Apostolic Prefecture of Haizhou, Donghai
Haichoven(sis)
Apostolic prefecture · Latin Church · Haizhou, Donghai, China
The Apostolic Prefecture of Haizhou (Haichow, Donghai) is a Latin rite missionary jurisdiction in northern Jiangsu, China, erected on 9 June 1949 from territory of the Diocese of Shanghai. It depends directly on the Dicastery for Evangelization. The prefecture is vacant; its only ordinary, Ferdinand Lacretelle SJ, served from 1951 until resigning in 1983.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic prefecture
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 9 June 1949
- Latin
- Haichoven(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000477
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.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Catholic Mission, Haizhou, 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
Compiled from the published 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].