The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna ( la, Archidioecesis Viennensis) is an archdiocese of the
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
in
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
. It was erected as the Diocese of Vienna on 18 January 1469 out of the
Diocese of Passau
The Diocese of Passau is a Roman Catholic diocese in Germany that is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.archdiocese on 1 June 1722. The episcopal see resides in the cathedral of
Stephansdom
St. Stephen's Cathedral (german: Stephansdom) is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna and the seat of the Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, OP. The current Romanesque and Gothic form of the cathedra ...
in
Vienna
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. The current bishop is Christoph Schoenborn, appointed in 1995 and elevated to cardinal in 1998.
The Archdiocese is the
metropolitan diocese
A metropolis religious jurisdiction, or a metropolitan archdiocese, is an episcopal see whose bishop is the metropolitan bishop or archbishop of an ecclesiastical province. Metropolises, historically, have been important cities in their provinces ...
Roman Catholic Diocese of Eisenstadt
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Eisenstadt ( la, Dioecesis Sideropolitanus) is a diocese located in the city of Eisenstadt in the Ecclesiastical province of Vienna in Austria. The episcopal seat is in Eisenstadt Cathedral.
History
* May 18, 1922: ...
ecclesiastical province
An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction in Christian Churches with traditional hierarchical structure, including Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity. In general, an ecclesiastical province consists of seve ...
of Vienna, one of only two ecclesiastical provinces of Austria, the other under the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salzburg
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salzburg ( la, Archidioecesis Salisburgensis) is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Austria. The archdiocese is one of two Austrian archdioceses, serving alongside the Archdiocese of ...
.
Episcopal Ordinaries
''Suffragan Bishops of Vienna''
* Leo von Spaur † (23 Dec 1471 Confirmed – 6 Mar 1479 Died)
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Georg von Slatkonia
George Slatkonia (german: Georg von Slatkonia, also ''Jurij Chrysippus,'' Slovenian: ''Jurij Slatkonja''; 21 March 1456 – 26 April 1522) was a Carniolan choirmaster and the first residential Bishop of Vienna. He was also the first owner of an ...
† (12 Aug 1513 Appointed – 26 Apr 1522 Died)
* Johann von Revellis † (6 Apr 1524 Confirmed – 27 Dec 1529 Died)
* Johann Fabri † (5 Dec 1530 Appointed – 21 May 1541 Died)
*
Friedrich Nausea
Frederic Nausea, born Friedrich Grau about 1496 in Waischenfeld, Germany; † 6 February 1552 in Trient, was the Catholic Bishop of the diocese of Vienna. Nausea is the Latin equivalent of his German name (''grauen'' = to disgust, become ashen).
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† (21 May 1541 Succeeded – 6 Feb 1552 Died)
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Antonín Brus von Muglitz
Antonin, Antonín, and Antoñín are masculine given names. Antonín, a Czech name in use in the Czech Republic, and Antonin, a French name in use in France, and French-speaking countries, are both considered alternate forms of Antonino. Antoñín ...
, O. Cruc. † (17 Jul 1560 Appointed – 5 Sep 1561 Appointed, Archbishop of Praha )
* Johann Kaspar Neuböck † (4 Feb 1575 Appointed – 28 Aug 1594 Died)
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Melchior Klesl
Melchior Khlesl (Klesl,Klesel,CleseliusHe uses the spelling Khlesl himself in his German-language correspondence: Victor Bibl, Klesl's Briefe an K. Rudolfs II. Obersthofmeister Adam Freiherrn von Dietrichstein (1583-1589). Ein Beitrag zur Geschic ...
† (15 Jul 1613 Appointed - 18 Sep 1630 Died)
*
Anton Wolfradt
Anton Franz Wolfradt, O.Cist., O.S.B. (9 July 1582, Cologne – 1 April 1639, Vienna) was a Cistercian and Benedictine, Abbot of Wilhering then Kremsmünster, Prince-Bishop of Vienna, and President of the Hofkammer.
Biography
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† (26 May 1631 Confirmed - 1 Apr 1639 Died)
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Philipp Friedrich von Breuner
Philipp Friedrich Graf von Breuner (6 September 1597, Győr – 22 May 1669, Vienna) was an Auxiliary Bishop of Olmütz and Prince-Bishop of Vienna.
Biography
He was the son of a Feldzeugmeister and Hofkriegsrates from the Austrian noble family ...
† (5 Sep 1639 Confirmed - 22 May 1669 Died)
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Wilderich von Walderdorff
Wilderich von Walderdorff (14 January 1617, Würzburg – 4 September 1680, Vienna) from the Walderdorff family was Prince-Bishop of Vienna and ''Reichsvizekanzler'' (Vice-Chancellor) of the Holy Roman Empire (1660-1669).
Biography
He was a me ...
Ernst von Trautson zu Falkenstein
Ernst Graf von Trautson (26 December 1633 – 7 January 1702, Vienna), actually Ernst Trautson von Falkenstein zu Sprechenstein und Schroffenstein, was an Austrian Roman Catholic clergyman who was Prince-Bishop of Vienna from 1685 to 1702.
Biogr ...
