CHENGCHOW [ZHENGZHOU], Diocese of. - It is located in the civil province of Honan (China); it was erected as an apostolic prefecture on 15 May 1906 under the name of apostolic prefecture of Western Honan and with a territory twice the size of the present one. It was entrusted to the Pious Society of St. Francis Xavier for Foreign Missions of Parma, whose fathers had been working there since 1904. On 2 May 1911 it was elevated to an apostolic vicariate, on 3 Dec. 1924 it took the name of apostolic vicariate of C.; on 11 Apr. 1946, with the establishment of the episcopal hierarchy in China, C. became a diocese suffragan of Kaifeng. On 25 May 1929 the extensive territory was divided and the mission of Loyang was erected.

Thus reduced, C. measures 18,000 sq km in area. The population, as of 30 June 1947, was about 4,000,000, of whom 20,176 were Catholics, distributed in 15 primary and 132 secondary stations. There were 16 Italian missionaries and 13 Chinese priests; 4 foreign lay religious, 88 sisters, of whom 72 were native. It has suffered much damage from the war.

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BIBL.: GM, p. 191; MC, p. 73 SGR.; G. B. Tragella, Italia missionaria, Rome-Milan 1939, p. 193 SGR.; Annuaire de l'Eglise catholique en Chine, 1948, Shanghai 1948, passim.

Adamo Pucci

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