Apostolic Prefecture of Shiqian
The Apostolic Prefecture of Shiqian is a Latin pre-diocesan missionary jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Shiqian County, Guizhou, southwestern China. The county is under the administration of the city of Tongren.
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.
History
- Established on 1932.03.23 as Mission sui juris of Shiqian 石阡 / Shihtsienen, on territory split off from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Guiyang
- Promoted on 1937.12.02 as Apostolic Prefecture of Shiqian 石阡 / Shihtsienen.
Ordinaries
;Ecclesiastical Superior of Shiqian 石阡- Father Luigi Baumeister, Sacred Heart Missionaries, died 1946
- Father Matthias Buchholz, M.S.C., died 1991
- Augustine Hu Da-guo, previously Metropolitan Archbishop of Guiyang 貴陽
- ''vacancy.''