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Roman Catholic Diocese of Jilin

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Diocese of Jilin

Dioecesis Chilinensis

天主教吉林教区
Location
CountryChina
Ecclesiastical provinceShenyang
MetropolitanShenyang
Statistics
Area163,000 km2 (63,000 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 1949)
9,000,000
35,000 (0.4%)
Information
RiteLatin Rite
CathedralCathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Jilin City
Patron saintOur Lady of Lourdes
Saint Peter
Holy Guardian Angels
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopSede Vacante
Metropolitan ArchbishopPaul Pei Junmin

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jilin/Kírín (Template:Lang-la, Chinese: 吉林) is a Latin suffragan diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan of Shenyang 瀋陽 in China.

Its cathedral episcopal see is Cathedral of St. Theresa, in Changchun 长春, while the former cathedral is now the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in the city of Jilin.

History

Episcopal Ordinaries

(all Roman Rite)

Apostolic Vicars of Northern Manchuria 北滿
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)
Suffragan Bishops of Jilin 吉林
  • Auguste-Ernest-Désiré-Marie Gaspais, M.E.P. (高德惠) (see above April 11, 1946 – death October 21, 1952)
  • uncanonical Wang Wei-min (王維民) (1959 – 1981) (consacrated Bishop 1959.05.31 without papal mandate)
  • uncanonical Roch Liu Dian-xi (劉殿墀) (1982 – death 1985.04.04) (consacrated Bishop 1982.10.10 without papal mandate)
  • uncanonical John Li Xue-song (李雪松) (1985 – 1994.05.20) (consacrated Bishop 1985.09.22 without papal mandate)
  • Damas Zhang Han-min (張翰民) (1999 – death 2009.07.19)
  • vacancy

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