Jurisdiction: | Diocese |
Innsbruck | |
Latin: | Dioecesis Oenipontanus |
Local: | Diözese Innsbruck |
Coat: | Wappen Bistum Innsbruck.png |
Country: | Austria |
Metropolitan: | Archdiocese of Salzburg |
Territory: | Tyrol |
Province: | Salzburg |
Area Km2: | 9,845 |
Population: | 570,120 |
Population As Of: | 2019 |
Catholics: | 378,373 |
Catholics Percent: | 66.4 |
Denomination: | Roman Catholic |
Rite: | Roman Rite |
Established: | December 8, 1968 |
Cathedral: | Cathedral of St James |
Patron: | Saint Peter Canisius |
Bishop: | Hermann Glettler |
Metro Archbishop: | Franz Lackner |
Map: | Bistuemer oesterreich innsbruck.png |
Website: | Website of the Diocese |
The Diocese of Innsbruck (Latin: Dioecesis Oenipontanus) is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Salzburg (in western Austria) of the Catholic Church, covering the Bundesland (state) 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.
As per 2014, it pastorally served 395,490 Catholics (72.8% of 543,173 total) on 9,845 km2 in 243 parishes and 49 missions with 344 priests (193 diocesan, 151 religious), 64 deacons, 803 lay religious (246 brothers, 557 sisters) and 6 seminarians.
(al Roman rite)