Serbian Orthodox Church in Austria
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The Serbian Orthodox Church in Austria is a religious minority .
history
Before the 1970s, Orthodox Serbs only played a role in Vienna . Larger communities settled there for the first time in the 18th century. In addition to the Serbs, Greeks and Romanians of the Orthodox faith also lived in Vienna . Initially, Orthodox Christians held their services in a private house that included a small chapel. The parish named itself after St. George . In 1723 the parish received the right to build a church with an imperial decree; However, it was not until 1802 that the inn "Küss den kleine Pfennig" was acquired and a church was built in its place by 1806. Until then, the Orthodox Christians continued to use a private chapel, which was consecrated in 1726 by the Belgrade Metropolitan Mojsije Petrović. A few years later the parish moved to Hafnersteig in the former Greek Quarter in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt , where the Greek Orthodox St. George's Church was built in the 19th century .
The parish of St. Georg was subordinate to the metropolis of Sremski Karlovci in today's Vojvodina in Serbia , which at that time belonged to the Austrian Empire , and was headed by Serbian priests, which often led to a dispute with the Greek Christians, especially those who were subjects of the Ottoman Empire . In 1776, under Maria Theresa, the dispute was decided in favor of the Greeks. From then on Greek priests took over the services and the leadership of the parish, but the parish continued to be under the jurisdiction of the metropolis of Sremski Karlovci (later it was to submit itself to the metropolis of Bucovina and Galicia, but in fact the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople ).
Since those Greeks who were subjects of the Ottoman Empire dominated the parish, the community split up, and the Serbs, as well as those Greeks and other Orthodox Christians who were Austrian citizens, founded the parish of the Holy Trinity and with it the later Greek Church to the Holy Trinity at the meat market . In the new parish, services were held in Greek, German, Serbian and Romanian, while the former parish dedicated to St. George became a purely Greek parish.
However, the unity in the new parish did not last long, and a dispute broke out over Serbian or Greek as the language of worship . In 1860, under Emperor Franz Joseph I, the language dispute was decided in favor of the Greeks. The Serbs, on the other hand, got the assurance of their own church. In the same year, a first parish was dedicated to St. Sava , who stated that in what was then Vienna approx. 1500 Orthodox Serbs lived, around 500 of them permanently residing in the city. Due to a lack of financial means, the construction of a church did not begin until 1890 and it was finally consecrated in 1893. It is the church in Veithgasse in the 3rd district. Among the founders of the church were u. a. Emperor Franz Joseph I and the Serbian King Milan I.
There are now 16 Serbian Orthodox churches in Austria. Until 2011, the Serbian communities were subordinate to the Diocese for Central Europe , based in Himmelsthür near Hildesheim in Germany. Since then it has belonged to the newly founded diocese of Austria and Switzerland , based in Vienna.
List of Serbian Orthodox Parishes
| state | Parish | since | Church building or chapel | image |
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| Carinthia | Klagenfurt | Church of St. Paraskeva | ||
| Lower Austria | St. Polten | Church of St. Thomas the Apostle |
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| Lower Austria | Tulln | Chapel of St. Nicholas | ||
| Lower Austria | Wiener Neustadt | Church of the Holy Martyr Plato from Banja Luka | ||
| Upper Austria | Enns | Church of the Transfer of the Bones of St. Sava | ||
| Upper Austria | Parish of St. George the Great Martyr (Gmunden) | (Liturgies in the parish Gmunden-Ort in Gmunden) | ||
| Upper Austria | Linz | Church of St. Basil of Ostrog |
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| Salzburg | Saalfelden | Church of the Synaxis of Serbian Saints | ||
| Salzburg | Salzburg | Church in the care of the All-Holy Theotokos | ||
| Styria | Parish of St. Kyril and Methodius (Graz) | |||
| Tyrol | innsbruck | 1992 | Church of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist |
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| Tyrol | Kufstein | 2001 | ||
| Vorarlberg | Parish of Holy Emperor Constantine and Empress Helena (Bregenz) | (Masses in the Gebhardkirche in Bregenz) | ||
| Vorarlberg | Congregation for the birth of the All Saints Theotokos (Feldkirch) | (Masses in the Frauenkirche) | ||
| Vienna | Vienna 1/2 (Wien-Landstrasse) | 1891 | Church of St. Sava |
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| Vienna | Vienna 3/4 (Vienna-Hernals) | 1974 | Church of the Dormition of Mary | |
| Vienna | Vienna 5/6 (Vienna-Leopoldstadt) | 2002 | Church of the Resurrection of Christ |
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Handover to the new Serbian Orthodox Bishop. ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2012 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. Archdiocese of Vienna, June 27, 2011
