Catholic Church in Austria
Apostolic Nuncio | Pedro López Quintana | |
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| Region | Austria | |
| Language | German, Latin | |
| Headquarters | Vienna, Austria | |
| Members | 4,733,174 (52.0 %) (2022) | |
| Official website | Episcopal Conference of Austria | |
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The Catholic Church in Austria is part of the worldwide
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn. The Austrian church is the largest Christian Confession of Austria, with 4.73 million members (52.0 % of the total Austrian population) in 2022.[1]
For more than 50 years, however, the proportion of Catholics has decreased, primarily due to secularization and migration (from 89% in 1961 to 52% in 2022). The number of Sunday churchgoers in 2021 was around 3.1 percent (as percentage of the total Austrian population that is 281,131 churchgoers out of a total population of 8,978,929).
Although Austria has no
Primate of Germany
).
Organisation
| Main Churches in Austria [2][1][3] | |||||||
| year | population | Catholics | % | Protestants | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 6,933,905 | 6,170,084 | 89.0% | 429,493 | 6.2% | ||
| 1961 | 7,073,807 | 6,295,075 | 89.0% | 438,663 | 6.2% | ||
| 1971 | 7,491,526 | 6,548,316 | 87.4% | 447,070 | 6,0% | ||
| 1981 | 7,555,338 | 6,372,645 | 84.3% | 423,162 | 5,6% | ||
| 1991 | 7,795,786 | 6,081,454 | 78.0% | 388,709 | 5.0% | ||
| 2001 | 8,032,926 | 5,915,421 | 73.6% | 376,150 | 4.7% | ||
| 2011 | 8,408,121 | 5,403,722 | 64.3% | 319,752 | 3.8% | ||
| 2021 | 8,979,894 | 4,827,683 | 53.8% | 270,585 | 3.0% | ||
| 2022 | 9.106.126 | 4,733,174 | 52.0% | 263.627 | 2.9% | ||
Ecclesiastical structure
- Archdiocese of Vienna with the following suffragan dioceses:
- Diocese of Eisenstadt
- Diocese of Linz
- Diocese of St. Pölten
- Archdiocese of Salzburgwith the following suffragans
- Diocese of Graz-Seckau
- Diocese of Gurk
- Diocese of Feldkirch
- Diocese of Innsbruck
- Territorial Abbey of Wettingen-Mehrerau (immediately subject to the Holy See)
- Military Ordinariate of Austria (immediately subject to the Holy See)
List of Catholic organisations in Austria
Statistics
71% of Austrian Catholics support same-sex marriage and 26% oppose it.[4]
Criticism
Call to Disobedience organization
The organization Call to Disobedience (Aufruf zum Ungehorsam in
Holy Communion to remarried divorcees and non-Catholics which disagrees with teachings of the Catholic Magisterium. The group also believes the way the Church is governed needs reform.[5]
Notable people
- Mozart
- Emerich Coreth
- Leopold III, Margrave of Austria
- Heinrich Maier, important resistance fighter against Nazi terror
- Gregor Mendel
- Zacharias Traber
- Franz Wasner
See also
- Apostolic Nuncio to Austria
- Old Catholic Church of Austria
- Eastern Orthodoxy in Austria
- Religion in Austria
- Freedom of religion in Austria
- Catholic Church by country
References
- ^ a b Catholic Church, Statistical Data 2003 - 2021 in German, retrieved 11 January 2023
- ^ Austrian Population, retrieved 14 February 2023
- ^ Lutheran Church, Statistical Data 2022 in German, retrieved 14 February 2023
- ^ How Catholics around the world see same-sex marriage, homosexuality Pew Research Center
- ^ The Catholic Tipping Point
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