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Suffragan diocese Qingdao, China

Diocese of Qingdao

Zimtaoven(sis)

The Diocese of Qingdao (Tsingtao) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Qingdao, Shandong, China, a suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Jinan, erected as a diocese in 1946. Its cathedral episcopal see is St. Michael's Cathedral in Qingdao. Bishop Thomas Chen Tianhao, ordained in 2023 under the Sino-Vatican agreement, heads the see.

On the map

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The address the register holds for St. Michael's Cathedral, Qingdao, in Qingdao, China.

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Established
1946
Catholics
23,588
Priests
28
Territory
17,000 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Thomas Chen Tianhao

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The cathedral

St. Michael's Cathedral, Qingdao stands in Qingdao, 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.

History

The Cathedral of St. Michael, in the city of Qingdao in Shandong, is the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Qingdao, also written Tsingtao (Latin: Zimtaoven(sis); German: Bistum Tsingtao; simplified Chinese: 青岛; traditional Chinese: 青島; pinyin: Qīngdǎo). A Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in China, it is a suffragan in the province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Jinan.