† (10 Sep 1685 Confirmed - 7 Jan 1702 Died)
* Franz Anton von Harrach zu Rorau † (7 Jan 1702 Succeeded - 31 Jul 1706 Resigned)
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Franz Ferdinand von Rummel
Franz Ferdinand von Rummel (28 October 1644, Weiden in der Oberpfalz, – 15 March 1716, Vienna) was educator and religious tutor of Emperor Joseph I, Bishop of Tinin, Provost of Ardagger and Wroclaw, and was from 1706 to 1716 the Prince-Bishop ...
Johann Joseph von Trautson zu Falkenstein
Johann Joseph Graf von Trautson zu Falkenstein (17 July 1707, Falkenstein – 10 March 1757, Vienna) was a Roman Catholic clergyman, in 1750 was coadjutor of the Archdiocese of Vienna and Titular Archbishop of Cartagine, was appointed from 1751 ...
Leopold Maximilian Graf von Firmian
Leopold Maximilian Graf von Firmian (11 October 1766, Trento – 29 November 1831, Vienna) was Auxiliary Bishop in Passau and Titular Bishop of Tiberias from 1797, from 1800 to 1816 Bishop of Lavant, was appointed Archbishop of Salzburg in 1816, ...
(Frimian) † (25 January 1822 Appointed – 29 November 1831 Died)
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Vinzenz Eduard Milde
Vinzenz Eduard Milde (1777, in Brünn, Moravia – 1853 at Vienna) was
Prince-Archbishop of Vienna. He was the first Prince-Archbishop and commoner: the see had always hitherto been occupied by a nobleman.
Life
He entered the "Alumnat" or l ...
† (27 October 1831 Appointed – 14 March 1853 Died)
* Cardinal
Joseph Othmar von Rauscher
Joseph Othmar Ritter von Rauscher (6 October 1797 in Vienna – 24 November 1875 in Vienna) was an Austrian Prince-Archbishop of Vienna and Cardinal.
Life
He received his earlier education at the gymnasium in Vienna, devoting himself chiefly ...
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† (23 March 1881 Appointed – 14 December 1889 Died)
* Cardinal
Anton Josef Gruscha
Anton Josef Gruscha, S.T.D. (3 November 1820, Vienna – 5 August 1911, Schloss Kranichberg, Lower Austria) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and was Archbishop of Vienna.
He was born in Vienna, Austria. He received minor orders on 3 ...
† (24 January 1890 Appointed – 15 August 1911 Died)
* Cardinal
Franz Xavier Nagl
Franz Xaver Nagl S.T.D. (26 November 1855 – 4 February 1913) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Vienna as well as Titular Latin Archbishop of Tyre.
Biography
Nagl was born in Vienna, Austria, as the son of Le ...
† (5 August 1911 Succeeded – 4 February 1913 Died)
* Cardinal
Friedrich Gustav Piffl
Friedrich Gustav Piffl (15 October 1864 – 21 April 1932) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Vienna.
Gustav Piffl was born in Lanškroun, Bohemia, in what was then the Austrian Empire. He was the son of Rudolf Piffl ...
† (1 April 1913 Appointed – 21 April 1932 Died)
* Cardinal
Theodor Innitzer
Theodor Innitzer (25 December 1875 – 9 October 1955) was Archbishop of Vienna and a cardinal of the Catholic Church.
Early life
Innitzer was born in Neugeschrei (Nové Zvolání), part of the town Weipert (Vejprty) in Bohemia, at that time ...
† (19 September 1932 Appointed – 9 October 1955 Died)
* Cardinal
Franz König
Franz König (3 August 1905 – 13 March 2004) was an Austrian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of Vienna from 1956 to 1985, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958. The last surviving cardinal elevated by Pope John ...
† (10 May 1956 Appointed – 16 September 1985 Retired)
* Cardinal
Hans Hermann Groër
Hans Hermann Wilhelm Groër OSB (13 October 1919 – 24 March 2003) was an Austrian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Vienna from 1986 to 1995, and became a cardinal in 1988. Pope John Paul II replaced him as arch ...
,
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† (15 July 1986 Appointed – 14 September 1995 Retired)
* Cardinal
Christoph Schönborn
Christoph Maria Michael Hugo Damian Peter Adalbert Graf von Schönborn, O.P. (; born 22 January 1945) is a Bohemian-born Austrian Dominican friar and theologian, who is a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He serves as the Archbishop of Vienna and ...
Heinrich Maier
Heinrich Maier (; 16 February 1908 – 22 March 1945) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest, pedagogue, philosopher and a member of the Austrian resistance, who was executed as the last victim of Hitler's régime in Vienna.
The resistance gr ...
, important resistance fighter against Nazi terror
See also
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Archbishop of Vienna
The Archbishop of Vienna is the prelate of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna who is concurrently the metropolitan bishop of its ecclesiastical province which includes the dioceses of Eisenstadt, Linz and St. Pölten.
From 1469 to 1513, bi ...
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Seminary of Vienna
The Archiepiscopal Seminary of Vienna (German language, German: ''Erzbischöfliches Priesterseminar Wien''), commonly referred to in German as the Wiener Priesterseminar, is a Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Seminary, major seminary that serves as ...