The Archbishop of Vienna is the metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of Vienna, which includes the dioceses of Eisenstadt , Linz and St. Pölten .
From 1469 to 1513, bishops from elsewhere were appointed as administrators.
The first bishop residing in Vienna was Georg von Slatkonia .
From 1861 to 1918, the archbishops, as members of the Herrenhaus, were represented in the Reichsrat of Cisleithania and bore the title of a Prince-Archbishop.