Yanji Diocese

	Yanji Diocese
Basic data
Country	People's Republic of China
Metropolitan bishopric	Shenyang Archdiocese
Diocesan bishop	Sedis vacancy
founding	1928
rite	Roman rite
Liturgical language	Standard Chinese Latin

The diocese Yanji [Yenki] ( lat. : Dioecesis Ienchivensis ) is in the People's Republic of China Located Roman Catholic diocese based in Yanji .

history

The Diocese of Yanji was founded on July 19, 1928 by Pope Pius XI. Established with the Apostolic Constitution Ex hac Divi from cession of territory by the Apostolic Vicariate Wonsan as Apostolic Prefecture Yanji (Yenki) . The Apostolic Prefecture of Yanji (Yenki) was founded on April 13, 1937 by Pius XI. raised to the apostolic vicariate .

The Apostolic Vicariate Yanji was on April 11, 1946 by Pope Pius XII. raised to a diocese with the Apostolic Constitution Quotidie Nos and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Shenyang as a suffragan .

Ordinaries

Apostolic Prefects of Yanji (Yenki)

Theodor Breher OSB , 1929-1937

Vicars Apostolic of Yanji (Yenki)

Theodor Breher OSB, 1937-1946

Bishops of Yanji (Yenki)

Theodor Breher OSB, 1946–1950
Sedis vacancy , since 1950

Web links

Entry on the Diocese of Yanji on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved July 3, 2011.

Individual evidence

^ Pius XI: Const. Apost. Ex hac Divi , AAS 21 (1929), n.5, pp. 181f.
^ Pius XII: Const. Apost. Quotidie Nos , AAS 38 (1946), n.10, pp. 301ff.

[1] Pius XI: Const. Apost. Ex hac Divi , AAS 21 (1929), n.5, pp. 181f.

[2] Pius XII: Const. Apost. Quotidie Nos , AAS 38 (1946), n.10, pp. 301ff.