Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Taipei

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Taipei
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	天主教台北總教區
Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin tiān zhǔ jiào Táipěi zǒng jiàoqū - Tongyong Pinyin tiān jhǔ jiào Táipěi zǒng jiàocyū - Wade–Giles T'iēnchǔchiào Táip'ěi tsǔngchiàoch'ǘ - Yale Romanization tyān jǔ jyàu Táiběi dzǔng jyàuchyū Min - Hokkien POJ Thian-chú-kàu Tâi-pak Cháng-kàu-khu
Latin name
Latin	Archidioecesis Taipehensis

The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Taipei (Latin: Archidioecesis Taipehensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Taiwan. Pope Pius XII erected it as the Apostolic Prefecture of Taipei on December 30, 1949, and elevated to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese on August 7, 1952, with the suffragan sees of Chiayi, Hsinchu, Hualien, Kaohsiung, Taichung, and Tainan.

The archdiocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its archbishop is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. As the only metropolitan in Taiwan, it is also the primatial see of that country. John Hung Shan-Chuan was appointed Archbishop of Taipei by Pope Benedict XVI on November 9, 2007. Archbishop Hung returned early – after people urged him to return – from a plenary synod of bishops for Asia in August 2009, in order to help give aid to the survivors of Typhoon Morakot.

List of Ordinaries of Taipei

• Joseph Kuo Joshih (1950 - 1959)
• Thomas Tien Ken-sin (Apostolic Administrator, 1959 - 1966)
• Stanislaus Lo Kuang (1966 - 1978)
• Matthew Kia Yen-wen (1978 - 1989)
• Joseph Ti-kang (1989 - 2004)
• Joseph Cheng Tsai-fa (2004 - 2007)
• John Hung Shan-Chuan (2007 - present)

See also

• Roman Catholicism in Taiwan
• List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Taiwan

External links

• The Archdiocese of Taipei (Chinese (Taiwan))
• Catholic-Hierarchy
• Giga-Catholic Information