Roman Catholic Diocese of Shunqing
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Shunqing/Shunking/Nanchong (Latin: Scioenchimen(sis), Chinese: 順慶, 南充) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Chongqing in southwest China, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Diocese of Shunqing Dioecesis Scioenchimensis 天主教顺庆教区 | |
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| Location | |
| Country | China |
| Ecclesiastical province | Chongqing |
| Metropolitan | Chongqing |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 25,000 km2 (9,700 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members) | (as of 1950) 8,000,000 19,442 (0.2%) |
| Information | |
| Rite | Latin Rite |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Nanchong |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Sede Vacante |
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in the Shunqing city center district of Nanchong 南充, Sichuan province. No statistics available.
History
- Established on 2 August 1929 as Apostolic Vicariate of Shunqingfu 順慶府 / Shunkingfu / de Shunkingfu (Latin) -fu meaning administrative prefecture], on territory split off from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Chengdu 成都 (now a diocese)
- Promoted on April 11, 1946 and renamed after its see as Diocese of Shunqing 順慶 / Nanchong 南充 (中文) / Shunking / Sciœnchimen(sis) (Latin).
Episcopal ordinaries
(all Roman Rite native Chinese)
- Apostolic Vicar of Shunqingfu 順慶府
- Paul Wang Wen-cheng (王文成) (December 2, 1929 – April 11, 1946 see below)
- Suffragan Bishops of Shunqing 順慶
- Paul Wang Wen-cheng (王文成) (see above April 11, 1946 – January 28, 1961)
- uncanonical: Fan Dao-jiang (范導江) (1963 – death 1987.12.17), without papal mandate
- uncanonical: Michael Huang Wo-ze (黃渥澤) (1989 – retired 2001), without papal mandate; died 2004
- Joseph Chen Gong-ao (陳功鰲) (2012 – ...)
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