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The Austrian church is the largest Christian Confession of Austria, with 4.64 million members (50.6 % of the total Austrian population) in 2023. [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).
Composer Franz Schubert was baptised in the church on 1 February 1797. [4] It was here he received his first musical training. [4] In 1814, at age 17, he was commissioned to compose a missa solemnis for the centenary of the church, his first mass in F major. He conducted its first performance on 25 September 1814. [2]
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 S. Stephen in Vienna.
The Catholic Church's governing body in Austria is the Austrian Conference of Catholic Bishops, made up of the hierarchy of the two archbishops (Vienna, 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.
Roman Catholic churches in Austria (19 C, 5 P) E. Roman Catholic ecclesiastical provinces in Austria (2 C, 1 P) M. Roman Catholic missionaries in Austria (1 P) R.
A survey of Orthodox churches around the country found that parishes saw a 78% increase in converts in 2022, compared with pre-pandemic levels in 2019. And while historically men and women ...
The Kirche Zur Heiligsten Dreifaltigkeit (English: Church of the Most Holy Trinity), better known as the Wotrubakirche or Wotruba Church, is a Catholic church located in Liesing, Vienna. It was built between August 1974 and October 1976, based on a design by Austrian sculptor Fritz Wotruba .
Söllandler Bauerndom, or Church of Saints Peter and Paul, Söll, Tyrol: parish church; Dom am Pyhrn, Stift Spital am Pyhrn, Pfarrkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt, or Church of the Assumption, on the Pyhrn Pass, Spital am Pyhrn, Upper Austria: parish church, originally the church of a hospital, later a collegiate foundation, now a museum and concert venue