Diocese of Jilin 吉林, China 🇨🇳

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Jilin 吉林 (中文) / Kírín / Jílín 吉林 (简体中文) / Chilinen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Shenyang 瀋陽

Neighbouring Dioceses: Fushun 撫順 (↙), Shenyang 瀋陽 (↙), Siping 四平 (←), Qiqihar 齊齊哈爾 (↖), Harbin 哈爾濱 (↑), Yanji 延吉 (→)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Now Governed by Patriotic Dioceses: Jilin 吉林 Uncanonical Diocese , Heilongjiang 黑龍江

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Peter, Holy Guardian Angels

Liturgical Calendar (Universal) 📅

History

1898.05.10: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Manchuria 滿州北境 (中文) / Manciuria Settentrionale (Italiano) / Northern Mǎnzhōu 满州北境 (简体中文) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Liaotung and Manchuria 遼東滿州)
1924.12.03: Renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of Jilin 吉林 (中文) / Kirin / Jílín 吉林 (简体中文) / de Kirin (Latin)
1928.07.09: Lost territory to establish Mission sui juris of Qiqihar 齊齊哈爾
1946.04.11: Promoted as Diocese of Jilin 吉林 (中文) / Kírín / Jílín 吉林 (简体中文) / Chilinen(sis) (Latin) (became suffragan of Shenyang 瀋陽)
2025.07.08: Gained territory from the suppressed Diocese of Xiwanzi 西灣子

Present Prelates

Bishop:

vacant

Ordinaries

Bishops of Jilin 吉林 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Damas Zhang Han-min (張翰民)
(1999 – 2009.07.19)

Born:	1927.02.07 (Xiaobajia, China)
Ordained Priest:	1983.03.24
Consecrated Bishop:	1999.05.09
Died:	2009.07.19 (Changchun, China † 82)

Bishop of Jilin 吉林 (China) (1999 – 2009.07.19)

Bishop John Li Xue-song (李雪松) ▼
(1985 – 1994.05.20▼)

Born:	1904.03.01 (China)
Ordained Priest:	1936.04.05
Consecrated Bishop:	1985.09.22 (no papal mandate)
Died:	1994.05.20 († 90)

Bishop of Jilin 吉林 (China) (1985 – 1994.05.20▼)

Bishop Roch Liu Dian-xi (劉殿墀) ▼
(1982 – 1985.04.04▼)

Born:	(China)
Consecrated Bishop:	1982.10.10 (no papal mandate)
Died:	1985.04.04

Bishop of Jilin 吉林 (China) (1982 – 1985.04.04▼)

Bishop Wang Wei-min (王維民) ▼
(1959 – 1981▼)

Born:	1915 (China)
Ordained Priest:	1943
Consecrated Bishop:	1959.05.31
Died:	1996 († 81)

Bishop of Jilin 吉林 (China) (1959 – 1981▼)

Bishop Auguste-Ernest-Désiré-Marie Gaspais (高德惠), M.E.P.
(1946.04.11 – 1952.10.21)

Born:	1884.04.22 (Saint-Brieuc-de-Mauron, France)
Ordained Priest:	1907.07.07
Consecrated Bishop:	1921.05.29
Died:	1952.10.21 (Motte, France † 68)

Titular Bishop of Canopus (1920.12.16 – 1946.04.11)

Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Northern Manchuria 滿州北境 (China) (1920.12.20 – 1923.02.17)

Vicar Apostolic of Northern Manchuria 滿州北境 (China) (1923.02.17 – 1924.12.03)

Vicar Apostolic of Jilin 吉林 (China) (1924.12.03 – 1946.04.11)

Bishop of Jilin 吉林 (China) (1946.04.11 – 1952.10.21)

Vicars Apostolic of Jilin 吉林 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Auguste-Ernest-Désiré-Marie Gaspais (高德惠), M.E.P.
(1924.12.03 – 1946.04.11)

(see above)

Vicars Apostolic of Northern Manchuria 滿州北境 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Auguste-Ernest-Désiré-Marie Gaspais (高德惠), M.E.P.
(1923.02.17 – 1924.12.03)

(see above)

Bishop Pierre-Marie-François Lalouyer (藍祿葉), M.E.P.
(1898.05.16 – 1923.02.17)

Born:	1850.03.12 (Acigné, France)
Ordained Priest:	1873.06.07
Consecrated Bishop:	1897.12.19
Died:	1923.02.17 (Jilin, China † 72)

Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Southern Manchuria 南滿 (China) (1897.07.24 – 1898.05.16)

Titular Bishop of Raphaneæ (1897.07.24 – 1923.02.17)

Vicar Apostolic of Northern Manchuria 滿州北境 (China) (1898.05.16 – 1923.02.17)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic: Bishop Charles-Joseph Lemaire (惠化民), M.E.P. (1939.07.11 – 1945.11.16)
Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic: Bishop Auguste-Ernest-Désiré-Marie Gaspais (高德惠), M.E.P. (1920.12.20 – 1923.02.17)

Diocese of

Jilin 吉林

China

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