!!!Dekanat

Deanery, administrative unit between a parish and a  Diocese aimed at 
promoting pastoral care through common action. The dean presiding the 
deanery is one of the priests, to whom several of the surrounding 
parishes are subordinate. Traditionally, administrative tasks and 
assistance to the priests of the deanery belonged to the dean´s 
principal duties. In 1999, the 230 deaneries of the Austrian  Catholic 
church were distributed as follows: Wien-Stadt 20, Wien-Nord 18, 
Wien-Sued 18, St. Poelten 25, Linz 39, Eisenstadt 12, Salzburg 
20, Graz-Seckau 26, Gurk-Klagenfurt 24, Innsbruck 19, Feldkirch 9.

!Literature
H. Schwendenwein, Das neue Kirchenrecht, 1983; 
Schematismen der Dioezesen Oesterreichs 1991-93.


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