Diocese of Guide Dioecesis Coeitevensis 天主教归德教区 | |
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Location | |
Country | China |
Ecclesiastical province | Kaifeng |
Metropolitan | Kaifeng |
Statistics | |
Area | 8,000 km2 (3,100 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 1950) 2,000,000 9,973 (0.5%) |
Information | |
Rite | Latin Rite |
Cathedral | Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Shangqiu |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Sede Vacante |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Joseph Gao Hong-xiao |
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.
(all Roman rite, so far members of a missionary Latin Congregation)