Diocese of Yanji
Ienchiven(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Yanji, China
Latin Church diocese seated at Yanji in Jilin, China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Shenyang. Established on July 19, 1928 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Yanji from the Apostolic Vicariate of Wonsan, promoted to apostolic vicariate in 1937 and to diocese on April 11, 1946. The see is vacant; its last apostolic administrator, Timotheus Bitterli, O.S.B., served until 1985.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Ienchiven(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000194
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 in Yanji stands in Yanji, 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.
The province of Shenyang
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Shenyang.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of ShenyangShenyang
- Diocese of ChifengChifeng
- Diocese of FushunFushun
- Diocese of JilinJilin
- Diocese of JinzhouJinzhou
- Diocese of SipingSiping
- Diocese of YingkouYingkou
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Yanji, also rendered Yenki (Latin: Ienchiven(sis), Chinese: 延吉), is a Roman Catholic diocese seated in the city of Yanji in Jilin, belonging to the ecclesiastical province of Shenyang 瀋陽 in China.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Catholic Mission, Bishop’s House, Yanji, Jilin, 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].