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Diocese of Jixian

Ueihoeiven(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Jixian, China

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jixian (Weihui/Weihwei) is a Latin diocese centered on Weihui in Henan, China, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Kaifeng. Its lineage goes back to the Vicariate Apostolic of Honan erected in 1844, renamed Weihweifu in 1924 and elevated to a diocese on 11 April 1946. Bishop Joseph Zhang Yinlin succeeded to the see in 2016; in 1950 it counted about 46,000 Catholics.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
11 April 1946
Latin
Ueihoeiven(sis)
Annuario code
001001748

The see in figures

Catholics
46,000
Population
2,500,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
1.8%
Extent
2,500,000 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

Bishop
Joseph Zhang Yinlin

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 in Anyang stands in Jixian, 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 Kaifeng

A suffragan of Kaifeng.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

The city of Weihui, within the ecclesiastical province of Kaifeng in China, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Weihui/Weíhwei/Jixian, whose Latin name is Ueihoeiven(sis) and whose Chinese forms are 衛輝 and 級縣.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.