The Archdiocese of Vienna 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 S. 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 current bishop is Christoph Schoenborn, appointed in 1995 and elevated to cardinal in 1998.

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. 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.

Episcopal Ordinaries

Suffragan Bishops of Vienna

Metropolitan Archbishops of Vienna

Notable people

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