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In 1963, the Yunnan Provincial Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement Committee was established and located in Trinity Church. Since then, the church has also been the headquarter of the Yunnan branch of the China Christian Council. [4] During the Cultural Revolution, the church was closed. In December 1984, the Trinity Church resumed worship.
See: List of cathedrals in China#Roman Catholic. Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Beijing; Church of St Joseph, Beijing; St. Theresa's Cathedral of Changchun; Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Chengdu; St. Joseph's Cathedral, Chongqing; Aowei Church of Holy Rosary, Fuzhou; Saint Dominic's Cathedral, Fuzhou; Sacred Heart Cathedral of Guangzhou
The members of the underground Catholic Church in China, those who do not belong to the official Catholic Patriotic Church and are faithful to the Vatican, remain theoretically subject to persecution today. In practice, however, the Vatican and the Chinese State have been, at least unofficially, accommodating each other for some time.
The Catholic Church (Chinese: 天主教; pinyin: Tiānzhǔ jiào; lit. 'Religion of the Lord of Heaven', after the Chinese term for the Christian God) first appeared in China upon the arrival of John of Montecorvino in China proper during the Yuan dynasty; he was the first Catholic missionary in the country, and would become the first bishop of Khanbaliq (1271–1368).
The independent churches established during the republican era are the most well known and representative of the many independent churches in China. Today, many of them constitute a significant portion of what is generally termed the house church movement in China, because after 1949, with the arrival of Communist control and departure of all ...
Christianity is a minority faith in Shanghai, a municipality in China. Shanghai has the highest proportion of Catholic residents of any province-level division in mainland China (2003). [ 1 ] [ unreliable source ] The Roman Catholic Diocese of Shanghai has churches including St. Ignatius Cathedral of Shanghai and She Shan Basilica .
The True Jesus Church (TJC) is a non-denominational Christian Church that originated in Beijing, China, during the Pentecostal movement in the early twentieth century. [2] The True Jesus Church is currently one of the largest Christian groups in China and Taiwan , [ 3 ] as well as one of the largest independent churches in the world.