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Suffragan diocese Zhoucun, China

Diocese of Zhoucun

Ceuzüenen(sis)

Latin Church diocese seated in Zhoucun District of Zibo, Shandong, China, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Jinan. Established on April 16, 1929 as the Mission sui iuris of Zhangdian from the Apostolic Vicariate of Tsinanfu, promoted to apostolic prefecture in 1932, to apostolic vicariate in 1937, and to diocese on April 11, 1946. The see is effectively vacant after Bishop Joseph Yang Yongqiang was transferred to Hangzhou in 2024.

On the map

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The address the register holds for Cathedral in Zhoucun, Shandong, in Zhoucun, China.

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Established
1929
Catholics
29,411
Priests
35
Territory
5,000 km²

Parishes and churches

9 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Joseph Yang Yongqiang

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The cathedral

Cathedral in Zhoucun, Shandong stands in Zhoucun, 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

Zhoucun (Zibo), in China's ecclesiastical province of Jinan, is home to a Latin Catholic diocese: the Diocese of Zhoucun, also rendered Chowtsun (Latin: Dioecesis Ceuziienensis; Chinese: 教周村教区).