Diocese of

Shinan 施南

China

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Shinan 施南 (中文) / Enshi 恩施 (中文) / Shíhnan / Shīnán 施南 (简体中文) / Ēnshī 恩施 (简体中文) / Scenanen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Hankou 漢口

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

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History

1938.06.14: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Shinan 施南 (中文) / Shihnan / Shīnán 施南 (简体中文) / de Shinan (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Yichang 宜昌)
1946.04.11: Promoted as Diocese of Shinan 施南 (中文) / Enshi 恩施 (中文) / Shíhnan / Shīnán 施南 (简体中文) / Ēnshī 恩施 (简体中文) / Scenanen(sis) (Latin) (became suffragan of Hankou 漢口)

Present Prelates

Bishop:

vacant

Ordinaries

Vicars Apostolic of Shinan 施南 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Pierre-Henri-Noël Gubbels (顧學德), O.F.M.
(Apostolic Administrator 1946.04.11 – 1950.11.18)

Fr. John Baptist Hu Ruo-han (胡若翰)
(1940.02.13 – 1942.11.10)

Born:	1881.06.23 (China)
Ordained Priest:	1910
Died:	1942 († 61)

Titular Bishop of Abbir Maius (1940.02.13 – 1942)

Vicar Apostolic of Shinan 施南 (China) (1940.02.13 – 1942.11.10)

Chongqing 重慶 (↙), Wanxian 萬縣 (←), Yichang 宜昌 (→), Yuanling 沅陵 (↓)

Statistics (1949.12.31)

Area: 18,000 km²

Population: 7,844 Catholics (0.4% of 2,000,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 81 parishes

Personnel: 13 priests (8 diocesan, 5 religious), 25 religious (3 brothers, 22 sisters), 6 seminarians

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2024.10.29

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