Diocese of Rehe 熱河, China 🇨🇳

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Rehe 熱河 (中文) / Jinzhou 錦州 (中文) / Jehol / Jǐnzhōu 锦州 (简体中文) / Rèhé 热河 (简体中文) / Geholen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Shenyang 瀋陽

Neighbouring Dioceses: Yongping 永平 (↙), Chengde 承德 (←), Chifeng 赤峰 (↖), Lindong 林東 (↑), Siping 四平 (↗), Yingkou 營口 (→)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Now Governed by Patriotic Dioceses: Liaoning 遼寧 Uncanonical Diocese , Chengde 承德

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (Universal) 📅

History

1883.12.21: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Eastern Mongolia 東蒙古 (中文) / Mongolia Orientale (Italiano) / Eastern Ménggǔ 东蒙古 (简体中文) / Mongoliæ orientalis (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Mongolia 蒙古)
1922.01.21: Lost territory to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Chifeng 赤峰
1924.12.03: Renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of Rehe 熱河 (中文) / Jehol / Rèhé 热河 (简体中文) / de Jehol (Latin)
1928.07.09: Lost territory to establish Mission sui juris of Qiqihar 齊齊哈爾
1929.08.02: Lost territory to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Sipingjie 四平街
1946.04.11: Promoted as Diocese of Rehe 熱河 (中文) / Jinzhou 錦州 (中文) / Jehol / Jǐnzhōu 锦州 (简体中文) / Rèhé 热河 (简体中文) / Geholen(sis) (Latin) (became suffragan of Shenyang 瀋陽)
2018.09.08: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Chengde 承德

Present Prelates

Bishop:	vacant
Apostolic Administrator (? – ...):	Bishop John Chen Cang-bao (陳蒼保) (65)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Rehe 熱河 (Roman Rite)

Bishop John Chen Cang-bao (陳蒼保) (65)
(Apostolic Administrator ? – ...)

Bishop Paul Liu Shu-he (劉書和)
(Apostolic Administrator 1982 – 1993.05.02)

Bishop John Zhao You-min (趙佑民) ▼
(1958 – 1987▼)

Oportet illum crescere

Born:	1920 (China)
Ordained Priest:	1936
Consecrated Bishop:	1958.06.22 (no papal mandate)
Died:	1988.03.08 (Shenyang, China † 67)

Bishop of Rehe 熱河 (China) (1958 – 1987▼)

Bishop Joseph Julian Oste (德化隆), C.I.C.M.
(1948.04.09 – 1971.01.19)

Born:	1893.03.28 (Zele, Belgium)
Ordained Priest:	1920.11.21
Consecrated Bishop:	1948.10.28
Died:	1971.01.19 (Leuven, Belgium † 77)

Bishop of Rehe 熱河 (China) (1948.04.09 – 1971.01.19)

Bishop Louis Janssens (南阜民), C.I.C.M.
(1946.04.11 – 1948.01.09)

Born:	1876.10.24 (Stabroek, Belgium)
Ordained Priest:	1901.07.14
Consecrated Bishop:	1922.11.26
Died:	1950.04.14 (Mechelen, Belgium † 73)

Titular Bishop of Faustinopolis (1922.07.07 – 1946.04.11)

Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Rehe 熱河 (China) (1922.07.28 – 1942.02.04)

Vicar Apostolic of Rehe 熱河 (China) (1942.02.04 – 1946.04.11)

Bishop of Rehe 熱河 (China) (1946.04.11 – 1948.01.09)

Titular Bishop of Acarassus (1948.01.09 – 1950.04.14)

Vicars Apostolic of Rehe 熱河 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Louis Janssens (南阜民), C.I.C.M.
(1942.02.04 – 1946.04.11)

(see above)

Bishop Conrad Abels (葉步司), C.I.C.M.
(1897.07.05 – 1942.02.04)

Born:	1856.01.31 (Weert, Netherlands)
Ordained Priest:	1879.03.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1897.10.31
Died:	1942.02.04 (Weert, Netherlands † 86)

Titular Bishop of Lagania (1897.07.05 – 1942.02.04)

Vicar Apostolic of Rehe 熱河 (China) (1897.07.05 – 1942.02.04)

Vicars Apostolic of Eastern Mongolia 東蒙古 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Théodore-Herman Rutjes (呂繼賢), C.I.C.M.
(1883.12.11 – 1896.08.04)

Born:	1844.04.07 (Duiven-les-Arnhem, Netherlands)
Ordained Priest:	1866.12.22
Consecrated Bishop:	1884.05.18
Died:	1896.08.04 (Sungshutsuitze, China † 52)

Titular Bishop of Eleutheropolis (1883.12.11 – 1896.08.04)

Vicar Apostolic of Eastern Mongolia 東蒙古 (China) (1883.12.11 – 1896.08.04)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic: Bishop Louis Janssens (南阜民), C.I.C.M. (1922.07.28 – 1942.02.04)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of Divine Mercy, Chaoyang 朝阳, Liaoning
Former Cathedral: Former Cathedral, Chaoyang 朝阳, Liaoning

Yongping 永平 (↙), Chengde 承德 (←), Chifeng 赤峰 (↖), Lindong 林東 (↑), Siping 四平 (↗), Yingkou 營口 (→)

Statistics (1949.12.31)

Area: 78,917 km²

Population: 31,845 Catholics (0.6% of 5,235,341 total)

Pastoral Centres: 40 parishes, 43 missions

Personnel: 76 priests (20 diocesan, 56 religious), 93 religious (47 brothers, 46 sisters), 15 seminarians