Roman Catholic diocese in China
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Shangqiu /Guide/ Kweíteh (Latin: Coeiteven(sis), Chinese: 歸德, 商邱) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Kaifeng in eastern China, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (South Church), located in the city of Shangqiu 商丘 (formerly Guide/ Kweíteh), in Henan province.
No statistics available. It is vacant, without apostolic administrator, since 2009.
History
Episcopal ordinaries
(all Roman rite, so far members of a missionary Latin Congregation)
- Apostolic Prefect of Guide/ Kweíteh 歸德
- father Francisco Javier Ochoa Ullate, Order of Saint Augustine (O.A.R.) (born Spain) (8 January 1929 – 18 May 1937 see below)
- Apostolic Vicar of Guide/ Kweíteh 歸德
- Francisco Javier Ochoa Ullate, O.A.R. (see above 18 May 1937 – 11 April 1946 see below), Titular Bishop of Chusira (1937.05.18 – 1946.04.11)
- Suffragan Bishops of Shangqiu/Guide
- Francisco Javier Ochoa Ullate, O.A.R. (see above 11 April 1946 – retired 11 December 1947), emeritate as Titular Bishop of Remesiana (1947.12.11 – death 1976.09.06)
- Arturo Quintanilla Manzanares, O.A.R. (born Spain) (10 November 1949 – death 21 November 1970)
- Nicholas Shi Jing-xian, O.S.A. (first China-born incumbent) (1991 - uncanonical since 1999 - death 2001)
- vacancy.
See also
Sources and external links
- GCatholic.org - data for all sections
- Catholic Hierarchy
