Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
ANKING, ARCHDIOCESE OF. - It is located in China, in the western part of the civil province of Anhwei; it was erected as a vicariate on 21 February 1929, by division from the Apostolic Vicariate of Wuhu, which encompassed the entire said province, and is entrusted to the Society of Jesus, which evangelizes it through Spanish fathers.
(propr. L. Cervelli) ANIMUCCIA, GIOVANNI – Mass Ave maris Stella. From the collection Missarum liber primus – Rome, 1567.(propr. L. Cervelli) ANIMUCCIA, GIOVANNI — Oil portrait by an unknown artist — Bologna.On 11 April 1946 it was raised to the rank of metropolitan archdiocese with two suffragan dioceses: Pengpu and Wuhu. As of 30 June 1940 there were 36 priests, 15 brothers, 13 sisters. The Catholic population numbered 26,898, with 13,416 catechumens, out of a total population of about 7,000,000 inhabitants, most of whom were engaged in rice cultivation. The cult of ancestors is still very much alive.
BIBL.:Guida delle Miss. Catt., Rome [1935], p. 189; MC, pp. 13-14. Adam Pucci
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“ANKING, ARCIDIOCESI DI.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), p. 827. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/anking-arcidiocesi-di.
