Diocese of Jiangmen
Chiammenen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Jiangmen, China
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.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Chiammenen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001739
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 8,292
- Population
- 4,000,000
- Catholic share
- 0.2%
- Priests
- 37
- Catholics per priest
- 224
- Extent
- 35,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.2
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
- Paul Liang Jiansen
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 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.
The province of Guangzhou
A suffragan of Guangzhou.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of GuangzhouGuangzhou
- Diocese of BeihaiBeihai
- Diocese of MeixianMeixian
- Diocese of ShantouShantou
- Diocese of ShaoguanShaoguan
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
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.
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].