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See Catholic Church in China#Yuan dynasty (1271–1368). Lost territory twice: in 1313 to establish the Roman Catholic Diocese of Citong 刺桐 and in 1320 to establish the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ili-baluc. 1375: Suppressed; Restored on April 10, 1690 as Diocese of Beijing, on territory split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Nanjing
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; 28 apostolic prefectures; 1 exempt diocese, the Diocese of Macau
The Catholic Church in Asia has dioceses in most countries. The largest episcopal conferences are those of India and China, followed by the Philippines, and Indonesia. List of Catholic dioceses in Asia
The head of the Catholic church in China began a trip to Hong Kong on Tuesday at the invitation of the city’s pope-appointed Roman Catholic cardinal, marking the first official visit by a ...
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).
S. Roman Catholic Diocese of Sanyuan; Roman Catholic Diocese of Shanghai; Roman Catholic Diocese of Shangqiu; Roman Catholic Diocese of Shantou; Apostolic Prefecture of Shaowu
In 1690, Beijing received its first Catholic bishop in three hundred years, the Franciscan Bernardin della Chiesa, and the church became a cathedral. In 1703, in the 24th year of the reign of the Kangxi Emperor , the cathedral was enlarged and renovated, and after ten years, a European-style building was complete, the second European-style ...
Joseph Li Shan (Chinese: 李山; pinyin: Lǐ Shān; born March 1965 in Daxing District, Beijing) is a Chinese Catholic prelate who serves as Archbishop of Beijing.He was consecrated a bishop on 21 September 2007, at age 42 at a ceremony at Nan Tang (South Cathedral) in Xuanwumen.