Roman Catholic Diocese of Tianjin

Diocese of Tianjin
Dioecesis Tienzinensis
天主教天津教区

The façade of St Joseph's Catholic Church
Location
Country China
Ecclesiastical province Beijing
Metropolitan Beijing
Statistics
Area 12,560 km2 (4,850 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2008)
15,000,000
100,000(60,000 est. underground faithful, as of 2008) (0.7%)
Information
Rite Latin Rite
Cathedral St. Joseph’s Cathedral
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Stephen Li Side (house arrest)
Metropolitan Archbishop Joseph Li Shan
Coadjutor Melchior Shi Hongzhen (house arrest)

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tianjin/Tíentsín (Latin:Latin: Tienzinen(sis), Chinese: 天津; pinyin: Tiānjīn) is a suffragan diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Beijing in PR China.

Its cathedral episcopal see is Cathedral of St. Joseph (Laoxikai Church), in the city of Tianjin, which also has the former cathedral: Our Lady of Victory Church (Wanghailou Church) (圣母得勝堂(望海樓天主堂)).

Data from 1950 indicated there are 50,000 registered Roman Catholics in Tianjin, occupying 1.4% of the total 3,600,000 population. Recent data from 2008 reflected a recovery of presumably 100,000 Catholics after years of persecution of which 40,000 are officially registered and 60,000 is the estimated number of underground faithful. Even that considered, it is still only a very tiny proportion of the current 15,000,000 population (0.7%).

History

Ordinaries

(all Roman Rite)

Apostolic Vicars of Coastal Chi-Li (直隸海濱)
Apostolic Vicar of Tianjin (天津)
Suffragan Bishops of Tianjin (天津)

Coordinates: 39°08′00″N 117°10′59″E / 39.1333°N 117.1830°E / 39.1333; 117.1830

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