Diocese of

Zhumadian 駐馬店

China

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Zhumadian 駐馬店 (中文) / Chumatien / Zhùmǎdiàn 驻马店 (简体中文) / Ciumatienen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Kaifeng 開封

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Now Governed by Patriotic Diocese: Zhumadian 駐馬店 Uncanonical Diocese

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (Universal) 📅

History

1933.03.02: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Zhumadian 駐馬店 (中文) / Chumatien / Zhùmǎdiàn 驻马店 (简体中文) / de Chumatien (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Nanyangfu 南陽府 and Apostolic Prefecture of Xinyangzhou 信陽州)
1944.11.09: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Zhumadian 駐馬店 (中文) / Chumatien / Zhùmǎdiàn 驻马店 (简体中文) / de Chumatien (Latin)
1946.04.11: Promoted as Diocese of Zhumadian 駐馬店 (中文) / Chumatien / Zhùmǎdiàn 驻马店 (简体中文) / Ciumatienen(sis) (Latin) (became suffragan of Kaifeng 開封)

Present Prelates

Bishop:

vacant

Ordinaries

Bishops of Zhumadian 駐馬店 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Joseph Mary Yuan Ke-zhi (Yüen K’ai-chih) (袁克治)
(1946.04.11 – 1969.01.30)

Born:	1898.02.18 (China)
Ordained Priest:	1919.12.24
Consecrated Bishop:	1945.03.04
Died:	1969.01.30 († 70)

Prefect Apostolic of Zhumadian 駐馬店 (China) (1939 – 1944.11.09)

Titular Bishop of Calydon (1944.11.09 – 1946.04.11)

Vicar Apostolic of Zhumadian 駐馬店 (China) (1944.11.09 – 1946.04.11)

Bishop of Zhumadian 駐馬店 (China) (1946.04.11 – 1969.01.30)

Vicars Apostolic of Zhumadian 駐馬店 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Joseph Mary Yuan Ke-zhi (Yüen K’ai-chih) (袁克治)
(1944.11.09 – 1946.04.11)

(see above)

Prefects Apostolic of Zhumadian 駐馬店 (Roman Rite)

Fr. Joseph Mary Yuan Ke-zhi (Yüen K’ai-chih) (袁克治) (later Bishop)
(1939 – 1944.11.09)

(see above)

Fr. Peter Wang Ji-zhi (王基之)
(1933.08.04 – 1939.08)

Born:	1890.12.23 (China)
Ordained Priest:	1919.03.31
Died:	1939.08 († 48)

Prefect Apostolic of Zhumadian 駐馬店 (China) (1933.08.04 – 1939.08)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral, Zhumadian 驻马店, Henan

Nanyang 南陽 (←), Zhengzhou 鄭州 (↑), Xinyang 信陽 (↘), Suixian 隨縣 (↓)

Statistics (1950.12.31)

Area: 12,700 km²

Population: 14,100 Catholics (1.1% of 1,300,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 5 parishes, 9 missions

Personnel: 16 priests (diocesan), 7 seminarians

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2025.11.11

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