Diocese of Zhaoxian
Ciaoscienen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Zhaoxian, China
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:
- Archdiocese of BeijingBeijing
- Diocese of AnguoAnguo
- Diocese of BaodingBaoding
- Diocese of ChengdeChengde
- Diocese of DamingDaming
- Diocese of JingxianJingxian
- Diocese of TianjinTianjin
- Diocese of XianxianXianxian
- Diocese of XingtaiXingtai
- Diocese of YongnianYongnian
- Diocese of YongpingYongping
- Diocese of ZhangjiakouZhangjiakou
- Diocese of ZhengdingZhengding
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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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.