Diocese of Bengbu
Pampuven(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Bengbu, China
Latin-rite diocese in Anhui province, eastern China, established as the Apostolic Vicariate of Bengbu (Pengpu) on 21 February 1929 from the Apostolic Vicariate of Wuhu and promoted to diocese on 11 April 1946. It is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Anqing and its seat is the Bengbu Cathedral. The see is sede vacante per Wikipedia, without an apostolic administrator.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Pampuven(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000882
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 64,334
- Population
- 9,000,000
- Catholic share
- 0.7%
- Priests
- 45
- Catholics per priest
- 1,430
- Extent
- 60,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.1
of the people living within its bounds
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
Bengbu Cathedral stands in Bengbu, 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 Anqing
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Anqing.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of AnqingAnqing
- Diocese of WuhuWuhu
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
A Latin Rite suffragan see in the ecclesiastical province of Anqing in eastern China, the Diocese of Bengbu (Latin: Pampuven(sis), Chinese: 蚌埠) nonetheless depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its cathedral stands in the city of Bengbu 蚌埠 in Anhui province. The see is vacant, and has lacked even an apostolic administrator since 2005; no recent statistics are available.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Catholic Mission, Bishop’s House, Bengbu, Anhui, 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.
Sources
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].