Apostolic Prefecture of Guilin
Kveilinen(sis)
Apostolic prefecture · Latin Church · Guilin, China
The Apostolic Prefecture of Guilin is a Latin rite missionary jurisdiction covering the Guilin region of Guangxi, China, immediately subject to the Holy See. It was erected on 9 February 1938 from the Prefecture Apostolic of Wuchow. The prefecture is vacant.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic prefecture
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 9 February 1938
- Latin
- Kveilinen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000475
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 3,968
- Priests
- 14
- Catholics per priest
- 283
- Extent
- 32,380 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.1
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
de Santa Teresa de Lisieux stands in Guilin, 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
Catholics of the Guilin region of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China fall under the jurisdiction of the Apostolic Prefecture of Guilin, a Roman Catholic prefecture.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Catholic Mission, Guilin, Guanxi, 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].