Diocese of Hengyang
Hemceuven(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Hengyang, China
The Diocese of Hengzhou (Hengchow), centered on the city of Hengyang in Hunan, China, is a Latin rite diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Changsha. The see is vacant.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Hemceuven(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001591
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 12,085
- Population
- 3,000,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.4%
- Extent
- 30,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.4
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 Hengzhou stands in Hengyang, 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 Changsha
A suffragan of Changsha.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of ChangshaChangsha
- Diocese of ChangdeChangde
- Diocese of YuanlingYuanling
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in Hengyang (Hunan), this diocese, known as Hengzhou, Hengchow or Hengyang (Latin: Hemceuven(sis), Chinese: 衡州, 衡陽), belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Changsha in China.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Catholic Mission, Pei-Men, Hengyang, Hunan, 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.