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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hankou

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Ecclesiastical province
  
Hankou

Pope
  
Francis

Area
  
12,120 km²

Rite
  
Latin Rite

Metropolitan Archbishop
  
Sede Vacante

Country
  
China

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Population- Total- Catholics
  
(as of 1950)2,200,00035,239 (1.6%)

Cathedral
  
Cathedral of St Joseph in Wuhan

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hankou (Latin: Hancheuvensis, Chinese: 漢口) is a Metropolitan Latin archdiocese, based in the city of Hankou (formerly romanized as Hankow or Hangkow), one of the three cities whose merging formed modern-day Wuhan municipality, the capital of the Hubei Province, central China.

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Its archiepiscopal see is the Cathedral of St. Joseph, in Wuhan. It is now, due to the political situation, a vacant 'underground' (arch)diocese.

Ecclesiastical province

Its Suffragan sees are :

  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Hanyang 漢陽
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Laohekou
  • Puqi 蒲圻
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Qizhou 蘄州
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Shinan 施南
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Wuchan 武昌
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Xiangyang 襄陽
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Yichang 宜昌

    • History

  • Established in 1696 as Apostolic Vicariate of Hupeh and Hunan 湖廣 / Houkouang on territory split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Fujian
  • Renamed 8 April 1856 as Apostolic Vicariate of Hupeh 湖北 / Hu-pé, having lost territory to establish Apostolic Vicariate of Hunan 湖南)
  • Lost territory on 1870.09.02 to establish Apostolic Vicariate of Southwestern Hupeh 湖北南境
  • Renamed on September 11, 1870 as Apostolic Vicariate of Eastern Hupeh, having lost territory to establishApostolic Vicariate of Northwestern Hupeh 湖北西北)
  • Renamed on December 12, 1923 after its see as Apostolic Vicariate of Hankou
  • Lost territories again : on 1929.07.18: to establish Mission sui juris of Huangzhou 黃州 and on 1937.06.17 to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Suixian 隨縣
  • Promoted on 1946.04.11 as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Hankou

    • Episcopal Ordinaries

    (all Roman Rite)

    Apostolic Vicars of Hupeh and Hunan 湖廣
  • Giovanni Francesco de Nicolais (余宜閣), Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (born Italy) (1696.10.20 – death 1737.12.27), Titular Archbishop of Myra (1712.08.20 – 1737.12.27), previously Bishop of Nanjing 南京 (China) (1691 – 1696.10.20), Titular Bishop of Berytus (1696.10.20 – 1712.08.20)

    • TO BE COMPLETED

    Apostolic Vicars of Eastern Hupeh 湖北東境
  • Epiphane Carlassare (June 18, 1884 – July 24, 1909)
  • Vicars Apostolic of Hankou 漢口 (Roman Rite)
  • Bishop Eugenio Massi, O.F.M. (希賢) (January 26, 1927 – December 10, 1944)
  • Bishop Eugenio Massi, O.F.M. (希賢) (Apostolic Administrator 1925 – January 26, 1927)
  • Bishop Graziano Génnaro, O.F.M. (July 24, 1909 – 1924)
  • Archbishops of Hankou 漢口 (Roman rite)
  • Archbishop Victor Liu He-de (1984 - December 10, 2001)
  • Archbishop Giuseppe Ferruccio Maurizio Rosà, O.F.M. (July 26, 1946 – August 8, 1961)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hankou Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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