TAICHUNG, APOSTOLIC PREFECTURE OF. - The apostolic prefecture of the island of Formosa was erected on July 13, 1913.

On Dec. 30, 1949 it was divided for the erection of that of Taipeh (now an archdiocese). The remaining territory of the old mission then took the name of the apostolic prefecture of Kaoshung. In the particular situation in which the island of Formosa finds itself, because of its overpopulation (seven million natives and more than two million Chinese refugees), the S. Congr. of Propaganda Fide, in order to provide more adequately for the spiritual needs of that territory, on Aug. 10, 1950 erected the apostolic prefecture of T., with the civil province of the same name, detaching it from the apostolic prefecture of Kaoshung. The new missionary circumscription has been entrusted to the Society for Foreign Missions of the United States of America (Maryknoll), as capable of bringing a healthy dynamism to the evangelization of Formosa.

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BIBL.: Arch. della S. Congr. di Prop. Fide, Relaz. con somm., pos. prot. nn. 4283/49, 3227/50; MC. 1950, p. 481; AAS. 43 (1951), pp. 150-51.

Edoardo Pecoraio

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Taichung, Apostolic Prefecture of

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