Diocese of Hanzhong
Hanciomen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Hanzhong, China
The Diocese of Hanzhong is a Latin rite diocese in southern Shaanxi, China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Xi'an, established on 2 August 1887 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Shensi. Its seat is St. Michael's Cathedral in Hanzhong. Stefano Xu Hongwei has served as its bishop since 2019.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Hanciomen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001580
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 19,060
- Population
- 1,500,000
- Catholic share
- 1.3%
- Extent
- 1,500,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.0
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
- Stefano Xu Hongwei
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
St. Michael's Cathedral, Hanzhong stands in Hanzhong, 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 Xi'an
A suffragan of Xi'an.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Xi'anXi'an
- Diocese of FengxiangFengxiang
- Diocese of SanyuanSanyuan
- Diocese of Yan'anYan'an
- Diocese of ZhouzhiZhouzhi
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Established on August 2, 1887 as an apostolic vicariate, the Diocese of Hanzhong (formerly spelled Hanchung; Latin: Dioecesis Hanciomensis; Chinese: 天主教漢中教區), also known as the Diocese of Nancheng, is a Latin Catholic territory in Shaanxi, China. Its episcopal see is the city of Hanzhong in Southern Shaanxi, and it belongs to the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Xi'an.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Catholic Mission, Ming-Teh-kie, Hanzhong, Shaanxi, 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].