The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is a 20th-century
English Gothic revival church that serves as the cathedral of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Changsha
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Changsha ( la, Ciamsciaven(sis), ) is an archdiocese located in the city of Changsha in China.
History
* April 2, 1856: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Hunan from the Apostolic Vicariate of Hupeh
* Septem ...
. It is located in the Xiangchun Street,
Kaifu District of
Changsha
Changsha (; ; ; Changshanese pronunciation: (), Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is the capital and the largest city of Hunan Province of China. Changsha is the 17th most populous city in China with a population of over 10 million, an ...
,
Hunan
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,
China
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.
History
It was built in 1902, in the late
Qing Dynasty
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, by Weng Mingde (), who was an
Italian
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Franciscan
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missionary
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, and was destroyed by chaos in 1910. Then it was rebuilt in 1911.
In 2002, it was listed as a "
Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the Provincial Level" by the Hunan government.
In December 2008, the church celebrated its first one hundred years.
Bishop
* Qu Ailin (), born in May 1961, in
Hengyang
Hengyang (; ) is the second largest city of Hunan Province, China. It straddles the Xiang River about south of the provincial capital of Changsha. As of the 2020 Chinese census, Its total population was 6,645,243 inhabitants, whom 1,290,715 ...
of Hunan province.
See also
*
List of cathedrals in China
This is the list of cathedrals in China sorted by original denomination.
Roman Catholic
Cathedrals of the Catholic Church in China:GCatholic.orgCathedrals China/ref>
* Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in Baoding
* Immaculate Concept ...
References
External links
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Christianity in Hunan
Churches in Changsha
Tourist attractions in Changsha
1902 establishments in China
20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in China
Roman Catholic cathedrals in China
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1902