Changes in Ecclesiastical Jurisdictionsin Austria |
Date | Change |
250 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lauriacum was established |
250 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tiburnia was established |
300 | Diocese of Virunum was established |
400 | Diocese of Juvavo was established |
482 | Diocese of Juvavo was suppressed |
500 | Diocese of Aguntum was established |
500 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lauriacum was suppressed |
590 | Diocese of Virunum was suppressed |
600 | Diocese of Aguntum was suppressed |
600 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tiburnia was suppressed |
696 | Abbacy nullius of Stift Sankt Peter Salzburg was restored (from former Diocese of Virunum) |
739 | Abbacy nullius of Stift Sankt Peter Salzburg was promoted as Diocese of Salzburg (lost territory to establish Diocese of Freising) |
798.04.20 | Diocese of Salzburg was promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg (with suffragan sees Brixen, Freising, Neuburg, Passau and Regensburg) |
1071.03.06 | Diocese of Gurk was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg and became suffragan of Salzburg) |
1131 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg lost territory to Diocese of Gurk |
1218.06.22 | Diocese of Seckau was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg and became suffragan of Salzburg) |
1227 | Territorial Abbacy of Wettingen-Mehrerau was established |
1228.05.10 | Diocese of Lavant was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg and became suffragan of Salzburg) |
1469.01.18 | Diocese of Wien was established (from Diocese of Passau and became suffragan of Salzburg) |
1469.01.18 | Diocese of Wiener Neustadt was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg and became suffragan of Salzburg) |
1722.06.01 | Diocese of Wien was promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Wien |
1778 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg lost territory to Diocese of Brixen |
1785.01.28 | Diocese of Linz was established (from Diocese of Passau and became suffragan of Wien) |
1785.01.28 | Diocese of Sankt Pölten was established (from Diocese of Passau, from the suppressed Diocese of Wiener Neustadt and became suffragan of Wien) |
1785.01.28 | Diocese of Wiener Neustadt was suppressed (to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Wien and to establish Diocese of Sankt Pölten) |
1786.04.29 | Diocese of Leoben was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg and Diocese of Passau and became suffragan of Salzburg) |
1787 | Diocese of Lavant lost territory to Diocese of Gurk |
1787 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg lost territory to Diocese of Gurk and Diocese of Seckau |
1803 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg lost territory to Diocese of Brixen |
1807 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg exchanged territory with Diocese of Passau |
1813 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg lost territory to Diocese of Passau |
1822 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salzburg lost territory to Diocese of Passau |
1857.05.20 | Diocese of Lavant lost territory to Diocese of Gurk |
1857.11.26 | Diocese of Leoben was suppressed (to Diocese of Seckau) |
1922.05.18 | Apostolic Administration of Burgenland was established (from Diocese of Győr and Diocese of Szombathely) |
1925.12.11 | Apostolic Administration of Innsbruck–Feldkirch was established (from Diocese of Brixen) |
1933.02.20 | Diocese of Gurk lost territory to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Udine |
1937 | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Wien lost territory to Diocese of Brno |
1945.10.03 | Ordinariate of Ordinariat d’Autriche de rite oriental (Eastern Rite) was established |
1959.02.21 | Military Vicariate of Austria was established |
1960.08.15 | Apostolic Administration of Burgenland was promoted as Diocese of Eisenstadt (became suffragan of Wien) |
1962.03.05 | Diocese of Lavant was suppressed (to establish Diocese of Maribor and united to Diocese of Maribor) |
1963.04.22 | Diocese of Seckau was renamed as Diocese of Graz–Seckau |
1964.08.06 | Apostolic Administration of Innsbruck–Feldkirch was promoted as Diocese of Innsbruck–Feldkirch (became suffragan of Salzburg) |
1968 | Titular Episcopal See of Aguntum was restored |
1968 | Titular Metropolitan See of Lauriacum was restored |
1968 | Titular Metropolitan See of Tiburnia was restored |
1968 | Titular Episcopal See of Virunum was restored |
1968.12.08 | Diocese of Feldkirch was established (from Diocese of Innsbruck–Feldkirch and became suffragan of Salzburg) |
1968.12.08 | Diocese of Innsbruck–Feldkirch was renamed as Diocese of Innsbruck (lost territory to establish Diocese of Feldkirch) |
1986.07.21 | Military Vicariate of Austria was promoted as Military Ordinariate of Katholische Militärseelsorge Österreich |
1989 | Titular Episcopal See of Wiener Neustadt was restored |
2014.11.14 | Diocese of Sankt Pölten lost territory to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Wien |
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