dioceses and appointment of the organs of the law in the 2011 amendment);
Vienna, (poi): Orth. Bishops' Conference: Officially recognized, new Orthodox dioceses possible. In: News archive. Pro Oriente, August 12, 2011, accessed December 28, 2011 . ; - ↑ As of September 2010, the amendment was in parliamentary discussion. It deals with the modern organization of the autocephalous Orthodox churches in the diaspora in Austria. Orthodox law is being amended . Parliamentary Correspondence No. 547 dated May 31, 2011
- ↑ Pro Oriente quote: Orth. Episcopal Conference
- ↑ The Serbian Church in History ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Српска Православна Црквена Општина Светог Саве у Бечу - Serbian Orthodox Church Community to HL SAVA in Vienna
- ↑ A representation of the Romanian Orthodox Church ( memento of the original from March 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Biserica Romana Ortodoxa din Viena - Romanian Orthodox parish in Vienna
- ↑ The history of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Vienna ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , nikolsobor.org
- ↑ The Bulgarian Orthodox Church Community "St. Ivan Rilski", Vienna, Austria