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Suffragan diocese Xuzhou, China

Diocese of Xuzhou

Siüceuven(sis)

Latin Church diocese seated at Xuzhou in Jiangsu, China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Nanjing. Established on July 1, 1931 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Xuzhou from the Apostolic Vicariate of Nanjing, promoted to apostolic vicariate in 1935 and to diocese on April 11, 1946. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Xuzhou; Wikipedia records the see as vacant.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in Xuzhou, China.

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Established
1931
Catholics
93,500
Priests
49
Territory
20,000 km²

Parishes and churches

14 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
John Wang Renlei

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The cathedral

Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus stands in Xuzhou, 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 the city of Xuzhou in Jiangsu, part of the ecclesiastical province of Nanjing, lies the Roman Catholic Diocese of Xuzhou, also rendered Süchow (Latin: Siuceuven(sis), Chinese: 徐州).