Roman Catholic Diocese of Jilin

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Diocese of Jilin

Dioecesis Chilinensis

天主教吉林教区
Location
Country 
Sede Vacante
Metropolitan ArchbishopPaul Pei Junmin

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jilin/Kírín (

Latin: Chilinen(sis), Chinese: 吉林) is a Latin diocese in Manchuria
, northeast China.

It is a

Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
.

It is vacant (again) since 2009.

Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathedral of St. Theresa, in Changchun 长春, while the former cathedral is now the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in Jilin City.

History

Map of Manchurian mission, prepared by Adrien Launay [fr], 1889.

Established on May 10, 1898 as

Apostolic Vicariate of Liaotung and Manuchria
遼東滿州

Renamed on December 3, 1924 as Apostolic Vicariate of Jilin 吉林 after its see

On 1928.07.09, it lost territory to establish the then

Mission sui juris of Qiqihar 齊齊哈爾 (now an Apostolic prefecture
)

Promoted on April 11, 1946 as Diocese of Jilin 吉林

Vacant from 1952 to 1999 and again since 2009?

From 1959 to 1994, the hostile PRC established a rival national church lie of pretenders without papal mandate, now also vacant.

Episcopal ordinaries

(all Roman Rite)

Apostolic Vicars of Northern Manchuria 北滿
  • Southern Manchuria
    南滿 (China) (1897.07.24 – 1898.05.16)
  • Auguste-Ernest-Désiré-Marie Gaspais, M.E.P. (高德惠) (February 17, 1923 – December 3, 1924), Titular Bishop of Canopus (1920.12.16 – 1946.04.11 see below), succeeding as former Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Northern Manchuria (1920.12.20 – 1923.02.17)
Apostolic Vicar of Jilin 吉林
Suffragan Bishops of Jilin 吉林
  • M.E.P.
    (高德惠) (see above April 11, 1946 – death October 21, 1952)
  • uncanonical Wang Wei-min (王維民) (1959 – 1981) (consecrated Bishop 1959.05.31 without papal mandate)
  • uncanonical Roch Liu Dian-xi (劉殿墀) (1982 – death 1985.04.04) (consecrated Bishop 1982.10.10 without papal mandate)
  • uncanonical John Li Xue-song (李雪松) (1985 – 1994.05.20) (consecrated Bishop 1985.09.22 without papal mandate)
  • Damasus Zhang Han-min (張翰民) (1999 – death 2009.07.19)
  • vacancy

See also

External links and sources

Wikisource has the text of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia article Manchuria.


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