Suffragan diocese Jiangmen, China
Diocese of Jiangmen
Chiammenen(sis)
Latin Church
The Diocese of Jiangmen (Kongmoon) is a Latin rite diocese in Guangdong, China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Guangzhou, erected as the Prefecture Apostolic of Kongmoon in 1924 and raised to a diocese on 11 April 1946. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Zhongshan. Paul Liang Jiansen, ordained in 2011, is listed as the current bishop by catholic-hierarchy.org.
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- Established
- 1924
- Catholics
- 8,292
- Priests
- 37
- Territory
- 35,000 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
- Bishop
- Paul Liang Jiansen
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The cathedral
Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Zhongshan stands in Jiangmen, 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
Jiangmen, a city in the ecclesiastical province of Guangzhou in China, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jiangmen/Kongmoon, rendered in Latin as Chiammenen(sis) and in Chinese as 江門.