Diocese of Lishui
Liscioëiven(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Lishui, China
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lishui is located in Lishui, Zhejiang, China, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Hangzhou erected as a diocese in 1948. Its former cathedral is the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Lishui. The see is vacant; in 1950 it counted about 4,286 Catholics.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 13 May 1948
- Latin
- Liscioëiven(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002021
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 4,286
- Population
- 3,309,300
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.1%
- Extent
- 23,484 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
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Lishui stands in Lishui, 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 LinhaiLinhai
- Diocese of NingboNingbo
- Diocese of Yongjia, WenzhouYongjia, Wenzhou
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Lishui, a city within the ecclesiastical province of Hangzhou in China, gives its name to a Roman Catholic diocese known in Latin as Liscioëiven(sis) and in Chinese as 麗水.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Catholic Mission, Bishop’s House, Lishui, Zhejiang, 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.