Changzhi diocese
| Changzhi diocese | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Taiyuan |
| Diocesan bishop | Peter Ding Lingbin |
| founding | 1696 |
| surface | 23,348 km² |
| Residents | 3,000,000 (December 31, 1949 / AP1950 ) |
| Catholics | 30,000 (December 31, 1949 / AP1950 ) |
| proportion of | 1 % |
| Diocesan priest | 18 (December 31, 1949 / AP1950 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 1,667 |
| Religious sisters | 27 (December 31, 1949 / AP1950 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Standard Chinese |
The Diocese of Changzhi ( Latin : Dioecesis Lunganensis ) is a Roman Catholic diocese based in Changzhi in the People's Republic of China .
history
Pope Innocent XII. founded the Apostolic Vicariate Shanxi with the Breve E sublimi Sedis on October 15, 1696 from cessions of territory by the Diocese of Nanking . In 1712 it was dissolved and its territory was given to the Shaanxi Vicariate Apostolic .
With the Breve Ex debito , the united Apostolic Vicariate Shaanxi and Shanxi was divided again in 1844. On June 17, 1890, the Apostolic Vicariate Shanxi was divided into the Apostolic Vicariates North Shanxi and South Shanxi. It took the name, Apostolic Vicariate Luanfu , on December 3, 1924.
With the Apostolic Constitution Quotidie Nos it was raised to the diocese on April 11, 1946. On January 6, 2000, the Chinese government appointed patriotic bishop Andrew Jin Dao-yuan.
It lost parts of its territory in favor of the establishment of the following prefectures:
- June 17, 1932 to the Apostolic Prefecture of Hungtung ;
- May 25, 1936 to the Kiangchow Apostolic Prefecture .
Ordinaries
Vicars Apostolic of Shanxi
- Basilio Brollo OFM (October 25, 1696 - November 16, 1704)
- Antonio, SJ (1702– January 18, 1705)
Vicars Apostolic of Shaanxi and Shanxi
- Antonio Laghi, OFM (September 2, 1715-5 July 1727)
- Francesco Saraceni OFM (July 5, 1727– December 1, 1742)
- Eugenio Piloti OFM (December 7, 1742– December 20, 1756)
- Jean-Antoine Buocher OFM (December 20, 1756–1760)
- Francesco Magni OFM (January 25, 1763–1777)
- Nathaniel Bürger OFM (January 11, 1777– July 20, 1778, then Coadjutor Bishop of Nanjing )
- Antonio Maria Sacconi OFM (October 7, 1778– February 5, 1785)
- Mariano Zaralli OFM (April 3, 1787– April 16, 1790)
- Crescenzio Cavalli OFM (1791–24 December 1791)
- Giovanni Battista di Mandello, OFM (February 17, 1792– June 23, 1804)
- Antonio Luigi Landi, OFM (November 7, 1804– October 26, 1814)
- Joachin Salvetti OFM (February 21, 1815– September 21, 1843)
Vicars Apostolic of Shanxi
- Gabriel Grioglio OFM (March 2, 1844 – December 1869)
- Luigi Moccagatta OFM (September 27, 1870– June 17, 1890)
Vicars Apostolic of South Shanxi
- Luigi Moccagatta OFM (June 17, 1890– September 6, 1891)
- Martin Poell OFM (June 17, 1890– January 1, 1891)
- Johannes Hofman OFM (April 24, 1891 – June 1901)
- Alberto Odorico Timmer OFM (July 20, 1901– December 3, 1924)
Vicars Apostolic of Luanfu
- Alberto Odorico Timmer OFM (December 3, 1924– August 20, 1926)
- Anton Theodor Fortunatus Spruit OFM (November 22, 1927– July 12, 1943)
- Frans Gerard Constantin Kramer OFM (February 7, 1946– April 11, 1946)
Bishops of Changzhi
- Frans Gerard Constantin Kramer OFM (April 11, 1946–1983)
- Anthony Li Wei-dao (May 1992–21 July 1998) (Bishop of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association )
- Hermengild Li Yi (1997–2012) (underground bishop)
- Andrew Jin Daoyuan (Bishop of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association since January 6, 2000 - 2016)
- Peter Ding Lingbin (Bishop of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association since 2016 and recognized by the Vatican since September 22, 2018 )