Roman Catholic University Parish
In order to give MCI students, faculty and staff access to pastoral care and a church community, the MCI has been affiliated to the University Parish of St. Clement in Innsbruck.
Recognized in ecclesiastic law in 1980, the University Parish is a personal parish, i.e. it serves the needs of a specific group of persons. Originally, only Catholics at the Leopold Franz University and the Medical University could be parishioners, but now students and staff of the MCI are also eligible to join this parish, which was created specifically to provide pastoral care at the university. The parish church is the Neue Universitätskirche on the Innrain, and there is also a community center in Josef-Hirn-Strasse.
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Evangelical Church of Salzburg-Tyrol
Among Austria's 8 million inhabitants are over 356,500 members of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession and 19,500 members of the Evangelical Church of the Helvetian Confession, making a total of 4.7 percent of the Austrian population. There are about 30,000 Protestants living in the Diocese of Salzburg-Tyrol.
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Innsbruck's Muslim Religious Community for the Tyrol
The Muslim Religious Community sees its main role in helping Muslims living in Austria preserve their Muslim identity while also developing roots in the country's pluralistic democratic society. This is done by promoting integration through participation.
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Jewish Religious Community for the Tyrol and Vorarlberg
In recent years, the work of the Jewish Religious Community has seen collaboration between a variety of people and institutions, including the municipal, regional and federal authorities, and the Office of the Roman Catholic Diocese. After an interval of sixty years, bar mitzvahs and brit milahs are again being celebrated, and although its over one hundred members are scattered around the Tyrol and Vorarlberg, the festival of pesach is again the main social event for the community, which today includes people of all age groups and nationalities and from all walks of life, and a large number of children born in the Tyrol.
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Officially recognized religious communities in Austria
Click here to see a list of all the officially recognized religious communities in Austria.