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Diocese of Yuci

Iüzean(us)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Yuci, China

Latin Church diocese seated at Yuci in Shanxi, China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Taiyuan. Established on June 17, 1931 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Yuci from the Apostolic Vicariate of Taiyuanfu, promoted to apostolic vicariate in 1944 and to diocese on April 11, 1946. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of St. Joseph; the see has been vacant since the death of Bishop John Baptist Wang Jin in 2014.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
11 April 1946
Latin
Iüzean(us)
Annuario code
001000218

The see in figures

Catholics
15,410
Priests
21
Catholics per priest
734
Extent
10,000 km²
Catholics per km²
1.5

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 cathedral

Cathedral of St. Joseph stands in Yuci, 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 Taiyuan

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Taiyuan.

The sees of this province:

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

History

Yuci (Latin: Iüzean(us), Chinese: 榆次) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Yuci, Shanxi, within the ecclesiastical province of Taiyuan, China.

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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.