SINYANG [XINYANG], Diocese of. - In the southeastern part of the province of Honan, in central China.

It was erected as an apostolic prefecture on 15 Dec. 1927 with 14 civil sub-prefectures from the mission of Nanyang (v.) and 3 from that of Kaifeng (v.); on 23 Apr. 1933 it was elevated to an apostolic vicariate and then to a diocese, suffragan of Kaifeng, on 11 Apr. 1946, with the establishment of the episcopal hierarchy in China. From the beginning it has been entrusted to the Society of the Divine Word, whose religious arrived on the spot in 1925.

It has an area of 30,000 sq km. As of 30 June 1947, out of a total population of about 6,000,000 inhabitants, Catholics numbered 13,093 and catechumens 3,550; priests 31, of whom 3 were Chinese; major seminarians 2; lay brothers 11, of whom 2 were Chinese; Chinese sisters 36 and foreign sisters 22. Among the works were 1 hospital, 4 dispensaries, 3 orphanages, 15 schools with 1,497 pupils.

The first preacher of the Gospel in the territory of S. seems to have been Fr. Domenga, S.J., at the beginning of the 18th century. Then came the Lazarists and the fathers of the Institute of Foreign Missions of Milan, but the greatest development of missionary activity was brought about by the Verbites.

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BIBL.: AAS, 20 (1928), pp. 99-100; 26 (1933), pp. 15-16; Arch. di Prop. Fide. Incarto erezione S. 1933; GM, p. 208; Annuaire de l'Église cath. en Chine 1948, Sciangai 1948; MC, 1950, pp. 350-51.

Adamo Pucci

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