Diocese of Baoding
Paotimen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Baoding, China
Latin-rite diocese centered on the city of Baoding in Hebei, China, established as the Apostolic Vicariate of Central Chi-Li on 14 February 1910 from the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Chi-Li, renamed Baodingfu in 1924 and promoted to the Diocese of Baoding on 11 April 1946. It is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Beijing and its seat is the Cathedral of Sts Peter and Paul in Baoding. The see is listed sede vacante by Wikipedia.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Paotimen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000823
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 78,601
- Population
- 2,000,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 3.9%
- Priests
- 68
- Catholics per priest
- 1,156
- Extent
- 12,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 6.6
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
- James Su Zhi-min
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
Cathedral of Sts Peter and Paul, Baoding stands in Baoding, 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 AnguoAnguo
- 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
Within the ecclesiastical province of Beijing lies the Diocese of Baoding, also rendered Ching-Yüan or Qingyuan (Latin: Paotimen(sis), Chinese: 保定, 青苑), seated in the Chinese city of Baoding.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Catholic Mission, Bishop’s House, Baoding, 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.