The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jehol. ( la, dioecesis Geholensis), also known in Chinese as Rehe or Jinzhou, is a

diocese In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, pro ...

in the

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, covering part of the former

Rehe Province Rehe (), also romanized as Jehol, was a former Chinese special administrative region and province. Administration Rehe was north of the Great Wall, west of Manchuria, and east of Mongolia. Its capital and largest city was Chengde. The second ...

. Both Jehol and Rehe are forms of the former Chinese name of the city of

Chengde Chengde, formerly known as Jehol and Rehe, is a prefecture-level city in Hebei province, situated about 225 km northeast of Beijing. It is best known as the site of the Mountain Resort, a vast imperial garden and palace formerly used by t ...

; Jinzhou refers to the State of Jin that formerly occupied part of the diocese. The diocese lost an important part of its territory in 2018, when the entire city of Chengde was taken out to form the Diocese of Chengde, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Beijing. Now, only the

Liaoning Liaoning () is a coastal province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region. With its capital at Shenyang, it is located on the northern shore of the Yellow Sea, and is the northernmost ...

part of the diocese remains, along with a very small part of

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History

* December 21, 1883: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Eastern Mongolia 東蒙古 from the Apostolic Vicariate of Mongolia 蒙古 * December 3, 1924: Renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of Jehol 熱河 * April 11, 1946: Promoted as Diocese of Jehol 熱河

Leadership

Bishop A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...

s of Jehol 熱河 (Roman rite) ** Bishop Joseph Julian Oste, C.I.C.M. (April 9, 1948 – January 19, 1971) ** Bishop Louis Janssens, C.I.C.M. (April 11, 1946 – January 9, 1948) * Vicars Apostolic of Jehol 熱河 (Roman rite) ** Bishop Louis Janssens, C.I.C.M. (February 4, 1942 – April 11, 1946) ** Bishop Conrad Abels, C.I.C.M. (July 5, 1897 – 1942) * Vicars Apostolic of Eastern Mongolia 東蒙古 ** Bishop Théodore-Herman Rutjes, C.I.C.M. (December 11, 1883 – August 4, 1896 ied

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