Archbishopric of Jinan

The Cathedral of Jinan

The Archdiocese of Jinan (Latin Archidioecesis Zinanensis) is a Roman Catholic Archdiocese in the People's Republic of China, based in Jinan.

It was founded as an apostolic vicariate of Scian-Ton Settentrionale on 3 September 1839, changed its name to Tsinanfu on 3 December 1924 and was elevated to the rank of archbishopric on 1 April 1946. It is the metropolitan of 7 Suffraganist bishops.

It covers an area of ​​25,000 km and in 1950 44,016 Catholics, 0.9% of the regional population. Mainly served by Franciscans, it was at this time that there were 19 diocesan priests and 65 religious priests, including 28 religious.

His last leader was the Franciscan John P'ing Ta-kuam, who is only known to be the administrator of the Archdiocese in 1952, according to Archbishop Cyrillus Jarre OFM (1929-1952). Edit source text

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