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Diocese of Yichang

Iciamen(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Yichang, China

Latin Church diocese seated at Yichang in Hubei, central China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Hankou. Established on September 2, 1870 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Southwestern Hupeh, renamed after its see in 1924, and promoted to the Diocese of Yichang on April 11, 1946. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of St. Francis in Yichang; the see has been vacant since the death of Bishop Francis Lu Shouwang in 2011.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
11 April 1946
Latin
Iciamen(sis)
Annuario code
001000203

The see in figures

Catholics
30,000
Population
4,039,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
0.7%
Extent
28,000 km²
Catholics per km²
1.1

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

Cathedral of St. Francis stands in Yichang, 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 Hankou

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Hankou.

The sees of this province:

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

History

A suffragan Latin diocese of central China, Yichang, also rendered Ichang (Latin: Iciamen(sis), Chinese: 宜昌), belongs to the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishopric of Hankou while depending on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its episcopal see is the Cathedral of St. Francis in the city of Yichang, Hubei province. No statistics are available, and the see has been vacant since 2012.

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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.