Klagenfurt Cathedral

Klagenfurt Cathedral is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt and additionally the principle parish church of Klagenfurt. It become built via Protestants and committed to the Holy Trinity in 1581, and become the most important Protestant church in Austria at that time. It turned into commissioned with the aid of Christoph Windisch, Klagenfurt' s first mayor. In 1600, all through the Counter-Reformation, it changed into given to the Jesuits and rededicated to Saints Peter and Paul. The church became razed to the ground by a fireplace and needed to be rebuilt in 1724. Bishop Franz Xaver von Salm-Reifferscheidt made it the cathedral of the Diocese of Gurk in 1787.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt is a Catholic diocese overlaying the Austrian state of Carinthia. It is part of the ecclesiastical province of Salzburg. Though named after Gurk Cathedral, the bishop's see on account that 1787 is in Klagenfurt. Due to the presence of Carinthian Slovenes, the organizational structures of the diocese are bilingual. The Slovene language is, together with German, the language of church services in sixty nine southern parishes of the diocese.