Diocese of Innsbruck
The Diocese of Innsbruck is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Salzburg of the Catholic Church, covering most of the Bundesland Tyrol.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Innsbruck Cathedral, dedicated to Saint James, in the city of Innsbruck.
It also has four Minor basilicas: Herz-Jesu-Basilika, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in Hall in Tirol; St. Michael, in Absam; Unsere Liebe Frau von der Unbefleckten Empfängnis, Immaculate Conception, in Wilten and Zisterzienserkirche, Cistercian monastery in Stams.
History
- Established on 11 December 1925 as Apostolic Administration of Innsbruck – Feldkirch, on territory split off from Diocese of Brixen
- 6 August 1964: Promoted as Diocese of Innsbruck – Feldkirch
- 8 December 1968: Renamed as Diocese of Innsbruck / Œnipontan, having lost territory to establish Diocese of Feldkirch
- It enjoyed a Papal visit from Pope John Paul II in June 1988.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 395,490 Catholics on 9,845 km2 in 243 parishes and 49 missions with 344 priests, 64 deacons, 803 lay religious and 6 seminarians.Episcopal Ordinaries
;Apostolic Administrators of Innsbruck – Feldkirch- Sigismund Waitz, Titular Bishop of Cibyra, previously Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Brixen ; later Metropolitan Archbishop of Salzburg
- * Auxiliary Bishop: Franz Tschann, Titular Bishop of Panium
- Paulus Rusch, Titular Bishop of Lycopolis ; next Titular Bishop of Meloë in Isauria
- * Auxiliary Bishop: Bruno Wechner, Titular Bishop of Cartennæ ; later first Bishop of daughter see Feldkirch, died 1999
- Paulus Rusch
- Reinhold Stecher, died 2013
- Alois Kothgasser, Salesians, next Metropolitan Archbishop of Salzburg
- Manfred Scheuer, next Bishop of Linz
- Hermann Glettler