The

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is currently composed of : * two

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s and 7 suffragan dioceses of the western

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* an exempt military ordinate and a

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, both also Latin Rite. * ''an

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, Byzantine Rite

Current Dioceses

Austrian Episcopal Conference (Latin)

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Latin Exempt ''Sui iuris'' Jurisdictions

* Military Ordinariate of Austria * Territorial Abbey of Wettingen-Mehrerau

Ecclesiastical Province of Salzburg

* Metropolitan

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 ...

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see of all

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 ...

** Diocese of Feldkirch ** Diocese of Graz-Seckau ** Diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt ** Diocese of Innsbruck

Ecclesiastical Province of Vienna

* Metropolitan

Archdiocese of Vienna The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna ( la, Archidioecesis Viennensis) is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Austria. It was erected as the Diocese of Vienna on 18 January 1469 out of the Diocese of Passau, and elevated to an archdio ...

** Diocese of Eisenstadt **

Diocese of Linz The Diocese of Linz ( la, Dioecesis Linciensis) is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Vienna, Austria. History Early history In the early Middle Ages the greater part of the territory of the present Diocese of Linz was subject to the bishops of ...

** Diocese of Sankt Pölten

''Eastern Catholic Exempt ''Sui iuris'' Ordinariate for Eastern Catholic faithful''

* '' Ordinariate for Byzantine-rite Catholics in Austria''

Defunct jurisdictions

Latin Titular sees

Metropolitan titular archbishoprics

* Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tiburnia * Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lauriacum

Titular bishoprics

* Ancient Diocese of Aguntum * Ancient Diocese of Virunum * Roman Catholic Diocese of Wiener Neustadt

Other defunct jurisdictions

:''Excluding precursors of present dioceses that were merely renamed or promoted'' * Ancient Diocese of Juvavo *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Lavant The Diocese of Lavant(tal) ( la, Lavantina) was a suffragan bishopric of the Archdiocese of Salzburg, established 1228 in the Lavant Valley of Carinthia. In 1859 the episcopal see was re-assigned to Maribor (''Marburg an der Drau'') in prese ...

(Lavanttal, Lavantin(us)), united with Metropolitan Archdiocese of Maribor * Roman Catholic Diocese of Leoben, merged into Diocese of Graz–Seckau * Stift Sankt Peter Salzburg, an Abbacy nullius

Sources and external links

GCatholic.org - data for all sections

{{Roman Catholic dioceses in Austria *

Catholic dioceses