Apostolic Prefecture of Xinjiang-Urumqi

The Apostolic Prefecture of Xinjiang-Urumqi is a pre-diocesan missionary Latin jurisdiction of the Catholic church in southwestern China's vast region East Turkestan, which is exempt, i.e. directly dependent on the Holy See and its missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, not part of any ecclesiastical province.

Antecedents

Modern missions in Xinjiang (= Sinkiang) were mounted by the Scheutists from their neighboring Apostolic Vicariate of Kansu (no Archdiocese of Lanzhou), under its authority.
On 1 October 1888 the Holy See erected and confided to them a Mission sui iuris of I-li, restoring (while demoting) in the name the short-lived Diocese of Ili-baluc (1320-30), which has been a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Khanbalik 汗八里, in the Great Khan's Mongol-Chinese capital.
This Independent Mission of Ili was suppressed on 8 March 1922 by Pius XI's papal brief (breve) Apostolatus officium, incorporating its territory in the Western Kansu (the former Kansu; two year later renamed Lanchowfu).

Established on 14 February 1930 as Mission sui juris of Xinjiang 新疆 (中文) / Urumqi 烏魯木齊 (中文) / Sinkiang / Xinjiang-Urumqi 新疆烏魯木齊 (中文) / Sinkiangen(sis) (Latin) by Pius XI's papal brief Decet Romanum Pontificem, on Ili's former territory, split off from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Lanchowfu 蘭州府), but now confided to the Divine Word Missionaries.
Promoted on 21 May 1938 as Apostolic Prefecture of Xinjiang 新疆 (中文) / Urumqi 烏魯木齊 (中文) / Sinkiang / Xinjiang-Urumqi 新疆烏魯木齊 (中文) / Sinkiangen(sis) (Latin) ^[1]

Father Ferdinando Loy (卢裴德), Divine Word Missionaries (S.V.D.) (born Germany) (1931.11.20 – 1938.05.21 see below)

Ferdinando Loy (卢裴德), S.V.D. (see above 1938.05.21 – death 1969.06.23)
Paul Xie Ting-zhe (謝庭哲) (1991 – ...) (born China) - clandestine consecration as bishop on 1991.11.25.

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