Diocese_of_Vienna

Archbishop of Vienna

Archbishop of Vienna

Austrian Roman Catholic prelate

The Archbishop of Vienna is the prelate of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna who is concurrently the metropolitan bishop of its ecclesiastical province which includes the dioceses of Eisenstadt, Linz and St. Pölten.

"Diocese of Vienna" redirects here. For the diocese of the Roman Empire, see Diocese of Viennensis.

From 1469 to 1513, bishops from elsewhere were appointed as administrators. The first bishop residing in Vienna was Georg von Slatkonia.[1] From 1861 to 1918, the archbishops, as members of the Herrenhaus, were represented in the Reichsrat of Cisleithania and bore the title of a Prince-Archbishop.[2][3]

Joseph Othmar Cardinal Ritter von Rauscher, Archbishop of Vienna 1853-1875 (Prince-Archbishop of Vienna from 1861).
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    Gruden, Josip (1910). Zgodovina slovenskega naroda, vol. 1. Klagenfurt: Družba sv. Mohorja. p. 313. Priimek 'Sladkonja' bi namreč pomenilo zelo sladkosnedega človeka.
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    "Archbishopric of Vienna".Retrieved 2023-02-23.
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    "Archdiocese of Wien {Vienna}".Retrieved 2023-02-23.
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