Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nanjing
Roman Catholic archdiocese in China From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roman Catholic archdiocese in China From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nanjing/Nanking (Latin: Archidioecesis Nanchinensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in China.
Archdiocese of Nanjing Archidioecesis Nanchinensis 天主教南京总教区 | |
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Location | |
Country | China |
Ecclesiastical province | Nanjing |
Coordinates | 32.044751°N 118.778343°E |
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 |
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.
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