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  Vienna
Vienna -- the capital of Austria-Hungary, the residence of the emperor, and the seat of a Latin archbishopric -- is situated at the north-east end of the Alps, mainly on the right bank of the Danube.
Vienna also tolerated in some degree the reforms that Joseph II wished to introduce in ecclesiastical and secular affairs, odious though they were in themselves because by his friendliness towards the citizens he had done much for the beautifying and improvement of the city.
In 17895 the Diocese of Wiener-Neustadt was suppressed and incorporated in that of Vienna; in addition Vienna received the parishes of the "district under the Mannhartsberg" in Lower Austria, and five parishes of the Diocese of Raab.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/v/vienna.html   (3530 words)

  
 Vienna - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Vienna extends along the right bank of the Danube from the historic and legendary Kahlenberg to the point where the Danube Canal rejoins the main stream, being surrounded on the other side by a considerable stretch of land which is rather rural than suburban in character.
Vienna is the residence of the emperor of Austria, the seat of the Austrian ministers, of the Reichsrat and of the Diet of Lower Austria.
Vienna enjoys autonomy for communal affairs, but is under the control of the governor and the Diet of Lower Austria, while the election of the chief burgomaster requires the sanction of the sovereign, advised by the prime minister.
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 Vinzenz Eduard Milde
Prince-Archbishop of Vienna, born at Brünn, in Moravia, in 1777; died at Vienna in 1853.
The admirable monument erected to him in the left wing of St. Catharine's chapel in the cathedral of St. Stephen in Vienna portrays a catechist bending over two children, inscribed "Charity", to the left, a priest in the act of elevating the Blessed Sacrament, attended by a young priest and a clerk, inscribed "and Prayer".
Under these two inscriptions, and extending across the whole length of the monument are the words "link together the inhabitants of this world and those of the next".
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/m/milde,vinzenz_eduard.html   (656 words)

  
 Further Reading - Franz König
Franz Cardinal König (August 3, 1905 - March 13, 2004) was Archbishop of Vienna (1956 - 1985), and a Cardinal (Catholicism) in the Roman Catholic Church.
His successor as Archbishop of Vienna was Hans Hermann Groer, a man in whose appointment König had no part and who was eventually removed from office by Pope John Paul II for sexual misconduct.
Until his death, Cardinal König was active in the Archdiocese of Vienna, which is now under the care of the current Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn.
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 Cardinal-Archbishop of Vienna, Director of Catholic Catechism, visits Campus
Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, the Cardinal-Archbishop of Vienna and Director of the Catholic Catechism, visited the campus on September 19, during a rare visit to the United States.
Five years later, after receiving comments from around the world, the Catholic Catechism was published — an astonishing feat given its scope and content.
In 1995, Pope Paul II appointed Schönborn to the see of Vienna, one of the most troubled archdioceses in the world — a sign of the pope’s confidence in him.
www.thomasaquinas.edu /news/newsletter/1999/fall/schonbornvisit.htm   (440 words)

  
 VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat... - Online Information article about VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat...
Vienna extends along the right bank of the Danube from the historic and legendary Kahlenberg to the point where the Danube Canal rejoins the main stream, being surrounded on the other See also:
Vienna is officially divided into twenty-one districts or Bezirke.
Vienna is the intellectual as well as the material capital of Austria—emphatically so in regard to the German part of the empire.
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 A Politically Incorrect Monk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Vienna, Vienna, your love of lax living has prepared you a grave and imminent chastisement: Convert, and consider well what you are doing, O wretched Vienna.
Emperor Leopold, who had had to flee from Vienna in order to escape falling into the hands of the Mohammedans, named him as his representative to the leaders of the relief army, leaders among whom it was necessary to constantly maintain peace in order to bring the enterprise to a successful conclusion.
Mark in the battle of Vienna, and finally it would be necessary to ascend to the throne of God Himself to demand of Him the reason for the incessant miracles by which He accredited Fr.
www.sspx.ca /Angelus/2000_January/A_Politically_Incorrect_Monk.htm   (2121 words)

