Diocese of

Shuoxian 朔縣

China

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Shuoxian 朔縣 (中文) / Shuozhou 朔州 (中文) / Shao-Chou / Shohchow / Shuòxiàn 朔县 (简体中文) / Shuòzhōu 朔州 (简体中文) / Scioceuven(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Taiyuan 太原

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

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History

1926.07.12: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Shuozhou 朔州 (中文) / Shohchow / Shuòzhōu 朔州 (简体中文) / de Shohchow (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Taiyuanfu 太原府)
1932.06.17: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Shuozhou 朔州 (中文) / Shohchow / Shuòzhōu 朔州 (简体中文) / de Shohchow (Latin)
1946.04.11: Promoted as Diocese of Shuoxian 朔縣 (中文) / Shuozhou 朔州 (中文) / Shao-Chou / Shohchow / Shuòxiàn 朔县 (简体中文) / Shuòzhōu 朔州 (简体中文) / Scioceuven(sis) (Latin) (became suffragan of Taiyuan 太原)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2007.03.15 – ...):	Bishop Paul Ma Cun-guo (馬存國) (53)
Bishop (2020.07.09 – ...▼):	Bishop Paul Ma Cun-guo (馬存國) (53)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Shuoxian 朔縣 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Paul Ma Cun-guo (馬存國) (53)
(2020.07.09 – ...▼)

Bishop of Shuoxian 朔縣 (China) ▼
Bishop of Shuoxian 朔縣 (China)

Deus meus et omnia

Born:	1971.01.21 (China)
Ordained Priest:	1996.03.23
Consecrated Bishop:	2004.02.08

Coadjutor Bishop of Shuoxian 朔縣 (China) (2004 – 2007.03.15)

Bishop of Shuoxian 朔縣 (China) (2007.03.15 – ...)

Bishop of Shuoxian 朔縣 (China) (2020.07.09 – ...▼)

Bishop Paul Ma Cun-guo (馬存國) (53)
(2007.03.15 – ...)

(see above)

Bishop Bonaventure Luo Juan (雒雋)
(1990 – 2007.03.15)

Born:	1917.12.23 (China)
Ordained Priest:	1944.07.19
Consecrated Bishop:	1990.07.08
Died:	2007.03.15 († 89)

Bishop of Shuoxian 朔縣 (China) (1990 – 2007.03.15)

Bishop Edgar Anton Häring (俞廣仁), O.F.M.
(1946.04.11 – 1971.07.25)

Born:	1894.05.11 (Germany)
Ordained Priest:	1920.09.19
Consecrated Bishop:	1933.08.27
Died:	1971.07.25 († 77)

Prefect Apostolic of Shuozhou 朔州 (China) (1927.07.13 – 1932.06.17)

Titular Bishop of Anthedon (1933.04.25 – 1946.04.11)

Vicar Apostolic of Shuozhou 朔州 (China) (1933.04.25 – 1946.04.11)

Bishop of Shuoxian 朔縣 (China) (1946.04.11 – 1971.07.25)

Vicars Apostolic of Shuozhou 朔州 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Edgar Anton Häring (俞廣仁), O.F.M.
(1933.04.25 – 1946.04.11)

(see above)

Prefects Apostolic of Shuozhou 朔州 (Roman Rite)

Fr. Edgar Anton Häring (俞廣仁), O.F.M. (later Bishop)
(1927.07.13 – 1932.06.17)

(see above)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Paul Ma Cun-guo (馬存國) (53) (2004 – 2007.03.15)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of Our Lady, Shuozhou 朔州, Shanxi

Fenyang 汾陽 (↙), Yan’an 延安 (↙), Suiyuan 綏遠 (↖), Jining 集寧 (↑), Datong 大同 (↗), Taiyuan 太原 (↓)

Statistics (1949.12.31)

Area: 25,000 km²

Population: 11,000 Catholics (0.8% of 1,300,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 20 parishes, 66 missions

Personnel: 28 priests (3 diocesan, 25 religious), 10 religious (10 sisters), 3 seminarians

Pastoral Centres

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