Diocese of

Hanyang 漢陽

China

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Hanyang 漢陽 (中文) / Hanyang / Hànyáng 汉阳 (简体中文) / Haniamen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Hankou 漢口

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Now Governed by Patriotic Diocese: Wuhan 武漢 Uncanonical Diocese

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (Universal) 📅

History

1923.12.12: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Hanyang 漢陽 (中文) / Hanyang / Hànyáng 汉阳 (简体中文) / de Hanyang (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Eastern Hupeh 湖北東境)
1927.07.14: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Hanyang 漢陽 (中文) / Hanyang / Hànyáng 汉阳 (简体中文) / de Hanyang (Latin)
1946.04.11: Promoted as Diocese of Hanyang 漢陽 (中文) / Hanyang / Hànyáng 汉阳 (简体中文) / Haniamen(sis) (Latin) (became suffragan of Hankou 漢口)

Present Prelates

Bishop:	vacant
Apostolic Administrator (2005 – ...):	Fr. Chen Tian-huai (陳天懷)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Hanyang 漢陽 (Roman Rite)

Fr. Chen Tian-huai (陳天懷)
(Apostolic Administrator 2005 – ...)

Bishop Peter Zhang Bo-ren (張伯仁)
(1984 – 2005.10.12)

Born:	1915.02.14 (Zhangjiazhuang, China)
Ordained Priest:	1942.12.19
Consecrated Bishop:	1986.03.03
Died:	2005.10.12 (Beijing, China † 90)

Bishop of Hanyang 漢陽 (China) (1984 – 2005.10.12)

Bishop Anthony Tu Shi-hua (涂世華) ▼
(1959 – 2017.01.04▼)

Born:	1919.11.22 (Mianyang, China)
Ordained Priest:	1944.04
Consecrated Bishop:	1959.08.15 (no papal mandate)
Died:	2017.01.04 (Beijing, China † 97)

Bishop of Hanyang 漢陽 (China) (1959 – 2017.01.04▼)

Bishop Edward John Galvin (高爾文), S.S.C.M.E.
(1946.04.11 – 1956.02.23)

Born:	1882.11.23 (Crookstown, Ireland)
Ordained Priest:	1909.06.20
Consecrated Bishop:	1927.11.06
Died:	1956.02.23 (Navan, Ireland † 73)

Founder of Missionary Society of Saint Columban (Columban Missionaries) (1917)

Prefect Apostolic of Hanyang 漢陽 (China) (1924.11.01 – 1927.07.14)

Titular Bishop of Myrina (1927.07.14 – 1946.04.11)

Vicar Apostolic of Hanyang 漢陽 (China) (1927.07.14 – 1946.04.11)

Bishop of Hanyang 漢陽 (China) (1946.04.11 – 1956.02.23)

Vicars Apostolic of Hanyang 漢陽 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Edward John Galvin (高爾文), S.S.C.M.E.
(1927.07.14 – 1946.04.11)

(see above)

Prefects Apostolic of Hanyang 漢陽 (Roman Rite)

Fr. Edward John Galvin (高爾文), S.S.C.M.E. (later Bishop)
(1924.11.01 – 1927.07.14)

(see above)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of St. Columban, Hanyang 汉阳, Hubei

Shashi 沙市 (←), Yichang 宜昌 (←), Xiangyang 襄陽 (↖), Suixian 隨縣 (↑), Hankou 漢口 (↗), Puqi 蒲圻 (↓)

Statistics (1949.12.31)

Area: 10,000 km²

Population: 51,000 Catholics (1.3% of 4,000,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 26 parishes, 94 missions

Personnel: 32 priests (6 diocesan, 26 religious), 36 religious (36 sisters), 1 seminarian

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2026.01.09

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