Diocese of Fushun
Fuscioenen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Fushun, China
The Diocese of Fushun is a Latin rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Shenyang in Liaoning, northeastern China. Its episcopal seat is the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Fushun. The see is vacant.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Fuscioenen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001452
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 10,000
- Population
- 6,250,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.2%
- Extent
- 75,204 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.1
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
Cathedral of St. Joseph, Fushun stands in Fushun, 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 Shenyang
A suffragan of Shenyang.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of ShenyangShenyang
- Diocese of ChifengChifeng
- Diocese of JilinJilin
- Diocese of JinzhouJinzhou
- Diocese of SipingSiping
- Diocese of YanjiYanji
- Diocese of YingkouYingkou
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan of Shenyang 瀋陽 in PR China lies the suffragan Latin Diocese of Fushun (Latin: Fuscioenen(sis), Chinese: 撫順), whose cathedral episcopal see is the Cathedral of St. Joseph in the city of Fushun.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Catholic Mission, Bishop’s House, Fushun, Liaoning, 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.