Diocese of Fushun
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Fushun is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan of Shenyang 瀋陽 in PR China.
Its cathedral episcopal see is a Cathedral of St. Joseph, located in the city of Fushun.
History
- Established on February 4, 1932 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Fushun 撫順, on territory split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Shenyang 瀋陽
- Promoted on February 13, 1940 as Apostolic Vicariate of Fushun 撫順
- April 11, 1946: Promoted as Diocese of Fushun 撫順, ending its missionary exempt, pre-diocesan status, yet it still depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Ordinaries
;Apostolic Prefect of Fushun 撫順- Fr. Raymond Aloysius Lane, M.M.
- Raymond Aloysius Lane, M.M., Titular Bishop of Hypæpa
- Raymond Aloysius Lane, M.M. ; later Superior General of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
- ''Vacant since 7 August 1946, without Apostolic Administrator.''