Suffragan diocese Chengde, China
Diocese of Chengde
Chengden(sis)
Latin Church
The Diocese of Chengde is a Latin rite diocese in Hebei, China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Beijing. Erected on 22 September 2018 from parts of the Diocese of Jehol and the Diocese of Chifeng, it was the first new Catholic diocese in China created after the 2018 China-Vatican provisional agreement. Joseph Guo Jincai serves as its bishop.
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- Established
- 2018
- Catholics
- 25,000
- Priests
- 7
- Territory
- 39,519 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
- Bishop
- Joseph Guo Jincai
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The cathedral
Cathedral of the Good Shepherd stands in Chengde, 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.
History
Erected on 22 September 2018 from parts of the territories of the Diocese of Jehol and the Diocese of Chifeng, the Diocese of Chengde (Chinese: 承德) is seated in the city of Chengde within the ecclesiastical province of Beijing. It holds several distinctions: the first diocese erected after the China-Vatican agreement of 22 September 2018, the first new Catholic diocese in China since 1949, and the first change to the Catholic hierarchy in China since 1951. Its boundaries match those of the civil prefecture-level city of Chengde in Hebei province.