Diocese of Yantai
Ientaeven(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Yantai, China
Latin Church diocese seated at Yantai in Shandong, eastern China, in the ecclesiastical province of Jinan. Established on February 22, 1894 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Eastern Shantung, renamed Apostolic Vicariate of Zhifou in 1924, and promoted to the Diocese of Yantai on April 11, 1946. Wikipedia records the see as vacant.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Ientaeven(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000195
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 2,072
- Population
- 4,000,000
- Catholic share
- 0.1%
- Priests
- 21
- Catholics per priest
- 99
- Extent
- 4,000,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.0
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 cathedral
de María Auxiliadora stands in Yantai, 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 Jinan
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Jinan.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of JinanJinan
- Diocese of Caozhou, HezeCaozhou, Heze
- Diocese of LinyiLinyi
- Diocese of QingdaoQingdao
- Diocese of WeifangWeifang
- Diocese of YangguYanggu
- Diocese of YanzhouYanzhou
- Diocese of ZhoucunZhoucun
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
With its episcopal seat in the city of Yantai in Shandong, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Yantai, also rendered Chefoo, Zhifou, or Yentai (Latin: Ientaeven(sis), Chinese: 煙台, 芝罘), belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Jinan in eastern China while depending on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. No statistics are available.
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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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
The see's own website · Wikipedia
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].