Diocese of Enshi
Scenanen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Enshi, China
The Diocese of Shinan (Enshi) is a dormant Latin rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Hankou in central China, with its episcopal see at Enshi in Hubei. It has been vacant since the death of its only bishop in 1942 and without an apostolic administrator since 1950. No statistics are available.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Scenanen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001367
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 7,844
- Priests
- 13
- Catholics per priest
- 603
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
The register holds no ordinary for this see. Where a chair is vacant the vacancy is the fact, and it is recorded rather than filled in. See the bishop.
The cathedral
Shinan Cathedral stands in Enshi, 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 Hankou
A suffragan of Hankou.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of HankouHankou
- Diocese of HanyangHanyang
- Diocese of LaohekouLaohekou
- Diocese of PuqiPuqi
- Diocese of QichunQichun
- Diocese of WuchangWuchang
- Diocese of XiangyangXiangyang
- Diocese of YichangYichang
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Possibly dormant, the suffragan Latin Diocese of Shinan/Shíhnan/Enshi (Latin: Scenanen(sis), Chinese: 施南, 恩施) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan archbishopric of Hankou in central China while depending on the missionary Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its episcopal see is the city of Shinan, now known as Enshi. The see has been vacant since the death of its sole incumbent in 1942, without an apostolic administrator since 1950, and no statistics are available.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Catholic Mission, Bishop’s House, Enshi, Hubei, 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.