Apostolic Prefecture of Shiqian
Shihtsienen(sis)
Apostolic prefecture · Latin Church · Shiqian, China
Latin-rite apostolic prefecture in Guizhou province, southwestern China, established in 1932 as a mission sui iuris from the Apostolic Vicariate of Guiyang and promoted to apostolic prefecture in 1937. It is an exempt jurisdiction directly subject to the Holy See and has been vacant since the death of prefect Augustine Hu Daguo in 2011.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic prefecture
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 2 December 1937
- Latin
- Shihtsienen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000492
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 5,697
- Priests
- 22
- Catholics per priest
- 259
- Extent
- 40,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.1
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 Shiqian stands in Shiqian, 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
In Shiqian County, Guizhou, in southwestern China, the Apostolic Prefecture of Shiqian is a Latin pre-diocesan missionary jurisdiction of the Catholic Church. The county falls under the administration of the city of Tongren (Tong-jen-fou). The prefecture is exempt, subject directly to the Holy See and its Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples rather than to any ecclesiastical province. No cathedral or statistics are available, and it has stood vacant since 2011 without an Apostolic administrator.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Catholic Mission, Shiqian, Guizhou, 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].