Diocese of

Sanyuan 三原

China

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Sanyuan 三原 (中文) / Sanyüan / Sānyuán 三原 (简体中文) / Saniüenen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Xi’an 西安

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

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History

1931.11.01: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Sanyuan 三原 (中文) / Sanyuan / Sānyuán 三原 (简体中文) / de Sanyuan (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Xi’anfu 西安府)
1944.07.13: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Sanyuan 三原 (中文) / Sanyuan / Sānyuán 三原 (简体中文) / de Sanyuan (Latin)
1946.04.11: Promoted as Diocese of Sanyuan 三原 (中文) / Sanyüan / Sānyuán 三原 (简体中文) / Saniüenen(sis) (Latin) (became suffragan of Xi’an 西安)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2010 – ...):

Bishop Joseph Han Ying-jin (韓英進) (66)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Sanyuan 三原 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Joseph Han Ying-jin (韓英進) (66)
(2010 – ...)

Bishop of Sanyuan 三原 (China)

Born:	1958.11.20 (China)
Ordained Priest:	1992.11.08
Consecrated Bishop:	2010.06.24

Bishop of Sanyuan 三原 (China) (2010 – ...)

Bishop John Chrysostom Lan Shi (蘭石)
(2003 – 2008)

Born:	1925 (China)
Ordained Priest:	1954
Consecrated Bishop:	2000.11.28 (clandestinely)
Died:	2014.09.21 († 88)

Coadjutor Bishop of Sanyuan 三原 (China) (2000 – 2003)

Bishop of Sanyuan 三原 (China) (2003 – 2008)

Bishop Joseph Zong Huai-de (宗懷德)
(1992.10.18 – 2003▼)

Born:	1920.03.05 (三原縣西陽鎮, 陝西, China)
Ordained Priest:	1949.06.05
Consecrated Bishop:	1987.08.09 (clandestinely)
Died:	2021.01.05 (Sanyuan 三原, 陝西, China † 100)

Bishop of Sanyuan 三原 (China) (1987 – 2003)

Bishop of Sanyuan 三原 (China) (1992.10.18 – 2003▼)

Bishop Joseph Zong Huai-de (宗懷德)
(1987 – 2003)

(see above)

Bishop Ferdinando Fulgenzio Pasini (班錫宜), O.F.M.
(1946.04.11 – 1983)

Born:	1897.04.02 (Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1923.03.17
Consecrated Bishop:	1944.12.17
Died:	1985.04.17 († 88)

Prefect Apostolic of Sanyuan 三原 (China) (1932.06.04 – 1944.07.13)

Titular Bishop of Byblus (1944.07.13 – 1946.04.11)

Vicar Apostolic of Sanyuan 三原 (China) (1944.07.13 – 1946.04.11)

Bishop of Sanyuan 三原 (China) (1946.04.11 – 1983)

Vicars Apostolic of Sanyuan 三原 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Ferdinando Fulgenzio Pasini (班錫宜), O.F.M.
(1944.07.13 – 1946.04.11)

(see above)

Prefects Apostolic of Sanyuan 三原 (Roman Rite)

Fr. Ferdinando Fulgenzio Pasini (班錫宜), O.F.M. (later Bishop)
(1932.06.04 – 1944.07.13)

(see above)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop John Chrysostom Lan Shi (蘭石) (2000 – 2003)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Sanyuan 三原, Shaanxi

Zhouzhi 盩厔 (↙), Fengxiang 鳳翔 (←), Pingliang 平涼 (↖), Yan’an 延安 (↑), Tongzhou 同州 (→), Xi’an 西安 (↓)

Statistics (1949.12.31)

Area: 12,600 km²

Population: 12,043 Catholics (1.1% of 1,115,777 total)

Pastoral Centres: 68 missions

Personnel: 25 priests (8 diocesan, 17 religious), 41 religious (2 brothers, 39 sisters), 19 seminarians

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2025.04.02

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