Diocese of Yongjia, Wenzhou
Iomchiaven(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Yongjia, Wenzhou, China
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.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 3 March 1949
- Latin
- Iomchiaven(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000209
The bishop
- Bishop
- Peter Shao Zhumin
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
St. Paul's Cathedral stands in Yongjia, Wenzhou, 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 Hangzhou
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Hangzhou.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of HangzhouHangzhou
- Diocese of LinhaiLinhai
- Diocese of LishuiLishui
- Diocese of NingboNingbo
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
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).
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].