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Diocese of Zhengding

Cemtimen(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Zhengding, China

Latin Church diocese seated at Zhengding in Hebei, China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Beijing. Established on April 2, 1856 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Southwestern Chi-Li from the Diocese of Beijing, renamed Apostolic Vicariate of Zhengdingfu in 1924, and promoted to diocese on April 11, 1946. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Shijiazhuang; the see fell vacant when Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo's tenure ended on October 29, 2025.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
11 April 1946
Latin
Cemtimen(sis)
Annuario code
001000240

The see in figures

Catholics
52,000
Population
4,000,000
Catholic share
1.3%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
39
Catholics per priest
1,333
Extent
4,000,000 km²
Catholics per km²
0.0

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

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception stands in Zhengding, 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

In the city of Zhengding, within China's ecclesiastical province of Beijing, lies the Roman Catholic Diocese of Zhengding, also rendered Chengting (Latin: Cemtimen(sis), Chinese: 正定).

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].