Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salzburg

Archdiocese of Salzburg Archidioecesis Salisburgensis Erzdiözese Salzburg
Salzburger Dom
Location
Country	Austria
Territory	Salzburg, Tyrol
Ecclesiastical province	Archdiocese of Salzburg
Metropolitan	Salzburg, Salzburg
Statistics
Area	9,715 km2 (3,751 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2014) 715,280 479,781 (67.1%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	April 20, 798
Cathedral	Cathedral of Saint Rupert and Saint Vergilius
Patron saint	Saint Rupert Saint Virgil
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Franz Lackner
Auxiliary Bishops	Andreas Laun
Vicar General	Hansjörg Hofer
Episcopal Vicars	Matthäus Appesbacher
Bishops emeritus	Georg Eder (em. archbishop) Alois Kothgasser, S.D.B. (em. archbishop)
Map
Website
kirchen.net/portal

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salzburg (Latin: Archidioecesis Salisburgensis) is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Austria. The archdiocese is one of two Austrian archdioceses, serving alongside the Archdiocese of Vienna.

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was a prince-bishopric of the Holy Roman Empire until 1803, when it was secularized as the Electorate of Salzburg. The archdiocese was reestablished in 1818 without temporal power.

Suffragan dioceses

• Feldkirch
• Graz–Seckau
• Gurk
• Innsbruck

Ordinaries (until 1812)

• Johann von Reisberg † ( 1429 Appointed - 1441 Died)
• Friedrich Truchseß von Emmerberg † (30 Sep 1441 Appointed - 3 Apr 1452 Died)
• Sigmund von Volkersdorf † (10 Apr 1452 Appointed - 3 Nov 1461 Died)
• Burkhard von Weißpriach † (16 Nov 1461 Appointed - 16 Feb 1466 Died)
• Bernhard von Rohr † (25 Feb 1466 Appointed - 21 Mar 1487 Died)
• Johann Beckenschlager † (21 Mar 1487 Succeeded - 15 Dec 1489 Died)
• Friedrich Graf von Schaumberg † (19 Dec 1489 Appointed - 4 Oct 1494 Died)
• Sigmund von Hollenegg † (16 Oct 1494 Appointed - 3 Jul 1495 Died)
• Leonhard von Keutschach, C.R.S.A. † (7 Jul 1495 Appointed - 8 Jun 1519 Died)
• Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg † (8 Jun 1519 Succeeded - 30 Mar 1540 Died)
• Michael von Kuenburg † (21 Jul 1554 Appointed - 17 Nov 1560 Died)
• Johann Jakob von Kuen-Belasy † (28 Nov 1560 Appointed - 4 May 1586 Died)
• Georg von Kuenburg † (4 May 1586 Succeeded - 25 Jan 1587 Died)
• Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau † (2 Mar 1587 Appointed - 7 Mar 1612 Resigned)
• Markus Sittikus von Hohenems † (18 Mar 1612 Appointed - 9 Oct 1619 Died)

Salzburg, "Rome of the North"

• Paris Reichsgraf von Lodron † (13 Nov 1618 Appointed - 15 Dec 1653 Died)
• Guidobald Reichsgraf von Thun † (3 Feb 1654 Appointed - 1 Jun 1668 Died)
• Maximilian Gandolf Reichsgraf von Kuenburg † (30 Jul 1668 Appointed - 3 May 1687 Died)
• Johann Ernst Reichsgraf von Thun † (30 Jun 1687 Appointed - 20 Apr 1709 Died)
• Franz Anton Fürst von Harrach zu Rorau † (20 Apr 1709 Succeeded - 18 Jul 1727 Died)
• Leopold Anton Eleutherius Reichsfreiherr von Firmian † (4 Oct 1727 Appointed - 22 Oct 1744 Died)
• Jakob Ernst Graf von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn † (13 Jan 1745 Appointed - 12 Jun 1747 Died)
• Andreas Jakob Reichsgraf von Dietrichstein † (10 Sep 1747 Appointed - 5 Jan 1753 Died)
• Siegmund Christoph Graf von Schrattenbach † (5 Apr 1753 Appointed - 16 Dec 1771 Died)
• Hieronymus Joseph Franz de Paula Graf Colloredo von Wallsee und Mels † (14 Mar 1772 Appointed - 20 May 1812 Died)

Modern Archbishops of Salzburg (1803 to date)

• Count Sigmund Christoph von Zeil und Trauchburg, 1812–1814 (administrator).
• Count Leopold Maximilian von Firmian, 1816–1822 (administrator).
• Augustin Johann Joseph Gruber, 1823–1835.
• Prince Friedrich Johannes Jacob Celestin von Schwarzenberg, 1835–1849.
• Maximilian Joseph von Tarnóczy, 1850–1876.
• Franz de Paula Albert Eder, 1876–1890.
• Johann Evangelist Haller, 1890–1900.
• Johannes Baptist Katschthaler, 1900–1914.
• Balthasar Kaltner, 1914–1918.
• Ignaz Rieder, 1918–1934.
• Sigismund Waitz, 1934–1941.
• Andreas Rohracher, 1943–1969.
• Eduard Macheiner, 1969–1972.
• Karl Berg, 1972–1988.
• Georg Eder, 1988–2002.
• Alois Kothgasser, S.D.B., 2002-2013.
• Franz Lackner, OFM, installed January 12, 2014

Archbishop Franz Lackner OFM

References

• Catholic-hierarchy.org