Church province of Salzburg
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Country | Austria |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Salzburg |
Suffragan dioceses |
Feldkirch Graz-Seckau Gurk-Klagenfurt Innsbruck |
Metropolitan | Franz Lackner OFM |
surface | 48,332 km² |
Dean's offices | 98 |
Parishes | 1,301 |
Residents | 3,266,848 |
Catholics | 2,542,816 |
proportion of | 77.8% |
Diocesan priest | 1.108 |
Religious priest | 571 |
Catholics per priest | 1,514 |
Permanent deacons | 141 |
Friars | 832 |
Religious sisters | 1,940 |
The ecclesiastical province of Salzburg is one of the two ecclesiastical provinces of the Roman Catholic Church in Austria .
geography
The ecclesiastical province includes the southern Austrian states of Carinthia , Salzburg , Styria , Tyrol and Vorarlberg .
structure
The metropolitan seat of the ecclesiastical province is in the city of Salzburg .
The five dioceses belonging to the province are:
history
When it was founded in 739 by Bonifatius, the medieval church province of Salzburg comprised almost the entire tribal duchy of Baiern u. a. with the diocese of Freising , the diocese of Regensburg and the diocese of Passau , in 798 the diocese of Säben was added. The Salzburg diocesan territory also included the Eigenbistümer Gurk (1072), Chiemsee (1215) Seckau (1218) and Lavant (1228). The two dioceses Vienna and Wiener Neustadt were spun off from the area of the Diocese of Passau in 1469 . Attempts by the Habsburgs to convert the Austrian parts of the Diocese of Passau into Austrian state dioceses only succeeded on June 1, 1722, when Vienna was elevated to an archbishopric at the time of Josephinism and its own church province was created. The Napoleonic Wars led to the end of the medieval church province of Salzburg. In 1818 the Chiemsee diocese was abolished. The archdiocese got its current size. In the process, Salzburg lost essential areas in Bavaria to the newly founded church province of Munich and Freising . In 1921 the diocese of Brixen and 1924 the diocese of Lavant were spun off from the ecclesiastical province of Salzburg because Austria had to cede these areas after the peace treaty of St. Germain . In 1964 the newly established diocese of Innsbruck-Feldkirch (from 1968 only diocese of Innsbruck ), and in 1968 the newly established diocese of Feldkirch became the suffragan diocese of Salzburg.