Roman Catholic Diocese of Feldkirch

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Territory Vorarlberg Denomination Roman Catholic Area 2,601 km² Country Austria		Metropolitan Feldkirch Rite Roman Rite Phone +43 4355 2234850 Patron saint Saint Nicholas

Ecclesiastical province Archdiocese of Salzburg Population- Total- Catholics (as of 2013)373,849247,436 (66.2%) Address Hirschgraben 2, 6800 Feldkirch, Austria Similar Diözesan Katholisc Kirche Vo, Caritas Vorarlberg, Kirchenb Feldkirch, lebensA Feldkirch, Vorarlber Nachricht

The Diocese of Feldkirch (Latin: Dioecesis Campitemplensis) is a diocese located in the city of Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, in the Ecclesiastical province of Salzburg in Austria.

History

until the 19th century: part of the Swabian Dioceses of the Catholic Church: Constance, Augsburg

then attached to the (Tyrolean and thus Austrian) Diocese of Brixen after the split-up of the Holy Roman Empire

came with the Austrian part of Brixen to the Apostolic Administrature, later Diocese of Innsbruck-Feldkirch

December 8, 1968: disattached from Innsbruck and established as Diocese of Feldkirch

Minor Basilicas:

Liebfrauenbasilika Rankweil, Rankweil, Vorarlberg

Bishops of Feldkirch (Roman rite)

Bishop Benno Elbs (since 2013.05.08)

Bishop Elmar Fischer (2005.05.24 - 2011.11.15)

Bishop Klaus Küng (1989.01.21 – 2004.10.07)

Bishop Bruno Wechner (1968.12.09 – 1989.01.21)

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