YUNGNIEN [YONGNIAN], Diocese of. - In the southern part of the province of Hopeh (northern China).

It was erected as an apostolic prefecture on 24 May 1929 with 10 civil sub-prefectures of the mission of Sienhaien (v.) and entrusted to the Chinese secular clergy; on 6 March 1933 it became an apostolic vicariate and on 11 April 1946 a diocese suffragan of Peking.

Area 20,617 sq km, with about 4,500,000 inhabitants of whom 50,000 are Catholics; 23 priests, 31 nuns; 1 orphanage, 1 dispensary, 3 schools.

The territory of Y. comprises the civil prefecture of Kwangpingfu, where in 1856 there were 2,528 Christians, evangelized by the missionaries of Peking. When the region passed to the Jesuits in that year, in 1873 the faithful numbered 5,104 with 44 chapels and 17 oratories; on 1 July 1928 they had risen to 36,602 with 35 churches, 115 chapels and 117 oratories; the Chinese priests, to whom the mission passed the following year, were 17.

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BIBL.: AAS, 21 (1920), pp. 655-56; 25 (1933), p. 400; Arch. di Prop. Fide, Incarto erezione Y., 1920; GM, pp. 123-14; MC, 150, pp. 316-17.

Adamo Pucci

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