Archdiocese of Hankou
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hankou is a Latin Rite Metropolitan archdiocese, based in Hankou, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Its archiepiscopal see is the St. Joseph's Cathedral, in Hankou, Wuhan.
Due to the political situation, since 1961, it has been a vacant, underground archdiocese without apostolic administrator.
History
- Established in 1696 as Apostolic Vicariate of Hupeh and Hunan 湖廣 / Houkouang, on territory split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Fujian
- Renamed on 8 April 1856 as Apostolic Vicariate of Hupeh 湖北 / Hu-pé, having lost territory to establish Apostolic Vicariate of Hunan 湖南)
- Lost territory on 1870.09.02 to establish Apostolic Vicariate of Southwestern Hupeh 湖北南境
- Renamed on September 11, 1870 as Apostolic Vicariate of Eastern Hupeh, having lost territory to establish Apostolic Vicariate of Northwestern Hupeh 湖北西北)
- Renamed on December 12, 1923 after its see as Apostolic Vicariate of Hankou
- Lost territories again: on 1929.07.18 to establish Mission sui juris of Huangzhou 黃州 and on 1937.06.17 to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Suixian 隨縣
- Promoted on 1946.04.11 as '''Metropolitan Archdiocese of Hankou'''
Ecclesiastical province
Its Suffragan sees are:- Roman Catholic Diocese of Hanyang 漢陽
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Laohekou
- Puqi 蒲圻
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Qizhou 蘄州
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Shinan 施南
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Wuchang 武昌
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Xiangyang 襄陽
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Yichang 宜昌
Episcopal ordinaries
;Apostolic Vicars of Hupeh and Hunan 湖廣- Giovanni Francesco Nicolai, Friars Minor, Titular Archbishop of Myra, previously Bishop of Nanjing 南京, Titular Bishop of Berytus
- Giacomo Luigi Fontana, Paris Foreign Missions Society, Titular Bishop of Sinita ; previously Apostolic Vicar of Szechwan 四川
- Giovanni Domenico Rizzolati, O.F.M., Titular Bishop of Arad
- Luigi Celestino Spelta, Reformed Friars Minor, Titular Bishop of Thespia ; next Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar of Kiangnan 江南
- Eustachio Vito Modesto Zanoli, O.F.M., Titular Bishop of Eleutheropolis ; succeeding as previous Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Hupeh 湖北, earlier Titular Bishop of Magyddus
- Eustachio Vito Modesto Zanoli, O.F.M.
- Epiphane Carlassare, O.F.M., Titular Bishop of Madauros
- Graziano Génnaro, O.F.M., Titular Bishop of Hiericho, succeeding as previous Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Eastern Hupeh 湖北東境
- Apostolic Administrator Eugenio Massi, O.F.M., Titular Bishop of Joppe ; previously Apostolic Vicar of Northern Shansi 山西北境, Apostolic Vicar of Central Shensi 陝西中境, Apostolic Vicar of Xi’anfu 西安府
- Eugenio Massi, O.F.M.
- Giuseppe Ferruccio Maurizio Rosà, O.F.M.
- uncanonical Bernardine Dong Guang-qing, O.F.M., first term without papal mandate
- Victor Liu He-de
- Giuseppe Ferruccio Maurizio Rosà, O.F.M., canonical second term with papal mandatelong vacancy
- Francis Cui Qingqi, ordained 8 September 2020