Cardinal Hans Hermann Groër was removed as Archbishop of Vienna by John Paul II for alleged sexual misconduct.
This made Groër, who adamantly refused until his death to comment in public on the allegations, one of the highest-ranking Catholic clergymen to be involved in the sexual abuse scandals.
[2] Groër died in Sankt Pölten at age 83, and is buried in a Cistercian cemetery in Marienfeld, Austria.
Bishop Kurt Krenn resigned from his post (see of Sankt Pölten, a suffragan of Vienna) in 2004 after there was a scandal concerning child pornography allegedly being downloaded by a student at the seminary.
[3][4] Up to 40,000 photos and an undisclosed number of films, including child pornography, were found on the computer of one of the seminarians, but Krenn earlier angered many by calling the images a "childish prank".