Old Catholic Church of Austria

Diocesan area

The Old Catholic Church of Austria is an independent member church of the Union of Utrecht in the area of the Republic of Austria. She is a self- Approved Church, and a member of the World Council of Churches ( WCC ), the Conference of European Churches ( CEC) and the World Council of Churches in Austria ( ÖRKÖ ).

History

The Old Catholic Church originated in the Danube monarchy during the protests against the First Vatican Council. On July 30, 1870 sparked Emperor Franz Josef in 1855 closed the Concordat with the Vatican on one side with the ground that the Party is an other - has become - namely an infallible. Ignaz von Dollinger also received from Austria - Hungary countless favorable letters from individuals, but also of political associations and Town Councils, adopted the so-called " Döllingeradressen ". Most of them were liberals who concurred with the protest Dollinger. The Austrian priest Alois Anton, who was active in the Viennese suburb constitutionalists newspaper, writing articles, representing not only Dollinger's point of view but also pushed for reforms within the Roman Catholic Church.

At the same time encouraged Anton on the establishment of a " romfreien religious community " in Vienna. Interested in the 20,000 people in this city for this new movement within the Roman Catholic Church, which was becoming stronger. The archbishops of Vienna and Prague in favor despite her protest at the Council this new movement in their church not. So it was the City Council of the City of Vienna, who presented the Old Catholics, the chapel of the Old Town Hall available for use.

In addition, developed in Ried in Upper Austria and in warning village in northern Bohemia other major municipalities. Especially in the rich industrial city warning village, with today's Co-Cathedral Transfiguration of Christ, the Old Catholic congregation flourished very rapidly, and there was the first bishop 's seat. In Ried, the community gathered around the pastor, Dr. Josef Brader and got by the municipality left the 300 year old Holy Ghost Church of Use.

After protracted conflicts and many concessions to the Old Catholic side, the state recognition of the Old Catholic Church of Austria in 1877 reached. Their history in the Third Reich has been researched intensively in recent years.

Since 1997, the ordination of women is a decision of the Synod of the Old Catholic Church Austria possible, and so there is in the parish of Vienna West today (as of 2011 ) a pastor.

Presence

Parishes

The focus of the Old Catholic Church of Austria lies with four communities in Vienna. In addition, there are over Austria still distributed some parishes:

  • Old Catholic Church of St. Salvator (Vienna Interior ): [W 1] on the diocese church St. Salvator; the pastoral area includes: Viennese districts 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th (middle and center- north )
  • Lower Austria: Districts Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt country, swimming, Mödling, Neunkirchen ( industrial area without the east), with special care: Diaspora community swimming with the St. Anne's Chapel [W 2]
  • Diaspora of Mödling [W 3 ] on the St. Joseph Orphanage Church ( interdenominational church with the Protestant community)
  • Viennese districts: 2, 20, 21, 22 ( Danube Island Vienna -east)
  • Lower Austria: Districts Gaenserndorf, mistletoe Bach, Klosterneuburg, Korneuburg and Hollabrunn as Diaspora ( March Field, Wine Quarter)
  • Viennese districts: 3, 11 (center - south )
  • Lower Austria: Schwechat, district of Bruck / Leitha
  • Styria
  • Districts Jenner village, Güssing, Oberwart ( Burgenland )
  • Carinthia
  • And East Tyrol
  • All districts in the province of Salzburg
  • And Vorarlberg
  • North Tyrol (formerly pastoral area of ​​the municipality of Salzburg)
  • Old Catholic Community of Bolzano, St. Magdalena: [W 14] in Bolzano, South Tyrol, a small community since 1998, which has in 2002 joined the Austrian diocese, having previously part of the Chiesa Cattolica Italiana Vetero; Worship at the Evangelical Church of Christ

See also: → List of Old Catholic Church Building: Old Catholic Church of Austria, an overview

Bishops of Austria

At the top of the diocese is currently Bishop John Okoro, based in Vienna. He is in personal union also pastor of the parish of Vienna Interior (St. Salvator ).

See also: → List of Old Catholic bishops Austrian

Full communion Habsburg Monarchy Varnsdorf Industrieviertel Baden bei Wien Bruck an der Leitha District Grieskirchen District Personalunion Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands Catholic Diocese of the Old Catholics in Germany
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