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Suffragan diocese Jining, China

Diocese of Jining

Zinimen(sis)

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jining is located in Jining (Ulanqab), Inner Mongolia, China, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Suiyuan, erected as a diocese in 1946. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary in Ulanqab. Its bishop, Anthony Yao Shun, was the first ordained under the 2018 Sino-Vatican agreement; in 1950 the diocese counted about 36,240 Catholics.

On the map

Esri
Jining, China, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1946
Catholics
36,240
Priests
64
Territory
40,000 km²

Parishes and churches

2 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Anthony Yao Shun

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The cathedral

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary, Ulanqab stands in Jining, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Jining, in Ulanqab, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jining (Latin: Zinimen(sis); Chinese: 集寧), a jurisdiction within the ecclesiastical province of Suiyuan in China.