Diocese of

Datong 大同

China

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Datong 大同 (中文) / Tatung / Dàtóng 大同 (简体中文) / Tatomen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Taiyuan 太原

Neighbouring Dioceses: Shuoxian 朔縣 (↙), Jining 集寧 (↑), Zhangjiakou 張家口 (→), Yixian 易縣 (↘), Zhengding 正定 (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Now Governed by Patriotic Diocese: Datong 大同 Uncanonical Diocese

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (Universal) 📅

History

1922.03.14: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Datongfu 大同府 (中文) / Tatungfu / Dàtóngfǔ 大同府 (简体中文) / de Tatungfu (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Shanxi 山西北境)
1932.06.17: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Datongfu 大同府 (中文) / Tatungfu / Dàtóngfǔ 大同府 (简体中文) / de Tatungfu (Latin)
1946.04.11: Promoted as Diocese of Datong 大同 (中文) / Tatung / Dàtóng 大同 (简体中文) / Tatomen(sis) (Latin) (became suffragan of Taiyuan 太原)

Present Prelates

Bishop:

vacant

Ordinaries

Bishops of Datong 大同 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Thaddeus Guo Yin-gong (郭印宮)
(1990 – 2000?)

Born:	1917.05.01 (Xubao, China)
Ordained Priest:	1946.08.04
Consecrated Bishop:	1990.07.08
Died:	2005.01.04 (Datong, China † 87)

Bishop of Datong 大同 (China) (1990 – 2000?)

Msgr. Alphonse Van Buggenhout (范普厚), C.I.C.M.
(Apostolic Administrator 1950.03.31 – 1951)

Bishop Francesco Joosten, C.I.C.M.
(1946.04.11 – 1947.11.20)

Ad Deum pro hominibus

Born:	1874.04.09 (Grubbenvorst, Netherlands)
Ordained Priest:	1899.07.09
Consecrated Bishop:	1932.08.28
Died:	1948.05.02 (Nijmegen, Netherlands † 74)

Titular Bishop of Germanicopolis (1932.06.14 – 1946.04.11)

Vicar Apostolic of Datongfu 大同府 (China) (1932.06.17 – 1946.04.11)

Bishop of Datong 大同 (China) (1946.04.11 – 1947.11.20)

Titular Bishop of Sagalassus (1947.11.20 – 1948.05.02)

Vicars Apostolic of Datongfu 大同府 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Francesco Joosten, C.I.C.M.
(1932.06.17 – 1946.04.11)

(see above)

Prefects Apostolic of Datongfu 大同府 (Roman Rite)

Fr. Gerard-Joseph Hoogers (高東升), C.I.C.M.
(1923.03.03 – 1931.09.28)

Born:	1867.12.12 (Horst, Belgium)
Ordained Priest:	1894.12.31
Died:	1945.07.21 (Beijing, 北京, China † 77)

Ecclesiastical Superior of I-li 伊犁 (China) (1918.06.08 – 1922)

Prefect Apostolic of Datongfu 大同府 (China) (1923.03.03 – 1931.09.28)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Datong 大同, Shanxi

Shuoxian 朔縣 (↙), Jining 集寧 (↑), Zhangjiakou 張家口 (→), Yixian 易縣 (↘), Zhengding 正定 (↓)

Statistics (1950.12.31)

Area: 20,000 km²

Population: 7,102 Catholics (0.7% of 1,000,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 16 parishes, 55 missions

Personnel: 13 priests (6 diocesan, 7 religious), 1 seminarian

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2026.03.30

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