Diocese of

Changting 長汀

China

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Changting 長汀 (中文) / Tingzhou 汀州 (中文) / Tingchow / Chángtīng 长汀 (简体中文) / Tīngzhōu 汀州 (简体中文) / Timceuven(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Fuzhou 福州

Neighbouring Dioceses: Ganzhou 贛州 (←), Shaowu 邵武 (↗), Fuzhou 福州 (→), Xiamen 廈門 (↘), Jiaying 嘉應 (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Now Governed by Patriotic Dioceses: Minbei 閩北 Uncanonical Diocese , Xiamen 廈門

Celebrations

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History

1923.12.27: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Tingzhou 汀州 (中文) / Tingchow / Tīngzhōu 汀州 (简体中文) / de Tingchow (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Fo-kien 福建北境)
1947.05.08: Promoted as Diocese of Changting 長汀 (中文) / Tingzhou 汀州 (中文) / Tingchow / Chángtīng 长汀 (简体中文) / Tīngzhōu 汀州 (简体中文) / Timceuven(sis) (Latin) (became suffragan of Fuzhou 福州)

Present Prelates

Bishop:

vacant

Ordinaries

Bishops of Changting 長汀 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Johann Werner Lesinski (雷新基), O.P.
(1947.05.08 – 1963.04.26)

Born:	1904.11.05 (Berlin, Germany)
Ordained Priest:	1932.07.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1947.10.26
Died:	1963.04.26 (Taohsiung, Taiwan † 58)

Bishop of Changting 長汀 (China) (1947.05.08 – 1963.04.26)

Prefects Apostolic of Tingzhou 汀州 (Roman Rite)

Fr. Egbert Maria Pelzer (歐培徒), O.P.
(1925.12.21 – 1945.05.04)

Born:	1882.07.23 (Germany)
Ordained Priest:	1909.08.01
Died:	1945.05.04 († 62)

Prefect Apostolic of Tingzhou 汀州 (China) (1925.12.21 – 1945.05.04)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary, Longyan 龙岩, Shandong

Ganzhou 贛州 (←), Shaowu 邵武 (↗), Fuzhou 福州 (→), Xiamen 廈門 (↘), Jiaying 嘉應 (↓)

Statistics (1950.12.31)

Area: 20,000 km²

Population: 4,318 Catholics (0.4% of 1,220,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 32 missions

Personnel: 19 priests (1 diocesan, 18 religious), 34 religious (6 brothers, 28 sisters), 2 seminarians

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2026.03.30

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