Diocese of Siping
Sepimchiaeven(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Siping, China
Latin-rite diocese (historically Sipingkai/Szepingkai) in Jilin province, northeastern China, erected in 1929 as an apostolic prefecture from territory of the Apostolic Vicariates of Shenyang and Rehe, and elevated to diocese in 1946. A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Shenyang, the see has been vacant since the death of Bishop Andrew Han Jingtao on December 30, 2020.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Sepimchiaeven(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001003072
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
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Jilin stands in Siping, 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 Shenyang
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Shenyang.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of ShenyangShenyang
- Diocese of ChifengChifeng
- Diocese of FushunFushun
- Diocese of JilinJilin
- Diocese of JinzhouJinzhou
- Diocese of YanjiYanji
- Diocese of YingkouYingkou
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
A Latin suffragan diocese under the Metropolitan of Shenyang, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sipingjie/Siping/Szepíngkai (Latin: Sepimchiaeven(sis); Chinese: 四平街 / 四平; pinyin: Sìpíngjiē / Sìpíng) keeps its episcopal seat at Sacred Heart Cathedral in the city of Sipingjie (Siping, Jiling or Szepíngkai), in Jilin province.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Catholic Mission, Bishop’s House, Siping Shi, Liao-Pei, 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].