Diocese of Zhaoxian
Ciaoscienen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Zhaoxian, China
Latin Church diocese located in Zhao County, Hebei, China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Beijing. Established on March 18, 1929 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Zhaoxian from the Apostolic Vicariate of Zhengdingfu, promoted to apostolic vicariate in 1932 and to diocese on April 11, 1946. Wikipedia records the see as vacant.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Ciaoscienen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000239
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 45,000
- Population
- 900,000
- Catholic share
- 5.0%
- Priests
- 39
- Catholics per priest
- 1,154
- Extent
- 900,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.1
of the people living within its bounds
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
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 Buen Pastor stands in Zhaoxian, 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:
- Archdiocese of BeijingBeijing
- Diocese of AnguoAnguo
- Diocese of BaodingBaoding
- Diocese of ChengdeChengde
- Diocese of DamingDaming
- Diocese of JingxianJingxian
- Diocese of TianjinTianjin
- Diocese of XianxianXianxian
- Diocese of XingtaiXingtai
- Diocese of YongnianYongnian
- Diocese of YongpingYongping
- Diocese of ZhangjiakouZhangjiakou
- Diocese of ZhengdingZhengding
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Zhaoxian (Latin: Ciaoscienen(sis), Chinese: 趙縣) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Zhao County, within China's ecclesiastical province of Beijing.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Pien-Tsun, Catholic Mission, Kao-y, Hebei, 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].