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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).
As of 2012 in China Catholicism has 6,300 churches, 116 active dioceses of which 97 under the Catholic Patriotic Church, 74 Chinese Patriotic bishops and 40 Catholic unofficial bishops, 2,150 Chinese Patriotic priests and 1,500 Catholic priests, 22 major and minor Chinese Patriotic seminaries and 10 Catholic unofficial seminaries. [97]
The first percentage, 4th column, is the percentage of population that is Catholic in a region (number in the region x 100 / total population of the region). The last column shows the national Catholic percentage compared to the total Catholic population of the world (number in the region x 100 / total RC population of the world).
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
Map of (Roman-rite) Catholic Dioceses in China (PRC) as of February 2024. The Catholic Church in Greater China comprises 152 Latin jurisdictions: . 21 ecclesiastical provinces (including one for Taiwan), consisting of 21 metropolitan archdioceses and 101 suffragan dioceses
Pages in category "Catholic Church in China" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Slovak Greek Catholic Church – 0.3 million [12] Belarusian Greek Catholic Church – 0.1 million [13] Italo-Albanian Catholic Church – 0.01 million [12] Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia – 0.01 million [12] Georgian Byzantine Catholic Church (not sui iuris) – 0.01 million [14] Albanian Greek Catholic Church – 0.01 million [15]
Christianity is a minority in Hebei province of China. According to Asia Harvest, estimates from 2020 suggest that of the entire population (77,188,054) about 5.66% is Christian (4,367,917), among which Catholics accounted for 55.25% (2,413,541). [1]