Suffragan diocese Chengdu, China
Diocese of Chengdu
Cemtuan(us)
Latin Church
The Diocese of Chengdu is a Latin rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Chongqing, covering the Chengdu, Deyang, Guangyuan, and Mianyang areas of Sichuan, China. It originated as the Apostolic Vicariate of Szechwan, erected on 15 October 1696, and its seat is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Chengdu. Joseph Tang Yuange has been its bishop since 2016.
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- Established
- 1696
- Catholics
- 40,240
- Territory
- 100,000 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 Tang Yuange
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The cathedral
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Chengdu stands in Chengdu, 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
Southwestern China's Sichuan area is covered by the Diocese of Chengdu, spelt Chengtu in older usage (Latin: Dioecesis Cemtuana; simplified Chinese: 天主教成都教区; traditional Chinese: 天主教成都教區). A Latin Catholic suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of Chongqing, it nonetheless depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.