The Roman Catholic Diocese of Shunde/Shunteh/Xingtai ( la, Scioentean(us), ) is a

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located in the city of

Xingtai Xingtai (), formerly known as Xingzhou and Shunde, is a prefecture-level city in southern Hebei province, People's Republic of China. It has a total area of and administers 4 districts, 2 county-level cities and 12 counties. At the 2020 censu ...

(

Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, and 0 ...

) in the

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in China.

History

* 1933: 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 Shundefu 順得府 from the Apostolic Vicariate of Zhengdingfu 正定府 * 1944.01.13: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Shundefu 順得府 * 1946.04.11: Promoted as Diocese of Shunde 順得

Leadership

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s of Shunde 順得 (Roman rite): * Bishop Guo Jinjun * Bishop Joseph Hou Jinde (October 28, 1989 – May 20, 1994) * Bishop Xiao Liren * Bishop Inácio Krause, C.M. (April 11, 1946 – 1950) Vicars Apostolic of Shundefu 順得府 (Roman Rite): * Bishop Inácio Krause, C.M. (January 13, 1944 – April 11, 1946) Prefects Apostolic of Shundefu 順得府 (Roman Rite): * Fr. Inácio Krause, C.M. (later Bishop) (October 26, 1933 – January 13, 1944)

References

GCatholic.org

Diocese website (Chinese)
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