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Suffragan diocese Yongping, China

Diocese of Yongping

Iompimen(sis)

Latin Church

Latin Church diocese, also known as the Diocese of Tangshan or Lulong, in Hebei, China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Beijing. Established on December 23, 1899 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Eastern Chi-Li, renamed Apostolic Vicariate of Yongpingfu in 1924, and promoted to the Diocese of Yongping on April 11, 1946. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Tangshan; Bishop Peter Fang Jianping has served since 2010.

On the map

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

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Established
1899
Priests
42
Territory
30,000 km²

Parishes and churches

25 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 Fang Jianping

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The cathedral

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception stands in Yongping, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

A Latin Church diocese in China's ecclesiastical province of Beijing, Yongping, also called Lulong or Tangshan (Latin: Iompimen(sis), Chinese: 永平, 盧龍), has its seat at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Yongping, now Lulong, Tangshan 唐山, in Hebei.