Diocese of Yuanling
Iüen- limen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Yuanling, China
Latin Church diocese seated at Yuanling in Hunan, China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Changsha. Erected on March 13, 1925 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Chenzhou from the Apostolic Vicariate of Changde, promoted and renamed Apostolic Vicariate of Yuanling in 1934, and promoted to diocese on April 11, 1946. The see has been vacant since 1968; Archbishop Methodius Qu Ailin has served as apostolic administrator since 2012.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Iüen- limen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000216
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
Yuanling Catholic Church, Maluxiang, Yuanling stands in Yuanling, 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 Changsha
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Changsha.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of ChangshaChangsha
- Diocese of ChangdeChangde
- Diocese of HengyangHengyang
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In the county of Yuanling in Hunan, China, sits the Diocese of Yuanling (Latin: Iuen-limen(sis), Chinese: 沅陵, 辰州), a Latin Church jurisdiction of the Catholic Church. A suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Changsha, it nonetheless depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The episcopal seat has been vacant since 1968, though an apostolic administrator has served since 2012.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Catholic Mission, Bishop’s House, Yuanling, Hunan, China
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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 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
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].