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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 Austrian Bishops' Conference (German: Österreichische Bischofskonferenz) is the official assembly of the Roman Catholic bishops of Austria. It is the supreme authority of the Roman Catholic Church in Austria, established as a formal body under public law in 1849.
This made Groër, who adamantly refused until his death to comment in public on the allegations, one of the highest-ranking Catholic clergymen to be involved in the sexual abuse scandals. [ 1 ] Upon request of the Holy See , Groër spent several months in Dresden and later retired to St. Joseph's Priory . [ 2 ]
Am Schöpfwerk Church; Augustinian Church, Vienna; Capuchin Church, Vienna; St. Leopold's Church, Donaufeld; Church of Mariahilf; Church of St. Nikolaus, Lockenhaus
St. Stephen's Cathedral (German: Stephansdom [ˈʃ͡tɛfansˌdoːm]) is a Roman Catholic church in Vienna, Austria, and the mother church of the Archdiocese of Vienna. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Schönborn.
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.
The Capuchin Church (German: Kapuzinerkirche) in Vienna, Austria, is a Roman Catholic church and monastery run by the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.Located on the Neuer Markt square in the Innere Stadt near the Hofburg Palace, the Capuchin Church is most famous for containing the Imperial Crypt, the final resting place for members of the House of Habsburg.