Roman Catholic Diocese of Shunqing
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Shunqing/Shunking/Nanchong (Latin: Dioecesis Scioenchimensis; Chinese: 天主教順慶教區) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Chongqing in southwest China, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Diocese of Shunqing Dioecesis Scioenchimensis 天主教顺庆教区 | |
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| Location | |
| Country | China |
| Ecclesiastical province | Chongqing |
| Metropolitan | Chongqing |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 25,000 km2 (9,700 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 1950) 8,000,000 19,442 (0.2%) |
| Information | |
| Rite | Latin Rite |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Nanchong |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Sede Vacante |
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in the Shunqing city center district of Nanchong 南充, Sichuan province. No statistics available.
History
Map of Western Szechwan mission, prepared by Adrien Launay, 1889.
- Established on 2 August 1929 as Apostolic Vicariate of Shunqingfu 順慶府 / Shunkingfu / de Shunkingfu (Latin) / Choen-kin-fou (French) -fu meaning administrative prefecture], on territory split off from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Chengdu (Tchen-tou-fou; 成都; now a diocese)[1]
- Promoted on April 11, 1946 and renamed after its see as Diocese of Shunqing 順慶 / Nanchong 南充 (Chinese) / Shunking / Sciœnchimen(sis) (Latin).
Episcopal ordinaries
(all Roman Rite native Chinese)
- Apostolic Vicar of Shunqingfu 順慶府
- Paul Wang Wen-cheng (王文成) (December 2, 1929 – April 11, 1946 see below)
- Suffragan Bishops of Shunqing 順慶
- Paul Wang Wen-cheng (王文成) (see above April 11, 1946 – January 28, 1961)
- uncanonical: Fan Dao-jiang (范導江) (1963 – death 1987.12.17), without papal mandate
- uncanonical: Michael Huang Wo-ze (黃渥澤) (1989 – retired 2001), without papal mandate; died 2004
- Joseph Chen Gong-ao (陳功鰲) (2012 – ...)
References
- Li, Paul I Te (February 2022). "四川南充敎區簡况" [A Brief Introduction of the Diocese of Nanchong] (PDF). hsstudyc.org.hk (in Traditional Chinese). Retrieved 28 November 2022.
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