Diocese of Anguo
Ngancuoven(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Anguo, China
Latin-rite diocese centered on the city of Anguo in Hebei, China, established as the Apostolic Prefecture of Lixian on 15 April 1924, promoted to apostolic vicariate in 1929 and to the Diocese of Anguo on 11 April 1946. It is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Beijing. The see is sede vacante per Wikipedia.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Ngancuoven(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000694
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 33,200
- Population
- 1,200,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 2.8%
- Extent
- 1,200,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.0
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Wang Feili
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Gaojiazhuang Catholic Church, Lixian stands in Anguo, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Beijing
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Beijing.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of BeijingBeijing
- Diocese of BaodingBaoding
- Diocese of ChengdeChengde
- Diocese of DamingDaming
- Diocese of JingxianJingxian
- Diocese of TianjinTianjin
- Diocese of XianxianXianxian
- Diocese of XingtaiXingtai
- Diocese of YongnianYongnian
- Diocese of YongpingYongping
- Diocese of ZhangjiakouZhangjiakou
- Diocese of ZhaoxianZhaoxian
- Diocese of ZhengdingZhengding
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Anguo (Chinese: 安國), this diocese (Latin: Ngancuoven(sis)) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Beijing in China.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Catholic Mission, SiKuan, Anguo, Hebei, China
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.