Suffragan diocese Yujiang, China
Diocese of Yujiang
Iüchiamen(sis)
Latin Church
Latin Church diocese seated at Yujiang in Jiangxi, China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Nanchang. Established on August 28, 1885 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Eastern Kiangsi, renamed Apostolic Vicariate of Yujiang in 1921, and promoted to diocese on April 11, 1946. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of St. Louis in Yujiang; the see is vacant after Bishop John Peng Weizhao was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Nanchang in 2022.
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- Established
- 1885
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
No bishop is recorded for this diocese. See the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of St. Louis stands in Yujiang, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
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History
Yujiang, also rendered Yükíang (Latin: Iüchiamen(sis), Chinese: 餘江), is a Roman Catholic diocese located in Yujiang in Jiangxi, within China's ecclesiastical province of Nanchang.