Suffragan diocese Yanggu, China
Diocese of Yanggu
Iamcuven(sis)
Latin Church
Latin Church diocese seated at Yanggu in Shandong, China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Jinan. Established on December 13, 1933 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Yanggu from the Apostolic Vicariate of Yanzhoufu, promoted to apostolic vicariate in 1939 and to diocese on April 11, 1946. Its cathedral is at Dingshui; Bishop Joseph Zhao Fengchang, consecrated in 2000, is listed as the incumbent.
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- Established
- 1933
- Catholics
- 10,237
- Priests
- 53
- Territory
- 3,244 km²
Parishes and churches
4 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
- Bishop
- Joseph Zhao Fengchang
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The cathedral
Cathedral in Dingshui stands in Yanggu, 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
Centered in the Chinese province of Shandong, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Yanggu, also rendered Yangku (Latin: Iamcuven(sis), simplified Chinese: 阳谷; traditional Chinese: 陽穀; pinyin: Yánggǔ), is located in Yanggu within the ecclesiastical province of Jinan.