Diocese of Zhoucun
Ceuzüenen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Zhoucun, China
Latin Church diocese seated in Zhoucun District of Zibo, Shandong, China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Jinan. Established on April 16, 1929 as the Mission sui iuris of Zhangdian from the Apostolic Vicariate of Tsinanfu, promoted to apostolic prefecture in 1932, to apostolic vicariate in 1937, and to diocese on April 11, 1946. The see is effectively vacant after Bishop Joseph Yang Yongqiang was transferred to Hangzhou in 2024.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Ceuzüenen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000242
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 29,411
- Population
- 3,000,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 1.0%
- Priests
- 35
- Catholics per priest
- 840
- Extent
- 5,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 5.9
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
- Joseph Yang Yongqiang
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 in Zhoucun, Shandong stands in Zhoucun, 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 Jinan
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Jinan.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of JinanJinan
- Diocese of Caozhou, HezeCaozhou, Heze
- Diocese of LinyiLinyi
- Diocese of QingdaoQingdao
- Diocese of WeifangWeifang
- Diocese of YangguYanggu
- Diocese of YantaiYantai
- Diocese of YanzhouYanzhou
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Zhoucun (Zibo), in China's ecclesiastical province of Jinan, is home to a Latin Catholic diocese: the Diocese of Zhoucun, also rendered Chowtsun (Latin: Dioecesis Ceuziienensis; Chinese: 教周村教区).
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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.