Roman Catholic Diocese of Shunqing

Diocese of Shunqing
Diocese of Shunqing; Dioecesis Scioenchimensis; 天主教顺庆教区
Location
Country	China
Ecclesiastical province	Chongqing
Metropolitan	Chongqing
Statistics
Area	25,000 km2 (9,700 sq mi)
Population; - Total; - Catholics	(as of 1950); 8,000,000; 19,442 (0.2%)
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Nanchong
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Sede Vacante

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Shunqing/Shunking/Nanchong (Latin: Scioenchimen(sis), Chinese: 順慶, 南充) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Chongqing in southwest China, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in the Shunqing city center district of Nanchong 南充, Sichuan province. No statistics available.

History

Established on 2 August 1929 as Apostolic Vicariate of Shunqingfu 順慶府 / Shunkingfu / de Shunkingfu (Latin) -fu meaning administrative prefecture], on territory split off from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Chengdu 成都 (now a diocese)
Promoted on April 11, 1946 and renamed after its see as Diocese of Shunqing 順慶 / Nanchong 南充 (中文) / Shunking / Sciœnchimen(sis) (Latin).

(all Roman Rite native Chinese)

Paul Wang Wen-cheng (王文成) (see above April 11, 1946 – January 28, 1961)
uncanonical: Fan Dao-jiang (范導江) (1963 – death 1987.12.17), without papal mandate
uncanonical: Michael Huang Wo-ze (黃渥澤) (1989 – retired 2001), without papal mandate; died 2004
Joseph Chen Gong-ao (陳功鰲) (2012 – ...)

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