Diocese of

Fushun 撫順

China

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Fushun 撫順 (中文) / Fushun / Fǔshùn 抚顺 (简体中文) / Fusciœnen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Shenyang 瀋陽

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

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History

1932.02.04: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Fushun 撫順 (中文) / Fushun / Fǔshùn 抚顺 (简体中文) / de Fushun (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Shenyang 瀋陽)
1940.02.13: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Fushun 撫順 (中文) / Fushun / Fǔshùn 抚顺 (简体中文) / de Fushun (Latin)
1946.04.11: Promoted as Diocese of Fushun 撫順 (中文) / Fushun / Fǔshùn 抚顺 (简体中文) / Fusciœnen(sis) (Latin) (became suffragan of Shenyang 瀋陽)

Present Prelates

Bishop:

vacant

Ordinaries

Bishops of Fushun 撫順 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Raymond Aloysius Lane (林化東), M.M.
(1946.04.11 – 1946.08.07)

Born:	1894.01.02 (USA)
Ordained Priest:	1920.02.08
Consecrated Bishop:	1940.06.11
Died:	1974.07.31 († 80)

Prefect Apostolic of Fushun 撫順 (China) (1932.04.14 – 1940.02.13)

Titular Bishop of Hypæpa (1940.02.13 – 1946.04.11)

Vicar Apostolic of Fushun 撫順 (China) (1940.02.13 – 1946.04.11)

Bishop of Fushun 撫順 (China) (1946.04.11 – 1946.08.07)

Superior General of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America (Maryknoll Fathers) (1946.08.07 – 1956.08.06)

Vicars Apostolic of Fushun 撫順 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Raymond Aloysius Lane (林化東), M.M.
(1940.02.13 – 1946.04.11)

(see above)

Prefects Apostolic of Fushun 撫順 (Roman Rite)

Fr. Raymond Aloysius Lane (林化東), M.M. (later Bishop)
(1932.04.14 – 1940.02.13)

(see above)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of St. Joseph, Fushun 抚顺, Liaoning

Yingkou 營口 (↙), Shenyang 瀋陽 (←), Jilin 吉林 (↗), Hamhung 함흥 (→), Yanji 延吉 (→), Pyong-yang 평양 (↓)

Statistics (1949.12.31)

Area: 75,204 km²

Population: 10,000 Catholics (0.2% of 6,250,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 17 parishes

Personnel: 8 priests (diocesan), 16 religious (16 sisters), 7 seminarians

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2024.11.26

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