Diocese of Chengdu
Cemtuan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Chengdu, China
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.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Cemtuan(us)
- Annuario code
- 001001118
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 40,240
- Population
- 20,000,000
- Catholic share
- 0.2%
- Extent
- 100,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.4
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
- Bishop
- Joseph Tang Yuange
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 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.
The province of Chongqing
A suffragan of Chongqing.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of ChongqingChongqing
- Diocese of KangdingKangding
- Diocese of LeshanLeshan
- Diocese of NanchongNanchong
- Diocese of WanxianWanxian
- Diocese of XichangXichang
- Diocese of YibinYibin
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
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.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Catholic Mission, Pingankiao, 29, Chengdu, Sichuan, 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].