The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hankou (, ) is a Latin Rite Metropolitan

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, based in

Hankou Hankou, alternately romanized as Hankow (), was one of the three towns (the other two were Wuchang and Hanyang) merged to become modern-day Wuhan city, the capital of the Hubei province, China. It stands north of the Han and Yangtze Rivers w ...

Wuhan Wuhan; is the capital of Hubei, China. With a population of over eleven million, it is the most populous city in Hubei and the List of cities in China by population, eighth-most-populous city in China. It is also one of the nine National cent ...

Hubei Hubei is a province of China, province in Central China. It has the List of Chinese provincial-level divisions by GDP, seventh-largest economy among Chinese provinces, the second-largest within Central China, and the third-largest among inland ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. Its archiepiscopal see is the St. Joseph's Cathedral, in Hankou, Wuhan. Due to the political situation, since 1961, it has been a vacant, underground archdiocese without

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History

* Established in 1696 as

Apostolic Vicariate An apostolic vicariate is a territorial jurisdiction of the Catholic Church under a titular bishop centered in missionary regions and countries where dioceses or parishes have not yet been established. The status of apostolic vicariate is often ...

of Hupeh and Hunan 湖廣 / Houkouang, on territory split off from the

Apostolic Vicariate of Fujian Fujian is a province in southeastern China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capital is Fuzhou and its largest prefecture city by population is Quan ...

* Renamed on 8 April 1856 as Apostolic Vicariate of Hupeh 湖北 / Hu-pé, having lost territory to establish Apostolic Vicariate of Hunan 湖南) * Lost territory on 1870.09.02 to establish

Apostolic Vicariate of Southwestern Hupeh The Roman Catholic Diocese of Yichang/Ichang (, ) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishopric of Hankou in central China, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization o ...

湖北南境 * Renamed on September 11, 1870 as Apostolic Vicariate of Eastern Hupeh, having lost territory to establish Apostolic Vicariate of Northwestern Hupeh 湖北西北) * Renamed on December 12, 1923 after its see as Apostolic Vicariate of Hankou * Lost territories again: on 1929.07.18 to establish Mission sui juris of Huangzhou 黃州 and on 1937.06.17 to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Suixian 隨縣 * Promoted on 1946.04.11 as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Hankou

Ecclesiastical province

Its

Suffragan A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations. In the Catholic Church, a suffragan bishop leads a diocese within an ecclesiastical province other than the principal diocese, the metropolitan archdiocese; the diocese led ...

sees are: *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Hanyang The Roman Catholic Diocese of Hanyang (, ) is a Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Hankou in PR China, yet still depends on the Roman missionary Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its cathedral episcopal see ...

漢陽 *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Laohekou The Roman Catholic Diocese of Laohekou/Laohokow (, ) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishopric of Hankou in central China, but depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization ...

* Puqi 蒲圻 * Roman Catholic Diocese of Qizhou 蘄州 *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Shinan The Roman Catholic Diocese of Shinan/Shíhnan/Enshi (, ) is a (dormant?) suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction in Christian churches, including those of both ...

施南 * Roman Catholic Diocese of Wuchang 武昌 * Roman Catholic Diocese of Xiangyang 襄陽 * Roman Catholic Diocese of Yichang 宜昌

Episcopal ordinaries

(all

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) ;''Apostolic Vicars of Hupeh and Hunan 湖廣'' *

Giovanni Francesco Nicolai Giovanni Francesco Nicolai, Order of Friars Minor, O.F.M. (died 1737) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Vicar Apostolic of Houkouang (1696–1737), Titular Archbishop of ''Myra'' (1712–1737), and Titular Bishop of ''Berytus'' (1696–1 ...

