Diocese of Zhengzhou
Cemceuven(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Zhengzhou, China
Latin Church diocese seated at Zhengzhou in Henan, China, in the ecclesiastical province of Kaifeng. Erected on August 28, 1882 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Western Honan, promoted to apostolic vicariate in 1911, renamed Apostolic Vicariate of Zhengzhou in 1924, and elevated to diocese on April 11, 1946. Bishop Thaddeus Wang Yuesheng was appointed on January 25, 2024.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 April 1946
- Latin
- Cemceuven(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000241
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 20,514
- Population
- 4,000,000
- Catholic share
- 0.5%
- Priests
- 24
- Catholics per priest
- 855
- Extent
- 18,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.1
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
- Bishop
- Thaddeus Wang Yuesheng
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
de Nuestra Señora de Lourdes stands in Zhengzhou, 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 Kaifeng
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Kaifeng.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of KaifengKaifeng
- Diocese of JixianJixian
- Diocese of LuoyangLuoyang
- Diocese of NanyangNanyang
- Diocese of ShangqiuShangqiu
- Diocese of XinyangXinyang
- Diocese of ZhumadianZhumadian
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Zhengzhou, also rendered Chengchow (Latin: Cemceuven(sis), Chinese: 鄭州), is a Roman Catholic diocese seated in the city of Zhengzhou, within China's ecclesiastical province of Kaifeng.
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].