Diocese of Luoyang
Loiamen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Luoyang, China
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Luoyang (Loyang) is located in Luoyang, Henan, China, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Kaifeng erected as a diocese in 1946. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of the Mother of God in Luoyang. The see is vacant, served by Auxiliary Bishop Peter Mao Qingfu; in 1950 it counted about 10,122 Catholics.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Loiamen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002070
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 10,122
- Population
- 3,000,000
- Catholic share
- 0.3%
- Priests
- 14
- Catholics per priest
- 723
- Extent
- 25,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.4
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
The register holds no ordinary for this see. Where a chair is vacant the vacancy is the fact, and it is recorded rather than filled in. See the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of the Mother of God, Luoyang stands in Luoyang, 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 Kaifeng
A suffragan of Kaifeng.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of KaifengKaifeng
- Diocese of JixianJixian
- Diocese of NanyangNanyang
- Diocese of ShangqiuShangqiu
- Diocese of XinyangXinyang
- Diocese of ZhengzhouZhengzhou
- Diocese of ZhumadianZhumadian
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Luoyang/Loyang, written Loiamen(sis) in Latin and 洛陽 in Chinese, has its seat in the city of Luoyang and belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Kaifeng in China.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Catholic Mission, Bishop’s House, Luoyang, Henan, 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].