(s) (余宜閣),

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(O.F.M.) (born Italy) (1696.10.20 – death 1737.12.27),

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(1712.08.20 – 1737.12.27), previously Bishop of

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南京 (China) (1691 – 1696.10.20),

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(1696.10.20 – 1712.08.20) * Giacomo Luigi Fontana (馮),

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(M.E.P.) (born Italy) (1838 – death 1838.07.11),

of Sinita (1817.05.24 – 1838.07.11); previously Apostolic Vicar of

Szechwan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Chengdu, a ...

四川 (China) (1817.05.24 – 1838) * Giovanni Domenico Rizzolati, O.F.M. (born Italy) (1839.08.30 – retired 1856.04.08), Titular Bishop of Arad (1839.08.30 – death 1862.04.13) ;''Apostolic Vicars of Hupeh 湖北東境'' * Luigi Celestino Spelta (), Reformed Friars Minor (O.F.M. Ref.) (born Italy) (1856.04.08 – 1862.09.02),

of Thespia (1848.09.17 – death 1862.09.02); next

Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar An apostolic vicariate is a territorial jurisdiction of the Catholic Church under a titular bishop centered in missionary regions and countries where dioceses or parishes have not yet been established. The status of apostolic vicariate is often ...

of Kiangnan 江南 (China) (1848.09.17 – 1856.04.08) * Eustachio Vito Modesto Zanoli (), O.F.M. (born Italy) (1862.09.01 – 1870.09.11 ''see below''), Titular Bishop of

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(1857.08.06 – 1883.05.17); succeeding as previous Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Hupeh 湖北 (1857.08.06 – 1862.09.01), earlier Titular Bishop of Magyddus (1856.12.04 – 1857.08.06 not possessed) ;''Apostolic Vicars of Eastern Hupeh 湖北東境'' * Eustachio Vito Modesto Zanoli (明位篤), O.F.M. (''see above'' 1870.09.11 – death 1883.05.17) * Epiphane Carlassare, O.F.M. (born Italy) (18 June 1884 – death 24 July 1909), Titular Bishop of

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(1884.06.18 – 1909.07.24) ;''Apostolic Vicars of Hankou 漢口'' * Graziano Génnaro, O.F.M. (24 July 1909 – death 1923.12.19),

of Hiericho (1906.08.25 – 1923.12.19), succeeding as previous Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Eastern Hupeh 湖北東境 (1906.08.25 – 1909.07.24) *''

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'' Eugenio Massi, O.F.M. (希賢) (born Italy) (1925 – succession 26 January 1927), Titular Bishop of Joppe (1910.02.15 – death 10 December 1944); previously

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of Northern Shansi 山西北境 (China) (1910.02.15 – 1916.07.07), Apostolic Vicar of Central Shensi 陝西中境 (China) (1916.07.07 – 1924.12.03), Apostolic Vicar of Xi’anfu 西安府 (China) (1924.12.03 – 1927.01.26) * Eugenio Massi, O.F.M. (希賢) (26 January 1927 – death 10 December 1944) ;''Metropolitan Archbishops of Hankou 漢口'' * Giuseppe Ferruccio Maurizio Rosà (), O.F.M. (born Italy) (1946.07.26 – death 1961.08.08) *''uncanonical Bernardine Dong Guang-qing'' (董光清), O.F.M. (first native Chinese incumbent) (1958 – 1994 ''see below''), first term without papal mandate * Victor Liu He-de (1984 - death 10 December 2001) * Giuseppe Ferruccio Maurizio Rosà, O.F.M. (''see above'' 26 July 1946 – death 8 August 1961), canonical second term with papal mandate * ''long vacancy'' * Francis Cui Qingqi, ordained 8 September 2020Francis Cui Qingqi ordained
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hankou, Roman Catholic Archdiocese Roman Catholic dioceses in China Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 17th century Religion in Hubei Organizations based in Wuhan

Religious organizations established in 1696 Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcen ...

1696 establishments in Asia Events January–March * January 21 – The Great Recoinage of 1696, Recoinage Act, passed by the Parliament of England to pull counterfeit silver coins out of circulation, becomes law.James E. Thorold Rogers, ''The First Nin ...

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