Diocese of Ningpo
Diocese of Ningpo | |
Basic data | |
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Country | People's Republic of China |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Hangzhou |
Diocesan bishop | Sedis vacancy |
surface | 20,059 km² |
Parishes | 10 (December 31, 1950 / AP1951 ) |
Residents | 6,055,267 (December 31, 1950 / AP1951 ) |
Catholics | 17,497 ( 12/31/1950 / AP1951 ) |
proportion of | 0.3% |
Diocesan priest | 25 (December 31, 1950 / AP1951 ) |
Religious priest | 29 (December 31, 1950 / AP1951 ) |
Catholics per priest | 324 |
Friars | 29 (December 31, 1950 / AP1951 ) |
Religious sisters | 101 ( 12/31/1950 / AP1951 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | Standard Chinese |
cathedral | Cathedral in memory of the Seven Sorrows of Mary / Sacred Heart |
Website | www.nbcatholic.org |
The diocese of Ningpo ( Latin : Dioecesis Nimpuovensis ) is a Roman Catholic diocese based in Ningbo in the province of Zhejiang in the People's Republic of China .
history
The diocese of Ningpo was founded in 1687 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Zhejiang and Jiangxi from cessions of territory from the Apostolic Vicariate of Fujian . Pope Innocent XII. founded the Apostolic Vicariate Jiangxi with the Breve E sublimi Sedis from parts of the area of the Vicariate on October 15, 1696. Between 1838 and 1846 the Apostolic Vicariate Jiangxi was again part of the Apostolic Vicariate Zhejiang , which again changed its name to Apostolic Vicariate Zhejiang and Jiangxi resulted in.
On May 10, 1910, the Apostolic Vicariate Zhejiang was divided into the Apostolic Vicariates East Zhejiang and West Zhejiang . The name, Apostolic Vicariate Ningbo , was adopted by the Apostolic Vicariate of Ostzhejiang on December 3, 1924. With the Apostolic Constitution Quotidie Nos it was raised to the diocese on April 11, 1946.
After Bishop Defebvres was expelled from the diocese in 1950, the Apostolic Administrator Michel He Jin-min administered the diocese, who was interned in a re-education camp in 1958. In 1960 the official bishop Qishu Shu was ordained, who administered the diocese until his death in 1983. At that point, Michael He Jin-min, who was released from the re-education camp in 1977, resumed his office as Apostolic Administrator until May 15, 2000, when he was ordained the official bishop of the diocese without the permission of the Holy See. In 2004 he was succeeded by Matthieu Hu Xiande.
It lost parts of its territory in favor of the establishment of the following dioceses:
- August 10, 1926 to the Apostolic Vicariate Taichow ;
- July 2, 1931 to the Apostolic Prefecture Chuchow ;
- March 3, 1949 to the diocese of Yongjia .
Ordinaries
Vicar Apostolic of Zhejiang
- François-Alexis Rameaux CM (December 11, 1838 - July 14, 1845)
- Pierre Lavaissière CM (March 27, 1846 - December 19, 1849)
- François-Xavier Danicourt CM (December 22, 1850-May 1854, then Vicar Apostolic of Jiangxi )
- Louis-Gabriel Delaplace CM (June 12, 1854 - January 21, 1870, then Vicar Apostolic of Nordzhili or Beijing )
- Edmond-François Guierry CM (January 21, 1870 - August 8, 1883)
- Paul-Marie Reynaud CM (March 7, 1884 - May 10, 1910)
Vicar Apostolic of East Zhejiang
- Paul-Marie Reynaud CM (May 10, 1910 - December 3, 1924)
Vicars Apostolic of Ningpo
- Paul-Marie Reynaud CM (December 3, 1924 - February 23, 1926)
- André-Jean-François Defebvre CM (December 14, 1926 - April 11, 1946)
Bishops of Ningpo
- André-Jean-François Defebvre CM (April 11, 1946 - April 7, 1967)
- Shu Qi-shui (1960–1983) (Bishop of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association )
- Michael He Jin-min (2000 - May 4, 2004) (Bishop of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association)
- Matthew Hu Xian-de (2004–2017) (Bishop of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association)
statistics
year | population | priest | Permanent deacons | Religious | Parishes | ||||||
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Catholics | Residents | % | Total number | Diocesan priest | Religious priest | Catholics per priest | Friars | Religious sisters | |||
1925 | 47.176 | 14,000,000 | 0.3 | 53 | ? | ? | 890 | ? | 106 | ? | |
1950 | 17,497 | 6,055,267 | 0.3 | 54 | 25th | 29 | 324 | 29 | 101 | 10 |
According to some sources, in 2011 the diocese had more than 23,000 believers, 14 priests, about forty nuns and eighty parishes and chapels.