Church Province of Vienna
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Country | Austria |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Vienna |
Suffragan dioceses |
Eisenstadt Linz St. Pölten |
Metropolitan | Christoph Cardinal Schönborn |
surface | 35,425 km² |
Dean's offices | 125 (2011 / AP2013 ) |
Parishes | 1,729 (2011 / AP2013 ) |
Residents | 4,971,534 (2011 / AP2013 ) |
Catholics | 3,021,939 (2011 / AP2013 ) |
proportion of | 60.8% |
Diocesan priest | 1,425 (2011 / AP2013 ) |
Religious priest | 1.034 (2011 / AP2013 ) |
Catholics per priest | 1,229 |
Permanent deacons | 375 (2011 / AP2013 ) |
Friars | 1,464 (2011 / AP2013 ) |
Religious sisters | 2,540 (2011 / AP2013 ) |
The ecclesiastical province of Vienna is one of the two ecclesiastical provinces of the Roman Catholic Church in Austria .
geography
The ecclesiastical province includes the northern Austrian provinces of Burgenland , Lower Austria , Upper Austria and Vienna .
structure
The following dioceses belong to the ecclesiastical province:
history
Originally the territory of today's archdiocese was subordinate to the diocese of Passau, founded in 739, and belonged to the church province of Salzburg . 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 and a separate church province was created. The Diocese of Wiener Neustadt , which was dissolved in 1785 , has been part of the Diocese of Vienna since then. The newly founded dioceses of Linz and St. Pölten were subordinated to Vienna as suffragan dioceses. The Eisenstadt diocese, established in 1960, also belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Vienna.
Metropolitans
- Cardinal Sigismund Graf von Kollonitz (1716–1751)
- Cardinal Johann Joseph Graf von Trautson (1751–1757)
- Cardinal Christoph Anton Graf Migazzi (1757–1803)
- Sigismund Anton Graf von Hohenwart (1803-1820)
- Leopold Maximilian von Firmian (1822–1831)
- Vincenz Eduard Milde (1832-1853)
- Cardinal Joseph Othmar von Rauscher (1853–1875)
- Cardinal Johann Rudolf Kutschker (1876–1881)
- Cardinal Cölestin Joseph Ganglbauer (1881–1889)
- Cardinal Anton Joseph Gruscha (1890–1911)
- Cardinal Franz Xaver Nagl (1911–1913)
- Cardinal Friedrich Gustav Piffl (1913–1932)
- Cardinal Theodor Innitzer (1932–1955)
- Cardinal Franz König (1956–1986)
- Cardinal Hans Hermann Groër (1986–1995)
- Cardinal Christoph Schönborn (1995 – today)