!!!Passau

Passau, Bavarian town situated at the border between Austria and 
Germany. Bishopric since 731, in 739 it was included in the diocesan 
structure founded by St. Boniface. Under  Pilgrim I this 
bishopric derived its traditions from the Roman  Lauriacum. From the 
9%%sup th/%  century it played a major part in the Christianisation of 
the Danube area in Austria and in organising parishes there. The 
patronage of St. Stephen for many Austrian churches indicates 
that they were subjects of the Passau bishopric.

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The bishopric of Passau had vast properties (in the Middle Ages it 
possessed the towns Eferding, Amstetten, Mautern, St. Poelten 
etc.) and numerous monasteries under Passau's jurisdiction in Austria. 
The bishopric included what is today Upper Austria (now diocese of 
Linz) and Lower Austria (now the dioceses of St. Poelten and 
Vienna, not including Wiener Neustadt). In 1469 the small dioceses of 
Vienna and Wiener Neustadt were founded, while the Bishop of Passau 
was represented in Vienna by an assigned vicar and vicar-general. 
Between 1783-1785 Passau's dioceses in Austria were dissolved under 
the provisions of the monastic reforms introduced by Joseph II.

!Literature
A. Maidhof, Passauer Urbare, 3 vols., 1933-1939; Staat und 
Kirche in Oesterreich von der Antike bis Joseph II, exhibition 
catalogue, St. Poelten 1985; H. Schragl, Geschichte der Dioezese 
St. Poelten, 1985.


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