Apostolic Prefecture of Xiangtan
Siangtanen(sis)
Apostolic prefecture · Latin Church · Xiangtan, China
Latin-rite apostolic prefecture in Hunan province, China, erected in 1937 from territory of the Apostolic Vicariate of Changsha. It is an exempt pre-diocesan jurisdiction directly dependent on the Holy See, with its principal church the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Xiangtan; the prefecture has been vacant since the death of Fr. Pacifico Calzolari OFM in 1965.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic prefecture
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1 July 1937
- Latin
- Siangtanen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000499
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 the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Xiangtan stands in Xiangtan, 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.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Catholic Mission, Xiangtan, Hunan, 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
Compiled from the published 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].