Diocese of Yichang
Iciamen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Yichang, China
Latin Church diocese seated at Yichang in Hubei, central China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Hankou. Established on September 2, 1870 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Southwestern Hupeh, renamed after its see in 1924, and promoted to the Diocese of Yichang on April 11, 1946. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of St. Francis in Yichang; the see has been vacant since the death of Bishop Francis Lu Shouwang in 2011.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Iciamen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000203
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 30,000
- Population
- 4,039,000
- Catholic share
- 0.7%
- Extent
- 28,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.1
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
Cathedral of St. Francis stands in Yichang, 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 Hankou
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Hankou.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of HankouHankou
- Diocese of EnshiEnshi
- Diocese of HanyangHanyang
- Diocese of LaohekouLaohekou
- Diocese of PuqiPuqi
- Diocese of QichunQichun
- Diocese of WuchangWuchang
- Diocese of XiangyangXiangyang
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
A suffragan Latin diocese of central China, Yichang, also rendered Ichang (Latin: Iciamen(sis), Chinese: 宜昌), belongs to the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishopric of Hankou while depending on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its episcopal see is the Cathedral of St. Francis in the city of Yichang, Hubei province. No statistics are available, and the see has been vacant since 2012.
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].