Diocese of Ningpo

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Diocese of Ningpo
Basic data
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
Assumption Church on Tianyi Square in Ningbo

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:

Ordinaries

Vicar Apostolic of Zhejiang

Vicar Apostolic of East Zhejiang

  • Paul-Marie Reynaud CM (May 10, 1910 - December 3, 1924)

Vicars Apostolic of Ningpo

Bishops of Ningpo

statistics

year population priest Permanent deacons Religious Parishes
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.

See also

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