Diocese of Hongdong
Homtomen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Hongdong, China
The Diocese of Hongdong (Hungtung) is a Latin rite diocese in Shanxi, China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Taiyuan, with its seat at the Cathedral of Hongtong. Peter Liu Gen-zhu serves as bishop; he was the second bishop ordained with the approval of both the Holy See and the Chinese government under the 2018 provisional agreement.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 18 April 1950
- Latin
- Homtomen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001607
The bishop
- Bishop
- Peter Liu Gen-zhu
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 Hongtong stands in Hongdong, 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 Taiyuan
A suffragan of Taiyuan.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of TaiyuanTaiyuan
- Diocese of ChangzhiChangzhi
- Diocese of DatongDatong
- Diocese of LüliangLüliang
- Diocese of ShuoxianShuoxian
- Diocese of YuciYuci
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Hongdong, a city in the Chinese province of Shanxi, gives its name to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hongdong/Hungtung (Latin: Homtomen(sis); Chinese: 洪洞, pinyin Hóngtóng). The diocese belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Taiyuan.
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