Diocese of

Lishui 麗水 UCA 𝐖 𝐖c

China

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Lishui 麗水 (中文) / Lishui / Lìshuǐ 丽水 (简体中文) / Liscioëiven(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Hangzhou 杭州

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

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History

1931.07.02: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Chuzhou 處州 (中文) / Chuchow / Chùzhōu 处州 (简体中文) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Ningbo 寧波)
1937.05.18: Renamed as Apostolic Prefecture of Lishui 麗水 (中文) / Lishui / Lìshuǐ 丽水 (简体中文) / de Lishui (Latin)
1948.05.13: Promoted as Diocese of Lishui 麗水 (中文) / Lishui / Lìshuǐ 丽水 (简体中文) / Liscioëiven(sis) (Latin) (became suffragan of Hangzhou 杭州)

Present Prelates

Bishop:

vacant

Ordinaries

Bishops of Lishui 麗水 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Kenneth Roderick Turner (譚爾鼐), S.F.M.
(1948.05.13 – 1983.10.31)

Adveniat regnum tuum

Born:	1905.10.14 (Canada)
Ordained Priest:	1936.09.06
Consecrated Bishop:	1948.09.29
Died:	1983.10.31 († 78)

Bishop of Lishui 麗水 (China) (1948.05.13 – 1983.10.31)

Fr. William Cecil MacGrath, S.F.M.
(1937.05.18 – 1970.07.13)

Born:	1896.04.29 (Canada)
Ordained Priest:	1921.06.29
Died:	1970.07.13 († 74)

Prefect Apostolic of Chuzhou 處州 (China) (1932.03.04 – 1937.05.18)

Bishop of Lishui 麗水 (China) (1937.05.18 – 1970.07.13)

Prefects Apostolic of Chuzhou 處州 (Roman Rite)

Fr. William Cecil MacGrath, S.F.M.
(1932.03.04 – 1937.05.18)

(see above)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Lishui 丽水, Zhejiang
Former Cathedral: Church of the Sacred Heart, Lishui 丽水, Zhejiang

Jian’ou 建甌 (↙), Hangzhou 杭州 (↑), Ningbo 寧波 (↗), Linhai 臨海 (→), Yongjia 永嘉 (↘), Funing 福寧 (↓)

Statistics (1950.12.31)

Area: 23,484 km²

Population: 4,286 Catholics (0.1% of 3,309,300 total)

Pastoral Centres: 8 parishes, 30 missions

Personnel: 13 priests (5 diocesan, 8 religious), 9 religious (9 sisters)

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2024.12.15

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