Diocese of Graz-Seckau

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Diocese of Graz-Seckau
Dioecesis Graecensis-Seccoviensis
Statistics
Country: Austria
Metropolitan: Salzburg
Rite: Latin Rite
Area: 16,392 km²
Population:
  Total:
  Catholics:
1,154,013 (2006)
903,963 (78.3%)
Cathedral: Dom Sankt Ägydius, Graz
Co-cathedral: Dom- und Abteikirche Mariä Himmelfahrt
(Cathedral and Abbey Church
of the Assumption of Mary), Seckau
Ordinaries
Bishop: Egon Kapellari
Auxiliary Bishop: Franz Lackner, O.F.M.

The Diocese of Graz-Seckau {Latin: Seccovien(sis)} is a Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical province in Austria, founded in 1218. It a suffragan of the archdiocese of Salzburg.

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[edit] History

The See of Seckau was founded by Archbishop Eberhard II of Salzburg, with the permission of pope Honorius III, on 22 June, 1218, as suffragan of Salzburg. Emperor Frederick II gave his consent on 26 October, 1218 and conferred on the incumbent of the see the dignity of prince of the Roman Empire. The first bishop was Provost Karl von Friesach (1218-30).

Under Habsburg Emperor Joseph II, the diocese was reorganized and its territory enlarged. The original intention of the emperor, to establish an archbishopric at Graz, was frustrated by the opposition of the Archbishop of Salzburg.

In 1786, however, the residence of the prince-bishop was transferred from Seckau to Graz, the capital of Styria, but the name of the diocese remained unchanged. A new cathedral chapter was installed at Graz, composed at first of three dignitaries and four canons. The see included thenceforth the Salzburg territory in Styria; at the same time a new diocese, Leoben, was created for Upper Styria. After the death of the first and only Bishop of Leoben, the administration of this see, since 1808, was entrusted to the bishops of Seckau. The limits of Seckau are due to a regulation of 1859, incorporating the Diocese of Leoben with that of Seckau, while Seckau ceded Southern Styria with its (chiefly) Slovenian population to the Diocese of Lavant.

[edit] Special Churches

  • Former Cathedral:
    • Dom Sankt Maria und Andreas , Göß, Steiermark
      (Former Cathedral of St. Andrew)
  • Minor Basilica, National Shrine:
    • Basilika Mariä Geburt, Mariazell, Steiermark
  • Minor Basilica:
    • Maria Trost, Mariatrost, Steiermark
    • Zisterzienser-Stiftsbasilika, Rein, Steiermark

[edit] Leadership

  • Bishops of Graz-Seckau (Roman rite)
    • Bishop Egon Kapellari (since 2001.03.14)
    • Bishop Johann Weber (1969.06.10 – 2001.03.14)
    • Archbishop Josef Schoiswohl (1963.04.22 – 1969.01.01)
  • Bishops of Seckau (Roman rite)
    • Archbishop Josef Schoiswohl (1954.01.18 – 1963.04.22)
    • Archbishop Ferdinand Stanislaus Pawlikowski (1927.04.26 – 1953.12.07)
    • Bishop Leopold Schuster (1893.10.20 – 1927.03.18)
    • Bishop Johann Baptist Zwerger (1867.08.14 – 1893.08.14)
    • Bishop Ottokar Maria Graf von Attems (1853.09.10 – 1867.04.12)
    • Cardinal Joseph Othmar von Rauscher (1849.01.29 – 1853.06.27)
    • Bishop Roman Sebastian (Franz Xaver) Zängerle, O.S.B. (1824.05.18 – 1848.04.27)
    • Fr. Simon Melchior de Petris (1812.04.19 – 1823.08.01)
    • Bishop Johann Friedrich Graf von Waldenstein-Wartenberg (1802.07.21 – 1812.04.15)
    • Archbishop Joseph Adam Graf Arco (1780.01.01 – 1802.06.03)
    • Bishop Joseph Philipp Franz Reichsgraf von Spaur (1763.10.01 – 1780.03.20)
    • Cardinal Leopold Ernest von Firmian (1739.02.13 – 1763.09.01)
    • Archbishop Jakob Ernst Graf von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn (1728.01.17 – 1739.01.26)
    • Archbishop Leopold Anton Eleutherius Reichsfreiherr von Firmian (1724 – 1727.12.22)
    • Bishop Karl Joseph Reichsgraf von Kuenburg (1723.04.21 – 1723.10.04)
    • Cardinal Joseph Dominicus von Lamberg (1712.03.13 – 1723.03.15)
    • Bishop Franz Anton Adolph Graf von Wagensperg (1702 – 1712.02.18)
    • Bishop Rudolf Joseph Reichsgraf von Thun (1690.02.16 – 1702.05.20)
    • Archbishop Johann Ernst Reichsgraf von Thun (1679.12.29 – 1687.11.24)
    • Bishop Wenzel Wilhelm Reichsgraf von Hofkirchen (1670.02.20 – 1679.11.06)
    • Cardinal Maximilian Gandolph von Künburg (Apostolic Administrator 1668.11.12 – 1687.05.03)
    • Cardinal Maximilian Gandolph von Künburg (1665.02.07 – 1668.07.30)
    • Bishop Johannes Markus Freiherr von Aldringen (1633.08.22 – 1664.02.02)

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