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Diocese of Zhangjiakou

Zhangjiakouen(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Zhangjiakou, China

Latin Church diocese seated at Zhangjiakou in northwestern Hebei, China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Beijing. Pope Leo XIV erected it in 2025 (decision of July 8, announced September 10), simultaneously suppressing the 1946 dioceses of Xuanhua and Xiwanzi whose territories it merged. Its seat is the Cathedral of the Holy Family in Zhangjiakou; Joseph Wang Zhengui was consecrated its first bishop on September 10, 2025. The diocese counts roughly 85,000 Catholics.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
8 July 2025
Latin
Zhangjiakouen(sis)
Annuario code
001005138

The see in figures

Catholics
85,000
Population
4,000,000
Catholic share
2.1%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
89
Catholics per priest
955
Extent
1,980 km²
Catholics per km²
43

Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.

The bishop

Bishop
Joseph Wang Zhengui

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

Cathedral of the Holy Family stands in Zhangjiakou, 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 Beijing

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Beijing.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Zhangjiakou is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Hebei province, China, its episcopal see being the city of Zhangjiakou in the province's northwest. Pope Leo XIV created it on 10 September 2025, an act that coincided with the disestablishment of the Diocese of Xuanhua and the Diocese of Xiwanzi and with the consecration of Joseph Wang Zhengui as Zhangjiakou's first bishop. It belongs to the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Beijing.

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.

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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].