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Suffragan diocese Yongjia, Wenzhou, China

Diocese of Yongjia, Wenzhou

Iomchiaven(sis)

Latin Church

Latin Church diocese, also known as the Diocese of Wenzhou, seated in Zhejiang, China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Hangzhou. It was established as the Diocese of Yongjia on March 3, 1949 from the Diocese of Ningbo. Its cathedral is St. Paul's Cathedral in Wenzhou; Bishop Peter Shao Zhumin has led the diocese since 2016.

On the map

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The address the register holds for St. Paul's Cathedral, in Yongjia, Wenzhou, China.

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Established
1949

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Peter Shao Zhumin

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The cathedral

St. Paul's Cathedral stands in Yongjia, Wenzhou, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

In the city of Yongjia, within China's ecclesiastical province of Hangzhou, lies the Roman Catholic Diocese of Yongjia, also rendered Yungkia or Wenzhou (Latin: Iomchiaven(sis), Chinese: 永嘉, 温州).