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Roman Catholic Diocese of Shunqing

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Metropolitan
  
Chongqing

Pope
  
Francis

Area
  
25,000 km²

Rite
  
Latin Rite

Metropolitan Archbishop
  
Sede Vacante

Country
  
China

Population- Total- Catholics
  
(as of 1950)8,000,00019,442 (0.2%)

Cathedral
  
Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Nanchong

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chongqing

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Shunqing/Shunking/Nanchong (Latin: Scioenchimen(sis), Chinese: 順慶, 南充) 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.

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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

  • Established on 2 August 1929 as Apostolic Vicariate of Shunqingfu 順慶府 / Shunkingfu / de Shunkingfu (Latin) [[[Fu (country subdivision)|-fu]] meaning administrative prefecture], on territory split off from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Chengdu 成都 (now a diocese)
  • Promoted on April 11, 1946 and renamed after its see as Diocese of Shunqing 順慶 / Nanchong 南充 (中文) / 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)
  • Fan Dao-jiang (范導江) (1963 – death 1987.12.17), without papal mandate
  • Michael Huang Wo-ze (黃渥澤) (1989 – retired 2001), without papal mandate; died 2004
  • Joseph Chen Gong-ao (陳功鰲) (2012 – ...)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Shunqing Wikipedia
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