The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna ( la, Archidioecesis Viennensis) is an

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of the

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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 In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...

on 1 June 1722. The

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resides in the cathedral of Stephansdom in

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. The current bishop is Christoph Schoenborn, appointed in 1995 and elevated to

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in 1998. The Archdiocese is the metropolitan diocese of three

suffragan diocese A suffragan diocese is one of the dioceses other than the metropolitan archdiocese that constitute an ecclesiastical province. It exists in some Christian denominations, in particular the Catholic Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandri ...

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: ...

, of Linz, and of Sankt Pölten. These four dioceses together constitute the

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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) *

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 † (21 May 1541 Succeeded – 6 Feb 1552 Died) * Antonín Brus von Muglitz, O. Cruc. † (17 Jul 1560 Appointed – 5 Sep 1561 Appointed, Archbishop of Praha ) * Johann Kaspar Neuböck † (4 Feb 1575 Appointed – 28 Aug 1594 Died) *

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 Anton Wolfradt ...

† (26 May 1631 Confirmed - 1 Apr 1639 Died) * Philipp Friedrich von Breuner † (5 Sep 1639 Confirmed - 22 May 1669 Died) * Wilderich von Walderdorff † (19 Aug 1669 Confirmed - 4 Sep 1680 Died) * Emerich (Johann Anton) Sinelli,

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† (3 Mar 1681 Confirmed - 25 Feb 1685 Died) * Ernst von Trautson zu Falkenstein † (10 Sep 1685 Confirmed - 7 Jan 1702 Died) *

Franz Anton von Harrach zu Rorau Franz Anton von Harrach zu Rorau (born 2 October 1665, Vienna – 18 July 1727, Salzburg) was appointed coadjutor of Vienna and Titular Bishop of Epiphania in Syria in 1701, was from 1702 to 1705 Prince-Bishop of Vienna, 1705 coadjutor of Sal ...

† (7 Jan 1702 Succeeded - 31 Jul 1706 Resigned) * Franz Ferdinand von Rummel † (4 Oct 1706 Confirmed - 15 Mar 1716 Died)

''Metropolitan Archbishops of Vienna''

* Cardinal

Sigismund Kollonitsch Sigismund von Kollonitsch; Kollonitz, Kollonic, Kollonics, Collonicz (30 May 1677, in Vienna – 12 April 1751) was titular Bishop of Scutari, Bishop of Waitzen, and was from 1716 to 1722 Prince-Bishop of Vienna, then from 1722 to 1751 the firs ...

† (1 Jul 1716 Confirmed - 12 Apr 1751 Died) * Cardinal Johann Joseph von Trautson zu Falkenstein (Trauston) † (12 Apr 1751 Succeeded - 10 Mar 1757 Died) * Cardinal Christoph Bartholomäus Anton Migazzi † (23 May 1757 * Confirmed - 14 Apr 1803 Died) * Sigismund Anton von Hohenwart, S.J. † (20 Jun 1803 Confirmed - 29 Jun 1820 Died) * Leopold Maximilian Graf von Firmian (Frimian) † (25 January 1822 Appointed – 29 November 1831 Died) *

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 ...

† (20 March 1853 Appointed – 24 November 1875 Died) * Cardinal Johann Baptist Rudolph Kutschker † (12 January 1876 Appointed – 27 January 1881 Died) * Cardinal Cölestin Joseph Ganglbauer,

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† (23 March 1881 Appointed – 14 December 1889 Died) * Cardinal Anton Josef Gruscha † (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 w ...

† (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 ...

, O.P. (14 September 1995 Succeeded – present)

History

In 1642, St. Roch's Church was built in Vienna by Ferdinand III in thanks for the preservation of Vienna from

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Notable people

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

References

External links

GCatholic.org

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