Diocese of

Wuzhou 梧州

China

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Wuzhou 梧州 (中文) / Cangwu 蒼梧 (中文) / Tsang-Wu / Wuchow / Cāngwú 苍梧 (简体中文) / Wúzhōu 梧州 (简体中文) / Uceuven(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Nanning 南寧

Neighbouring Dioceses: Beihai 北海 (↙), Nanning 南寧 (←), Guilin 桂林 (↖), Shaoguan 韶關 (↗), Guangzhou 廣州 (→), Jiangmen 江門 (↘)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Now Governed by Patriotic Diocese: Guangxi 廣西 Uncanonical Diocese

Celebrations

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History

1930.06.30: Established as Mission sui juris of Wuzhou 梧州 (中文) / Wuchow / Wúzhōu 梧州 (简体中文) / de Wuchow (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Nanning 南寧)
1934.12.10: Promoted as Apostolic Prefecture of Wuzhou 梧州 (中文) / Wuchow / Wúzhōu 梧州 (简体中文) / de Wuchow (Latin)
1938.02.09: Lost territory to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Guilin 桂林
1939.07.20: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Wuzhou 梧州 (中文) / Wuchow / Wúzhōu 梧州 (简体中文) / de Wuchow (Latin)
1946.04.11: Promoted as Diocese of Wuzhou 梧州 (中文) / Cangwu 蒼梧 (中文) / Tsang-Wu / Wuchow / Cāngwú 苍梧 (简体中文) / Wúzhōu 梧州 (简体中文) / Uceuven(sis) (Latin) (became suffragan of Nanning 南寧)

Present Prelates

Bishop:

vacant

Ordinaries

Bishops of Wuzhou 梧州 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Frederic Anthony Donaghy (唐汝琪), M.M.
(1946.04.11 – 1983)

Born:	1903.01.13 (New Bedford, MA, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1929.01.27
Consecrated Bishop:	1939.09.21
Died:	1988.02.05 (Miaoli City, Taiwan † 85)

Titular Bishop of Setea (1939.07.20 – 1946.04.11)

Vicar Apostolic of Wuzhou 梧州 (China) (1939.07.20 – 1946.04.11)

Bishop of Wuzhou 梧州 (China) (1946.04.11 – 1983)

Vicars Apostolic of Wuzhou 梧州 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Frederic Anthony Donaghy (唐汝琪), M.M.
(1939.07.20 – 1946.04.11)

(see above)

Prefects Apostolic of Wuzhou 梧州 (Roman Rite)

Fr. Bernard Francis Mayer (馬奕猷), M.M.
(1934.12.10 – 1939.07.20)

Born:	1891.06.16 (USA)
Ordained Priest:	1916.02.12
Died:	1976.05.08 († 84)

Ecclesiastical Superior of Wuzhou 梧州 (China) (1931.10.30 – 1934.12.10)

Prefect Apostolic of Wuzhou 梧州 (China) (1934.12.10 – 1939.07.20)

Ecclesiastical Superiors of Wuzhou 梧州 (Roman Rite)

Fr. Bernard Francis Mayer (馬奕猷), M.M.
(1931.10.30 – 1934.12.10)

(see above)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral, Wuzhou 梧州, Guangxi

Beihai 北海 (↙), Nanning 南寧 (←), Guilin 桂林 (↖), Shaoguan 韶關 (↗), Guangzhou 廣州 (→), Jiangmen 江門 (↘)

Statistics (1950.12.31)

Area: 66,531 km²

Population: 19,871 Catholics (0.6% of 3,549,098 total)

Pastoral Centres: 17 parishes

Personnel: 2 priests (diocesan), 17 religious (17 sisters), 7 seminarians

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2026.03.30

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