  
 Thomas's Glassware Tour --- Wien (A)
The church became the garrison church of Vienna in 1862 and was elevated to a provost church in 1878.
Since 1813 it is the seat of the forestry school (founded 1805 in Purkersdorf) which became a section of the Vienna University for Agriculture in 1875.
In 1904 Floridsdorf became part of Vienna (21st district) together with Leopoldau, Kagran, Hirschstetten, Stadlau and Aspern, and in 1910 it was expanded by the incorporation of Strebersdorf.
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 Catholic World News : Scandal-Tainted Former Vienna Cardinal Dies
VIENNA, Mar. 24, 2003 (CWNews.com) - Cardinal Hans Groer, the former archbishop of Vienna who resigned under a cloud of scandal, died on Sunday of pneumonia.
Cardinal Groer was archbishop of Vienna from 1986 to 1995, when allegations were first made that he molested teen boys at a high school in the early 1970s.
He resigned as archbishop of Vienna that year and in 1998, Pope John Paul II (bio - news) asked him to relinquish all his ecclesiastical duties and privileges as an archbishop and cardinal in 1998.
www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=21370   (177 words)

  
 Archbishop Ieronim   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Soon after, on the Feast of the Transfiguration, Patriarch Alexander III and Metropolitan Theodosius of Tyre and Sidon, a hierarch of the Patriarchate of Antioch, concelebrated with the newly consecrated Bishop leronim and Bishop loasaph (Skorodoumoff, later Archbishop of Buenos Aires and Argentina), a hierarch of the Church Abroad.
In late 1945, Vladika leronim traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, at the invitation of Metropolitan Anastassy (Gribanovsky) to participate in the episcopal consecrations of Archimandrite Nafanail (Uvov, later Archbishop of Vienna and Austria) and Archimandrite Seraphim (Ivanov, later Archbishop of Chicago and Detroit).
At the Great Bishops Council of the North American Metropolitan District of the Russian Church Abroad in May of 1946, Vladika leronim was appointed as the representative of the North American Metropolitan District to the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Church Abroad for a term of one year.
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 Catholic-Pages.com | Cardinals of the Catholic Church: Biography of Cardinal Schönborn
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, O.P., Archbishop of Vienna and Ordinary for the faithful of the Byzantine rite in Austria, was born on 22 Janaury 1945 in what is now Skalsko, the Czech Republic.
He studied theology at Le Saulchoir, philosophy and pyschology at the University of Vienna, Slavic and Byzantine Christianity at the Sorbonne and theology at the Catholic Institute of Paris.
He was then appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Vienna on 13 April 1995 and became Archbishop of Vienna on 14 September 1995.
www.catholic-pages.com /hierarchy/cardinals_bio.asp?ref=132   (291 words)

  
 Kaumudi Europe - Vienna News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Vienna’s School for Indian Dances, Languages and Music, bearing the name Balakairali, is making history, not only through its eventful 10 years’ existence culminating in the celebration 1996 –2006 on 04.02.2006, but also through the innovations that Balakairali is offering the Indians and the friends of India in Vienna.
Vienna is the garden city of Europe and streets are adorned with trees bearing golden colours of autumn.
Vienna state election was conducted on 23rd October 2005 and the socialist party and also Christian Democratic party could improve their strength in the Assembly and as usual the Socialist party got the majority.
www.kaumudi.com /london/vienna.stm   (10887 words)

  
 Blog of Death: Cardinal Franz Köenig
Cardinal Franz Köenig, the longtime Roman Catholic archbishop of Vienna, died on March 13.
He served as Vienna's archbishop for two years before Pope John XXIII elevated him to cardinal in 1958.
Köenig served as archbishop of Vienna until his retirement in 1985.
www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000814.html   (239 words)

