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Diocese of Zhengzhou

Cemceuven(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Zhengzhou, China

Latin Church diocese seated at Zhengzhou in Henan, China, in the ecclesiastical province of Kaifeng. Erected on August 28, 1882 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Western Honan, promoted to apostolic vicariate in 1911, renamed Apostolic Vicariate of Zhengzhou in 1924, and elevated to diocese on April 11, 1946. Bishop Thaddeus Wang Yuesheng was appointed on January 25, 2024.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
11 April 1946
Latin
Cemceuven(sis)
Annuario code
001000241

The see in figures

Catholics
20,514
Population
4,000,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
0.5%
Priests
24
Catholics per priest
855
Extent
18,000 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

Bishop
Thaddeus Wang Yuesheng

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

Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Lourdes stands in Zhengzhou, 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 Kaifeng

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Kaifeng.

The sees of this province:

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

History

Zhengzhou, also rendered Chengchow (Latin: Cemceuven(sis), Chinese: 鄭州), is a Roman Catholic diocese seated in the city of Zhengzhou, within China's ecclesiastical province of Kaifeng.

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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.