Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nanjing

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Archdiocese of Nanjing

Archidioecesis Nanchinensis

天主教南京总教区
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Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Nanjing
Location
Country China
Ecclesiastical province Nanjing
Coordinates 32°02′41″N118°46′42″E / 32.044751°N 118.778343°E / 32.044751; 118.778343
Statistics
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 1949)
6,000,000 [1]
32,536 [1]  (0.5%)
Information
Rite Latin Rite
Cathedral Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Nanjing
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop Francis Savio Lu Xinping

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nanjing/Nanking (Latin : Archidioecesis Nanchinensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in China.

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History

Mgr Ignace Cotolendi (1630-1662) was the first appointed bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nanjing. Mgr Ignace Cotolendi.jpg
Mgr Ignace Cotolendi (1630-1662) was the first appointed bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nanjing.

It was erected as the Apostolic Vicariate of Nanjing in 1659 by Pope Alexander VII, and promoted to a diocese by Pope Alexander VIII on April 10, 1690. On 15 October 1696, its territory was reduced by Pope Innocent XII to two provinces: Jiangnan (the present day provinces of Anhui, Jiangsu, and Shanghai) and Ho-nan (Henan province). [2] [3] The diocese was demoted to the Apostolic Vicariate of Kiangnan on January 21, 1856 by Pope Pius IX, and its name was later changed to the Apostolic Vicariate of Kiangsu on August 8, 1921 and to the Vicariate Apostolic of Nanjing on May 1, 1922. Pope Pius XII elevated it on April 11, 1946 to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese, with the suffragan sees of Haimen, Shanghai, Suzhou, and Xuzhou.

The archdiocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its archbishop is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception also known as the Shigu Road church. There were a number of years without a bishop after the death of Paul Cardinal Yü Pin on August 16, 1978, because of the irregular relations between the Communist government and the Holy See. On January 6, 2000, Francis Savio Lu Xinping was ordained the new bishop of Nanjing along with four others in an illicit ceremony in Beijing's South Cathedral. Since then he has been reconciled to the Holy See.

List of Ordinaries of Nanjing

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Dioceses and Apostolic Vicariates of China in 1696

Vicar Apostolic of Nanjing

sede vacante

Bishop of Nanjing

Vicar Apostolic of Kiangnan

Vicar Apostolic of Kiangsu

Vicar Apostolic of Nanjing

Archdiocese of Nanjing

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References

  1. 1 2 www.catholic-hierarchy.org | Statistics - Archdiocese of Nanjing
  2. ↑ History of the Church: The church in the age of absolutism and enlightenment. Northwestern University. 1981. p. 305. ISBN   9780824500108.
  3. ↑ Brown, Steart J. (December 7, 2006). The Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 7, Enlightenment, Reawakening and Revolution 1660-1815. Cambridge University Press. p. 459. ISBN   9780521816052. China was divided into three padroado dioceses with limited territory: the diocese of Beijing included the provinces of Zhili and Shandong as well as the territory of Liaodung in Manchuria; the diocese of Nanjing consisted of Anhui, Jiangsu, and Henan; and the diocese of Macao included Guangdong, Guangxi, and the island of Hainan
  4. ↑ "羅文藻主教生平 (Bishop Luo Wenzao's Biography)". Chinese Regional Bishops Conference (in Chinese). Archived from the original on October 31, 2007.
  5. ↑ Santos Hernández, Angel (December 15, 2000). Jesuitas y obispados: Los jesuitas Obispos Misioneros y los Obispos Jesuitas de la extinción, Volume 2 (in Spanish). Universidad Pontificia Comillas. pp. 137–138. ISBN   9788489708990.
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