Diocese of Jilin
Chilinen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Jilin, China
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jilin (Kirin) covers part of Manchuria in northeast China and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Shenyang. Elevated to a diocese in 1946, its episcopal see is St. Theresa's Cathedral in Changchun, the former cathedral being the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Jilin City. The see has been vacant since 2009; in 1949 it counted about 35,000 Catholics.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Chilinen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Lourdes
- Annuario code
- 001001740
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 35,000
- Population
- 9,000,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.4%
- Priests
- 33
- Catholics per priest
- 1,061
- Extent
- 163,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.2
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
St. Theresa's Cathedral, Changchun stands in Jilin, 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 FushunFushun
- Diocese of JinzhouJinzhou
- Diocese of SipingSiping
- Diocese of YanjiYanji
- Diocese of YingkouYingkou
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Manchuria, in China's northeast, the Latin Diocese of Jilin/Kírín (Latin: Chilinen(sis); Chinese: 吉林) serves as a suffragan of the Metropolitan of Shenyang 瀋陽 while depending on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The see has been vacant, again, since 2009. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of St. Theresa in Changchun 长春; the earlier cathedral survives as the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Jilin City.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Catholic Mission, Bishop’s House, Kiang-Yen-Chien, Jilin, 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.