Roman Catholicism in Austria
- Roman Catholicism in Austria
The Catholic Church of Austria, part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, is under the leadership of the Pope, the curia in Rome, and the Conference of Austrian Bishops. The Austrian church is the largest Christian denomination of Austria, with, according to the 2001 census, 5.6 million people (approximately 73.6%). In 2001, the number of Sunday churchgoers was around 11.5 percent (as percentage of the total Austrian population that is 914,348 churchgoers out of a total population of 8,043,000). Since 2001, the number of Roman Catholics (and number of churchgoers) has fallen, primarily due to secularization and immigration. The latest figures (as per the end of 2005) available from the Austrian church itself, list 5.663 million members or 68.5 percent of the total Austrian population and a weekly church attendance of 753,701 or 9 percent of the total Austrian population. Meanwhile the Austrian Muslim population has increased to 4.2% of the population and could well surpass the Austrian Protestant population (less than 5%) in a matter of a few years, thus making Islam second (in religion) to Austrian Catholicism. [c.i.a.gov/library/publication/the-world-factbook, 2008]
The Church's governing body in Austria is the Austrian Conference of Catholic Bishops, made up of the hierarchy of the two archbishops (Wien, 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 Cardinal Christoph Schönborn. Schonborn belongs to the Central European noble family of Schonborn.
Although Austria has no primate the archbishop of Salzburg is titled "Primus Germaniae" (Primate of Germany).
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*Archdiocese of Vienna with the following suffragans:
**Diocese of Eisenstadt
**Diocese of Linz
**Diocese of St. Pölten
*Archdiocese of Salzburg with 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
References
External links
* [http://www.katholisch.at/site/article_blank.siteswift?so=all&do=all&c=download&d=article%3A107%3A5 Roman Catholic statistics for the year 2005]
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