Diocese of Laohekou
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Laohekou/Laohokow is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishopric of Hankou in central China, but depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its episcopal see is located in the city of Laohekou.
No statistics available. The see is vacant since 1966, without any Apostolic administrator.
History
- Established on 11 September 1870 as Apostolic Vicariate of Northwestern Hupeh 湖北西北, on territory split off from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Hupeh 湖北
- Renamed on 3 December 1924 as Apostolic Vicariate of Laohekou 老河口 / Laohokow / de Laohokow
- Lost territory on 25 May 1936 to establish the Apostolic Prefecture of Xiangyang 襄陽
- Promoted on 11 April 1946 as Diocese of Laohekou 老河口 / Laohokow / Laohocheuven.
Episcopal ordinaries
;Apostolic Vicars of Northwestern Hupeh 湖北西北- Pascal Bili, Friars Minor, Titular Bishop of Gratianopolis
- Ezechias Banci, O.F.M., Titular Bishop of Halicarnassus, initially as Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Southern Hunan 湖南南境
- Fabiano Landi, O.F.M., Titular Bishop of Tænarum
- Ermenegildo Ricci, O.F.M., Titular Bishop of Antipyrgos
- Apostolic Administrator Father Alfonso Maria Corrado Ferrani, O.F.M.
- Alfonso Maria Corrado Ferrani, O.F.M.
- Alfonso Maria Corrado Ferrani, O.F.M..