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Diocese of Nanyang

Naniamen(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Nanyang, China

The Diocese of Nanyang is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in China with its episcopal see at Nanyang, Henan, a suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Kaifeng. It was erected as a diocese in 1946. Its cathedral is St. Joseph's Cathedral in Nanyang; Bishop Peter Jin Lugang heads the see, and in 1950 it counted about 22,807 Catholics.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
11 April 1946
Latin
Naniamen(sis)
Annuario code
001002352

The see in figures

Catholics
22,807
Population
4,025,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
0.6%
Extent
12,000 km²
Catholics per km²
1.9

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
Peter Jin Lugang

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

St. Joseph's Cathedral, Nanyang stands in Nanyang, 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

A Latin Church jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in China, the Diocese of Nanyang (Latin: Naniamen(sis); Chinese: 南陽) has its episcopal see at Nanyang in Henan. It serves as a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Kaifeng.

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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.