Diocese of

Yanji 延吉

China

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Yanji 延吉 (中文) / Yenki / Ienchiven(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Shenyang 瀋陽

Neighbouring Dioceses: Hamhung 함흥 (↙), Fushun 撫順 (←), Jilin 吉林 (←), Harbin 哈爾濱 (↖), Jiamusi 佳木斯 (↑)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Present Prelates

Bishop:

vacant

Ordinaries

Bishops of Yanji 延吉 (Roman Rite)

Fr. Timotheus Bitterli (이성도 디모테오), O.S.B.
(Apostolic Administrator 1955.04.09 – 1985.10.04)

Fr. Raymond Ackermann
(Apostolic Administrator 1950 – 1955)

Bishop Theodor Breher (白化東 / 브레허 白화동 주교), O.S.B.
(1946.04.11 – 1950.11.02)

Born:	1889.08.21 (Germany)
Ordained Priest:	1915.07.16
Consecrated Bishop:	1937.09.05
Died:	1950.11.02 († 61)

Prefect Apostolic of Yanji 延吉 (China) (1929.02.05 – 1937.04.13)

Titular Bishop of Hieron (1937.04.13 – 1946.04.11)

Vicar Apostolic of Yanji 延吉 (China) (1937.04.13 – 1946.04.11)

Bishop of Yanji 延吉 (China) (1946.04.11 – 1950.11.02)

Vicars Apostolic of Yanji 延吉 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Theodor Breher (白化東 / 브레허 白화동 주교), O.S.B.
(1937.04.13 – 1946.04.11)

(see above)

Prefects Apostolic of Yanji 延吉 (Roman Rite)

Fr. Theodor Breher (白化東 / 브레허 白화동 주교), O.S.B. (later Bishop)
(1929.02.05 – 1937.04.13)

(see above)

History

1928.07.19: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Yanji 延吉 (中文) / Yenki / de Yenki (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Wonsan 원산)
1937.04.13: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Yanji 延吉 (中文) / Yenki / de Yenki (Latin)
1946.04.11: Promoted as Diocese of Yanji 延吉 (中文) / Yenki / Ienchiven(sis) (Latin) (became suffragan of Shenyang 瀋陽)

Last updated on 2023.06.04

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