The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jilin/Kírín ( la, Chilinen(sis), ) is a Latin
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
Manchuria
Manchuria is an exonym (derived from the endo demonym " Manchu") for a historical and geographic region in Northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day Northeast China (Inner Manchuria) and parts of the Russian Far East (Outer Manc ...
, northeast China.
It is a
suffragan
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in the
ecclesiastical province
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of the Metropolitan of
Shenyang 瀋陽, yet depends on the missionary
Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
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.
It is vacant (again) since 2009.
Its
cathedral
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episcopal see is the Cathedral of St. Theresa, in
Changchun
Changchun (, ; ), also romanized as Ch'angch'un, is the capital and largest city of Jilin Province, People's Republic of China. Lying in the center of the Songliao Plain, Changchun is administered as a , comprising 7 districts, 1 county and 3 c ...
长春, while the former cathedral is now the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in
Jilin City
Jilin City (), alternately romanized as Kirin, is the second-largest city and former capital of Jilin province in northeast China. As of the 2020 census, 3,623,713 people resided within its administrative area of and 1,895,865 in its buil ...
.
History
Established on May 10, 1898 as
Apostolic Vicariate of Northern
Manchuria
Manchuria is an exonym (derived from the endo demonym " Manchu") for a historical and geographic region in Northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day Northeast China (Inner Manchuria) and parts of the Russian Far East (Outer Manc ...
北滿, on territory split off from the
Apostolic Vicariate of Liaotung and Manuchria 遼東滿州
Renamed on December 3, 1924 as Apostolic Vicariate of Jilin 吉林 after its see
On 1928.07.09, it lost territory to establish the then
Mission sui juris of Qiqihar 齊齊哈爾 (now an
Apostolic prefecture
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)
Promoted on April 11, 1946 as Diocese of Jilin 吉林
Vacant from 1952 to 1999 and again since 2009?
From 1959 to 1994, the hostile PRC established a rival national church lie of pretenders without papal mandate, now also vacant.
Episcopal ordinaries
(all
Roman Rite
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)
; ''Apostolic Vicars of Northern Manchuria 北滿''
*
Pierre-Marie-François Lalouyer,
Paris Foreign Missions Society
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(M.E.P.) (May 16, 1898 – death February 17, 1923),
Titular Bishop
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of
Raphaneæ
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History
Josephus mentions Raphanea i ...
(1897.07.24 – 1923.02.17), previously
Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar of
Southern Manchuria 南滿 (China) (1897.07.24 – 1898.05.16)
* Auguste-Ernest-Désiré-Marie Gaspais, M.E.P. (高德惠) (February 17, 1923 – December 3, 1924), Titular Bishop of
Canopus
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(1920.12.16 – 1946.04.11 ''see below''), succeeding as former Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Northern Manchuria (1920.12.20 – 1923.02.17)
; ''Apostolic Vicar of Jilin 吉林''
* Bishop Auguste-Ernest-Désiré-Marie Gaspais, M.E.P. (高德惠) (''see above'' December 3, 1924 – April 11, 1946 ''see below'')
**
Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic: Charles-Joseph Lemaire (惠化民), M.E.P. (1939.07.11 – 1945.11.16),
Titular Bishop
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By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...
of
Otrus
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It was the seat of a bishop, a notable bishop was Zoticus of Otrous. No longer a residential bishopric, it remains a ...
(1939.07.11 – death 1995.04.22), no previous office
;''Suffragan Bishops of Jilin 吉林''
*
Auguste-Ernest-Désiré-Marie Gaspais,
M.E.P.
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(高德惠) (''see above'' April 11, 1946 – death October 21, 1952)
* ''uncanonical Wang Wei-min (王維民) (1959 – 1981) (consecrated Bishop 1959.05.31 without papal mandate)''
* ''uncanonical Roch Liu Dian-xi (劉殿墀) (1982 – death 1985.04.04) (consecrated Bishop 1982.10.10 without papal mandate)''
* ''uncanonical John Li Xue-song (李雪松) (1985 – 1994.05.20) (consecrated Bishop 1985.09.22 without papal mandate)''
* Damasus Zhang Han-min (張翰民) (1999 – death 2009.07.19)
* ''vacancy''
See also
*
Christianity in Jilin Christianity is a minority in Jilin, a province of China. St. Theresa's Cathedral and Changchun Christian Church exist in Changchun. Kim-Jong-il visited a Catholic church in the province in 2010. There were raids against many house churches of Jili ...
External links and sources
GCatholic.org, with incumbent biography links, Google map and satellite photo
Roman Catholic dioceses in China
Religious organizations established in 1898
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 19th century
Organizations based in Jilin
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