The Roman Catholic Diocese of Nanlong/Anlong (, zh, t=南龍, 安龍) is a

diocese In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, prov ...

located in Anlong (

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) in the

ecclesiastical province An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction in Christian churches, including those of both Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity, that have traditional hierarchical structures. An ecclesiastical province consist ...

Guiyang Guiyang; Mandarin pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, alternatively as Kweiyang is the capital of Guizhou, Guizhou province in China. It is centrally located within the province, on the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau, eastern part of the Yun ...

in China.

History

* February 16, 1922: Established as

Apostolic Prefecture An apostolic prefect or prefect apostolic is a priest who heads what is known as an apostolic prefecture, a 'pre-diocesan' missionary jurisdiction where the Catholic Church is not yet sufficiently developed to have it made a diocese. Although it ...

of Nanlong 南龍/Anlong/ 安龍/興義府 from the

Apostolic Vicariate of Kweichow The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guiyang (formerly spelled Kweyang; ; zh, t=天主教貴陽總教區, s=天主教贵阳总教区) is an archdiocese located in the city of Guiyang, provincial capital of Guizhou (formerly, Kweichow; ), southweste ...

貴州 and Apostolic Vicariate of Kwanghsi 廣西 * April 27, 1927: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Nanlong 南龍/Anlong 安龍 * April 11, 1946: Promoted as Diocese of Nanlong 南龍/Anlong 安龍

Leadership

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s of Nanlong 南龍 (Roman rite) ** Bishop Alexandre-François-Marie Carlo, M.E.P. (April 11, 1946 – January 26, 1952) * Vicars Apostolic of Nanlong 南龍 (Roman Rite) ** Bishop Alexandre-François-Marie Carlo, M.E.P. (April 21, 1927 – April 11, 1946) * Prefects Apostolic of Nanlong 南龍 (Roman Rite) ** Fr. Alexandre-François-Marie Carlo, M.E.P. (later Bishop) (November 22, 1922 – April 21, 1927)

References

GCatholic.org

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