Diocese of Leshan
Chiatimen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Leshan, China
The Diocese of Jiading (Kiating), known as the Diocese of Leshan by the Catholic Patriotic Association, is a Latin Catholic diocese located in Leshan, Sichuan, in the ecclesiastical province of Chongqing. Established on 10 July 1929 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Yachow and elevated to a diocese in 1946, its cathedral is the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Leshan. Bishop Paul Lei Shiyin, legitimized by the Holy See in 2018, heads the see.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Chiatimen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001991
The see in figures
- Population
- 2,645,000
- Priests
- 24
- Extent
- 27,000 km²
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
- Paul Lei Shiyin
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
Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral, Leshan stands in Leshan, 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 Chongqing
A suffragan of Chongqing.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of ChongqingChongqing
- Diocese of ChengduChengdu
- Diocese of KangdingKangding
- Diocese of NanchongNanchong
- Diocese of WanxianWanxian
- Diocese of XichangXichang
- Diocese of YibinYibin
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
A Latin Catholic diocese of the ecclesiastical province of Chongqing in western China, the Diocese of Jiading (formerly spelled Kiating; Latin: Dioecesis Chiatimensis; simplified Chinese: 天主教嘉定教区; traditional Chinese: 天主教嘉定教區) is seated in the city of Leshan, once Jiading Prefecture. The government controlled Catholic Patriotic Association calls it the Diocese of Leshan (天主教乐山教区; 天主教樂山教區). It began on July 10, 1929 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Yachow for the Mission of Sichuan (Szechwan), with its episcopal see first placed at Yachow, present-day Ya'an.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Catholic Mission, Bishop’s House, Leshan, Sichuan, 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.