Catholic Church in Austria

The Catholic Church in Austria is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the leadership of the Pope and the Curia.

The Catholic Church counts in Austria two Church provinces:

In addition there are two immediata. These are under the authority of the Holy See:
 * 1) Ecclesiastical Province Of The Archbishop Of Salzburg. Includes: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salzburg, Diocese of Feldkirch, Diocese Graz-Seckau,Diocese Gurk, Diocese of Innsbruck.
 * 2) Ecclesiastical Province Of The Archbishop Of Vienna. Includes: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna, Linz Diocese Diocese Eisenstadt, Diocese of Sankt Pölten ,.

The current President of the Austrian Bishops ' Conference Cardinal Christoph Schönborn onis, a Scion of the noble Schönborn.
 * 1) Wettingen-Mehrerau Abbey
 * 2) Military ordinariate

The majority of the Austrian population are Catholic although the number of Catholics is declining annually. According to the Austrian Catholic Church in 2009 was 66% of Austrians member of this church, 1 percent less than a year earlier.



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == The presence of Christianity can be shown all of the year 174 and the history of Austria is strongly intertwined with that of Christianity.
 * 2 current situation Austrian Church
 * 3 pilgrimage sites and pilgrimages
 * 4 Some Austrian blessed and saints
 * 5 Apostolic Nuncio since 1700
 * 6 external links

Austria has in the Reformation, which belonged to the Habsburg empire, had no impact and therefore the Catholic history is well preserved.

In 1933 was the relationship between the Catholic Church and the State settled in a Concordat. [1]  This Concordat was inactivated after the unification with Germany but again recognized in principle in 1957 and then revised and supplemented on several points.

From 7 to 10 september 2007 Pope Benedict XVI brought a three-day pastoral visit to Austria on the occasion of the 850-year anniversary of the Marian pilgrimage site of Mariazell, Southeast of Vienna. In doing so, he brought a visit to the Memorial to the Viennese victims of the Holocaust. [2]  his visit in Vienna at the Memorial has deep impression at the Austrian Jewish community. A year and a half after his visit to Mariazell, the Pope appointed an honorary citizen of this municipality.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="181" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3] ==Current situation Austrian Church<span class="mw-editsection" len="370" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">According to the census of 2001 was 73.6% of Austrians in that year registered as such. As in other European countries the number of Christians. According to the Austrian Catholic Church there were 5.53 million Catholics in 2009 while there 8 years earlier in 2001 were still nearly four hundred thousand more, a decrease with fifty thousand per year.Also in 2009, the number of Catholics by around fifty thousand off. The number of Catholics take the last couple of years faster af by the wave of "kirchenaustritte",<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" len="181" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]  expected to eighty thousand<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" len="183" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]  has declined even further in 2010. The Sunday going to church in Austria each year and in 2008 dropped to 698.527 drops participants (8% of the total population).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-stat_11-0" len="188" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [11]  the number of Catholics In the Diocese of Vienna in 2008 dropped to 51% of the population (1, 2, on a total population of 563.580 315.545).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-stat_11-1" len="188" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [11]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" len="183" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12] ==Pilgrimage sites and pilgrimages<span class="mw-editsection" len="371" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In Austria, there is an extensive network of pilgrimages to the pilgrimage site of Mariazell in the Steiermark. One of the most famous routes to Mariazell is the Via Sacra, which starts in the Vienna Woods in Niederösterreich.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Austrian part of the Sint-way of St. James was described by Peter Lindenthal.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" len="183" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [13]  this is Actually 3 different roads, including a pretty part of the pilgrimage route by TirolKufstein to Innsbruck, of. Another traditional way is the Hemmaweg in Carinthia.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" len="183" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [14] ==Some Austrian blessed and saints<span class="mw-editsection" len="375" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Hemma of Gurk (ca. 980-1045)==Apostolic Nuncio since 1700<span class="mw-editsection" len="366" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Nunciature in Vienna*Gianantonio Davia (26 apr 1700-1705)
 * Florianus of Lorch (-ca. 304)
 * Remedius († around 400)
 * Hemma of Gurk (ca. 980-1045)
 * Hilda of Salzburg († 1284), Abbess of the Benedictine monastery on the Nonnberg in Salzburg
 * Clement Hofbauer C.Ss.R. (1751-1820), the Apostle of Vienna
 * Giulio Piazza (15 dec 1709-21 jul 1710)
 * Giorgio Spínola (26 May 1713-20 jan 1721)
 * Domenico Silvio Passionei (23 dec 1730-1738)
 * Camillo Paolucci (20 may 1738-20 Oct 1745)
 * Antonio Eugenio Visconti (22 nov 1766-1773)
 * Giuseppe Garampi (16th Mar 1776-20 May 1776)
 * Giovanni Battista Caprara Montecuccoli (14 feb 1785-11 aug 1800)
 * Luigi Ruffo-Scilla (23 aug 1793-9 aug 1802)
 * Antonio Gabriele Severoli (Oct 1801-8 Mar 1816)
 * Paolo Leardi (23 sep 1816-31 dec 1823 died)
 * Ugo Pietro Spinola (14 nov 1826-1832)
 * Pietro Ostini (2 sep 1832-11 jul 1836)
 * Lodovico Altieri (18 jul 1836-1845)
 * Michele Viale-Prelà (7 may 1845-28 sep 1855)
 * Antonio Saverio De Luca (9 sep 1856-28 dec 1864)
 * Mariano Falcinelli Antoniacci, o.s.b. (14 aug 1863-1873)
 * Luigi Jacobini (27th Mar 1874-16 dec 1880)
 * Serafino Pontifical Seminary, He (3 dec 1880-13 feb 1888)
 * Luigi Galimberti (27 apr 1887-25 jun 1894)
 * Antonio Agliardi (12 jun 1893-1896)
 * Emidio Taliani (24 jul 1896-1903)
 * Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte (4 jan 1904-6 jan 1911)
 * Alessandro Bavona (1911-19 jan 1912)
 * Raffaele Scapinelli di Leguigno (27 jan 1912-1916)
 * Teodoro di Bonzo (13 sep 1916-6 Mar 1920)
 * Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani (4 dec 1920-15 dec 1922)
 * Enrico Sibilia (16 dec 1922-1935)
 * Gaetano Cicognani (13 jun 1935-16 May 1938)
 * The diplomatic ties were suspended by the Anschluss to 1946.


 * Maurilio Silvani (4 nov 1946-22 January 1947)
 * Giovanni Battista Dellepiane (12 jan 1949-13 aug 1961)
 * Opilio Rossi (25 sep 1961-10 dec 1976)
 * Mario Cagna (11 May 1976-4 dec 1984)
 * Michele Cecchini (4 dec 1984-26 apr 1989)
 * Donato Squicciarini (1 jul 1989-8 Oct 2002)
 * Giorgio Zur (8 Oct 2002-26 jul 2005)
 * Edmond Farhat (26 jul 2005-14 jan 2009)
 * Peter Stephan Zurbriggen (14 jan 2009)