The Apostolic Prefecture of Qiqihar (or Tsitsikar) () is a

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missionary jurisdiction in

Heilongjiang Heilongjiang () formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). It was formerly romanized as "Heilungkiang". It is the northernmost and easternmost province ...

province, China. Its

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episcopal see is the Cathedral of St. Michael in the city of

Qiqihar Qiqihar () is the second-largest city in the Heilongjiang province of China, in the west central part of the province. The built-up (or metro) area made up of Longsha, Tiefeng and Jianhua districts had 959,787 inhabitants, while the total populat ...

. It is exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See, not part of any

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History

* It was established on 9 July 1928 as

Mission sui juris A mission ''sui iuris'', or in Latin ''missio sui iuris'' (plural ''missions sui iuris''); also spelled mission(s) sui juris), also known as an independent mission, is a rare type of Roman Catholic missionary pseudo-diocesan jurisdiction, rankin ...

of Qiqihar (Tsitsikar), on territories split off from the

Apostolic Vicariate of Jilin The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jilin/Kírín ( la, Chilinen(sis), ) is a Latin diocese in Manchuria, northeast China. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Shenyang 瀋陽, yet depends on the missionary Roman ...

() and the

Apostolic Vicariate of Rehe The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jehol. ( la, dioecesis Geholensis), also known in Chinese as Rehe or Jinzhou, is a diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Shenyang in China, covering part of the former Rehe Province. Both Jehol and Rehe are form ...

() * On 17 August 1931, it was promoted as

Apostolic Prefecture An apostolic prefect or prefect apostolic is a priest who heads what is known as an apostolic prefecture, a 'pre-diocesan' missionary jurisdiction where the Catholic Church is not yet sufficiently developed to have it made a diocese. Although it ...

of Qiqihar / Tsitsikar.

Ordinaries and precursor

(all

) ;'' Ecclesiastical Superior of the Independent Mission of Qiqihar (Tsitsikar) * Eugène-Jean Imhof (1929.04.28 – 1931.08.17 ''see below'') ;''Apostolic Prefects of Qiqihar'' * Eugène-Jean Imhof () (''see above'' 1931.08.17 – death 1934.01.17) * Paul Hugentobler (),

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(S.M.B.) (1934.11.09 – death 1972.06.27) *

Paul Guo Wenzhi Paul Guo Wenzhi (; 11 January 1918 - 29 June 2006) was a Chinese Catholic priest and Bishop of the Apostolic Prefecture of Qiqihar between 1989 and 2006. Biography Guo was born into a Catholic family in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang on January 11, 1918 ...

() (1989 – 2000.08) *

Joseph Wei Jingyi Joseph Wei Jingyi (; born May 1958) is a Chinese Catholic priest and the current bishop of the Apostolic Prefecture of Qiqihar since 2000. Biography Wei was born in Qingyuan County, Hebei, in May 1958, to a Catholic family. During the three ye ...

() (2000.08 – ...), succeeding as previous

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of Qiqihar (1995 – 2000.08)

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History

Ordinaries and precursor

See also

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