Diocese of Xinyang
Siniamen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Xinyang, China
Latin Church diocese seated at Xinyang in Henan, China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Kaifeng. Erected on December 15, 1927 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Xinyangzhou from the Apostolic Vicariate of Kaifengfu, promoted to apostolic vicariate in 1933 and to diocese on April 11, 1946. The see has long been vacant; its last bishop, Antonio Pott, S.V.D., served until 1954.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Siniamen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000183
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 13,654
- Population
- 6,000,000
- Catholic share
- 0.2%
- Extent
- 30,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.5
of the people living within its bounds
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 province of Kaifeng
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Kaifeng.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of KaifengKaifeng
- Diocese of JixianJixian
- Diocese of LuoyangLuoyang
- Diocese of NanyangNanyang
- Diocese of ShangqiuShangqiu
- Diocese of ZhengzhouZhengzhou
- Diocese of ZhumadianZhumadian
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Xinyang, also known as Sinyang (Latin: Siniamen(sis), Chinese: 信陽), is a Catholic diocese seated in the city of Xinyang, within China's ecclesiastical province of Kaifeng.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Catholic Mission, Bishop’s House Xinyang, Henan, 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].