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Diocese of Xinyang

Siniamen(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Xinyang, China

Latin Church diocese seated at Xinyang in Henan, China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Kaifeng. Erected on December 15, 1927 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Xinyangzhou from the Apostolic Vicariate of Kaifengfu, promoted to apostolic vicariate in 1933 and to diocese on April 11, 1946. The see has long been vacant; its last bishop, Antonio Pott, S.V.D., served until 1954.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
11 April 1946
Latin
Siniamen(sis)
Annuario code
001000183

The see in figures

Catholics
13,654
Population
6,000,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
0.2%
Extent
30,000 km²
Catholics per km²
0.5

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 province of Kaifeng

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Kaifeng.

The sees of this province:

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

History

Xinyang, also known as Sinyang (Latin: Siniamen(sis), Chinese: 信陽), is a Catholic diocese seated in the city of Xinyang, within China's ecclesiastical province of Kaifeng.

How to reach it

Diocesan offices
Catholic Mission, Bishop’s House Xinyang, Henan, 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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Sources

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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.