Apostolic Prefecture of

Xinjiang 新疆

China

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Apostolic Prefecture

Name: Xinjiang 新疆 (中文) / Urumqi 烏魯木齊 (中文) / Sinkiang / Xinjiang-Urumqi 新疆烏魯木齊 (中文) / Sinkiangen(sis) (Latin)

Immediately subject to the Holy See

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Urumchi 乌鲁木齐, Xinjiang

Jammu–Srinagar (↙), Afghanistan (↙), Tajikistan (←), Kyrgyzstan (←), Most Holy Trinity in Almaty (←), Karaganda (↖), Transfiguration at Novosibirsk (↑), Ulaanbaatar (↗), Lanzhou 蘭州 (→), Xining 西寧 (↘), Kangding 康定 (↓)

Present Prelates

Prefect Apostolic:

vacant

Ordinaries

Prefects Apostolic of Xinjiang 新疆 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Paul Xie Ting-zhe (謝庭哲)
(1991 – 2017.08.14)

Adveniat regnum tuum

Born:	1931.01.02 (China)
Ordained Priest:	1980.02
Consecrated Bishop:	1991.11.25 (clandestinely)
Died:	2017.08.14 († 86)

Prefect Apostolic of Xinjiang 新疆 (China) (1991 – 2017.08.14)

Fr. Ferdinand Loy (盧裴德), S.V.D.
(1938.05.21 – 1969.06.23)

Born:	1892.01.17 (Germany)
Ordained Priest:	1920.11.14
Died:	1969.06.23 († 77)

Ecclesiastical Superior of Xinjiang 新疆 (China) (1931.11.20 – 1938.05.21)

Prefect Apostolic of Xinjiang 新疆 (China) (1938.05.21 – 1969.06.23)

Ecclesiastical Superiors of Xinjiang 新疆 (Roman Rite)

Fr. Ferdinand Loy (盧裴德), S.V.D.
(1931.11.20 – 1938.05.21)

(see above)

Ecclesiastical Superiors of I-li 伊犁 (Roman Rite)

Fr. Giuseppe Hoogers (高東升), C.I.C.M.
(1918.06.08 – 1922)

Born:	1867.12.12 (Belgium)
Ordained Priest:	1894.12.31
Died:	1945.07.21 († 77)

Ecclesiastical Superior of I-li 伊犁 (China) (1918.06.08 – 1922)

Prefect Apostolic of Datongfu 大同府 (China) (1923.03.03 – 1931.09.28)

Fr. Giovanni Battista Steeneman, C.I.C.M.
(1898 – 1918)

Born:	1852 (Netherlands)
Died:	1918 († 66)

Ecclesiastical Superior of I-li 伊犁 (China) (1898 – 1918)

History

1320: Established as Diocese of Ili-baluc / Almaliq / Kuldja (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Khanbalik 汗八里 and became suffragan of Khanbalik 汗八里)
1330: Suppressed
1888.10.01: Restored as Mission sui juris of I-li 伊犁 / Kuldja / Yining 伊寧 (from Apostolic Vicariate of Kan-su 甘肅)
1922.03.08: Suppressed (to Apostolic Vicariate of Western Kansu 甘肅西境)
1930.02.14: Restored as Mission sui juris of Xinjiang 新疆 (中文) / Urumqi 烏魯木齊 (中文) / Sinkiang / Xinjiang-Urumqi 新疆烏魯木齊 (中文) / Sinkiangen(sis) (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Lanchowfu 蘭州府)
1938.05.21: Promoted as Apostolic Prefecture of Xinjiang 新疆 (中文) / Urumqi 烏魯木齊 (中文) / Sinkiang / Xinjiang-Urumqi 新疆烏魯木齊 (中文) / Sinkiangen(sis) (Latin)

Last updated on 2023.09.03

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