Jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in China
The Apostolic Prefecture of Shiqian (Shihtsien, Guizhou) is a Latin pre-diocesan missionary jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in PR China.
It is exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See and its Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, not part of any Ecclesiastical province.
No cathedral or statistics available.
It is vacant since 2011, without Apostolic administrator.
(all Roman Rite)
- Ecclesiastical Superior of Shiqian (Shihtsien) 石阡
- Father Luigi Baumeister (包美德), Sacred Heart Missionaries (M.S.C.) (born in Germany) (1932.11.11 – retired 1937.12.02), died 1946
- Apostolic Prefects of Shiqian (Shihtsien) 石阡
- Father Matthias Buchholz (步堅牧), M.S.C. (born in Germany) (1937.12.10 – retired 1983), died 1991
- Augustine Hu Da-guo (胡大國) (1997 – death 2011.02.17), previously Metropolitan Archbishop of Guiyang 貴陽 (born in Guizhou) (1987–1997)
- vacancy.
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