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Sacred Heart Of Jesus Cathedral, Harbin
The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (in ) is a Roman Catholic church in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China. Its official name is Sacred Heart of Jesus Diocesan Cathedral of Harbin. General Under construction Sacred Heart Cathedral of Harbin is a Roman Catholic church in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China. The church's history can be summarized as follows: (in Chinese) * ca. 1900, while being built, many came to Harbin to work. The greater majority of them w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathedral Of The Sacred Heart Of Jesus, Harbin
A cathedral is a church (building), church that contains the of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, Annual conferences within Methodism, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually specific to those Christian denominations with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Catholic Church, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox, Anglicanism, Anglican, and some Lutheranism, Lutheran churches.''New Standard Encyclopedia'', 1998 by Standard Educational Corporation, Chicago, Illinois; page B-262c. Church buildings embodying the functions of a cathedral first appeared in Italy, Gaul, Spain, and North Africa in the 4th century, but cathedrals did not become universal within the Western Catholic Church until the 12th century, by which time they had developed architectural forms, institutional structures, and legal identities distinct from parish churches, monastery, monastic churches, and episcopal residences. The cathedra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion, which states that Jesus in Christianity, Jesus is the Son of God (Christianity), Son of God and Resurrection of Jesus, rose from the dead after his Crucifixion of Jesus, crucifixion, whose coming as the Messiah#Christianity, messiah (Christ (title), Christ) was Old Testament messianic prophecies quoted in the New Testament, prophesied in the Old Testament and chronicled in the New Testament. It is the Major religious groups, world's largest and most widespread religion with over 2.3 billion followers, comprising around 28.8% of the world population. Its adherents, known as Christians, are estimated to make up a majority of the population in Christianity by country, 157 countries and territories. Christianity remains Christian culture, culturally diverse in its Western Christianity, Western and Eastern Christianity, Eastern branches, and doctrinally diverse concerning Justification (theology), justification and the natur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Changchun Christian Church
Changchun Christian Church () is one of the largest and historically important Protestant churches in Changchun, Jilin Province, China. General Changchun Christian Church is one of the largest and historically important Protestant churches in Changchun, Jilin Province, China. Also housed here are the Three-Self Patriotic Movement Committees of Changchun City and Jilin Province. The church's address is: No. 131, West Wuma Road, Nanguan District, Changchun City, 134402. It is also called the Xiwu Road church. Worship is held at 8:00 Sunday, 16:00 Wednesday, 16:00 Friday and 9:00 Saturday. Brief history * In 1886, the Irish Presbyterian Mission ( Thomas Crosby Fulton, in ) was sent to Changchun. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dongguan Church
Donguang Church (), located in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China, is one of the largest and oldest Protestant churches in Northeast China. It is also known as the cradle of Christianity of the Koreans in China and in the Korean Peninsula. General Donguan Church, built in the second half of the 19th century, is located in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. It is one of the largest and oldest Protestant churches in Northeast China. It was so named because it was built just outside East Gate, also called Dongguan (East Barrier), as a church was not allowed within the city wall. John Ross (his Chinese name: ), sent by the United Presbyterian Church, Scotland, to Manchuria, went first to Yingkou, then moved to Mukden (Shenyang) and established a church here in 1889. This church building was destroyed during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, but was reconstructed in 1907. It was damaged during the Cultural Revolution, yet enlarged in 1992. An Annex was built in 1998. The centennia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuguang Street Church
Yuguang Street Church ( zh, t=玉光街禮拜堂, s=玉光街礼拜堂) is a Protestant church in Dalian, China. It is the former Dalian Anglican Church ( zh, t=大連聖公會教堂, s=大连圣公会教堂, first=t, links=no; ) and the building is a Historical Protected Building of Dalian City. Brief history In the early 20th century an Anglican church was built on the premises of the British consulate in Dalian. In 1928 the second-generation church building was built by a joint effort of the Church of England and the Anglican-Episcopal Church of Japan, and named Dalian Anglican Church. Services were held in English and Japanese. The church belonged to the North China Diocese of the Anglican-Episcopal Province of China. At the end of the Second World War, all Japanese-owned buildings were confiscated by the Chinese, the religious buildings were never used as such; as Britain owned half of the church, it was left as a Christian church and was renamed "Yuguang Street Church" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacred Heart Cathedral Of Shenyang
The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Shenyang () is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. It is the seat of the Diocese of Shenyang. It is commonly called Nanguan Catholic Church () and Xiaonan Catholic Church (). In 2006 the Vatican agreed to Paul Pei ( Pei Jun Min) being installed as the Bishop of Shenyang. He was appointed Metropolitan Archbishop in 2008. History In June 1858, when the Second Opium War ended, China signed the Treaty of Tientsin with Britain and France respectively, which stipulated that Niu Zhang was to be opened as a trading port and that Christians and Catholics could preach freely and had the right to purchase land for any purpose. The Good News was brought to the Shenyang area by Jean Chenin (in ), a French missionary, who came in 1861 by way of Yingkou and rented a private house for the mission. The current building was designed by Henri Lamasse. Lamasse arrived in China in 1894, founding a mission at Tieling before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalian Catholic Church
