Diocese of Jingxian
Chimscien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Jingxian, China
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.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 9 January 1947
- Latin
- Chimscien(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001742
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 32,645
- Population
- 2,500,000
- Catholic share
- 1.3%
- Priests
- 51
- Catholics per priest
- 640
- Extent
- 9,500 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 3.4
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
- Peter Feng Xinmao
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 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.
The province of Beijing
A suffragan of Beijing.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of BeijingBeijing
- Diocese of AnguoAnguo
- Diocese of BaodingBaoding
- Diocese of ChengdeChengde
- Diocese of DamingDaming
- Diocese of TianjinTianjin
- Diocese of XianxianXianxian
- Diocese of XingtaiXingtai
- Diocese of YongnianYongnian
- Diocese of YongpingYongping
- Diocese of ZhangjiakouZhangjiakou
- Diocese of ZhaoxianZhaoxian
- Diocese of ZhengdingZhengding
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
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.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Catholic Mission, Bishop’s House, Jingxian, Hebei, 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].