Catholic Church in Austria

The Catholic Church in Austria is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in full communion with the Pope in Rome. The Church's governing body in Austria is the Austrian Conference of Catholic Bishops, made up of the hierarchy of the two archbishops (Vienna and Salzburg), the bishops and the abbot of territorial abbey of Wettingen-Mehrerau. Nevertheless, each bishop is independent in his own diocese, answerable only to the Pope. The current president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops is CardinalChristoph Schönborn. The Austrian church is the largest Christian Confession of Austria, with 4.56 million members (49.6 % of the total Austrian population) in 2024. For more than 50 years, however, the proportion of Catholics in the country has decreased.

Although Austria has no primate, the archbishop of Salzburg is titled Primus Germaniae (Primate of Germany).

The Holy See is represented in Austria by the Apostolic Nunciature to Austria.