Diocese of Jinzhou
Geholen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Jinzhou, China
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jehol, also known as Rehe or Jinzhou, is a Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Shenyang, China, covering part of the former Rehe Province, now mainly the Liaoning portion with a small part of Hebei. Erected as a diocese in 1946, it lost the city of Chengde in 2018 when the Diocese of Chengde was created. The see is vacant; in 1950 it counted about 31,845 Catholics.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Geholen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001746
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 31,845
- Population
- 5,235,341
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.6%
- Priests
- 76
- Catholics per priest
- 419
- Extent
- 5,235,341 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.0
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 Divine Mercy stands in Jinzhou, 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 JilinJilin
- Diocese of SipingSiping
- Diocese of YanjiYanji
- Diocese of YingkouYingkou
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Known in Latin as dioecesis Geholensis and in Chinese also as Rehe or Jinzhou, the Diocese of Jehol belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Shenyang in China and covers part of the former Rehe Province. Jehol and Rehe both derive from the former Chinese name of the city of Chengde, while Jinzhou recalls the State of Jin that once occupied part of the territory. In 2018 the diocese was significantly reduced when the entire city of Chengde was detached to create the Diocese of Chengde, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Beijing. What remains today is the Liaoning portion together with a very small part of Hebei.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Catholic Mission, Bishop’s House, Jinzhou, Chaoyang, 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.