Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nanking

Coordinates: 32°02′41″N 118°46′42″E / 32.044751°N 118.778343°E / 32.044751; 118.778343

Archdiocese of Nanking Archidioecesis Nanchinensis 南京
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception,Nanjing
Location
Country	China
Coordinates	32°02′41″N 118°46′42″E / 32.044751°N 118.778343°E / 32.044751; 118.778343
Statistics
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 1949) 6,000,000 [1] 32,536 [1] (0.5%)
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (圣母无染原罪始胎堂)
Current leadership
Pope	Benedict XVI

Mgr Ignace Cotolendi (1630-1662) was the first appointed bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nanking.

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The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nanking (Latin: Archidioecesis Nanchinensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in China. It was erected as the Apostolic Vicariate of Nanking in 1659 by Pope Alexander VII, and promoted to a diocese by Pope Alexander VIII on April 10, 1690. However, the diocese was demoted to the Apostolic Vicariate of Kiangnan on January 21, 1856 by Pope Pius IX, and its name was later changed to the Apostolic Vicariate of Kiangsu on August 8, 1921 and to the Vicariate Apostolic of Nanking on May 1, 1922. Pope Pius XII elevated it on April 11, 1946 to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese, with the suffragan sees of Haimen, Shanghai, Suzhou, and Xuzhou.

The archdiocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its archbishop is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception also known as the Shigu Road church. There were a number of years without a bishop after the death of Paul Cardinal Yü Pin on August 16, 1978, because of the irregular relations between the Communist government and the Holy See. On January 6, 2000, Francis Xavier Lu Xinping was ordained the new bishop of Nanjing along with four others in an illicit ceremony in Beijing's South Cathedral. Since then he has been reconciled to the Holy See.

List of Ordinaries of Nanking

• Ignace Cotolendi (1660–1662)
• Gregory Luo Wen-zao, OP (1674–1691)
• Cayetano Pires Pireira, CM (1804–1838)
• André-Pierre Borgniet, SJ (1859–1862)
• Adrien-Hyppolyte Languillat, SJ (1864–1878)
• Valentin Garnier, SJ (1879–1898)
• Jean-Baptiste Simon, SJ (1899)
• Próspero París, SJ (1900–1931)
• Auguste Haouisée, SJ (1931–1933)
• Paul Yü Pin (1936–1978)
• Francis Xavier Lu Xinping (2000–present)

See also

• Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Nanjing
• Christianity in China
• Roman Catholicism in China
• Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association
• List of Catholic cathedrals in China
• List of Roman Catholic dioceses in China
• List of Roman Catholic dioceses (structured_view)-Episcopal Conference of China

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} www.catholic-hierarchy.org | Statistics - Archdiocese of Nanking

External links

• Catholic-Hierarchy
• Giga-Catholic Information

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