Apostolic Administration of Harbin

The Apostolic Administration of Harbin (哈爾濱 or 中文) is a Latin Church pre-diocesan jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Manchuria, China.

It is exempt directly to the Holy See and its Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

Its cathedral is the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, PR China.

History

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It was established on 28 May 1931 as Apostolic Administration of Harbin, on territory split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Siberia (Czarist Russian empire).[1]

Initially the Holy See only nominated Italians from the papal diplomacy, but from 2011 it has its native incumbent.

However, from 1959, an "alternative" line of the national church without papal mandate was set up by the PRC.

Ordinaries

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Apostolic Administrators of Harbin 哈爾濱

References

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