Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nanking

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The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nanking (Latin: Archidioecesis Nanchinensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in China. It was erected as the Apostolic Vicariate of Nanking in 1659 by Pope Alexander VII, and promoted to a diocese by Pope Alexander VIII on April 10, 1690. However, the diocese was demoted to the Apostolic Vicariate of Kiangnan on January 21, 1856 by Pope Pius IX, and its name was later changed to the Apostolic Vicariate of Kiangsu on August 8, 1921 and to the Vicariate Apostolic of Nanking on May 1, 1922. Pope Pius XII elevated it on April 11, 1946 to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese, with the suffragan sees of Haimen, Shanghai, Suzhou, and Xuzhou.

The archdiocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its archbishop is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. There has been no Archbishop of Nanking since the death of Paul Cardinal Yü Pin on August 16, 1978, because of the irregular relationships between the Communist government and the Holy See.

[edit] List of Ordinaries of Nanking

Ignace Cotolendi (1660 - 1662)
Gregory Luo Wen-zao, OP (1674 - 1691)
Cayetano Pires Pireira, CM (1804 - 1838)
André-Pierre Borgniet, SJ (1859 - 1862)
Adrien-Hyppolyte Languillat, SJ (1864 - 1878)
Valentin Garnier, SJ (1879 - 1898)
Jean-Baptiste Simon, SJ (1899)
Próspero París, SJ (1900 - 1931)
Auguste Haouisée, SJ (1931 - 1933)
Paul Yü Pin (1936 - 1978)

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