Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Chengdu

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Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Chengdu
Ping'anqiao Catholic Church
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The cathedral in 2013
Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Chengdu
30°39′59″N104°03′34″E / 30.66639°N 104.05944°E / 30.66639; 104.05944
Location25 Xihuamen Street, Qingyang District, Chengdu, Sichuan
CountryChina
Denomination Roman Catholic
History
Status Cathedral
Founded1897
Founder(s) Jacques-Victor-Marius Rouchouse
Dedication Immaculate Conception
Past bishop(s)Jacques-Victor-Marius Rouchouse
Henri-Marie-Ernest-Désiré Pinault
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Style Byzantine Revival;
Renaissance Revival;
traditional Sichuanese style
Groundbreaking 1897
Completed1904
Administration
Archdiocese Chongqing
Diocese Chengdu
Clergy
Bishop(s) Joseph Tang Yuange

The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, commonly referred to as Ping'anqiao Catholic Church, is the Roman Catholic cathedral of the Diocese of Chengdu, situated on Xihuamen Street, Qingyang District, in Sichuan's capital city of Chengdu. [1] It has been subjected to the control of the state-sanctioned Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association since 1957.

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Description

The construction of the cathedral started in 1897, under the supervision of Jacques-Victor-Marius Rouchouse, a French missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society and the first bishop of the Diocese of Chengdu, who was appointed to supervise the work by Bishop Marie-Julien Dunand. It was not completed until 1904. [2] [3] The English political economist Audrey Donnithorne was baptized at this cathedral after converting from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism in 1943. [4]

The buildings, including the cathedral, the Bishop's Office, and the Episcopal Residence, cover an area of 16,566.3 square meters and have a usable area of 8,508.5 square meters. Built in a cruciform design with a façade of neo-Byzantine style, the cathedral and its surrounding buildings constitute the Chinese character "" meaning "fear", representing "The beginning of wisdom is fear of the Lord" (Proverbs 9:10). The right part of the character means "rule", which represents the function of this building as a cathedral, as Jesus said in the Gospel: "Amen, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven" (Matthew 18:18). [5] [6]

Mass times

English Mass is celebrated on Saturdays at 4:00pm. Service in the local language is held on Sundays, starting at the same hour. [1]

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