Metropolitan Shenyang Pope Francis Area 163,000 km² Patron saint Saint Peter | Rite Latin Rite Bishop Sede Vacante Country China | |
Population
- Total
- Catholics (as of 1949)
9,000,000
35,000 (0.4%) Cathedral Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Jilin City Ecclesiastical province Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Shenyang | ||
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jilin/Kírín (Latin: Chilinen(sis), Chinese: 吉林) is a Latin diocese in Manchuria, northeast China.
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It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Shenyang 瀋陽, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
It is vacant (again) since 2009.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathedral of St. Theresa, in Changchun 长春, while the former cathedral is now the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in the city of Jilin.
History
Established on May 10, 1898 as Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Manchuria 北滿, on territory split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Liaotung and Manuchria 遼東滿州
Renamed on December 3, 1924 as Apostolic Vicariate of Jilin 吉林 after its see
On 1928.07.09, it lost territory to establish the then Mission sui juris of Qiqihar 齊齊哈爾 (now an Apostolic prefecture)
Promoted on April 11, 1946 as Diocese of Jilin 吉林
Vacant from 1952 to 1999 and again since 2009?
From 1959 to 1994, the hostile PRC established a rival national church lie of pretenders without papal mandate, now also vacant.
Episcopal Ordinaries
(all Roman Rite)