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Diocese of Yongping

Iompimen(sis)

Latin Church diocese, also known as the Diocese of Tangshan or Lulong, in Hebei, China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Beijing. Established on December 23, 1899 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Eastern Chi-Li, renamed Apostolic Vicariate of Yongpingfu in 1924, and promoted to the Diocese of Yongping on April 11, 1946. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Tangshan; Bishop Peter Fang Jianping has served since 2010.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
11 April 1946
Latin
Iompimen(sis)
Annuario code
001000211

The see in figures

Priests
42
Extent
30,000 km²

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 Fang Jianping

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

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception stands in Yongping, 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 Beijing

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Beijing.

The sees of this province:

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

History

A Latin Church diocese in China's ecclesiastical province of Beijing, Yongping, also called Lulong or Tangshan (Latin: Iompimen(sis), Chinese: 永平, 盧龍), has its seat at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Yongping, now Lulong, Tangshan 唐山, in Hebei.

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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.