Suffragan diocese Yantai, China
Diocese of Yantai
Ientaeven(sis)
Latin Church
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.
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- Established
- 1894
- Catholics
- 2,072
- Priests
- 21
- Territory
- 4,000,000 km²
Parishes and churches
3 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
No bishop is recorded for this diocese. See the bishop.
The cathedral
Catedral 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.
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.