  
 BBC News | Despatches | Pope creates new cardinals
Among the new cardinals are the 52-year-old Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Schonborn, and the archbishops of Genoa, Chicago, Toronto, Madrid and Lyon.
They are the 52-year-old Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Schonborn, a member of the Dominican Order, and the 63-year-old Archbishop Dionigi Tettamanzi, the archbishop of Genoa in Italy, who is secretary of the Italian Bishops Conference.
The only new cardinal who will not have the right to vote in the next conclave because he is 87 years old, is a retired Polish missionary priest in Africa, who spent five years in a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/despatches/48511.stm   (333 words)

  
 CNS STORY: Vienna cardinal's diplomatic, managerial skills tested by turmoil
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As archbishop of Vienna and president of the Austrian bishops' conference Cardinal Christoph Schonborn's diplomatic and administrative abilities have been tested by a period of church turmoil involving laity and the hierarchy.
The tensions were heightened by a controversy over Cardinal Hans Hermann Groer, the former archbishop of Vienna who resigned in 1995 amid allegations that he had sexually abused minors.
Pope John Paul appointed him auxiliary bishop of Vienna in 1991 and coadjutor archbishop in April 1995.
www.catholicnews.com /jpii/cardinals/0501852.htm   (1219 words)

  
 April 16 News: (74news2.htm)
VIENNA (CWNews.com) - The Austrian cardinal who resigned as archbishop of Vienna over allegations of sexual abuse 20 years ago announced on Tuesday that he is relinquishing all ecclesiastical duties and will leave Austria at the request of Pope John Paul II.
Cardinal Groer stepped down as archbishop of Vienna and primate of the Church in Austria when the allegations were made public in 1995.
In February of this year, his replacement, Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, and three other bishops announced they had come to "the moral certainty" that the allegations were true and asked the Vatican to investigate and take action.
www.dailycatholic.org /issue/April/74news2.htm   (304 words)

  
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Many of us were housed in a former barracks of the Teutonic Knights; to have come from Poland, where I had been visiting, to the barracks of the Teutonic Knights was...historically interesting, to say the least.
Picking up on a phrase I had used in The Cube and the Cathedral, that Europe is "dying from a false story," Brague suggested a fascinating way of looking at the last two centuries of western history.
In Vienna, however, he insisted that nihilism -- a soured cynicism about the mystery and wonder of being -- is the prior enemy-within-the-gates.
www.eppc.org /publications/pubID.2646/pub_detail.asp   (633 words)

  
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In Vienna airport, received him many high clergy and officials in Austria amongst were: Abba Misael (Birmingham), Abba Kyrollos (Milan), Abba Barnabas (Rome), Abba Damian (Germany), Heg Antonios Thabet (London), all Coptic priests in Austria, chorus of deacons, Coptic congregation and diplomats at the Egyptian Embassy there.
Attending were: Cardinal Schoenborn Archbishop of Vienna, Egyptian Embassador Deputy, representatives of the Armenian and Syrian Orthodox churches, bishops and a number of Copts residing in Austria.
He gave a welcoming word of gratitude and read a letter from HH Catholicos Karekin I Supreme Catholicos of all Armenians in Tchemiadzin where he expressed the unity of faith between the Coptic and the Armenian orthodox churches which was inherited from the teachings of Christ, disciples and the three first ecumenical councils.
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 Krauss conducts Strauss
His mother, Clementina, was a dancer, singer and actress; it is not known just who his father was but it was rumoured to be the Archbishop of Vienna, perhaps even the Emperor Franz Josef.
Soon after this the 28-year old conductor was offered a staff conducting position in Vienna, the beginning of his long and lustrous association with the famed composer/conductor.
Krauss was offered leadership of the Vienna State Opera, accepted it, but at the last moment Karl B–hm was selected because a rich industrialist friend of his threatened to withdraw financial support for the VSO unless B–hm was given the job.
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 College of Cardinals
Since 1984, he has been a member of the foundation "Pro Oriente." He was Secretary for the Draft Commission of the Catechism of the Catholic Church from 1987 until 1992.
He was ordained auxiliary bishop (Sutri) of Vienna on April 13, 1995, and archbishop of Vienna on September 14 of that year.
He continues to serve as Archbishop of Vienna.
www.ewtn.com /holysee/Cardinals/cardinal_detail.asp?id=292   (224 words)

