The Archbishop of Vienna is the

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of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna The Archdiocese of Vienna () is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Austria. It was erected as the Diocese of Vienna on 18 January 1469 out of the Diocese of Passau, and elevated to an archdiocese on 1 June 1722. The episcopa ...

who is concurrently the

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of its

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which includes the

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s of

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and St. Pölten. From 1469 to 1513, bishops from elsewhere were appointed as administrators. The first bishop residing in Vienna was

Georg von Slatkonia George Slatkonia (, also ''Jurij Chrysippus'', Slovenian: ''Jurij Slatkonja'', 21 March 1456 – 26 April 1522) was a Carniolan choirmaster and the first residential Bishop of Vienna. He was also the first owner of an ex libris among the S ...

. From 1861 to 1918, the archbishops, as members of the Herrenhaus, were represented in the Reichsrat of

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and bore the title of a

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Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...

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