Diocese of Tingzhou
| Diocese of Tingzhou | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Church region | Fuzhou |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Fuzhou |
| Diocesan bishop | John Tong Changping |
| founding | 1923 |
| surface | 20,000 km² |
| Residents | 1,220,000 ( 12/31/1950 / AP2002 ) |
| Catholics | 4,318 ( 12/31/1950 / AP2002 ) |
| proportion of | 0.4% |
| Diocesan priest | 4 (December 31, 1950 / AP2002 ) |
| Religious priest | 18 (December 31, 1950 / AP2002 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 196 |
| Friars | 6 (December 31, 1950 / AP2002 ) |
| Religious sisters | 28 (December 31, 1950 / AP2002 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Standard Chinese |
The diocese of Tingzhou ( lat . : Dioecesis Timceuvensis ) is a Roman Catholic diocese based in Tingzhou in the People's Republic of China .
history
Pope Pius XI founded with the bull Ad maiorem the Apostolic Prefecture Tingzhou on 27 December 1923 from territorial concessions of the Apostolic Vicariate of Fuzhou . The new ecclesiastical district was entrusted to the Dominicans .
With the Apostolic Constitution Auspicatissimis in Sinis she was raised to the diocese on May 8, 1947. After the communists came to power , the State Council of the People's Republic of China reduced the six dioceses of Fujian Province to just three, Fuzhou, Xiamen and Mindong, so that the Tingzhou diocese was dissolved.
Ordinaries
Apostolic Prefect of Tingzhou
- Egbert Maria Pelzer OP (December 21, 1925 - May 4, 1945)
Bishop of Tingzhou
- Johann Werner Lesinski OP (May 8, 1947 - April 26, 1963)
- Sedis vacancy (April 26, 1963 - September 22, 2018)
- Giuseppe Tong Changping (since September 22, 2018)