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Metropolitan see Salzburg, Austria

Archdiocese of Salzburg

Salisburgen(sis)

Latin-rite metropolitan archdiocese covering the Land Salzburg and the Tyrolean Unterland, raised to a metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Leo III at Charlemagne's request on 20 April 798. Its seat is Salzburg Cathedral (Dom St. Rupert und St. Virgil). Archbishop Franz Lackner, O.F.M. was confirmed 18 November 2013 and installed 12 January 2014; the province includes Feldkirch, Graz-Seckau, Gurk and Innsbruck.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Salzburg Cathedral, in Salzburg, Austria.

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Established
798
Catholics
460,106
Priests
196
Territory
9,715 km²

Parishes and churches

222 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Archbishop
Franz Lackner, O.F.M.
Born
14 July 1956
Birthplace
Feldbach
Institute
ORDINE FRANCESCANO FRATI MINORI (O.F.M.)

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The cathedral

Salzburg Cathedral stands in Salzburg, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Based in Salzburg, Austria, the Archdiocese of Salzburg (Latin: Archidioecesis Salisburgensis) leads the ecclesiastical province of Salzburg and is one of the country's two archdioceses, the other being Vienna. Through the late medieval and early modern periods its archbishops bore the title of prince-archbishops of the Holy Roman Empire, ruling the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg, a distinct polity that endured until 1803. In that year the territory was secularized and became the Electorate of Salzburg, bringing the archbishops' temporal authority to an end.