Diocese of

Jiangmen 江門

China

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Jiangmen 江門 (中文) / Kongmoon / Jiāngmén 江門 (简体中文) / Chiammenen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Guangzhou 廣州

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Now Governed by Patriotic Dioceses: Jiangmen 江門 Uncanonical Diocese , Zhanjiang 湛江

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (Universal) 📅

History

1924.01.31: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Jiangmen 江門 (中文) / Kong-moon / Jiāngmén 江門 (简体中文) / de Kong-moon (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Shantou 汕頭)
1927.02.03: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Jiangmen 江門 (中文) / Kong-moon / Jiāngmén 江門 (简体中文) / de Kong-moon (Latin)
1946.04.11: Promoted as Diocese of Jiangmen 江門 (中文) / Kongmoon / Jiāngmén 江門 (简体中文) / Chiammenen(sis) (Latin) (became suffragan of Guangzhou 廣州)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2011 – ...):

Bishop Paul Liang Jian-sen (梁建森) (61)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Jiangmen 江門 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Paul Liang Jian-sen (梁建森) (61)
(2011 – ...)

Bishop of Jiangmen 江門 (China)

Ecce ego mitte me / 我在這裡請派遣我

Born:	1964.05.06 (China)
Ordained Priest:	1991.12.08
Consecrated Bishop:	2011.03.30

Bishop of Jiangmen 江門 (China) (2011 – ...)

Bishop Peter Paul Li Pan-shi (李磐石) ▼
(1981 – 2007.01.04▼)

Born:	1911.07.12 (廣東, China)
Ordained Priest:	1944.07.26
Consecrated Bishop:	1981.09.27 (no papal mandate)
Died:	2007.01.04 (Zhonghsan, 廣東, China † 95)

Bishop of Jiangmen 江門 (China) (1981 – 2007.01.04▼)

Bishop Adolph John Paschang (柏增), M.M.
(1946.04.11 – 1968.02.03)

Born:	1895.04.16 (Martinsburg, MO, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1921.05.21
Consecrated Bishop:	1937.11.30
Died:	1968.02.03 (Hong Kong † 72)

Titular Bishop of Sasima (1937.06.17 – 1946.04.11)

Vicar Apostolic of Jiangmen 江門 (China) (1937.06.17 – 1946.04.11)

Bishop of Jiangmen 江門 (China) (1946.04.11 – 1968.02.03)

Vicars Apostolic of Jiangmen 江門 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Adolph John Paschang (柏增), M.M.
(1937.06.17 – 1946.04.11)

(see above)

Bishop James Edward Walsh (華理柱), M.M.
(1927.02.01 – 1936.07)

Born:	1891.04.30 (Cumberland, MD, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1915.12.07
Consecrated Bishop:	1927.05.22
Died:	1981.07.29 (New York, NY, USA † 90)

Vicar Apostolic of Jiangmen 江門 (China) (1927.02.01 – 1936.07)

Titular Bishop of Sata (1927.02.01 – 1981.07.29)

Superior General of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America (Maryknoll Fathers) (1935 – 1946.08.07)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Immaculate Heart of Mary Cathedral, Zhongshan 中山, Guangdong
Former Cathedral: Former Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Jiangmen 江门, Guangdong
Church: Church of St. Francis Xavier, Shangchuan Island 上川岛, Guangdong

Beihai 北海 (←), Wuzhou 梧州 (↖), Guangzhou 廣州 (↑), Macau 澳門 (↘)

Statistics (1950.12.31)

Area: 35,000 km²

Population: 8,292 Catholics (0.2% of 4,000,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 21 parishes, 9 missions

Personnel: 37 priests (diocesan), 38 religious (38 sisters), 2 seminarians

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2026.01.09

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