Apostolic Prefecture of

Xinjiang 新絳

China

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Apostolic Prefecture

Name: Xinjiang 新絳 (中文) / Jiangzhou 絳州 (中文) / Kiangchow / Jiàngzhōu 绛州 (简体中文) / Xīnjiàng 新绛 (简体中文) / Kiangchoven(sis) (Latin)

Immediately subject to the Holy See

Neighbouring Dioceses: Tongzhou 同州 (↙), Yan’an 延安 (↖), Hongtong 洪洞 (↑), Lu’an 潞安 (→), Xinxiang 新鄉 (→), Luoyang 洛陽 (↘)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Now Governed by Patriotic Diocese: Yuncheng 運城 Uncanonical Diocese

Celebrations

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History

1936.05.25: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Xinjiang 新絳 (中文) / Jiangzhou 絳州 (中文) / Kiangchow / Jiàngzhōu 绛州 (简体中文) / Xīnjiàng 新绛 (简体中文) / Kiangchoven(sis) (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Luanfu 潞安府)

Present Prelates

Prefect Apostolic:

vacant

Ordinaries

Prefects Apostolic of Xinjiang 新絳 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Peter Wu Jun-wei (武俊維)
(2009.05 – 2022.05.10)

Per caritatem servite

Born:	1963.06.27 (太原市小店區劉家堡鄉西柳林村, 山西, China)
Ordained Priest:	1990.12.09
Consecrated Bishop:	2010.09.21
Died:	2022.05.10 (運城, 山西, China † 58)

Priest of Taiyuan 太原 (China) (1990.12.09 – 2009.05)

Prefect Apostolic of Xinjiang 新絳 (China) (2009.05 – 2022.05.10)

Bishop Josaphat Li Hong-guang (李宏光)
(2006 – 2006.12.13)

Born:	1926.07.15 (Quiancheng, China)
Ordained Priest:	1953.03.21
Consecrated Bishop:	1996.05.14
Died:	2006.12.13 († 80)

Auxiliary Bishop of Xinjiang 新絳 (China) (1996 – 2006)

Prefect Apostolic of Xinjiang 新絳 (China) (2006 – 2006.12.13)

Bishop Augustine Zheng Shou-duo (鄭守鐸)
(1991 – 2006.07.16▼)

Born:	1917.03.17 (Taiyuan, China)
Ordained Priest:	1949.03.13
Consecrated Bishop:	1982.09.23 (clandestinely)
Died:	2006.07.16 (Xinjiang, China † 89)

Prefect Apostolic of Xinjiang 新絳 (China) (1982 – 2006.07.16)

Prefect Apostolic of Xinjiang 新絳 (China) (1991 – 2006.07.16▼)

Bishop Augustine Zheng Shou-duo (鄭守鐸)
(1982 – 2006.07.16)

(see above)

Fr. Quintinus Pessers (孔昭明), O.F.M.
(1936.12.04 – 1982)

Born:	1896.10.04 (Netherlands)
Ordained Priest:	1923.03.11
Died:	1983 († 87)

Prefect Apostolic of Xinjiang 新絳 (China) (1936.12.04 – 1982)

Former Prelates

Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Josaphat Li Hong-guang (李宏光) (1996 – 2006)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of St. Anthony of Padua, Xinjiang 新绛, Shanxi

Tongzhou 同州 (↙), Yan’an 延安 (↖), Hongtong 洪洞 (↑), Lu’an 潞安 (→), Xinxiang 新鄉 (→), Luoyang 洛陽 (↘)

Statistics (1949.12.31)

Area: 17,000 km²

Population: 7,546 Catholics (0.4% of 2,000,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 5 parishes, 67 missions

Personnel: 14 priests (3 diocesan, 11 religious), 14 religious (14 sisters), 2 seminarians

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2026.03.30

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