The Roman Catholic Diocese of Shunqing/Shunking/Nanchong ( la, Dioecesis Scioenchimensis; zh, t=天主教順慶教區) is a

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Latin

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in the

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, yet depends on the missionary

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. Its

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episcopal see is the Cathedral of the

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, in the Shunqing city center district of

Nanchong Nanchong (; Sichuanese: lan2cong1) is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of Sichuan province, China, with an area of . At the 2020 census it was home to 5,607,565 people, of whom 1,936,534 lived in the built-up (or 'metro') area made of th ...

南充,

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History

* Established on 2 August 1929 as Apostolic Vicariate of Shunqingfu 順慶府 / Shunkingfu / de Shunkingfu (Latin) / Choen-kin-fou (French) -fu meaning administrative prefecture], on territory split off from the then

Apostolic Vicariate of Chengdu The Roman Catholic Diocese of Chengdu (formerly spelt Chengtu) ( la, Dioecesis Cemtuana; zh, t=天主教成都教區, s=天主教成都教区) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chongqin ...

(Tchen-tou-fou; 成都; now a diocese) * Promoted on April 11, 1946 and renamed after its see as Diocese of Shunqing 順慶 / Nanchong 南充 (Chinese) / Shunking / Sciœnchimen(sis) (Latin).

Episcopal ordinaries

(all

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native Chinese) ;''Apostolic Vicar of Shunqingfu 順慶府'' * Paul Wang Wen-cheng (王文成) (December 2, 1929 – April 11, 1946 ''see below'') ;''Suffragan Bishops of Shunqing 順慶'' *

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(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 – ...)

References

Sources and external links

GCatholic.org, with Google map - data for all sections

Shunqing Religious organizations established in 1929 Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century {{Asia-RC-diocese-stub

History

Episcopal ordinaries

See also

References

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