Dalian Catholic Church () is located in Dalian, China. It was built in 1926 and is the only Catholic church in Dalian. It is now a Historical Building protected by Dalian City. Brief history * During the time when Dalian was Japan's leased territory, the activities for dedicating a church were initiated by those Catholic believers who worked for the South Manchuria Railway Co. Their efforts, led by Daiji Oka, resulted in collecting 20,000 yuan to build a Catholic church, which was dedicated in 1926 as Stella Maris Catholic Church under Maryknoll, a Catholic foreign missionary society, headquartered in New York, U.S.A., with a branch in Tokyo. * From 1931, the Chinese believers moved to the Catholic Church in Liujia Dun. The total number of the believers at Stella Maris Church in Dalian were over 1200. * As Japan lost the war, the Japanese people left here and the churches became Chinese. As the Cultural Revolution began, Father Ding Runan was forced to engage in agriculture i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic
The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization.Gerald O'Collins, O'Collins, p. v (preface). The church consists of 24 Catholic particular churches and liturgical rites#Churches, ''sui iuris'' (autonomous) churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, which comprise almost 3,500 dioceses and Eparchy, eparchies List of Catholic dioceses (structured view), around the world, each overseen by one or more Bishops in the Catholic Church, bishops. The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, is the Papal supremacy, chief pastor of the church. The core beliefs of Catholicism are found in the Nicene Creed. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northeast China
Northeast China () is a geographical region of China, consisting officially of three provinces Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang. The heartland of the region is the Northeast China Plain, the largest plain in China with an area of over . The region is separated from the Russian Far East to the north and east by the Amur, Argun and Ussuri Rivers; from North Korea to the south by the Yalu and Tumen Rivers; and from the neighboring North China to the west by the Greater Khingan Range and Yan Mountains. It is also bounded by the Bohai Bay and Yellow Sea to the southwest, about away from East China's Jiaodong Peninsula across the Bohai Strait, due to be connected via a proposed undersea tunnel. The four prefectures of Inner Mongolia (which is part of North China) east of the Greater Khingan, i.e. Chifeng, Tongliao, Hinggan and Hulunbuir, are sometimes also considered broader parts of Northeast China, and together with the aforementioned three provinces formed what was h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Churches
In ecclesiology, the Christian Church is what different Christian denominations conceive of as being the true body of Christians or the original institution established by Jesus Christ. "Christian Church" has also been used in academia as a synonym for Christianity, despite the fact that it is composed of multiple churches or denominations, many of which hold a doctrinal claim of being the one true church to the exclusion of the others. For many Protestant Christians, the Christian Church has two components: the church visible, institutions in which "the Word of God purely preached and listened to, and the sacraments administered according to Christ's institution", as well as the church invisible—all "who are truly saved" (with these beings members of the visible church). In this understanding of the invisible church, "Christian Church" (or catholic Church) does not refer to a particular Christian denomination, but includes all individuals who have been saved. The branch t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Catholic Cathedrals In China
This is the list of cathedrals in China sorted by original denomination. Catholic Cathedrals of the Catholic Church in China:GCatholic.orgCathedrals China/ref> * in Baoding * Immaculate Conception Cathedral (South Church) in Beijing * Xishiku Cathedral (North Church) in Beijing * Wangfujing Cathedral (St. Joseph's or East Church) in Beijing * Cathedral of Bengbu in Bengbu * in Changsha * Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Chengdu * in Chifeng * Xiwanzi Cathedral in Chongli * St. Joseph's Cathedral in Chongqing * Mother of Grace Cathedral in Daming * Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Datong * of Fenyang * Cathedral of St. Dominic in Fuzhou * Sacred Heart Cathedral (Seksat Church) in Guangzhou * St. Joseph's Cathedral, Guiyang in Guiyang * Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Hangzhou * in Hanyang * Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel in Hanzhong * Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Harbin * Sacred Heart Cathedral in Hohhot * Sacred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association
The Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA) is the national organization for Catholicism in the People's Republic of China. It was established in 1957 after a group of Chinese Catholics met in Beijing with officials from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Religious Affairs Bureau. It is the main organizational body of Catholics in China officially sanctioned by the Chinese government. The organization is not recognized by the worldwide Catholic Church. The organization is controlled by the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party following the State Administration for Religious Affairs' absorption into the UFWD in 2018. History After the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party sought for ways to bring religions in alignment with its ideology. While all religions were seen as superstitious, Christianity had the added challenge of being foreign. Efforts were made by Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
