Diocese of

Bengbu 蚌埠

China

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Bengbu 蚌埠 (中文) / Pengpu / Bàngbù 蚌埠 (简体中文) / Pampuven(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Anqing 安慶

Neighbouring Dioceses: Xinyang 信陽 (↙), Kaifeng 開封 (↖), Shangqiu 商丘 (↖), Xuzhou 徐州 (↑), Yangzhou 揚州 (→), Wuhu 蕪湖 (↘), Anqing 安慶 (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Now Governed by Patriotic Diocese: Anhui 安徽 Uncanonical Diocese

Celebrations

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History

1929.02.21: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Bengbu 蚌埠 (中文) / Pengpu / Bàngbù 蚌埠 (简体中文) / de Pengpu (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Wuhu 蕪湖)
1946.04.11: Promoted as Diocese of Bengbu 蚌埠 (中文) / Pengpu / Bàngbù 蚌埠 (简体中文) / Pampuven(sis) (Latin) (became suffragan of Anqing 安慶)

Present Prelates

Bishop:

vacant

Ordinaries

Bishops of Bengbu 蚌埠 (Roman Rite)

Fr. Xu Qin-zhong (許欽忠), S.J.
(Apostolic Administrator 1997 – 2005)

Bishop Joseph Zhu Hua-yu (朱化宇) (later Archbishop)
(1986 – 2001)

Born:	1917.08 (Weixian, China)
Ordained Priest:	1947
Consecrated Bishop:	1986.11.30
Died:	2005.02.26 (Hefei, China † 87)

Bishop of Bengbu 蚌埠 (China) (1986 – 2001)

Apostolic Administrator of Anqing 安慶 (China) (1997 – 2001)

Apostolic Administrator of Wuhu 蕪湖 (China) (1997 – 2005.02.26)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Anqing 安慶 (China) (2001 – 2005.02.26)

Bishop Zhou Yi-zhai (周益齋) ▼
(1958 – 1983.10.26▼)

Born:	(China)
Consecrated Bishop:	1958 (no papal mandate)
Died:	1983.10.26

Bishop of Bengbu 蚌埠 (China) (1958 – 1983.10.26▼)

Bishop Cipriano Cassini (趙信義), S.J.
(1946.04.11 – 1951.06.11)

Born:	1894.09.25 (Perinaldo, Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1926.07.30
Consecrated Bishop:	1937.04.11
Died:	1951.06.11 (Bengbu, 安徽, China † 56)

Titular Bishop of Drivastum (1936.12.23 – 1946.04.11)

Vicar Apostolic of Bengbu 蚌埠 (China) (1937.01.15 – 1946.04.11)

Bishop of Bengbu 蚌埠 (China) (1946.04.11 – 1951.06.11)

Vicars Apostolic of Bengbu 蚌埠 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Cipriano Cassini (趙信義), S.J.
(1937.01.15 – 1946.04.11)

(see above)

Bishop Tommaso Berutti (柏露梯), S.J.
(1929.12.19 – 1933)

Born:	1888.11.11 (Salussola, Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1922.09.07
Consecrated Bishop:	1930.06.08
Died:	1975.01.21 († 86)

Vicar Apostolic of Bengbu 蚌埠 (China) (1929.12.19 – 1933)

Titular Bishop of Cusæ (1929.12.19 – 1975.01.21)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral, Bengbu 蚌埠, Anhui

Xinyang 信陽 (↙), Kaifeng 開封 (↖), Shangqiu 商丘 (↖), Xuzhou 徐州 (↑), Yangzhou 揚州 (→), Wuhu 蕪湖 (↘), Anqing 安慶 (↓)

Statistics (1950.12.31)

Area: 60,000 km²

Population: 64,334 Catholics (0.7% of 9,000,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 23 parishes, 63 missions

Personnel: 45 priests (4 diocesan, 41 religious), 36 religious (15 brothers, 21 sisters), 9 seminarians

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2026.03.30

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