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Metropolitan see Wien, Austria

Archdiocese of Wien

Viennen(sis) seu Vindobonen(sis)

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.

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Esri
The address the register holds for St. Stephen's Cathedral (Stephansdom), Vienna, in Wien, Austria.

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Established
1469
Catholics
1,156,923
Priests
1,047
Territory
9,100 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Archbishop
Josef Gruenwidl
Born
22 January 1945
Birthplace
Skalsko
Institute
FRATI PREDICATORI (DOMENICANI) (O.P.)

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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.

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.