Apostolic Prefecture of Zhaotong
Chaotungen(sis)
Apostolic prefecture · Latin Church · Zhaotong, China
Latin Church apostolic prefecture seated at Zhaotong in Yunnan, southwestern China, established on April 8, 1935 on territory split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Yunnanfu. It is exempt, directly dependent on the Holy See and not part of any ecclesiastical province. The prefecture has been vacant since 1982 and without an apostolic administrator since the death of Father Lawrence Zhang Wenchang in 2012.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic prefecture
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 8 April 1935
- Latin
- Chaotungen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000509
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
del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús stands in Zhaotong, 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.
History
In the city of Zhaotong (Tchao-tong), in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan, sits the Apostolic Prefecture of Zhaotong, a Latin pre-diocesan missionary jurisdiction of the Catholic Church not entitled to a titular bishop. It is exempt, belonging to no ecclesiastical province and depending directly on the Holy See, notably its missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Vacant since 1982, it has been without even an apostolic administrator since 2012.
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].