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is a minority in

Hebei Hebei is a Provinces of China, province in North China. It is China's List of Chinese administrative divisions by population, sixth-most populous province, with a population of over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. It bor ...

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).

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The Shouters are present in the province. China has

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. A significant minority of the Catholics of China is in Hebei. Bishop

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was from Hebei.

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has been made a bishop of

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in Hebei without consent of the pope.

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Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo was arrested in 2008. Bishops

James Su Zhi-min James Su Zhi-min is a Chinese Catholic prelate who has served as ''de jure'' Bishop of Baoding since 1995. He was forcibly disappeared in 1997. Biography James was born on 10 July 1932. He was ordained a priest on 12 April 1981. James was sele ...

and from Hebei have been sent to prison by 2010. Beifang Jinde is a charitable Catholic institution in

Shijiazhuang Shijiazhuang; Mandarin: ; formerly known as Shimen and romanized as Shihkiachwang is the capital and most populous city of China's Hebei Province. A prefecture-level city southwest of Beijing, it administers eight districts, three county-le ...

Roman Catholic dioceses with seat in Hebei

Roman Catholic Diocese of Anguo The Roman Catholic Diocese of Anguo (, ) is a diocese located in the city of Anguo in the ecclesiastical province of Beijing in China. History * April 15, 1924: Established as the Apostolic Prefecture of Lixian 蠡縣 from the Apostolic Vicaria ...

Roman Catholic Diocese of Baoding The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baoding/Ching-Yüan/Qingyuan (, ) is a diocese located in the city of Baoding in the ecclesiastical province of Beijing in China. History * February 14, 1910: Established as the Apostolic Vicariate of Central Chi-L ...

* Roman Catholic Diocese of Chengde *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Daming The Roman Catholic Diocese of Daming (, ) is a diocese located in the city of Daming, Daming County, Daming in the ecclesiastical province of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Beijing, Beijing in China. History * March 11, 1935: Established as Apos ...

Roman Catholic Diocese of Jingxian The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jingxian/Kinghsien (, ) is a diocese located in Jingxian (Hengshui) in the ecclesiastical province of Beijing in China. History * April 24, 1939: Established as the Apostolic Prefecture of Jingxian 景縣 from the ...

Roman Catholic Diocese of Xianxian The Diocese of Xianxian/Síenhsíen (, ) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in China. Its episcopal see is the city of Xianxian. The diocese is a Suffragan, suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical prov ...

Roman Catholic Diocese of Xuanhua The Roman Catholic Diocese of Xuanhua/Süanhwa (, ) is a diocese located in the city of Xuanhua in the ecclesiastical province of Beijing in China. History * May 10, 1926: Established as the Apostolic Vicariate of Xuanhua (), from the Apostoli ...

* Roman Catholic Diocese of Yongnian *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Zhaoxian The Roman Catholic Diocese of Zhaoxian (, ) is a diocese located in Zhao County in the ecclesiastical province of Beijing in China. History * March 18, 1929: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Zhaoxian 趙縣 from the Apostolic Vicariate of ...

* Roman Catholic Diocese of Zhengding

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Roman Catholic dioceses with seat in Hebei

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