Diocese of Ningyuan 寧遠, China 🇨🇳

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Ningyuan 寧遠 (中文) / Xichang 西昌 (中文) / Ningyüan / Níngyuǎn 宁远 (简体中文) / Xīchāng 西昌 (简体中文) / Nimiüenen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Chongqing 重慶

Neighbouring Dioceses: Dali 大理 (↙), Kangding 康定 (↑), Jiading 嘉定 (↗), Suifu 敘府 (→), Zhaotong 昭通 (↘), Kunming 昆明 (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Now Governed by Patriotic Diocese: Xichang 西昌 Uncanonical Diocese

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (Universal) 📅

History

1910.08.12: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Jianchang 建昌 (中文) / Kienchang / Jiànchāng 建昌 (简体中文) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Szechwan 四川南境)
1924.12.03: Renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of Ningyuanfu 寧遠府 (中文) / Ningyuanfu / Níngyuǎnfǔ 宁远府 (简体中文) / de Ningyuanfu (Latin)
1946.04.11: Promoted as Diocese of Ningyuan 寧遠 (中文) / Xichang 西昌 (中文) / Ningyüan / Níngyuǎn 宁远 (简体中文) / Xīchāng 西昌 (简体中文) / Nimiüenen(sis) (Latin) (became suffragan of Chongqing 重慶)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2016.11.25 – ...):

Bishop John Lei Jia-pei (雷家培) (55)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Ningyuan 寧遠 (Roman Rite)

Bishop John Lei Jia-pei (雷家培) (55)
(2016.11.25 – ...)

Bishop of Ningyuan 寧遠 (China)

Born:	1970.06.12 (屏山县, 四川, China)
Ordained Priest:	1995.12.24
Consecrated Bishop:	2016.12.02

Apostolic Administrator of Ningyuan 寧遠 (China) (2015 – 2016.11.25)

Bishop of Ningyuan 寧遠 (China) (2016.11.25 – ...)

Fr. John Lei Jia-pei (雷家培) (55) (later Bishop)
(Apostolic Administrator 2015 – 2016.11.25)

Bishop Xie Chao-gang (謝朝鋼) ▼
(1991 – 1999.01.02▼)

Born:	1910.03.06 (Liangshan, China)
Ordained Priest:	1936.09.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1991.05.05 (no papal mandate)
Died:	1999.01.02 († 88)

Bishop of Ningyuan 寧遠 (China) (1991 – 1999.01.02▼)

Bishop Stanislas-Gabriel-Henri Baudry (包明揚), M.E.P.
(1946.04.11 – 1954.08.06)

Born:	1887.11.27 (La Pommeraie-sur-Sèvre, France)
Ordained Priest:	1913.09.28
Consecrated Bishop:	1927.10.30
Died:	1954.08.06 (Paris, France † 66)

Titular Bishop of Isauropolis (1927.03.18 – 1946.04.11)

Vicar Apostolic of Ningyuanfu 寧遠府 (China) (1927.03.18 – 1946.04.11)

Bishop of Ningyuan 寧遠 (China) (1946.04.11 – 1954.08.06)

Vicars Apostolic of Ningyuanfu 寧遠府 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Stanislas-Gabriel-Henri Baudry (包明揚), M.E.P.
(1927.03.18 – 1946.04.11)

(see above)

Bishop Joseph-Fructueux Bourgain (卜恩佑), M.E.P.
(1918.03.31 – 1925.09.30)

Born:	1872.04.15 (Le Portel, France)
Ordained Priest:	1896.06.28
Consecrated Bishop:	1918.11.10
Died:	1925.09.30 (Kunming, China † 53)

Titular Bishop of Archelaïs (1918.03.31 – 1925.09.30)

Vicar Apostolic of Ningyuanfu 寧遠府 (China) (1918.03.31 – 1925.09.30)

Vicars Apostolic of Jianchang 建昌 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Jean-Baptiste-Marie Budes de Guébriant (光若翰), M.E.P. (later Archbishop)
(1910.08.12 – 1916.04.28)

Vince bono

Born:	1860.12.11 (Paris, France)
Ordained Priest:	1885.07.05
Consecrated Bishop:	1910.11.20
Died:	1935.03.06 (Paris, France † 74)

Vicar Apostolic of Jianchang 建昌 (China) (1910.08.12 – 1916.04.28)

Titular Bishop of Eurœa (1910.08.12 – 1921.12.11)

Vicar Apostolic of Guangzhou 廣州 (China) (1916.04.28 – 1921.03.21)

Superior General of Paris Foreign Missions Society (1921.05.21 – 1935.03.06)

Titular Archbishop of Marcianopolis (1921.12.11 – 1935.03.06)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of the Angels, Xichang 西昌, Sichuan

Dali 大理 (↙), Kangding 康定 (↑), Jiading 嘉定 (↗), Suifu 敘府 (→), Zhaotong 昭通 (↘), Kunming 昆明 (↓)

Statistics (1950.12.31)

Area: 120,000 km²

Population: 11,143 Catholics (0.6% of 2,000,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 17 parishes, 6 missions

Personnel: 35 priests (33 diocesan, 2 religious), 42 religious (6 brothers, 36 sisters), 4 seminarians