Diocese of Qingdao
Zimtaoven(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Qingdao, China
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.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Zimtaoven(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002695
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 23,588
- Priests
- 28
- Catholics per priest
- 842
- Extent
- 17,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.4
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
- Thomas Chen Tianhao
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
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.
The province of Jinan
A suffragan of Jinan.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of JinanJinan
- Diocese of Caozhou, HezeCaozhou, Heze
- Diocese of LinyiLinyi
- Diocese of WeifangWeifang
- Diocese of YangguYanggu
- Diocese of YantaiYantai
- Diocese of YanzhouYanzhou
- Diocese of ZhoucunZhoucun
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
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.
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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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
The see's own website · Wikipedia
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].