Suffragan diocese Jingxian, China
Diocese of Jingxian
Chimscien(sis)
Latin Church
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jingxian (Kinghsien) is located in Jing County, Hengshui, Hebei, China, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Beijing erected as a diocese in 1947. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of Our Lady Help of Christians in Jingxian. In 1950 it counted about 32,645 Catholics.
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- Established
- 1947
- Catholics
- 32,645
- Priests
- 51
- Territory
- 9,500 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
- Peter Feng Xinmao
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The cathedral
Cathedral of Our Lady Help of Christians, Jingxian stands in Jingxian, 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
Belonging to the ecclesiastical province of Beijing in China, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jingxian/Kinghsien (Latin: Chimscien(sis); Chinese: 景縣) has its seat at Jingxian, in Hengshui.