The Roman Catholic Diocese of Innsbruck ( la, Dioecesis Oenipontanus) is a

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suffragan diocese in the

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of the Metropolitan of

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(in western

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), covering the Bundesland (state)

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. Its

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episcopal see is the

Innsbruck Cathedral Innsbruck Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of St. James (german: Dom zu St. Jakob), is an eighteenth-century Baroque cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Innsbruck in the city of Innsbruck, Austria, dedicated to the apostle Saint Jam ...

, dedicated to Saint James, in the city of Innsbruck.
It also has four

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s : Herz-Jesu-Basilika, dedicated to the

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, in Hall in Tirol; St. Michael, in

Absam Absam is a municipality in the Innsbruck-Land District, Tyrol (Austria) situated at an altitude of 632 m, which had an area of 51.92 km2 and 6,776 inhabitants as January 2015. Geography Absam is 15 km from Innsbruck, in the lower ...

; Unsere Liebe Frau von der Unbefleckten Empfängnis, Immaculate Conception, in

Wilten Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label= Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol and the fifth-largest city in Austria. On the River Inn, at its junction with the Wipp Valley, which provides access to the Brenner Pass to the south, it had a ...

and Zisterzienserkirche, Cistercian monastery in

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History

* Established on 11 December 1925 as

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of Innsbruck – Feldkirch, on territory split off from

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* 6 August 1964: Promoted as Diocese of Innsbruck – Feldkirch * 8 December 1968: Renamed as Diocese of Innsbruck / Œnipontan(us) (Latin), having lost territory to establish Diocese of Feldkirch * It enjoyed a

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from

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in June 1988.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 395,490 Catholics (72.8% of 543,173 total) on 9,845 km² in 243 parishes and 49 missions with 344 priests (193 diocesan, 151 religious), 64 deacons, 803 lay religious (246 brothers, 557 sisters) and 6 seminarians.

Episcopal Ordinaries

(al Roman rite) ;''Apostolic Administrators of Innsbruck – Feldkirch * Sigismund Waitz (born Italy) (1921–1938),

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(1913.05.09 – 1934.12.17), previously Auxiliary Bishop of

(Italy) (1913.05.09 – 1934.12.17); later Metropolitan Archbishop of

(Austria) ( 934.12.101934.12.17 – death 1941.10.30) ** Auxiliary Bishop: Franz Tschann (born Italy) (1936.08.08 – retired 1955.10.01), Titular Bishop of Panium (1936.08.08 – death 1956.10.10) * Paulus Rusch (1938.10.15 – 1964.08.06 ''see below'') (born Germany), Titular Bishop of Lycopolis (1938.10.15 – 1947.12.09); next Titular Bishop of Meloë in Isauria (1947.12.09 – 1964.09.26) ** Auxiliary Bishop: Bruno Wechner (1954.12.31 – 1968.12.09), Titular Bishop of Cartennæ (1954.12.31 – 1968.12.09); later first Bishop of daughter see

Feldkirch Feldkirch may refer to: Places * Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, a medieval city and capital of an administrative district in Austria ** Feldkirch (district), an administrative division of Vorarlberg, Austria * Feldkirch (Hartheim), a village in the munici ...

(Austria) (1968.12.09 – retired 1989.01.21), died 1999 ;''Suffragan Bishops of Innsbruck'' * Paulus Rusch (''see above'' 1964.08.06 – death 1980.08.13) *

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(1980.12.15 – retired 1997.10.10), died 2013 *

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(S.D.B.) (1997.10.10 – 2002.11.27), next Metropolitan Archbishop of

(Austria) (2002.11.27 – retired 2013.11.04) * Manfred Scheuer (2003.10.21 – 2015.11.18), next Bishop of

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(Austria) (2015.11.18 – ...) * Hermann Glettler (appointed 2017.09.27)

Sources and external links

GCatholic.org - data for all sections

Diocese website

References

Roman Catholic dioceses in Austria Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Salzburg Organisations based in Innsbruck

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History

Statistics

Episcopal Ordinaries

See also

Sources and external links

References