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Diocese of Zhaoxian

Ciaoscienen(sis)

Latin Church diocese located in Zhao County, Hebei, China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Beijing. Established on March 18, 1929 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Zhaoxian from the Apostolic Vicariate of Zhengdingfu, promoted to apostolic vicariate in 1932 and to diocese on April 11, 1946. Wikipedia records the see as vacant.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
11 April 1946
Latin
Ciaoscienen(sis)
Annuario code
001000239

The see in figures

Catholics
45,000
Population
900,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
5.0%
Priests
39
Catholics per priest
1,154
Extent
900,000 km²
Catholics per km²
0.1

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

del Buen Pastor stands in Zhaoxian, 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

Zhaoxian (Latin: Ciaoscienen(sis), Chinese: 趙縣) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Zhao County, within China's ecclesiastical province of Beijing.

How to reach it

Diocesan offices
Pien-Tsun, Catholic Mission, Kao-y, Hebei, 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

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.