Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna

Archdiocese of Vienna Archidioecesis Viennensis Archidioecesis Vindobonensis Erzdiözese Wien
Location
Country	Austria
Territory	Vienna, Lower Austria
Ecclesiastical province	Archdiocese of Vienna
Metropolitan	Vienna
Statistics
Area	9,100 km2 (3,500 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2020) 2,892,484 1,156,923 ( 40%)
Parishes	626
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	18 January 1469
Cathedral	St. Stephen's Cathedral
Patron saint	Saint Stephen
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Vacant Josef Grünwidl (apostolic administrator)
Auxiliary Bishops	Franz Scharl Stefan Turnovsky
Vicar General	Nikolaus Krasa
Bishops emeritus	Christoph Schönborn
Map
Website
Website of the Archdiocese

St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna

The Archdiocese of Vienna (Latin : Archidioecesis Viennensis) is a Latin Church 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 archdiocese on 1 June 1722. The episcopal see is situated in the cathedral of St. Stephen in Vienna.

The Archdiocese is the metropolitan diocese of three suffragan dioceses: Roman Catholic Diocese of Eisenstadt, of Linz, and of Sankt Pölten. These four dioceses together constitute the ecclesiastical province of Vienna, one of only two ecclesiastical provinces of Austria, the other under the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salzburg.

The archepiscopal see is vacant as of 22 January 2025 after the retirement of Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn.

History

At the request of the Emperor Frederick III, the Diocese of Vienna was established by Pope Paul II on 18 January 1469, out of territory taken from the Diocese of Passau. ^[1] It was elevated to an archdiocese on 1 June 1722.

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

Cardinal Joseph Othmar von Rauscher (1853–1875) presided over a provincial synod in the cathedral of S. Stephen in Vienna in October 1858. ^[2]

Episcopal Ordinaries

Suffragan Bishops of Vienna

• Leo von Spaur † (23 Dec 1471 Confirmed – 6 Mar 1479 Died)
• Georg von Slatkonia † (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 of Mohelnice, O. Cruc. † (17 Jul 1560 Appointed – 5 Sep 1561 Appointed, Archbishop of Prague)
• Johann Kaspar Neuböck † (4 Feb 1575 Appointed – 28 Aug 1594 Died)
• Melchior Klesl † (15 Jul 1613 Appointed – 18 Sep 1630 Died)
• 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, O.F.M. Cap. † (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 † (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 † (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 † (27 October 1831 Appointed – 14 March 1853 Died)
• Cardinal Joseph Othmar von Rauscher † (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, O.S.B. † (23 March 1881 Appointed – 14 December 1889 Died)
• Cardinal Anton Josef Gruscha † (24 January 1890 Appointed – 15 August 1911 Died)
• Cardinal Franz Xavier Nagl † (5 August 1911 Succeeded – 4 February 1913 Died)
• Cardinal Friedrich Gustav Piffl † (1 April 1913 Appointed – 21 April 1932 Died)
• Cardinal Theodor Innitzer † (19 September 1932 Appointed – 9 October 1955 Died)
• Cardinal Franz König † (10 May 1956 Appointed – 16 September 1985 Retired)
• Cardinal Hans Hermann Groër, O.S.B. † (15 July 1986 Appointed – 14 September 1995 Retired)
• Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, O.P. (14 September 1995 Succeeded – 22 January 2025 Retired)

Notable people

• Heinrich Maier, important resistance fighter against Nazi terror

See also

• Archbishop of Vienna
• Seminary of Vienna

References

1. Cesare Baronio (ed. Augustin Theiner), Annales Ecclesiastici,(in Latin), Vol. 29 (Bar-le-Duc: Bertrand 1876), p. 468.
2. Acta et decreta Concilii Provinciae Viennensis anno domini MDCCCLVIII: pontificatus Pii papae IX. decimo tertio celebrati, (in Latin) Vienna: ex officina Caes. Reg. typographica aulae et status, 1859.

Sources

• Zschokke, Hermann (1895). Geschichte des Metropolitan-Capitels zum heiligen Stephan in Wien. (in German and Latin). Vienna: C. Konegen, 1895.

External links

• GCatholic.org
• Catholic Hierarchy ^{[self-published]}

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