Diocese of Hongdong
Homtomen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Hongdong, China
The Diocese of Hongdong (Hungtung) is a Latin rite diocese in Shanxi, China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Taiyuan, with its seat at the Cathedral of Hongtong. Peter Liu Gen-zhu serves as bishop; he was the second bishop ordained with the approval of both the Holy See and the Chinese government under the 2018 provisional agreement.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 18 April 1950
- Latin
- Homtomen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001607
The bishop
- Bishop
- Peter Liu Gen-zhu
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 Hongtong stands in Hongdong, 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 Taiyuan
A suffragan of Taiyuan.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of TaiyuanTaiyuan
- Diocese of ChangzhiChangzhi
- Diocese of DatongDatong
- Diocese of LüliangLüliang
- Diocese of ShuoxianShuoxian
- Diocese of YuciYuci
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Hongdong, a city in the Chinese province of Shanxi, gives its name to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hongdong/Hungtung (Latin: Homtomen(sis); Chinese: 洪洞, pinyin Hóngtóng). The diocese belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Taiyuan.
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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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
The see's own website · Wikipedia
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].