Diocese of

Yuci 榆次

China

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Yuci 榆次 (中文) / Yütze / Yúcì 榆次 (简体中文) / Iüzean(us) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Taiyuan 太原

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

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History

1931.06.17: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Yuci 榆次 (中文) / Yutze / Yúcì 榆次 (简体中文) / de Yutze (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Taiyuanfu 太原府)
1944.03.09: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Yuci 榆次 (中文) / Yutze / Yúcì 榆次 (简体中文) / de Yutze (Latin)
1946.04.11: Promoted as Diocese of Yuci 榆次 (中文) / Yütze / Yúcì 榆次 (简体中文) / Iüzean(us) (Latin) (became suffragan of Taiyuan 太原)
2024.10.28: Gained territory from Diocese of Fenyang 汾陽

Present Prelates

Bishop:

vacant

Ordinaries

Bishops of Yuci 榆次 (Roman Rite)

Bishop John Baptist Wang Jin (王藎)
(1999 – 2014.09.23)

Born:	1924.04.22 (China)
Ordained Priest:	1951.06.09
Consecrated Bishop:	1999.09.14
Died:	2014.09.23 († 90)

Bishop of Yuci 榆次 (China) (1999 – 2014.09.23)

Bishop Wang Yu-tian (王宇天) ▼
(1991 – 1999.12.16▼)

Born:	1914.07.14 (China)
Consecrated Bishop:	1991 (no papal mandate)
Died:	1999.12.16 († 85)

Bishop of Yuci 榆次 (China) (1991 – 1999.12.16▼)

Fr. Anthony Humilis Yang Guang-qi (楊廣祺), O.F.M.
(1955.09.20 – 1957.11.11)

Born:	1912.12.17 (China)
Ordained Priest:	1940.03.09
Died:	1957.11.11 († 44)

Bishop of Yuci 榆次 (China) (1955.09.20 – 1957.11.11)

Bishop Pietro Ermenegildo Focaccia (富濟才), O.F.M.
(1946.04.11 – 1953.08.12)

Born:	1886.06.28 (Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1909.07.18
Consecrated Bishop:	1944.04.30
Died:	1953.08.12 († 67)

Prefect Apostolic of Yuci 榆次 (China) (1932.01.16 – 1944.03.09)

Titular Bishop of Antiphræ (1944.03.09 – 1946.04.11)

Vicar Apostolic of Yuci 榆次 (China) (1944.03.09 – 1946.04.11)

Bishop of Yuci 榆次 (China) (1946.04.11 – 1953.08.12)

Vicars Apostolic of Yuci 榆次 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Pietro Ermenegildo Focaccia (富濟才), O.F.M.
(1944.03.09 – 1946.04.11)

(see above)

Prefects Apostolic of Yuci 榆次 (Roman Rite)

Fr. Pietro Ermenegildo Focaccia (富濟才), O.F.M. (later Bishop)
(1932.01.16 – 1944.03.09)

(see above)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of St. Joseph, Pujong 晋中, Shanxi

Luliang 呂梁 (←), Taiyuan 太原 (↑), Zhengding 正定 (→), Zhaoxian 趙縣 (→), Lu’an 潞安 (↓)

Statistics (1949.12.31)

Population: 15,410 Catholics (1.0% of 1,500,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 77 missions

Personnel: 23 priests (8 diocesan, 15 religious), 43 religious (5 brothers, 38 sisters), 8 seminarians

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2025.01.21

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