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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).
The Catholic Church in Austria is currently composed of : two ecclesiastical provinces and 7 suffragan dioceses of the western Latin Church; an exempt military ordinate and a territorial abbey, both also Latin Rite. an ordinariate for Eastern Catholic faithful, Byzantine Rite
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Saint Mark Ukrainian Catholic Church in Salzburg Saint Roch Chapel in Vienna, Romanian United Catholic church. The Ordinariate for Byzantine-Rite Catholics in Austria (or Ordinariate of Austria of the Eastern Rite) is a Catholic Ordinariate for Eastern Catholic faithful jointly for all Eastern Catholics of Byzantine Rite in the various languages of particular churches sui iuris in Austria.
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
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.
In 1997, the church began ordaining women. [3] In 2007, the church elected as its head Bishop John Okoro, a Nigerian former Roman Catholic priest, who became a member of the Old Catholic Church of Austria in 1999. [4] Prior to his election he had been the parish priest in Vorarlberg.
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