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Suffragan diocese Yinchuan, China

Diocese of Yinchuan

Nimsciian(us)

Latin Church

Latin Church diocese, also known as the Diocese of Ningxia, seated at Yinchuan in the Ningxia autonomous region of northwestern China, in the ecclesiastical province of Suiyuan. Established on March 14, 1922 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Ningxia from the Apostolic Vicariate of Southwestern Mongolia and promoted to diocese on April 11, 1946. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Yinchuan; Bishop Joseph Li Jing has served since 2009.

On the map

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The address the register holds for Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in Yinchuan, China.

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Established
1922
Catholics
35,313
Priests
50
Territory
200,000 km²

Parishes and churches

11 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Joseph Li Jing

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The cathedral

Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of Mary stands in Yinchuan, 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

In north(west)ern China, the Diocese of Ningxia, also called Yinchuan (Latin: Nimsciian(us), simplified Chinese: 宁夏/银川; traditional Chinese: 寧夏/銀川; pinyin: Níngxià/Yínchuān), is a Latin Rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishopric of Suiyuan, though it depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its episcopal see, the Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, stands in the city of Yinchuan in the Ningxia autonomous region. No statistics are available.