Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. I, 1948 Ecclesiastical hierarchy Patriarchates, archdioceses, dioceses, suppressed dioceses

Anking [Anqing], Archdiocese of

ANKING, ARCIDIOCESI DI

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ANKING [ANQING], 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 embraced the whole of that province, and it is entrusted to the Society of Jesus, which evangelizes it through the Spanish fathers.

On 11 April 1946 it was elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese with two suffragan dioceses: Pengpu and Wuhu. As of 30 June 1940 there were 36 priests, 15 brothers, 13 sisters. There were 26,898 Catholics and 13,416 catechumens, out of a total population of about 7,000,000 inhabitants, largely engaged in rice cultivation. The cult of the ancestors is very much alive there.

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BIBL.: Guida delle Miss. Catt., Rome [1935], p. 189; MC, pp. 13-14.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), coll. 1357–1358.

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Pucci, Adamo. “Anking, arcidiocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, coll. 1357–1358. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/anking-arcidiocesi-di.

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Pucci, Adamo. “Anking, arcidiocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, coll. 1357–1358. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/anking-arcidiocesi-di.

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@incollection{ec1_anking_arcidiocesi_di,
  author    = {Pucci, Adamo},
  title     = {Anking, arcidiocesi di},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {1357--1358},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/anking-arcidiocesi-di}
}

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