YUNGPING [LULONG], Diocese of. - In the north-eastern part of the province of Hopeh (northern China).

It was erected, under the name of Eastern Celi, on 23 Dec. 1899, by division of the apostolic vicariate of Northern Celi (or Peking) and entrusted, like the mother mission, to the Lazarists of the Dutch province. On 3 Dec. 1924 it received its present name of Y. and on 11 Apr. 1946 it was elevated to a diocese suffragan of Peking.

Area approx. 42,000 sq km, with approx. 4 million inhabitants, of whom 35,405 are Catholics; 43 priests (20 Chinese); 47 nuns (43 Chinese); 1 hospital, 3 dispensaries, 3 orphanages, 5 schools (30 June 1947).

The evangelization of Y. dates back to about 1670, but persecutions prevented the stable formation of Christian communities; the scattered faithful were only later sought out and gathered together by the missionaries of Peking. At the time of its erection Y. counted 3,200 Catholics.

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BIBL.: AAS, 17 (1925), p. 24; GM, p. 214; Annuaire de l'Eglise cath. en Chine 1948, Shanghai 1948, passim; MC, 1950, p. 317.

Adamo Pucci

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