Diocese of Nanchong
Scioenchimen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Nanchong, China
The Diocese of Shunqing (Shunking), also known as the Diocese of Nanchong, is a suffragan Latin Catholic diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Chongqing in southwestern China. Established on 2 August 1929 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Shunking and elevated to a diocese in 1946, its see is the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Nanchong, Sichuan. Bishop Joseph Chen Gong'ao heads the see; in 1950 it counted about 19,442 Catholics.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Scioenchimen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002346
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 19,442
- Population
- 8,000,000
- Catholic share
- 0.2%
- Priests
- 26
- Catholics per priest
- 748
- Extent
- 25,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.8
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
- Joseph Chen Gong'ao
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
Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral, Nanchong stands in Nanchong, 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 Chongqing
A suffragan of Chongqing.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of ChongqingChongqing
- Diocese of ChengduChengdu
- Diocese of KangdingKangding
- Diocese of LeshanLeshan
- Diocese of WanxianWanxian
- Diocese of XichangXichang
- Diocese of YibinYibin
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Also called the Diocese of Nanchong, the Diocese of Shunqing (formerly spelled Shunking; Latin: Dioecesis Scioenchimensis; Chinese: 天主教順慶教區) is a suffragan Latin Catholic diocese of the ecclesiastical province of Chongqing in southwestern China, though it depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. It began on August 2, 1929 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Shunking for the Mission of Sichuan (Szechwan). Its episcopal see is the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in the Shunqing city center district of Nanchong, Sichuan province. No statistics are available.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Catholic Mission, Bishop’s House, Nanchong, Sichuan, 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].