Suffragan diocese Meixian, China
Diocese of Meixian
Chiaïmen(sis)
Latin Church
The Diocese of Meixian (Kaying) is a Latin diocese in Meixian, Guangdong, China, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Guangzhou. Erected on 20 February 1929 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Kaying from the Vicariate Apostolic of Swatow, it became a vicariate in 1935 and a diocese on 11 April 1946; its first bishop was Maryknoll's Francis Xavier Ford, who died in a Chinese prison in 1952. Bishop Joseph Liao Hongqing, ordained in 2003, heads the see; in 1950 it counted about 22,819 Catholics.
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- Established
- 1929
- Catholics
- 22,819
Parishes and churches
3 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
- Bishop
- Joseph Liao Hongqing
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The cathedral
Cathedral of the Holy Family, Meizhou stands in Meixian, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
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