Diocese of Linhai
Taeceuven(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Linhai, China
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Taizhou/Linhai is located in Taizhou, Zhejiang, China, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Hangzhou erected as a diocese in 1948. Its cathedral is the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Jiaojiang, Taizhou. The see is vacant; in 1950 it counted about 7,734 Catholics.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Taeceuven(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002014
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 7,734
- Population
- 2,000,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.4%
- Extent
- 3,135 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.5
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
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Jiaojiang stands in Linhai, 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 Hangzhou
A suffragan of Hangzhou.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of HangzhouHangzhou
- Diocese of LishuiLishui
- Diocese of NingboNingbo
- Diocese of Yongjia, WenzhouYongjia, Wenzhou
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Taizhou in Zhejiang is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Taizhou/Linhai (Latin: Taeceuven(sis); Chinese: 台州, 臨海), part of the ecclesiastical province of Hangzhou in China.
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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.