Patriarch Irinej to visit Austria

Serbian Patriarch and Orthodox Church leader Irinej begins a five-day visit to Austria on Friday. The visit of Patriarch Irinej will make Orthodox Christians in Austria more visible, Metropolitan Michael Staikos of Austria stated. Patriarch Irinej to visit Austria He said that there are over 400,000 Orthodox Christians in Austria, and if including the Oriental Christians, the figure reaches half a million. As a result, the Orthodox Church is the second in presence in the country after the Roman Catholic Church, said the metropolitan to the Austrian Catholic news agency Kathpress. Irinej would be in Austria from September 10-14. Patriarch Irinej is expected to visit churches in Vienna and Linz, and the Mauthausen concentration camp. He is also scheduled to meet with Austrian President Heinz Fischer, Vienna Mayor Michael Haeupl and Cardinal Christopher Schonborn, the archbishop of Vienna.

Patriarch Irinej to visit Austria

He said that there are over 400,000 Orthodox Christians in Austria, and if including the Oriental Christians, the figure reaches half a million.

As a result, the Orthodox Church is the second in presence in the country after the Roman Catholic Church, said the metropolitan to the Austrian Catholic news agency Kathpress.

Irinej would be in Austria from September 10-14.

Patriarch Irinej is expected to visit churches in Vienna and Linz, and the Mauthausen concentration camp.

He is also scheduled to meet with Austrian President Heinz Fischer, Vienna Mayor Michael Haeupl and Cardinal Christopher Schonborn, the archbishop of Vienna.