  
 BBC News | Europe | Austrian bishops label cardinal a paedophile
Hans Hermann Gröer was Cardinal and Archbishop of Vienna until in 1995.
He was forced to resign after accusations that he molested a pupil in a shower at a Catholic boys school 22 years ago.
New charges against him were made in December by a monk who said the former archbishop had molested him as a child.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/60823.stm   (404 words)

  
 Planet Ark : INTERVIEW - Vienna Cardinal Draws Lines in Intelligent Design Row
VIENNA - When Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn waded into a heated debate over evolution in the United States, his goal was not to persuade American schools to teach that God created the world in six days.
Nor was it to condemn Charles Darwin and his "The Origin of Species", a book that Schoenborn, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Vienna, considers a great work in the history of ideas.
His concern, Schoenborn told Reuters at his episcopal palace in central Vienna, was to stand up for common sense in a debate that had become ideological.
www.planetark.org /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/33553/story.htm   (1006 words)

  
 The Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, visited the St Nicholas Cathedral in Vienna » Events ...
On 7 January 2004, the Feast of the Nativity of Christ, the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, visited the St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Vienna.
He was greeted at the cathedral's entrance by Bishop Hilarion of Vienna and Austria, Representative of the Russian Orthodox Church to the European Institutions.
After the service lunch was served in the cathedral's dining hall, where the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna had the possibility of speaking with the clergy and parishioners of the Russian Orthodox Church's diocese of Vienna and Austria.
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It is an honor for me to be among those who open the Congress, and I sincerely wish that the intense efforts of all participants will be successful.
Vienna already has hosted two of these international conferences, in 1976 and 1982.
As chairperson of the Disability Commission of Vienna, I am very pleased that IVSS Churchear has chosen Vienna for its 11th International Ecumenical Congress.
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 Paris Archbishop Reflects On France's Violence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This objective "is not the task of the police," but of the intermediary entities, such as churches, associations and social works, contended Archbishop Vingt-Trois, 63.
Echoing conclusions of the French episcopal conference's plenary assembly, the archbishop of Paris defended a "secularity of participation," namely, a conception of secularity that does not promote "reciprocal ignorance" between the Church and state, but dialogue.
Archbishop Vingt-Trois lamented that the public powers have the temptation to deny "public space to Christianity" so as not to have to give the same space to Islam.
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 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographies - I
Elected archbishop of Vienna, Austria, September 19, 1932.
Elected titular archbishop of Eclano and appointed nuncio in Paraguay, December 15, 1967.
Secretary of the S.C. for the Discipline of the Sacraments, February 26, 1973; the congregation was reorganized and united with the S.C. for Divine Worship as the S.C. for the Sacraments and Divine Worship, July 11, 1975.
www.fiu.edu /~mirandas/bios-i.htm   (657 words)

  
 Roman Catholic cardinal endorses Zionism
Schoenborn said it was doctrinally important for Christians to recognize Jews' connection to the "Holy Land" and Christians should rejoice in Jews' return to Palestine as a fulfillment of biblical prophecy.
Archbishop of Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, part of a visiting Austrian delegation, made the remarks in an address at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on the topic of "God's chosen land."
After asking, "What does Eretz Yisrael [the Land of Israel] mean to us," Schoenborn answered by stressing the doctrinal importance to Christians of not only recognizing Jews' connection to the land, but also ensuring that Christian identification with the Jewish Bible not lead to a "usurpation" of Jewish uniqueness.
www.cardinalrating.com /cardinal_97__article_873.htm   (484 words)

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