Diocese of Shanghai

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Diocese of Shanghai
Basic data
Country People's Republic of China
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Nanking
Diocesan bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Joseph Xing Wenshi
founding 1933
surface 10,000 km²
Residents 6,000,000 (1950)
Catholics 150,000 (2008)
proportion of 2.5%
Diocesan priest 78 (1950)
Religious priest 117 (1950)
Catholics per priest 769
Friars 226 (1950)
Religious sisters 690 (1950)
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Chinese
cathedral Saint Ignatius Cathedral
Co-cathedral St. Francis Xavier
Website http://www.catholicsh.org
Seat of the Bishop of Shanghai
Saint Ignatius Cathedral in Shanghai

The Diocese of Shanghai (lat. Dioecesis Sciamhaevensis ) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in China with its seat in Shanghai .

The diocese was founded at the beginning of the 17th century, initiated by missionaries, including the Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci . Under Pope Pius XI. the Apostolic Vicariate Shanghai was founded on December 13, 1933 out of the Apostolic Vicariate Nanking . On April 11, 1946, the elevation to the diocese took place , as it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Nanking . Its cathedral is the Church of St. Ignatius, built in 1906 .

With a size of 10,000 km² it counted 78 diocesan priests , 117 religious priests and 690 religious sisters in 1950 . The first bishop was Auguste Haouisée . The second bishop of Shanghai, Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei , was promoted to cardinal in 1979 ; he died on March 17, 2000 at the age of 98. The succession has not yet been clarified; Monsignor Joseph Fan Zhongliang , SJ, (1918-2014), who had been under house arrest for a long time, was regarded as head of the diocese of Shanghai until his death, but was not recognized by Beijing.

The bishop of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association from 1985 was the Jesuit Aloysius Jin Luxian , who was only recognized by the Curia as Apostolic Administrator for fans with Alzheimer's disease in 2005 . Thaddäus Ma Daqin was consecrated as auxiliary bishop on July 7, 2012 with the consent of Rome and with the consent of the government or the approval of the official Chinese bishops' conference as coadjutor with the right to succeed Bishop Jin Luxian. Because he broke away from the Patriotic Association after his ordination, he was placed under house arrest and declared deposed by the Patriotic Association. Bishop Jin Luxian died on April 27, 2013.

In 2008 the number of Catholics was estimated at around 150,000.

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  1. ↑ “400 Years of the Diocese of Shanghai” , Vatican Radio , April 1, 2008
  2. ^ "Christians in the Middle Kingdom" , Urs Schoettli (Cicero-Multimedia)
  3. ^ Mgr Aloysius Jin Luxian (Profile) ( Memento from February 26, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ “Aloysius Jin Luxian - Bishop of Shanghai” ( Memento of March 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), China Center: China heute 2007, No. 4–5, pp. 153–155
  5. ↑ “400 Years of the Diocese of Shanghai” , Vatican Radio , April 1, 2008