Archdiocese of Wien
Viennen(sis) seu Vindobonen(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Wien, Austria
Latin-rite metropolitan archdiocese of the Austrian capital, a diocese since 1469, whose province includes Eisenstadt, Linz and Sankt Poelten. Its seat is St. Stephen's Cathedral (Stephansdom) in Vienna. Josef Gruenwidl, appointed by Pope Leo XIV on 17 October 2025 and ordained and installed on 24 January 2026, is the 33rd Archbishop of Vienna, succeeding Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 18 January 1469
- Latin
- Viennen(sis) seu Vindobonen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Stephen
- Annuario code
- 001000154
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,156,923
- Population
- 2,892,484
- Catholic share
- 40.0%
- Extent
- 9,100 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 127
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Archbishop
- Josef Gruenwidl
- Born
- 22 January 1945
- Birthplace
- Skalsko
- Institute
- FRATI PREDICATORI (DOMENICANI) (O.P.)
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
St. Stephen's Cathedral (Stephansdom), Vienna stands in Wien, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Vienna
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of EisenstadtEisenstadt
- Diocese of LinzLinz
- Diocese of Sankt PöltenSankt Pölten
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Founded as the Diocese of Vienna on 18 January 1469 out of the Diocese of Passau, and raised to an archdiocese on 1 June 1722, Vienna (Latin: Archidioecesis Viennensis) is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Austria. Its episcopal seat is the cathedral of St. Stephen in Vienna, and as metropolitan it presides over three suffragan sees: the dioceses of Eisenstadt, Linz, and Sankt Pölten.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].