The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jiangmen/Kongmoon ( la, Chiammenen(sis), ) 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 ...

located in the city of

Jiangmen Jiangmen (), alternately romanized in Cantonese as Kongmoon, is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province in southern China. As of the 2020 census, its three urban districts, plus Heshan City being conurbated, with 2,657,662 inhabitants ar ...

in the

Ecclesiastical province An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction Jurisdiction (from Latin 'law' + 'declaration') is the legal term for the legal authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice. In federations like the United State ...

Guangzhou Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kon ...

in China.

History

* January 31, 1924: Established 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 Jiangmen 江門 from the

Apostolic Vicariate of Shantou The Roman Catholic Diocese of Shantou/Swatow ( la, Scianteuven(sis), ) is a diocese located in the city of Shantou in the Ecclesiastical province of Guangzhou in China. History * April 6, 1914: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Chaozhou 潮� ...

汕頭 * February 3, 1927: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Jiangmen 江門 * April 11, 1946: Promoted as Diocese of Jiangmen 江門

Special churches

*Former Cathedral: **圣母无玷圣心堂（原本主教座堂）
(''Immaculate Heart of Mary Former Cathedral'')

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 Jiangmen 江門 (Roman rite) ** Bishop Paul LIANG Jian-sen, consecrated 30 March 2011 ** LI Pen-shi (1981 – 2007) (without papal approval) ** Bishop

Adolph John Paschang Adolph John Paschang, MM (, 16 April 1895 – 3 February 1968) was an American Catholic bishop who was a member of the Maryknoll society. He was also a relief worker and educator working in the southern part of China in the early 20th c ...

, M.M. (柏增) (April 11, 1946 – February 3, 1968).In 1969, when a new primary school was set up in

Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate Lower Ngau Tau Kok (II) Estate was a 7-block public housing estate built on reclaimed land in Ngau Tau Kok, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, located opposite Kowloon Bay station on the MTR. The demolition of the estate started in March 2010. The e ...

Kowloon Kowloon () is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. With a population of 2,019,533 and a population density of in 2006, it is the most populous area in Hong Kong, compared with Hong Kong Island and t ...

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

, the school founding Supervisor, Fr. John M Mcloughlin, MM, named the school

Bishop Paschang Memorial School Bishop Paschang Catholic School () is a government-aided, whole day Roman Catholic coeducational primary school located in Kowloon Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The school is in Primary One Admission Net 46 of Kwun Tong. With the exception of ...

, after Bishop

. The school has been relocated to

Kowloon Bay Kowloon Bay is a body of water within Victoria Harbour and an area within Kowloon, Hong Kong. The bay is located at the east of the Kowloon Peninsula and north of Hong Kong Island. It is the eastern portion of Victoria Harbour, between ...

and renamed

Bishop Paschang Catholic School Bishop Paschang Catholic School () is a government-aided, whole day Roman Catholic coeducational primary school located in Kowloon Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The school is in Primary One Admission Net 46 of Kwun Tong. With the exception of ...

. Sponsoring body of

is still the

Maryknoll Maryknoll is a name shared by a number of related Catholic organizations, including the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers (also known as the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America or the Maryknoll Society), the Maryknoll Sisters, and the Mary ...

Fathers in Hong Kong. * Vicars Apostolic of Jiangmen 江門 (Roman Rite) ** Bishop

, M.M. (柏增) (June 17, 1937 – April 11, 1946) ** Bishop

James Edward Walsh James Edward Walsh, MM (April 30, 1891 – July 29, 1981) was an American Roman Catholic priest and a bishop in China. He was a member of the Maryknoll order, and a missionary in China.Our Sunday Visitor, "They go after priests", Robert P. Lock ...

, M.M. (華理柱) (February 1, 1927 – July 1936). Bishop Walsh Memorial School was founded in 1963 in memory of the good work of Bishop Walsh, who upon his release by the Communist government on 10 July 1970, was the last Western missioner to be released.

History

Special churches

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