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Suffragan diocese Yanzhou, China

Diocese of Yanzhou

Ienceuven(sis)

Latin Church diocese seated at Yanzhou in Shandong, China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Jinan. Created on December 2, 1885 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Shantung, renamed Apostolic Vicariate of Yanzhoufu in 1924, and promoted to the Diocese of Yanzhou on April 11, 1946. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Yanzhou; Bishop John Lu Peisen has served since 2011.

On the map

Esri
Yanzhou, China, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1885
Catholics
60,000
Priests
39
Territory
25,000 km²

Parishes and churches

15 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 Lu Peisen

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The cathedral

Cathedral of the Holy Spirit stands in Yanzhou, 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

Yanzhou, also rendered Yenchow (Latin: Ienceuven(sis), Chinese: 兖州), is a Roman Catholic diocese located in Yanzhou in Shandong, within China's ecclesiastical province of Jinan. Its cathedral is now held by the Patriotic Church of China.