Suffragan diocese Wuchang, China
Diocese of Wuchang
Uciamen(sis)
Latin Church
Latin-rite diocese covering the Wuchang district of Wuhan, Hubei province, China, erected on December 12, 1923 as an apostolic prefecture and elevated to diocese in 1946. A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Hankou, the see has been vacant since the era of its last bishop, Rombert Kowalski OFM, who served until 1970.
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- Established
- 1923
- Catholics
- 11,274
- Priests
- 25
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
No bishop is recorded for this diocese. See the bishop.
The cathedral
Catedral de la Sagrada Familia stands in Wuchang, 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
Wuchang (Latin: Uciamen(sis), Chinese: 武昌) is a Roman Catholic diocese in China, seated in the Wuchang District of Wuhan in Hubei and belonging to the ecclesiastical province of Hankou.