Diocese of Qingdao
The Diocese of Qingdao/Tsingtao is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in China. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Jinan.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathedral of St. Michael in the city of Qingdao, in Shandong.
History
- Established on 11 February 1925 as Apostolic Prefecture of Qingdao, on territory split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Yanzhoufu
- On 14 June 1928 it was promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Qingdao, remaining a pre-diocesan jurisdiction, but now entitled to a .
- On 1 July 1937, it lost territory to establish the Apostolic Vicariate of Yizhoufu
- 11 April 1946: Promoted as Diocese of Qingdao.
Ordinaries
;Apostolic Prefects of Qingdao;Apostolic Vicars of Qingdao
- Georg Weig, S.V.D., Titular Bishop of Antandrus
- Thomas (Cardinal) Tien-ken-sin, S.V.D., Titular Bishop of Ruspæ, previously Apostolic Prefect of Yanggu, promoted Apostolic Vicar of Yanggu ; later Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Via
- Faustino M. Tissot, Xaverian Missionary Fathers, later Bishop of Zhengzhou
- , S.V.D. uncanonical: Paul Han Xirang, Friars Minor, consecrated without papal mandate
- Joseph Li Mingshu
- Thomas Chen Tianhao