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Diocese of Anguo

Ngancuoven(sis)

Latin-rite diocese centered on the city of Anguo in Hebei, China, established as the Apostolic Prefecture of Lixian on 15 April 1924, promoted to apostolic vicariate in 1929 and to the Diocese of Anguo on 11 April 1946. It is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Beijing. The see is sede vacante per Wikipedia.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
11 April 1946
Latin
Ngancuoven(sis)
Annuario code
001000694

The see in figures

Catholics
33,200
Population
1,200,000
Catholic share
2.8%

of the people living within its bounds

Extent
1,200,000 km²
Catholics per km²
0.0

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
Wang Feili

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

Gaojiazhuang Catholic Church, Lixian stands in Anguo, 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

Seated in the city of Anguo (Chinese: 安國), this diocese (Latin: Ngancuoven(sis)) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Beijing in China.

How to reach it

Chancery
Catholic Mission, SiKuan, Anguo, Hebei, China

This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery 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.

What is kept by invitation

The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.

The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.

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Sources

Wikipedia

This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].