Wikipedia's general reference article on the Catholic Church in Austria: reliable for uncontested structural facts and current statistics, not for contested historical interpretation.
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Tertiary reference (Wikipedia): useful for uncontested structural facts (diocesan geography, the Salzburg archbishop's Primus Germaniae title) and current membership statistics, not for contested historical interpretation. NotesTertiary reference. Current diocesan structure: Archdiocese of Vienna (with suffragan dioceses Eisenstadt, Linz, St. Polten) and Archdiocese of Salzburg (with suffragan dioceses Graz-Seckau, Gurk, Feldkirch, Innsbruck), plus the Territorial Abbey of Wettingen-Mehrerau and the Military Ordinariate of Austria answering directly to the Holy See. The Archbishop of Salzburg (Franz Lackner) holds the historic title Primus Germaniae though Austria has no formally styled national primate. As of 2024: 4,557,471 members, 49.6 percent of Austria's roughly 9.2 million population, down from 89 percent in 1961. Founding history (early Christianization from c. 174 AD, Saint Florian's 304 AD martyrdom, Saint Severin's death in 482, Saint Rupert founding the Salzburg diocese c. 696-718, Salzburg becoming an archdiocese in 798, Vienna established as a separate bishopric in 1469) and the 1933 Concordat (signed 5 July 1933 by Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli and Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, in force 1 May 1934, suspended after the 1938 Anschluss, its validity re-affirmed by the federal government in 1957) were corroborated via katholisch.at's own published history page and Wikipedia's separate Concordat of 1933 article, both consulted directly alongside this page.
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