Diocese of

Nanlong 南龍

China

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Nanlong 南龍 (中文) / Anlong 安龍 (中文) / Lanlung / Nánlóng 南龙 (简体中文) / Ānlóng 安龙 (简体中文) / Nganlomen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Guiyang 貴陽

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Now Governed by Patriotic Dioceses: Guizhou 貴州 Uncanonical Diocese , Guangxi 廣西

Celebrations

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History

1922.02.16: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Nanlong 南龍 (中文) / Anlong 安龍 (中文) / Lang-Long / Nánlóng 南龙 (简体中文) / Ānlóng 安龙 (简体中文) / de Lang-Long (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Guangxi 廣西 and Apostolic Vicariate of Guizhou 貴州)
1927.04.27: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Nanlong 南龍 (中文) / Anlong 安龍 (中文) / Lang-Long / Nánlóng 南龙 (简体中文) / Ānlóng 安龙 (简体中文) / de Lang-Long (Latin)
1946.04.11: Promoted as Diocese of Nanlong 南龍 (中文) / Anlong 安龍 (中文) / Lanlung / Nánlóng 南龙 (简体中文) / Ānlóng 安龙 (简体中文) / Nganlomen(sis) (Latin) (became suffragan of Guiyang 貴陽)

Present Prelates

Bishop:

vacant

Ordinaries

Bishops of Nanlong 南龍 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Alexandre-François-Marie Carlo (賈祿), M.E.P.
(1946.04.11 – 1952.01.26)

Born:	1881.05.03 (Hénon, France)
Ordained Priest:	1905.06.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1927.10.16
Died:	1952.01.26 (Guiyang, China † 70)

Prefect Apostolic of Nanlong 南龍 (China) (1922.11.22 – 1927.04.21)

Vicar Apostolic of Nanlong 南龍 (China) (1927.04.21 – 1946.04.11)

Titular Bishop of Hadrianopolis in Honoriade (1927.04.29 – 1946.04.11)

Bishop of Nanlong 南龍 (China) (1946.04.11 – 1952.01.26)

Vicars Apostolic of Nanlong 南龍 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Alexandre-François-Marie Carlo (賈祿), M.E.P.
(1927.04.21 – 1946.04.11)

(see above)

Prefects Apostolic of Nanlong 南龍 (Roman Rite)

Fr. Alexandre-François-Marie Carlo (賈祿), M.E.P. (later Bishop)
(1922.11.22 – 1927.04.21)

(see above)

Kunming 昆明 (←), Zhaotong 昭通 (↖), Guiyang 貴陽 (↗), Nanning 南寧 (↘)

Statistics (1949.12.31)

Area: 45,000 km²

Population: 11,403 Catholics (0.8% of 1,350,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 18 parishes, 24 missions

Personnel: 30 priests (15 diocesan, 15 religious), 5 religious (5 sisters), 3 seminarians

Pastoral Centres

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